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“Regardless of if the police budget changes in the future, we need to put money into social services that have been underfunded in the past because they do serve a great need for our community,” Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue said.

The Graduate Student Petition and a previous Graduate and Professional Student Federation (GPSF) Meeting in Kerr Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019.

Graduate workers continue to petition UNC, demand not reopen in-person instruction

By Rachel Crumpler

In a petition published June 12, graduate workers have expressed concerns about the safety and logistics of returning to campus for in-person instruction this fall. Workers demanded that UNC not reopen in-person this fall, does not layoff or furlough staff and grant them a one-year time-to-degree extension, among other demands. The University has said the Carolina Roadmap was developed with feedback from multiple parties, are working to refine the plan and will make "whatever adjustments are needed in real time.”

Image from an after school program in 1997 built by Danita Mason-Hogans to close to achievement gap between Black and white students. Photo courtesy of Danita Mason-Hogans.

UNC commission member proposes enrichment program for descendants of enslaved people

By Emma Geis

Danita Mason-Hogans, a member of UNC's Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward and a Chapel Hill native with ties to the University dating back seven generations, is calling on UNC to fund an enrichment program for descendants of the enslaved people who built the University.

Head football coach Mack Brown returns to the locker room with his team during the spring football game in Kenan Memorial Stadium on Saturday April 13, 2019.

'You have some type of power': UNC football responds to racial injustice movement

By Jared McMasters

"It’s really sad for me to watch, and it feels like real trauma," senior running back Michael Carter said. "I see my dad and I see my uncle and I see my coach and I see my brother and I see myself within George Floyd. Within all of that is where I just feel so much pain. It felt like an act of terror as I was watching it."

UNC first year and Robertson Scholar Adejuwon Ojebuoboh will serve on Orange County's Housing Advisory Board. The board oversees housing needs, project proposals, and community awareness.

Column: The ignored nuance of Black people

By Adejuwon Ojebuoboh

"We must adjust our 'diversity' initiatives to take this important distinction into account, because recent descendants do not have to face the same generational trauma that long-standing descendants experience every day. All Black people experience racism in America, but descendants of recent African immigrants may not always face the systemic injustice long-standing descendants do."

Board of Governors chairperson Randy Ramsey during an emergency Board meeting on Friday, June 19, 2020, during which Peter Hans was elected to be the new UNC System president.

N.C. Community College System President Peter Hans to be next UNC System President

By Maydha Devarajan

Peter Hans was elected unanimously as the next UNC System president at an emergency Board of Governors meeting Friday. Hans is the ninth president of the N.C. Community College System and has previously served on three terms on the Board. The search for a permanent UNC System president began a year ago.

An employee, deemed an essential worker during the COVID-19 pandemic, works at a gas station in Evanston, Illinois on Monday, Mar. 23, 2020.

Labor organizers, essential workers ask Sen. Tillis to pass HEROES legislation

By Suzannah Claire Perry

At a virtual press conference hosted by the North Carolina State AFL-CIO, essential workers joined labor organizers and policy analysts to urge U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis to support the HEROES Act, a $3 trillion piece of federal legislation awaiting Senate approval.

Town Council Members give thumbs-ups to the camera at a Town Council Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, June 17, 2020.

Chapel Hill Town Council talks Juneteenth, COVID-19 at special meeting

By Crystal Yu

At its specially called Wednesday meeting, the Chapel Hill Town Council discussed transit, COVID-19 response and affordable housing.

The DTH Sports page on Thursday, July 19, 2020, including a feature photograph of Michael Jordan by Tom Green.

On this day 36 years ago, the Chicago Bulls drafted Michael Jordan

By Jeremiah Holloway

On June 19, 1984, the NBA career of Michael Jordan began when he was selected third overall by the Chicago Bulls.

UNC-CH first-year quarterback Sam Howell (#7) winds up a throw to one of his teammates as the Wake Forest defense closes in.

'Learning how to stay safe': UNC football begins return to campus

By Zachary Crain

After spending months off campus due to the spread of COVID-19, UNC football is starting to return to campus. In a Thursday press conference, head coach Mack Brown and quarterback Sam Howell discussed the Tar Heels' first week back in Chapel Hill.

Student activists placed a banner reading "Hurston Hall" over the name plaque of Saunders Hall Friday, April 24, 2015. It has since been renamed "Carolina Hall."

Editorial: The University that doesn't care

By Editorial Board

What Chancellor Guskiewicz and the administration fail to realize is that UNC is certainly not the University of the people — and it never has been, not even a little bit. But this is not news. Students and activists have been sounding the alarm for decades. Every time, the University has been indifferent.