A level playing field for gender and athletics
Long before she took office as the president of UNC’s club women’s rugby team, senior Lindsey Oliver was attracted to the sport for its uniqueness relative to other team competitions.
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Long before she took office as the president of UNC’s club women’s rugby team, senior Lindsey Oliver was attracted to the sport for its uniqueness relative to other team competitions.
Chapel Hill’s “outlaw country” outfit, Campfires and Constellations, doesn’t want fans fixating on their name in hope of finding a higher symbolic or sentimental meaning. They want listeners to sit back and have a great time with their music.
A poster of “Three Worlds” next to David Steel’s desk in high school spurred his appreciation for Dutch artist M.C. Escher that has lasted decades.
Prospective and current students, parents and Chapel Hill residents passing the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets will soon find vacant the large window space formerly boasted by the Ackland Museum Store. But to find the stationery and assorted art-tinged gifts they’ve come to expect at the Ackland Museum Store, they won’t have to look far.
Situated amongst several other statues in scenic McCorkle Place, the Silent Sam memorial has attracted mounting controversy this semester. While some staunchly defend Sam’s place on the Upper Quad, groups such as the Real Silent Sam Coalition have repeatedly called for the statue’s contextualization and removal.
UNC graduate and hip-hop artist Lex Jordan — known on stages as Lexicon — has never had an issue distinguishing himself from a crowd. Friends and peers have oft described his talents, interests and fashion sense as eclectic — a description attached to Jordan since a scholarship allowed him to attend Cary Academy, while many of his friends were districted to high schools in South Raleigh.
On most weeknights around 10 p.m., the Pit is primarily trafficked by students either filing out of the library, visiting the Student Union or walking home across campus. On Wednesdays, though, the Pit resembles a stage, complete with live music and a captive audience.
A hurried glance at Josh Rowsey’s biography may prompt more questions than answers about the life and ambitions of the 24-year-old UNC graduate.
Though Ari Gauss, executive director of Jewish campus life foundation N.C. Hillel, has made a home in Chapel Hill since moving to the South in 2009, his work, education and Jewish heritage have taken him from the West Coast to the East and far beyond.
As the Chapel Hill Players concluded their Tuesday rehearsal before their show this Friday evening, the group of eight sat in a circle in a performance space at the Center for Dramatic Art discussing the night’s high points and pitfalls.
When confusion over payment of a storage unit left student musical theater company Pauper Players in debt last summer, the group responded in true theater fashion — by acknowledging that the show must go on.
Joshua Rowsey graduated from Kenan-Flagler Business School in 2013. Since then, he has spent time on Wall Street as an insurance analyst, and he plans to travel to Cherokee, N.C., next month with members of the UNC linguistics and music departments to teach native Cherokee people to rap in their native tongue.
Millennials might comprise the majority of the American workforce, but they can’t seem to agree on their own name.
The Ramones broke up two decades ago, Iggy Pop is rounding 70 years old and the modern layman’s conception of punk music is likely limited to Blink-182 and Fall Out Boy — but don’t be fooled.
Phil Jamison was playing banjo at a community dance four decades ago when he volunteered to fill in for an absent dance caller. That spontaneous decision turned into a lifelong passion.
Incoming freshmen ushered in the new school year yesterday afternoon as they met with fellow students, faculty and staff to discuss this year’s summer reading selection, “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson, who visited UNC’s campus to discuss his book with students at Memorial Hall.
Before he opened two visionary educational rock schools, inspired Jack Black’s character Dewey Finn in “School of Rock” and toured across the United States and beyond with his musical wunderkinds, Paul Green was a philosophy major at the University of Pennsylvania teaching music lessons in his apartment to pay his way through college. At that time, he wanted to go to law school.
With the lights dimmed, the spacious Paul Green Theatre empty and a stage painted in the likeness of a New York City subway map, all that was missing was the audience.
Instead of going to Carolina in one’s mind, Southern culture will soon be accessible to folks everywhere online.
Basketball has taken Donald Williams to courts across the world, but many of the Garner native’s fondest basketball memories are nestled right here in the Triangle.