Chronology

Jeffery Beam writes Song of the University Worker for the trustees

Beam, then vice chair of the UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Forum, wrote the poem for the forum's presentation to the university's Board of Trustees on May 28, 1998.

Elson Floyd receives a C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award

Floyd, then executive vice chancellor, received UNC's Massey Award for service to the University, weeks before leaving for the presidency of Western Michigan University.

Chapel Hill sets conditions for new solid waste sites before handing control to the county

The council unanimously directed its Landfill Owners Group members to secure a construction and demolition waste site by fall 1998, naming land on the north side of Eubanks Road next to the landfill, with eminent domain if needed, and the Greene Tract as options. It said pending solid waste issues had to be settled before any change in governance.

The Carolina Inn joins the Study List

The committee approved the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill for the Study List on July 9, 1998, among twenty public requests from the central and southeastern regions. The same meeting recommended the West Chapel Hill Historic District for nomination, and the inn's own nomination followed on April 8, 1999.

Subject: The Carolina Inn · West Chapel Hill Historic District

The Old Tavern and White Oak Grove School join the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed the log Old Tavern at 419 Hillsborough Street, Chapel Hill, and the White Oak Grove School for Black children near Cedar Grove on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: White Oak Grove School · Old Tavern (419 Hillsborough Street)

Chapel Hill backs countywide funding to extend water lines to the Rogers Road neighborhood

By a 7 to 2 vote the council said water service lines for the community around the landfill should be paid for from a countywide revenue source so that all county residents share the cost, and opposed using the sales tax for those benefits.

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board adopts its school assignment and reassignment policy

Policy 4150 set the rules the district followed when it redrew attendance lines. As revised on April 2, 2009, its priorities for reassignment were walk zones, full use of buildings and equity, meaning balanced family income and achievement among schools and short travel times.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

The West Chapel Hill Historic District is listed in the National Register

On December 31, 1998 the National Park Service listed the West Chapel Hill Historic District in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: West Chapel Hill Historic District

Paul Jones becomes director of ibiblio.org at UNC

After directing MetaLab from 1997, Paul Jones became director of ibiblio.org, the university's public digital library, in 1999. The same year he became a clinical associate professor in UNC's schools of journalism and of information and library science.

Willie Scroggs is UNC's point person for the 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games

As an athletics administrator Scroggs was the university's point person for the Special Olympics World Summer Games, part of which were held in Chapel Hill.

Mama Dip's Kitchen moves across West Rosemary Street into a new building at number 408

Mildred "Mama Dip" Council's restaurant, serving Southern country cooking since 1976, moved from across the street into a new building at 408 West Rosemary Street in February 1999.

People: Mildred Council

Subject: Mama Dip’s Kitchen

The Cabe-Pratt-Harris House is listed in the National Register

On April 27, 1999 the National Park Service listed the Cabe-Pratt-Harris House near Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.

Chancellor Michael Hooker dies in office

Hooker was chief administrative officer at Chapel Hill from July 1, 1995 until his death on June 29, 1999. He was found to have lymphoma in January 1999 and took medical leave from April, when William O. McCoy served as acting chancellor.

Reviewers turn down the Blyden and Roberta Jackson House as too recent

Staff recommended against the Chapel Hill house, built about 1960, because the case for it rested on people still living and it did not meet the National Register test for properties less than fifty years old. The committee followed staff on July 8, 1999.

People: Roberta Bowles Hodges Jackson

UNC President Molly Broad names William McCoy to lead Chapel Hill after Chancellor Hooker's death

After Chancellor Michael Hooker died of cancer in June 1999, UNC system president Molly Broad appointed William O. McCoy, who had served as acting chancellor during Hooker's medical leave, to lead UNC-Chapel Hill until a permanent chancellor was chosen.

People: Michael Hooker

The Carolina Inn is listed in the National Register

On August 6, 1999 the National Park Service listed the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: The Carolina Inn

Chapel Hill lets Orange County commissioners pick the next construction and demolition landfill site

With the existing construction and demolition landfill expected to fill by summer 2000, the council voted 9 to 0 to let the Board of Commissioners select an in-county replacement site on its behalf, citing time pressure and the expected transfer of solid waste authority to the county.

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall receives the National Humanities Medal

President Clinton presented Hall with a National Humanities Medal as founder and director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Southern Oral History Program and a scholar of the New South.

