News: 4,081 first-year students moved in to campus residence halls at UNC over the weekend. An additional 749 transfer students and 1800 new graduate students will join the Carolina community.
Interesting facts about the UNC class of 2019:
-3,231 from 97 NC counties, 850 from 43 other states/District of Columbia, and 126 international students from 20 countries.
-Almost 19% are the first in their family to attend college.
-The female/male ratio is 59/41, close to the 60/40 ratio of most of the past 20 years.
-Of students who identified themselves by race/ethnicity, 67% were Caucasian, 9% African-American, 7% Latino/Latina, 15% Asian or Asian-American, 2% American Indian/ Alaskan Native.
-Includes 28 sets of twins, 4 more than Class of 2018.
-Sarah is the most common female name, William is most common male name; last year the most common names were Emily and John.
News: A British writer and mother has sparked an online argument over “child-free flights.”
Kelly Rose Bradford, a writer and mother from London, went on the UK talk show This Morning to propose “child-free flights” for the comfort of passengers who don’t have babies to worry about. She also implied that it was selfish of parents to continue traveling by air after they had children – so apparently once you have kids, you should either stay at home or drive everywhere until they’re old enough to keep quiet. She’s getting a pretty strong response from people on Twitter under the #ChildFreeFlights tag, with some people arguing that this solution only makes sense, and others calling this discrimination against parents, because child-friendly flights could be harder to book and more expensive.
Video: Dog owners know the excitement you receive from your pet when you get home from work at the end of the day. But one dog owner picking up their dog from doggy day care gets the greeting of a lifetime.
Entertainment: Yesterday was National tell a joke day and since I wasn’t here I will share a few quick ones:
What’s brown and sticky? A stick!
What did the farmer say when he couldn’t find his tractor? “Where’s my Tractor?!”
Who’s there?” … “Control freak. Okay now you say, ‘Control freak who?”
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