
In her second year of attendance, UNC-Chapel Hill student Maranda Hansley said the Silent Disco this year had much better music than last year, though she countered this by saying the following: “I’m not sure if they played better music or if better song just so happened to have come out in 2016.” Hansley gave the disco 9.25 out of 10 stars.

“Body confidence has never been my forte, but practice makes perfect, right?” Stella Reneke, sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill, said. “It’s not easy, but I’m trying to be kinder to myself when I look in the mirror.” She then went on to say she’ll give us an update on where she is at in another 30-70 years.

Black Belt Zach Soberano has been participating in Carolina Taekwondo since his freshman year at UNC-Chapel Hill, and he emphasized how much it has grown since he began. When asked about his favorite part of the club, Soberano replied, “My favorite part is sparring because it’s my one real form of exercise I do. The only downside is that we all smell nasty once we’re done.”

One of the employees of the Cocoa Cinnamon coffee shop in Durham, NC gets churros ready for the customers. The owner says he takes great pride in his team members. “We work to hire high performing folks who represent the cross section of the people whom we hope to invite,” he said, “For me it is an honor and a simple and profound pleasure to work with so many different folks.”

Jimmy Cioe, program coordinator of recovery initiatives at the Governor’s Institute on Substance Abuse, is passionate about race relations in our country and doesn’t believe the current administration is doing much of anything to help it. “The secret is to be anti-racist. It isn’t really about race,” Cioe said. “It’s really about privilege.” He went on to say that he didn’t think it mattered if President Trump was a racist, and that what matters is that he exploited racism to get into office. “That is heartbreaking,” Cioe said. “I don’t use evil often, but that’s evil. He’s lowering us.”