Admissions offices are reassuring prospective students after gun reform protests
Students subject to disciplinary action as a result of gun reform protests will not be penalized at many institutions.
POLITICS
UNC police department offers student training for active shooter situations
Shots Fired on Campus, a program through the UNC-Chapel Hill Police Department, offers training so students know what to do in active shooter situations.
Department of Education revisits student loan forgiveness policy
The U.S. Department of Education is seeking public comment on how to assess if student loan borrowers meet the undue hardship standard for loan forgiveness.
House Democrats push for Dickey Amendment repeal, gun violence research
U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., and six other House Democrats are asking House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to allow for debate to repeal Dickey Amendment and increase gun violence research.
Writing headlines, and making them too: a history of DTH controversy in the newsroom
True character is what somebody does when no one is looking, and how a newspaper handles controversy says a lot about its dedication to editorial freedom. UNC alum share their own experiences with controversy in the DTH newsroom.
DTH alumna and New York Times reporter talks gender equality in the newsroom
“Everyone who works (at the DTH) is always young, and they’re always fresh,” Emily Steel, DTH alumna and current reporter at The New York Times, said. “For these people there never was a way things were done before because they’re the ones doing it now.”
What you missed in the N.C. General Assembly this week
Despite being out of session, the NC General Assembly continues conversations about gun control, Silent Sam and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Campus hate crimes steadily increasing with spike in 2016, FBI data shows
The Anti-Defamation League confirmed there have been over 340 incidents of white supremacist propaganda being disseminated on college campuses in the past 15 months.
Durham DA drops charges against Confederate statue protesters
Durham County District Attorney Roger Echols announced Tuesday he is dropping charges against the five remaining people accused of destroying a Confederate statue in Durham over the summer.
Here's how NC legislators responded to the Parkland school shooting
In response to the Florida school shooting, some legislators are tweeting about arming school faculty.
ALERT Act would hold universities accountable for sexual abuse cases
The bipartisan proposal would require university leaders to certify they have reviewed any reports of sexual abuse perpetrated by university employees.
Net neutrality was repealed. Here's what that means for you and UNC.
The repeal of net neutrality could lead to content discrimination, even for some UNC students.
Did you know disagreements can be artful? Neither did we.
In the midst of a politically divided era, the UNC Institute of Politics hosted The Art of Disagreement to promote thoughtful debate.
Three years after the Chapel Hill shooting, Muslim students talk legacy, Islamophobia
According to a study by the Pew Research Center, 44 percent of Americans polled in 2017 responded that "there is a natural conflict between Islam and democracy."
2018 Moral March on Raleigh focuses on voter mobilization, health care and DACA
The event focused on issues like voter mobilization, healthcare and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
What you missed this week in the N.C. General Assembly
The North Carolina General Assembly touched on gerrymandering, the Moral March on Raleigh and more this week.
Trump criticized for remarks on community colleges
While Trump called for improvements to the community college sector, North Carolina community colleges have already started programs to help remedy many of Trump's concerns.
What you missed in the N.C. General Assembly this week
Partisan primaries, GenX, school funding, and the state's elections and ethics board were topics of discussion this week in the North Carolina General Assembly.
Sexual assault, free speech, DACA among top 10 higher ed issues for 2018
The American Association of State Colleges and Universities named sexual assault, campus free speech and DACA students among the top 10 higher education policy issues for 2018.
Word on the Street: What are you expecting from Trump's State of the Union address?
President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday. Staff writer Georgia Wieland-Stanford asked students if they are planning to watch the address and what they are expecting.
