By Andrew Votipka I am a Resident Advisor, and as an RA I am required to go through RA training. This means I will first be taught about multiculturalism and then I will put my skills to the test by witnessing Interactive Theater Carolina. If you are a freshman, then presumably you saw this [...]
By Josh Groll At the conclusion of Albert Camus’ novel The Plague, the intrepid protagonist, Dr. Rieux, reflects on the jubilation of the citizens of Oran after having been liberated from the titular microbial menace. For Dr. Rieux, the atmosphere is bittersweet. Being a medical professional, Rieux knows that the plague bacillus can never be [...]
By Chase McDonough In my last article, entitled “Campus Architecture: the Worst of the Worst,” I promised another article reviewing the best architecture that our campus has to offer. Admittedly, I feared that this would be rather less interesting. Like the great historian Paul Johnson upon the completion of Intellectuals (a must read), I knew [...]
By Alexandra Macey An institution that seeks to foster a rich intellectual culture exudes hypocrisy when it deems books like Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals acceptable summer reading material. Foer’s book outlines the various dimensions of what exactly it means to “eat animals”— incoming students’ first taste of UNC leftist indoctrination. Combining personal testimony [...]
By Chase McDonough We have an absolutely beautiful campus. From our Bell Tower and Wilson Library to the wonders of North Campus such as Graham Memorial and the Morehead Planetarium, we have a wonderful Southern-style University. Of course there are a few blemishes to the otherwise gorgeous grounds. We, like most schools in this [...]
By Maegan Johnson The studia humanitatis emerged as a distinct philosophy of education in early Renaissance Italy. Although it shared with its medieval predecessors the tradition of classical education inherited from Greece and Rome, it differed sharply from them both in content and in intent. Rather than detached scholarship in specialized disciplines, it emphasized the [...]
