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Testing diversity by nixing race

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Three years ago, the NAACP buried the N-word. The word isn’t as forgotten as Middle English, but it did seem to alleviate some racial tension. Yet I don’t think we should focus our efforts on a genocide of racial epithets. What I think this country is ready for is not giving attention to racial rhetoric as we seem to do, ripping people for the slightest racial faux pas, but rather a scenario without the concept of race (represented as skin color as it often is) altogether.




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The DTH's decision to sue the University is asinine

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TO THE EDITOR: While the DTH may have separated itself financially in 1993, the notion that the DTH is not beholden to the University is completely bogus. The writers and staffers are largely students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and they represent the University just as any other student would.


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Hinson Neville is calling things as he sees them

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TO THE EDITOR: In response to David Alexandre’s letter “‘Freshman Perspective’ columnist is out of touch,” (Nov. 8) I must disagree. I feel that he entirely missed the point of all of Hinson Neville’s columns, which is clearly to give an account of how things appear your first semester on campus.



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What's in a name? A lot more than ever before

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TO THE EDITOR: Today, a name is not just a name. It is the gateway to a person’s online image, a key component of one’s personal brand. If you’re looking for a job or interested in building a successful career, then you must pay attention to the results of a Google search on your name.





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The population we can all hate

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In the quaint little town of Chapel Hill, nestled in the bucolic milieu, is a population of millions that are oft neglected, or at least until they cause a commotion. They roam freely in the lounges, the bathrooms, the classrooms, the dining halls — they are everywhere. They don’t pay tuition or taxes or dues of any sort. Their only contribution to society is the misery they evoke.


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Irrelevant regulation: Formal autonomy for the CAA is long overdue

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At its meeting tonight, Student Congress will consider “a bill to provide greater autonomy to the Carolina Athletic Association.” We believe they should pass it. Under Title VII of the Student Code, CAA cabinet appointments are subject to the approval of the rules and judiciary committee. This might have made sense in the past when Congress and the CAA worked more closely together. But now, that is no longer the case.





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Shedding light on the nature of light

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As a student of physics, I’ve noticed that a lot of times, it’s helpful to think of certain difficult concepts in terms of simple things with which I’m already somewhat familiar. For example, I sometimes think of electrical circuits as water flowing through a series of little pipes. In this analogy, pumps represent batteries, water flowing past a certain point represents electrical current and some sort of obstacle that impedes the flow is a resistor.


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Antoine Dodson making the best of tough situation

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TO THE EDITOR: On Nov. 3, a student wrote a letter (“?‘Bed Intruder Song’ makes light of sexual assault”) claiming the “Bed Intruder” YouTube video is offensive in that it makes light of the issue of rape and sexual assault. This was in response to an Antoine Dodson costume seen on Franklin Street on Halloween.