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From Hunger Strike to Global Protest: What Will It Take for Obama to Close...
COMMENTARY BY: NEHA VERMA During his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama made a promise: “We are going to lead by shutting down Guantanamo and restoring habeas corpus in this country.” Over 100...
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Weekly Wrap Up
Immigration reform will likely reach the Senate floor next month, after a Senate panel approved legislation that will simultaneously create a 13-year path to citizenship and increase US/Mexico border...
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Are the Christian overtones of NCGA protests alienating secular activists?
COMMENTARY BY: HENRY GARGAN Around 4:45 p.m. on Monday, I entered Davie Street Presbyterian Church in downtown Raleigh where Reverend William Barber, the head of the North Carolina chapter of the...
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“What is said in Sam’s Silence”
BY: KYLE ANN SEBASTIAN Silent Sam means different things to different people. To some, he is a monument that honors and memorializes those students of the University that fought in the Civil War....
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Political Unrest Continues in Turkey: Photos
Photos by former Campus BluePrint Editor-in-Chief, current world traveler, and all around badass Carey Hanlin.
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Inside Istanbul
COMMENTARY BY: CAREY HANLIN As protests cascaded through Turkey on Saturday, life in Konya a short flight away proceeded as usual. Shops opened and closed. Restaurants operated as usual. No violence...
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President Obama visits Mooresville, NC Unveils Internet Access Plan termed...
BY: TROY HOMESLEY Mooresville, North Carolina sits in Iredell County, one county south of Charlotte. The county has gone red as far back as most locals can remember, and a sitting President has never...
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Weekly Wrap-Up
BY: GRACE TATTER Another Friday, another weekly wrap-up. We at CBP want to make sure you don’t enter your weekend terribly uninformed about current events, even though at least some of you spent a lot...
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Russian Legislative Crackdown
BY: JORDAN LINDSE While many Americans are celebrating the Supreme Court’s historic opinions ruling the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and effectively striking down California’s Proposition...
View ArticleThursday panel fails to move Moral Monday rhetoric ‘One Step Forward’
BY: ANITA SIMHA A panel of scholars from various disciplines gathered in the FedEx Global Education Center on Thursday to discuss the sociological, historical, medical, theological, and political...
View ArticleMoral Mondays: A Privilege
BY: INA KOSOVA Moral Mondays provided a new topic of discussion at this year’s First Amendment Day. First Amendment Day, held during National Banned Books Week for the past five years at UNC, is meant...
View ArticleThe state of education in our state
BY: MATT KEENAN A state that was once a leader in education is now falling by the wayside. North Carolina is one of the worst states in the country when it comes to public education, and state...
View ArticleA Call for Epochal Times
This post was originally published April 30, 2013. It is being re-published in support of the Board of Governor’s Student Rally tomorrow morning. “I think now is a little bit more like the 1950s…...
View ArticleBoard of Governors Intransigence Requires Greater Student Engagement
BY: CAREY HANLIN At 8:30 Thursday morning, a group of about 18 UNC students met in the pit to march down South Road to C.D. Spangler Jr. building, where the UNC System Board of Governors was meeting....
View ArticleWTFNC (Working Together for NC) Lecture Series: “Reproductive Rights,...
BY: NEHA VERMA Students filled the Queen Anne Lounge of the Campus Y last Tuesday to hear a lecture by Sarah Eldred, the Public Affairs and Digital Media Coordinator at Planned Parenthood of Central...
View ArticleIs God in Favor of Progress?
BY: THOMAS GOODING A row of police officers observed the demonstration in silence, their hands behind their backs. A group of faith leaders stood together, some with heads bowed in prayer, some with...
View ArticleThe Long Road to Raleigh
BY: KYLE VILLEMAIN Democrats’ path back to power begins far from the state capital — and it’s all uphill. Three years after losing power in the General Assembly and one year after losing the...
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Confederate pride more school-friendly than gay pride, for Republicans
BY: NORMAN ARCHER According to a new Public Policy Polling report, Republicans believe it’s more appropriate for high school students to wear Confederate flags to school than pride flags: “There has...
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Big guns on campus
BY: ABBY LANTZ Have a concealed carry permit? As of Oct. 1 you can now have a gun on campus — but only in a very specific location. House Resolution 937, passed on July 29 by the North Carolina state...
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