On Nov. 5, elections will be taking place in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Local elections definitely don’t get eligible voters as excited and engaged as when presidential candidates are on the ballot, but they are still nonetheless impacted.
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Twenty point seven percent of UNC students have experienced sexual assault since entering this University, according to an Association of American Universities survey conducted earlier this year. Let that number sink in for a minute, twenty point seven percent.
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The recent demonstration by the Genocide Awareness Project, an anti-abortion organization, reignited the debate about free speech on campus and how far the protections afforded by the university under the First Amendment should extend.
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A nearly five-year-old war has raged on in Yemen largely out of the public eye. The conflict has led to a human rights crisis which has left 67 percent of the population acutely food insecure and started the largest cholera outbreak to date.
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With growing political tensions on campus due to events such as the Genocide Awareness Project, issues with campus police and Confederates and last year’s toppling of Silent Sam, we need to come together as a campus and listen to perspectives outside our own. This is by no means saying that centers and spaces for minority groups are a bad thing - in fact, they are crucial to ensuring the minority voice can be heard in the broader discussion and helping underprivileged students find success and representation at Carolina.
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The election was largely seen as a referendum on the premiership of Justin Trudeau. The incumbent won a landslide victory in 2015, pledging to institute a wide variety of policies ranging from recreational cannabis legalization to an electoral system overhaul. Public opinion of the progressive darling, however, has since soured.
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Among the seven candidates vying for three seats, there are a number of novel and even controversial ideas to further Chapel Hill’s commitment to building a stable affordable housing stock. The exploration of these various ideas seems likely to lead to innovation and bold new commitments on affordable housing.
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The conflict between the president and Congress grew as convoluted as the situation in Syria. The usual skeptics of the president will continue criticizing him, but Trump can expect his allies, like Graham, to return to defending in the coming battles on Capitol Hill.
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Messages about crime on campus should be timely, not several hours after the crime has occurred. Students also need to receive Alerts when armed protestors are on campus.
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In the wake of massive scandal and the first ever impeachment, South Korean President Moon Jae-in made initial strides in improving relations with North Korea that have since stalled, as well as several poorly received domestic policies that have coupled the South’s domestic problems, leading to declining popularity among South Koreans.
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Like many of the Trump administration’s changes to national immigration policy, this initiative has proven controversial and sparked a debate on the constitutionality of involuntary DNA sampling.
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The actions of the Trump administration further foster the xenophobic and nationalist ideals of some in the United States. Creating barriers, not just for all immigrants, but to those without certain economic or health resources is a clear indication of who the Trump Administration wants to be American.
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Turnover in the UNC System’s leadership follows the challenges posed by the removal of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Confederate Monument Silent Sam by protestors in August 2018. Since then, clashes over the monument and other political influences from the Republican-controlled NC General Assembly have overshadowed the Board’s initiatives to improve higher education for students.
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Young people may not usually pay attention to local politics, but any UNC student registered to vote in Chapel Hill will be eligible to cast their ballot in this election. Here is the basic information necessary to be an informed voter.
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It is a slippery slope for the government to threaten withholding grant money in order to influence curricula. If this kind of government interference in education becomes the new norm, it could have potentially disastrous consequences and could limit access to a well-rounded education.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is only a few months away from finishing its first year under a government that transitioned peacefully into power since achieving independence from Belgium in 1960. But the past few years have been marred by a re-eruption of the violence that scarred the country from 1999 to 2004 between the Lendu and Hema ethno-political interests in northern Ituri province.
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The suit against Harvard marks a major deviation from the legal strategy employed by previous lawsuits looking to abolish race-conscious admissions—it isn’t about white applicants. This shift, legal experts speculate, could be the element needed to convince a newly conservative Supreme Court to reverse decades of precedent.
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What started in 2011 as a series of Arab Spring protests against the al-Assad regime in Syria has morphed into a full-blown and protracted Civil War with high levels of international intervention, with Western heads seemingly turned away.
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has been protected by a shield of public support since 2013, but protests incited by accusations of wasted public funds and Sisi’s crackdowns on dissent reveal more cracks in the shield than he lets on.
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President Trump would benefit greatly from a strong U.S.-India relationship, both in terms of international affairs and electoral success. India could act as a valuable counterweight in a region dominated by China and its close ally, Pakistan, while also serving to energize the Indian–American electorate.
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