Op-ed: Down with professional Twitter! Just kidding...Unless?

"We need to normalize the reality that we are multidimensional. Our interests and jokes don’t always align with our 9-5’s, and that’s okay! Down with the separate accounts!!" 

Column: Like a virgin

"The whole concept of virginity, although entrenched in our culture, religion and education, needs a serious makeover. Like, let’s Queer Eye that shit." 

Viewpoints: Keep the CFB postseason weird

Expanding the playoffs will inevitably ruin college football’s regular season, by both shortening the season and diminishing the importance of weekly games. 

Viewpoints: Expand the bracket

Someone has to eventually get tired of watching Alabama or Clemson play in the national championship for college football, right?

Editorial: The interim University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"That’s right, folks — that succulent on your windowsill might outlast the current UNC faculty. Hell, even Chad from Theta Apple Pi would probably last longer than the UNC administration."

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Editorial: Students deserve a bigger seat at the table in the chancellor search

"The University shouldn’t be surprised if students object when the new chancellor is named — especially since students were barely given a say in the first place. It’s a simple fix, really: just give students more of a say and it’ll make life easier for us all."

Editorial: We don't want the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in North Carolina

"The governor made a mistake in approving the first pipeline, which was made more clear when his administration disapproved of the second. Let’s hope he recognizes his mistake, listens to activists and changes his mind for the environmental future of North Carolina. We don't want the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in our state."

Beauty

Editorial: Your privacy is worth 47 cents to the College Board

The potential for inequity is immeasurable, but at least we can remain assured that our names are equally worth a hefty 47 cents each.

Editorial: OK, Boomers

"In the wake of the recent "OK, Boomer" meme storm that has torn through the internet, some publications have adopted an overly-serious tone in deconstructing the importance of 'constructive intergenerational dialogue.'"

Column: UNC study finds that pain care inequity persists

If we care about the health of this country, we have to address the underserved populations. We have to target these gaps in medicine with actionable change.

Column: Inescapable misogyny

The culture of these sites threatens to reverse whatever progress we’ve made in the past fifty years promoting sexual agency and reducing the shame and stigma of female sexuality. Personally, that’s not really a path I want to go down. Do you?

Column: Rowhouses — the tour de force of urban housing

"Our solutions to affordable housing don’t have to be shining, happy, single family homes or gleaming apartment towers. Sometimes, one of the oldest solutions can be the best."

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Editorial: Visit Cash Crop! to learn about the legacy of slavery

Students, faculty and members of the community should visit this exhibit to get a deeper understanding of what "Cash Crop!" represents, and experience the power of the statues first-hand.

Editorial: UNC covers up its racist past — literally

We’re tired of writing different versions of the same editorial, begging UNC to recognize the humanity of its marginalized students. At this point, it feels like we’re just screaming into the void. But more importantly, we know students of color are tired of living it.

Editorial: Legislative inaction means rural North Carolinians are without health care

The indecisive nature of the state leaders, combined with an unclear future for Medicaid and health care, has led North Carolina to be ninth in the nation for the highest rate of uninsured residents.

Column: The odd traditions of the Nacirema: The oldest authoritarian regime

"Nacireman federal elections are coming up in less than a year. Unfortunately for Nacireman folk, they have to vote in yet another election under an authoritarian regime that is becoming increasingly oligarchic."

Let’s never forget the Wilmington massacre

"It is up to us, those in the present day, to keep ourselves informed about the terrible events that occurred in Wilmington in November 1898, so that we can ensure that they never happen again."