Chapel Hill should remove condos from flood plain
The town of Chapel Hill should continue to push the owners of Camelot Village Condominiums to sell the property to the town.
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The town of Chapel Hill should continue to push the owners of Camelot Village Condominiums to sell the property to the town.
Greek organizations will be in the discussion again during the upcoming Board of Trustees meeting, regarding how the University should approach their GPA requirements. It is clear that the best course of action moving forward would be to set a more permanent standard minimum GPA requirement for all Greek organizations.
Students representing the coal divestment movement will pursue the more feasible goal of delegating a task force to research complete coal divestment in front of the Board of Trustees today. This is a crucial step for a movement that UNC must get behind before it’s left in the dust of other top universities.
Although mired in recent athletic scandal, the Department of African, African-American and Diaspora Studies should remain an important part of the academic landscape at the University.
Following the success and popularity of the recently added education minor, the University should consider creating minors in other prominent subjects such as economics, political science and psychology.
The Board of Trustees should not let other issues overshadow a problem that should be at the forefront of discussions: sexual assault.
With a grant received last spring, the Campus Y’s decision to allocate the $10,000 based on economic viability promotes strong business plans and demonstrates a funding process that prioritizes goal-oriented projects. This should be emulated by other financially strapped institutions.
The state of North Carolina has an obligation to preserve the state of its historically black colleges and universities. As the state with the most HBCUs in the nation — 11 total, including five public universities and the top HBCU in the country — North Carolina has the most to gain by maintaining the status and legacy that comes along with this title.
The Board of Trustees made the right call when members unanimously voted to begin a gender-neutral housing program at UNC last year, but after the UNC-system Board of Governors banned it this summer, the BOT needs to push for a new alternative.
As the University’s athletic department works to create a “formal consortium of like-minded universities” to discuss athletic problems and solutions, it should push for similar groups nationwide.
The UNC Association of Student Governments met to propose a trip to Washington, D.C. in order to present recommendations to the U.S. Department of Education.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will begin implementing a new five-year plan this school year, which includes addressing the achievement gap, along with improving teacher development and training. However, just having a vision doesn’t ensure that goals are met. It is a necessity that schools and teachers have the right tools to accomplish their objectives.
Four-year graduation rates are an important aspect of determining a university’s ranking, and some schools such as the University of Virginia strictly limit students to a maximum of eight full-time semesters in order to preserve their position among top schools.
The town of Chapel Hill should work toward becoming more bike-friendly by considering the advice of local bike experts.
The Rawlings panel’s recommendation for spending caps on operating expenses for specific sports is impractical and would hinder schools with rich athletic traditions.
While it is preposterous for UNC to pay for students to go see their friends at Duke via the Robertson Scholars bus, it isn’t too much to ask for UNC students taking classes there to be eligible for GoPasses.
Small startups don’t usually have a high success rate.
Monday marked the first open forum in the search for the University’s next Title IX coordinator.
Last Wednesday, Gov. Pat McCrory found $10 million in the state budget to give pay bonuses to more than 3,000 teachers pursuing their master’s degrees, after signing a version of the budget that eliminated them earlier this summer.
The newly created student government position of director of state and external relations needs to be physically present during the entire summer in Chapel Hill.