Column: Behind The Daily Tar Heel's website relaunch
"As our first newspapers of the academic year sit in blue boxes around campus and the community, I’m excited to tell you that our new website is live."
"As our first newspapers of the academic year sit in blue boxes around campus and the community, I’m excited to tell you that our new website is live."
So, you’re a new student and you don’t have — or don’t want — a car, but you need to get places. Luckily for you, the Triangle has a robust bus network. Here's what you need to know to get around.
"When I stepped foot on campus, I immediately recognized the profound contrast from my high school environment."
"The USWNT’s failure to secure another title can easily be written off as a massive coaching failure and a wavering team dynamic, but we’re missing an important variable here. We are not giving the United States’ opponents, and all of the other teams in the tournament, enough credit."
"Together, this playlist encapsulates a summer's worth of muggy afternoons, walks around campus, rounds of Geoguessr and whiteboard drawings. Every time I get nostalgic about slideshow nights, beer cheese or arguments about Filet-o-Fishes, I know this playlist will bring me right back to summer at The Daily Tar Heel."
"We're students whose writing and editing and designing and photographing makes up one of the best student newspapers in the country, and the main print newspaper remaining in Orange County. And we hope to lay the foundations for the next generation of news. So, yeah – support student journalism."
"I am not the first person to share this advice, nor will I be the last. Moving into your first college dorm room is a formative experience in your young adult life and I’m here to make sure you have everything you need to be a full-time Tar Heel."
"Let's be very clear — making friends sucks. It does. You have to be vulnerable. You have to be nice. You have to give a little to get a little. I've never been a big fan of any of that."
"I’ve grown pretty tired of Chapel Hill. After all, I have gone to elementary, middle, high school and college here. Despite this, I think I’ve gotten around to making Chapel Hill my home. And I hope you make it yours too. "
"These are the songs that I always come back to that remind me of Carolina, whether it’s driving down Highway 54, taping memories to the walls of my first dorm room or laying on the quad."
"The very structure of The Daily Tar Heel makes it hard to actually be part of this newsroom if you don’t have the financial stability to handle below-average pay for the sake of altruistic, hard-earned journalism experience. I can count on one hand the amount of DTH editors over my two years that could relate to my situation."
"To all my DTH friends and family, thank you for being a part of my neighborhood."
"Now more than ever, the mission of women’s magazines is to highlight overlooked issues in society and break barriers while doing so."
"The time I spent in the newsroom all these days, weeks and lives wasn’t just for the paper. It was for them. I was spending time with my friends. With my family."
"And while some days in news — well, actually a lot of days — are long and tiresome, working with many talented and wonderful people at the DTH has given me hope for the future of journalism and the world."
"I love the DTH so much that I wanted to let it break me. If we’re being honest, I might have let it do that already."
"I’m the first to leave every party I go to. My bed and I have a passionate affair that I refuse to cut short in the name of social graces. I always know when to say my goodbyes. And while I’m not a senior, it’s time I say goodbye to The Daily Tar Heel."
"The Daily Tar Heel has made me endlessly grateful for mornings. The 3 a.m. variety. "
"So, when the opportunity arose, I applied to become the diversity, equity and inclusion chairperson at the paper. I didn’t seek the position assuming I could rewrite the DTH’s legacy in one to two years. (After all, it is the campus paper of a University built by slaves.) Instead, I sought the position because I felt like I would at least be honest with the newsroom about its issues, if nothing else."
"When I connect with people — especially in the journalism world — I find those connections unbreakable. There’s some special sauce that we all share that makes us crazy enough to enjoy working insane hours and Slacking during class – and I think that sauce is delicious."