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Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games – UNC-Chapel Hill
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Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games
Student photo, from article…The 25 journalism students will produce stories at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics in Italy for NBC and local stations.
By Caroline Daly, University Communications and Marketing, Friday, January 30th, 2026
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A group of 25 Carolina students will gain hands-on experience in live television and sports writing during the 2026 Winter Olympics (Feb. 6-22) with the support of a sports broadcasting professor.
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students, alongside C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor, will travel to Milan and work as reporters during the Games. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Hussman has sent students to cover the Games as official reporters for the International Olympic Committee and NBC News. This will be the fifth Olympics covered by Hussman students, but the first Winter Games.
“A couple of the students have never left the country, so this will be a brand-new experience for them,” said Tuggle. “The Winter Olympics are also staged differently, so this will be a different kind of experience for the students who have gone before.”
The students will report around the city, speaking with fans and families of Olympians to find stories with a North Carolina connection. The content and stories produced by the students will be available to every NBC News station across the country.
Students will communicate with media outlets in the Triangle area, the coast of North Carolina and Pennsylvania to develop story ideas and video packages that will run on live local news broadcasts. They will also pitch stories to any market in addition to their primary partners and translate content into Spanish for Telemundo.
Each student team will include a writer, television reporter and an audio reporter. All students will also produce social media content throughout the Games.
This experience will give students practice with same-day turnarounds on stories and television packages. A team of students will also spend part of the Games in Cortina, along with making trips to the ski villages.
Sophomore Eliza Jennings will produce broadcast video packages for WITN-TV and Curtis Media Group while in Milan. Jennings has never been to the Olympics before and is excited for the opportunity.
“When you decide to come to Carolina, these are the kind of moments you dream about,” said Jennings. “Most people work their whole lives for an opportunity like this, and to get to go to the Olympics as a sophomore in college kind of feels like a journalism student’s version of winning a national championship. It just doesn’t get much better than this.”
Senior Kyla McGhee, who went with the Hussman team to the 2024 Paris Olympics, is going again to Milan. She will produce video packages with North Carolina stations WRAL and WITN-TV.
She plans to pursue a journalism career after graduating this May and hopes the experience will be helpful in preparing for her future work with tight turnarounds and deadlines.
“I feel blessed to be working for another Olympics. Not many people can say they’ve attended the Olympics, and I have the opportunity to add two Olympics to my resume,” said McGhee. “I’m looking forward to the whole experience. I’ve never been to Italy, so I’m excited to explore a new country and see sports like figure skating, hockey and snowboarding.”
Jennings thinks the experience will be “life-changing” for the students’ careers. “It’s an incredibly unique opportunity you don’t really hear college students getting to do,” she said. “It makes me feel like I’m capable of achieving anything I work hard enough for in the future.”
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NewsLib and Sept. 11, 2001 – Internet Archive – 9/11 – We Will Never Forget
https://web.archive.org/web/20040617130947/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NewsLibtulloch.html
AprJunDec1720032004200517 captures, 6 Dec 2003 – 16 Aug 2013
Paula Hane, a contributing editor to Information Today and editor of Newsbreaks, issued an editorial on September 17, 2001 entitled, “Information Professionals Respond Following Terrorist Attacks.” (1) This article inspired me to look at a specific group of information professionals. This group of information professionals performs both ready-reference and in-depth research for its clients. Most members of this group are true generalists, make little money, and work on extremely tight deadlines. (Perhaps not surprisingly, their interactions on their newsgroup – NewsLib — seem similar in many ways to our own ESU-SLIM class listgroups.) The individuals in this group of information professionals are generally known as news librarians or news researchers. To gain some insight into their work, I followed their interactions in the NewsLib group from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001.
From my review of approximately 300 email postings during the period from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001, I gathered three distinct impressions of news librarians/news researchers. I was impressed by their professionalism, the diversity within the group, and, perhaps, most of all, by their willingness to share and assist each other – their sense of community — especially during such a difficult time in our history.
