Community members gathered the Pit last week to pay their respects to James Lewis Cates Jr. and to see his life memorialized on campus. Cates, 22, was a Chapel Hill resident murdered outside the Student Union in November 1970 by members of a white supremacist motorcycle gang.
Doug Dibbert has been president of the General Alumni Association since 1982. He announced his retirement in a Board of Directors meeting earlier this month and reflects on his time in the position.
Visibility Forward — founded by four UNC students — aims to use education as an avenue to promote a society where Asian American history is recognized as American history.
UNC and Person County Schools held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Thursday to mark the opening of Carolina Community Academy (CCA), a K-2 school within North Elementary School located in Roxboro, N.C. “The students in the lab school are Tar Heels; they're Chapel Hill students,” Abd-El-Khalick said.
The University announced plans to develop a permanent memorial in the Pit dedicated to James Lewis Cates Jr. last Friday. Cates — a 22-year-old Black Chapel Hill resident — was murdered by members of a white supremacist motorcycle gang after a November 1970 event on UNC's campus near the Pit. Community organizations have worked for years to demand justice for Cates and establish the permanent memorial. “It was 50 years of other people's work that ultimately got us here,” Taliajah “Teddy” Vann, UNC's student body president, said.
At their April 4 meeting, Faculty Executive Committee members continued their conversation on faculty salary inequities, and also spoke about the University's inquiry into journalism faculty emails regarding the $25 million Hussman school donor agreement.
As the UNC men's basketball team prepares to meet Duke in the Final Four on Saturday, students reacted with their plans to watch the game and their thoughts on the team's NCAA Tournament run thus far.
The UNC System lost money on multiple fronts in the Silent Sam settlements. Even after the $2.5 million settlement with the North Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans was overturned, money from the "Monument Trust" was still used to pay University counsel, according to invoices from the firm Womble Bond Dickinson provided to The Daily Tar Heel. Invoices obtained by the DTH show that the UNC System paid over $243,338.14 to counsel for “professional services rendered” on the settlements — $119,753.14 through Nov. 30, 2019 and $123,585 as late as July 31, 2020.
Two candidates are running to be the president of the Graduate and Professional Student Government: Theodore Nollert and Zachary Boyce. The election is on Tuesday.
On Feb. 9, UNC launched the Heels Care Network, a collection of university-wide mental health resources for students, staff, faculty and other members of the campus community. “We realize there is no single solution here, but this is an important step forward,” Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said in an email. “We are committed to continuing this work until everyone in our community knows they are never alone.”
