Column: Power of action and self-doubt
Like many on the staff of The Daily Tar Heel, I had no intention of coming to UNC to become a writer.
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Like many on the staff of The Daily Tar Heel, I had no intention of coming to UNC to become a writer.
What are streets for? This seems like a relatively dull and easily answerable question to many Americans. “They’re for cars! They’re for taking you from point A to point B, nothing more, nothing less.”
I started smoking cigarettes this summer. This will come as a serious disappointment to my lungs, 5K time and my mother when she reads this column. Smoking compromises my physical health while simultaneously enhancing my social life, which is why I don’t intend to quit soon.
Leslie Knope can do it all. How could any one person so confidently organize the Harvest Festival (while being under a curse), turn a horrible pit into a park, win a seat on the town council and, in Ann Perkins, foster the cutest friendship ever?
Sidewalks, the North Carolina Department of Transportation and Winter Storm Jonas walk into a bar. This is the beginning of a bad joke that I won’t finish, but the relation between the three is unmistakable.
For a formerly miserable suburbanite, the town of Chapel Hill is a breath of fresh air. I grew up in a city of 60,000 on Florida’s east coast, one in which the richest public life occurred in supermarket parking lots. By 18, I knew I had to leave.
CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, a previous version of this op-ed contained an introduction that misstated the number of student stores owned by Follett nationwide. Follett owns more than 1,000 stores. The article has been updated to reflect this change.
There are some days when being proud of UNC’s sustainability initiatives is easy. Watching my peers pedal across the brick paths on Tar Heel Bikes and easily composting organic material through a residence hall program makes me proud of our school’s commitment to being green.
I t’s very easy to come off as a pessimist when talking about environmental issues. Ocean acidification, the extinction of thousands of species every year and environmental racism aren’t the most cheerful conversation topics.
THE ISSUE: President Barack Obama announced Sept. 10 that the United States would begin limited military action meant to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. ISIL has been responsible for widespread violence in Iraq and Syria and for several high-profile executions of journalists.