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The Daily Tar Heel

The Daily Tar Heel, the UNC student newspaper, began as The Tar Heel, a weekly first published on February 23, 1893 under the University Athletic Association with Charles Baskerville as editor. It became The Daily Tar Heel with the commencement issue of June 7, 1929, and began regular daily publication that September.

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Print news and raise hell: the Daily Tar Heel and the evolution of a modern university

Zogry, Kenneth Joel · 2018

Kenneth Joel Zogry's history of the Daily Tar Heel, the UNC Chapel Hill student newspaper, published by UNC Press in 2018, 361 pages with illustrations, online edition. Zogry follows the paper from its 1893 start as organ of the Athletic Association through the eras his chapter titles name: 'Crack-brained professors and baby radicals' (1923 to 1941), 'The truth in eight-point type' (1941 to 1959) and 'A free press must prevail' (1971 to 1993).

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Reviewed in The Southeastern Librarian (2018), American Journalism (2019), Journal of American History (2019), The Journal of Southern History (2019).

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Toward a conservative campus : a textual analysis of news coverage in the Carolina critic, the Carolina review, and the Daily tar heel since 1987

Sopp, Brian · 2007

Brian Sopp's 2007 textual analysis of news coverage in three Chapel Hill student publications, the Carolina Critic, the Carolina Review and the Daily Tar Heel, from 1987 onward. It concerns college student newspapers and periodicals in Chapel Hill. A piece of student research rather than a trade book, useful to anyone studying campus journalism and student politics at the university.

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100th anniversary.

1993

Centennial edition of the Daily Tar Heel, the University of North Carolina student newspaper, produced at Chapel Hill in 1993 to mark one hundred years of publication. Jen Pilla is named as centennial edition editor. Topics include the paper's history along with college student newspapers and periodicals in Chapel Hill, which makes the issue a source for the paper's own record.

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The rightish : the conservative editorial p(l)ag(u)e of the Tar Heel.

1984 · U.N.C. Committee to Liberate the Tar Heel

Conservative sheet aimed squarely at the campus daily, published in Chapel Hill from 1984 by a group calling itself the U.N.C. Committee to Liberate the Tar Heel, whose subtitle turns editorial page into editorial plague. Volumes measure 28 to 36 cm, and student political activity at the University of North Carolina runs through it.

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The DTH alternative

1974

A single issue dated February 25, 1974, produced as campaign literature in the contest for editor of the Daily Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It documents how candidates for a student editorship made their case in print to the voters on campus.

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Functions of the college newspaper : The daily Tar Heel example

Witt, G. Evans · 1973

G. Evans Witt's 1973 study of what a college newspaper does, using the Daily Tar Heel at Chapel Hill as its case. Topics include college student newspapers and periodicals in the town and the Daily Tar Heel itself. Of use to readers working on the history of the Carolina student press and on student journalism as a subject of study.

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Banter gazette

Cumming, Bryan · 1970

Bryan Cumming brought out this one issue paper at Chapel Hill on March 9, 1970, written by a contender for the editorship of the Daily Tar Heel and described on its own second page as published not more than once. It carries a comic strip by Jeff MacNelly, later known for his editorial cartooning.

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A voice from the crowd

Cox, Peregrine · 1963 · Thomson Newspapers

Profile of Wayne King, editor of the Daily Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina, written by Peregrine Cox and detached from the Sunday Times colour magazine of March 24, 1963. Topics include school integration and segregation in higher education in North Carolina, so the British article connects a student editor at Chapel Hill to the state's desegregation debates.

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Daily Tar Heel leaders offer judgement on qualifications of editorial candidates

Merry, Howard, -1968 · 1946 · Members and friends of the Daily Tar Heel staff who desire to raise the journalistic standards of this publication

Howard Merry and other former Daily Tar Heel staff members set out their judgment on the qualifications of the candidates for editor of the student newspaper, after the sitting editor declined to print the piece. Reprinted from the paper of Sunday, May 19, 1946 and issued at Chapel Hill by the signers themselves, it documents a dispute inside campus journalism.

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The different stories of Charles Scott : the newspaper coverage of the first black scholarship athlete to attend the University of North Carolina

Lebowitz, Hannah · 2014 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hannah Lebowitz's 2014 student thesis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the newspaper coverage of Charlie Scott, born 1948, the first Black scholarship athlete at the university. Fifty seven pages with illustrations. The study examines the Daily Tar Heel, the Carolina Times of Durham and the News and Observer, addressing college integration and race relations in the press.

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The readership of the Daily Tar Heel On-line

Elizabeth Novak · 1999

A 1999 master's study of who read the Daily Tar Heel's online edition, based on a web survey of 460 readers and the site's server statistics.

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Pioneers : The daily tar heel and the integration of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Edens, Kimberly · 1990

Kimberly Edens examined how the student newspaper the Daily Tar Heel covered the integration of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in a 1990 paper of 98 leaves with two separate bibliographies. It covers race relations at the university and the paper itself.

