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CULTURE
Meet Genevieve Lowry Cole, the first Native American woman to graduate from UNC
Genevieve Lowry Cole became the first Native American woman to graduate UNC in 1954. More than 60 years later, she works with current students to help them achieve their goals, as well.
Column: 'The Favourite' was robbed this awards season
"Overall, I believe that 'The Favourite' was completely robbed during this awards season, particularly at the Academy Awards."
The best thing about the early 2000s is back, and it's not the Jonas Brothers
Flip phones are making a comeback, with one UNC student describing his experience with owning one as liberating.
Column: Why I love St. Patrick's Day
"This country has come a long way since Irish immigrants felt the need to change their names to get jobs and avoid discrimination."
Column: Why I hate St. Patrick's Day
"Imagine having whatever ethnicity or cultural heritage you feel attached to relegating to mindless drunkeness."
Turn your poems into a manuscript with the North Carolina Poetry Society
The North Carolina Poetry Society is hosting a workshop that aims to help people begin the process of putting together a manuscript.
Office DJ: Taylor is not as pretentious as she sounds
"There are few questions I hate more than being asked more than what my music taste is. I usually stammer out a response that sounds like I’m not entirely sure what music is."
Watch Mark Twain take on ethics, race & the Devil in this one-man psychological play
“Hopefully the playgoer will be able to have an assessment in the spirit of what Huck Finn once said about Mark Twain: He told the truth mainly, there was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.’”
Review: Sometimes, Watsky is good enough
You’re here to see Watsky in his scruffy, melodramatic philosophy-101-esque splendor, and there can be no question that the man delivers. Sometimes, that’s plenty enough.
UNC's art departments to display senior MFA theses at Durham Fruit Company
“There are nine students, we work very differently from one another, we have very different backgrounds, and so the art will be very diverse as well as very exciting.”
Check out the concerts coming to Chapel Hill this March
Artists like MILKK, Max Frost, Fireside Collective, and more are coming to local venues in the area throughout the month.
Shakespeare, but make it feminist: UNC professor explores women in literary works
"There’s a real value in trying to understand a historical world that’s so distinct from our own,” said Mary Floyd-Wilson, chairperson of the Department of English & Comparative Literature, who researches the role of women in early modern English literature.
Explore UNC's history with the Campus Y's Festival for Activism
The event aims to emphasize the historical successes of activism on campus and acknowledge the trauma brought on by past mistakes.
The Beehive hair salon becomes a gallery of local artist's work
“I hope it makes them forget the bounds of reality and helps them transcend that to embrace something new and fresh."
UNC libraries give feminism a voice with Wikipedia edit-a-thon
UNC libraries and the Art and Museum Library and Information Student Society (AMLISS) hosted an edit-a-thon to contribute to the Art + Feminism campaign and edit Wikipedia articles related to females and art.
Column: Game of Thrones ushers in the death of modern television
"Here we are, 40 days away from the premiere of the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones,” and just 75 days until the end of modern television as we know it."
Greek life gets groovy to raise money for Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders
This is truly a groovy way for UNC's Greek life to represent their sororities while contributing to a meaningful cause.
Women speak out with poetry in celebration of International Women's Day
Womanhood is complicated and full of stories waiting to be shared. For International Women's Day, the gallery, "Women Speak," opens Friday and showcases 27 art works depicting a different aspect of the female experience.
Traditional Gaelic storytelling returns in honor of Abigail Washburn
Carolina Performing Arts is working with the UNC Visiting Lectureship in Scottish Gaelic Studies to host a cèilidh, a traditional Gaelic social gathering, to honor DisTIL fellow Abigail Washburn.
