Jenny Justice’s goals are big. She wants to combat what she sees as a declining appreciation of the arts in education and fight systems of oppressive poverty and racism. She believes deeply in the powers of learning and language. She speaks wistfully about Shakespeare.
Taped to the corner of my computer screen in The Daily Tar Heel office is a sticky note with something Ben Bradlee once said: “Put out the best, most honest newspaper you can today, and put out a better one the next day.”
The Durham County District Attorney’s Office will seek the death penalty for Craig Hicks, the man indicted on three counts of first-degree murder for the recent killing of three Muslims in Chapel Hill.
Michael McAdoo — the former UNC football player whose plagiarized paper led to the earliest investigations into UNC’s academic fraud — filed a class-action lawsuit against the University on Thursday for failing to provide him with a quality education.
Tar Heel identity tends to run in families, as is the case with the Spruill sisters.
Junot Diaz spent a couple of hours challenging convention in Memorial Hall on Saturday night.
Princeton Review and Kaplan Test Prep are experiencing an increase in registration for Medical College Admission Test prep courses as students hurry to take the exam before the April 2015 transition to the new MCAT.
A Tuesday evening memorial for late Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney brought together two places — one that’s known for its 40 shades of green and another that’s hooked on just one shade of blue; one that raised a Nobel Prize-winning poet and another that now houses much of his poetic legacy.
It’s fair to say that neither Jen nor Pete Minnelli would be embarking on their latest venture if one had never met the other.
In the two weeks since its release, Student Body President Christy Lambden’s petition to repeal Chapel Hill’s four-person occupancy rule has elicited a mixed response from students and town residents. But the resulting conversation has converged upon the lack of affordable housing in Chapel Hill.
