A proposed catalog merge between the Orange County and Chapel Hill town library systems will make library use more convenient and efficient for Orange County residents.Currently, residents who frequent both Orange County public libraries and Chapel Hill town libraries need two cards to check out books.
Read More »The move to Microsoft Exchange for faculty and staff will bring messaging and calendaring management for UNC employees into the 21st century.The current system is inefficient and utilizes disparate systems that are difficult to sync with devices.
Read More »When the UNC Board of Governors reviews the 2006 tuition plan, it must ensure that tuition protections are awarded to all students within the system. The protection should come in the form of a commitment to a percentage ceiling for tuition increases for all students — regardless of residency.
Read More »In our current economic crisis, college students are more concerned than ever about their degrees’ value in a competitive job market. It takes a sort of stubbornness these days to decide to be an English, history or romance languages major, as students in these fields are forced ad nauseam to answer the elusive question “What will you do with that?”
Read More »SpringThumbs upIt was a cold and dark winter. But we braved through it and now, as of March 20, spring is officially here. Now we just have to get through six weeks of an inappropriate amount of upper man-thigh. Time WarnerThumbs down
Read More »Student Congress has no business altering the behaviors of campus publications. But a proposed bill in Congress would do just that.Congress members should vote down bill 91-125, “A Bill to Incentivize Web Publishing.”
Read More »As the U.S. House of Representatives passed what is being touted as a historic landmark for health insurance reform Sunday, another reform was included that will have a far larger benefit for college students.
Read More »Relations between the United States and Russia have been rocky since the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War and the opening of Eastern Europe to democracy and regime change.
Read More »It is a rare occasion when Duke should be supported. But their students’ efforts to provide gender-neutral rooming are a laudable attempt against antiquated policies.
Read More »Student Congress produced some well-written bills this legislative cycle.While we’re not on board with all of them, there are two bills Congress members should definitely pass Tuesday.
Read More »Correction ( March 22 11:41 p.m.): Due to an editing error in this editorial, the editorial board incorrectly states that more than a quarter of the wells were malfunctioning. A quarter of the septic tanks were malfunctioning. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.
Read More »My senior year of college, the student newspaper announced that a new Web site called “thefacebook.com” was open to our campus community.With a few clicks of a mouse, I became part of the first 50,000 users — now only a small drop in the 400 million-person networking tsunami that exists today.
Read More »Get counted. Census Day is April 1, and students who live off campus need to fill out their census questionnaires.Students who live on campus don’t need to worry about filling out census questionnaires. Rick Bradley, an assistant director at the Department of Housing and Residential Education, said the housing department takes care of the census data for on-campus students.
Read More »Gov. Bev Perdue’s initiative to support North Carolina-based businesses by giving them an advantage when bidding on state government contracts is a great way to sustain a positive rate of growth, particularly during trying economic times.
Read More »We got a visit Thursday night from a few dozen people who delivered letters and a petition asking The Daily Tar Heel to change its style guide.They would like to see us use the word “chair” instead of “chairman” or “chairwoman,” and “upper-level student” instead of “upperclassman,” in order to be more inclusive.
Read More »Peace is not to be without noise, trouble or hard work. It is to be among all of those and to remain calm in your heart. That concept acknowledges the difficulty and the beauty in building relationships between groups with a tumultuous history.
Read More »The archaic image of a public school administrator using a paddle to discipline a student might seem like a relic of the past that has thankfully been done away with.But in North Carolina, the practice of corporal punishment still exists in many school districts.
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