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Emily Booker
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Emily Booker is a born and raised North Carolinian and a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a political science and journalism double major with a bottomless fascination with politics and an appetite for good food and classic rock. Emily attended The Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University where she studied political journalism and served as a media relations intern at the World Wildlife Fund. She has reported for The Daily Tar Heel at UNC and is interning for a candidate running for the N.C. State House.

Blog Entries by Emily Booker

Liberal Arts Education and the 'Know-Nothing' Bandwagon

(8) Comments | Posted January 31, 2013 | 12:36 PM

As my undergraduate career at UNC comes to a close this semester, I've often reflected on the advantages of a liberal arts education. Because of the university's "Connections & Approaches" requirements for general education, I've taken classes I would have never given a second thought, and have walked away with...

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It's War -- Teaching Dynamic New Media

(0) Comments | Posted November 14, 2012 | 12:41 PM

If you Google "Top Journalism Schools", there is not a single article on the first page that doesn't mention UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and Mass Communication's stellar undergraduate and graduate programs. I am a bit biased as a student of the J-School at UNC, but there's a...

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Tales From the Election: Poison, Pinheads and Partisanship

(0) Comments | Posted October 3, 2012 | 3:56 PM

As far as I know, no one has ever accused political campaigns of bringing out the best in people. This election cycle is the first I have really been plugged into -- though I've always been interested in politics, having just completed my political science degree, finishing a second major...

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Confessions Of An iPhone Gamer

(0) Comments | Posted July 18, 2012 | 7:02 PM

I have a few minor addictions -- honestly, the biggest one is to candy (SweeTarts and Jolly Ranchers, mostly) -- and the other is iPhone/Game Boy games. I guess what I'm trying to intimate is that I'm a chubby 8-year-old boy.

Last summer, I considered myself quite the young...

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Olympic Excitement

(0) Comments | Posted July 3, 2012 | 5:47 PM

About 270,000 students travel each year to study abroad -- a number that has almost tripled in the past two decades. I'm one of the lucky mass making the exodus to the United Kingdom this summer and just in time for the London Olympics.

I've been fortunate enough...

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