Professionalism
Postings to NewsLib in the days prior to September 11, 2001 consisted of many of the issues that other librarians and researchers face. Postings included solicitations for help in finding resources, accessing resources, verifying resources, and assessing the quality of resources. Other topics included the following: a discussion about when news researchers “should” and “should not” receive research credit in a story; a discussion about copyright infringement; and, a survey solicitation by a group of researchers wanting to gather data on the “state of news libraries” for an upcoming conference. (2)
From September 11, 2001 to September 14, 2001 postings increased four-fold on NewsLib as news librarians and researchers searched for information on behalf of a stunned public. These people seemed to understand that they had a job that HAD to be done and they searched, shared, and asked for help, all in an extremely professional but human manner. The first question on the morning of September 11 was posted by Shelley Lavey of the Detroit Free Press at 9:24 am EST. Shelley asked the question that probably crossed the public’s mind later in the day. “Has anyone come across any significance to the date of September 11 that might be related to the events at the World Trade Center today?” (3)
In the midst of postings about the possible significance of September 11, Mike Reilly, a professor of journalism, offered his professional support. “For those of you researching and backgrounding air disasters, there are reliable resources at www.journaliststoolbox.com It has an entire section on airline disasters. Share with your newsrooms. Take care, Mike Reilly.” By 11:00 am EST, Abigail Brigham at the CNN library in New York shared a link to a list of tenants at the World Trade Center. By noon, Mari Keefe of ComputerWorld posted specific facts (and their sources) about the World Trade Center in response to the frantic inquiry, “Anybody got the fast facts like how many tons of concrete, etc? I keep getting a 404 message! “ by Suzanne Henderson of the Charleston Post and Courier.
In the few hours following the attacks, other news librarians shared information about web sites that track enroute flights. They also shared their frustration with these flight-tracking sites and other sites being overwhelmed, as well as reporting to each other that the live feed for the FAA flight-tracking web site had been suspended. Other requests and responses on NewsLib focused on gathering and putting together timelines of terrorist activities over the last twenty years.
Later in the day on September 11, researchers tried to verify among each other stories about price gouging at gas station. They also took “roll” on who had put out special edition newspapers (4). Finally, they continued to share resources. By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site. At 7:30 pm EST, Jill Konieczko, MLS, a Lexis-Nexis marketing manager announced to her colleagues that beginning at 9pm EST, special packaged content would be available for free.
By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site.
Article…
Noted Konieczko, “Our own information professionals at Lexis-Nexis are crafting searches to deliver on-point information for analysis and crisis management on the following topics:
News and Background Terrorism Legislation Other Attacks on the U.S.
Terrorist Groups Victims of Terrorism Act Oklahoma City
Terrorist Organizations Terrorism: Selected Statutory U.S. Embassy Bombing
U.S. Response to Terrorism Materials Kenya and Tanzania (1988)
Osama Bin Laden World Trade Center (1993) Pearl Harbor (1941) “Ms. Konieczcko encouraged her colleagues to contact her to suggest additional topics and said that her own team would be continuously adding content.
What most impressed me about Ms. Koniecscko’s letter to her colleagues and patrons on NewsLib was her acknowledgment of the difficult job that they were doing and would continue to do in the days ahead. On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it. Ms. Koniecscko described this situation well in her note to NewsLib. “We rely on your coverage to grapple with the details, understand the weight of the day’s events, and persevere… Again, please know that we are thinking of you, and please let us know what we at LexisNexis can do to better assist you in your research in these very difficult times.”
On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it.
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Diversity:
In addition to the professionalism displayed by NewsLibbers, I was struck by the diversity of the group. NewsLib has over 1250 subscribers from 22 different countries. These statistics certainly speak to the diversity of its members, but what impresses and surprises me is the diversity of news organizations that contribute to NewsLib. Researchers from newspapers and news organizations with circulations/audiences of 100,000 have equal footing with organizations with circulations/audiences of 1,000,000 on NewsLib. A researcher from the Seattle Times soliciting information from the NewsLib group might receive responses from a researcher at NBC, a news librarian at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, an independent information professional, or a researcher from the Brazilian National News Agency. NewsLibbers also recognize the value of diverse opinions. Researchers in the United States called on Canadian researchers to get the facts on Gordon Sinclair, whose column about America had been circulating over the Internet in the day or two following the attacks. Similarly, early this week, a colleague in Belgium answered a question from a colleague in the United States about production of American flags outside of the United States. The NewsLib group highlights the democratic nature of information (information wants to be free!) and the value of different sources of information.
