It wasn’t long after Mark Yusko arrived in Chapel Hill in 1998 with big ideas about how to revitalize UNC-Chapel Hill’s slumping endowment that he met the brick wall of administrative bureaucracy.
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If anyone should be happy about chancellors quitting after just years on the job, it’s William Funk.
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Graphic: The consequences of drugs and alcohol
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For alumna Judy Bistany South, the worst consequence of drinking in the late 1960s was getting banned from University Lake
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With final exams on the horizon, some students will be looking for an extra advantage over their classmates. For many, the academic edge will come with a pill bottle and a price tag.
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During the day, Jimmy “Moe” Penny prepared dishes at K&W Cafeteria in a neatly pressed cook’s apron.
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Simon Lee was relaxing on a bench outside Chapel Hill High School’s library. He says he wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary — he was gossiping, joking with friends before his free period. Nothing he should have been disciplined for.
Read More »As police bias becomes better documented by the U.S. Department of Justice and other agencies, experts and activists are developing research projects and providing resources that better address the faults of the justice system. The following is a roundup of some of that work.
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So far, Jose has defied the odds.
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Sometimes, I wish our readers could be in the office when we’re making our decisions.
Read More »The label of “Asian-American” fails to encapsulate the diversity of the groups it is supposed to represent. As a result, we have been represented as a monolithic group of quiet, hardworking people, which serves to keep us wedged somewhere between other groups of color.
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A Chapel Hill business owner is challenging the massive power of the N.C. Alcohol Beverage Control Commission — a group that marks up the cost of liquor by more than 80 percent.
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Every day in Top of Lenoir, hundreds of students line up at the conveyor belt to drop off plates piled high with unwanted pizza crusts, rejected pot roast and the last few bites of lima beans.
Read More »As part of The Daily Tar Heel's Projects and Investigations Team's Food Issue, Senior Writer Caroline Leland spoke to Jonathan Bloom, the award-winning author of "American Wasteland." The book chronicles the ways in which Americans waste food between the farms it's raised on and the plates it's eaten off of. Bloom offered insight into the University's responsibility to prevent food waste and why it's important to conserve.
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Restaurant inspections have long revealed the dirtier side of the food industry, including the restaurants frequented by residents of Chapel Hill.
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It’s about a three-hour drive to the nearest coastline from Chapel Hill — 162 miles to Wilmington, 178 miles to Atlantic Beach and longer to get to other seafood hotspots on the Outer Banks.
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The debt Carolina Dining Services has sitting on its books is unusual for a University of its size, but that hasn’t stopped administrators from crafting plans to further renovate Lenoir Dining Hall.
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