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Schwaite, Kevin: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1970

Informal photograph of Kevin Schwaite, general manager of the Daily Tar Heel, dated 1970. A single print from the UNC Faculty and Administration binder of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.

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Records of the Media Board, 1948-1982.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Media Board · 1948

Oversight files of the Media Board at UNC, 1948 to 1982, about 1,400 items in 3 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40159. The board and the Publications Board before it dealt with the student media represented here: the 'Daily Tar Heel', the 'Yackety yack' yearbook, 'Cellar door', 'Carolina quarterly', the 'Alchemist' of Carrboro, and the radio stations WXYC and WCAR.

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Printing fiftieth anniversary issue of the Daily Tar Heel

Morton, Hugh M. · 1942

Students print the fiftieth anniversary issue of the Daily Tar Heel, dated 27 February 1942, which lies on the table and in the hands of a figure in the foreground. Hugh Morton negative, 26 or 27 February 1942.

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Students at desk in DAILY TAR HEEL office

Morton, Hugh M. · 1942

Newsroom scene from 1942 by Hugh Morton: Daily Tar Heel editor Orville Campbell at his typewriter, with Ardis Kipp and an unidentified man at a desk in the paper's Chapel Hill offices. On the desk lies the special edition of 10 May 1942 titled 'Your University, Servant of the State'.

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Students with DAILY TAR HEEL newspaper

Morton, Hugh M. · 1942

UNC students pose with the Daily Tar Heel special edition of 10 May 1942, 'Your University, Servant of the State'. Editor Orville Campbell stands second from right and Bob Hoke second from left; the others may include Walter Klein and secretary Ardis Kipp. Probably taken in the paper's office. Hugh Morton photograph, 1942.

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Morton, Hugh M. · 1941

Orville Campbell at work at a desk about 1941 to 1942, probably while he edited the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at UNC. Hugh Morton negative.

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Orville Campbell reading paper

Morton, Hugh M. · 1941

Daily Tar Heel editor Orville Campbell reads the 16 December 1941 Cornell Daily Sun, its headline about Pearl Harbor, in front of a window advertising Defense Stamps, probably in Chapel Hill. Hugh Morton photograph from 1941 or 1942.

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UNC-Chapel Hill student life, circa 1940

Morton, Hugh M. · 1940

A UNC-Chapel Hill student at a desk, probably in the Daily Tar Heel office, on or after 17 November 1940. On the wall hangs that day's paper, headlined 'Happy Days Here Again' after Carolina's 6 to 3 upset of Duke in football. Hugh Morton photograph.

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Hugh Stevens papers, circa 1930-1960s

Stevens, Hugh, 1944- · 1930

Papers of Hugh Stevens, born 1944, spanning circa 1930 to the 1960s. Topics include the history of the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at Chapel Hill, and the Young Men's Christian Association there in the twentieth century. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5637-z.

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Daily Tar Heel Editors: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

Editors of the Daily Tar Heel, the UNC student newspaper, in five undated photographs: posed groups, individual headshots and a negative. From the student life pictures in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.

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DTH Editors: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

Daily Tar Heel editors in two undated pictures: a posed group on negative, and a group print, with its negative, in which the editors watch one of their number write. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.

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Russell, Phillips: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

Portrait of Phillips Russell as a member of the Daily Tar Heel editorial board at the University of North Carolina, undated. From the student life pictures in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.

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Domination : women's lacrosse wins 4th national title

2025 · DTH Media Corp

A four page special section from the Daily Tar Heel marking the fourth national championship won by the North Carolina women's lacrosse team, printed in color at newspaper size by DTH Media Corp in Chapel Hill in 2025. Topics include college sports and lacrosse at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the women's team itself.

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The daily Tar Heel. Volume 131, issue 16, Wednesday, August 30, 2023

2023 · DTH Media Corp.

A single issue of the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: volume 131, number 16, Wednesday, August 30, 2023, twelve pages with color illustrations at 34 cm. The issue carries coverage of a school shooting in Chapel Hill and of the university's students.

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Back again : the story of North Carolina's championship season

2017 · DTH Media Corp

DTH Media Corp, the publishing arm of the Daily Tar Heel, produced this 39 page pictorial account of the 2016-17 North Carolina season, which ended with the NCAA championship game in Phoenix. Photographs, some in color, and player portraits carry most of it.

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Creative urges : the Daily tar heel's literary magazine.

1996

The literary magazine of the Daily Tar Heel, published at Chapel Hill from 1996 and carrying short stories, poetry and photography by University of North Carolina students. Topics include American literature periodicals in North Carolina and the campus student press. Of interest to readers following creative writing at Carolina and the reach of the student newspaper past the daily news.

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DTH alumNotes : the Daily Tar Heel's quarterly alumni newsletter

1995 · The Daily Tar Heel

The quarterly newsletter the Daily Tar Heel sent to its alumni, with the run dated from 1995 in Chapel Hill. The Daily Tar Heel is the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina.

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The year in review : 1993 national champions.