Community:
My final and over-riding impression of NewsLibbers is their commitment to assist each other in a common goal: to disseminate specific, validated, usable information to the public as quickly as possible. I have already noted examples of the sharing of information that goes on among NewsLibbers; now let me share a few additional examples of NewsLibbers’ “community spirit.” At 3 pm EST on September 11, Richard Geiger of the San Francisco Chronicle couldn’t access the “Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan (pdf)” (January 2001) from the FBI web site, so he asked for assistance and received the document as an attachment from a colleague. Also on September 11, Mari Keefe of Computer World happened to be working remotely and could not reach some co-workers that normally assisted her in acquiring photos. In the absence of direct assistance from her co-workers, Leigh Montgomery of The Christian Science Monitor came to Mari’s aid by providing all of the contact names and numbers necessary for Mari to purchase photos from Reuters. This happened within 8 minutes of Mari posting her initial request for assistance. Later in the week, the same kind of “community spirit” was evident. A news librarian in the Netherlands received a faxed copy of a 1980 article from the Far Eastern Economic Review from a colleague in Canada. The Canadian librarian found the article – an article about the last king of Afghanistan – copied it, and sent it to the Dutch librarian… all within 20 minutes of the initial request. If NewsLibbers are representative of news librarians overall, they are a tight-knit community indeed.
Closing Remarks
In closing, I want to introduce you to the moderator of the NewsLib group. Her name is Barbara Semonche ( [email protected] ) and she is Library Director at the University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications. On September 13, she announced that she had gathered the threads of the conversations and organized the resources for the benefit of the news community on a web site entitled: September 11, 2001: NewsLib research queries following the World Trade Center Attack. In her closing remarks, Barbara Semonche said, “May I say that you are all extraordinary in your efforts to research and share data and information during this tragedy. You are truly impressive under deadline pressure, way beyond ‘just doing your job.’” Indeed. I will be contacting Barbara by email in the upcoming weeks to gain more insight into NewsLib, news librarians, and her assessment of how this group performed in the midst of this crisis. I will keep you posted!
(1) Full text available at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010917-1.htm
- (2) News Libraries: An Assessment A lot of changes are taking place in newsrooms and news research libraries across the country. Ownership changes, new content management concerns, tightening budgets, and expanding publication / distribution options are creating new opportunities, and new challenges. The University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Minnesota Journalism Center are planning a summit meeting on these changes, opportunities and challenges to be held Nov. 15-16, 2001. An important step in preparing for the summit is to get a full picture of where the changes are occurring, and the impact of these changes on the dynamic relationship between newsrooms and news libraries. Please an overview of this research project and the summit at http://www.inms.umn.edu/research/newslib/overview.htm.
- (3) Three days later, that question was still being debated on NewsLib. The only consensus reached on an accurate and direct connection on the significance of September 11 was this: September 11 was the 10th anniversary of the United Nation’s sponsored Day of Peace.
- (4) Many reported that these special editions were the first their papers had published since the Kennedy assassination.
Thankfully, this post and article remains in the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine. Never Forget…
See also: The companion piece showing the messages, the work, the help. https://web.archive.org/web/20040617101301/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NWSworldtradecenter.html
We lost Barbara in 2015. RIP.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/barbara-semonche-obituary?id=12173408
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Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham
Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students
Friday, October 3, 2025 2:41PM
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
Ted, a rescue dog adopted through Neuse River Golden Retriever Rescue, makes regular visits to campus with his owner, Kristen Ponturiero.
“Ted and I come on campus. We like to come at least once a month,” Ponturiero said.
Before becoming a source of comfort for college students, Ted’s journey began far from North Carolina.
“Ted was actually found as a stray on March 20, 2024, with a compound-like fracture on the streets of Albania. A very kind stranger found him and took him into her care, and was able to get him very good veterinary care. They were unable to save his front left leg. So he did have an amputation over in Albania. But, as you see, he gets along fine,” Ponturiero said.
