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BREAKING: One week into the semester, UNC-Chapel Hill announces that it is transitioning all undergraduate classes to fully online instruction, effective Wednesday.
Story to come. Check this thread soon.
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Happening Now: 40-60 individuals in Spider-Man costumes have been spotted roaming areas across campus and in Chapel Hill. This is a developing story.
Video courtesy of:
@hannaherinlang
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Documents obtained by The Daily Tar Heel show that before UNC announced its reopening plan, the administration received early warning messages from top medical professionals at the University predicting outbreaks of COVID-19 on campus.
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BREAKING: The Board of Trustees has voted 9-4 to approve Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure application.
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BREAKING: The University has updated its COVID-19 dashboard to show a 31.3 percent positivity rate last week. This is more than double the previous week's positivity rate. Story to come.
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The
#FrontPage
of The Daily Tar Heel's Final Four victory paper: "Defeating doubt together"
The special edition will release tomorrow.
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BREAKING: UNC men's basketball assistant coach Hubert Davis will replace Roy Williams as head coach, according to the News & Observer.
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@hannaherinlang
At around 10:00 p.m. the Spider-Men were spotted at Davis Library.
@UNCLibrary
Video courtesy of:
@bg_keyes
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The decision comes after the University's COVID-19 positivity rate rose from 2.8 percent to 13.6 percent last week.
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BREAKING: UNC students and community members have begun a tent encampment on Polk Place this morning, joining the pro-Palestine encampments happening at universities across the country.
This is
@emmymrtin
with live updates.
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BREAKING: UNC reports another cluster at Hinton James Residence Hall via Alert Carolina. This is the fourth cluster reported in the past three days. This is a developing story.
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EDITORIAL: "Clusterfuck (n) : a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation."
Via
@DTHOpinion
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BREAKING: N.C. Supreme Court requires UNC to release disciplinary records of students who violated the University's sexual assault policies. Decision came from a lawsuit filed by The Daily Tar Heel and other media outlets. Story to come.
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BREAKING: Nikole Hannah-Jones will not be coming to UNC in the fall, she told "CBS This Morning." Instead, she will go to Howard University. Story to come.
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YouTube star
@TylerOakley
just visited the quad to preach early voting (and Lady Gaga's new album).
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The
#FrontPage
of The Daily Tar Heel’s 2022 Victory Paper: “Devils, Damned."
Pick up your commemorative special edition at the DTH office or on campus tomorrow.
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Protesters link arms around Silent Sam while chanting.
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Can confirm we’ve made more than 24
Make sure to pick up your copy of The Daily Tar Hell today!
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BREAKING: UNC Board of Trustees votes to lift the moratorium on renaming campus buildings. Story to come.
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BREAKING: UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees votes to remove four names from UNC campus buildings: Charles Aycock, Josephus Daniels, Julian Carr and Thomas Ruffin Sr. Story to come.
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BREAKING: UNC has released its weekly COVID-19 dashboard update.
The dashboard now shows 135 new confirmed cases within the past week (324 cases total) and only four available rooms in the quarantine dorm remaining.
Check back soon for the full story.
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BREAKING: The University is allowing undergraduate students the option to declare Fall 2020 classes pass/fail, according to the Office of the University Registrar.
Check this thread soon for updates.
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BREAKING: Carolina Housing reported two COVID-19 clusters today: one at Granville Towers and one at Ehringhaus Residence Hall.
This is a developing story - check back here soon for more details.
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BREAKING: Linda's Bar and Grill, which announced a permanent closure earlier this week, will not be shutting down for good. Linda Williams, the restaurant's founder and the owner of the building, and her daughter Kim Scott are working to find a new owner.
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BREAKING: An armed and dangerous person is on or near UNC's campus, police report.
All students, faculty and staff are advised to go inside immediately, close windows and doors, stay until further notice and follow directions from emergency responders and officials.
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Thousands have gathered at the vigil as officials and victims' family members speak.
#ChapelHillShooting
.
http://t.co/aMFvV2ZCH7
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BREAKING: Lee Roberts will be UNC’s interim chancellor, beginning Jan. 12. Roberts is on the UNC Board of Governors and worked as state budget director under Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. He has no professional administrative experience in higher education.
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Junior Justin Jackson was named the 2017 ACC Player of the Year today.
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BREAKING: Gov. Roy Cooper has announced that North Carolina will remain in Phase 2 until Sept. 11. Story to come.
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BREAKING: Former Chancellor Carol Folt has been selected as the president of the University of Southern California, according to the LA Times. Updates to come.
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The UNC Young Democrats have announced that 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke will be coming to UNC on April 15. More details to come.
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BREAKING: Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz announces in Board of Trustees meeting that UNC's fall semester will begin Aug. 10 and final exams will end two days before Thanksgiving. Story to come.