1993 · Daily Tar Heel

The Daily Tar Heel's commemorative issue on the 1993 NCAA championship won by North Carolina at New Orleans. Forty six pages of illustrations in newspaper format at 37 cm, including biographical sketches of the players and coaches. Subjects include Chapel Hill basketball and University of North Carolina biography, which makes it a season record and a set of short player profiles together.

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The tar heel.

1989

Student newspaper of the University of North Carolina, written and published by students at Chapel Hill and serving for a time as the official paper of the university summer school. Issued in volumes measuring 42 to 59 cm.

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New Carolinian.

1975 · Daily Tar Heel

Published by the Daily Tar Heel in Chapel Hill from 1975, an illustrated campus title running to several volumes at 27 cm. It came from the staff of the university's daily student newspaper.

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Variation.

1975

Variation, a 1975 supplement to the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The weekly tar heel.

1953 · Published by the students [of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]

A weekly edition of the University of North Carolina student paper, published by students at Chapel Hill and described in a note as the official publication of the university summer school. Covering college student newspapers and periodicals and with Chapel Hill newspapers, it is treated as a primary source for campus history. One volume with illustrations, 46 cm.

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Graham Memorial number

1924

A special 1924 issue of the Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina, making the case for the Graham Memorial Building to be put up as a student center. Published at Chapel Hill, it is campaign material rather than a description of a finished building.

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Locate.

DTH Media Corp

Student guide to Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina presented by the Daily Tar Heel and published in the town by DTH Media Corp. Issued as volumes with color illustrations at 35 cm and treated as a periodical, with students and the town's description and travel as its subjects.

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UNC-ology : the man from UNCle, 1984-1988

Cokas, William · 1998

Collected comic strips by William Cokas, whose feature 'The Man from UNCle' ran in the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from September 1984 through April 1988. The strips portray campus life through humor. Published in Chapel Hill in 1998.

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36 years of excellence.

1997 · Daily Tar Heel

A commemorative issue of the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, given over to Dean Smith and his thirty six seasons as head basketball coach. Published in Chapel Hill in 1997, the year Smith retired, forty four pages at tabloid size with illustrations. Smith lived from 1931 to 2015.

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Out on a limb : the best of Branch, 1975-76

Branch, John (John Grimes), 1953- · 1976 · Triangle Press

Editorial cartoons John Branch drew for the Daily Tar Heel in the 1975 and 1976 school year, published by Triangle Press in Chapel Hill in 1976. Topics include student life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill along with students, politics and government in the United States.

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The daily Tar Heel.

1893 · Publications Union of the University of North Carolina

Student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by the Publications Union, with coverage from 1893 to 2008. It reports on campus life, students, sports and the town of Chapel Hill.

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One step ahead : Ingram's career night lifts Tar Heels to victory

2024 · DTH Media Corp.

Four page souvenir sheet from the Daily Tar Heel for 2024, reporting a Carolina win over Duke in which Ingram had a career scoring night. Printed in Chapel Hill by DTH Media at 45 centimeters with color photographs and portraits. Topics include college sports in North Carolina and both rival basketball teams.

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The daily Tar Heel. Rivalry edition 2023 : hold the line : new era of rivalry begins

2023 · DTH Media Corp.

Joint rivalry issue produced in 2023 by the Daily Tar Heel and the Chronicle, the student newspapers of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, printed dos-à-dos so that each paper has its own front cover. Volume 130, issue 38 for the Tar Heel, twenty eight pages at tabloid size with color photographs and portraits.

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New era same Erin : UNC field hockey wins fifth title in six years

2023 · DTH Media Corp.

A folio publication from DTH Media Corp., publisher of the Daily Tar Heel, on the University of North Carolina field hockey team winning a fifth title in six years, with Erin Matson at the center of the account. Printed at Chapel Hill in 2023. Topics include field hockey for women in North Carolina and the Tar Heels program.

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The daily Tar Heel. 2022 special edition: victory paper

2022 · DTH Media Corp

Four page victory paper issued by the Daily Tar Heel in 2022 after a Carolina win over Duke, printed in Chapel Hill on a single folded sheet at 45 centimeters with color photographs and portraits. Topics include college sports in North Carolina and both the Tar Heel and Blue Devil basketball teams.

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The daily Tar Heel. Final Four preview edition

2022

A special edition of the student daily at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed in 2022 ahead of the NCAA basketball semifinal in New Orleans that matched the Tar Heels against Duke. Topics include college sports in North Carolina, the two basketball teams and the tournament.

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The daily Tar Heel. Volume 130, issue 7, Monday, April 4, 2022

2022

Issue seven of volume 130 of the student daily at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated Monday, April 4, 2022, in the week of the NCAA basketball final. Subjects include college sports in North Carolina, the Tar Heels, the Duke Blue Devils and the tournament in New Orleans.

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A legacy fulfilled

2009 · Daily Tar Heel

Color poster issued by the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after the 2009 NCAA basketball tournament. It measures 59 by 64 centimeters. It is a pictorial work on the tournament and on Carolina basketball, a keepsake of the championship season.

