"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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"If North Carolina wants to get out of its policy rut, it must pay its legislators enough to concentrate on legislation."
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"It’s fitting that this transition for UNC basketball is happening now. In one of the most tumultuous four years in UNC’s history, the University has experienced the reckoning of Silent Sam, sexual assault lawsuits and a global pandemic. It’s not really a surprise that UNC basketball had one of its statistically worst seasons ever in 2020-2021, a head coaching change and a blowout loss to Duke in the same span of time."
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"Tired of taking a stroll in the park? Inhaling a breath of fresh air on a cool spring day? Sharing a meaningful hug with a friend? Well, you’re in luck — we’ve found a brand new app that can replace these core life moments with a more honest, social and memorable portrayal of your reality: BeReal."
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"UNC thrives because of its students, and there need to be options to maintain our mental health long term."
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"Due to the pandemic, many students who planned on studying abroad earlier in their college careers had their plans rescheduled. And rescheduled again. And again. Now that the CDC has loosened restrictions following COVID-19 exposure and infection, study abroad programs are beginning to travel again. And all the students who have been trying to study abroad left with them."
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"For a few days in late January of 2000, the conditions necessary for a snowstorm perfectly combined to dump a mammoth amount of snow — by North Carolina standards, anyway — in the central part of the state."
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"The process must get easier. It must become more accessible. We need dedicated mental health professionals on our campus willing to provide long-term care, regardless of whether or not other universities have adopted this model of mental health care."
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"It’s why I decided that maybe pursuing a career in visual communication might be worth the risk. And it makes feel like I could be behind a camera, chasing that feeling for the rest of my life."
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"André Leon Talley was a large, Black and Southern man that defied odds and became a fashion icon legend at the helm of a magazine that he read and fell in love with while his grandmother cleaned the halls of a university."
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“When we’ve yet to see an honest and unembellished portrayal of Gen-Z women’s sex lives — in all the messiness, confusion, humor and thoughtfulness — I can’t help but wonder if we’re being deprived of interesting, necessary stories.”
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"We are challenged to root for these women by the invisible men behind the camera, but while their cinematic visions are often enthralling, their insight is shockingly limited when it comes to questioning what justice is. This dearth is the result of a failure of imagination."
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So to mitigate this impending threat of annual monotony that is the new year, I have chosen to highlight some people, places or things on UNC’s campus that I think will take center stage in 2022.
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"We have a lot more to work on before we can congratulate ourselves for continuing King’s legacy. We should rather ask how much actual progress has been made to sustain the achievements he helped make regarding racial equality and voting rights and pledge to continue his fight for economic equality that ended when his life was violently taken."
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"I wish I could decipher even more from these emails, but after six hours of nonstop reading, I have a headache like a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. Unless ... I hope it’s not … I’d better get tested. Has anyone read the emails well enough to know where I can do that?"
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"The decision to move to appointment-only asymptomatic testing is emblematic of how UNC students, faculty and staff have to handle this pandemic: We are left to figure things out on our own."
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"As this past decade has hopefully shown, the decisions brought about by 'the whims of political power' are neither sufficient nor desirable for governing world-class institutions of learning."
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"The tradeoff for investment in these two Black women are not only high ratings for the networks and sharing their brilliance with the world, but the representation on and behind the screen that Hollywood so desperately needs."
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"Rebranding yourself for the new year is both great for your mental health and to ensure you have an authentic and enjoyable 2022. Visualizing yourself as something that needs to be 'sold' or advertised to a consumer base is both healthy and natural, and definitely benefits our society as a whole."
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"It’s my annual reminder that we have such a fractured image of what self-care and self-improvement are. We are surrounded by the belief that our goals — especially fitness goals — should come at extreme costs to our time, nutrition, well-being and wallets."
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