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Articles by Cecilia Lapetina
Amid a quieter campus, international students find community over Thanksgiving break
Lifestyle Nov 17, 2025, 11:53 PM When I stepped off the plane in the United States for the first time, I was anxiously going through customs and frantically looking through my newly set up Outlook inbox, trying to find the dorm I had been assigned with no one to turn to for help. I was in a new country — alone — and feeling quite homesick. Then, after I got settled, long weekends and any opportunity for in-state students to go home left the campus feeling abandoned.
Satire: Roommating 101 - a guide from the world's best cohabitator!
Opinion Oct 28, 2025, 3:37 AM Shared living is humanity at its purest — and most volatile — form. It’s where boundaries kiss and get trampled on, where patience evaporates in haste and where even the mildest dispositions can turn to anger at the sound of someone’s chewing. Whether it’s your first time sharing a space with a roommate or your 10th, it never hurts to have a few tips and tricks up your arsenal on how to handle the sociological experiment that is an undergraduate housing facility.
A survival guide to UNC's residence halls
Printing news. Raising hell. Since 1893. Friday, May 23, 2025 Newsletters Latest print issue If you’re getting ready to start college this year, odds are you’re about to get your first taste of semi-communal living. Dorm life can be an adjustment, but it’s also one of the most memorable and universal parts of the college experience. Whether it’s learning how to compromise with a roommate or finding your place in a new community, dorm living teaches life lessons that go far beyond making your bed.
Music research forum explores gentrification's impact on sound
Printing news. Raising hell. Since 1893. Tuesday, April 8, 2025 Newsletters Latest print issue Gentrification is often seen as a visual process — more outsiders, more coffee shops, more upper-middle-class apartment buildings. But just as important, arguedethnomusicologist Allie Martin in UNC's Person Recital Hall, is its effects on noise and music.
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