Despite his rough start, Ted quickly adjusted and showed a natural love for people.
“My husband and I took Ted out to a brewery one night. A woman approached us, and she commented on Ted’s great demeanor and that she thought he would be a great volunteer,” Ponturiero said.
That encounter eventually led them to HAPPEE Hugs and Pups Posse, a group that encourages and empowers college students by offering emotional support – one hug or pup at a time.
Many UNC students say Ted has become an important presence during stressful times on campus.
“I think a lot of students, like, we really need that, especially during a time like this. So if you are stressed about exams, but like seeing a dog, that’s just like a moment to, like, unwind and see another smiling creature,” said student April Chou.
For others, simply seeing Ted is the highlight of their day.
“This is amazing to have on campus. It literally makes my day every time I see a dog on campus. Like, just because we never get to see dogs, because kids here don’t have them in the dorms or have them in their on-campus housing. Absolutely makes my day,” said student Madeleine Bouvette.
Ponturiero says Ted’s resilience makes him even more special.
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Culture of fear in places of learning. Faculty at NC colleges report anxiety over threats to academic freedom – WFAE 90.7 – Charlotte’s NPR News Source
Students walk across campus on Sept. 30, 2025, at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.Culture of fear in places of learning. Faculty at NC colleges report anxiety over threats to academic freedom
By Kate Denning | Carolina Public Press, Published December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST
Students walk across campus on Sept. 30, 2025, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.At a recent Faculty Assembly meeting, a body of delegates from each of the 17 UNC System institutions, Wade Maki, chair of the assembly and UNC-Greensboro professor, asked its members to raise their hand if they had colleagues who were afraid of losing their job because of something they said in the classroom. Every delegate raised their hand, acknowledging concerns about academic freedom.
He asked them again to raise their hand if they had colleagues who were afraid of losing their job because of something they posted on their private social media accounts. Again, every delegate raised their hand.
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“I can’t think of anything that better expresses the climate that we are in,” Maki said.
North Carolina has narrowly avoided being in the spotlight alongside the slew of universities to fire faculty over speech both in and out of the classroom. But just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean that academics feel entirely safe from the national phenomenon. Some say the anticipation is creating a culture of fear and self-censorship among faculty in the classroom and when interacting with the media.
‘Aggression’ toward academic freedom
Todd Berliner is the president of the recently revived American Association of University Professors UNC-Wilmington chapter. He and the eight others on the executive committee resurrected the chapter because of the “unprecedented aggression toward faculty and toward academic freedom that has erupted” in the last year, though it’s really been happening for nearly a decade, he told Carolina Public Press.
What were once commonly shared values in academia like shared governance and academic freedom have become politicized and challenged, Berliner said.
Several high-profile firings occurred this year due to professors speaking on issues related to gender identity — one at Texas A&M after a gender and sexuality lesson in a literature class and another at the University of Oklahoma after a psychology professor gave a student a failing grade on an assignment that cited the Bible to disagree with the notion that there are more than two genders. Both raised concerns about the state of academic freedom in higher education.
In September, an associate professor — a rank that typically indicates academics have obtained tenure at their institutions — at a small private North Carolina college declined an interview request from CPP because the person did “not feel it is safe to even report on academic/scientific expertise, as that is now often attacked, and professors are now being reprimanded/fired for taking such a stance.”
Instances like these indicate a newly aggressive climate toward the mission of academia and the open exchange of ideas, Berliner said.
“When faculty feel threatened and when this kind of aggression is directed toward faculty, we can’t do our best work, and we need to be able to think freely and expose ourselves and our students to whatever ideas are pertinent to the issues of the day and to history in order to gain understanding,” he said.
Aside from disagreements over course material, public statements on current events and other outside political activity have also resulted in retribution for academics. As many as 40 faculty members were fired this year over comments related to the assassination of firebrand conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the national branch of the American Association of University Professors told The Guardian in October.
