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. Thousands of students have served
on its staff, many of whom have gone on to prominent careers in
journalism and other influential fields.
Print News and Raise
Hell engagingly narrates the story of the newspaper's
development and the contributions of many of the people associated
with it. Kenneth Joel Zogry shows how the paper has wrestled over
the years 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
long-standing concerns about the role of major athletics at an
institution of higher learning. The story of the paper, the social
media platform of its day, uncovers many dramatic but perhaps
forgotten events at UNC since the late nineteenth century, and
along with many photographs and cartoons not published for decades,
opens a fascinating window into Tar Heel history. Examining how the
campus and the paper have dealt with many challenging issues for
more than a century, Zogry reveals the ways in which the history of
the
Daily Tar Heel is deeply intertwined with the past and
present of the nation's oldest public university.