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🏆 UNC field hockey won the NCAA title in an overtime shootout on Sunday — its fifth national title in six years and 11th in program history.
The Daily Tar Heel will release a special edition on Monday to commemorate the win. Here's how to get your copy:
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Laney Crawley will serve as the 2024-25 editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel — the first-ever Black woman selected for the position. Her platform includes addressing editor burnout and repairing connections with the Black Student Movement.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: In light of recent events at UNC, The Daily Tar Heel will be operating on a reduced schedule this week to allow our staff time to rest and to prioritize their mental health.
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BREAKING: UNC football head coach Larry Fedora has been removed from his position, according to UNC Athletics. Updates to come.
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Scenes from Chapel Hill: People on Franklin Street celebrate Joe Biden’s projected victory in the 2020 presidential election. Photos by
@akatsmedia
:
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BREAKING: UNC women's basketball guard Stephanie Watts was selected No. 10 overall by the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2021 WNBA Draft.
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COLUMN: "If you’re a true Duke hater, you don’t need to resort to lame and overused insults about a nineteen-year-old's finger nail polish," Rachel Moody writes.
Read the full column: "We can hate Duke without being homophobic"
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BREAKING: Demonstrators pulled down the Confederate monument Silent Sam on Monday night.
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BREAKING: North Carolina will remain in Phase 2 for three more weeks, Gov. Cooper announces. Face masks will also be required in public with some exceptions. Story to come.
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BREAKING: UNC’s former mascot Rameses XXI died Monday.
Attending his first North Carolina football when he was less than a year old, Rameses was UNC’s mascot for nearly a decade.
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Come visit us in the pit and grab a copy of yesterday's paper before we run out!
#TheDailyTarHeel
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BREAKING: Silent Sam’s pedestal is being pulled down now.
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BREAKING: Nearly 80 teaching assistants have banded together to withhold grades until the Silent Sam relocation plan is reversed.
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In a 77-76 win, the Tar Heels are headed to the national title game against Gonzaga.
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Trust us, you're going to want to pick up a paper tomorrow
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BREAKING: UNC reports two new COVID-19 clusters: one at Morrison Residence Hall and one at the Zeta Psi fraternity. Story to come.
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BREAKING: Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order that will protect reproductive freedom and abortion in North Carolina at a press conference today.
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BREAKING: Junior Teddy Vann has been elected as UNC’s next student body president. She received 47.03% of the 4,246 votes cast.
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BREAKING: Nikole Hannah-Jones is considering legal action against UNC after non-tenure, according to a letter obtained by The News & Observer.
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BREAKING: Linda's Bar and Grill will permanently close on Friday, Jan. 5, after 47 years of business.
Christopher Carini, who purchased Linda's in 2011, said the restaurant is shuttering due to "a slew of things" that began with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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BREAKING: An anonymous faculty group has sent a letter to Chancellor Folt threatening to remove Silent Sam on Thursday:
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BREAKING: UNC-Chapel Hill is canceling undergraduate classes on Monday and Tuesday.
Undergraduate students will now have until Aug. 31 to drop classes without receiving a "W" on their transcript and to have their tuition pro-rated accordingly.
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A dedication plaque for James Cates, a UNC student who was stabbed to death by white supremacists in the Pit in 1970, has been placed in the Pit.
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BREAKING: UNC Board of Governors passes motion that tuition and fees for the UNC System will not change or be refunded for the 2020-2021 academic year regardless of any instructional format changes that may occur. Story to come.
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BREAKING: UNC-Chapel Hill reported 91 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday alone, amounting to a total of 528 cases since February. The University's dashboard now reflects daily case numbers.
This is a developing story. Check this thread soon for updates.
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BREAKING: “After only one week of campus operations, with growing numbers of clusters and insufficient control over the off-campus behavior of students (and others), it is time for an off-ramp,”
@UNCpublichealth
dean Barbara K. Rimer writes in a blog post.
Full story to come.
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The Tar Heels are already winning — happy to announce that The Daily Tar Heel won the rivalry challenge against The Duke Chronicle by $5,232! We're incredibly grateful for the 421 people who donated and the people who read our paper every day. Together, we raised $29,892.54!
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BREAKING: A cluster of COVID-19 cases has been identified at Avery Residence Hall, according to a notification from UNC.
There are currently five active cases in this cluster. Story to come.
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BREAKING: UNC Athletics is immediately suspending all athletic activities until at least 5 p.m. Thursday.
This is a developing story – check this thread soon for more information.
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BREAKING: Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger and the Town Council sent a letter to UNC System and UNC-Chapel Hill leadership today requesting that the Board of Governors allow chancellors to decide whether to continue with reopening on their individual campuses.
Full story to come.
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OP-ED: “Being closeted is extremely isolating and difficult, and I am sharing this to provide myself as a confidant for anyone who has ever felt the same,” student body president Reeves Moseley writes.
