Police surround Silent Sam on Aug. 20 after the Confederate monument was pulled down by demonstrators.
From the events leading up to its toppling to the plans for its relocation.
Silent Sam and Carolina Hall: The Board of Trustee's quest for context
A series of resolutions on contextualization rolled out by the UNC Board of Trustees in 2015 will play a role in how the University decides how to deal with Silent Sam.
University to receive $65 million through hedge fund partnership for medical research
UNC is partnering with hedge fund sponsor Deerfield Management to form Pinnacle Hill, LLC., a company that will focus on drug research.
Silent Sam painted red, protester arrested
Silent Sam was painted red around 2:30 p.m. Monday. The person has been identified as Maya Little, a UNC doctoral student, on Twitter. Little was arrested by UNC Police following the incident.
'I told them we sucked': UNC bounces back from slow first half in blowout win
During the opening stages of the second half Wednesday night against UNCW, the No. 14 North Carolina men’s basketball team went on a 30-3 run, checking several boxes at once: rebounding well, pushing the tempo, visiting the free throw line and getting good looks at the rim, all while taking care of the basketball.
Quarterback Kelly Bryant announces he will not attend UNC for graduate year
Bryant, who played in 29 games for Clemson and started all 14 games during the 2017 season, told head coach Dabo Swinney he would transfer from Clemson on Sept. 25, two days after he was benched in favor of true first-year quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
Maya Little has been charged following Monday's protest, along with another student
This arrest is in connection to the Monday night protest of Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees' proposed solution to Silent Sam.
Franklin Street filled with demonstrators opposing University's Silent Sam proposal
Traffic was stopped in all directions as demonstrators marched through both lanes of Franklin Street on Monday night. Demonstrators leading the way held a large sign that read, "Put it up. We'll tear it down. Anti-racists run this town." The protest was in response to the proposal by Chancellor Carol Folt and the UNC Board of Trustees to create a $5.3 million "History and Education Center," a freestanding single-use building, to house the Confederate Silent Sam monument on the UNC Odum Village site.
North Carolina legislature to consider marijuana legalization in 2019
The N.C. General Assembly will begin talking about marijuana legalization in the new year, but if the proposal passes, it will be up to local governments to actually legalize it.
Silent Sam to be housed in new freestanding building, Folt and BOT recommend
The new building would be a center meant to contextualize UNC's history, Folt said at the Monday morning meeting.
UNC women's soccer sees season end in heartbreak after National Championship loss
A year of hope was abruptly ended by FSU, but UNC women's soccer had plenty of positive takeaways from this season.
UNC women's soccer falls in National Championship, 1-0, to Florida State Sunday
With the loss, UNC finished the season 21-4-2.
'The elephant in the room': Racial disciplinary gaps persist in CHCCS schools
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools have put multiple policies in place to focus on making schools more equitable, diminishing a disciplinary gap between Black and white students. But is what they're doing enough?
Was student input considered in this $65 increase in student fees?
An increase in student fees was officially ratified by the Board of Trustees in November, and now faces approval by the Board of Governors. The new fee of approximately $65 seeks to account for renovations in classrooms and labs. However, student government leaders claim the fee was proposed without a considerable student input. The fee also takes the place of other fees that are being diminished or terminated altogether. Here is the process the fee must go through to be official, and what both sides have to say about it.
No. 11 UNC men's basketball falls to No. 7 Michigan, 84-67, on the road Wednesday
Though North Carolina took the lead in the first half, they couldn't follow through against Michigan on Wednesday night.
We sat down with Margaret Spellings just months before her early resignation
Margaret Spellings hosted an informal conversation for media members the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 28. Spellings reflected on her time in North Carolina and answered questions from various media members about her resignation and future plans. The UNC-system president will officially resign on Mar. 1, 2019.
Nearly 180 have joined boycott against UNC's Honor Court
The boycott includes 36 professors, almost 140 graduate students, many of whom work as teaching assistants and in other positions, and a handful of other University members.
Here's what really happened to the seven RAs fired from Ehringhaus Residence Hall
With the rumor going around that RAs in the Ehringhaus dorm were fired for selling their first-year residents alcohol, the DTH spoke to one of the former RAs to set the record straight. Here's what we found:
The Daily Tar Heel for Nov. 12, 2018