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200 years of UNC : 1793-1993 special bicentennial issue.

2003 · The Daily Tar Heel

The Daily Tar Heel's special bicentennial issue for October 12, 1993, fourteen illustrated pages on two hundred years of the University of North Carolina. The student newspaper gathered campus history for the anniversary. A publication date of 2003 is also given for the issue.

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A glimpse back : through the decades.

2003 · The Daily Tar Heel

A retrospective section of the Daily Tar Heel, ten illustrated pages published as Section 2 of the paper on February 23, 1993, running back through the decades of the university and of the student paper itself. Topics include both the Daily Tar Heel and the University of North Carolina in its 1793 to 1962 form, along with the present Chapel Hill campus.

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Daily Tar Heel records, 1990-2001, 2007-May 2017.

1990

Records of the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, covering 1990 to 2001 and 2007 to May 2017. Approximately 210,000 items across 21.5 linear feet, including 105,000 digital image files, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40148. Photographs show sports, buildings, students and their political activity, faculty and administrators.

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Mr. Bego presents Bop your head : a collection of cartoons

Cumming, Bryan · 1979

Cartoons Bryan Cumming drew for the Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, during 1970 and 1971, gathered into a collection published in 1979 with no place of publication identified. The subject is student life at the university.

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Soul food and perples : selected columns from the Daily Tar Heel

Ripley, Ken · 1970

Ken Ripley gathered sixty seven pages of his columns from the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and published them there in 1970. Topics include Christianity and the religious life of students at the university.

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The best of Strauch, or, Where will art be when the revolution comes?

Strauch, Bruce · 1968

Comic strips Bruce Strauch drew for the Daily Tar Heel, collected and printed in Chapel Hill in 1968 under a title asking where art will be when the revolution comes. The strips depict student life at the university.

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'35ers to stage biggest reunion in UNC history

1960 · Daily Tar Heel

A special edition broadsheet of the Daily Tar Heel printed in 1960 for the silver anniversary reunion of the University of North Carolina class of 1935. Topics include class reunions at Chapel Hill and the class itself. The Daily Tar Heel is the student newspaper at Chapel Hill, and this issue was produced for the returning class.

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Your university serves the state and the war

1944

A special issue of the Daily Tar Heel from 1944, given over to the University of North Carolina's part in the war: the programs on campus, the training under way there and the work students and faculty took up. Staff writers of the paper contributed the articles. The issue documents the university during the Second World War.

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Purchasing power and preferences at the University of North Carolina : facts and figures from a survey conducted by the Daily Tar Heel "the only college daily in the South", Chapel Hill, N.C. : UNC, a one and one-half million dollar market

1936 · Daily Tar Heel

Advertising promotion from the Daily Tar Heel, built on a spring 1936 survey of what men students at the University of North Carolina bought and what they spent. Figures for twenty-eight commodities give an average outlay per student, each followed by a pitch for the paper as a place to advertise. The pamphlet sells the Chapel Hill campus as a market worth a million and a half dollars.

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The Tar Heel

1929 · Tar Heel

The student newspaper of the University of North Carolina, published at Chapel Hill, with this run dated 1929. It reports on campus news and Carolina athletics.

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The Tar Heel Collection (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1926

Bound volumes of the University of North Carolina's student newspaper, known today as The Daily Tar Heel, for the years 1926 to 1928. Collection CHHS.005 of the Chapel Hill Historical Society.

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Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

1893

The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, first published in 1893 as The Tar Heel. The North Carolina Newspapers collection carries a run of 14,739 issues under its successive titles.