People: Bill Clinton

2000 census counts the Hispanic or Latino population of Orange County, Carrboro and Chapel Hill

The 2000 census counted 5,273 Hispanic or Latino residents in Orange County (4.5% of 118,227), 2,062 in Carrboro (12.3% of 16,782) and 1,506 in the Orange County part of Chapel Hill (3.2% of 46,798). Census Bureau report PHC-1-35, Table 3.

Census counts Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro in

Census 2000 counted 118,227 people in Orange County, 46,798 in the Orange County part of Chapel Hill and 16,782 in Carrboro, according to the county's published table.

Doherty's first Carolina team shares the ACC regular-season title

In Matt Doherty's first season the Tar Heels won 26 games, were ranked No. 1 late in the regular season and shared the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title with a 13-3 league record. The Associated Press named him national coach of the year.

Jeffery Beam receives a Provost's Public Service Award

The UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Public Service gave Beam, assistant to the biology librarian in the Botany Library, a 2000 Office of the Provost Public Service Award.

Jim Webb dies and his Briar Bridge Lane house passes to an estate supporting UNC's planning school

Webb had bought the Ruth Price House at 4 Briar Bridge Lane, which he designed in 1953, in 1979 and lived there until his death in 2000. The house was deeded to his estate, a philanthropy set up to support the UNC planning school.

Stella Nickerson serves as interim principal of Frank Porter Graham Elementary

After eighteen or nineteen years as a classroom teacher at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School and ten years as an assistant principal, Stella Nickerson served as interim principal in the 2000-2001 school year.

The Board of Governors elects James Moeser chancellor at the Carolina Inn

At a Board of Governors meeting in the Carolina Inn ballroom, UNC system president Molly Broad introduced University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor James Moeser, and the board unanimously elected him the ninth chancellor at Chapel Hill, ending an eight-month search.

People: James Moeser

Subject: The Carolina Inn

Matt Doherty is named head coach of UNC men's basketball

Doherty, who had played at Carolina under Dean Smith from 1980 to 1984, was named the school's 17th head basketball coach after one season as head coach at Notre Dame. He succeeded Bill Guthridge.

James Moeser serves as ninth chancellor at Chapel Hill

Moeser, a music scholar who had led the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, became chancellor on August 15, 2000. His years included the Carolina First campaign, which raised 2.38 billion dollars; he announced in September 2007 that he would step down on June 30, 2008.

Orange County and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools put the McDougle branch library under contract

A contract between Orange County and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education made the public library in the McDougle schools a branch of the Orange County Public Library, with a county-employed branch librarian. The schools provided space and utilities, the county paid for furnishings, insurance, janitorial service and staff stipends, and branch hours were not to overlap school hours.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools · McDougle School · Orange County Public Library

John Bunting becomes Carolina's head football coach

John Bunting, a former Tar Heel linebacker and 1972 UNC graduate, was named head football coach at the University of North Carolina after assistant jobs in the NFL.

Carolina's men's basketball team goes 8-20 in Doherty's second season

In Matt Doherty's second season the Tar Heels finished 8-20.

Doug Marlette teaches at UNC as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of journalism

Hillsborough cartoonist Doug Marlette served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, teaching courses on the editorial cartoon and on humor writing.

Mark Kleinschmidt serves on the Chapel Hill Town Council

Kleinschmidt was elected to the Chapel Hill Town Council in 2001 and served until 2009. He was executive director of the Fair Trial Initiative and a former board president of the state ACLU affiliate.

Penny Rich is appointed to the OWASA board

Chapel Hill appointed Rich to the Orange Water and Sewer Authority board in 2001, and she served two three-year terms through 2007. She helped write water conservation policy during a severe drought.

R. D. and Euzelle P. Smith Middle School opens

A new middle school named for R. D. Smith and his wife Euzelle, longtime residents of the Pottersfield neighborhood who taught in the local schools for decades, opened in 2001.

UNC awards Gladys Coates an honorary doctor of laws

At ninety-nine, Gladys Coates, who had worked beside her husband in building the Institute and spent decades researching the University's past, received an honorary LL.D. from the University.

UNC's School of Law founds the Center for Civil Rights with Julius Chambers as its first director

The UNC School of Law established the Center for Civil Rights in Chapel Hill in 2001, with Julius Chambers as its first director, Dean Gene Nichol, and John Charles Boger as deputy director. The center worked on inequalities facing minority and low-income communities.

Subject: UNC School of Law

Shannon Ravenel leaves Algonquin's editorial directorship for her own imprint

Ravenel stepped down as editorial director of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill to choose books for Shannon Ravenel Books, an imprint within Algonquin, by then a division of Workman Publishing.

