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Elizabeth Adkins is a junior political science and journalism major and is running to be Student Body President.

Student government goals for upcoming year

By Adam Phan | July 7

Between communication streamlining, congressional restructuring and campus issues, Student Government should have a busy first semester.

Student Union anticipates renovations

By Nic Rardin | July 7

UNC is looking into expanding the Carolina Union, which might just mean rolling out the bulldozers.

Allen Artis' case dismissed

By Rachel Jones and Rebecca Ayers | June 29

UNC football player Allen Artis, who was suspended from the football team after he was charged with a misdemeanor assault on a female and sexual battery, ...

Dr. Taffye Benson Clayton, Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer, was the keynote speaker for Catalyst, a social justice conference for North Carolina high school students, on Saturday in gerrard hall.

Weekend conference seeks to educate high schoolers on social justice

By Sara Pequeño | June 27

In high school, it is easy to feel alone, different, or stuck. In a community where location may be the only thing you have in common with peers, it can ...

Undergraduate senate debates redistricting bill

By Rebecca Ayers | June 23

Undergraduate Student Senate met Thursday to discuss a bill that would redraw Senate district lines, and to discuss goals for the upcoming school year ...

A 2015 Ebony Readers/Onyx Theater (EROT) performance.

Student "artivists" have rhythm with poetry, rap

By Brinley Lowe | May 30

“To a Friend Somewhere in Chicago” is a personal letter to an old friend. But unlike most letters, it doesn’t have just one reader—or any readers ...

The Daily Tar Heel files appeal for public records ruling

By Rebecca Ayers | May 25

The Daily Tar Heel filed an appeal of the Superior Court judge’s ruling on May 3 that UNC is not required to provide public records for students or ...

The Daily Tar Heel receives public records ruling

By Rebecca Ayers | May 10

Judge Allen Baddour ruled on May that UNC is not required to provide public records concerning the identification of students or employees that are responsible ...

Medical students Charlotte Story (left) and Ashley Thrower started a fundraiser to buy more Medical Play Kits for children recently diagnosed with cancer.

UNC medical school group raises money for children's medical play kits

By Varun Kasula | April 28

To help kids in the hospital understand the technology around them, play medical kits provide a way to make sense of what is happening around them.

UNC and Duke students competed in a Datathon on Friday. Photo courtesy of Houa Vang.

UNC team wins $20,000 and a chance at a job from datathon

By Lorcan Farrell | April 28

A team of UNC Ph.D. candidates won $20,000 and job interviews after a day-long competition on Duke University’s campus on April 21.

Southern Historical Collection will use $877,000 grant to archive southern history

By Cy Neff | April 28

For UNC Libraries’ Southern Historical Collection, an $877,000 grant will provide new opportunities for community engagement.

Frank Allison, Program Coordinator of Recovery Initiatives, makes himself available to students going through the recovery process.

'It was just a constant': Students deal with substance use disorder through the Carolina Recovery Program

By Cailyn Derickson | April 28

A male student smokes marijuana every day to make it to class. A female student finds she doesn’t need the social setting to get drunk, so she drinks ...

The new "Time Will Tell" exhibit at the Ackland opened Thursday. The exhibit features art from MFA Students at the university.

New exhibit at Ackland gives MFA students chance to display year-long projects

By Charlie McGee | April 28

A new exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum combines the works of seven master of fine arts students at UNC to explore the concept of time.

Senior Grace Thorpe's art piece "HBToilet" has disappeared from its place in front of the Campus Y.

Student art on HB2 and its partial repeal vanishes from Campus Y courtyard

By Jamie Gwaltney | April 28

Senior Grace Thorpe said she expected her art installation “HBToilet” to be vandalized — but not to this extent.

James Creissen, a sophomore business major, poses in front of a rack of clothes he designed. Creissen held a fashion show on East Rosemary Street Thursday night.

Secret fashion show presents UNC sophomore's second collection

By Jackson Liu | April 28

High heels, body glitter, shiny skirts — a student-run secret fashion show lit up the night.

Kenan-Flagler serves executive realness at Pride Club's second annual drag ball

By Cy Neff | April 27

Tonight at The Strowd, UNC students and members of the surrounding community will have the chance to experience and participate in drag culture at the ...

The ART 300 class held a petition signing station in Polk Place where students could write letters to the North Carolina General Assembly.

Art students use collaborative art to write to General Assembly

By Myah Ward | April 27

Arts professor Elin O’Hara Slavick and students from her ARTS 300 class used collaborative art to write letters to the North Carolina General Assembly, ...

UNC's Office of Rural Initiatives trains doctors for rural areas

By Preston Lennon | April 27

The UNC School of Medicine is consolidating its efforts to increase the number of doctors in underserved North Carolina communities.

Elementary students from Frank Porter Graham Bilingual Elementary learn about Wilson Library during their campus tour on Tuesday.

Heritage speaker program inspires bilingual students to consider college

By Molly Looman | April 27

New students touring UNC’s campus are not the usual high schoolers figuring out their college applications. These students are bilingual fourth-graders ...

Students in the School of Social Work present their oral history projects about marginalized populations in North Carolina. Photo Courtesy of Maura Matney.

Social work students projects to highlight NC communities

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez | April 27

Graduate students from the UNC School of Social Work released an art installation titled “Hear Our Voices” which highlights the stories of marginalized ...