Need a walk home at night? Safewalk goes off campus
By Sara Gregory | February 24, 2011Studying late at the library but worried about how you’ll get home? SafeWalk, a student-government program that assigns student walkers to help you get home, is moving off-campus. The program runs Sunday through Thursday between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. The program will roll out in three stages, the first of which started last week. Tell us, do you use SafeWalk? Will you be more likely to do so now that they can walk you home off-campus? Click through to see exactly what area the walkers will serve.
Game of the Week: Color Tiles
By Chuheng Ding | February 24, 2011Happy Thursday! Tired of classes but don’t want to mentally relax until the weekend? We recommend a game of Color Tiles for a quick break. Rules Click on a blank space. If the color matches the nearest neighboring tiles, vertically or horizontally, from the clicked space, you get the matching tiles.
Winston Crisp considers Quidditch
By Eliza Kern | February 24, 2011Winston Crisp, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, spent Wednesday evening on Polk Place with members of the UNC Quidditch team, asking about their sport. Senior Dave Matney offered to teach Crisp how to play, but Crisp expressed concern about “running around with a broom.”
UNC Bucket List #99: take a walk across campus early in the morning
By Jo Nixon | February 24, 2011If you’re up early studying for midterms, a walk around campus can be very centering. Arguably, UNC is at its best in springtime, and it’s most peaceful in the morning. I took a walk around campus this morning, and here’s how yours might go: 6:45 AM: Look east to see the sunrise. (If you’re standing on Polk Place, look toward Davis Library.) 7:03 AM: Sit in front of Wilson Library. Though the sunrise isn’t visible from this point, you can enjoy Polk Place when the only sound is that of birds chirping.
Campus Secrets: no need to beg or steal for an iPad
By Jo Nixon | February 24, 2011Because I prefer studying in Wilson Library, my visits to the Undergraduate Library are infrequent and usually accompanied by an attempt to enter through the exit-only doors. Therefore, it wasn’t a surprise that I was unaware of the technology the Undergraduate Library has to offer. A quick look through the Media Resource Center shows a variety of items available for checkout, including: HD video cameras microphones iPads Green screens projectors Wiis
This year's Daily Tar Hell
By Sara Gregory | February 23, 2011If you grabbed a copy of the DTH this morning, you likely saw the N.C. State Technician’s spoof paper, The Daily Tar Hell. The editors there produce a joke paper each year when the two schools’ men’s basketball teams meet up and are nice enough to wrap it around copies of the real DTH. We like to joke that for at least one day a year their paper looks nice, since they copy our style to make it look authentic. Click through to view the spoof issue and learn more about our other college paper rivalries.
Happy Birthday, Daily Tar Heel!
By Eliza Kern | February 23, 2011Happy birthday to the Daily Tar Heel — we turn 118 years old today! Staffers celebrated by eating cake in the newsroom (it was gone too quickly to take a picture). Per tradition, Editor-in-Chief Sarah Frier took cake to the grave of esteemed DTH alum Charles Kuralt and read him the news of the day.
UNC Bucket List #29: Drink an extra-large coffee at the Daily Grind
By Eric Pesale | February 23, 2011Although I’m already a senior, I’ve only visited the Daily Grind Espresso Cafe once—and never ordered an extra-large coffee there. I come from a family where stops at Starbucks are very much part of our daily routine but I never really caught on to coffee. If I do need to satisfy my caffeine fix, the closest thing I’ll go for is green tea with honey. But on my way back from class yesterday I figured I’d try something different. Starbucks and Caribou Coffee on Franklin St. were a bit of a hike from my class at Greenlaw Hall, so I figured why not try the coffee at the Daily Grind across the Pit? As a senior, I figured it would be a good one to cross off my own bucket list.
Student of the Week: Drew Breithaupt
By Eric Pesale | February 23, 2011Name: Drew Breithaupt Class: 2012 Hometown: Shreveport, La. Major: Health Policy and Management Breithaupt, co-founder of Autism Outreach at UNC, got interested in learning about autism and working with autistic children and their families after growing up with an older sister who had it herself. During his freshman year he said he met Carrie Dobbins ‘12 after seeing her wear an autism t-shirt at Carolina Kickoff.
Facebook apps that stalk for you
By Claire McNeill | February 22, 2011Maybe UNC students haven’t been able to escape the reminders of our dismal female-to-male ratio (Well, dismal if you’re a lady), but I sincerely hope no one has to go to these lengths for a relationship.
