The consensus among the majority of people at UNC seems to be that Silent Sam should be removed. Some believe that it should be put in a museum somewhere, while some think that perhaps it should merely be disposed of.
Like all of us, I am the product of institutions. I hope to graduate with a doctorate from UNC in communication this August. While I have been well educated in the specifics of my discipline, the most important thing I take from this place is a better way of being a human in community with others.
As we enter the final week of the spring semester, another class of seniors is beginning to wistfully reflect on UNC. As pictures of the Old Well, Bell Tower and South Building fill campus social media feed they feed a certain kind of UNC mythology, UNC as an avatar for Public Higher Education.
I choose vulnerability, I choose hope, I choose joy. What will you choose?
Next year, I'm off. This is the first time in my recent memory I have done something just for me.
J. Cole — Fayetteville native, Dreamville rapper, and the king of going platinum with no features — is corny.
If we can all live life as ferociously and justly as Olivia Pope, that might make all of us the gladiators the world needs.
When the DTH turns 150 years old, and I’m back in Chapel Hill to celebrate, I want to read more archives with bylines such as Lopez, Gutierrez or Rodriguez.
The DTH has a race problem. This isn’t exclusive to the DTH — it plagues both college and professional newsrooms across the country.
Without The Bookshop's quirky, convenient offerings, the immediate Chapel Hill area (for students without transportation) has become a literary desert of sorts. We need a good, local, independent bookstore. These kinds of bookstores are good for all aspects of a literary community: author, consumer and larger town or community — and they imbue towns like Chapel Hill with literary character.
The American government doesn’t care about the Syrian people — if it did, it would be implementing programs to help refugees instead of bombing their home country.
I plan to tell stories for the rest of my life, just like I’ve done at The Daily Tar Heel for the last four years.
I know nothing. And to no fault of yours, neither do you. And that is okay, though this mentality has everything to do with democracy.
I’m excited to be a Florida State grad student, but I’m not excited to be a Seminole.
The displacement of the Lakeview residents is a sobering reminder that we have not done enough to provide and protect affordable housing. But the County’s response is a model for practical and effective change.
Whatever decision the United States and its allies pursue will have consequences for the Middle East writ large. So, what should we do?
Controversial thinkers are the mainstay of historical moments. They look at the world and find it wanting in some way. But not only do they find it wanting, they strive against the status quo. Sometimes, these people are on the wrong side of history. Other times, they are not. Either way they promote discourse and deep thought and sometimes even action.
In the past I have proposed that one of my cats, Ariel, be named to the Board of Governors. An even more pressing issue has stemmed from that article; the other cat who torments me daily, Meta, is jealous of the undue attention paid to Ariel. After much consideration I have reached the conclusion that she should be named Chancellor of UNC.
To all the hopeful Tar Heels visiting campus: I’ve been where you are now.
“It is a luxury to be able to be disgusted,” Herz says, citing the fact that if “you don’t have anything else to eat other than some who’s dead beside you,” you will quell your disgust in order to survive.