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Culture of fear in places of learning. Faculty at NC colleges report anxiety over threats to academic freedom – WFAE 90.7 – Charlotte’s NPR News Source
Students walk across campus on Sept. 30, 2025, at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.Culture of fear in places of learning. Faculty at NC colleges report anxiety over threats to academic freedom
By Kate Denning | Carolina Public Press, Published December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST
Students walk across campus on Sept. 30, 2025, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.At a recent Faculty Assembly meeting, a body of delegates from each of the 17 UNC System institutions, Wade Maki, chair of the assembly and UNC-Greensboro professor, asked its members to raise their hand if they had colleagues who were afraid of losing their job because of something they said in the classroom. Every delegate raised their hand, acknowledging concerns about academic freedom.
He asked them again to raise their hand if they had colleagues who were afraid of losing their job because of something they posted on their private social media accounts. Again, every delegate raised their hand.
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“I can’t think of anything that better expresses the climate that we are in,” Maki said.
North Carolina has narrowly avoided being in the spotlight alongside the slew of universities to fire faculty over speech both in and out of the classroom. But just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean that academics feel entirely safe from the national phenomenon. Some say the anticipation is creating a culture of fear and self-censorship among faculty in the classroom and when interacting with the media.
‘Aggression’ toward academic freedom
Todd Berliner is the president of the recently revived American Association of University Professors UNC-Wilmington chapter. He and the eight others on the executive committee resurrected the chapter because of the “unprecedented aggression toward faculty and toward academic freedom that has erupted” in the last year, though it’s really been happening for nearly a decade, he told Carolina Public Press.
What were once commonly shared values in academia like shared governance and academic freedom have become politicized and challenged, Berliner said.
Several high-profile firings occurred this year due to professors speaking on issues related to gender identity — one at Texas A&M after a gender and sexuality lesson in a literature class and another at the University of Oklahoma after a psychology professor gave a student a failing grade on an assignment that cited the Bible to disagree with the notion that there are more than two genders. Both raised concerns about the state of academic freedom in higher education.
In September, an associate professor — a rank that typically indicates academics have obtained tenure at their institutions — at a small private North Carolina college declined an interview request from CPP because the person did “not feel it is safe to even report on academic/scientific expertise, as that is now often attacked, and professors are now being reprimanded/fired for taking such a stance.”
Instances like these indicate a newly aggressive climate toward the mission of academia and the open exchange of ideas, Berliner said.
“When faculty feel threatened and when this kind of aggression is directed toward faculty, we can’t do our best work, and we need to be able to think freely and expose ourselves and our students to whatever ideas are pertinent to the issues of the day and to history in order to gain understanding,” he said.
Aside from disagreements over course material, public statements on current events and other outside political activity have also resulted in retribution for academics. As many as 40 faculty members were fired this year over comments related to the assassination of firebrand conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the national branch of the American Association of University Professors told The Guardian in October.
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Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg – The Daily Tar Heel
A Border Patrol agent searches a neighborhood in Southeast Raleigh, N.C.. Nov. 18, 2025. Photo courtesy of Scott Sharpe / The News & Observer.Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg
By Nakai Moore, January 19, 2026There comes a point when euphemism becomes collaboration. What Immigration Customs Enforcement is doing in Minneapolis is not immigration enforcement, domestic security or a policy disagreement between parties. This is an actual federally sanctioned paramilitary organization. We often ask with the power of hindsight how democratic societies sleepwalk into fascism. We imagine sudden coups and suspension of elections. History is far less theatrical. It happens when opportunities for prosecution are deferred, when leaders like Merrick Garland and Jack Smith treat extraordinary abuses as legally delicate rather than existentially dangerous, and when the state refuses to punish those who violate the Constitution and normalize terror.
That is why accountability must now be uncompromising: this is how fascism is confronted, the way it always has been — through prosecution, dismantlement and the unambiguous assertion that state terror will be met with law, not indulgence.
They need to be Nuremberg ’d.
For the past couple of months, there has been a constant stream of videos coming from across the country of ICE harassing people — detaining people for their accents, wearing masks concealing their faces, demanding proof of citizenship, driving unmarked vehicles, beating people, all culminating with the extrajudicial killing of Renee Good. In Minneapolis, citizens are openly carrying and defending their neighborhoods. Riots and protests have proceeded daily for the past week.
