“It meant a lot to me that my teammates thought that much of me because for a while I didn’t know if they saw me as one of them or as some sort of weird outsider. There were so many moments in my first season when I thought, ‘Wow, I can’t believe this is really happening!’ It is truly humbling.”
– Joel Hughes, 39-year-old goalie of UNC's club hockey team
“The standard for every Carolina basketball player is to be elite in three areas: on the court, in the classroom and in the community.”
– Hubert Davis ’92, Head Coach, Men's Basketball
“Historians typically use images only as illustrations of the past, as mirrors of what happened. … They tend not to think of images of having this active role to play in the past in shaping public attitudes and really being part of history.”
“This is not my fight. … It’s not my job to heal The University of North Carolina. That’s the job of the people in power who created the situation.”
“I think all of our teachers have done a tremendous job navigating this new virtual learning and teaching environment, but it’s not the same as being in the classroom. I think we have a long ways to go in assessing the impact of the year gone by.”
– Cathy Moore ’97 (MSA), superintendent, Wake County Public School System
“My grandmother always drilled into me that women need to be strong, and the way she thought of being strong is education. You’ve got to have an education. You’ve got to have your own job. You’ve got to stand on your own feet.”
– Zeynep Tufekci, “Prescient Moments”
“A historic social uprising for racial justice was taking place. As an academic, I felt that my university also needed to be part of the reckoning.”
“I really enjoy this place where the science meets the rest of the world. Science itself is beautiful, but when you can take that beautiful science that inspires awe and have it become part of the world at large, it makes a gigantic difference in many, many more people’s lives.”