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World AIDS Day: Feel hono(red)

By Julian E. Wooten | November 29

Each year, on this first day of December, organizations and individuals around the world plan events to participate in World AIDS Day.

The JNF troubles in East Jerusalem

By Ben Elkind | November 28

In just more than a month, thousands of Jewish students from across the country, including 16 from UNC, will depart on winter Birthright trips to Israel. ...

Don’t Scrooge over the planet

By Holly Beilin | November 27

Turning green for the holiday season shouldn’t make anyone feel like a Grinch. It might actually be the best present you can give to planet Earth.

A ?urry of ways to say one thing

By Mark Abadi | November 22

British singer Kate Bush released her new album Monday, and linguists everywhere held their breath.

The audacity of lunch reform

By Andrew Moon | November 21

Congress overcame partisan gridlock for the kids earlier this month, heroically blocking measures that would rob American children of their rights to ...

Tuition isn't just about the numbers

By Joseph Terrell | November 17

Poverty is not an excuse from but a reason for education. Former UNC President Edward Kidder Graham wrote this in 1916, reminding us of the bedrock ...

Let Eve’s memory inspire your best

By Mark Laichena | November 16

This Saturday would have been Eve Carson’s 26th birthday. Though the community will honor her at the memorial 5k in her name, almost all the students ...

Respect, one kick at a time for kids

By Will Doran | November 15

Leadership. Confidence. Respect. Control. These are some of the values that martial arts can give its students. They’re also the values that are considered ...

Let’s talk about ... gender

By Perry Tsai | November 15

We use gendered pronouns all the time in English: he/she, his/hers, him/her. We learn early on to refer to people by their genders, but does this grammatical ...

Tuition isn’t just about the numbers

By Joseph Terrell | November 15

“Poverty is not an excuse from but a reason for education.” Former UNC President Edward Kidder Graham wrote this in 1916, reminding us of the bedrock ...

Carbon paw prints pack a punch

By Holly Beilin | November 14

Lassie may be a lot more cute and cuddly on your front lawn than your neighbor’s giant yellow Hummer, but his carbon foot, or paw, print might be just ...

When football is crowned king

By Ryan Barber | November 10

From the first day I passed through the Dean Dome’s doors, my support of UNC athletics has been a blasphemy. It was during my freshman year, of course, ...

Don’t let health stop ‘the next JFK’

By Andrew Moon | November 10

JFK suffered from excruciating spinal instability, severe fatigue and Addison’s disease, a destruction of the adrenal glands with resulting hormone ...

A time for re?ection, and a look ahead

By Mary Cooper | November 9

It’s been more than seven months since the Cooper Administration took office. Though it’s a little hard to believe how fast the time is flying by, ...

Eating animals on stage

By Katherine Proctor | November 9

If you’d asked me a few months ago whether I could see myself delivering an impassioned monologue to a stuffed chicken, I would have said, ‘probably ...

Voldemort can’t put a Dark Mark on Twitter

By Mark Abadi | November 8

The argument that “kids these days” are degrading the English language is a tired one, but that doesn’t stop grown-ups from making it.

Yes, it’s strong enough for a man

By Perry Tsai | November 3

The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is the new sex ed. It’s the latest front in the heated discussion on adolescent sexuality, challenged by the ...

Make your voice heard

By Mary Cooper | November 2

First and foremost, I want to be clear: my goal is to hear from the student body so that I can be the best advocate that I can be.

Four choices, three years later

By Andrew Harrell | November 2

Three years ago today, the crowd in Top of the Hill suddenly exited the bar and took to the street en masse.

Candidate Storrow, the real deal

By Mark Laichena | November 1

Meet Lee Storrow: Unlike the other candidates in the Chapel Hill Town Council election, Storrow is a young UNC graduate, and he’s gay.