Column: Women's sports deserve attendance — even without Fever points

By Cooper Hall | September 30

"While the current incentivization of women’s sports is demoralizing and attendance numbers are disappointing, I don’t think all hope is entirely lost. Fever points and giveaways do force viewership, but they also boost attendance."

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Column: Make your gratitude more than reciprocal

By Teo Almaguer | September 30

"These crossing guards, nor any other UNC employee, should not be expected to initiate kindness to receive it in return."

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Column: Please, don't feed the AI

By Natalie McCarthy | September 30

"While AI’s contributions in scientific and medical fields may be necessary and life-saving, the overreach of technology in the humanities robs them of their foundation: the human experience."

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Column: Mission trips are too cruel for your spiritual journey

By Arya Mehta | September 29

"People aren’t props for your spiritual journey."

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Column: Does partisanship undermine meritocracy and democracy?

By Eva Eapen | September 29

"My concern is that hyperpartisanship can diminish meritocracy. Qualified candidates who value nonpartisanship are forced to either run along party lines or simply lose. This creates perverse incentives, especially for offices that ought to operate away from the fray of petty politics."

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Satire: UNC Career Hub ends my 'stress-but-do-nothing' approach to the future

By Savanna Ray | September 27

"I am as excited about this new career-centered website as a person can be about a new career-centered website, the kind of excitement that makes you go 'Wow, we really are a Public Ivy!'"

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Column: Stop forsaking your ethics in the name of 'policy'

By Madelyn Rowley | September 26

"Mark Robinson is a racist, a bigot and an inciter of violence. If it really comes down to it, how reprehensible does a candidate have to be until no amount of policy can make up for it?"

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Column: UNC must be more transparent about lead in water safety measures

By Cogan McMichaels | September 25

"Personally, I’d like to know if the water I’m using has dangerous levels of lead in it, whether I’m washing my hands or taking a shower or — perish the thought — drinking it."

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Column: Stop relying on celebrities to tell you who to vote for

By Anna Cathryn Perry | September 25

"Blindly following what a celebrity says instead of examining the candidate’s or party’s policies diminishes critical thinking in voters, as well as the free thinking and political engagement of the American people."

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Column: Rise above the bare minimum — raise the minimum wage

By Victoria Kirova | September 25

"A state can’t spearhead its economy hiding behind outdated historical facts created in a different time. So while big businesses currently appear to be flourishing, underpaying workers will eventually catch up to them."

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Column: You can call for people to die, just don’t get your history leaked

By Connor Foote | September 24

"As a politician, violent bigotry is quite alright, but simple hypocrisy is the line you cannot cross."

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Column: UNC should call off classes on Election Day

By Cooper Hall | September 24

"It's up to UNC to alleviate these difficulties. One easy way: canceling classes on Election Day."

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Column: Students must exercise their right to vote

By Kaveena Ponamgi | September 23

"This race has a crucial opportunity to shape the lives of college students both now and in the next decade. Many of the topics on the table for this election will change our lives — it is crucial that students recognize what is at stake and vote."

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Column: The Democratic Party has a barbecue problem. It could lose them the election.

By Mary Thomas Watkins | September 23

"If a candidate is to win over the hearts, minds and votes of North Carolinians, they have to know our political power is fired with smoke and wood."

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Column: Social media marketplaces are ruining user experience. Don’t buy in.

By Mary Blake Nobles | September 23

"Thanks to social media marketplaces like the TikTok Shop, Instagram Shopping and Facebook Marketplace, it’s become easier than ever to get what you want when you want it. With that convenience, though, comes a scarcity in genuine, unpaid endorsements of products."

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Column: Two parties divided, stand united — against Haitian immigrants?

By Madelyn Rowley | September 22

"Deliberations no longer resemble: 'Are open borders or closed borders better for the country?' as much as 'Which candidate keeps the border closed with enough intensity to satisfy my nationalism?'"

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Column: Student organizations are important for majors — give them more credit

By Arya Mehta | September 22

"This build-up of fatigue and inability to continue with music, or any such craft, comfortably throughout the years chips away at students. This slow disillusionment causes students to lose the original passion they entered university with, which is a devastating loss for any industry or art form."

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Column: FOMO, no mo

By Shea McIntyre | September 22

"Letting go of FOMO requires you to focus on what is best for you at all times, and sometimes it may require you to eat lunch alone or miss out on that one party (don’t worry, most of them are all the same — you’ll hear No Hands by Waka Flocka Flame play at least once)."

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Column: Beware of the 'College Funk'

By Ellie Kollme | September 22

"The second I step onto campus, everything I seemingly forgot about over the summer comes rushing back to me — the academic stress from classes, the pressure to find a real job and the feeling that I must use every free second I have to get ahead."

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Column: Your financially unstable dreams are worth chasing

By Cecily Ross | September 22

"I ask myself the question: Is it a waste of an education to not enter the rat-race and try my hand at the American dream?"

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