Opinion: UNC should provide more lactation spaces on campus

By Editorial Board | October 6

It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the color pink is everywhere. Pink ribbons fly, people run 5Ks in pink tutus and even the NFL, with its rocky-at-best gendered history, trades out some team colors for pink.

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Opinion: Instruction, not administration, is our mission

By Editorial Staff | October 6

Administrative bloat is a topic on which conservatives and liberals seemingly agree. All parties seem to agree cutting salaries and costs at the administrative level is worthwhile. We admire and commend this cost control. 

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Column: No one is free until we all are free

By Jesus Gonzalez-Ventura | October 6

There hasn’t been a single interaction in my life with the police where the first thought in my mind wasn’t how to look less threatening. How to ensure that I am one of the good ones and how can I convince them that I deserve to live. These realities are just that — a reality. Our pain exists.

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Quick hits for Oct. 6, 2016

October 6

It can be easy to forget that the Pope Center is still around. We hate to inform you, dear reader, but they still are. We have not seen them making headlines recently — maybe their staff has collectively taken up hot yoga or dancing or started a micro brewery. Either way, the less we see from them, the better.

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Opinion: All genders should play, and we don’t care who knows

By Editorial Board | October 6

The high-paying, professional sports world is occupied only by men. According to Forbes Magazine, no female athletes are in the top-25 highest paid.

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Opinion: Consider the ethics of the demand you create for drugs

By Editorial Board | October 6

College students are among the staunchest participants in the movement for ethical purchasing. 

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Letter: ​Provide a cohesive voice for all of UNC

October 6

In Wednesday’s The Daily Tar Heel article on GPSF’s potential separation, it was repeatedly stated that GPSF wanted to remove graduate and professional representation from the legislative branch of student government, Student Congress.

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Letter: ​Connecting BLM to Israel is misleading

October 6

I am disappointed to read the Editorial Board column drawing parallels between the plight of African-American communities and the coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.

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Column: Take a walk on the mild side

By Alison Krug | October 6

“You’ve got to learn to walk to class by yourself.” That’s the first, dumbest and best advice I got about college.

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Column: UNC loves empty dialogues

By Angum Check | October 6

Last month, I attended a town hall meeting on police brutality and campus safety hosted by the Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Outreach Committee of Student Government.

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Opinion: Chancellor Folt’s emails need more substance

By Editorial Board | October 5

The job of chancellor is a difficult one. There is no denying it. Trying to balance UNC’s public image and please sometimes angry students can be easier said than done. 

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Opinion: Required night classes assume a degree of privilege

By Editorial Board | October 5

When a class required for a major only offers sections at night, a department essentially requires that a student with work or family responsibilities in the evening change their major.

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Letter: Do not incite anti-Zionist attitudes

October 5

On behalf of the Jewish Federation of Durham and Chapel-Hill (JFDCH), we are responding to your “Oppression spreads beyond any nation’s borders” editorial.

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Column: Do not read this column, please

By Alexander Peeples | October 5

There are very few good reasons to be a Daily Tar Heel columnist. It has little impact, no financial return and a bad photo of you that is widely disseminated in print. I don’t know how so many people have been swindled into taking up this mantle. 

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Column: I learned about rest in Jane Austen’s house

By Kiana Cole | October 3

This past weekend, I underwent some of the initial stages necessary in becoming a full-fledged Brit: traveling outside of London and, most importantly, taking some time to rest.

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Column: Let freedom (really) ring

By Kate Stotesbery | October 3

“The price of freedom.” I don’t know about you, but when I hear a phrase like that, I think of our military. The powerful idea of some kind of transactional price for my freedom evokes respect for veterans and mourning for conflict.

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Opinion: Contextualizing violent protests

By Editorial Board | October 3

It’s a cycle rooted in centuries of oppression and fear. From Ferguson to Charlotte. From 1619 to today. But arguably one of the most interesting aspects of the cycle is the reappearance of the same question:

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Opinion: Put democracy before politics

By Editorial Board | October 3

Getting out to vote is important — it is a primary driver for change in our society. That said, the way we vote was designed more than 200 years ago by men with limited polling resources.

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Op-Ed: Making college more affordable

October 3

Bipartisan agreement can be hard to find these days in Washington. I’m proud to have led the bipartisan effort that is making higher education more affordable for our students today.

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Letter: ​Israel stands for a message of peace

October 2

The Daily Tar Heel Editorial Board's selective "critique" of Israel linked in the context of appropriate protest of murders of African Americans in the U.S. is truly shameful.

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