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Heel Talk Episode 22: Looking ahead to the spring semester

By Greta Travaglia , Praveena Somasundaram and Evely Forte | September 21

With the fall semester well underway, many are already wondering what the spring semester will entail.

Heel Talk Episode 21: Sports in the pandemic

By Praveena Somasundaram and Evely Forte | September 14

Host Evely Forte chats with DTH Sports Editor Brian to talk about what many deem a quintessential part of the UNC experience — Carolina athletics.

Heel Talk Episode 20: How UNC and Chapel Hill are holding students accountable

By Praveena Somasundaram and Evely Forte | September 8

On this episode of Heel Talk, host Evely Forte talks to assistant online Praveena Somasundaram and University Desk staff writer Sara Raja about how the University and Town of Chapel Hill are holding students — found in violation of University and/or state guidelines — accountable.

Heel Talk episode 19: How we got, lost, then got Pass/Fail

By Praveena Somasundaram and Evely Forte | September 2

Last Thursday, UNC Provost Bob Blouin announced in an emailed message to the campus community that the pass/fail option would be made available for all undergraduate courses as an alternative to earning a letter grade for the semester.

Heel Talk episode 18: A look back on the University's reopening

By Praveena Somasundaram and Evely Forte | August 24

Today marks exactly two weeks since the first day of classes began for all undergraduate students on campus, yet a lot has changed since then.

Heel Talk episode 17: New campus technology raises data privacy concerns

By Praveena Somasundaram and Evely Forte | August 17

The 17th episode of Heel Talk went live Monday morning. Host Evely Forte chats with DTH reporters Cynthia Dong and Isabella Sherk to discuss new technology on campus — some of which has raised concerns about data privacy and others that are being used to determine community compliance relating to ...

Heel Talk episode 16: Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz on UNC's reopening and coronavirus response

By Praveena Somasundaram and Evely Forte | August 10

The Daily Tar Heel’s Editor-in-Chief Anna Pogarcic spoke to Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz in an exclusive interview last Thursday about UNC's reopening and coronavirus response.

Heel Talk episode 15: UNC works toward renaming campus buildings

By Meredith Radford and Evely Forte | July 20

Host Evely Forte spoke to incoming Sports Editor Brian Keyes, Summer University Desk Editor Maydha Devarajan and University desk writer Kate Carroll to break down recent updates to the Board of Trustees' building renaming policy, a report on renaming four campus buildings by the Commission on Race, History and a Way Forward and a multi-departmental request to rename Hamilton Hall, Pauli Murray Hall.

Heel Talk episode 14: How international students are handling new ICE visa restrictions

By Meredith Radford and Evely Forte | July 13

Host Evely Forte spoke to international UNC students to get a better sense as to how they are feeling about changes to temporary exemptions for students on F-1 and M-1 visas taking online classes in the fall because of the pandemic and what their expectations in response to this policy are for the coming semester.

Heel Talk episode 13: Facilities workers' concerns about fall reopening plan

By Meredith Radford and Evely Forte | July 6

In this episode, host Evely Forte spoke to DTH reporters Chiara Evans and Isabella Sherk to understand how University facilities workers and housekeeping staff feel about the upcoming semester and if they are making any demands of UNC administration to ensure they are kept safe.

Heel Talk episode 12: Faculty and staff petition UNC against return to campus

By Meredith Radford and Evely Forte | June 29

In this episode, host Evely Forte spoke to DTH reporter and incoming Assistant Copy Editor Sasha Schroeder and incoming Assistant Online Editor Praveena Somasundaram to understand why many UNC faculty members, professors and teaching assistants are petitioning UNC administration about the fall 2020 semester because of the COVID-19 pandemic, what the petitioners are really demanding and how they hope the University will implement potential changes.

Heel Talk episode 11: Board of Trustees lifts 16-year moratorium on renaming buildings

By Meredith Radford and Evely Forte | June 22

In this week's episode, host Evely Forte spoke to Maydha Devarajan, summer University desk editor, and former DTH reporter Hannah McClellan to better understand what the Board of Trustees decision to lift a 16-year ban on renaming buildings, monuments and landscapes on UNC’s campus meant, how this decision will affect the University moving forward and how campus leaders are responding.

Heel Talk episode 10: UNC leaders discuss racial equity plans for the 2020-21 school year

By Meredith Radford and Evely Forte | June 15

In this episode, host Evely Forte spoke to incoming senior class president Chris Suggs; incoming Black Student Movement president Tamiya Troy; Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Outreach committee co-chairpersons Chaz Crosby and Maya Logan; and Interim Chief Diversity Officer Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, to better understand what impact the movement, against police brutality and for racial equity, will have on the upcoming semester.

Heel Talk episode nine: Protests in the Triangle against police brutality

By Meredith Radford and Evely Forte | June 8

In this episode, host Evely Forte talks to three DTH journalists — Chase Cofield, Maydha Devarajan and Claire Perry — to discuss what activism, in the midst of a pandemic, looks like and how community members feel about the national conversation moving forward, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and other police brutality.

Heel Talk episode eight: Tackling food insecurity, hurricane preparation during COVID-19

By Meredith Radford and Evely Forte | June 1

Evely Forte and City & State reporter Elizabeth Egan talk about the NCDHHS's Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program and the work of local organizations attempting to feed families impacted by the economic effects of the pandemic. Summer Online Editor Meredith Radford also breaks down how the state is preparing for the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially begins today, and what residents can do to individually prepare.

Heel Talk episode seven: 'Zoombombings,' remote learning and a fall semester update

By Meredith Radford and Evely Forte | May 26

In this episode, Evely Forte and Maydha Devarajan, The Daily Tar Heel University desk editor, discuss a Zoombombing that occurred during a final presentation in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media's International Projects class. Evely also explains Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz's recent announcement about reopening the University in the fall.

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