Bunting's Tar Heels beat sixth-ranked Florida State 41-9 at home

In Carolina's 2001 home opener, moved after the September 11 attacks postponed the SMU game, Bunting's team beat Bobby Bowden's Florida State 41-9 for his first win as head coach.

Subject: Kenan Stadium

Town Council approves UNC's main-campus Development Plan under OI-4 zoning

The Chapel Hill Town Council approved the university's Development Plan covering 582 acres of the main campus in the Office/Institutional-4 district, proposing 41 new buildings, 8 parking decks and new roads, about 5.9 million square feet in all, to carry out the 2001 Campus Master Plan.

Doug Marlette is inducted into the UNC Journalism Hall of Fame

UNC's journalism school inducted Doug Marlette, then living in Hillsborough, into its Journalism Hall of Fame.

Harvey Beech receives the General Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Medal

The General Alumni Association awarded Beech its Distinguished Service Medal in 2002. The citation, read at the Annual Alumni Luncheon, called him the inspiration behind the Black Alumni Reunion and noted the scholarship endowment he set up at the university.

Institute of Government names a Knapp Building courtyard for Gladys Coates

After Gladys Hall Coates died at 100 at her Chapel Hill home on September 25, 2002, the Institute of Government named a garden courtyard and veranda beside the former auditorium in the Knapp Building's east wing in her memory.

Subject: Institute of Government

William R. Ferris joins UNC as senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South

Folklorist William R. Ferris joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 2002 as senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South, professor of history and adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Folklore.

Frances Hargraves dies at her Caldwell Street home

Frances Neal Hargraves, a retired Chapel Hill-Carrboro teacher and community volunteer, died at her home on Caldwell Street. Her funeral at St. Paul AME Church, where she had taught Sunday school for 53 years, filled the church and its annex, and the church planned a memorial garden in her name.

Subject: St. Paul AME Church

Orange County commissioners take up a request to name the Morgan Creek bridge for James Taylor

The Orange County Board of Commissioners was set to vote on a resolution asking the state Board of Transportation to name the U.S. 15-501 bridge over Morgan Creek in Chapel Hill after James Taylor. Alan E. Rimer made the request for the Chapel Hill Museum board, which was planning an exhibition on Taylor.

Subject: Chapel Hill Museum

VilCom takes over WCHL's operations and brings the station back to Chapel Hill

Curtis Media kept ownership, but Heavner's VilCom took charge of the station's operations, planned a move to VilCom Circle in Chapel Hill by November 1 and an all-news and talk format, and aimed to make WCHL again the reference point for news of Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

Subject: WCHL radio

Gladys Coates dies at one hundred

Gladys Coates, partner in the founding of the Institute of Government and a student of the University's history, died at a hundred. After a service at the Chapel of the Cross she was buried beside Albert Coates in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, across the road from the School of Government.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery · Chapel of the Cross · Institute of Government

Elizabeth Spencer gives the Thomas Wolfe Prize lecture at UNC

Spencer received UNC's third Thomas Wolfe Prize, given by the English department to writers with distinguished bodies of work, and gave the free public Thomas Wolfe Lecture in the Hanes Art Center auditorium.

UNC's Naval Armory joins the Study List

The committee placed the Naval Armory on the UNC campus on the Study List on October 10, 2002, as one of the central and southeastern public requests it approved with staff recommendations.

Chancellor Moeser announces the Carolina Covenant

The Carolina Covenant promised children of low-income families a chance to graduate from UNC without debt, working 10 to 12 hours a week in a campus work-study job, with grants and scholarships meeting the rest of their need.

Randall Kenan teaches creative writing on the UNC faculty

Kenan joined UNC's English and Comparative Literature faculty full time in 2003 and taught fiction, nonfiction and food writing until his death in August 2020 at his home in Hillsborough.

Town forms the Horace Williams Citizens Committee to shape review of the tract

Chapel Hill formed the Horace Williams Citizens Committee in 2003 to advise on development proposals for the university's Horace Williams tract, and the Town Council adopted the committee's March 2004 final report as town policy.

UNC Health Care expands Interpreter Services as Spanish-speaking patients increase

After a 2003 summary on the state of Hispanic health was presented to the UNC Health Care executive board, the system added Interpreter Services resources from 2003 to 2007. UNC Hospitals handled nearly 40,000 interpreter consults in 2005-2006.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

A tie vote keeps Person Hall off the Study List

UNC's campus preservation specialist Paul Kapp asked that Person Hall, already a contributing building in the Chapel Hill Historic District, be recognized on its own. Staff doubted how much of what was visible predated a 1977 renovation and urged the university to treat its old buildings as a district. On February 13, 2003 a motion to place the hall on the Study List split three to three, the chair voted no, and the committee deferred it; the Beta Theta Pi house was also deferred to await a possible Fraternity Court district.

