Column: Monday’s tragedy is a sobering reminder about gun violence

By Zari Taylor | August 29

"While I’m sure the shooting will spark local and national headlines on gun laws and gun control, I have little faith that anything will come out of it. The investigation will make clear how much gun laws, or the lack thereof, shaped the destructive actions that took place this week."

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Column: It’s always internship season somewhere

By Le Ha | August 27

"For many college students, especially soon-to-be graduates, the internship is ideally a return ticket to employment post-graduation. It seems like a logical option that should support us in entering the professional world — if we can access it."

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Column: I belong at UNC

By Laney Crawley | August 25

"Regardless of how extensive my resume was when applying to schools, people still said I would not have to worry about rigorous admissions processes because my skin color would do all the work for me."

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Satire: Tips for returning from your semester abroad

By Hannah Kaufman | August 24

"As I would soon explain to friends, family, or anyone who would listen, my experience abroad was a blur of new faces and Vueling seat buckles. It was that first bite of patatas bravas, the time I passed the cathedral while a man in a scarf serenaded the square with something that felt like a love song."

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Column: Behind The Daily Tar Heel's website relaunch

By Emmy Martin | August 23

"As our first newspapers of the academic year sit in blue boxes around campus and the community, I’m excited to tell you that our new website is live."

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Column: The official student guide to buses

By Samad Rangoonwala | August 22

So, you’re a new student and you don’t have — or don’t want —  a car, but you need to get places. Luckily for you, the Triangle has a robust bus network. Here's what you need to know to get around.

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Op-Ed: Why 'race-blindness' is counterproductive

August 22

"When I stepped foot on campus, I immediately recognized the profound contrast from my high school environment."

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Column: Why the USWNT’s World Cup loss means progress

By Mary Blake Nobles | August 20

"The USWNT’s failure to secure another title can easily be written off as a massive coaching failure and a wavering team dynamic, but we’re missing an important variable here. We are not giving the United States’ opponents, and all of the other teams in the tournament, enough credit."

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Office DJ: What The Daily Tar Heel sounded like this summer

By Adrian Tillman | July 27

"Together, this playlist encapsulates a summer's worth of muggy afternoons, walks around campus, rounds of Geoguessr and whiteboard drawings. Every time I get nostalgic about slideshow nights, beer cheese or arguments about Filet-o-Fishes, I know this playlist will bring me right back to summer at The Daily Tar Heel."

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Column: Why you should get to know your local student journalist

By Ethan E. Horton | July 27

"We're students whose writing and editing and designing and photographing makes up one of the best student newspapers in the country, and the main print newspaper remaining in Orange County. And we hope to lay the foundations for the next generation of news. So, yeah – support student journalism."

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Column: What I brought to move in my first year — and how much I actually used it

By Caitlyn Yaede | June 28

"I am not the first person to share this advice, nor will I be the last. Moving into your first college dorm room is a formative experience in your young adult life and I’m here to make sure you have everything you need to be a full-time Tar Heel."

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Column: Making friends sucks. But then, it doesn't.

By Ethan E. Horton | June 27

"Let's be very clear — making friends sucks. It does. You have to be vulnerable. You have to be nice. You have to give a little to get a little. I've never been a big fan of any of that."

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Column: Making Chapel Hill my home, and yours

By Walker Livingston | June 27

"I’ve grown pretty tired of Chapel Hill. After all, I have gone to elementary, middle, high school and college here. Despite this, I think I’ve gotten around to making Chapel Hill my home. And I hope you make it yours too. "

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Office DJ: Songs for driving down Highway 54

By Eliza Benbow | June 27

"These are the songs that I always come back to that remind me of Carolina, whether it’s driving down Highway 54, taping memories to the walls of my first dorm room or laying on the quad."

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Farewell Column: My complicated relationship with the DTH

By Heidi Pérez-Moreno | May 7

"The very structure of The Daily Tar Heel makes it hard to actually be part of this newsroom if you don’t have the financial stability to handle below-average pay for the sake of altruistic, hard-earned journalism experience. I can count on one hand the amount of DTH editors over my two years that could relate to my situation."

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Farewell Column: For my UNC neighborhood

By Olivia Rojas | May 7

"To all my DTH friends and family, thank you for being a part of my neighborhood."

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Column: Women's magazines are reinventing the status quo

By Michelle Seucan | April 27

"Now more than ever, the mission of women’s magazines is to highlight overlooked issues in society and break barriers while doing so."

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Farewell Column: Gotta spend time to make time

By Guillermo Molero | April 27

"The time I spent in the newsroom all these days, weeks and lives wasn’t just for the paper. It was for them. I was spending time with my friends. With my family."

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Farewell Column: Hope beyond those long news days

By Preston Fore | April 27

"And while some days in news — well, actually a lot of days — are long and tiresome, working with many talented and wonderful people at the DTH has given me hope for the future of journalism and the world."

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Farewell Column: The DTH doesn’t love me back

By Hannah Collett | April 27

"I love the DTH so much that I wanted to let it break me. If we’re being honest, I might have let it do that already."

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