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    REDdress demonstration outside of Randall Library

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    Q&A with 2024-2025 school year student body president and student body vice president

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    ​​COVID cluster or electrical fire?

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    UNCW invests in new expansion to Randall Library

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    Community, isolation and politics: The mental health of queer students at UNCW

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    Dredging on Wrightsville Beach coming to a close

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    The New Hanover County candidates on your general election ballot

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    Fire at Green Village Apartments displaces residents and students

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NC shifts to Phase 3

NC shifts to Phase 3

Veronica Wernicke, News Editor • October 4, 2020
Under this new phase, which took effect on Oct. 2 and continues through Oct. 23, entertainment venues like amusement parks, movie theaters and bars can open up to limited capacity. 
President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters during a Thursday rally in Freeland, Michigan. (Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press/TNS)

NextGen NC offers insight into President Trump’s visits to NC

Aurora Xiong, Contributing Writer • September 16, 2020

President Donald Trump’s recent visit to N.C. has sparked some discussions behind his intentions. With the 2020 presidential elections quickly approaching, Trump seems to be treading up new ideas on...

The Seahawk statue displayed at the front of UNCWs campus.

UNCW ranked among the top 100 Public National Universities for 2021

Veronica Wernicke, News Editor • September 15, 2020

The 2021 U.S. News & World Report for Top 100 Public Schools ranked UNC Wilmington (UNCW) 95 out of 100. UNCW was also ranked as 187 of 389 for Best National University. This is the second year...

President Donald Trump speaks to a small crowd outside the USS North Carolina on Sept. 2, 2020 in Wilmington, North Carolina. President Donald Trump visited the port city for a brief ceremony designating Wilmington as the nations first WWII Heritage City. The title is in honor of the areas efforts during WWII.(Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images/TNS)

Wilmington named first World War II Heritage City

Hannah Horowitz, Contributing Writer • September 8, 2020

This past week saw the arrival of President Donald Trump in Wilmington, NC.  On Sept. 2. Trump visited the Cape Fear region to celebrate Wilmington being named the first World War II Heritage City.   Wilmington’s...

UNCW Clocktower.

UNC System workers rally against COVID-19 concerns

Veronica Wernicke, News Editor • September 5, 2020

Members of the NC Public Service Workers Union, UE Local 150 at UNC Charlotte (UNCC), UNC Chapel Hill (UNC CH) and NC State University (NCSU) are rallying to demand more safety measures and action from...

People march in support of Jacob Blake and his family to the Kenosha County Courthouse on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Blake was shot seven times in the back in front of his three children by a police officer in Kenosha. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/TNS)

The commonality of racial injustice

Kiley Woods, Contributing Writer • September 4, 2020

During the summer of 2020, global protests surrounding racial injustice soared in the U.S alongside the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.   Throughout history, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr....

Coronavirus update: Gov Cooper announces shift to COVID-19 phase two and half reopening.

Gov. Cooper announces shift to COVID-19 phase two and half

Veronica Wernicke, News Editor • September 1, 2020
As N.C. maintains its number of positive coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and New Hanover County sees an upward trend of positive cases (since June), Governor Roy Cooper announced a shift from COVID-19 “Safer at Home” Phase Two into “Safer at Home” Phase Two and a Half. 
NextGen N.C. is a progressive organization that focuses on registering young people to vote and turning them out to the polls in November.

NextGen NC is here to inform young voters

Veronica Wernicke, News Editor • August 29, 2020
With the 2020 general election only two months away, organizations like NextGen North Carolina (an offshoot of national organization NextGen America) are helping to inform and guide young voters about the election and why they should vote.
A day after warnings were sent out to students about two clusters in on-campus dorms u0097 one at Granville Towers and one at the Ehringhaus Community Granville Towers and the Ehringhaus Community u0097 school officials said Saturday that a third has been identified at the Sigma Nu fraternity house.

UNC-Chapel Hill shifts to remote instruction

Veronica Wernicke, News Editor • August 17, 2020
On Monday afternoon UNC Chapel Hill announced, after reports of several coronavirus (COVID-19) clusters on campus, the university will be shifting to remote instruction effective Aug. 19 -- a “cluster” is defined as “as 5 or more cases with linkage between cases,” by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
Absentee voting manager Matt Kelly holds the ballot envelopes that will be used to mail ballots at the Franklin County Board of Elections office in Columbus on July 29. The two-key system ensures no one political party will have access to ballots alone. [Adam Cairns/Dispatch]

North Carolina absentee mail-in voting guide

Veronica Wernicke, News Editor • August 17, 2020

Due to concerns about health and safety, amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) at the polls this upcoming election season, more and more Americans are considering absentee mail-in voting.  A recent survey...

Photo of Mike S. Adams on UNCWs sociology and criminology page as of 2020.

Mike S. Adams’ death ruled a suicide

Caitlyn Dark, News Editor • July 27, 2020
Former UNC Wilmington professor Mike S. Adams’ sudden July 23 death has been ruled as a suicide, according to the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office in a press release this afternoon.
Photo of Mike S. Adams from his professor profile page for the Sociology and Criminology Department, as of 2020.

Former UNCW professor Mike S. Adams found dead in home

Caitlyn Dark, News Editor • July 24, 2020

Nearly a week before his retirement was set to officially begin, former UNC Wilmington professor Mike S. Adams was found dead in his home yesterday. Adams was discovered after the New Hanover County...

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