While students who are directed to quarantine or isolate by a medical provider, Dean of Students Desirée Rieckenberg said that there is not a University requirement for faculty to excuse everything related to COVID-19.
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While students who are directed to quarantine or isolate by a medical provider, Dean of Students Desirée Rieckenberg said that there is not a University requirement for faculty to excuse everything related to COVID-19.
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Vann received 47.03 percent of the 4,246 votes cast in the student body president election, according to the results from the UNC Board of Elections.
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Junior Lamar Richards' term as student body president will come to an end in April. As the junior public policy and human organizational leadership and development double major reflected on his time in office, he wants to share a message with the UNC community. “Measure failure only in the context of things that you did not attempt," Richards said. "Always keep that in mind. You don’t have to succeed, but you have to try.”
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Black History Month is celebrated annually throughout the month of February. The campus community has planned the 2022 Black History Month Lecture, "Blood Done Sign my Name" live performance by Mike Wiley, and the Race and Memory at UNC discussion with William Sturkey and Danita Mason-Hogans. The UNC Black Student Movement is also hosting a collection of events.
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The Carolina Asia Center will host "Korean Cinema: The Work of Bong Joon-Ho", a Zoom discussion on Korean culture on Feb. 9. The discussion is the first part of a speaker series that will later focus on Korean Pop and Korean beauty.
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The UNC School of Social Work launched its inaugural Black History Month Research Series last Wednesday. The series highlights work from an anti-racist approach by faculty, doctoral students, alumni and external researchers.
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Here's what you need to know about voting and the offices that are on the ballot in UNC's spring 2022 general election.
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Senior Teddy Vann, president of the Black Student Movement, is running for student body president on a platform that has four different phases: critical assessment, forward-facing accountability, systemic issues in North Carolina and campus culture and climate research.
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A sophomore from Monroe, N.C., Sam Robinson is a candidate for student body president, running with a platform that focuses on student voices and the student experience.
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Student Body President candidate Sage Staley's campaign slogan, “Your Legacy. Our Legacy. Carolina,” encompasses what she hopes to do as student body president. Key issues on Staley's platform include expanding student government, increasing representation for graduate students, supporting students' mental health and combatting the pandemic.
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Phillips currently serves in the Richards administration as the director of the Department of Student Wellness and Safety. In this role, he’s led a team that has worked to support student mental health, sexual violence prevention and safety. If elected as student body president, Phillips said, he plans to expand upon these efforts.
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Each bin for mask collection can hold up to 2,100 masks, and the bins are placed at six locations on campus: the Student Union, Student Recreation Center, Lenoir Dining Hall, Genome Sciences Building, Kenan-Flagler Business School and Beach Cafe in Brinkhous-Bullitt.
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The next event of the series, “An Evening of New Work,” includes a diverse program from five UNC students with pieces including staged readings, dance and spoken-word narratives.
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UNC’s American Sign Language club is an organization that teaches students about Deaf culture, ASL vocabulary and other deaf-related content and media. “Language is such a bridge to other people," said Micah Baldonado, an ASL club member. "It just felt really humbling to be able to learn more about Deaf culture and immerse myself in something that I totally wouldn’t expect myself to place myself in."
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"For all I knew, the tent was gone, so why not say a few kind words in its passing? But now that it's coming back in some half-baked zombie form, I can speak freely: That tent is my greatest enemy."
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After a unanimous vote, the Editorial Board is endorsing Teddy Vann for student body president. We believe that her voice is the change this campus needs.
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The project is using machine learning technology to digitize every Jim Crow law passed in North Carolina between the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. The team plans to expand the initiative to other states with the support of a $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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The certified student body president candidates for next year are Ethan Phillips, Sage Staley, Sam Robinson and Taliajah "Teddy" Vann.
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Associate professor William Sturkey focuses on the history of race in the American South, writing about the experiences of non-white people who have fundamentally shaped American history but have largely been excluded from the narrative around it. "I love empowering students to talk about race in America," he said.
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At its Wednesday general meeting, the UNC Employee Forum spoke about employee work schedules, the new University partnership with the Jed Foundation and the Diversity Climate Survey.
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