Column: Live, laugh, love live music — make live music a lifestyle at UNC

By Arya Mehta | April 6

"Live performances and the music scene are changing, but colleges have always been a societal backbone, dictating the value of culture and information. It’s important now more than ever to decide the value of live music around campus through our involvement."

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Column: Social media damages cross-cultural music appreciation, and we should fix that

By Hailie Davidson | April 6

"The co-opting of such a meaningful, familiar work for Black audiences totally depreciates its culturally educational qualities. Rather, the cross-cultural dissonance between Black and white audiences is widened."

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Column: The best way to honor Sudiksha Konanki is to rethink college party culture

By Keya Mahajan | April 6

"Safety and enjoyment are not mutually exclusive but rather complementary."

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Column: Ever feel campus is unfriendly? Just say hello.

By Ryan Pham | April 6

"They make eye contact with you, either the moment they look up from their phones or pause mid-conversation with their friends, and then the unthinkable happens. Just as you’re about to say something or think they will, they walk right past you. No wave, no nod, no acknowledgement."

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Column: Our country may be doomed, but our local communities don’t have to be

By Cooper Hall | April 3

"In a storm of troubling and terrifying federal news, focusing on our local communities and how we can impact change here can help us find a break in the clouds."

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Column: Thank you, Donald Trump, for giving me my dad back

By Keya Mahajan | April 3

"Fortunately, Trump’s shameful and radical behavior was enough to return my economically conservative father to a left-leaning moderate."

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Column: The transfer portal is ruining college basketball's fan culture

By Jaden Miller | April 1

"I like to think back to the golden age of passionate athletes, the Marcus Paiges and the Tyler Hansbroughs, who fought with all they had for the North Carolina across their chest."

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Column: Dear Jon Stewart, please run for president

By Owen Baxter | April 1

"He has the right principles and policies, understands the media environment, hasn’t been consumed by our corrupt political system, has impressive political and rhetorical skills and is broadly popular among leftists, liberals and independents."

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Column: North Carolina cannot afford to lose access to NOAA

By Esha Singaraju | March 31

"With over 3,000 miles of shoreline, N.C. regularly faces hurricanes, coastal erosion and inland flooding. When disaster looms, NOAA’s timely warnings and storm tracking help communities brace for impact, evacuate safely and protect property and lives."

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Op-ed: A Panamanian student on the effects of Trump’s aggressive language on the Panama Canal

March 31

"The Panamanian public, including myself, feel incredibly insulted by President Trump’s words and we demand he and the United States treat Panama with the respect it deserves."

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Column: Academia is nonpartisan — it's up to all of us to defend it against fascism

By Nakai Moore | March 31

"The classroom — intended to be a space for dialogue and critical engagement — has become a battleground in the administration’s broader effort to control culture through coercion."

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Editorial: UNC Libraries makes a great wealth of resources available to us. We should use them.

By Editorial Board | March 31

"Utilizing our libraries’ ample resources also sends an important message regarding their worth to academic research and leisure."

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Satire: A UNC student’s guide to traumatizing tour groups

By Cogan McMichaels | March 30

"While the world may be perfect, UNC is not. By following this guide, you’ll help push back against the insincere, bubbly tour guides who sugarcoat every aspect of our university."

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Column: Student protesters shouldn’t be more committed to fighting fascism than our elected officials

By Hailie Davidson | March 28

"Their performative concern for our descent into fascism has no teeth or stakes and is concerned primarily with the optics rather than the results."

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Column: Let's redefine what it means to be apolitical

By Anna Gage | March 27

"I understand there are fears of inaction with students temporarily remaining ideologically neutral. But the issues that arise with some lost action are outweighed by the benefits gained in a more educated student body."

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Column: The war on science and funding cuts at UNC are gutting innovation and progress

By Hailey Rodriguez | March 26

"It especially comes as a shock and cause for concern that science programs are now being targeted when more often than not it’s the humanities that take the budgetary hits."

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Editorial: Intended deportation of Mahmoud Khalil is a dangerous precedent for campus protests

By Editorial Board | March 25

"This is not an isolated event unique to Columbia’s campus, but part of a broader trend of federal attacks on college students that do not align with President Trump’s platform or conservatism as a whole."

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Column: If we really want to Make America Healthy Again, we should guarantee food access

By Owen Baxter | March 25

"There is no reason, in the richest nation in the world, that people should go hungry."

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Column: My family lived through dictatorship. The detention of Mahmoud Khalil is déjà vu.

By Elisa Troncoso | March 24

"The brutal legacy of my family’s homeland tells us all that extralegal detentions such as these are only the prelude to much greater forms of violence against anyone who might dare to speak out."

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Column: Students cherish dance on campus while the University disrespects it

By Gray Hamby | March 24

"If the University cannot provide an academic opportunity to explore dance, adequate support for student extracurricular groups trying to fill that hole is the least they can do."

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