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  1. The Tar Heel publishes its first issue The first issue of The Tar Heel, volume 1, number 1, appeared on Thursday, February 23, 1893, as a weekly published under the auspices of the University Athletic Association, with Charles Baskerville as editor in chief. The student paper took the name The Daily Tar Heel in 1929. People: Charles Baskerville The Tar Heel, February 23, 1893, p. 1 (DigitalNC)
  2. A. A. Kluttz advertises his University Bookstore to students in the Tar Heel The student paper's list of regular Chapel Hill advertisers included A. A. Kluttz, whose University Bookstore advertised shoes, hats, underwear, pictures and souvenirs. A dentist, Dr. William Lynch, advertised an office in the Kluttz Building. The Tar Heel, December 10, 1910, p. 3
  3. The Tar Heel reports the monument's unveiling put off from the 1911 commencement for want of funds The paper reported that the UDC chapters had been unable to fulfill their pledges toward the $7,500, so the monument could not be unveiled at the June 1911 commencement, the fiftieth anniversary of the war's beginning, and would certainly be unveiled in 1912. It was in fact dedicated in June 1913. People: John A. Wilson The Tar Heel, April 1, 1911, p. 1
  4. The Tar Heel counts some 300 student cases and three deaths as the three-week campus quarantine eases Confined to the campus for three weeks, the Student Army Training Corps men had their first leave on Saturday, October 19, under orders not to leave town. The paper counted about 300 cases among the students, three deaths and 35 still in the college infirmary, credited the second-year medical students with keeping the toll low, and noted that both of the university's physicians, Dr. Mangum and Dr. MacNider, had fallen ill. People: William de Berniere MacNider, Charles Staples Mangum The Tar Heel, October 23, 1918, p. 1
  5. The Tar Heel becomes the Daily Tar Heel The commencement issue of June 7, 1929, was the first published as The Daily Tar Heel, after a plan to turn the tri-weekly Tar Heel into a daily went to the Student Activities Committee. Regular daily publication began with the new volume on September 20, 1929. The Daily Tar Heel, June 7, 1929, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1929, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1929, p. 1
  6. The Daily Tar Heel raises a relief fund for Orange County's poor As hard times reached the county, the student paper asked students and townspeople for gifts. Students organized the Campus Relief Fund for the Orange County Poor by late February 1930, and from January 31 through May 12 it collected $202.73. The county welfare officer counted it as part of $649.11 in emergency relief, with gifts from townspeople, a Rotary benefit show and other groups, that had aided 43 families. Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 410 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 28, 1930, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 7, 1930, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 16, 1930, p. 1
  7. Students vote to keep the Tar Heel a daily paper University students voted 438 to 13 to add 33 1/3 cents a quarter to their publication fee so that the Tar Heel could go on coming out six times a week after a first year as a daily published at a loss. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 30, 1930, p. 1
  8. The Daily Tar Heel begins printing United Press wire news The student Daily Tar Heel began taking two or three columns of United Press despatches each night, wired to the Western Union office about 10 P.M., edited by the student staff and set at the Orange Printshop for early-morning delivery to dormitories and homes. The Weekly said it was the first time that spot news of the world reached the campus and village through a daily paper published in Chapel Hill. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 28, 1934, p. 1
  9. The Tar Heel returns to daily publication The UNC student paper went back to printing every day but Monday for the first time since May 1943, when wartime conditions made it a weekly; it had been a semi-weekly since January 1944. It now carried United Press wire news. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 7, 1946, p. 5
  10. Judge Whitfield orders a taxi driver and the Tar Heel editor to explain a letter criticizing his court After the solicitor read in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court a letter from taxi driver Max Weaver, printed in the Daily Tar Heel on May 4, charging the court with unfair treatment of traffic violators, Judge Henry A. Whitfield ordered Weaver and editor Bob Morrison to appear at the next session to explain it. Weaver had cited a taxi driver fined $50 for speeding while others paid far less. People: Henry A. Whitfield The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 9, 1946, p. 1
  11. The Daily Tar Heel and a run of new businesses move into Carrboro Carrboro's correspondent reported that the university's Daily Tar Heel was now housed in a new building in Carrboro, along with a new brick meat market and grocery of Wilson and Jones at the University Lake road and Highway 54, a new filling station across from it, George Poe's new garage at Lloyd and Main streets, and Clark Morris's University Cleaners, doubled in size on Lloyd Street. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 15, 1948, p. 1
  12. Glenn Harden is elected the first woman editor of the Daily Tar Heel In a campus runoff on April 18, 1951, Glenn Harden, an independent coed candidate, beat Don Maynard about two to one for the editorship of the Daily Tar Heel for 1951-52. Pamela Dean, who puts this in 1950, notes that she was the first woman to head any of the campus publications, though a woman had been nominated to edit the Carolina Magazine in 1933. Pamela Dean, Women on the Hill: A History of Women at the University of North Carolina (1987), scan p. 19 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 19, 1951, p. 1
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  1. Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar edit the Daily Tar Heel UNC students Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar were listed together as editors of the Daily Tar Heel in the spring and fall of 1955. The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1955, p. 2