Subject: Person Hall · Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Matt Doherty resigns as Carolina's men's basketball coach

Doherty resigned after three seasons, following meetings that athletic director Dick Baddour and Dean of Students Melissa Exum held with his players after the season. Chancellor James Moeser said the issue was leadership, not wins and losses.

People: James Moeser

Roy Williams is named head coach of UNC men's basketball

Williams left Kansas a week after losing the NCAA championship game and was introduced in Chapel Hill as UNC's head coach, succeeding Matt Doherty.

People: Matt Doherty

The U.S. 15-501 bridge over Morgan Creek is named the James Taylor Bridge

The 1987 bridge on U.S. 15-501 South, a mile from Taylor's boyhood home, was named the James Taylor Bridge at a public ceremony at the Dean Smith Center held by the N.C. Department of Transportation and the Chapel Hill Museum. Taylor attended.

Subject: Chapel Hill Museum

The Beta Theta Pi house joins the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house in Chapel Hill on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Mel and Zora Rashkis Elementary School is dedicated

Hundreds of students, parents and residents attended the dedication of the district's newest elementary school, which opened that August. The school board named it for Mel and Zora Rashkis for their work with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools since they moved to the area in 1962.

People: Mel Rashkis

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Charles E. Daye receives the Thomas Jefferson Award

Law professor Charles E. Daye won the Thomas Jefferson Award in 2004, the year after he co-authored a brief that helped persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve affirmative action in college and university admissions.

The Henry W. Lewis classroom is dedicated in the Knapp-Sanders Building

The Institute of Government named a classroom for Lewis in its renovated Knapp-Sanders Building.

People: Henry Wilkins Lewis

Subject: Institute of Government

UNC School of Medicine starts CAMPOS to train Spanish-speaking physicians

Marco Alemán and colleagues founded the Comprehensive Advanced Medical Program of Spanish in 2004 to prepare medical students to care for Spanish-speaking patients without relying on interpreters. Its first class graduated in 2008, and students do yearly service with Spanish-speaking communities.

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Jeffery Beam forms the Save the West House Coalition

Beam, an assistant in the Couch Biology Library, organized faculty and town residents to keep West House, the 1935 house behind Hanes Art Center, from demolition for the planned Arts Common.

Robert Campbell petitioned Chapel Hill for bus service to the Rogers Road neighborhood

Minister Robert Campbell asked the Chapel Hill council to extend free transit service to the Rogers Road community, noting that it lacked sidewalks and sewer service and that children walked along the landfill's heavy truck route. He suggested rerouting underused Airport Road buses.

People: Robert Campbell

Subject: Chapel Hill Transit

Chapel Hill enacts the Northside neighborhood conservation district

After residents asked for protection from student-rental conversions, the council enacted the town's first neighborhood conservation district, a zoning overlay limiting house size and height in Northside. An advisory committee drafted it through 2003 before a January 21, 2004 public hearing.

UNC dedicates the William E. Scroggs locker room at Kenan Stadium

Lacrosse alumni and the Educational Foundation paid to refurbish the men's lacrosse locker room at the old Kenan Field House, and it was dedicated in Scroggs's name before lacrosse alumni and fans.

Subject: Kenan Stadium

Vis Art Video closes its West Franklin Street store

Owner Andrea Kubachko said in March 2004 that the Vis Art Video store at 301 West Franklin Street would close at the end of August, when its five-year lease ran out, citing high rent and slow business.

John Dee Holeman plays a free blues concert at Graham Memorial

John Dee Holeman, accompanied by Billy Stevens, played a free noon concert at Graham Memorial on September 30, 2004, in the Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence's Thursdays on the Terrace series. Many of that semester's concerts tied in with William Ferris's course on Southern music.

People: William R. Ferris

Subject: Graham Memorial

Allan Gurganus speaks at the Festival for a Better Future rally on McCorkle Place

Gurganus was a featured speaker, with law dean Gene Nichol and state Senator Ellie Kinnaird, at the Festival for a Better Future, a pre-election rally sponsored by several campus organizations on McCorkle Place.

