A man prepared to sled down Skipper Bowles Drive. He took off his shirt. A crowd of around 75 parted. He screamed and raised his arms in the air. He placed a bed on top of a four-wheeled cart and lay down. Students — maybe friends, maybe strangers — started pushing him down the hill. Everyone laughed. Everyone cheered.
It’s a movement that was born at UNC — and in spite of UNC. A year ago today, Andrea Pino, who was a junior at the time, and Annie Clark, a 2011 UNC graduate, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights alongside three other women.
At the intersection of race, religion and booze in Orange County lies Occoneechee Speedway in Hillsborough, the last of 52 dirt tracks from NASCAR’s inaugural season.
Before she filed a complaint with U.S. Department of Education over UNC’s handling of sexual assault cases, Andrea Pino fought to make survivors visible by posting their pictures and stories on the walls of the Student Union.
Chris Weaver banged his fist on the table and jumped out of his seat.
Throughout October, Relationship Violence Awareness month, many of the faces of survivors might not be seen.
A Person County resident who had been charged in peeping incidents in Chapel Hill for more than 10 years was found dead in an apparent suicide last month.
The state and defense presented vastly different pictures of Josh Bailey’s slaying Thursday during the opening statements in the trial of a man accused of killing him.
Top of the Hill’s new distillery took a big step forward Tuesday. The facility, housed in the old Chapel Hill Newspaper building on W. Franklin Street, conducted a “stripper run” that produced a rudimentary form of alcohol.
Siglinda Scarpa, founder of the Goathouse Refuge, stops to pet one of her around 200 cats.
N.C. NAACP President Rev. William Barber II addressed thousands of onlookers at the Moral March.
Sheena Ozaki, Project Dinah chair, holds a photo of Andrea Pino outside the Union. Pino created the Courage Project, a display in the Union basement that includes pictures and stories from those who have been affected by sexual and interpersonal violence.
Top of the Hill’s new distillery, which has been under construction for the past two and a half years, recently underwent a trial run to produce distilled alcohol.
Top of the Hill’s new distillery, which has been under construction for the past two and a half years, recently underwent a trial run to produce distilled alcohol.