  2. John E. Greenbacker Jr. serves as associate editor of the Daily Tar Heel The masthead of the December 7, 1966 Daily Tar Heel lists Greenbacker as associate editor under editor Fred Thomas. He wrote signed opinion pieces, and a letter in the same issue takes issue with his Sunday column profiling the SDS leader Gary Waller. People: Gary Waller The Daily Tar Heel, December 7, 1966, p. 2
  3. Students for a Democratic Society invites Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker to speak at UNC The UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society invited Frank Wilkinson, who had pleaded the Fifth Amendment when questioned in California about Communist activities, and the Communist theoretician Herbert Aptheker to speak on campus. After the trustees barred both men, Student Government under Paul Dickson, the Daily Tar Heel, the Carolina Forum, the YMCA and YWCA, the Di-Phi and the Carolina Political Union joined SDS in renewing the invitations. People: Frank Wilkinson, Paul Dickson III, Herbert Aptheker The Daily Tar Heel, November 20, 1986, p. 11
  4. Dickson, Nicholson and McCrary invite Herbert Aptheker to speak on campus Three of the students who later sued invited Aptheker to speak at Chapel Hill on March 9, 1966 under the sponsorship of Student Government, the Carolina Forum and the Daily Tar Heel, widening an earlier invitation from Students for a Democratic Society. The court found that the invitation went out on or about February 1 and that Aptheker accepted it two days later. The Daily Tar Heel reported that the three announced the invitation and his acceptance at a Carolina Inn press conference on February 4, and Aptheker later said Nicholson's letter of invitation was dated February 4. People: Paul Dickson III, Herbert Aptheker Caselaw Access Project: Dickson v. Sitterson, 280 F. Supp. 486 (M.D.N.C. 1968) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 5, 1966, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, February 8, 1966, p. 6
  5. Eight student groups re-invite Frank Wilkinson under the trustees' new speaker rules The day after the full board of trustees adopted speaker regulations on February 28, Paul Dickson and leaders of the Carolina Forum, the YMCA, the YWCA, the Daily Tar Heel, the Di-Phi, Students for a Democratic Society and the Carolina Political Union formally told Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson that Wilkinson was invited for March 2 and Aptheker for March 9. Wilkinson spoke to the Duke Bar Association in Durham that day. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Paul Dickson III, Herbert Aptheker, George E. Nicholson III, Robert S. Powell Jr., James A. Medford, Eunice H. Milton, John E. Greenbacker Jr., Eric Van Loon, Gary Waller, Stuart Matthews The Daily Tar Heel, March 2, 1966, p. 1
  6. The Daily Tar Heel marks its 75th anniversary The Daily Tar Heel marked 75 years since its first issue with an anniversary supplement and a weekend reunion of former editors and staff members. On February 24 former editors Charles Kuralt, Lenoir Chambers, Sylvan Meyer and Hugh Stevens discussed the paper's history on WUNC Television. People: Charles Kuralt, Hugh Stevens The Daily Tar Heel, February 25, 1968, p. 1
  7. UNC students vote to keep paying for the Daily Tar Heel through student fees In a record campus turnout UNC students defeated, 4,817 to 1,078, a referendum by the Committee for a Free Press to end compulsory student-fee support of the Daily Tar Heel; a week later a faculty-student committee under journalism dean John B. Adams also recommended keeping the fee, with a professional general manager and no prior censorship. The Daily Tar Heel, March 19, 1970, p. 1
  8. The Daily Tar Heel drops its Sunday paper for a Monday edition Losing about $100 on each Sunday paper once football advertising ended, and with half the student body living off campus, the Daily Tar Heel stopped publishing on Sunday and put out a Monday issue beginning December 7, 1970. It also changed to downstyle headlines and created the post of photo editor. The Daily Tar Heel, December 1, 1970, p. 1
  9. A state senator files a bill to end student-fee support of The Daily Tar Heel after its page on gay life Sen. Julian Allsbrook of Halifax introduced a bill to bar the state universities from making students pay for student publications through activity fees, saying he acted after the April 23 Daily Tar Heel 'Insight' page on gay people in Chapel Hill, with a photograph of two men embracing, which he called pornography. Editor Harry Bryan defended the page, the Student Legislature and the Young Republicans passed resolutions backing the paper, and in June the Senate Higher Education Committee reported the bill unfavorably. People: William C. Friday The Daily Tar Heel, April 30, 1971, p. 1
  10. The Daily Tar Heel is named best college daily in the Southeast The Daily Tar Heel won the Nashville Tennessean Award as the best daily college newspaper in the Southeastern College Newspaper Competition. The Daily Tar Heel, April 11, 1972, p. 1
  11. Four students sue in federal court to end student-fee support of the Daily Tar Heel Four UNC students, all members of the campus Young Republicans Club, filed a class action on July 25 arguing that paying for the Daily Tar Heel out of mandatory student fees made them support opinions they rejected, in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. They named Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, President William C. Friday, Vice Chancellor Joseph C. Eagles Jr., the trustees and the Board of Governors; the case was expected to wait on the appeal in the North Carolina Central University newspaper case. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday The Daily Tar Heel, August 3, 1972, p. 1
  12. The Daily Tar Heel stops regular Saturday publication Editor Evans Witt announced that the Daily Tar Heel would no longer publish on Saturdays except for home football weekends, citing a loss of more than $6,000 on 26 Saturday issues in 1971-72, and planned a monthly tabloid supplement instead. The Publications Board approved the change. The Daily Tar Heel, September 29, 1972, p. 1