People: Ellie Kinnaird

A Charlie Justice monument is dedicated at UNC's Kenan Football Center

A bronze sculpture of Justice in his number 22 uniform, 8 feet 6 inches tall, was dedicated at the west entrance of the Frank H. Kenan Football Center near the Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Private donations paid for it, and it was proposed by his teammate Joe Neikirk with Charlie Loudermilk and Hugh Morton.

UNC retires the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award after Yonni Chapman's campaign

Chancellor James Moeser retired the Bell Award, given yearly since 1994 to a woman for outstanding contributions to the university, after graduate student Yonni Chapman led a campaign against it over Spencer's white supremacist and sexist views.

People: James Moeser · Cornelia Phillips Spencer

Andy Griffith gives his career memorabilia to Wilson Library

Griffith donated his collection of career memorabilia, including a guitar, to the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library, the same year he was among the first three recipients of the Carolina Performing Arts Lifetime Achievement Award.

Subject: UNC Libraries

Baity Hill graduate and family housing opens on former Baity land

UNC completed the Baity Hill housing complex in 2005 on land once owned by Herman G. and Elizabeth Chesley Baity, whose family home stands on the grounds. It replaced Odum Village.

Subject: Victory Village and Odum Village

Reviewers reject the Great Oaks Plantation House, moved to Chapel Hill from near Greensboro

Staff recommended denial because the house had been moved more than forty miles from near Greensboro to Chapel Hill and had lost its geographic setting. Asked whether its architecture could outweigh the move, staff replied that the program valued place over fine carpentry, and on February 10, 2005 the committee accepted the recommendation. The same vote put the Cates-Dodson-Minnis House near Hillsborough on the Study List.

The Cates-Dodson-Minnis House joins the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Cates-Dodson-Minnis farmhouse west of Chapel Hill on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: Cates-Dodson-Minnis Farm

The Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House is listed in the National Register

On April 20, 2005 the National Park Service listed the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Chapel Hill renames Airport Road as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

At a ceremony beginning outside Town Hall, Airport Road became Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and the small Martin Luther King Street became Jackie Robinson Street. Fred Battle, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP, had led the push for the change after noticing that the only public facilities named for Black people were in Black neighborhoods.

People: Bill Thorpe · Martin Luther King Jr.

Chapel Hill council took up how to carry out a Rogers Road small area plan

Under a 2002 resolution adopted jointly by Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Chapel Hill had agreed to plan the residential area west of the Greene Tract around Rogers and Purefoy roads, including an affordable housing site. The manager recommended starting after four neighborhood conservation districts were finished, with the Planning Board leading.

UNC Libraries opens the exhibit Slavery and the Making of the University

University archivists mounted an exhibit on the enslaved and free Black people who built and served the early university, including cabinetmaker Thomas Day and poet George Moses Horton.

People: George Moses Horton · Thomas Day

Subject: UNC Libraries

An expansion of the Rocky Ridge Farm district joins the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed an expansion of the Rocky Ridge Farm historic district in Chapel Hill on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District (Laurel Hill)

The Unsung Founders Memorial is dedicated in McCorkle Place

The Class of 2002's gift, a black granite table held up by 300 bronze figures by artist Do-Ho Suh, honors the people of color, bond and free, who helped build the university.

People: Do-Ho Suh

Subject: McCorkle Place (with the Davie Poplar)

Cal Horton retires after sixteen years as Chapel Hill's town manager

Horton retired in 2006 after the longest tenure of any Chapel Hill town manager. At his request, money raised in his honor went to a town award for employees who have given at least ten years of exceptional service, now the Cal Horton Service Award.

The Lambeth Lectureship in public policy is established at UNC

Joel L. Fleishman established the Lambeth Lectureship at Chapel Hill in 2006 with an anonymous gift, honoring Lambeth's public policy work.

UNC hosts its first NCAA baseball regional at Boshamer Stadium since

Mike Fox's Tar Heels swept three games at the regional in Chapel Hill, then won the super regional at Alabama and went on to finish second at the College World Series.

UNC's Latino Migration Project begins the New Roots/Nuevas Raíces oral history initiative

The Latino Migration Project at UNC-Chapel Hill began New Roots/Nuevas Raíces to record stories of Latino migration, settlement and integration in North Carolina, with interviews archived through the Southern Oral History Program and University Libraries. The project has collected over 200 interviews, adding about 20 a year.

People: Hannah Gill

Hodding Carter III joins UNC as University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy

Carter, a former Mississippi newspaper editor, State Department spokesman and Knight Foundation president, joined the UNC faculty in January 2006. He later chaired the UNC Press Development Council.

