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UNC in the process of undergoing Title IX compliance review

By Cailyn Derickson | December 5

UNC is in the process of assessing its compliance with Title IX — a process completed every five years.

Sophomore Bryant Parroquin is the Communications Assistant for the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative.

Undocumented students at UNC must seek off-campus legal help

By Leah Moore | December 2

Carolina Student Legal Services does not assist undocumented students with concerns they may be having related to immigration law.

Art project combines Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock movements

By Danielle Bush | December 2

Students stood alongside dressed-up skeletons in front of Wilson Library Thursday as part of a collaborative project in a seminar for studio art majors. ...

Symposium offers free HIV testing in Union to fight stigma

By Kayla Drake | December 1

At the 18th Symposium for World AIDS Day on campus Thursday, Angela Vick-Lewis, an HIV patient since 2006, told the story of how she found out she was ...

The cost of winning: UNC's growing athletic budget puts students on the hook

By Logan Ulrich | December 1

Tune into any TV broadcast of a UNC home football or basketball game, and you might recognize the curly-haired, oft-painted superfan spearheading the ...

Keith Pane, UNC Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, discussed implicit bias at a Carolina Conversations event on Wednesday

Students explored their implicit biases at Carolina Conversation

By Lorcan Farrell | December 1

Keith Payne, a professor of psychology and neuroscience, prompted students to recognize their own implicit bias at Wednesday’s Carolina Conversation. ...

Ohio State attack prompts UNC Public Safety to plan

By Carina McDermed | November 30

Eleven people were injured after a student at The Ohio State University drove a car into a group of people Monday morning, left the vehicle and stabbed ...

Student Congress votes to support making UNC a sanctuary campus

By Molly Looman | November 29

Student Congress passed resolutions for sensitivity training and to support sanctuary campus status during their last general body meeting of the semester ...

Activists and supporters gather at the Stone Center for the 20th anniversary of the historic UNC Housekeepers' Agreement.

Left to right: Alan McSurely, Marsha Tinnen, Chris Baumann

UNC's Housekeepers’ Settlement Agreement was made 20 years ago

By Harris Wheless | November 29

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the UNC Housekeepers’ Settlement Agreement, an action that secured more rights for workers.

FBI report finds increase of reported hate crimes in North Carolina in 2015

By Bailey Aldridge | November 28

Hate crimes have risen from 2014 to 2015 in North Carolina according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2015 report on hate crimes.

Low economic mobility and HB2 overshadow high NC business ranking

By CJ Farris | November 27

Forbes released its Best States for Business rankings earlier this month, and for the second year in a row North Carolina was No. 2.

The Daily Tar Heel files lawsuit against UNC to obtain campus sexual assault records

By Katie Rice | November 22

The Daily Tar Heel filed a lawsuit against UNC on Monday for access to public records regarding sexual assault cases on campus.

Faculty Executive Committee gets heated discussing its role in academic freedom and an N.C. gun law.

Academic freedom talks stir tensions at Faculty Executive Committee

By Nic Rardin | November 22

The Faculty Executive Committee met Monday to discuss issues of academic freedom and opposition to part of a North Carolina gun law that affects college ...

The Meditation Room in the Carolina Underground, under the FPG Student Union, has been officially deemed the "Napping Room".

Carolina Union removes policy against sleeping in its meditation room

November 20

The meditation room in the Carolina Union will also function as a napping space due to recent policy changes made by the Carolina Union Board of Directors. ...

Students are protesting the construction at Ehringhaus.

First-years start petition to show their annoyance with construction at Ehringhaus

By Allie Mobley | November 20

Roof replacement at Ehringhaus Residence Hall has been going on for more than a month, and the ruckus of construction is causing some annoyance for residents. ...

UNC's affirmative action lawsuit moves forward with Supreme Court ruling

By Felicia Bailey | November 20

UNC has been fighting a lawsuit against its affirmative action practices for two years, but a precedent-setting Supreme Court ruling from June indicates ...

What it's like to balance campus fame and normal life for UNC's student-athletes

By Colleen Moir | November 17

The jersey never comes off — that’s one thing UNC student-athletes are told to remember.

More than 2,000 sign petition to protect undocumented students at UNC

By Paige Nehls | November 17

For many people on campus, the email sent out by Chancellor Carol Folt on Wednesday that reaffirmed the University’s non-discrimination policy was not ...

UNC system awards $1.7 million in research grants

By Vincent Veerbeek | November 17

The UNC system announced Tuesday it will be awarding four grants totaling $1.7 million to researchers across the system to promote collaboration within ...

Third year Almas Islas conducts an exercise meant to give students examples of the experiences of undocumented youth Saturday afternoon in the Campus Y.

UNC faculty meeting discusses possibility of 'sanctuary university' for undocumented students

By Brinley Lowe | November 16

Sixty-three UNC staff, faculty, alumni and students squeezed into a small classroom in Dey Hall Tuesday morning to discuss how to support undocumented ...