  13. Federal judge postpones the suit against student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel At a hearing in federal court in Durham, Judge Eugene Gordon postponed the suit by four UNC students challenging the use of mandatory student fees to fund the Daily Tar Heel for 60 days, or until 20 days after an appeals ruling in a similar case over the North Carolina Central University paper, whichever came first. The suit, filed in July 1972, named the chancellor, the University president, a vice chancellor, the Board of Governors and the trustees, and the paper's editor had joined as a defendant. The Daily Tar Heel, November 3, 1972, p. 1
  14. The Daily Tar Heel gets its first Black editorial staff member A Black student serving as night editor became the first Black member of the Daily Tar Heel's editorial staff, according to Black Ink's history of the BSM. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 23, 1978, p. 2
  15. A federal judge refuses class-action status in the suit against student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel At a conference of attorneys on July 31, 1973, Chief Judge Eugene Gordon of the U.S. Middle District Court ruled that the students' suit against student-fee support of the Daily Tar Heel could not go on as a class action and declined summary judgment for either side, saying he expected an appeal and would make detailed findings of fact. The plaintiffs went on as individuals, so a ruling against the paper would reach only their own fees. The Daily Tar Heel, August 28, 1973, p. 26
  16. A federal judge upholds student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel Chief Judge Eugene A. Gordon of the U.S. Middle District Court ruled that the University's use of mandatory student fees to support the Daily Tar Heel did not violate students' constitutional rights, deciding against four former Young Republicans who had sued in July 1972. The plaintiffs' attorney filed notice of appeal to the Fourth Circuit on September 5. The Daily Tar Heel, September 3, 1974, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, August 25, 1975, p. 5; The Daily Tar Heel, February 24, 1976, p. 1
  17. A federal appeals court upholds student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected eight present and former UNC students' appeal against mandatory student-fee support of the Daily Tar Heel, affirming the district court's 1974 ruling that the paper is not an agency of the state and that funding it does not establish an orthodoxy. The plaintiffs said they would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review it; the suit had cost the paper over $8,000. People: Hugh Stevens, N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday The Daily Tar Heel, August 25, 1975, p. 5
  18. The Daily Tar Heel misses two issues in a fee dispute and N.C. State's Technician is handed out in its place Short of cash after the student body treasurer released its student-fee money in monthly installments, the Daily Tar Heel cancelled its September 6 and September 8 issues. On September 8 about 20,000 copies of N.C. State's student paper, the Technician, were handed out in Chapel Hill in its place, and that night the treasurer released the rest of the paper's fall allocation, $7,379.47. The Daily Tar Heel, September 9, 1975, p. 1
  19. The U.S. Supreme Court lets stand the rulings that student fees may support the Daily Tar Heel The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal in the suit UNC students filed in 1972 against using mandatory student fees to fund the Daily Tar Heel, leaving in place the district court and Fourth Circuit rulings for the paper. The defendants included UNC President William Friday and Chancellor Ferebee Taylor; the paper had spent more than $8,000 on its defense. People: William C. Friday, N. Ferebee Taylor, Hugh Stevens The Daily Tar Heel, February 24, 1976, p. 1
  20. The Daily Tar Heel's board of directors takes charge of the paper's business side A seven-member board of students, faculty and community members was established to oversee the Daily Tar Heel's finances and non-editorial policies, meeting about twice a month. The paper described itself as published by this board. The Daily Tar Heel, March 13, 1978, p. 3
  21. A Daily Tar Heel poll finds most students oppose funding the Carolina Gay Association A Daily Tar Heel survey reported that almost 58 percent of 398 UNC students polled wanted the Campus Governing Council to give the Carolina Gay Association no money, as student budget hearings neared and letters for and against the group ran in the paper. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), March 1978, p. 1
  22. Three students sue to cut off student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel Three UNC students filed suit in federal court in Durham asking that the Daily Tar Heel be barred from student activity fees, about $70,000 of its $280,000 yearly budget, and that fees already paid be refunded, on the ground that the paper endorsed political candidates. The suit named Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, President William C. Friday, the trustees and the Board of Governors as defendants. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, William C. Friday The Daily Tar Heel, February 23, 1979, p. 1
  23. The Daily Tar Heel becomes the first tenant of the new Carolina Union addition The Daily Tar Heel moved its offices into the newly built section of the Carolina Union, the first organization to do so, as construction crews tore down the wall between the old and new buildings; Union Director Howard Henry said other offices would follow over the next few months. The Daily Tar Heel, March 20, 1981, p. 1
  24. A federal judge upholds funding The Daily Tar Heel from mandatory student fees U.S. District Judge Eugene A. Gordon granted summary judgment to the University in a suit filed four years earlier by three plaintiffs led by a UNC law student, who sought refunds of the activity fees given to The Daily Tar Heel and a ruling that fee support for the paper violated the First Amendment. The judge found nothing arbitrary in the University's decision to fund the paper as a learning tool; it was the second time in eight years the University had won such a suit, after a 1974 case. The Daily Tar Heel, April 8, 1982, p. 1
