• Objectivity in Journalism- My final summer column from 2003, written from San Francisco, explores the need for journalists to be objective. The dean and assistant dean of the journalism school want to submit it for a nationwide competition, but somehow the newspaper didn't want me back for the fall.
• Abortion Is Murder- I think that says it all. Enjoy!
• Random Thoughts- Many things go through a person's mind when he is 3,000 miles removed from everyone he knows. I wrote a column about them.
• Female Athletes- I hate hearing about how men shouldn't look at Anna Kournikova when she shows us most of her chest and legs...during a match! My solution: win.
• Defeating Stereotypes- One of my proudest moments was having this column published, not just because it was my first ever published opinion column, but because I think it really shows a problem in society and how we can fix it. Before we can defeat stereotypes, we must realize we have them. Read on!
• My Last Hurrah- My final article after two years on the University Desk. It's about UNC's giant fund-raising (yes, as an adjective it IS hyphenated) campaign, and how it was almost at $1 billion. Not too interesting, but highly sentimental.
• The UNC Honor System- This is the final installment in a four-part series about the system focuses on the respect, or lack thereof, that students and faculty have for the system. The University is looking into revising the system, so we looked into what proposed changes could help, and how. I considered a 10 hour Econ 10 class for every cheater, but that idea was vetoed.
• Residence Hall Robber- A man broke into a UNC residence hall, and in this article I linked the case to another related case in an "off-campus" residence hall. I scooped the Durham Herald Sun on this one, as its story did not mention the possible link. I rule!
• Muslim Scholar Speaks About Quran- Incoming freshman at UNC this year were required to read a book about the Quran, the Muslim holy book. The assignment sparked national debate and brought many people to campus. This speaker's goal was to clear up common misconceptions people have about the Quran and Islam. I still don't understand suicide bombings.
• Granville Air Conditioning Breaks- Some UNC students pay a lot of money to live in the nice, air-conditioned off-campus residence halls. They were not at all happy when their air conditioning broke during a heat wave in August, and the Granville officials weren't happy that I was writing about it! Be sure to check out the lead, it is, as Aaron would say, one of the all-time greats.
• UNC Honors Program- The Honors Program has received praise from some circles, but criticism from others. This is an in-depth look into the program written in Fall 2001 but published in Spring 2002, when I was actually home from school for the semester. Pretty cool that I got a byline when I thought I was traveling around the world in my hospital bed!
• Anthrax "Scare"- A girl in a UNC residence hall received a compact disc, which she was expecting, that had some brown packing material leaking out. But in November 2001 this was a big story, because something pretty big had occurred two months earlier.
• Tuition Increase- UNC has faced tuition increases in the past couple of years, and this article discusses how students want their voices to be heard in the process. As one of my two front page articles published on Sept. 28, 2001, about tuition increases, it is a very informed piece with many sources. But it didn't stop tuition from going up.
• Animal Rights Speaker- This article is a lesson in how to write objective pieces when you clearly feel strongly about an issue. With all the problems humans face in the world, people that spend their lives fighting for the rights of animals make me sick. But the sentiment in the lecture hall was pro-animal rights, and that is expressed clearly in the tone of the article.
• "Survivor" Goes to Burn Center- Far and away, this was the article I enjoyed writing most during my entire DTH career, and I still constantly thank my editors for assigning it. One of the competitors on the second season of Survivor was a UNC alum, and he wanted to donate money to the burn center in honor of a fellow competitor who fell into a campfire while on the show. I tried my best to get him to spill the beans on who won, but he wouldn't go there. It may not have been Rupert, but it was still cool!
• Letter to the Editor- This is my first published "article" in The Daily Tar Heel, written before I was a staff writer. An international student wrote a column bashing the United States, and I felt her views were misguided and irrational (and stupid and ungrateful and ridiculous). My letter expresses my opinions.

Blue & White

• UNC Becomes Conservative- As surprising as it is, there was a liberal/hippie place in North Carolina! But over the last two years, the campus has become much more conservative, which you would expect in North Carolina. Side note: This article doesn't say the trend is good or bad, it just says it is happening. Check it out!
• Sports Recruiting- As Sports Shorts editor of the Blue & White, the largest UNC student-run magazine, I get to write about one of the things I love most: sports! This article was a feature story on how varsity sports other than men's basketball and football recruit. So much is said about the two "major" sports, so this in-depth look is very interesting.
• Sports Shorts November 2001- This section includes an article I wrote about football coach John Bunting's weekly radio show, broadcast from a Chapel Hill restaurant. The football team was so much more fun to write about when it was winning! Also, I know Julius Peppers's number was 49; it was changed during the design process, and I was very upset.
• I have a lot more awesome articles, including the most widely read article in the five year history of the Blue & White about our 2002 stellar basketball recruiting class (I brushed shoulders with Dick Vitale while I was covering a game!) but they aren't on the Web site. Damn "upgrades."

Broadcast Journalism Class Projects

• State Fair- My first real radio package. For the assignment, we had to go to the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh and do a radio piece on one aspect. I chose the people that had been working the fair for years, and they all had some great stories to tell! Listen to hear them and get a great taste of the South.
• Franklin Street- My final project for class, which was voted the second best in the class, even though I had no prior broadcast experience. (One of my proudest moments as a journalist.) It is about a typical Thursday night out on Franklin Street, the main place where UNC students go to hang out on weekends. There are interviews with drunk people, sober people, partying people, studying people, bouncers, and anybody else you could imagine. Listen and enjoy!