Editorial: Knock off the gerrymandering, North Carolina
To ensure the integrity and fairness of our elections, North Carolina must institute an independent redistricting commission.
Column: Dear NCGOP: Stop using teachers as pawns
As government parties argue over the North Carolina state budget, teachers across the state have held walk-ins to raise awareness about the real-life issues surrounding their insufficient salaries.
Column: Male cheerleaders, take off your clothes!
So please, male cheerleaders, take off your clothes!
Op-ed: Down with professional Twitter! Just kidding...Unless?
"We need to normalize the reality that we are multidimensional. Our interests and jokes don’t always align with our 9-5’s, and that’s okay! Down with the separate accounts!!"
Column: Like a virgin
"The whole concept of virginity, although entrenched in our culture, religion and education, needs a serious makeover. Like, let’s Queer Eye that shit."
Viewpoints: Keep the CFB postseason weird
Expanding the playoffs will inevitably ruin college football’s regular season, by both shortening the season and diminishing the importance of weekly games.
Viewpoints: Expand the bracket
Someone has to eventually get tired of watching Alabama or Clemson play in the national championship for college football, right?
Editorial: The interim University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"That’s right, folks — that succulent on your windowsill might outlast the current UNC faculty. Hell, even Chad from Theta Apple Pi would probably last longer than the UNC administration."
Editorial: Students deserve a bigger seat at the table in the chancellor search
"The University shouldn’t be surprised if students object when the new chancellor is named — especially since students were barely given a say in the first place. It’s a simple fix, really: just give students more of a say and it’ll make life easier for us all."
Column: Reckoning with myself
"The road to self-acceptance is a long one. In fact, I’m not sure if it ever really ends. The only thing I do know is this: my struggles explain me, but they don’t define me. And I think I’m OK with that."
Editorial: We don't want the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in North Carolina
"The governor made a mistake in approving the first pipeline, which was made more clear when his administration disapproved of the second. Let’s hope he recognizes his mistake, listens to activists and changes his mind for the environmental future of North Carolina. We don't want the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in our state."
Editorial: Your privacy is worth 47 cents to the College Board
The potential for inequity is immeasurable, but at least we can remain assured that our names are equally worth a hefty 47 cents each.
Editorial: OK, Boomers
"In the wake of the recent "OK, Boomer" meme storm that has torn through the internet, some publications have adopted an overly-serious tone in deconstructing the importance of 'constructive intergenerational dialogue.'"
Column: UNC study finds that pain care inequity persists
If we care about the health of this country, we have to address the underserved populations. We have to target these gaps in medicine with actionable change.
Column: Inescapable misogyny
The culture of these sites threatens to reverse whatever progress we’ve made in the past fifty years promoting sexual agency and reducing the shame and stigma of female sexuality. Personally, that’s not really a path I want to go down. Do you?
