UNC baseball clinches series win over No. 2 UVA with 2-1 win
| 7:46pm
The Daily Tar Heel

Serving the students and the University community since 1893

46°F
Saturday February 27th

Maydha Devarajan

A shirt depicting an anti-confederate symbol is draped over a banister on the second flood of the Campus Y. The shirts were left there by a vandal who broke in over the weekend of Jan. 23-24, 2021. Yates McConnell
News

'Public display of division': Campus Y vandalized with anti-Semitic, racist symbols

By Cynthia Dong and Maydha Devarajan | Jan. 27

“Every object that was stolen or defaced can be replaced; but this vandalism goes deeper than property damage,” the Campus Y stated in a response on Tuesday. “It is a disturbing public display of division. While we are deeply saddened, we stand firmly in upholding the Y’s 161-year legacy as a space for students to unite, uplift, and act.”

Read More »
Mauricio Salazar-Saenz, Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics at UNC-Chapel Hill, sits at his desk for a virtual portrait on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020 from Medellin, Colombia. He is on a leave of absence for the Fall 2020 semester due to financial issues caused by the university's handling of international graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic and is using the time to conduct research from Colombia. Semanur Karayaka
News

International graduate assistants abroad face unemployment under new policy

By Maydha Devarajan | Sep. 23

A new University policy this semester mandated that graduate students needed to be physically present in the U.S. by Aug. 10 to serve as teaching or research assistants.  In an email statement, UNC Media Relations said over the past few months, the unprecedented suspension of visa services indicated that many graduate students wouldn’t be able to get visas in time for the start of the semester. Patricia A. McAnany, chairperson of the anthropology department, said her department does not have a large endowment, and determined that it was infeasible to support students outside of the country with a TA position. 

Read More »
Signs promoting social distancing and safety at the Die-In Protest on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020 as Jennifer Standish, a UNC graduate student in the Department of History, speaks outside of South Building on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The protest called for UNC to transition to fully remote classes for the Fall 2020 semester after a letter of caution sent to Chancellor Guskiewicz by the Orange County Health Director Quintana Stewart. Angelina Katsanis
News

UNC employees sue the University system over workplace safety

By Maydha Devarajan | Aug. 9

Gary Shipman, a Wilmington-based lawyer, is representing UNC System faculty and staff in the midst of preparing a class-action lawsuit to delay in-person classes. In a response to Shipman, NCDOL General Counsel Jill F. Cramer and Deputy Commissioner of Labor Kevin Beauregard acknowledged the concerns of faculty and staff members. However, they stated it is the responsibility of the UNC System to develop policies and plans that reduce the risk of exposure of contracting COVID-19 — not the department. 

Read More »

More articles »

Carrie Young, Ackland Art Museum's public programs intern, reads aloud during a live Zoom "Storytime" that was inspired by the Ackland’s current exhibition, "Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love" on Sunday, May 31, 2020. Maydha Devarajan
News

20200601_Ackland.png

By Maydha Devarajan | Jun. 1

Carrie Young, Ackland Art Museum's public programs intern, reads aloud during a live Zoom "Storytime" that was inspired by the Ackland’s current exhibition, "Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love" on Sunday, May 31, 2020.

More media »

Latest Print Edition

Print Edition Print Archive

Black History Month Edition

Special Print Edition

Games & Horoscopes

Print Edition Games Archive