A year and a half is a long time to wait for most things, but especially something that the state of North Carolina requires be given to you quickly.
When unified criticism of Tuesday’s article “Durham crime crosses over” began flowing in, I felt blindsided. And that, I think, is the problem.
I expect to wake up to big news on some days. But in the past four months, I have woken up twice to heavier news than I’ve been prepared for: that acquaintances of mine — UNC students — had died.
In the office of The Daily Tar Heel, newspapers are everywhere. Stacked in hastily arranged piles, mounted on the walls or stowed away in tiny rolls of microfilm in the back of a cluttered storage room, they represent an ever-present record that compensates for the newspaper’s necessarily deficient institutional memory.
A fire broke out Monday morning at the University Gardens apartment complex on Pritchard Avenue Extension.
Friday’s front page story detailing a complaint filed against the University — regarding its handling of sexual assault cases — has rightly shocked and upset many readers.
In 2011, the University Counsel’s office pressured Melinda Manning, then UNC’s assistant dean of students, to underreport cases of sexual assault, according to a complaint against UNC filed to the U.S. Department of Education by Manning and four others.
The University released thousands of pages of documents related to the 2010 NCAA football investigation on Monday following a legal settlement with eight media groups, including The Daily Tar Heel, that had sought the records for two years.
It is fitting that, on the eve of Chapel Hill’s autumnal extravaganza, the Mariinsky Orchestra visited Memorial Hall to deliver one of its own.
“A lawsuit is a last resort.” Those words appeared on this page two years ago today, as the paper’s editor-in-chief explained why the DTH was suing the University.
Andy Thomason discusses changes in the newsroom and his goals for The Daily Tar Heel.
Becky Bush makes over University Editor Andy Thomason.
