Anna Smith loved sunflowers.
Everyone tells me I’m crazy. I kind of agree, but I’m actually pretty proud of it.
So far, Jose has defied the odds.
Less than a year after joining UNC as Title IX coordinator, Howard Kallem is leaving for a similar position at Duke University.
Every day in Top of Lenoir, hundreds of students line up at the conveyor belt to drop off plates piled high with unwanted pizza crusts, rejected pot roast and the last few bites of lima beans.
As part of The Daily Tar Heel's Projects and Investigations Team's Food Issue, Senior Writer Caroline Leland spoke to Jonathan Bloom, the award-winning author of "American Wasteland." The book chronicles the ways in which Americans waste food between the farms it's raised on and the plates it's eaten off of. Bloom offered insight into the University's responsibility to prevent food waste and why it's important to conserve.
For the first time at UNC, students have a specially trained counselor to turn to for confidential advising after experiencing sexual assault.
During this semester in Spain, I think I’ve perfected the vacant smile. It’s a neutral expression I hope could be perceived as engaged, entertained, sympathetic, impressed — whatever the viewer expects to see from me at a given moment in the conversation.
It’s strange. It’s new feeling. It’s one of the most notable hazards I’ve encountered while traveling abroad. It’s life without a smartphone.
I acknowledge that partying is part of the culture here in Spain, where dinner time is 10 p.m., pregames start after midnight and cities are famous for their nightclubs. Because I’m an exchange student in Europe, people are confused when they hear I spent a weekend in Barcelona and didn’t go out at night — why I rarely go out at all, wherever I am. I feel a need to defend that choice to everyone who asks how the nightlife was for each city I visited.
Caroline Leland, a sophomore journalism major and university desk writer, explains the steps of a story from start to finish. Read her finished story.
