If the opinions I signed onto this year had prevailed, Ian Lee would have been elected student body president.
There are a lot of reasons to be in Chapel Hill after May: summer school, work or simply living out a lease.
When today’s college students began school, there was hardly any technology in the classroom. By the time we graduated from high school, it was ubiquitous.
_The Interview is an opinion page feature of reflections on extended talks with people who affect our community, written by members of the editorial board.
Deanna Santoro’s surprise resignation Monday morning from her role as speaker of Student Congress marks only the beginning of her effort to send shock waves through student government.
The Year in Review issue is perennially one of our paper’s most important. I’m not saying that because I get paid to work here. I say it because it’s a chance to actually look at the big picture of what happened around us these past 365 days.
It has already been quite a year — but we are only halfway through it. And anyone who follows the opinion page was front and center as the issues unfolded. From the football team to the Academic Plan, the editorial board has weighed in on the big issues and continuously covered them as they unfolded.
Before we even begin the formal interview, B.J. Lawson is knee-deep into a discussion on the financial crisis — discussing credit derivatives and mortgage-backed securities. His detailed grasp of the issues contradicts what might be the most prominent criticism of him: that he is just an angry Tea Party supporter. Lawson says that he is running in 2010 for the same reasons he ran in 2008 — he is concerned about the direction of the country. More specifically, there are four things he explicitly identifies: jobs, the economy, health care and trust in government.
As a meeting of the Honor Court ended late Thursday, a reporter for The Daily Tar Heel was asked to leave the premises of the Student and Academic Services Building — a public space he had a right to be in.
The opinion page of The Daily Tar Heel plays a distinct role in the life of the University. Every year feels like a fresh start. For some, it is the beginning of college and some of the best years of their life.
