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'Blistering': UNC faces fines after federal safety, crime reporting violations

By Charlie McGee | November 19

Nearly seven years after its investigation began, the U.S. Department of Education stated in a final program review report that UNC acted in violation ...

Animal rights organization asks USDA to investigate UNC for lab violations

By Arabella Saunders | November 7

An animal rights group has asked the USDA to look into mistreatment of animals in UNC labs. While the USDA is aware of the request, it has yet to respond ...

Months after controversy fueled its formation, UNC's safety commission faces questions

By Stephanie Mayer | November 3

Campus Safety Commission meetings have been in session over the last two months to give students, faculty and staff the opportunity to discuss their concerns ...

New records show years of UNC's animal research violations, but others go unreported

By Arabella Saunders | October 23

The Daily Tar Heel obtained through a federal public record request 40 separate reports of lab-animal welfare violations at UNC over the last four and ...

A Hussman history: how an Arkansas newspaper war led to a landmark UNC donation

By Mattias Miller | October 22

Hussman emerged victorious – erasing his rival’s newsroom and creating a bitterness toward Hussman among its former staffers that persists to this ...

Clashing demonstrations continue over Pittsboro Confederate monument

By Elizabeth Moore | October 21

The Pittsboro protest at Horton Middle School became heated as pro-Confederate and anti-Confederate groups clashed from across a street.

How UNC got the tech to track men's basketball, football players' class attendance

By Hannah McClellan | October 17

Emails and financial agreements received by the DTH through multiple public records requests reveal details of the lead-up to and implementation at UNC ...

Ousted Blue Cross CEO still eligible to treat UNC Hospitals children after charges

By Evelyn Gandy | October 8

Details emerged publicly last month regarding the arrest of Patrick Conway this past summer, when he drunkenly crashed his vehicle into a tractor trailer ...

Here's what you need to know about the aftermath of the AKPsi suspension

By Elizabeth Moore | October 6

A five-year suspension of UNC’s chapter of the co-ed business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi came earlier this year after violations related to alcohol, ...

'It broke us' : Parking fees strain cancer patients while building revenue for UNC

By Arabella Saunders and Eva Ellenburg | October 2

Most long-term patients, such as those with cancer, pay the same amount for parking at UNC Hospitals as every other visitor throughout the state. Some ...

Beyond forced labor: How UNC made its founding investments on slavery, stolen property

By Charlie McGee | September 23

While the labor and trading of enslaved people was central to establishing and growing UNC, it was also a primary source of wealth for generations of ...

DOJ arrests man known as 'Jack Corbin,' who threatened UNC students, others online

By Charlie McGee | September 19

Jack Corbin, an alias under which 31-year-old Daniel McMahon promoted fascist rhetoric, has been tied to several attacks on UNC students and faculty over ...

A year later, North Carolina is still recovering from Hurricane Florence

By Raymond Chen and Michael Taffe | September 12

“Many families will feel the effects of this disaster long after the storm has passed, and we will continue to support them in any way possible in the ...

The underreported trend of sexual assault during study abroad programs

By Elizabeth Thompson | September 12

While sexual assault on campus has become part of public discourse in recent years, sexual assault while studying abroad has not. An issue that impacts ...

How students get caught up in the U.S.-China trade war

By Cynthia Dong | September 9

As tensions rise between the US and China over trade, international students find themselves caught in the middle of the two superpowers.

UNC tracking student-athlete class attendance through third-party beacon tech

By Hannah McClellan | September 5

As an attempt to make sure the athletics attendance policy is being upheld by student-athletes, new beacon technology has been installed in classrooms ...

'UNC Anti-Racist Alerts' system aims to promote safety when Confederates are on campus

By Charlie McGee | September 3

A rise in Confederate-based demonstrations led to the creation of a text message alert system by community activists. As implications of hostility toward ...

Disgruntled with Chapel Hill parking? So are Franklin Street businesses

By Marin Wolf | August 28

Since last July, eleven stores and restaurants in downtown Chapel Hill have closed their doors. Is lack of parking the culprit? Parking in downtown Chapel ...

Why are graduate students often at the center of campus protests?

By Alex Zietlow | January 21

Graduate students have been at the helm of campus protests at UNC since the 1960s, from George Vlasits, an anti-Vietnam War protester in the 1960s, to ...

At UNC, medical school teaches future physicians how to properly prescribe opioids

By Seth Newkirk | February 5

As an unprecedented epidemic of opioid use and overprescription is rippling throughout the United States, UNC's Department of Pharmacology in the ...