BREAKING: One week into the semester, UNC-Chapel Hill announces that it is transitioning all undergraduate classes to fully online instruction, effective Wednesday.
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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.
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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.
Professor Hassan Melehy said "insider culture” is evident in the Faculty Council. bit.ly/1zZ0MMr
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.
The #FrontPage of The Daily Tar Heel's Final Four victory paper: "Defeating doubt together"
The special edition will release tomorrow.
BREAKING: UNC men's basketball assistant coach Hubert Davis will replace Roy Williams as head coach, according to the News & Observer.
At around 10:00 p.m. the Spider-Men were spotted at Davis Library.
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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.
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.
EDITORIAL: "Clusterfuck (n) : a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation."
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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.
YouTube star just visited the quad to preach early voting (and Lady Gaga's new album). bit.ly/2fo28Sf
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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Protesters link arms around Silent Sam while chanting.
The #FrontPage of The Daily Tar Heel’s 2022 Victory Paper: “Devils, Damned."
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BREAKING: UNC Board of Trustees votes to lift the moratorium on renaming campus buildings. Story to come.
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.
Thousands have gathered at the vigil as officials and victims' family members speak. #ChapelHillShooting.
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.
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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.
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BREAKING: Carolina Housing reported two COVID-19 clusters today: one at Granville Towers and one at Ehringhaus Residence Hall.
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Junior Justin Jackson was named the 2017 ACC Player of the Year today. bit.ly/2mcmTm4
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Protesters shout, “Next up, Charlottesville.”
BREAKING: Gov. Roy Cooper has announced that North Carolina will remain in Phase 2 until Sept. 11. Story to come.
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.
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.
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.
BREAKING: UNC football head coach Larry Fedora has been removed from his position, according to UNC Athletics. Updates to come.
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.
BREAKING: Demonstrators pulled down the Confederate monument Silent Sam on Monday night.
Scenes from Chapel Hill: People on Franklin Street celebrate Joe Biden’s projected victory in the 2020 presidential election. Photos by :
BREAKING: Nearly 80 teaching assistants have banded together to withhold grades until the Silent Sam relocation plan is reversed.
BREAKING: UNC women's basketball guard Stephanie Watts was selected No. 10 overall by the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2021 WNBA Draft.
In a 77-76 win, the Tar Heels are headed to the national title game against Gonzaga.
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.
BREAKING: An anonymous faculty group has sent a letter to Chancellor Folt threatening to remove Silent Sam on Thursday:
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.
BREAKING: UNC reports two new COVID-19 clusters: one at Morrison Residence Hall and one at the Zeta Psi fraternity. Story to come.
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.
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.
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.
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,” dean Barbara K. Rimer writes in a blog post.
Full story to come.
BREAKING: Nikole Hannah-Jones is considering legal action against UNC after non-tenure, according to a letter obtained by The News & Observer. bit.ly/34ppsqg
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: 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.
BREAKING: Junior Teddy Vann has been elected as UNC’s next student body president. She received 47.03% of the 4,246 votes cast.
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!
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.
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.
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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Between Aug. 17 and Aug. 23, UNC reported 1,528 total tests, with 465 positive results.
On this day in 1982, the Tar Heels won the NCAA Championship game, in what was head coach Dean Smith's first national title.
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.
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.
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.
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
Image from today's die-in at the Student Union in response to police brutality:
BREAKING: UNC-Chapel Hill releases sexual assault records of students found responsible for sexual misconduct following a four-year long legal battle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
COLUMN: "At the end of the day, you want to know what makes this win that much sweeter?" writes. "Roy may not have gotten his proper ending, but Krzyzewski got exactly the one he deserved."
BREAKING: 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.
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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."
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:
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.
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."
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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. defines a cluster as five or more cases.
This is a developing story. Check back here soon for more details.
Two days after declaring for the NBA Draft, UNC's Joel Berry says he's coming back for his senior season. dailytarheel.com/article/2017/0
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.
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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Silent Sam is being moved into a dump truck.
BREAKING: A COVID-19 cluster has been identified in Carmichael Residence Hall six days before the start of remote classes. Today is the first day of move-in for on-campus residents. Story to come.
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.
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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BREAKING: Sophomore Lamar Richards will be UNC’s next Student Body President.
Richards received nearly 60% of the 3,219 votes cast in the election, according to the results from the Board of Elections.
Turn on CNN at 2:15 p.m. today to catch opinion editor Paige Masten discussing this editorial with Anderson Cooper .
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EDITORIAL: "Clusterfuck (n) : a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation."
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BREAKING: The University reports its eighth and ninth COVID-19 case clusters: one in Craige Residence Hall, and one in the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house.
This is a developing story. Check this thread soon for updates.
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According to two members in the UNC chapter of fraternity Sigma Chi, the Spider-Men roaming various campus locations are from the fraternity, acting in an event planned by the individual costume wearers. This story is developing.
BREAKING: UNC reports its 11th cluster of COVID-19 cases at Koury Residence Hall.
This is a developing story. Check this thread soon for more information.