UNC's Campus Master Plan update is approved

The update to the 2001 Campus Master Plan found about half of the 2001 plan's sites under construction or in design, with over six million square feet of new buildings under way, and put remaining main-campus capacity at about 4.5 million square feet; it planned residence halls to replace Odum Village on South Campus.

Subject: Victory Village and Odum Village

Bill Thorpe petitions the council to name the post office plaza for local activists

Council member Bill Thorpe presented a petition to rename the Franklin Street post office plaza for Charlotte Adams and Joe and Lucy Straley, an idea born at Joe Straley's memorial service. The council chose to hold a public hearing, and its naming committee proposed naming the plaza for an ideal with plaques for local peace and justice activists.

People: Joe Straley · Lucy Straley · Charlotte Adams · Diana McDuffee

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

An expansion of the Chapel Hill Historic District joins the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed an expansion of the Chapel Hill Historic District on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: Chapel Hill Historic District

Chapel Hill enacts the Pine Knolls neighborhood conservation district

The council voted 9-0 to adopt Ordinance O-7 creating the Pine Knolls district, which bans new duplexes, caps floor area at 2,500 square feet and reduces front-yard parking. The Greenwood and Kings Mill/Morgan Creek districts were adopted the same night.

Chapel Hill names the post office plaza Peace and Justice Plaza

The Town Council named the space in front of the Franklin Street post office Peace and Justice Plaza, after a petition to honor Charlotte Adams and Joe and Lucy Straley. Lucy Straley, then 92, told the Daily Tar Heel the plaza had long been the couple's main backdrop for protest.

People: Joe Straley · Bill Thorpe · Charlotte Adams

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

UNC tears down West House for the Arts Common

The university demolished West House after more than two years of effort by the Save the West House Coalition to keep or move it. The trustees had voted for demolition in September 2004, and the Council of State gave final approval in July 2006.

People: James Moeser · Jeffery Beam

UNC announces John Bunting will not return as football coach

Athletic director Dick Baddour told Bunting he would be relieved at the end of his sixth season, and the university announced he would not coach the Tar Heels in 2007. He coached the last five games.

Hannah Gill founds the Latino Migration Project at UNC

Gill started the Latino Migration Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to improve public understanding of Latin American migration to North Carolina. The project describes itself as an initiative of INSITE Latin America and the Caribbean.

Part of Latino migration to Carrboro and Chapel Hill · 29 events

St. Joseph CME Church and UNC begin the Northside oral history partnership

Rev. Troy Harrison and UNC professor Della Pollock began collecting oral histories in Northside, the project that grew into the Marian Cheek Jackson Center.

Subject: Marian Cheek Jackson Center

St. Paul AME Church bought land on Rogers Road for a new church campus

The Chapel Hill congregation bought more than 22 acres for a worship complex with a banquet hall, wellness center, daycare, senior and affordable housing, athletic fields and a cemetery. The land, at Rogers Road and Purefoy Drive, became the site of the planned St. Paul Village.

Subject: St. Paul AME Church

The Robert and Pearl Seymour Center opens on Homestead Road

The Chapel Hill senior center that Robert Seymour founded opened in a new building on Homestead Road in 2007 and was named for him and his wife, Pearl.

The Sancars start Carolina Turk Evi

Aziz and Gwen Sancar set up the nonprofit Carolina Turk Evi to host Turkish students and scholars at UNC and promote understanding between Turks and Americans.

UNC closes the original Boshamer Stadium with a super regional win

The Tar Heels beat South Carolina in an NCAA super regional at Boshamer Stadium, the last postseason games in the 1972 stadium, and advanced to the College World Series for the second straight year.

UNC holds the first Chuck Stone workshop for high school students

The journalism school's Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media held its first workshop for rising high school seniors in 2007, honoring the professor who had retired two years earlier.

Chipotle Mexican Grill opens in the old Vis Art Video building on West Franklin Street

Chipotle opened with a ribbon-cutting at 301 West Franklin Street after more than a year of delays. Part of the wait came from cleaning solvent left in the soil from the site's years as a dry cleaner.

UNC trustees approve the Carolina North plan

The Board of Trustees approved a plan for Carolina North on the Horace Williams tract, later submitted to the town with the 2009 rezoning application; the trustees adopted Carolina North design guidelines on November 19, 2008.

