"Following years of success and growth, Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of the year. This downward trend threatens to persist if Netflix does not adapt specifically towards younger customers, who crave television and film not only for its intrinsic entertainment but also to participate in a conversation around what they’re watching."
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After UNC men’s basketball sophomore guard Kerwin Walton entered the transfer portal, the Tar Heels were left with one scholarship left outstanding. After much deliberation, The Daily Tar Heel summer sportswriters have compiled their picks for who the UNC men’s basketball team should select to fill this spot.
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"There are many factors that must go into budgetary decisions, some of which are indisputably valid. But public interest work is constantly devalued. It is devalued economically, in how different legal institutions are funded. It is devalued politically, in how public defenders and legal services are not invested in. It is devalued in labor, down to the extreme pay gap present even in summer internships."
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"This is a severe and devastating blow to bodily autonomy across America and this decision leaves many uncertain about the future of abortion rights."
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"Despite immediate, and understandable, outrage at the profoundly irresponsible administration that allowed this to happen, we shouldn’t be surprised that the program’s priorities are so maligned. It’s nothing that the journalism school – and UNC as a whole – hasn’t demonstrated to us before."
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"No individual should have to choose between their career and current or prospective child."
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"Do you remember that old saying from when we were kids? If you’re feeling nervous, just picture your whole class in their underwear. Well, picture no more — during the Davis streak, you will actually get to see your whole class in their underwear. And without their underwear. And in their bras. And without their bras. And with a sock over their..."
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"This week, the Town Council will review a concept plan for the potential redevelopment of the Chapel Hill Police Station property (828 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.)."
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"Parking in Chapel Hill is already a stressful and difficult undertaking. But for the town’s disabled and low-income residents? It’s a nightmare."
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"Tenure is absolutely essential to higher education, not only to protect professors but to ensure classrooms that foster productive debates, and are free from external censorship. It’s pivotal for students, professors and their research and should not be abridged by attempts to control curriculum."
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"Recent abortion bans in the U.S. are not only dangerous to individuals in those states but take one more dangerous step toward threatening Roe. People should have the access and the choice to make health care decisions for themselves, and the weakening or overturning Roe would take away that access and that choice for many individuals."
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"It's time to legalize something that is already widely used for recreational and medical purposes, allowing for sales and distribution to be regulated rather than attempting to control actions through criminal offenses or civil fines."
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"We fell down a lot, and we also fought like hell to get back up. To get back to the good parts — the ones that make your heart feel light, right before the drop and the scream and the hands in the air."
Read More »"Politics have gotten in the way of doing the right thing for people in need. I’m a proud Tar Heel, and I’m even prouder to stand and work with fellow Tar Heels facing barriers that our state can and must solve."
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"It can feel like life or death sometimes, but at the end of the day, it’s not your job to fix all of the DTH’s issues. Take the best things you can from it and hold those experiences close — I know I will."
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"And it’s funny because even as I look back, lamenting some moments of struggle within the DTH, here I am almost a year later, wishing I could’ve contributed more."
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"And I do represent Carolina. I represent the one in three women that are sexually assaulted on this campus. I represent the intelligent young women who come into this institution to study and accomplish great work, only to be exorcized of all morale, their diplomas inked with pain and fear. I also represent the lucky ones; the women who barely come out of that pain alive."
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"UNC waiving the standardized testing requirement makes the application more equitable across socio-economic classes; however, with as much emphasis that has been put on the SATs and ACTs in the past, it is important that GPA and extracurriculars do not become a substitute."
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"Before I short-circuit my keyboard with my tears, it’s time to say farewell with my parting gift: my very own Office DJ playlist, in honor of all of the students I’ve had the privilege of working alongside in the last four years."
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"And lastly, a thank you to the DTH, for not only giving me a home, but for letting me chase my journalism dreams one more time. I don’t think I’ll know how much I’ll miss you until I’m gone."
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