Column: Penny Rich understands student needs
Josh Mayo, a graduate student at the Department of City and Regional Planning, wants you to support Penny Rich for County Commissioner.
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Column: Democrats' division could be their demise
But it’s the question no one can objectively answer that will decide this primary: who has the best chance at defeating Donald Trump and Republicans down-ballot?
Column: Those who can't teach, do
"Although some individuals act as teaching assistants for courses or mentor undergraduates during rotations and thesis work, doctoral programs very rarely require curriculum on how to prepare for and teach a lecture course, how to effectively mentor trainees or even how to manage grant money outside of individual projects and among larger groups."
Old North State stories: Catholics ... we've been here awhile
"So, this year when you see a bunch of folks walking around today with ashen crosses on our heads, just know we aren’t some alien force. We’ve been here awhile, and a lot of us like to call this place our home."
Column: An ode to the basketball heat check, the most beautiful thing in sports
For my money, no moment beats the most beautiful one across all of sports: when a basketball player catches fire and the world (including everyone else on the court) has no other choice but to sit back and watch magic happen.
Column: Hockey, soccer big news for North Carolina
"It’s an exciting time for sports fans across the state, and it’s something to definitely keep an eye out for as plans for soccer and hockey solidify over the next few months."
Column: Why Yayoi Kusama captures our imagination
I walked into a mirrored abyss lit by innumerable lights that brighten, fade, change their colors. I let myself become absorbed in the moment and felt simultaneously whole and void, full and without meaning.
Column: The intersection of technology and human rights
"I firmly believe that technology is intersectional; it embraces change, impact and different world views."
Column: Why I'm voting for Mark Dorosin
Allison De Marco talks about why we should vote to re-elect Mark Dorosin to the Orange County Board of Commissioners.
Column: What is an editorial board?
"At the end of the day, The Daily Tar Heel belongs entirely to its readers. It always has."
Stripped: The personal (and sexual) is political
"And yet, having those choices, difficult though they may be, is still fundamentally better than having no choice at all."
Column: Sorry Tar Heel fans, UNC and N.C. State are indeed rivals
No, this is not the heavyweight battle that is UNC-Duke. It hasn’t been for decades. But to discredit UNC-N.C. State as a rivalry is to overlook the disdain fans of both programs clearly have for each other, to discount history and tradition.
The odd traditions of the Nacirema: The religion of basketball
"Basketball is a traditional competition where the tallest children in the village attempt to put a brown sphere into a sacred high basket. It is quite a futile task because the basket has a gaping hole at its bottom; hence, the ball always falls through."
Column: Support the UCSC strike for COLA
"As the underpaid, overworked UCSC graduate workers put their careers, livelihoods and even immigration status on the line, we have to stand behind them."
Column: Misinformation spreads faster than the coronavirus
The virus has impacted UNC students in a multitude of ways; from the University banning all nonessential travel to China and potentially suspending study abroad programs, the virus has been in the news for weeks now. And the media has definitely done its part in making the virus something that can’t be ignored by any college administration.
Column: Old North State Stories: UNC and the Spanish flu
The disease took the life of then-University President Edward Graham on Oct. 26. His successor, Marvin Stacy, would also be lost to the disease, dying in Jan. 1919. By spring 1919, more than 500 infected were treated at the University’s infirmary, and seven died.
Column: It's time to grow out of posting degrading comments on athletes' social media
“Again you are the worst player to ever dawn a unc uniform absolute disgrace.” “Please transfer.” These are a few of the comments that can be found under Andrew Platek’s most recent Instagram post from Nov. 27, 2019, after UNC lost to Duke in overtime this past weekend.
Column: Lessons from Brexit
"While the drama surrounding Brexit is quite entertaining on its own, it has brought to our attention that maybe the U.S. is much more similar to the U.K. than it would like to admit."
Column: Remembering the lives we lost
Remembering Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha, three lives lost in a hate crime five years ago.
Column: Why is it so hard to get PrEP on campus?
"Let’s remember that there are low-income, Black and Latinx students on this campus. Let’s also remember that these students’ access to PrEP is being limited in a way that is antithetical to the groundbreaking strides that our University is making in HIV research."