  25. A federal appeals court upholds paying for The Daily Tar Heel with student fees On March 10, 1983, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a 1982 district court ruling against three UNC students who claimed that funding The Daily Tar Heel from mandatory student fees forced them to support views they opposed. The court held that the fees supported an independent student paper that widened the exchange of ideas on campus, not the University's own views; the suit had been paid for by the Fund for Individual Rights, and one plaintiff said he would seek a Supreme Court review. The Daily Tar Heel, April 20, 1983, p. 1
  26. The Daily Tar Heel begins producing the paper on its own $95,000 computer system The Daily Tar Heel published its first regular edition set on a $95,000 Varityper computer system that let student staff write, edit and typeset stories and paste up pages themselves, ending the roughly $60,000 a year it had paid the University's printing department and retiring its Associated Press teletypes. A five-year loan from Central Carolina Bank paid for four terminals, a typesetting terminal, a film processor and an advertising camera. The Daily Tar Heel, August 27, 1984, p. 1
  27. The Daily Tar Heel is named the region's best college daily The Society of Professional Journalists chose The Daily Tar Heel as the best student daily newspaper in its region of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Washington and Delaware, and gave Mark of Excellence awards to two UNC students. The Daily Tar Heel, April 18, 1989, p. 1
  28. The Daily Tar Heel's board votes to incorporate the paper as a nonprofit The DTH Board of Directors voted to begin incorporating the student daily, published since 1893, as a North Carolina nonprofit and to seek tax-exempt status and relief from any past taxes, because the University would not state in writing that the paper fell under its tax exemption. General manager Kevin Schwartz expected incorporation by spring 1990, and the paper also planned to give up its share of student fees between 1991 and 1993. The Daily Tar Heel, July 13, 1989, p. 1
  29. Students march to the Daily Tar Heel to protest a Playboy advertising insert About 20 students carrying a sign reading 'Women are People, Not Pictures!' went to the Daily Tar Heel office with petitions bearing about 500 signatures from the Campus Y's Women's Forum and an independent group, calling the Playboy subscription insert in the September 8 paper degrading to women and asking for an apology and for the ad revenue to go to a women's group. General manager Kevin Schwartz said the paper would not apologize and he would not recommend donating the money. The Daily Tar Heel, September 14, 1989, p. 1
  30. About 10,000 copies of The Daily Tar Heel are taken from racks on election day Between 10,000 and 12,000 copies of the March 27 Daily Tar Heel, the day of the student body president runoff, disappeared from racks across campus; the paper reprinted 7,500 at a cost of $3,500 to $4,500. Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity admitted the next day that its members took the papers for a ritual figure, apologized and agreed to repay, and the Inter-Fraternity Council voted on April 2 not to expel it. The Daily Tar Heel, March 28, 1990, p. 1
  31. The Phoenix and The Daily Tar Heel merge advertising and management The Phoenix student newsmagazine and The Daily Tar Heel merged their advertising and management operations on January 1, 1992, after the UNC Media Board voted to disband; the two kept separate newsrooms. The Daily Tar Heel, January 23, 1992, p. 3
  32. Students vote to choose the Daily Tar Heel's editor by committee instead of by election Students passed a referendum 752 to 417 replacing the campus-wide election of the Daily Tar Heel editor, held for 68 years according to DTH board president Ruffin Hall, with selection by an 11-member committee of three staff members and eight at-large students; the editor chosen in the coming run-off was to serve an extended term. Voters also dissolved the Media Board and repealed automatic inflation increases in student activities fees. The Daily Tar Heel, February 13, 1992, p. 1
  33. The Daily Tar Heel wins a national Pacemaker award The Daily Tar Heel won one of five 1992 national Pacemaker awards from the Associated Collegiate Press and the Newspaper Association of America, presented October 31, 1992, at the national college media convention in Chicago. It was the paper's second straight Pacemaker. The Daily Tar Heel, November 3, 1992, p. 3
  34. The Daily Tar Heel marks its 100th anniversary with a commemorative edition On the hundredth anniversary of The Tar Heel's first issue, the paper published a centennial edition featuring stories from its history, and Gov. Jim Hunt proclaimed February 23, 1993, Daily Tar Heel Day in North Carolina. The Daily Tar Heel, February 23, 1993, p. 7
  35. Society of Professional Journalists names The Daily Tar Heel the best college daily The Society of Professional Journalists named The Daily Tar Heel the best college daily newspaper in the nation in its Mark of Excellence awards, citing its investigative work and comprehensive coverage in the paper's centennial year. The paper had been the finalist for a region covering North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D.C. The Daily Tar Heel, August 25, 1993, p. 3
  36. UNC students vote to end student government appointments to the Daily Tar Heel's board In the February 8 campus election students approved, 2,729 to 663, a referendum put on the ballot by a Daily Tar Heel petition of 2,791 signatures after Student Congress refused it, ending the right of the student body president, the congress speaker and its finance committee to appoint members of the paper's board of directors. The paper had been supported by student fees from 1974 and by advertising alone since May 1993; editor Yi-Hsin Chang called the vote the last step in its independence. The Daily Tar Heel, February 10, 1994, p. 3
  37. UNC students vote to bar the Daily Tar Heel from ever receiving student fees In the February 15 run-off students passed, 1,637 to 1,329, Student Congress member Joey Stansbury's referendum barring the Daily Tar Heel from ever receiving student fees; the same ballot cut student activity fees by $3, raised the graduate federation's share of graduate fees from 15 to 25 percent, barred congress stipends and showed most residence hall voters wanting 24-hour visitation. Editor Yi-Hsin Chang said the paper would look into whether the fee ban was constitutional. The Daily Tar Heel, February 17, 1994, p. 1

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