He coached basketball for just two years at Carolina but took a team to the national finals. As a college player and coach he had a 5-0 record against UNC. And he provided a key link in the chain of events that brought the young Dean Smith… read more
Dance parties at her house “seemed spontaneous but were always expected.” She built the largest and most diverse cabinet in the history of student government, and when warned it was too big, she pressed on. She’d eat nearly all the ice cream,… read more
“I thought I misheard or something because when a public icon like Eve, student body president – just someone everybody loves — you kind of make them invincible. You think nothing bad can happen to a person like that. And so I just didn’t… read more
After Durham police arrested the second suspect in Eve Carson’s shooting death in mid-March, they also charged him in the slaying of a Duke University graduate student in January. Lawrence Alvin Lovette, 17, surrendered shortly after 4 a.m. read more
Tar Heel basketball and football fans are used to getting their radio play-by-play straight up and by the book. It may be as exciting as the game itself, but one never wonders whether there’s going to be an off-color slip of the tongue. It’s… read more
They were, in the words of class Treasurer T.J. Abrams ’05, “already experiencing change and uncertainty.” They were three weeks into their freshman year when the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania suddenly replaced their… read more
UNC dedicated a 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… read more
In Memory of Those Lost in Military Service William C. Friday Thursday, April 12, 2007 Correction Appended We gather to dedicate the Carolina Alumni Memorial in memory of those lost in military service. They number 684 noble spirits… read more
“I found a wounded Federal sitting on the field – a broken thigh, a rifle ball through his arm and a bruised shoulder made him right helpless. … He asked me if I thought our surgeons would care for him. I assured him they would. He said he had a… read more
Carolina will re-name a south campus residence hall on Tuesday in honor of Paul Hardin, Carolina’s seventh chancellor. Known since its completion in 2002 as Morrison South, the four-story building will be dedicated as Paul Hardin Hall. It houses… read more