by Laura This week I tried Zipcar for the first time, a few years behind the trend. Because we had both our own car and the subway in NYC, we never needed to seek out a loaner for a few hours. But, down here, sharing wheels has occasionally led to issues with double booking. If [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘UNC’
April 29, 2010
In Praise of Noble Trees
By Harold I can honestly say that I have never thought about the thousands of trees that dot UNC’s campus (or any other trees, for that matter). But it was a beautiful day and I wanted to learn more about UNC’s campus, so I decided to take a walking tour called “In Praise of UNC’s [...]
April 17, 2010
Relay Rocks
Thanks to everyone who supported our team and helped us raise about $2,800 for the American Cancer Society! As you can see, a bunch of former elementary school teachers charged with getting crafty made for a gosh-darn pinktacular poster-making gone-wild “Hope for the Ta-tas!” campsite.
April 13, 2010
One way UNC is better than Duke
By Harold I think we can all agree that indoor soccer isn’t the most popular sport out there. It’s not ingrained in the culture, no one played it growing up, there’s no school teams, there’s no professionals to look up to. Still, the UNC intramural program offers men’s, women’s and co-rec indoor soccer. And within [...]
April 10, 2010
Procrastination Comes in Many Forms
by Laura To celebrate International Pillow Fight Day, Chapel Hill had a public battle on the main UNC quad. Harold and I chose opposing teams so we could smack each other around a little bit. All went well until some random dude slammed me on the head. Thanks, random (tall & strong) dude. He must [...]
March 29, 2010
The default option
By Harold Denmark and the Netherlands are so similar that most people in America assume they’re the same country. So why is the organ donation rate in the Netherlands 28 percent, while in Denmark it’s 98 percent? In the Netherlands, like in the U.S., organ donation is “opt-in” — you have to check a box [...]
March 25, 2010
Academy Award nominees come to campus
By Harold There’s a really cheap, easy way to see the Academy Award nominees this spring — they’re pretty much all playing at the student union movie theaters at Duke and UNC.
March 19, 2010
The Best of the Best?
by Laura This week’s insert in the esteemed Daily Tar Heel included the results from a student survey about local favorites. These “Carolina’s Finest” categories included trends like favorite reality show (Which, of course, is Jersey Shore…as if there could be another option). Curious as to where the cool kids hang out and what they’re [...]
March 4, 2010
No grade inflation at UNC
By Harold My friend Zachary Pincus-Roth has written articles about how the list of top-grossing movies never takes inflation into account, so journalists can fall over themselves saying Twilight had the best opening weekend ever while Gone With the Wind actually sold twice as many tickets. The same thing is happening with all these reports [...]
March 2, 2010
Free theater (or theatre)
By Harold In my never-ending search for free entertainment, I’ve come across another good option — LAB! Theatre. As you can tell from the use of punctuation, capitalization and British English in the title, it’s very cutting edge.
March 1, 2010
Class with Black
By Harold As one of the most famous residents of Chapel Hill and a UNC alum, Lewis Black comes to campus every year as part of the Carolina Comedy Festival. This year I saw him in three different settings – a question-and-answer session with about 75 people on Friday, a workshop on comedy writing with [...]
February 25, 2010
Comedy and Jazz at UNC
By Harold There’s two big festivals coming to UNC this weekend — the Carolina Jazz Festival and the Comedy Fest. The jazz festival features famous (i.e. I’ve heard of him) trumpeter Terence Blanchard (left), Jason Marsalis (the youngest of the Marsalis brothers, which include former Tonight Show bandleader Branford and 1998 BCC graduation speaker Wynton), [...]
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