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In the midst of a global pandemic and a surge of protests for racial justice across the country, it’s easy to forget any other major news existed before spring 2020.
Students may be gone for the summer, but campus activism is alive and reaching a higher pitch as members of the UNC community work for a stronger response to the movements against racial injustice that are sweeping the country.
It has been a lot quieter in Chapel Hill since the start of UNC’s Spring Break on March 6.
In the weeks since the University’s plan for reopening campus in the fall was announced, students have responded with a variety of concerns about their safety and health. For some, the uncertainty posed by the pandemic and shifting plans means they’re left searching for housing and negotiating current leases.
Vaeda Sumey used the money she earned working at her local grocery store during the school year to buy her cap and gown. She keeps it hung in her room, unsure when, if ever, she will wear it to walk across the stage to graduate in front of family and friends.
Kipos Greek Taverna shut its doors in mid-March to comply with Gov. Roy Cooper's executive order, which prohibited dine-in restaurant service to slow the spread of the coronavirus. What was meant to be a temporary decision is now a permanent one — the restaurant's Franklin Street location is closed for good.
UNC’s Interfraternity Council hosted an event Feb. 16 addressing personal development and mental health awareness among young men that has since been criticized by student leaders and others as offensive, misogynistic and otherwise problematic.
After UNC’s preventive efforts against the spread of COVID-19 expanded to online classes last month, students and faculty alike bade farewell to many traditional parts of campus life: the busyness of the Pit at lunchtime, mass gatherings in the quad and quiet library study grinds.
Approximately three miles from UNC’s campus, nearly 100 enslaved people are buried in largely unmarked graves at a historic family cemetery.
Osamah Atieh stared at the blue square on his computer in disbelief. Before his 11:00 a.m. registration period had even started, the first required course for the computer science major had already closed.
It could happen anywhere. In class. At home. Even while making coffee at the Target Starbucks on Franklin Street.
UNC launched an automated attendance monitoring software during the first week of classes to track class attendance of select student-athletes from the football and men's basketball teams, according to emails and financial records obtained by The Daily Tar Heel.
The University has launched a pilot program that uses beacon technology to track the attendance of select student-athletes.
Following the decision by the UNC-system Board of Governors to extend the deadline to determine the future for Silent Sam from March 15 to late May, there have been no updates from the Board on what to expect from the decision.
Update 8:25 p.m.: U.S. Rep. George Holding (R-NC) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, asking for an investigation into the Conflict over Gaza conference co-sponsored by the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies.
After submitting requests for student ID cards to be approved for voting in 2020, 12 of the 17 UNC system campuses failed to meet the requirements — including UNC-Chapel Hill.
UNC General Counsel Mark Merritt left UNC at the end of 2018, but the University hasn't announced a replacement.
Interim UNC-system President Bill Roper announced Kevin Guskiewicz as interim chancellor on Wednesday, effective immediately. Following former Chancellor Carol Folt’s Jan. 31 resignation, Guskiewicz’s appointment has quickly become a controversy among student activists.
While the UNC-system Board of Governors has gained a lot of attention this year due to its role in decisions regarding Silent Sam and Chancellor Carol Folt’s resignation, many people don’t know much about how the Board operates.
On the 27th day of the longest federal government shutdown in history, not much has changed at UNC.