Oliver Smithies wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2007 prize to Smithies, Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans for discovering principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells. Smithies was at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Rocky Ridge Farm's district expansion prompts a debate over the fifty-year rule

When staff presented the boundary increase and added documentation for the Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District on October 11, 2007, one member warned that stretching periods of significance into recent decades weakened the National Register, naming Rocky Ridge with two other nominations. Another member suggested the neighbors also claim significance for notable residents. The objecting member then moved approval of Rocky Ridge with the other routine nominations, and it passed.

Subject: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District (Laurel Hill)

Daniel Okun dies in Chapel Hill

Okun, Kenan Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, died in Chapel Hill of complications of leukemia at age 90.

The Rathskeller on Amber Alley closes over unpaid taxes

Owner Francis Henry shut the Rathskeller in December 2007 after it failed to pay withholding taxes, ending a restaurant Ted Danziger had opened in 1948. Its contents were sold at auction in February 2008.

Subject: The Rathskeller (Amber Alley)

Orange County's 2030 Comprehensive Plan places county growth within the Triangle economy

The Land Use Element of Orange County's 2030 Comprehensive Plan says the county, as an integral part of the Triangle, grew nearly 50 percent from 1980 to an estimated 121,991 in 2005, and names the Research Triangle Park as part of its region, calling jobs and economic conditions a frequent catalyst for changes in population and land use. It also records the 1984 Joint Planning Agreement with Chapel Hill, extended to Carrboro in 1987, and the 1986 rural buffer plan.

Three alumni recreate the walk attributed to Hinton James and finish at the Old Well

Nick Becketti, Bryan Jones and Whitney Reeds set out from the coast near Wilmington in the summer of 2008 to repeat the roughly 170-mile walk attributed to Hinton James. The university says the two-week trip ended at the Old Well in Chapel Hill.

Subject: The Old Well

UNC opens a second computer science building named for Brooks

UNC built a second computer science building beside Sitterson Hall and named it for Brooks, who was still working in the department; he kept his office in Sitterson Hall.

UNC opens the Center for Latino Health for Spanish-speaking patients

The UNC Center for Latino Health (CELAH) began in 2008 in the School of Medicine and UNC Health Care, offering specialty and primary care in Spanish, same-day access and health education. It served more than 15,000 patients in its first ten years.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital) · UNC School of Medicine

Valerie Foushee finishes her UNC degree

Foushee had left the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after two years and returned later to finish, graduating in 2008 with a degree in political science and African and Afro-American studies. She was by then an Orange County commissioner.

The Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District is enlarged in the National Register

On January 30, 2008 the National Park Service listed a boundary increase for the Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District, enlarging the district in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District (Laurel Hill)

Thousands gather on Polk Place to remember Eve Carson

On the day student body president Eve Carson was killed, thousands gathered on UNC's Polk Place for a moment of silence.

Fred Battle steps down as president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP

Fred Battle announced his resignation as president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch of the NAACP after almost fifteen years in the post, during which he helped revive the branch. First vice president Eugene Farrar was to succeed him on June 1.

Holden Thorp serves as tenth chancellor at Chapel Hill

Thorp, a UNC alumnus and chemist, took office on July 1, 2008 and spent his first day with student leaders at the Campus Y. He left in 2013 to become provost at Washington University in St. Louis.

Ben Folds Five reunite for a concert in UNC's Memorial Hall

In their first show in eight years, the band played its last album, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, in full at Memorial Hall for MySpace Music's Front to Back series. NC Arts Council describes it as a benefit for Operation Smile.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Allan Gurganus speaks at Holden Thorp's installation as chancellor

At the University Day ceremony on Polk Place installing Holden Thorp as UNC's tenth chancellor, Gurganus, who had known Thorp since childhood, spoke before Thorp's address and hailed a North Carolinian as chancellor.

People: Holden Thorp

Burma Art Therapy Project begins in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

The Art Therapy Institute began a school-based art therapy program for adolescent refugees from Burma in partnership with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and the refugee community in Orange County. A later UNC evaluation estimated that about 400 Burmese families lived in the county.

Part of Burmese and Karen refugee communities · 22 events

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Penny Rich is elected to the Chapel Hill Town Council

Rich won a seat on the Chapel Hill Town Council in 2009 and served until 2012, working on land use, planning, public transit, affordable housing and economic development.

The first Eve Marie Carson Scholar is announced

Students, friends and family turned Carson's plan for a student-run scholarship into the Eve Marie Carson Scholarship. The first scholar, a junior, received funding for a summer experience and aid toward senior-year tuition.

Rebuilt Boshamer Stadium opens on Ridge Road

UNC opened its $26 million rebuilt baseball stadium, on the footprint of the old Boshamer, with a home opener against VMI before about 2,800 fans. Work began in October 2007, and the field was named Bryson Field.