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Between Aug. 17 and Aug. 23, UNC reported 1,528 total tests, with 465 positive results.
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OP-ED: "Students are taught to love a country that values guns over our lives," Andrew Sun and Alexander Denza write.
Read the full Op-ed: "We will not wait for the next school shooting"
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On this day in 1982, the Tar Heels won the NCAA Championship game, in what was head coach Dean Smith's first national title.
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The No. 8 seed UNC men’s basketball team booked a trip to the Elite Eight with a 73-66 win over the No. 4 seed UCLA tonight
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Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz announced that the University, starting with the 2024 incoming class, would be offering free tuition and required fees for undergraduates whose families make less than $80,000 per year.
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We are currently out of print copies of this week's paper. There may be some copies around campus in blue boxes, but we are also out at our office.
Another round of papers will be distributed tomorrow morning.
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BREAKING: UNC's vaccination clinic in the Student Union will open March 31. Students will receive appointment information tomorrow.
The University will receive doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from the state, according to Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz.
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BREAKING: The UNC women’s tennis team are NCAA Champions — their first national title in program history — after defeating rival N.C. State 4-1 in the NCAA Championship on Saturday.
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COLUMN: "At the end of the day, you want to know what makes this win that much sweeter?"
@pjdaman12
writes. "Roy may not have gotten his proper ending, but Krzyzewski got exactly the one he deserved."
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BREAKING: 37 individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 as student-athletes, coaches and staff return to campus, according to UNC Media Relations. Story to come.
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BREAKING: Seth Trimble, a sophomore guard at UNC, has decided to withdraw from the transfer portal and remain at Chapel Hill. Trimble announced the news via his Instagram Tuesday afternoon, writing that his "heart and soul belong in Chapel Hill."
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BREAKING: UNC-Chapel Hill releases sexual assault records of students found responsible for sexual misconduct following a four-year long legal battle.
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BREAKING: UNC will hold multiple in-person, ticketed graduation ceremonies for the class of 2021 in May, according to a message from Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz.
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett will address graduates virtually at each ceremony. Story to come.
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@livvreilly
Mediterranean Deli, Bakery, and Catering has provided food for the encampment. Demonstrators are eating lunch now.
Jamil Kadoura, the owner of Med Deli, began his food service career helping a struggling falafel pita stand in Qalqilya, Palestine, as a child.
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BREAKING: Amid rising COVID-19 cases in North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper has announced a modified stay-at-home order.
Starting Friday, North Carolinians will be required to stay at home between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Full story to come. Check this thread for updates.
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COLUMN: "He will still be profoundly remembered as one of the best players to ever step onto a college football field." Keaton Eberly tells us why Lamar Jackson should win the Heisman Trophy again:
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Many think of UNC as a men's basketball school. But in 1997, when coach Dean Smith was asked whether his team or the football team was more deserving of a No. 1 ranking, he turned his attention elsewhere:
“This is a women’s soccer school."
@guin_grace
:
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EDITORIAL: "It’s easy to say 'these students do not represent Carolina,'" the Editorial Board writes. "But the harder truth is that they do."
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COLUMN: Many republican politicians have made statements in response to Monday's shooting, but as lovely as thoughts, prayers and words can sound, "they mean nothing compared to the impact real policy change and action would have,"
@delcrawl
writes.
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Image from today's die-in at the Student Union in response to police brutality:
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BREAKING:
@HousingCarolina
has sent an email requesting that residents cancel housing contracts by Aug. 25. Students should plan to return to their permanent home for the semester unless they are unable to do so, the email states.
Check this thread soon for more information.
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BREAKING: There are 102 positive COVID-19 cases at Granville Towers "who are isolating," according to an email from Carolina Housing obtained by the DTH. Story to come.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Education has found UNC in violation of the Clery Act, which regulates campus crime reporting, according to a campuswide statement from interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz. Story to come.
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BREAKING: UNC has confirmed that there is a cluster of COVID-19 cases at the Sigma Nu fraternity house, according to an Alert Carolina message sent today.
@NCDHHS
defines a cluster as five or more cases.
This is a developing story. Check back here soon for more details.
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BREAKING: Carolina Housing sent an email today announcing that all student staff members will be terminated effective Oct. 30. Check this thread soon for the full story.
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BREAKING: The University has reported its tenth cluster of COVID-19 cases at Avery Residence Hall.
This is a developing story – check this thread soon for updates.
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UPDATE: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal from UNC after the N.C. Supreme Court ordered the University to release disciplinary records for sexual assault cases, ending a four-year long lawsuit.
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Following UNC’s win over Duke in the NCAA Final Four, Chapel Hill students and community members rushed Franklin St. to celebrate the victory.
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Congratulations to
@praveenavsoma
, the new editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel for the 2021-22 school year!
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