This Week in Tar Heel History ...

12 Years Ago This week in 1989, rocker Tom Petty played the last stop of his tour at the Dean Smith Center. Petty made sure to play at least one song ...

Hate Messages Must Not Be Tolerated, Should Be Removed

TO THE EDITOR: Attention UNC students and employees: Have you had your daily fix of racism and sexism? If not, be sure to stop by the men's bathroom ...

Women's Soccer Shuts Out Weekend Foes

The Penn State women's soccer team began Sunday's game against No. 1 North Carolina with the same intensity as the thunder clouds threatening Fetzer Field. But ...

DTH Picks of the Week

During last week's revelry, the DTH kids managed to do something never before seen on these pages -- pick a game that didn't exist. So add an extra loss ...

Volleyball Changes Scoring

With its matches often running up to three hours and its rules too confusing for casual fans, collegiate women's volleyball has been given a major ...

UNC Might See Higher Price Tag

When a committee on faculty salaries recommended a tuition increase to the Board of Trustees in 1999, students claimed the initiative was not ...

UNC Falls to Fifth in Public School Rankings

UNC, in the U.S. News & World Report's annual list of the nation's best colleges, fell three spots -- knocking the school out of the nation's top 25 universities ...

CHHS to Host Fiesta This Weekend

Local Parking Lot in Violation Of Zoning Laws

A local privately owned parking lot that has undergone scrutiny during the last year is in violation of zoning ordinances, town officials said. A letter ...

Education by The Numbers: The Rankings

Do students care about U.S. News & World Report's college and university rankings? Probably not. Do students care if higher education is being fundamentally ...

Showdown With Brown

Mack Brown helped make North Carolina football history. Then like a cattle driver on the range, Brown was history, leaving clouds of dust and hoofprints ...

Women's Soccer Learns, Regroups

Henry Ford once said, "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." If that's the case, then North Carolina women's ...

Atypical Republican Candidate Joins U.S. Senate Race

Ada Fisher is not the typical Republican senatorial candidate -- she is a black, Jewish woman who supports stem cell research. Fisher, a Salisbury resident, ...

Writer Offers Advice On Bicyclists' Safety In, Around Chapel Hill

To the Editor: I share the following excerpts from the booklet "Road Vogue, Classy Cycling in Chapel Hill and Carrboro" by Wayne Pein. I encourage ...

Campus Groups Concerned About Low Funds

Some student groups are scrambling to put together their fund requests in hopes of getting a piece of the especially small $11,500 pie Student Congress ...

Cartoon 09/07/01

Kudzu 09/07/01

Car Strikes UNC Student Near Bell Tower

A UNC student suffered minor injuries Thursday morning after she was struck by a car while crossing South Road in front of the Bell Tower. Sophomore ...

N.C. Action Not in Line With Nation

North Carolina has stood out from the pack, albeit good or bad, in recent weeks as various organizations released studies on topics ranging from SAT scores ...