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Andrew Clark is running a fake campaign for student body president.

Junior Andrew Clark mocks student body presidential campaigns with fake site

By Tiffani Gibbs | February 3

While other candidates are collecting signatures, junior Andrew Clark is causing confusion over his campaign.

Historical SBP campaigns involved horses, narwhals and renaming the town

By Charlie McGee | February 3

This is part of a series of stories looking into different parts of UNC’s long history and how life at the University has changed over time.

Leader of Ferguson protests discussed emotional toll of activism

By Varun Kasula | February 3

UNC collaborated with Teach for America, Alpha Phi Alpha and UNC student government to host a speech and panel about racial justice in the United States ...

A fire alarm went off in Joyner Residence Hall on Thursday morning. A pipe also busted in the dorm causing students to be without water for part of the morning.

Leaking pipe caused fire alarm in Joyner Residence Hall

By Aaron Redus and Jamie Gwaltney | February 2

Residents in Joyner Residence Hall woke up early Thursday morning because of a fire alarm caused by a leaking pipe in the basement.

Junior Rain Tiller started the "No Lost Generation" group on campus.

Student organization aims to help refugee families

By Kaitlyn Green | February 2

As citizens and political leaders around the world debate admitting refugees into their respective countries, one UNC student seeks to make a difference ...

Campus Y Co-President Forum 6-7 on Wednesday night

Campus Y co-president candidates discuss their goals, social justice

By Harris Wheless | February 2

The two pairs running to lead the Campus Y in 2017-18 — Nick McKenzie and Asha Patel, and Alexander Peeples and Courtney Staton — spoke about their ...

City leaders and law enforcement discuss immigration at a forum in the Union on Wednesday night.

Panelists discuss immigrant rights and law at community forum

By Cy Neff | February 2

The Town of Chapel Hill and Carolina Student Legal Services held a forum on Wednesday night to discuss immigration and its potential effects on at-risk ...

Tristan Clapham, a UNC first-year, is a Trump supporter who was in attendance at the inaugural events. He spoke about his experience as a conservative in the more liberal town and campus of Chapel Hill.

'It was the one day of fitting in': College-age Trump supporters share perspectives post-inauguration

By Corey Risinger | February 2

Almost two weeks since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the realities of a new administration with a new policy agenda are setting in across ...

First-years Delainey Kirkwood (left), Charlotte Smith (middle), and Monica Mussack (right) are international students who attend UNC.

UNC takes steps to reach out to international students following Trump's immigration ban

By Myah Ward | February 2

UNC is taking action to make sure international students are informed and feel safe on campus after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning ...

Ayoub Ouederni, president of the Muslim Students' Association, expressed concern regarding President Trump's recent executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Q&A with UNC Muslim Students Association's Ayoub Ouederni

By Preston Lennon | February 1

Ayoub Ouederni is the president of the UNC Muslim Students Association. Staff Writer Preston Lennon spoke with him about what UNC MSA is doing in light ...

A meeting was held in Carroll Hall on Monday for students to announce their intent to run for Student Body President.

Meet the six student body president candidates for 2017-18

By Celia McRae and Brinley Lowe | February 1

UNC students have six choices for who will lead them in the 2017-18 academic year — Sammie Espada, Matthew McKnight, Elizabeth Adkins, Joe Nail, Maurice ...

Faculty members signed a response to Chancellor Carol Folt's letter that responded to President Trump's executive order to ban immigration of citizens from seven countries.

UNC faculty members ask administration to do more about immigration ban

By Acy Jackson | February 1

Some UNC faculty are not happy with Chancellor Carol Folt’s response to President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban immigrants from seven predominantly-Muslim ...

Sophomore Erin Hoover (left), Senior Emily Milkes (center) and Senior Keagan Trahan work in the Carolina Cupboard in the basement of Avery Residence Hall.

Food insecurity challenges undergraduates at UNC, nationwide

By Bailey Aldridge | February 1

A 2016 survey by the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness reports that 22 percent of around 3,800 undergraduate respondents experienced ...

The Student Congress Rules and Judiciary Committee discussed the proposal to separate the undergraduate and graduate student government on Tuesday.

Student Congress committees review bill for split government

By Nic Rardin | February 1

Student Congress revealed more details of the potential split between undergraduate and graduate student governments at its Tuesday night committee meetings. ...

Sophomore Mathew Fedder is the Carolina Fever public relations director.

Students have a fever for Duke tickets

By Molly Looman | January 30

During men’s basketball season, no position is more coveted than a spot among the Carolina Fever top 150 point earners. With tickets to the Duke game ...

A $1 million gift to the UNC Institute for the Environment will be used to endow the Pavel Molchanov Scholars Program, which matches students with professional summer internships in environmental science careers.

Temporary EPA freeze concerns UNC Institute for the Environment

By Kaitlyn Green | January 30

In its first days in office, President Donald Trump’s administration implemented prohibitions against the Environmental Protection Agency that have ...

A suspicious person was reported near Everett Residence Hall.

UNC first-year reports being followed across campus, into dorm by stranger

By Leah Moore | January 30

On Monday around 5 p.m., first-year Nicole Montegrico was followed by a suspicious person into Everett Residence Hall.

UNC sophomore and club table tennis member Abraham Post serves the ball to his opponent Wei Qu, a member of the senior citizen team.

Students battle seniors in pingpong tournament at Seymour Center

By Eva Ellenburg | January 30

The UNC Club Table Tennis team and senior citizen table tennis players faced off in a tournament on Saturday at the Robert & Pearl Seymour Center. ...

Sophomore Emma Hennen writes down the phone numbers of senators and organizations to call to discuss stopping the construction of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.

Students rally against Trump’s pipeline orders outside South Building

By Nick Rardin | January 27

Alarmed by President Donald Trump’s executive orders to support construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone XL pipeline, student environmental ...

Bradley Opere talks student government split with Board of Trustees

By Paige Nehls | January 27

At the Board of Trustees full body meeting, Dwight Stone, chairperson of the board, presented a summary of reports about Chancellor Carol Folt that were ...