In social psychology there are phenomena known as prescriptive and descriptive norms. For example, a prescriptive norm is the fact drinking alcohol is not legal until age 21 but the descriptive norm is the knowledge that every Thursday night, you will most likely find underage drinking in college towns.
Walking down Franklin Street leaves a lot of people with fond memories. Eating out at Spicy 9, stumbling out of Sup Dogs after a late night basketball victory or celebrating the end of finals with YoPo. These lighthearted experiences, for most young women, can easily be disrupted by brief interactions of verbal harassment with strangers on that same, happy street.
UNC debuted a bike share on Oct. 24, shifting up its commitment to its students and the state. The program has the potential to make a durable improvement to quality of life for those who live or work in the area, and beyond — as long as the University can steer it away from a few potholes.
UNC professors are constantly surprising us with their academic endeavors, but let's not forget that many of them are outstanding humans too.
In the past couple of weeks, the Daily Tar Heel has published explanatory articles and critical letters to the editor regarding the proposed general education curriculum changes. This board agreed that it was time to put our thoughts to paper on this update.
Camilo Casas, candidate for city council in Boulder, Colo., has promised to hand over his voting power to his constituents by way of a smartphone app should he be elected.
Halloween is supposed to be fun, but can be easily ruined by lack of judgement, or too much of it.
You will find them lurking under an oak tree on McCorkle Place, pacing the sidewalks of the upper quad, or taking shelter on the covered porch of Graham Memorial if it’s a rainy day. They are the few, the proud: the Silent Sam watch dogs.
While beginning college life with an intellectually eye-opening encounter is great, it would be equally beneficial to provide seniors the inverse capstone experience.
In the United States, around 1 in 25 adults experience a mental illness that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. A nonprofit in Carrboro is working on giving those suffering from these debilitating mental illnesses a place to call home.
The Board of Governors is considering “a policy that would allow the expulsion of students who repeatedly disrupt freedom of speech or expression on campus.”
The opioid epidemic is complicated — politics, medicine and social determinants of health, like poverty, all play a role in the widespread increase in addiction to opioids across North Carolina. Perhaps the most complex pillar of the epidemic is culture.
The UNC College Republicans and UNC Young Democrats co-hosted an event on Social Security last Tuesday. The student groups worked together to bring Free the Facts, a non-profit organization dedicated to nonpartisan reform of Social Security, to UNC's campus. The evening went along smoothly, with conservatives and liberals discussing their thoughts on Social Security and potential ideas to save the program.
The recent news surrounding Harvey Weinstein, however, reveals that the media isn’t always timely in its investigative work, especially when the person at the center of a high-profile story is an acquaintance of those tasked with breaking it.
We are exposed to negative news now more than ever—with automatic alerts popping up on our phones, computer screens and even our watches, it is almost impossible to shut it out.
Many of us have never given a second thought to the security of our position as a person living in the United States. But, as the Trump Administration continues to roll out plans for their immigration agenda, we can see that people have given a lot of thought to the positions of the immigrants residing in the United States.
About two years ago, another iteration of this board made a vigorous defense of free speech on campus. This specifically addressed the demands for the prohibition of speech sympathizing with the Confederacy in the wake of a rally on Oct. 25, 2015. This iteration of the board, for the most part, still adheres to this position. Unsurprisingly, an editorial board of a campus newspaper thanks our nation implicitly every day for the right to say what we say without fear of prohibition. We, as a paper and as a community, owe it to ourselves to continue vigilance in defense of this constitutional right even if it guarantees confrontation with speech we find beyond the pale, provided that speech does not specifically incite physical violence.
We must consider Sen. Burr’s and Sen. Tillis’s allegiance to the NRA when we consider their response to gun violence in this country.
Today is National Coming Out Day, and more Americans than ever before identify as a part of the LGBTQ+ community. And according to the 2016 national Gallup poll, millennials born between 1980-1998 were twice as likely as other age demographics to identify as LGBT. As the queer community grows, so does the list of its protective rights — but the USA at large still harbors its reservations.
It took one year to pass legislation repealing HB2 — and it might take another three for its most disturbing legal effects to dissipate. Let’s count the hours.
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