Special Reports These articles originally appeared in the Carolina Alumni Review and, along with all editorial content from the Review since 1994, remain available online to GAA members as a benefit of membership. History of the Chancellorship
Beginning in 1995, the Review began publishing a series of articles about the lives and times of the University's chancellors, going back to the creation of the office at UNC in 1945 and Robert House '16, the first person to hold the office. The narrative of the lives of these leaders, and subsequent news articles about the University's top administrator, help tell the story of Carolina's recent history. Answering Questions About Admissions
and Financial Aid at UNC
As Carolina has become more attractive, competition at the admissions office continues to increase. The Review devotes in-depth coverage in each March/April issue to this subject, and the features and data found here go back to 1996. Topics have ranged from what it takes to compete, how financial aid works - including the creation of the Carolina Covenant, ensuring students from low-income families can graduate without debt - to how Carolina uses student essays to make admission decisions. Carolina's Memorial to Alumni War Dead
UNC dedicated a new campus memorial on April 12, 2007, titled "Carolina Alumni Memorial in Memory of Those Lost in Military Service." The installation, on Cameron Avenue between Phillips and Memorial halls, honors University alumni who were killed during wartime, from the Civil War to the Gulf War. (As of April 2007, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had claimed no Carolina graduates.) The names of the 684 known alumni who perished are listed in a bronze Book of Names with pull-out panels. Space was left for additional names that were not discovered in research for the memorial as well as those who might be lost in the future. In May 2009, the Iraq war claimed UNC's first alumnus, Cmdr. Charles Keith Springle '79, and in August 2009, the war in Afghanistan claimed UNC's first alumnus there, Pfc. Morris L. Walker '08. Their names have been added to the online list below. Carolina's Century
Fifteen years after his graduation and a short time into his UNC presidency at the close of the 19th century, Edwin Alderman had tired of looking out his office window at the University's watering hole, a charmless wooden box with a roof standing on eight plain wooden posts. Alderman took some heat for putting beauty ahead of a long list of practical needs when he spent two hundred bucks in 1897 to surround the well with a reproduction of the Temple of Love at Versailles. Graduates trek there to hug their parents, and newlyweds make the detour to pose. As surely as Silent Sam knows a neophyte, the Old Well's water packs vitamins for academic success. We go back there with baby strollers. There are any number of upstanding public institutions in this country with nothing much to look at. Alderman and others who have led this one seemed to understand the need for balance. In the 21st century, the campus at Chapel Hill is a harmony of efficient function and breathtaking beauty; both are stressed by growth and change - when were they not? In this special report, published in 1999, the Review takes a long look back at the 20th century - truly a century in which Carolina came of age. Works in Progress
Some of what's new evokes the old campus, and some of it departs. The building boom, at last, has peaked. This report appeared in the May/June 2008 issue of the Review and includes additional photos of the campus construction projects. A Carolina Mosaic
A look at 50 special people who each find their own way to contribute to the Carolina experience. This report appeared in the March/April 1998 issue of the Review.
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