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Keynote Speaker Chandra Ford spoke at the Minority Health Conference at the Friday Center on Friday.

Conference focuses on race and discrimination in health fields

By Mark Burnett | February 27

The Minority Student Caucus held their 38th annual Minority Health Conference last Friday and brought out numerous professionals in the field, including ...

Grier and Adkins talk diversity and Greek life at student body president debate

By Celia McRae | February 27

Staff writer Celia McCrae live-tweeted the Greek Council Student Body President debate between candidates Maurice Grier and Elizabeth Adkins in Bingham ...

Student body president candidates Maurice Grier (left) and Elizabeth Adkins respond to questions asked by leaders of the Greek Organizations IFC, GAC, NPHC, and the PHC.

Complaints filed against SBP candidates Elizabeth Adkins and Maurice Grier

By Jamie Gwaltney | February 26

Two complaints were filed Sunday against the two remaining student body presidential candidates, Elizabeth Adkins and Maurice Grier.

UNC students, Nagwa Nakuna and Amu Muyanga, discuss matters on race in an activism conference hosted by UNC's Black Congress.

Campus Y, Black Congress talk activism "post-Trump"

By Eva Ellenburg | February 26

According to the participants of the Activism in a New Era conference, activism is not just about protests — it’s a lifestyle. Co-hosted by the ...

The board of elections holds the third hearing against Matthew McKnight's campaign. They unanimously voted to award him eight points. He now has been awarded 15 total points, so he has been disqualified from the Student Body President elections.

McKnight disqualified from SBP elections

By Jamie Gwaltney and Paige Nehls | February 24

On Thursday night, the UNC Board of Elections disqualified Matthew McKnight from the student body president elections after hearing a third complaint ...

Virginia Tucker and Dorothy Vaughan served as human “computers,” completing calculations for NASA. Both women once lived in North Carolina.  (Original photos courtesy of Morehead Planetarium and Science Center)

Hidden Figures shine in NC: Two female 'computers' made history in NASA jobs

By Haley McDougal | February 24

With “Hidden Figures” debuting nationwide, the untold stories of female computers are being explored at length — and some have close ties to the ...

Alpha Chi Omega now will allow anyone who identifies as a woman to join their sorority.

Alpha Chi Omega's national organization moves to accept transgender women

By Myah Ward | February 24

In a video message from Alpha Chi Omega’s national president, Angela Harris, announced on Feb. 17 that collegiate chapters nationwide will now accept ...

Minority Health Conference will focus on politics and diversity

By Will Arrington | February 24

The 38th annual Minority Health Conference aims to be one of the most diverse in the event's history.

A compost bin located outside of Ram Village 4.

Ram Village joins other communities in campus composting program

By Gloria Ge | February 24

Ram Village Apartments has joined 13 other communities across campus this semester in a composting program.

Active Minds and UNC PAWS are hosting a de-stress event with puppies today in honor of Priya Balagopal, their former president who died in 2016.

Active Minds is bringing puppies to Wilson Library

By Jackson Liu | February 23

Active Minds at Carolina is partnering with UNC PAWS on Friday to give students a chance to relax while petting dogs and raising awareness of mental health ...

Matthew McKnight and Elizabeth Adkins gain enough signatures to be on the ballot

By Jamie Gwaltney | February 23

Matthew McKnight is currently the only candidate with enough signatures to be on the ballot as a student body presidential candidate.

'A story of people who remained on the land': Duke professor discusses book on Alabama property

By Cy Neff | February 23

Duke professor emeritus Sydney Nathans’s book, “A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland” chronicles the story of the Hargress family’s ...

Signs were placed around campus quoting Chancellor Carol Folt's response to an earlier posted sign that she said incited violence.

New posters with quote from Folt appear on campus

By Sofia Edelman | February 23

Fliers with quotes from Chancellor Carol Folt, images of a pig in a police hat and warnings of Nazi propaganda were put up around the quad area — some ...

Student body presidential candidates react to freeze on campaigning

By Celia McRae | February 23

With an injunction on student body presidential elections, candidates have had to adjust their strategies.

Students Mark Ellard, a senior history major (left), Marie Payne, a senior exercise and sports science major, and Chris Corsi, a junior psychology major in the pit on Thursday, trying to gain signatures in other to change accessibility signs on campus to a more active looking sign.

Student groups aim to change stereotypes with new accessibility signs

By Jackson Liu | February 23

A committee of UNC students started a petition to change the accessibility signs around campus to show the Alternative Symbol of Accessibility.

(DTH Photo Illustration/José Valle; original photos DTH file/Barron Northrup and courtesy of UNC Archives)

‘The conscience of the country’: Alumni reflect on activism, past and present, at UNC

By Jenni Ciesielski | February 22

The 2.9 million of January’s Women’s March were a part of the largest protest in history. This month’s HKonJ had its highest attendance ever.

After being disqualified by the Board of Elections on Monday, the Joe Nail campaign has filed a complaint against the BOE to the UNC Student Supreme Court.

Student Supreme Court says no to disqualification appeal

By Jamie Gwaltney | February 22

Sophomore Joe Nail’s candidacy for student body president may not recover after the latest blow to his campaign late Tuesday.

Students will vote to approve new plan for split government in referendum

By Danielle Bush | February 22

A referendum on the plan to split student government will appear on the spring general election ballot on March 2.

The Meantime has enough money to fund a student's gap year through the Global Gap Year Fellowship.

The Meantime gives first donation to program for sophomores to take gap years

By Jacob Hancock | February 22

The Meantime Coffee Co. has been serving coffee in the Campus Y since September, but now it's offering something else for students.

Senior Kate Schneider, a business major, is the manager of fundraising and merchandising for the Loreleis' a cappella group.

Opinions vary on benefit nights for student organizations

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez | February 22

Many students have helped raise money for UNC student organizations through benefit nights at a restaurant or bar on Franklin Street.