Students, faculty, and community members gathered on Franklin Street to protest the University's proposal to spend $5.3 million, in addition to $800,000 annually, on a new on-campus building housing Silent Sam.
UNC women's soccer lost to FSU 0-1 in the NCAA Championship game at WakeMed Soccer Park on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018.
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The women's and men's cross country teams travelled to Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. to compete in the NCAA Southeast Regional Championships on Friday, Nov. 9 2018. Neither team will advance to the NCAA Championships, but the performances from both point to a promising 2019 season.
UNC athletics had a busy weekend; the Field Hockey team became ACC Champions for the second year in a row, mens soccer moved on to the semi-finals in the ACC Championship, women's soccer lost in the ACC finals to FSU volleyball lost to Duke but redeemed themselves against Wake Forest, women's tennis won big and football lost to Georgia Tech during our homecoming game. Here are our favorite photos.
Both women's and men's swim teams defeated South Carolina in their first home meet of the season on Friday, Oct. 26 2018.
Raleigh-based artist, Eris Swanstrom, knits on a knitting machine at her booth at Festifall, a Chapel Hill festival showcasing local artists. The celebration of art is held annually in Downtown Chapel Hill, this year falling on Sunday. Swanstrom knits on her vintage, special-edition knitting machine as shoppers peruse her racks of skirts, shirts, mittens and other knitted wool garments. Modique Couture, Swanstrom’s business, features one-of-a-kind wearable pieces of art. She began knitting 30 years ago, during the process, she discovered knitting machines. Now, Swanstrom sells her work online and at festivals.
The Daily Tar Heel obtained the following emails that were sent to Chancellor Carol Folt the day after Silent Sam was toppled.
On Aug. 30, pro-Silent Sam demonstrators brought flowers and waved Confederate flags as part of a twilight service to commemorate the toppled statue. Directly beside this, those against the fallen monument held a dance party to celebrate. As twilight service goers left UNC's campus, police used a pepper fogger to disperse the crowd.
On Saturday, July 21, a team of volunteer veterinarians and technicians from the Peter Emily International Veterinary Dental Foundation came to visit the Carolina Tiger Rescue in Pittsboro. A resident 16-year old lion, Sebastian, was one of four big cats to be visited by the dental team this weekend. Sebastian, the biggest cat at the sanctuary, was given a root canal, dental fillings, and X-rays. Our staff photographer Sophia Chizhikova gives us a look behind the scenes.
We took to Franklin Street to ask people what they think God looks like. Here are a few of your artistic interpretations.
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