No love was lost last year for a graduation speaker who studied ants for a living. Indeed, Harvard professor E.O. Wilson set the bar low. As one dailytarheel.com comment courtesy of “Grad” attested, “Anything is better than what we had this past spring …
On Nov. 13, police raided a vacated business space on East Franklin Street to clear out anarchists and occupiers. The scene was otherworldly.
Three years ago today, the crowd in Top of the Hill suddenly exited the bar and took to the street en masse.
I’m a fan of new things and I’m a fan of porn, but I can’t claim to be a fan of The New Pornographers. That doesn’t mean I think the indie rock band is a bad choice for tomorrow night’s Homecoming concert. Having never taken the time to listen to them, I’m indifferent.
I don’t think the athletic department is intentionally trying to spit in the face of the campus community.
There were two major developments for the social media site Facebook in September. The first was the introduction of a number of changes and new features. You probably heard about those, either from the f8 conference where Facebook announced them, or from the now-traditional backlash the changes brought.
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes can be as simple as putting your nose in a good book. Or even a bad book, evidently; Twilight was used as part of a recent study investigating the link between reading fiction and empathy.
It’s hard to pin down what exactly WOODS.TV is. It’s divided into episodes and seasons like a television show. It looks like an experimental art film. It’s been described as a kind of video diary.
Dear UNC Public Records Office, Thank you for your prompt response to my records request of Sept. 1. To be frank, I was surprised to get a response at all, as I was unsure whether or not Chancellor Holden Thorp actually keeps a dream diary.
With work falling somewhere between scholarly research and fan-fiction, groups across the world are keeping Sherlock Holmes alive, even if he never was to begin with. These societies, such as the Baker Street Irregulars, find it fun to act and write as if Holmes were an actual historical figure. For some people, it’s strange to see so much time and energy spent pretending a fictional character is real.
