By: Marc Seelinger This whole tuition increase business has piqued my interest. I feel like as someone who will be totally unaffected by these proposed increases (being a senior and all), I can offer my opinion on the subject without being caught up in the hurricane of emotion that seems to have enveloped the issue. [...]
Defending Greek Turf: The Real Story Behind Fraternities and Sororities By Matt Oakes “Fraternities, then, seem to have a decidedly negative influence on university life.” This is what Duke Cheston, recent UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus and former Carolina Review writer, had to say in his September article for the John William Pope Center, entitled “The [...]
The Natural Law of Sex: Dr. Budzieszewski’s Talk and What It Means for Our Campus By Chase McDonough A day before the annual “Orgasm? Yes, Please” campus event, Dr. J. Budzieszewski of the University Texas-Austin proposed a very different approach to sex. There is no doubt that today’s college culture continues to blindly support [...]
Gender-Neutral Housing: Why the “Why” Matters By Kelsey Rupp On September 26th, UNC’s Student Congress voted in symbolic support of a “Gender Non-Specific Housing Proposal,” authored by Terri Phoenix, director for the UNC Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center, and sophomore Kevin Claybren. Student Body President Mary Cooper has already voiced the [...]
By Andrew Votipka It is my humble opinion (the correct opinion) that SafeWalk is a useless program. Like many programs at UNC, its mission statement and its actual practice are contrary, and surely not enough to justify paying staff every night. Each time I go past those guys and girls, they politely ask if [...]
By Carlie Sorosiak Nothing whets the appetite like a whiff of stale urine, right? Billy Scott, owner of the Front Porch on Franklin Street, evidently disagrees. On August 6, 2011, Scott, a resident of Chapel Hill for over 60 years, attempted to freshen the air surrounding his restaurant by removing a city-owned wooden bench. [...]
By Chase McDonough Over 25 years ago, a student ran up to Professor George Lensing on the quad and asked him a simple question: “Have you ever thought of offering some sort of great books program? I think a lot of students would enjoy it.” At the time, UNC was already in the midst [...]
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 Peter McClelland Former UNC radiology professor, Dr. Etta Pisano, is the founder of a UNC start-up company called NextRay, which produces a new type of scanner that could effectively create an x-ray image while only exposing the patient to 1% of the radiation involved in current x-ray scans. Such scans would be extremely [...]
By Kelsey Rupp Depending on which college guidebook you read and to whom you have spoken, Carolina is dominated by a number of different types of people, or, more accurately, cartoons. You might have heard that the men at Carolina wear those charmingly effeminate mint green or salmon-colored shorts while the women pair their [...]
