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Don’t bask in Duke’s big loss just yet

By Noah Brisbin | February 1

Next to a Tar Heel victory, the most popular development in the college basketball season for UNC fans is a resounding Duke loss. During and after a drubbing ...

Women are more than the statistic

By Taylor Fulton | January 31

Happy Anniversary! It was one year ago this week (Feb. 5) that New York Times ‘Styles’ reporter Alex Williams waltzed into Chapel Hill and gave his ...

Find your potential, have an adventure

By Matthew Moran | January 30

When was the last time you A: stepped outside your comfort zone, B: surprised yourself with what you could do or C: were truly proud of yourself?

The wild,? fantasy world of Facebook

By Sarah Dugan | January 30

It may be true that Facebook is taking over the world — today, there are more than 500 million active Facebook users.

The Super Bowl is more than a game

By Sam Ellis | January 26

Every year, the Super Bowl serves as a defining moment about what is right in the United States. Inside a Super Bowl party, every viewer may have a ...

The ?surreal life of the D.C. intern

By Mark Laichena | January 25

There’s a whole page in the nightlife section of the Fodor’s guide for D.C. about interns, and how to recognize them by the eager expressions, intern ...

The ‘G’ does not stand for genetic

By Perry Tsai | January 23

Ah, the female G-spot. The stuff of sexual legend. Does it exist? Does it not exist? Do you just need better directions to find it, or a “G”PS? Well, ...

Students embellish ?to get ahead

By Hinson Neville | January 23

For a lot of us, the start of a new semester brings countless applications for various merit organizations and internships.

Roy gets real: Williams’ frank words for ?ckle fans were a ?justi?ed response to equally frank criticism

By Editorial Board | January 20

Roy Williams’ controversial remarks after the UNC basketball team’s 55th straight win at home against Clemson were a perfectly justified — if harsh ...

Food with a side of justice

By Troy Smith | January 20

I’ll be honest, Vimala Rajendran looked a bit tired. Not in a hungover, unshowered, Post-P-Bob’s-night kind of way with which we are all acquainted. ...

Operation sweet potato — success!

By Alex Walters and Blair Mikels | January 19

It’s lunch time at Lenoir — and you are hungry. Maybe you’ve set your eyes on a caprice chicken sandwich, the well-dressed specialty of a new local ...

Keep up with keeping grades up

January 18

Professors in Chapel Hill have been bemoaning the state of our grades for at least as long as I have attended school here.

Take time to remember the legacy

By Taylor Fulton | January 17

Like anybody here on campus, I indulge in a day off from school. I love lounging around, eating what I want, and pretending I don’t have homework.

Hug an art major: they need the love

By Sarah Dugan | January 13

I am proposing a new holiday for Jan. 18: “Hug an Art Major Day.” The holiday will be aimed at showing art majors how much we appreciate them and ...

NCAA rulings hardly consistent

By Sam Ellis | January 13

Help me with this. It took the NCAA a staggering four years, with nearly unlimited investigative authority, to arrive at the inevitable conclusion that ...

In D.C., there's plenty at stake

January 12

Washington, D.C., President Andrew Johnson said, is 12 square miles bordered by reality — or so one apocryphal quotation goes. Real or unreal, spring ...

Here's to a very sexy new year

By Perry Tsai | January 11

It’s twelve days into the new year.

Because everyone else is doing it

By Hinson Neville | January 10

It happened again. It came and it went. As expected, “the most wonderful time of the year” left untold millions of dollars in credit card debt and ...

Each year, a chance to reflect

By Cameron Parker | December 7

The Year in Review issue is perennially one of our paper’s most important. I’m not saying that because I get paid to work here. I say it because ...

I can't fake this feeling anymore

By Perry Tsai | December 6

It is well-accepted that women can and do fake orgasms. Meg Ryan did her part in establishing this fact for all of posterity with her delighted delicatessen ...