ICE has continuously assaulted Fourth Amendment rights and is backed by the Department of Justice, which would rather probe and investigate Democratic politicians than those who abused power and enabled this machinery. Figures such as Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi must be confronted by the full, relentless authority of the law with the next Department of Justice. Not symbolically, not cautiously and not years too late, but through aggressive, evidence‑driven prosecutions that treat complicity in constitutional violations as the grave offense that it is.
After Jan. 6, 2021, the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland and Special Counsel Jack Smith approached open insurrection with caution and deference. Their soft, timid handling of the insurrection — plagued by delay, restraint and an institutional fear of appearing political — sent a message that power could act with impunity. This message did not evaporate; it metastasized, now amplified in Minneapolis and across the country as federal immigration agents operate with overwhelming force and unchecked authority. What we are reaping today — militarized deployments of DHS agents, legal challenges accusing the federal operation of racism and the fatal shooting of a civilian in broad daylight — is the consequence of a Justice Department too hesitant to halt abuses at the source.
For examples on how to conduct this, one must look no further than historical precedent. After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials established a bedrock principle: leaders who use the machinery of the state to terrify, suppress and ignore basic rights are not exempt from prosecution simply because they held office. That unprecedented tribunal did not debate ideology or excuse political intent — it demanded accountability for crimes against humanity, cutting off the head of fascism so the body could not regrow.
More recently, Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for his role in plotting a coup and attempting to overthrow constitutional order, demonstrating that even powerful national figures can be held accountable for their attempts to undermine democracy. Our Supreme Court has ruled contrarily, granting presumptive presidential immunity to sitting and past presidents for all official acts.
Regardless, we need to establish a fundamental value: no grace for fascism, no tolerance for state terror. By cutting off the head of the snake, dismantling the agencies that enabled abuse and affirming that such violations carry consequence and punishment, we not only prosecute wrongdoing but also inoculate society against the normalization of fascism. If we fail again, history will not forgive our hesitation.
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Editor’s Note: The column points to the future, and yes, we should have another Nuremberg Trial, Trump Version, after we take back the House and Senate, impeach Trump, and then, begin the trials in World Courts. I believe we must, to save American and World Democracy. I recommend viewing the YouTube videos about the first Nuremberg Trial. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_and_the_Nazis:_Evil_on_Trial (via Wikipedia), and the documentary from 2024 on Netflix, if you can: https://www.netflix.com/title/81561941
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Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg – The Daily Tar Heel
A Border Patrol agent searches a neighborhood in Southeast Raleigh, N.C.. Nov. 18, 2025. Photo courtesy of Scott Sharpe / The News & Observer.Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg
By Nakai Moore, January 19, 2026There comes a point when euphemism becomes collaboration. What Immigration Customs Enforcement is doing in Minneapolis is not immigration enforcement, domestic security or a policy disagreement between parties. This is an actual federally sanctioned paramilitary organization. We often ask with the power of hindsight how democratic societies sleepwalk into fascism. We imagine sudden coups and suspension of elections. History is far less theatrical. It happens when opportunities for prosecution are deferred, when leaders like Merrick Garland and Jack Smith treat extraordinary abuses as legally delicate rather than existentially dangerous, and when the state refuses to punish those who violate the Constitution and normalize terror.
That is why accountability must now be uncompromising: this is how fascism is confronted, the way it always has been — through prosecution, dismantlement and the unambiguous assertion that state terror will be met with law, not indulgence.
They need to be Nuremberg ’d.
For the past couple of months, there has been a constant stream of videos coming from across the country of ICE harassing people — detaining people for their accents, wearing masks concealing their faces, demanding proof of citizenship, driving unmarked vehicles, beating people, all culminating with the extrajudicial killing of Renee Good. In Minneapolis, citizens are openly carrying and defending their neighborhoods. Riots and protests have proceeded daily for the past week.
ICE has continuously assaulted Fourth Amendment rights and is backed by the Department of Justice, which would rather probe and investigate Democratic politicians than those who abused power and enabled this machinery. Figures such as Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi must be confronted by the full, relentless authority of the law with the next Department of Justice. Not symbolically, not cautiously and not years too late, but through aggressive, evidence‑driven prosecutions that treat complicity in constitutional violations as the grave offense that it is.
