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GPSF executive positions will be paid positions

By Anish Bhatia | March 1

A referendum in Thursday’s election will determine whether UNC’s student government will split into an undergraduate council and a graduate council, ...

SBP candidates talk sexual assault policy, inclusion at Young Democrats debate

By Brinley Lowe | March 1

Student body president candidates Maurice Grier and Elizabeth Adkins debated in the UNC Young Democrats Debate in Manning Hall. Senior Writer Brinley ...

Di Phi hosts last student body president debate of the night

By Molly Looman | March 1

Staff writer Molly Looman live-tweeted the last student body president debate tonight between Maurice Grier and Elizabeth Adkins which was hosted by the ...

Student body president elections halted after Travis Broadhurst complaint

By Acy Jackson | February 28

Travis Broadhurst has made a complaint against the UNC Board of Elections to the UNC Student Supreme Court. The complaint requests that the Supreme Court ...

Boateng Kubi, chairperson of the Carolina Union board of directors, presents the completed feasibility study for a new Carolina Union.

Results of feasibility study for new Student Union released

By Madeleine Fraley | February 28

The results of the Carolina Union’s Feasibility Study were released on the new Our Carolina Union website Monday, revealing students’ high interest ...

Organizers hope to memorialize Wilson Caldwell in event

By Nicole Booth | February 28

Education and awareness — that's what co-organizers Anna Blackwell and Kristen Marion want students to take away from the Wilson Caldwell Day event. ...

Frank B. Hanes, courtesy of Susan H. Irons

Q&A with journalist, author and Writer-in-Residence Ted Conover

By Aaron Redus | February 27

Ted Conover is the Frank B. Hanes Writer in Residence. He is offering a reading tomorrow in Genome Sciences Auditorium at 7:30.

Students sing "We Can't Keep Quiet" in the event based on the recent Women's March.

Event based on Women's March on Washington performance sought to bring people together

By Will Arrington | February 27

A choir of students gathered in the Pit Monday morning for an event called We Can’t Keep Quiet, which by all means lived up to its title.

Dr. Daniel M. Cobb is a professor in the American Studies department who was recently nominated as a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, giving him the ability to teach and research in Helsinki, Finland.

Leading with a 'moral compass' — UNC professor wins Fulbright Scholarship

By Varun Kasula | February 27

Dan Cobb, coordinator for the American Indian and Indigenous Studies curriculum, will be able to teach international students in Helsinki, Finland, about ...

Faculty Executive Committee discusses immigration and Franklin Street bonfires

By Brinley Lowe | February 27

The Faculty Executive Committee met with Provost Jim Dean to discuss immigration and other issues facing the University on Monday afternoon.

Marissa Butler, a first year from Lumberton, NC, started the Self-Illumination club, which strives to make students on campus their best selves. When asked why she started the club, she said she loves "seeing people smile when [we] make their day."

New group, SelfIlluminate, hopes to spread happiness on campus

By Leah Asmelash | February 27

What started as a few social media blog posts about struggling with self-love has now morphed into SelfIlluminate — a group at UNC aimed at providing ...

Black male enrollment at UNC hasn’t risen above 125 in a new class since 2009

By Colleen Moir | February 27

For Chris Faison, the key to raising graduation and retention rates for male students of color lies in professional resources and listening to what the ...

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 ...

McKnight's appeal to UNC Student Supreme Court denied

By Acy Jackson | February 26

The UNC Student Supreme Court denied Matthew McKnight's appeal dealing with four of the points given to him by the Board of Elections.

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.

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.

Panel discussion at Monday's Asian Week Kick-Off event.

First Pan-Asia Week seeks to highlight growth of Asian community on campus

By Nicole Booth | February 20

Albert Lemuel Bunker arrived at UNC in 1878. He was the first Asian American student at the University, said Heidi Kim, professor in the Department of ...

The Wilson Caldwell Monument stands in the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery on South Road.

Class project inspires Wilson Caldwell Day

By Mark Burnett | February 20

Students from a history research seminar — Slavery, Race and Memory at UNC — have been working on a campaign to bring attention to the work of slaves ...