Crocus chrysanthus / Golden Crocus at the Coker Arboretum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC

UNC-Chapel Hill: Tiroteo Mortal Estudiante de Posgrado Arrestado por Sospecha de el Asesinato de un Miembro de la Facultad

UNC-Chapel Hill. Hoy queremos abordar un suceso impactante que ha sacudido a la comunidad universitaria de UNC-Chapel Hill. En un incidente trágico, un estudiante de posgrado ha sido arrestado bajo sospecha del asesinato de un miembro destacado de la facultad. Este lamentable tiroteo nos lleva a reflexionar sobre la seguridad en los campus universitarios y las señales inquietantes que pueden…

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The front page of The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s newspaper, front page for August 30, 2023. Text messages sent during the lockdown after a student murdered a science professor with a gun.

Courtesy of kottke.org

by Peter Reitzes

About 25 minutes into the event, SJP activists simultaneously stood up and slowly walked out, screeching chants of “Bari Bari, you can’t hide, you’re committing genocide.” Of course, she was not hiding. She was on stage, engaging in public discourse, offering to take questions from community members, including the very activists screaming at her.

The “walkout” amounted to a heckler’s veto that prevented the speakers from talking. Uniformed police, followed by Provost Clemons, ushered SJP activists out of the event. Some activists remained outside the auditorium, heckling and shouting at the audience after the event finished an hour later.

The conversation between Bruni and Weiss offered a model of how two people can engage in civil discourse about important issues while sometimes disagreeing. I will not summarize the impressive conversation here, except to say that Weiss mentioned how her highly respected media website — the Free Press — had recently received criticism for publishing a column by Andrew Sullivan that was viewed as being strongly critical of Israel.

UNC offered free pizza to attendees as we left. There were many uniformed police officers outside, and SJP activists were shouting chants and attempting to intimidate attendees who were leaving. A group of four masked SJP activists shouted at us and followed my group. Police officers appeared to follow the activists who were following us.

One reason SJP activists feel emboldened to act in such menacing ways on campus is that UNC continues to allow them to conceal their identities during protests and disruptions. UNC policy and North Carolina law prohibit the use of masks to hide identity. The great preponderance of the masked audience were SJP members, who were easily recognized as they sat in the same two areas and walked out in unison.

The “arguments” SJP activists screamed at us after the event indicated these young adults have no interest in engaging in difficult conversations. The activists following us were yelling about what they called “genocide pizza” and “apartheid pizza” that UNC offered.

Front page of The Daily Tar Heel – independent student newspaper for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – for Wednesday August 30, 2023 is a collection of text messages sent and received by students on Monday during an active shooter school lockdown. A faculty member was killed by a student with a gun. Our son was in lock down for three hours in a building near Caudill Laboratory where the shooting took place. Professor Dr. Zijie Yan was killed; he is survived by his wife, a professor at NC State, and their two daughters, ages 2 and 7. All Chapel Hill-Carrboro area primary schools also went on lock down procedures for many hours and school release was delayed – it was the first day of school for these students, kindergarten through twelfth grade. It was the start of the second week of classes for the Tar Heels.

It was the sixth school shooting in the United States of America this month alone. When is enough?

NORTH CAROLINA FRIENDS!

This event has been organized by a good buddy of mine, and my partner and I are going to be there volunteering + selling our zines :)

Please send this to your local friends as well.

If you can come, let me know! We’d love to see you.

i had the hugest pleasure of being able to spend most of my weekend at the UNC chapel hill solidarity encampment. everyone there was so kind, welcoming and generous! stay safe and free palestine 🇵🇸❤️

https://twitter.com/FOmyronpitts/status/1696849306496463168?s=20💔

Jasminum nudiflorum / Winter Jasmine at the Coker Arboretum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC

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Did some college mascots as animal crossing characters

The cover of the Aug. 30, 2023 print edition of The Daily Tar Heel compiles text messages from yesterday's campus shooting at UNC-CH. It's a work of extraordinary power and anger in the face of grief, fear, and political cowardice. There should be endless stacks of it wherever nra republicans go.

AS OF ONE HOUR AGO: STUDENTS AT UNC HAVE STARTED AN ENCAMPMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH COLUMBIA STUDENTS AND PALESTINE!!!!