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STV’s latest drama: The Student Union must compensate STV for lost studio space

By Editorial Board | November 2

At bare minimum, the Student Union owes Student Television an apology for splitting its space in the multipurpose room. But that’s not all STV deserves. ...

Stop requested: DPS’ plan for student transit fees requires reworking for fairness

By Editorial Board | November 1

Last year, former Student Body President Hogan Medlin and his executive board told Department of Public Safety officials that the five-year transportation ...

Nothing to hide

By Editorial Board | November 1

UNC Health Care’s Enterprise Fund has nothing to hide. Its audit, at the hands of the N.C. General Assembly, should be welcomed as an opportunity to ...

A long (overdue), hard look: A new task force has a chance to finally make ASG worthwhile

By Editorial Board | November 1

For too long, the Association of Student Governments has contentedly kicked the can down the road, sending the delegates who actually attend the monthly ...

Candidate Storrow, the real deal

By Mark Laichena | November 1

Meet Lee Storrow: Unlike the other candidates in the Chapel Hill Town Council election, Storrow is a young UNC graduate, and he’s gay.

Fairness at the right time: UNC must time its push to provide student athletes a stipend

By Editorial Board | October 31

UNC and its fellow Atlantic Coast Conference members must ensure that the timing is right given the steep financial implications of providing scholarships ...

Too much, too soon: Early tuition proposals go above and beyond an acceptable increase

By Editorial Board | October 31

Fiscal strains on the University have created the harsh reality that a 6.5 percent tuition increase simply won’t do. But, in a span of two to four years, ...

Beauty in simplicity: Homecoming fee would offer a simple solution to widespread dismay

By Editorial Board | October 31

At a time when student fees seem to be administrators’ quick fix of choice, the newly proposed Homecoming fee offers a refreshing example of what fees ...

Election winners must keep us green

By Holly Beilin | October 31

As evidenced by last night’s festivities, Chapel Hill isn’t your average small town. It doesn’t think small, whether it’s thousands crowding Franklin ...

Keep your eye on the seats: The ticket policy has promise, but the CAA must monitor its effects

By Editorial Board | October 27

Come tip-off time this season, the CAA may find it has erred too far on the side of caution in using general admission to all but one non-conference game ...

Continuing a local tradition

By Town Manager Roger Stancil | October 27

Four years ago, Halloween in Chapel Hill had become scarier than usual due to crowd sizes that packed people so tightly onto Franklin Street that some ...

Collaboration will be key to improving the food offerings at UNC.

By Editorial Board | October 27

Last week’s National Food Day served as a springboard for an ambitious goal. In urging UNC to have 20 percent of its food offerings locally grown and ...

Good policy, bad protocol

By Editorial Board | October 27

In adding 11 polling places to the Nov. 8 vote, Orange County commissioners have taken an important step toward ensuring that a win for the quarter-cent ...

Rethinking Homecoming

By Cierra Hinton | October 26

Whenever a Passion Pit song comes on the radio or someone mentions going to the band’s concert last year, I can’t help but grin. The concert was absolutely ...

Only the beginning: More must be done to roll back the state's invasive abortion law

By Editorial Board | October 26

Despite their insistence that they hate big government, the state’s Republican legislators are the ones to blame for passing what may be the single ...

Legality doesn't make it right: UNC's deliberate action to produce few records undercuts transparency

By Editorial Board | October 25

For the entirety of the football scandal, the University has defended its stingy response to public record requests with a liberal interpretation of FERPA. ...

The crying Wolff: Mayoral candidate Kevin Wolff is back to his old campaign tricks

By Editorial Board | October 25

Last week, recklessness touched down in Chapel Hill, and it came from a familiar source — mayoral candidate Kevin Wolff.

United against hate

By Editorial Board | October 25

Last week, the words “Fags Burn” and “DIE” dealt N.C. State University a painful reminder. Spray-painted in purple outside the school’s GLBT ...

Too much coverage

By Editorial Board | October 25

Chapel Hill has promised to more strictly enforce the 11:30 p.m. street closure this Halloween, but that’s only the beginning of the night’s excessive ...

Finding time for career exploration

By Mark Laichena | October 25

According to UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, more than half of all freshmen nationally say that a key reason they picked their college was ...