When Wyndham Robertson stepped down as vice president of the UNC System this year, her parting remarks to the Board of Governors underscored 10 years of observations about the University and the UNC System’s president, C.D. Spangler ’54. “The… read more
Thirty years ago, on a hot, humid September Saturday afternoon, with assistance from my mother, we carried my foot locker and other belongings up to the third floor of Alexander Dorm. This was the beginning of my fateful transition from Fayetteville… read more
At the memorial service for the five Carolina students who died in the tragic fire in the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, my thoughts turned to an earlier time, to a classmate named James Lawrence Whitfield Jr. ’70 and his death 25 years ago —… read more
Esse quam videri. To be rather than to seem. North Carolina’s state motto says much about our citizens, our sense of what is important and how, as a state, we wish to be perceived. This perspective also has affected many of our state’s… read more
Reading the latest article in our ongoing series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the chancellorship at The University of North Carolina reminded me of when I was a student in the late ’60s. Carolina faced many challenges during that period,… read more
New calendar years customarily bring many things, including resolutions, predictions and wishes. I have a close friend who each year sends out a list of predictions and includes an accounting of how his predictions from the previous year fared. I… read more
In its 202-year history, The University of North Carolina has been led by chief executive officers carrying differing titles, from our first “presiding professor,” the Rev. David Kerr, who served from 1794 to 1796; to our first “president,” the Rev. read more
The Chapel Hill that Michael Hooker left in 1969 was different from the campus to which he has just returned. Physically our University is much larger and we have a much greater presence from our five health affairs schools (dentistry, medicine,… read more
Spring in Chapel Hill is always very special, full of sights, sounds and experiences that create lasting memories. This was particularly true this year. After 13 years of attending 25th reunions for other Carolina alumni, Debbie joined me as I… read more
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine the Chapel Hill campus without the Carolina Inn, the Lineberger Cancer Research Center, South Building, the Morehead Building, the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, Kenan Stadium, the Smith… read more