After losing their final regular season series against Georgia Tech last weekend, the Tar Heels dropped a heartbreaker in game one of the ACC Tournament to the Pittsburgh Panthers Tuesday night, 5-3.
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The No. 6 UNC Men’s Golf team had their best finish in an NCAA regional in program history on Wednesday to tie for second place in the 2021 NCAA Men’s Golf Noblesville Regional and advance to the national championship round in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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As other institutions across the country announce that students must be fully vaccinated before they return, some UNC students have expressed frustration at the lack of a mandate at the University. "If we want the pandemic to end, it’s just logical to make it a requirement to show an immunization record for the COVID vaccine,” sophomore Sofia De Oliveira said.
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The Friends of Geer Cemetery aims to restore and preserve a historic Black cemetery tucked away in a Durham residential neighborhood. The organization is pioneering a new approach to cemetery care — one in which the community is responsible for care of the grounds and the people buried there.
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The Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward met Monday to discuss campus building renaming, the Board of Trustees' decision to not take action on approving Nikole Hannah-Jones’ tenure and projects regarding the Barbee-Hargraves Cemetery.
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On Tuesday, the ACC Baseball Tournament will return for the first time since 2019, where it will be played at Truist Field in Charlotte. But the reigning champion Tar Heels will have quite the road ahead of them if they want to repeat. The No. 6 seed Tar Heels will play No. 10 Pittsburgh on Tuesday and No. 3 seed NC State on Friday.
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In an open session, the Faculty Executive Committee discussed ways to request for the tenure case to be revisited by the Board. Mimi Chapman, chairperson of the faculty, said she also wanted members to consider next steps if their request is not positively received.
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A display honoring the Black Lives Matter movement outside of University United Methodist Church was knocked down sometime between the evening of Thursday, May 6 and the morning of Friday, May 7. While a restored version was put back on display by May 14, Rev. Justin Coleman voiced concern that the person or people who knocked down the door might be willing to do harm to people either verbally or physically.
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Gwendella Guinevere Clemons, an icon of advocacy and a longtime educator and leader, passed away on May 11 at the age of 86. “She inspired me to want to be better and to do better," former student Sherry Smith said. "She helped all students, but because of her roots, she gravitated to children of color and children who were economically deprived."
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With a win over Rutgers in the semifinal of the NCAA Tournament, North Carolina men's lacrosse advanced to a semifinal matchup with Virginia.
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People in North Carolina have shown support for Palestinians during the Israeli attacks, from protests in Raleigh to a statement signed by faculty from 23 colleges and universities across the state. “This has been inspiring to the Palestinians on the ground,” said Nadia Yaqub, a professor in the UNC Department of Asian and Middle Eastern studies. “To know in this very difficult time there are hundreds of people, just in one state, who care enough to sign a statement like this."
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UNC baseball lost its final regular season game against Georgia Tech in Atlanta, 10-6. Despite the loss to the ACC Coastal division leaders, UNC has greatly improved its stock as the team heads into ACC Tournament play.
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The BOT's decision was met with indignation among UNC students, staff and faculty. Hussman doctoral student Sophia Noor Kiser said she felt Hannah-Jones was very qualified for the position. “Nikole-Hannah Jones is a MacArthur Genius, a Pulitzer Prize winner and has changed the conversation around race in the U.S,” she said. “What more could you want?”
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UNC women's lacrosse survived Stony Brook with a 14-11 victory in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. With the win, the Tar Heels advanced to the Final Four where they’ll face ACC foe Boston College at Towson University on Friday.
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Instructor Katharine Henry set up an interactive experiment to help students in her class better understand the concept of NFTs this spring. The class created a collage and put it up for sale on two sites — one normal bidding site and one NFT site — in order to see the site where the art sold for a higher bid.
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"I’m not sure how I’m supposed to attend journalism classes next semester when I know that the opportunity to be taught by a Black journalist who is one of the most seminal writers of all time has been put on the line in the name of conservative politics and white feelings."
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UNC women's tennis lost 4-3 to Pepperdine in the NCAA semifinals, bringing the Tar Heels undefeated season to an end.
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UNC baseball lost game two of its final weekend series against Georgia Tech, falling 10-9 to even the series going into Saturday's finale.
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The North Carolina baseball team defeated Georgia Tech 3-2 in game one of the final weekend series of the regular season.
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UNC Student Body President Lamar Richards was sworn in as the sole student representative on the Board of Trustees on Thursday. Richards is the University’s first Black, gay student body president. The ceremony was administered by Cheri Beasley, former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, who was the first Black woman to serve as chief justice.
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