Column: Panera's 'Charged Lemonade' calls into question energy drink culture

By Franklin Payne | November 12

"What could be more convincing to become hooked on energy drinks than to make them highly available on campus and sell them as a necessity for academic success? These companies know their audience. While these drinks may be sold as silver bullets to many daily problems, the overconsumption of them leads to worse health outcomes."

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Editorial: Redistricting cannot mean gerrymandering

By Editorial Board | November 12

"Gerrymandering allows representatives to choose who their voters, which effectively creates a government that is neither by nor for the people."

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Op-ed: UNC faculty, graduate students and staff call for ceasefire

November 9

"We, the undersigned faculty, staff, and graduate students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are writing to join the widespread calls for an immediate ceasefire"

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A letter from the editors on submissions received about the Israel-Gaza war

By Emmy Martin and Le Ha | November 8

"We welcome input from everyone, and value the range of opinions and lively discourse in the opinion section of our paper and website. We reserve the right, however, to reject submissions that do not meet our editorial standards. While some readers may find language used in op-eds surprising, we believe it is crucial to accurately represent the voices within our community."

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Op-ed: UNC SJP responds to hostile campus climate and anti-Palestinian racism

November 8

"We call on the whole UNC community to stand in solidarity with Palestinians against this ongoing genocide."

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Op-ed: An open letter to my fellow Tar Heels

November 8

"I’m not asking you to support Israel, but I am asking you to care about your Jewish peers."

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Op-ed: No place for hate

November 8

"The line between animated public discourse and hate speech can sometimes be difficult to identify, especially when participants in that discourse understandably feel anger, fear and an urgent need to support their local and global communities."

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Op-ed: I loved Hillel. I thought it loved me back

November 7

"You can't have it both ways, Hillel. Either you're a home for all Jewish students, including those of us who support Palestine, or you're a Zionist organization."

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Column: Mike Johnson is not the House Speaker we need

By Katelin Harmon | November 7

"However, Johnson’s policy plans seem amoral in themselves. Some of his biggest, most threatening takes are rooted in a significant cut in federal funding for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and children's health coverage." 

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Op-ed: How to vote in Orange County and find a polling place

November 6

"If you are registered to vote in Orange County and did not early vote for Tuesday’s local elections, check your voter registration at  https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/ (or go to ncsbe.gov and navigate to Popular Topics > voter search.)"

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Column: Is 'homeless' the right word?

By Brigit Pierce | November 5

'We need to shift toward language that describes the situation and include people experiencing homelessness in the conversation. Because our word choice matters, but the people matter more.'

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Column: Job interviews are new and not so improved

By Maddie Whitaker | November 5

"When I consulted friends for advice on how to perform best in these interviews, I found out they also had been introduced to interviews using AI." 

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Satire: Stop funding the humanities

By Spence Whitman | November 5

"Recently, the Board of Governors approved a new policy for the state budget that non-STEM professors in the UNC System can no longer receive distinguished professorships. These awards give them a pay raise and a funding boost for research. From now on, only professors in STEM departments will be up for the coveted spots. Quite frankly, I don’t know why people are surprised and upset over the news."

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Column: Future LSAT changes cause concerns for some prospective law students

By Eleanor Goldstein | November 2

"As a current student looking to take the LSAT exam, worrying about the exam is nothing new. What is most worrisome is that one of the most learnable aspects of the exam is gone. "

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Satire: How to get your dream schedule on ConnectCarolina

By Katelin Harmon | October 30

"It looks like you still have 50 general education requirements left; It's almost like they keep adding new ones every year. Before you know it, you’re talked into changing your pre-med track to an English major with a creative writing concentration. It looks like you’ll graduate only five years after you intended!"

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Column: Normalize politicians retiring from office

By Dayna Wilkerson | October 30

"Elected politicians should be held to the same expectations as the rest of us — the average retirement age in the U.S. is about 64, and more than half of our senators exceed this age. This should not be the case, and isn't normal in most jobs."

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COLUMN: This Halloween, Barbie is just like other girls

By Emma Culley | October 29

"When deciding what to be for Halloween, I’ve felt like I either have to look super sexy or be super unique, which is an experience I’m sure many others share. Ultimately, it felt like choosing a costume came down to how I thought others would perceive me."  

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Column: The multi-faceted glamour of Halloween

By Sarayu Thondapu | October 29

"The allure of a brand-new costume is hard to resist, but the consequences of buying something new every year, just to wear one time, has a great toll on the environment around us — even if we may not live to see it."

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Column: How you can survive the sophomore slump, too

By Shea McIntyre | October 27

"Candidly, I never thought I would say goodbye to the honeymoon phase of college. I had to acknowledge some good things may not stay the same, but there's also still so much good to come."

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Column: Film industry must focus on quality, not profit

By Connor Foote | October 27

"In recent years, instead of quality screenplays being supported and selected for production, more emphasis has put on things already familiar to a wider population, whether it be childhood toys, or live-action remakes of well-loved cartoons. This should not be how it is. "

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