How students get caught up in the U.S.-China trade war
By Cynthia Dong | Sep. 9, 2019As tensions rise between the US and China over trade, international students find themselves caught in the middle of the two superpowers.
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As tensions rise between the US and China over trade, international students find themselves caught in the middle of the two superpowers.
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As an attempt to make sure the athletics attendance policy is being upheld by student-athletes, new beacon technology has been installed in classrooms throughout the University. The purpose of the beacons are to communicate with mobile devices to ensure that the athletes are attending class and in class for the duration of the period. Though the technology is promised by its distributing organization to be non-invasive and that the software lacks tracking capabilities outside of the classroom; some UNC professors are concerned that the technology poses a privacy threat and surveils student-athletes, with the potential to spread into further supervision of student whereabouts.
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A rise in Confederate-based demonstrations led to the creation of a text message alert system by community activists. As implications of hostility toward anti-Silent Sam activists continue from pro-Confederates outside of Chapel Hill, the new alert system has accrued around 950 subscribers in two weeks.
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Since last July, eleven stores and restaurants in downtown Chapel Hill have closed their doors. Is lack of parking the culprit? Parking in downtown Chapel Hill is an issue that community members and business owners alike have felt. Shops on Franklin Street need parking for their employees, but also for patrons who cannot walk from one place to another. Some businesses even find that passersby go elsewhere where parking is more convenient, thereby driving away local business traffic. A few newer solutions popped up, like Park on the Hill, which attempt to maximize parking availability. But dissatisfaction is still high.
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Graduate students have been at the helm of campus protests at UNC since the 1960s, from George Vlasits, an anti-Vietnam War protester in the 1960s, to Maya Little, a current UNC graduate student of history who faced Honor Court and criminal charges for staining Silent Sam with red ink and her own blood last April. We took a closer look at why that is.
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As an unprecedented epidemic of opioid use and overprescription is rippling throughout the United States, UNC's Department of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine is tasked with training future physicians proper prescription practices.
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In Hickory, there were four opioid-related fatal overdoses last year. With a population estimate of 40,274, this number seems small, especially considering larger cities in the state like Wilmington, which had 32 opioid-related deaths last year.
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When Alexander Smith peered through the plexiglass window of his jail cell into his father’s eyes, he saw the destruction he’d caused. Smith’s addiction to opioids – from prescription pills to heroin – had pained his father for years. Smith finally felt that pain for himself. But his moment of reckoning was gone as soon as he got into the car with his father, who bailed him out. Smith reached for his phone to find the nearest dealer. The addiction had taken over again, and he was powerless.
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On Friday, The Dear Colleague Letter, which guided the enforcement of Title IX policies at universities across the country, came to an end — changing the guidelines for how schools can adjudicate sexual assault cases.
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Though Mark Dorosin, managing attorney at the Center, might lose his job on Friday, he is more worried about what’s at stake if the center closes, and what will happen to the communities who would no longer be able to call the Center for Civil Rights an ally.
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There is light in the darkest of places. If she’d had a pen, 28-year-old Baity Hill resident Lauren Talmor would have left a note with those words for Victor Oluwasegva when she saw him a few days after his 5-year-old son was killed.
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Junior Lilli Mercho made sure to lock the doors of her home on East Longview Street in Chapel Hill — but that didn’t stop burglars from breaking into her home last summer.
Read More »The conversation surrounding charter schools has piqued national attention in recent months with the confirmation of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her support of them.
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Though UNC ranks among the highest of its peer institutions in terms of diversity, many still see room for improvement in the percentage of faculty of color, female faculty and LGBTQ faculty.
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The first thing Lisa Anthony does when someone new arrives at the Inter-Faith Council Community House is offer a tour of the place.
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The 2.9 million of January’s Women’s March were a part of the largest protest in history. This month’s HKonJ had its highest attendance ever.
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Nearly two weeks have passed since President Donald Trump issued executive orders restricting immigration and the entry of refugees from seven majority-Muslim nations, and North Carolinians and advocacy organizations are charting their next steps.
Read More »Few hazing reports against Greek organizations result in disciplinary action for the offending group, according to information collected by the University.
Read More »Seven out of 10 sexual assaults are committed by someone known to the victim according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN). A relative. A spouse. A date.
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Tune into any TV broadcast of a UNC home football or basketball game, and you might recognize the curly-haired, oft-painted superfan spearheading the screaming student section.
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