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How has the grad student stipend at UNC changed over time? This PhD student mapped it out.

by Triangle BlogBlog3 days agoJanuary 25, 2023

This report compiles data from a number of resources and historical newspaper articles to give the broader context of the fight for a livable graduate student wage in Chapel Hill.

Posted inHousing

Fact check: Has UNC added 8000 students in the past decade? No.

by Triangle BlogBlogJanuary 13, 2023January 24, 2023

Over the past two days, we’ve attended two public information meetings that the Town of Chapel Hill has hosted to talk about missing middle housing — duplexes, cottage homes, and the like.  As we’ve said earlier, we’re really excited about this — it will be really great for seniors, young families, and multi-generational households to […]

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UNC staff and grad students: UNC and UNC Health want your thoughts on housing affordability

by Triangle BlogBlogJanuary 8, 2023

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health are jointly sponsoring a project to study housing affordability in and around the Town of Chapel Hill. Please send this post to any current graduate students and staffers at UNC and UNC Health that you know. From UNC and UNC Health: “We have partnered […]

Posted inEvents around town

Free event for families: National Girls & Women in Sports Day at UNC

by Ryan ByarsJanuary 4, 2023January 4, 2023

One of the most underrated free events in town for kids is fast approaching: the National Girls & Women in Sports Day at UNC. The event is part of a nationwide effort by the Women’s Sport Foundation, an organization founded by tennis great Billie Jean King, to promote and advocate for girls and women in […]

Posted inChapel Hill

Chapel Hill’s Woodstock, but for Population Control

by Martin JohnsonJanuary 3, 2023January 3, 2023

In the spring of 1975, UNC hosted a series of events on the subject of population control. For the uninitiated, population control was a popular topic in the 1970s, premised on the belief that humanity’s only hope for survival was to dramatically reduce our population. Fans of 1970s sci-fi have probably seen Soylent Green (1973), which […]

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CHYDARU: The abandoned experimental youth prison run by UNC

by Melody KramerDecember 24, 2022December 24, 2022

For a brief period of time in the 1960s, UNC ran an experimental youth prison near what is now the Mason Farm Biological Preserve. This morning I came across the ruins of an experimental youth prison UNC ran over by Mason Farm in the 60s. It was called CHYDARU. Here are a brief & editorial […]

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