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UNC Asheville hosts Holocaust remembrance event for the first time

More than 100 people attended a community remembrance of the Holocaust at UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union on Sunday, May 5.

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Student protesters assemble outside of budget cut meeting demanding change

Tuesday, student protestors assembled outside Highsmith Student Union, demanding the University of North Carolina at Asheville keep adjunct professors in light of recent budget cut announcements. “And let me be clear. The plan was to fire them all today, according to our insider sources,” said Marcos Martinez, an 18-year-old drama student and Vice President of...

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Congressman Edwards urges UNCA to cancel controversial event, labels it 'anti-Semitic'

U.S. Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11) is calling on UNC Asheville to cancel an event Friday that the Republican called "woke, hateful and anti-Semitic."

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Henderson County Four Seasons Politics: Edwards condemns UNCA's 'Until We're All Free' event

Henderson County (Nov 3, 2023) - U.S. Congressman Chuck Edwards on Thursday condemned the “Until We’re All Free” event funded by taxpayer dollars scheduled for noon Friday on the campus of the University of North Carolina Asheville and urged the university to cancel the event that he said is designed to normalize and espouse hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric.

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UNC Asheville responds to Rep. Edwards call to cancel 'anti-Semitic' event, postponed by organizer

UNC Asheville released a statement Friday morning, Nov. 3, less than 24 hours after Rep. Chuck Edwards called on the university to cancel what he claimed was an

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Recent UNC-Chapel Hill shooting incites demands of a national safety revolution

On Wednesday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill went into lockdown for the second time in a month for gun activity on campus. “You don’t believe it will happen at your school until it does,” said Weslyn Hall, a 19-year-old Psychology senior at UNC. Mickel Deonte Harris, a 27-year-old Durham resident, waved a...

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Adrian Miller, James Beard Award winner, to lecture at UNC Asheville

Join culinary historian and James Beard Award-winning author for “Southern Black Chefs in the White House” lecture on Feb. 22 at UNC-Asheville.

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UNC Asheville active shooter training under investigation

An active-shooter training incident some students are describing as "traumatizing" is under investigation at UNC Asheville.

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Students, staff traumatized by surprise active shooter training drills

An active shooter training drill on the University of North Carolina Asheville campus seemingly backfired.

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Six OD at GPI, Body Pulled from River, District Maps to be Redrawn

It appears North Carolina lawmakers are heading back to the table to start redrawing legislative district lines. Multiple drug overdoses are being reported at an Asheville resort hotel. The discovery of a body is being investigated in Haywood County.

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