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To call someone a “rosin heel” or “tar heel” was to imply they that they worked in a lowly trade. During the Civil War, North Carolina soldiers flipped the meaning of the term, and turned an epithet into an accolade.
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In 1929 it changed its name to The Daily Tar Heel and began to expand its reporting and analysis of national and international affairs. Since then The Daily Tar Heel has often made news itself by drawing both widespread praise and criticism for its handling of various controversial subjects.
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“The Daily Tar Heel,” UNC Libraries, accessed January 3, 2025, https://www.museum.unc.edu/items/show/2423.
Hazel Katherine Hill, Editor of the Daily Tar Heel, 1943-1944
Hazel Katherine Hill, Editor of the Daily Tar Heel, 1943-1944 Women filled many of the classroom seats left vacant by male students. In 1944, they numbered well over half of the civilian student body.
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Newspaper, "Student Leaders (l-r) George Nicholson, Paul Dickson, and Ernie McCrary," The Daily Tar Heel, 5 February 1966, Chapel Hill, N.C.