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Game Day Fashion Tips Every Girl Needs to Know

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Nov 6, 2015 | The Fashion Plate

If you are anything like me, game day gets you excited! Women everywhere try to decide what they are going to wear to the big game. Even those that aren’t headed to the stadium are formulating their attire to watch their team on...

Dear Chancellor Folt

Posted by The Commentators | Nov 6, 2015 | The Commentators

Dear Chancellor Folt: You came to Carolina in our most difficult hour. And the darkness has not yet lifted. We need a strong leader right now, someone who can speak for all North Carolinians, for staff, students and faculty at...

NC State Missed Her October….Again

Posted by Staff | Nov 5, 2015 | Guest Column

What is it about October and NC State football? Once again peak season meant nothing more than clogged gutters and a 0.25 winning percentage in the continuing gridiron horror story at Carter-Finley Stadium. You can turn back...

Pushing Spellings into the pantheon, not the trash bin

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 4, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Let’s help her all we can. That is what I am telling my friends in the university community when they express displeasure at the selection of Margaret Spellings as their new president, or when they complain about the UNC...

Improving our Local Food Web: Part II

Posted by Jeff Danner | Nov 1, 2015 | Common Science

In Part I of this series, I noted that our local farmers, farmers markets, and restaurants in Orange County constitute a vibrant local food web that provides us with a number of important benefits including nutritious foods and...

Who is Margaret Spellings?

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 28, 2015 | The Commentators

Our university’s system Board of Governors, manipulating rules to speed up the process, has handed the presidency of our state’s university system to a non-academic with strong Republican political credentials....

Protect Personal Health Information For Athletes

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 28, 2015 | The Commentators

UNC has announced that two football players have suffered career ending medical problems, a neck injury and a heart condition. I won’t mention their names, but I certainly am puzzled and troubled by why the university...

Who said this about whom?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 27, 2015 | D.G. Martin

The candidate “has the knack of doing things and doing them noisily, clamorously; while he is in the neighborhood the public can no more look the other way than the small boy can turn his head away from a circus parade followed...

Co-op Employee Democracy

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 26, 2015 | The Commentators

As a ten-year active advocate for worker rights within our very favorite local grocery co-op, Weaver Street Market, I am making this appeal for help from any of the some 18,000 Weaver Street consumer-owners listening to this...

Improving our Local Food Web: Part I

Posted by Jeff Danner | Oct 24, 2015 | Common Science

In Orange County, North Carolina we take well-deserved pride in our local food web. We have innovative local farmers, numerous farmers markets and a host of local restaurants committed to using fresh, local ingredients. But we...

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