After Jan. 6, 2021, the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland and Special Counsel Jack Smith approached open insurrection with caution and deference. Their soft, timid handling of the insurrection — plagued by delay, restraint and an institutional fear of appearing political — sent a message that power could act with impunity. This message did not evaporate; it metastasized, now amplified in Minneapolis and across the country as federal immigration agents operate with overwhelming force and unchecked authority. What we are reaping today — militarized deployments of DHS agents, legal challenges accusing the federal operation of racism and the fatal shooting of a civilian in broad daylight — is the consequence of a Justice Department too hesitant to halt abuses at the source.
For examples on how to conduct this, one must look no further than historical precedent. After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials established a bedrock principle: leaders who use the machinery of the state to terrify, suppress and ignore basic rights are not exempt from prosecution simply because they held office. That unprecedented tribunal did not debate ideology or excuse political intent — it demanded accountability for crimes against humanity, cutting off the head of fascism so the body could not regrow.
More recently, Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for his role in plotting a coup and attempting to overthrow constitutional order, demonstrating that even powerful national figures can be held accountable for their attempts to undermine democracy. Our Supreme Court has ruled contrarily, granting presumptive presidential immunity to sitting and past presidents for all official acts.
Regardless, we need to establish a fundamental value: no grace for fascism, no tolerance for state terror. By cutting off the head of the snake, dismantling the agencies that enabled abuse and affirming that such violations carry consequence and punishment, we not only prosecute wrongdoing but also inoculate society against the normalization of fascism. If we fail again, history will not forgive our hesitation.
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Editor’s Note: The column points to the future, and yes, we should have another Nuremberg Trial, Trump Version, after we take back the House and Senate, impeach Trump, and then, begin the trials in World Courts. I believe we must, to save American and World Democracy. I recommend viewing the YouTube videos about the first Nuremberg Trial. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_and_the_Nazis:_Evil_on_Trial (via Wikipedia), and the documentary from 2024 on Netflix, if you can: https://www.netflix.com/title/81561941
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Vrabel’s pregame message resonated with Drake Maye, Patriots – Boston.com
Mike Vrabel’s pregame message resonated with Drake Maye, Patriots before win over Ravens
“You take it for granted. Just what a beautiful sport. The best sport out there.”
Drake Maye helped lead the Patriots to a comeback win over Baltimore on Sunday. (Danielle Parhizkaran / Globe Staff)By Conor Ryan, December 22, 2025, 11:20 AM, 3 minutes to read
Hours before Drake Maye helped the Patriots erase an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter against the Ravens, the Patriots quarterback heeded the message doled out by his head coach in the visiting locker room at M&T Bank Stadium.
New England was dealing with plenty of adversity entering Sunday’s primetime matchup — fresh off of collapsing against the Bills at Gillette Stadium the previous weekend.
Compounding the Patriots’ woes was the sting of the injury bug, with New England soldiering on without key cogs like Milton Williams, Will Campbell, and Robert Spillane on Sunday night. An already reeling New England depth chart would be further sapped of its talent as Sunday’s bout carried on.
But as Maye and the Patriots took to the field in enemy territory, Vrabel preached the importance of relishing the moment — especially amid a season where a once-rebuilding New England franchise has consistently punched above its weight.
That message rang true for Maye, especially in the aftermath of Sunday’s dramatic 28-24 victory.
“You take it for granted, man,” Maye said postgame. “You take it for granted. Just what a beautiful sport. The best sport out there. This game, it’s brutal. There’s times with injuries and losses that weigh on you, but this winning feeling, there’s nothing like it. Coach reminded us of that pregame.
“He said, ‘You can’t buy that back, winning in that locker room.’ At his age, he always says, ‘I wish I could suit up again.’ You just can’t buy that. He said, ‘You can buy anything else in life, but you can’t buy this time we’re in right now.’ And what a time it is.”
