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In a likely Biden-Trump rematch, campaigns again see N.C. as a key swing state

March 8, 2024 Hamsini Sivakumar

While President Biden and Former President Trump both won their primaries in North Carolina by wide margins, some voters sent a message by withholding their primary votes.

Students seek to bring attention to the war in Sudan, which has killed thousands and displaced millions

March 8, 2024 Sofia Casini

UNC’s Community Justice, Abolition, and Anti Racism Collective held Sudan Week, for students to engage with Sudanese culture, learn about the crisis, and donate to humanitarian efforts.

Vice president returns to North Carolina to promote minority investment

March 3, 2024 Hamsini Sivakumar and Sierra Pfeifer

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to a crowd on West Parish Street in Durham about the Biden Administration’s support for historically underserved small businesses and entrepreneurs.

UNC System considers reinstating admission test requirement

March 3, 2024 Taylor Holbrooks

A proposal before the UNC System Board of Governors would require some applicants to submit standardized test scores, which haven’t been required since the start of the pandemic.

Altering a longstanding tradition, UNC’s graduation will be held on Saturday – not Sunday – this year

March 3, 2024 Helen Wickett

After decades of holding graduation on Mother’s Day mornings, UNC will move the ceremony to Saturday evening at 7:00.

Legalized sports betting is coming to N.C., but gambling ads on college campuses are banned

March 3, 2024 Hamsini Sivakumar

While ads for sportsbooks are flooding North Carolina, newly-adopted state rules ban sports betting ads on college campuses.

Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts discusses campus safety, free speech, and the state’s political environment

February 23, 2024 Caroline Horne

Roberts talks with Carolina Connection about UNC”s response to last August’s campus shooting, a federal investigation of alleged campus antisemitism, college accessability, and other issues.

Some UNC professors are welcoming artificial intelligence into their classrooms

February 23, 2024 Sarah Ellis

Faculty and students are trying to adjust to the emerging technology of artificial intelligence. Some welcome it with open arms.

‘A horrific part of our past’: Carrboro remembers an 1898 lynching

February 23, 2024 Jessica Simmons

Manly McCauley was lynched by a mob of white men in 1898 after they accused him of eloping with a white woman.

Citing harm to LGBTQ+ students, CHCCS is refusing to comply with a new state law

February 23, 2024 Helen Wickett

The “Parents Bill of Rights” prohibits discussing gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms through 4th grade. It also requires school employees to inform parents when a child wants to use a different name or pronoun.