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Credit where it's due: Students deserve more than 1 credit for the time they spend in labs

By Editorial Board | March 20

Students shouldn’t be shorted credits they’ve worked hard for. If students are putting in the work and class time of a three-hour course, it is only ...

Viewpoints: A legacy clause ?disregards UNC’s ideals of equality

By Lauren Winston | March 19

As an out-of-state student with no legacy status, to me the legacy clause supports elitist notions often perpetuated in higher education. UNC is a public ...

A stake in the conversation: Administrators should be allowed to protest misguided legislation

By Editorial Board | March 19

UNC administrators are prohibited from using their offices as platforms from which to promote a specific partisan agenda — as they should be. However, ...

WNIT was the way to go: No postseason play deprives women's team of experience

By Editorial Board | March 18

Sylvia Hatchell’s decision to deny the UNC women’s basketball team an opportunity for postseason play sent the wrong message about UNC athletics.

An issue worth the attention

By Katie Orndahl | March 18

United Nations human rights experts have brought attention to a proposed project in Bangladesh that would immediately displace 50,000 to 130,000 Bangladeshis ...

No reason to stop giving

March 18

Chancellor Holden Thorp’s decision to fire Butch Davis as head football coach was polarizing to say the least. Much of the anger was directed at Thorp, ...

Embrace pragmatic solutions to grow

By Michelle Healy and Kelsey Kirchmann | March 15

This column is part of a series written by seniors from the pilot senior seminar on American citizenship. The class is led by its students, whose interests ...

Quickhits for March 15, 2012

By Editorial Board | March 14

Go Heels, Go Obama We can all rally behind the President on this issue: He picked the Heels to go all the way in his March Madness bracket.

Making up for the good we lost

By Erskine Bowles | March 14

You know, you can’t walk into this great big room and not see Eve Carson, right behind me where the students sit, with this great big smile that filled ...

The right time to notify

By Editorial Board | March 14

When it comes to deciding whether a situation merits immediate notification, Alert Carolina doesn’t have the best track record. But last Saturday marked ...

An out-of-state solution

By Editorial Board | March 14

Pervasive concern about budget cuts and tuition hikes — and their effects on the future of UNC — seems to have allowed a potentially game-changing ...

Carrying on the Eve-citement

March 13

People excited Eve, and in turn, Eve enveloped people in her excitement. I had this revelation the first week of freshman year, when Eve and I went to ...

Career-focused advising

By Josh Ford | March 13

As the summer approaches, many students are preparing to supplement their in-class learning with some practical experience.

Viewpoints: UNC Hillel won’t stand for vilification of Muslim students

By Josh Orol | March 12

As co-president of UNC Hillel, I was surprised to receive an invitation from the Committee for a Better Carolina to publicize David Horowitz’s upcoming ...

Complex, not contradictory, values

By Ken Norman and Lauren Donoghue | March 12

The members of UNC Students for Justice in Palestine and J Street UNC believe that we must look to each other if we are serious about peace. We must find ...

Viewpoints: Speech corrodes relationships, hinders discourse

By Matthew Stevens | March 12

David Horowitz’s paid ads in The Daily Tar Heel have repeatedly associated Muslims and the UNC Muslim Students Association with terrorism and the rejection ...

Editorial Q&A: Consistency on a case-by-case basis

By Maggie Zellner | March 12

As student leaders of the University’s Honor Court educate students this week about role of the honor system, opinion editor Maggie Zellner sat down ...

A costly, sluggish bureaucracy

By Editorial Board | March 12

Now that the NCAA has handed down its long-awaited sanctions against the UNC football team, we hope the University will be able to put the 2010 scandal ...

Enough madness: Proposed expansion of the NCAA tournament is unnecessary

By Editorial Board | March 11

For nearly three decades, 64 teams provided for vigorous competition and top talent in the NCAA tournament. But last year’s increase from 64 to 68 teams ...

Waiting for real food at UNC: Signing on to the ‘Real Food Challenge’ should not be delayed

March 2

Before he decides whether to commit this university to a national sustainability initiative called the Real Food Challenge, Chancellor Holden Thorp has ...