Crosswalks improve safety for both drivers and walkers
The Chapel Hill Town Council should work to make the community more pedestrian-friendly — particularly in heavy traffic areas like Weaver Dairy Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
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The Chapel Hill Town Council should work to make the community more pedestrian-friendly — particularly in heavy traffic areas like Weaver Dairy Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
And so it begins again, another week of campaigning before the student body president runoff election.
The new joint biomedical engineering program for undergraduates at UNC and N.C. State University will help combine the strengths of both schools, leading to more diverse opportunities for students.
Student Congress’ nearly unanimous decision in December to pass a resolution that would identify any gunman within a mile of campus as an Alert Carolina emergency deserves the administrative consideration it recently received.
The N.C. Senate needs to follow the lead of the N.C. House of Representatives in unanimously supporting House Bill 5, which would provide a “temporary funding extension for group homes.”
Students should vote “yes” on the referendum today that calls upon the University to stop investing in coal.
Portal to nowhere
Administrators and school board members should move away from using punitive criminal measures to address minor disciplinary issues in local public schools.
On Tuesday, Student Congress overrode Student Body President Will Leimenstoll’s veto of a bill that would amend the Student Code to have all meeting minutes of student government published online by each branch.
The Martin Report was written in an attempt to bring closure through fact finding to the recent allegations of academic fraud at UNC. Indignation, confusion and dispute have followed its release.
The Chapel Hill Town Council’s recent search for a new member of its Central West Focus Area Steering Committee didn’t yield the sort of candidate the council was looking for.
On the morning of Jan. 28, a fire broke out at the University Gardens apartment complex, leaving several apartment units damaged and destroyed.
Since 2010, the athletic department has seen its tutoring budget nearly double, while the number of tutors has fallen significantly. As a result, UNC’s non-revenue athletes have less access to the available tutors.
Young guns
It has been a long time coming, but the Orange County Board of Commissioners approved moving forward with the Rogers Road Community Center in a unanimous vote during Thursday’s meeting.
The proposal to raise funds for building repair and maintenance is good for all UNC-system schools, as well as for public buildings all across the state.
Currently Carrboro requires a special election if a seat on the Board of Aldermen is vacated with more than a year remaining in its term.
Professionalism
UNC basketball
The Chapel Hill Police Department should be applauded for its new email tip line. The email tip line was recently introduced in order to help the department gather more information on their ongoing investigation into the murder of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth in September.