This summer, Carolina will lose three of its best young faculty working on climate change. We’ve been experiencing this for years — and not just in environmental sciences.

If the primary goal of legislation is to provide the greatest benefit to the greatest number, then select lawmakers in North Carolina seem to consistently miss the mark as they aim to waste taxpayer dollars on producing legislation that adds no value for our community.

After 10 years at Carolina, I will teach my last class at UNC on Thursday. There is much to love about this place, but what I will miss above all are Carolina students.

If you went to Dartmouth, you wouldn’t have class today. On Tuesday evening, students received an email informing them that classes will “be replaced by alternative programming designed to bring students, faculty, and staff together to discuss Dartmouth’s commitment to fostering debate that promotes respect for individuals, civil and engaged discourse, and the value of diverse opinions.”

We delivered a letter last winter to Chancellor Holden Thorp, asking him to break the loud tradition of silence at UNC in regards to its history and continued legacy of racism.

The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP announces today it will hold its Women of Excellence Conference and 58th Annual Mother of the Year Coronation Program in Durham on May 4.

Let’s talk about abortion. On Monday afternoon, walking through Polk Place, I saw several signs advertising the “Planned Parenthood Project.”

If there was ever a time to be loud and passionate at UNC, April 22 was that day. But fear not my fellow classmates, because another opportunity is bound to present itself soon!

With less than three weeks left until graduation, we’ve reached approximately 36 percent participation for the senior campaign.

Public charter schools in rural North Carolina present an opportunity for more school choice options and economic development in the state’s 85 rural counties.

Let me tell you about a text message I received from my brother, a first-year student at MIT, who was working the front desk in his residence hall.

One of the things that makes UNC great is its students’ commitment to the service of others.

I think I can speak for my whole generation when I say that I’ll never forget 9/11. I hoped that I would never experience another day as heartbreaking, but recently, December 14 became another one of those days. My heart broke again on the day of the Sandy Hook shooting. I mourned the loss of 26 beautiful souls along with the rest of our country and much of the world.

This month marks the sixth anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre. Colin Goddard was shot four times at Virginia Tech but survived. The Young Democrats have the privilege of welcoming Colin to campus, this Monday at 7 p.m., for a discussion and an airing of his story, “Living for 32.”

Gov. Pat McCrory released his budget in March, promising huge cuts to higher education. Tom Ross himself has cited the proposed cuts to the UNC system to be at least $138 million, and other news outlets have been reporting $135 million. The DTH has cited only $55 million in cuts.

The state of education in North Carolina has reached a crucial juncture. As you indicated last week in “N.C. Senate bill could end tenure for K-12 teachers,” the General Assembly will continue to debate, over the coming weeks, legislation that will shape the future of North Carolina’s primary and secondary education.

Prompted by a great DTH editorial from earlier this semester, I decided to introduce legislation in Student Congress that starts moving our single-office elections to an Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) system over the summer.

When tragedy hits, we try to grasp at the meaning of the horror before us. There is solace to be found in how we explain these events and reveal their evil.

Monday’s letter to the editor, “Economics at Carolina does need a change” was incomplete. The letter claimed that university economic departments, including UNC’s, are conservatively biased and espouse theories advocating government’s limited economic intervention.

Most North Carolinians think decisions about reproductive health care should be left to a woman, not politicians. But the N.C. General Assembly isn’t listening to its constituents.