Opinion
Thorp shares in UNC's lofty goals
When Chancellor James Moeser announced last September that he'd be retiring, University leaders were positively giddy about courting potential replacements.
Visions of resumes danced in their heads as they pledged a nationwide search, a scouring of the best and brightest academic minds from every corner of the continent. (0 Comments)
Election law stymies fraud
N.C. should heed Supreme Court's voter ID decision
Don't feel like leaving the house on Election Day? No problem! Just have your neighbor vote for you.
For first-time voters, last week's primary revealed one of the cracks in our local election process. At the polling places, voters must simply state their names and addresses to receive a ballot. (6 Comments)
Green-light the blue lights
SBP, town should continue efforts to add street lights
If you are ever alone, stumbling to your apartment after last call, you might find yourself in some dark places.
And that's not just the Heinekens getting to you.
Certain spots in town are under blackout. Street lights do not shine there. 911 call boxes do not stand within reach. (2 Comments)
Fare thee well
To the undergraduates, to make much of their time
Goodbye to our friends.
Good riddance to our enemies.
They say that all life's moments are but beginnings and ends. And who are we to disagree?
Last Sunday, Chancellor James Moeser bid a quick adieu to our umbrella-covered seniors, officially sending them off into the much-talked-about real world, into new universities and, for some, into uncertainty. (0 Comments)
Both Obama and Clinton should stay in primary
TO THE EDITOR:
This letter is in response to the articles calling for Senator Hillary Clinton to withdraw from the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States.
The total number of delegates required to nominate a Democratic candidate is 2,025. (12 Comments)
Clinton shows concern for women's health in N.C.
TO THE EDITOR:
Breast cancer is a devastating disease that has struck nearly two million American women in the past decade. The statistics are sobering: A woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes, and another dies of breast cancer every 13 minutes in the United States. (1 Comment)
Media feeding audience U.S. military propaganda
TO THE EDITOR:
As we now know, thanks to the New York Times, the military-industrial complex is well represented in the daily television news coverage of the Iraq and Afghan occupations.
Those former generals who seemed generously to have come out of retirement to provide disinterested analysis of the Bush administration's military adventures are neither generous nor disinterested. (11 Comments)
