Silent Sam should not return to the Chapel Hill campus, the leader of the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors says. Protesters felled the Confederate statue some nine months ago. Board chairman Harry Smith told reporters Wednesday, May 22, his views…
“This is my anti-Semitic song.” Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar said those words March 22 as he performed on a stage at UNC Chapel Hill’s Global Education Center. “I know it sounds R&B and stuff, but don’t think of Rihanna…
An after-action report on the toppling of Silent Sam reveals “serious deficiencies” in how UNC-Chapel Hill law enforcement handled the situation. The UNC Board of Governors voted to make the report public Jan 15 and disclosed it the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 1.
The UNC-Chapel Hill faculty wants a seat at the table for discussions over the fate of Silent Sam. The Faculty Council last month approved a resolution for a faculty committee dedicated to providing input to university administration about what to do…
Dozens of protesters gathered in the rain outside the UNC Center for School Leadership Friday, Dec. 14, to protest the potential return of the Confederate statue dubbed “Silent Sam” to the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Now it looks as if the debate will continue into next…
At least 79 teacher assistants and instructors at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are threatening to withhold grades unless their demands in the Silent Sam controversy are met, local activists say. A proposal by the university’s Board of Trustees to…
Silent Sam soon may return to campus after the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a recommendation to rehouse the Confederate memorial in a new, on-campus historic education center near UNC Medical Center. The Board of Trustees met Monday, Dec. 3, to approve a recommendation…
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include comments from UNC Board of Governors member Marty Kotis. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is poised to set a national example of allowing lawful protest while protecting free speech. But campus administrators and law enforcers so…
Students ought to use their four years in Chapel Hill as basic building blocks for a lifetime of personal and professional growth as citizens and scholars.
RALEIGH — First Amendment Rights just got the “green light” on two University of North Carolina campuses. New findings from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonpartisan research and litigation organization, show a positive shift in speech protections at UNC Greensboro and North Carolina Central University.