From the archives: postcards in Chapel Hill
By Anna Bobrow | February 22, 2011Students rave about how Wilson Library is the perfect place to study, but how many students have spent time perusing the archives for those hidden gems of antiquity? From the Southern Historical Collection to the Music Library, there are many spicy sources just waiting to be dusted off and explored. Take the Wilson Library’s digital collection of 12,000 North Carolina postcards dating back to 1898 as an example: this collection is available through Wilson Library’s home page.
The UNC Bucket List
By From staff reports | February 21, 2011The Daily Tar Heel has compiled a Bucket List of 100 things that every student should do before he or she graduates from UNC. Some are less difficult to accomplish than others, but all are worth trying out in your four (or more) years as a student at UNC. Bloggers at "Pit Talk":http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/blog/pit_talk will be giving advice on how to complete all 100 items, but feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below.
UNC Bucket List #93: Try every bagel at Alpine
By Laney Tipton | February 21, 2011Ahh, Alpine Bagel: Always so good to a hungry UNC student. Open early so you can fuel up for a long day of class, and open late for those late-night study sessions during weeks like this one (Midterms, anyone?) Everyone needs to get at least one bagel from Alpine before graduating, but for those who frequent the best place to eat in the Student Union, you should make it a goal to try every bagel they offer. Sure we all have our favorites. I, for one, always go with the Butch’s Mile High Club.
Free Food on campus, Feb. 21-27
By Eliza Kern | February 21, 2011All information courtesy the Phree Food Listserv.
Recipe: celebrate Presidents Day with patriotic cupcakes
By Kyle Ann Sebastian | February 21, 2011What better way to celebrate our nation’s presidents than with festive red, white and blue banana cupcakes? They are easy to make and a delicious way to suck up to your professors before midterms. The recipe is pretty simple, but you will need to gather some supplies and ingredients first. Here’s what you need: 1 box Betty Crocker Cake mix (white will give you the brightest color, yellow is what Walgreens has) Red and blue food coloring (I used Betty Crocker Classic Gel Food Color) 2 bananas 1/3 cup Vegetable oil 1 1/4 cups water Baking cups 3 mixing bowls Cupcake trays (most baking supplies can be rented from the RA’s in your building)
Senior Chris Carter wins Gates Scholarship
By Eliza Kern | February 17, 2011Senior Chris Carter, a Morehead-Cain Scholar from Elkin, has won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, a merit award covering one to three years of graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England. Carter is the first UNC student to win the scholarship since the award was created in 2001, and is one of 30 winners in the United States this year. The Gates Cambridge Scholarship was created with a $210 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It provides scholarships for 80-100 students worldwide each year to attend Cambridge, based on their demonstrated intellectual ability, leadership and desire to perform community service. Carter, born and raised in Elkin, is majoring in history and political science. He is writing an honors thesis on public opinion of health care and will present his findings at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress in Washington, D.C., in March. He hopes to get his Ph.D. in political science, focusing on Latin America.
Tell us why you dance
By Sara Gregory | February 16, 2011Dance Marathon is this Friday and Saturday, and in the days leading up, we want to know why you dance. Post a comment here, on our Facebook wall or on Twitter using the hashtag #wdyd. We’ll compile the best and share.
Vanderbilt professor says the South is forgetting the Civil War's legacy
By Josh Clinard | February 15, 2011Even as Silent Sam’s Confederate ties spark controversy across campus, Michael Kreyling said he worries U.S. citizens have forgotten the impact of the Civil War at a guest lecture Tuesday. Kreyling, an English professor from Vanderbilt University, spoke at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center on Tuesday as part of the James A. Hutchins Lecture series. As the nation approaches the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, he said Americans are not appropriately recognizing this milestone.
Famous musician Jim Dickinson honored at Wilson Library
By Ashlyn Still | February 15, 2011Jim Dickinson recorded with The Rolling Stones, produced famous albums, and changed the Memphis music scene— achievements fans and friends remembered at Wilson Library Tuesday. Dickinson worked with stars like Aretha Franklin and Ry Cooder and produced Big Star’s third album, “Third/Sister Lovers”. Bob Dylan even acknowledged him as a “brother” while accepting a Grammy.
Caps and gowns get a new look from Alexander Julian
By Sara Gregory | February 14, 2011This year’s senior class can graduate with new gowns designed by Alexander Julian. UNC says the new gowns are a closer match to “true” Carolina blue and are also more environmentally friendly. “As a colorist, ever since Holden Thorp was inaugurated as Chancellor, I have been on him like a wet, dirty T-shirt to let me try to improve the true blueness of the robe color,” Julian said. The fabric is made from 100 percent post-consumer recycled plastic bottles and the gowns will be made by a manufacturer in Virginia.