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UNC’s proposal to re-establish Silent Sam on campus has faced public denouncement and direct action from students, professors, alumni and more, both within the University and beyond it.
Amid euphoric embraces and shouts, dislodged from its pedestal overlooking UNC’s campus for the first time in 115 years, Confederate monument Silent Sam rested in a growing pile of dirt and spit.
Students, faculty and community members packed Franklin Street on Monday night to protest the University’s proposal to spend $5.3 million, in addition to $800,000 annually, for a new on-campus building housing Silent Sam.
Protesters complicated a “standard business meeting” held this weekend by the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s North Carolina division.
Nearly 180 UNC professors and graduate students have signed on to a boycott of the student-run Honor Court system, stating a collective refusal to send students to the courts for any disciplinary action until a list of demands are met.
Content Warning: This story includes slurs referring to individuals' race, sexual orientation, religion and other sensitive material.
After two days of back-and-forth messaging a girl he matched with on Tinder, Oswaldo Lopez met up with her the night of May 3.
UNC’s Honor System faced backlash over claims that it let a biased judge help decide the verdict of a Silent Sam activist, Maya Little, charged with damaging the Confederate monument.
Calvin Deutschbein, a member of Chapel Hill’s Community Policing Advisory Committee, said he fears the potential consequences of police violence escalating at future Silent Sam rallies.
Years of collaboration between the United Daughters of the Confederacy and UNC’s leaders led to the 1913 unveiling of Silent Sam.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Philip Jones sent an email to University officials expressing outrage over Silent Sam's toppling and incorrectly attributed quotes from the email to him. Philip Jones, director of social media at UNC, copied and pasted a Facebook post from ACTBAC N.C. and sent it to University officials in the email. The story has been updated, and The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for this error.
Students and community members expressed outrage Tuesday night over officers using pepper foggers, deploying smoke bombs and tackling protesters in recent demonstrations at McCorkle Place over Silent Sam.
Update 6:30 p.m.: Updated arrest information was sent by UNC Media Relations Sunday evening. Eight individuals were charged during Saturday's demonstration on McCorkle Place:
Deans, directors and department heads at UNC received a briefing this summer in preparation for possible visits from federal or state agencies, like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement – leaving some University employees concerned.
Update 10:05 p.m.:
In the aftermath of Silent Sam’s Aug. 20 toppling, 12 people have been charged with crimes connected to the Confederate monument’s removal and the conflicts that have followed.
In 2010, David Tedrow learned he had around five more years to live. A debilitating diagnosis caused him to close his established business, forget how to do things like answer the phone and enter a nightmare of constant hospital visits.
Just before 2 a.m. on Nov. 21, 1970, a 22-year-old Black man laid dying in the center of UNC’s campus after being stabbed multiple times by a member of a white supremacist biker gang.
Update, 6:31 p.m.: Chancellor Carol Folt, UNC Board of Governors Chairperson Harry Smith, UNC-system President Margaret Spellings and Board of Trustees Chairperson Haywood Cochrane have released an updated statement from the University and UNC-system that says the State Bureau of Investigation will be assisting local police to investigate last night's protest.