New England overcame several hurdles on Sunday, be it those aforementioned injuries or several early miscues that prevented the Patriots from piling on points against Baltimore.
But in crunch time, Maye played some of the best football of his young NFL career.
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Vrabel’s pregame message resonated with Drake Maye, Patriots – Boston.com
Mike Vrabel’s pregame message resonated with Drake Maye, Patriots before win over Ravens
“You take it for granted. Just what a beautiful sport. The best sport out there.”
Drake Maye helped lead the Patriots to a comeback win over Baltimore on Sunday. (Danielle Parhizkaran / Globe Staff)By Conor Ryan, December 22, 2025, 11:20 AM, 3 minutes to read
Hours before Drake Maye helped the Patriots erase an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter against the Ravens, the Patriots quarterback heeded the message doled out by his head coach in the visiting locker room at M&T Bank Stadium.
New England was dealing with plenty of adversity entering Sunday’s primetime matchup — fresh off of collapsing against the Bills at Gillette Stadium the previous weekend.
Compounding the Patriots’ woes was the sting of the injury bug, with New England soldiering on without key cogs like Milton Williams, Will Campbell, and Robert Spillane on Sunday night. An already reeling New England depth chart would be further sapped of its talent as Sunday’s bout carried on.
But as Maye and the Patriots took to the field in enemy territory, Vrabel preached the importance of relishing the moment — especially amid a season where a once-rebuilding New England franchise has consistently punched above its weight.
That message rang true for Maye, especially in the aftermath of Sunday’s dramatic 28-24 victory.
“You take it for granted, man,” Maye said postgame. “You take it for granted. Just what a beautiful sport. The best sport out there. This game, it’s brutal. There’s times with injuries and losses that weigh on you, but this winning feeling, there’s nothing like it. Coach reminded us of that pregame.
“He said, ‘You can’t buy that back, winning in that locker room.’ At his age, he always says, ‘I wish I could suit up again.’ You just can’t buy that. He said, ‘You can buy anything else in life, but you can’t buy this time we’re in right now.’ And what a time it is.”
New England overcame several hurdles on Sunday, be it those aforementioned injuries or several early miscues that prevented the Patriots from piling on points against Baltimore.
But in crunch time, Maye played some of the best football of his young NFL career.
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University launches new AI studio in Davis library – The Daily Tar Heel
University launches new AI studio in Davis library
Photo by Cassidy Toy Reynolds / The Daily Tar HeelBy Mariah Temple, Published Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025
On Aug. 18, University Libraries launched its new Library AI Studio, where students can gather to learn about rapidly growing information technology and experiment with its tools. The physical space, located on the second floor of Davis Library, provides a hands-on experience with artificial intelligence.
María Estorino, vice provost of University Libraries and the University librarian, said that generative AI is just another aspect of what the library has always sought to provide for students — access to knowledge along with the tools used to create and generate it.
Equipped with experts available from 12 to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, the studio is an information center designed for the community members of all backgrounds to advance their AI literacy through various workshops, panels and one-on-one consultations.
“We serve all of campus. We’re really a neutral place for student learning and building literacies of all kinds,” Michelle Rodell, associate University librarian for health sciences and director of the Health Sciences Library, said.
Rodell said University Libraries recognizes that students will graduate into a world where AI already exists within their careers — the studio simply serves to prepare students for that reality.
Riley Harper, technical chair of AI@UNC, said he thinks the Library AI Studio is a good way for students to get involved with AI. AI@UNC is a student organization where members can assist in faculty-led research projects and gain hands-on experience through workshops.
“There’s a lot of buzzwords that are often thrown around [AI], and demystifying some of that so that it’s not misused can be a great use of funding,” he said.
Harper added that he would like to see some of the AI Acceleration Grants go towards projects run by student leadership, but overall thinks the Library AI Studio is a great initiative.
The Library AI Studio held its first in-person event on Aug. 20, a creative workshop titled “Prompt and Pour: Mocktails with an AI Twist.” Students could stop by the second floor of Davis to sample mocktails made from AI-generated recipes, enter raffles for library prizes and connect with their peers through AI bingo and online quizzes aimed to fuel conversations surrounding AI and the new studio itself.
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