Column: Graduate students should be funded through the summer
(04/24/22 10:14pm)
For graduate students, the end of the spring semester means a few things.
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For graduate students, the end of the spring semester means a few things.
The 64th Grammy Awards, the music industry’s biggest night, took place earlier this month in Las Vegas. The night was of little consequence in comparison to the more controversial Oscars back in March, but saw many show-stopping outfits, performances and wins.
Note: This article includes mentions of suicide and domestic violence.
Content warning: This article contains mention of racially motivated violence.
Earlier this month, Instagram announced the launch of enhanced tags, a new feature that makes it easier for creators to receive credit for their work. This feature rightfully emerges at a time when content theft and cultural appropriation are topics of debate across social media platforms — especially for Black and other non-white creators. Instagram’s new feature attempts to correct this practice through fair citation.
Note: This column discusses issues of suicide and mental health.
The University has once again shown its desire to control the narrative on its racial past and present.
If you’re like me and spent the weekend procrastinating, you had time to binge watch “The Tinder Swindler” and “Inventing Anna” — two of Netflix’s latest original content releases this month.
It’s Black History Month. Don’t worry if you forgot — the many advertisements, promotional emails, honorary statements and corporate social media posts that started rolling out on Feb. 1 are there to remind you.
Fashion lovers around the globe were taken aback by last week's news that André Leon Talley had passed away at the age of 73. Although the towering figure in the industry had been facing a series of health challenges over a number of years, his death still came as a surprise.
On Monday, during a celebratory dinner with friends, I overheard a patron nearby wish their waiter, “Happy MLK Day!”
Although only three episodes in, "Abbott Elementary" has become my new favorite show.
Returning to campus amid the highly contagious omicron variant does little to tackle an unavoidable surge.
On Friday, after nearly 27 hours of deliberation over four days, the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse case came back with a verdict. They found the 18-year-old not guilty on all five counts he was charged with: first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree attempted intentional homicide and two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.
Earlier this month, several University officials received letters from Republican lawmakers outraged at a diversity program that fraternity and sorority members attended in October.
Last week, Netflix released the film, "The Harder They Fall" on its streaming platform. Directed by Jeymes Samuel, it is a fictional Western that portrays historical Black figures typically left out of the genre. While the movie highlights the history of Black cowboys in this country, it succumbs to Hollywood’s major problem in casting: colorism.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, I teach a class as a TA in Carolina Hall, formerly named Saunders Hall — after William L. Saunders, a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
The scene begins with the picturesque “Perfectville.” Pristine and well-manicured lawns. A clear blue sky. Ambient music and the faint sounds of birds chirping. A neighbor out to get his morning paper.
The arrival of fall means a couple of things: pumpkin and apple-scented everything, increasing anticipation over Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, the ability to wear layers and midterms.
I was a first-year doctoral student when the world entered a pandemic. I, like most UNC students at the time, was enjoying my spring break when suddenly the world changed overnight. My roommate never came back from a visit home, and I stayed alone in Chapel Hill, a town I was still unfamiliar with, unsure how safe it was to leave the house.
