March 2023 Archives

Police mental health crisis response teams are an alternative to traditional police intervention

March 10, 2023 Hannah Noel

Local cities address mental-health concerns by dispatching teams of mental-health units as an alternate response to police.

Chris Everett has been elected as UNC’s next student body president

March 9, 2023 Lorelai Sykes

After a contentious election, Chris Everett is UNC’s student body President-elect. He will serve in the role next school year.

Carolina Connection – Mar. 4, 2023

March 4, 2023

Students at a 32-hour demonstration demand better campus accessibility. Online bus tracking slowly returns to Chapel Hill after more than a year. The term “Latinx” faces scrutiny by the communities it’s used to describe. A hack-a-thon promotes gender diversity in STEM fields. The UNC-Duke game has some seniors feeling fury rather than Carolina fever because it’s now even harder to get tickets.

Campus Y co-presidents protest UNC’s lack of accessibility for physically disabled students

March 3, 2023 William Christensen

UNC student engage in a thirty-two hour long protest demanding increased accessibility on campus.

After a yearlong delay, Chapel Hill Transit’s tracking app will soon work again

March 3, 2023 Henry Taylor

Chapel Hill Transit is putting the final touches on a new real-time bus tracking system. The previous system stopped working when phone companies disabled their 3G networks.

Unlike many other universities, UNC marching band members are not compensated

March 3, 2023 Annie Le Baron

Unlike some other schools in the Athletic Coast Conference, UNC doesn’t offer marching band scholarships.

Students lament new policy that makes it harder to get Duke tickets

March 3, 2023 Kyle Turik

As UNC takes on Duke in the basketball regular season finale, some students are upset that a new UNC ticketing policy has kept them from attending.

Hackathon promotes increased diversity in male-dominated STEM fields

March 3, 2023 Denise Stroud

UNC hosted the annual Pearl Hacks event. It’s a student-organized hackathon for female and non-binary students.

The term ‘Latinx’ was designed for inclusivity, but some Latin-American people reject it

March 3, 2023 Sofía Basurto

The term replaces the “o” in “Latino” with an “x” to promote gender inclusivity. But some surveys suggest a majority of people with Latin heritage don’t like the term.