"Following years of success and growth, Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of the year. This downward trend threatens to persist if Netflix does not adapt specifically towards younger customers, who crave television and film not only for its intrinsic entertainment but also to participate in a conversation around what they’re watching."
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"Tenure is absolutely essential to higher education, not only to protect professors but to ensure classrooms that foster productive debates, and are free from external censorship. It’s pivotal for students, professors and their research and should not be abridged by attempts to control curriculum."
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"We fell down a lot, and we also fought like hell to get back up. To get back to the good parts — the ones that make your heart feel light, right before the drop and the scream and the hands in the air."
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"It can feel like life or death sometimes, but at the end of the day, it’s not your job to fix all of the DTH’s issues. Take the best things you can from it and hold those experiences close — I know I will."
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"And it’s funny because even as I look back, lamenting some moments of struggle within the DTH, here I am almost a year later, wishing I could’ve contributed more."
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"And I do represent Carolina. I represent the one in three women that are sexually assaulted on this campus. I represent the intelligent young women who come into this institution to study and accomplish great work, only to be exorcized of all morale, their diplomas inked with pain and fear. I also represent the lucky ones; the women who barely come out of that pain alive."
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"This summer, don’t let COVID-19 stop you from taking that trip you’ve been planning for months, or from exploring new sights and expanding your horizons. However, exercise some caution when doing so as we’re not out of the woods yet."
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"And lastly, a thank you to the DTH, for not only giving me a home, but for letting me chase my journalism dreams one more time. I don’t think I’ll know how much I’ll miss you until I’m gone."
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"Graduate students are different from undergraduates in that being a student is our job. The current funding structure leaves us vulnerable to economic difficulty during a time when we should be resting, studying for important exams, working on professional development or spending time with our family and friends we aren’t able to see during the academic year. The University should fully recognize the contributions that graduate students bring to our community and commit to guaranteed pay throughout the summer."
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"If open-book tests help alleviate anxiety among students and improve memory retention, then why aren’t more schools administering exams using this format? This is a question the University will hopefully grapple with in the coming years as higher education institutions continue to evolve."
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"If college basketball doesn’t change and improve, it might be left behind. After all, what’s stopping an up-and-coming prospect from packing their bags to play abroad in a higher quality competition that actually pays them?"
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"Our University cares more about restricting faculty access to behind-the-scenes deals and processes than donor access to the workings of our institution. This is a clear demonstration of how maligned UNC’s priorities are, which come at the direct cost of students and faculty who are being caught in the crossfire."
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"At the very least, UNC should deemphasize the importance of grades in the admissions process to prevent giving privileged students with disproportionate access to resources an unfair advantage."
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"Devonte Hart’s story was frightening — and is even more scary because it actually happened. Incidents of blackface are less frequent now, but imagine a city where the practice is so normalized that you see it everywhere you turn. And what is most unsettling about the episodes is how much truth there is to them."
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