An incoming student's guide to getting tickets to sports events at UNC
By JC Leser | Jun. 30Securing your ticket to a game is paramount for the overall sports experience at UNC, and here's how to do so.
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Securing your ticket to a game is paramount for the overall sports experience at UNC, and here's how to do so.
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As a first-year student, it can be difficult to occupy your weekends since you won’t be very familiar with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area yet. Here are some fun ways to spend your days off.
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Many faculty of color are leaving UNC following the Board of Trustees’ initial decision to not offer tenure to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. For many, the breaking point came before they knew Hannah-Jones might teach at UNC.
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"This has been a long and disconcerting year of pandemic, social strife, partisanship and personal loss. It is also a year when we have come together to stand for the ideals that originated this university."
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"By advocating to double Pell, Senator Richard Burr can invest in the future: current and prospective low and middle-income students who depend on financial aid to enroll in higher education would be able to do so without being a burden to their families. Additionally, more students could obtain college degrees and have a chance at financial mobility with much less debt."
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The marathon's initial goal was $10,000, but Bush and Maynard agreed to raise it to $15,000 after overwhelming support. Maynard completed 126 holes despite having an initial goal of 99 and was supported throughout the round by friends and other players alike. He shot fifteen under across his first seven rounds on the day.
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Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser will retire from UNC at the end of June. He has served as the interim executive and artistic director at Carolina Performing Arts since 2019. An anonymous donor recently gave CPA a $3 million gift in honor of Moeser and his wife, Susan.
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The Board will hold a vote on Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure case this week, according to NC Policy Watch. The vote will be officially announced on Monday morning.
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The Library, a bar and club on Franklin Street, was denied a lease renewal and announced it will be closing after 18 years in order to make space for a national brand. "It is very difficult to own a business on Franklin Street," owner AJ Tama said. "It's very hard to maintain a high overhead and high rental rate. All these people who've had their businesses close, it's disappointing."
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When Chris Miltenberg left Stanford to become the director of track and field at UNC, Thomas Ratcliffe followed him across the country to finish his final year of eligibility. After facing much adversity throughout his college career at Stanford and fifth year at UNC, Miltenberg has been by Ratcliffe's side through it all.
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On Friday, UNC's Black Student Movement held a protest outside of Wilson Library in support of Nikole Hannah-Jones. UNC Student Body President Lamar Richards spoke at the event. Richards said he supported the demonstration and was displeased with the decision not to grant Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure. "They say Trustees aren't supposed to talk, aren't supposed to speak out," he said. "But I was elected by a population of 30,000 students to represent them, and I'm going to do that."
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"Day in and day out Jill Shippee has put her head down, worked, grinded, battled back from some injuries and has always been a good competitor," Daniel McArthur said. "She competed at NCAAs and found herself in third place, and that's just a testament to how our coaches have prepped our team and taught us how to be successful athletes when it matters.”
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Carrboro Town Council member and Mayor Pro Tem Barbara Foushee announced her bid for reelection on June 12. She began her term in 2017 and spent the first two years in office as the board liaison to the Human Services Advisory Board, the Affordable Housing Advisory Commission, the Planning Board and the Intergovernmental Parks Work Group.
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Corey Root is the new director for the Orange County Housing and Community Development Department. "Corey is absolutely focused on trying to balance this out so that we make sure that housing is a right and housing is available for everybody," Criminal Justice Resource Director Caitlin Fenhagen said.
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On July 1, Patricia Parker will enter her role as the director of the Institute of the Arts and Humanities. Parker will be the first Black woman to enter this role. Parker said she is looking forward to the ways that she can serve the UNC community. "I just see it as a distinct honor for me to lead the IAH at this time at this critical time in our nation's history," said Parker. "And I don't take that responsibility lightly."
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Many UNC academic departments, organizations and affiliates have written statements of support for Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Daily Tar Heel compiled the following departmental statements using their respective websites and public social media posts.
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On June 23, the Committee on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure released a statement calling the BOT to offer Nikole Hannah-Jones a tenured position at the University. “Every day that this case hangs in limbo is another day that damage is being done to this University that we all cherish,” the statement read.
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UNC a cappella groups reflect on operating during a pandemic, and look ahead to in-person events next year. President of UNC Cadence, Yolanda Simpson, said she was disappointed that her group was unable to collaborate with other UNC a cappella groups during the pandemic. She said the interpersonal connections between a cappella groups come from collaborating and having events together.
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All nine justices sided with Shawne Alston, the lead plaintiff in the case and a former football player at the University of West Virginia, who argued that the NCAA's caps on education-related benefits violated federal antitrust laws. What makes this case particularly compelling, though, is that it could open the door for challenges to the NCAA rule that prohibits college athletes from being paid.
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In the fall, UNC students who are vaccinated will not be required to participate in asymptotic testing. Dr. Amir Barzin, the medical director of the Family Medicine Center & UNC Urgent Care at the Family Medicine Center, said UNC made the decision based on CDC recommendations and based on data from the spring.
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