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Column: The future of the Greene Tract must center community voices

A "No Dumping" sign is pictured at the Carolina North Forest, a woodland owned by UNC Chapel hill that covers 750 acres and has several hiking trails.

At the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association Community Center, Minister Robert Campbell prepares bags of canned goods, rice, lentils and fresh produce for the community center’s food pantry every month.

He has given the food to his neighbors through RENA's Food Bank since the 1980s.

Over the years, he’s watched those neighbors grow up — celeb
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Farewell column: The necessary struggle of letting go

I have always been a chronic pushover and a people-pleaser. I want to make sure the people in my life don’t leave — and so I do all I can to hold them tight. But that also means I struggle with confrontation and I don’t like putting my opinions out in the open.

Opinions lead to disagreement, which leads to arguing, which leads to leaving, which I cannot handle.

So, when I impulsively applied to the opinion desk of The Daily Tar Heel last spring, it was a challenge to myself: to be more confron
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Column: CHALT's attacks on young journalists are unacceptable

Caroline Chen, a senior at East Chapel Hill High School, poses for a portrait with her article "How CHALT chokes authentic progress in Chapel Hill" on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. Chen's critique of CHALT, a.k.a. the Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town, was originally published in the East Chapel Hill Observer and has since received a direct response from the organization.

Last Thursday, I attended an online event titled, “What is CHALT?”

The event, hosted by the Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livab
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Editorial: 51 years after the murder of James Cates Jr., we are still complicit

Community members place flowers in 2018 at the site where James Cates was killed in 1970.

Fifty-one years ago today, James Cates Jr. attended an all-night dance in the Student Union. He had been asked to go to by the event organizers, the Committee for Afro-American Studies and the Carolina Union.

The students had promoted the event as an intentionally interracial affair. They wanted Black students, like Cates, at the event — despite UNC's undergraduate population at the time being just two pe
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Editorial: Reflecting on UNC's lack of transparency as communications staff depart

People sit on the steps and benches in front of South Building on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2020.

Two of UNC's major communications officials, Vice Chancellor for Communications Joel Curran and Director of Media Relations Joanne Peters Denny, announced within about two weeks of each other that they are leaving the University.

Curran will become the vice president of public affairs and communications at the University of Notre Dame after eight years at UNC. Peters Denny is leaving her role after five y
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Editorial: The chancellor's commissions were made to be ignored

After trying to ensure police accountability and improve campus-community relationships with law enforcement, the UNC Campus Safety Commission has dissolved. However, this should come as no surprise, as the commission was given virtually no authority to make decisions or directly influence campus leadership.

The University took the commission’s time and energy, using them as a public relations stunt to provide the facade that they were doing something positive, in the eyes of many commission me
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Editorial: Dispatches from the eye of UNC's COVID-19 storm

There are storms swirling around UNC as students return to campus for the fall semester. Whether it is the fallout from the tenure inaction for Nikole Hannah-Jones, or the perpetual threat of COVID-19 sending us all home again, this year has ominous energy to it.

For now, at least, we are standing in the eye of that storm. The dark clouds have not yet penetrated campus. In some ways, there is peace and joy in this moment. We can celebrate moving into dorms, returning to in-person learning and f
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Editorial: Even Ol' Roy feels like an impostor sometimes

UNC head coach Roy Williams tears up during his retirement announcement press conference in the Smith Center on April 1, 2021. "I no longer feel that I am the right man for the job," said Williams on the decision.

Impostor syndrome is an institutional problem at UNC, and Roy Williams’ retirement last week is proof.

We all sat teary-eyed as coach Williams repeated over and over that he was “no longer the right man for the job.” Here was a man who had reached the mountaintop in his field, yet ev
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Editorial: Internal discipline is a recipe for disaster

At last week’s Chapel Hill Town Council meeting, the council discussed a request to extend the jurisdiction of the UNC Police Department. This request would allow UNCPD more oversight over off-campus fraternity and sorority houses.

The request stems from a letter Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz sent to Mayor Pam Hemminger in December, following the drug bust of several UNC fraternities. Guskiewicz says the move will improve the safety of campus and improve the relationship between Chapel Hill Polic