Print News and Raise Hell

Abstract

For over 125 years, the Daily Tar Heel has chronicled life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at times pushed and prodded the university community on issues of local, state, and national significance, including politics. The book engagingly narrates the story of the newspaper’s development and the contributions of many people associated with it. The book shows how the paper has wrestled with challenges to academic freedom, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, while confronting issues such as the evolution of race, gender, and sexual equality on campus, and the long-standing concerns about the role of intercollegiate athletics at a major research university.