Several thousand gather in the Pit on the anniversary of Eve Carson's death

Students, faculty and staff met in the Pit, where friends spoke about Carson, Chancellor Holden Thorp recalled her service, the Clef Hangers sang and the Bell Tower tolled Hark the Sound.

People: Holden Thorp

Chapel Hill council received the Rogers Road Small Area Plan Task Force's final report

Council members Mark Kleinschmidt and Bill Strom presented the report, and the council voted 9 to 0 to send it to advisory boards, Carrboro, Orange County, OWASA and the city schools, with a joint public hearing planned for October 2009. Rev. Robert Campbell of RENA thanked the council for giving the community a voice.

People: Robert Campbell · Mark Kleinschmidt

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

Marian Cheek Jackson Center opens at St. Joseph CME Church

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History held its ribbon cutting on the second floor of the H.W. Baldwin Fellowship Hall at St. Joseph C.M.E. Church. It is named for Marian Cheek Jackson, the church historian and lifelong Pine Knolls resident.

Subject: Marian Cheek Jackson Center

UNC's library exhibited Rogers Road family histories drawn from Emily Eidenier Pearce's book

The exhibit We're All Family Here: Preserving Community Heritage in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill introduced families who had shaped the area from the 1700s on. It was inspired by Pearce's 2009 history Rogers Road, which RENA presents as part of its History Project.

Subject: UNC Libraries · Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

Town Council approves the Carolina North development agreement and U-1 zoning

After ten joint work sessions with trustees and hearings on May 11, June 15 and June 22, the Town Council approved a 20-year development agreement for Carolina North and rezoned the in-town portion of the tract to University-1, authorizing about 3 million square feet on 133 acres.

Merge Records marks its 20th anniversary with the XX Merge festival

The label held four nights at Cat's Cradle and a finale at UNC's Memorial Hall, with film screenings at the Ackland Art Museum and a free show at the Orange County Social Club in Carrboro.

People: Mac McCaughan · Laura Ballance

Subject: Memorial Hall · Cat’s Cradle · Ackland Art Museum

The Greenbridge condominium towers topped out on West Rosemary Street

The 10-story and 7-story Greenbridge towers, with 98 condominium units, rose on the former Black business block that had held the Mason Motel. Northside residents opposed the project in an open letter, and restaurant owner Mildred "Mama Dip" Council said rising property values threatened her business.

People: Mildred Council

Chapel Hill dedicates the Peace and Justice Plaza marker

The town unveiled a granite marker at Peace and Justice Plaza, in front of the old post office on Franklin Street, naming nine local activists: Charlotte Adams, Hank Anderson, James Brittian, Joe Herzenberg, Mildred Ringwalt, Hubert Robinson, Joe Straley, Lucy Straley and Gloria Williams. The Town Council had named the plaza in 2006 and set criteria for later honorees.

People: James Brittian · Mildred Ringwalt · Hubert Robinson · Joe Straley · Lucy Straley · Gloria Williams · Charlotte Adams

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

N.C. Cancer Hospital is dedicated

The seven-story, 315,000-square-foot N.C. Cancer Hospital, built with a 180 million dollar authorization from the General Assembly, was dedicated in September 2009. It tripled the space available for treating cancer patients at UNC.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital) · UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Mark Kleinschmidt is elected mayor of Chapel Hill

Kleinschmidt won 4,006 votes to Matt Czajkowski's 3,766 with all 21 precincts reporting, succeeding Kevin Foy, who had endorsed him. He was Chapel Hill's first openly gay mayor and the third openly gay man elected mayor in North Carolina, after Mike Nelson in Carrboro.

Part of LGBTQ political firsts in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1980s–1990s · 21 events

People: Mike Nelson

Commissioners vote to truck county trash to Durham's transfer station

After OWASA refused to sell or swap land for a transfer station and Chapel Hill withdrew its Millhouse Road property, the Board of Commissioners voted to haul county trash to Durham's transfer station for three to five years while the towns and county weighed a longer-term plan.

2010 census counts the Hispanic or Latino population of Orange County, Carrboro and Chapel Hill

The 2010 census counted 11,017 Hispanic or Latino residents in Orange County, 2,603 in Chapel Hill and 1,921 in Carrboro, as compiled in the NC Office of State Budget and Management's LINC Census Population dataset.

The 2010 census counts the Asian American population of Carrboro and Chapel Hill

Asian Americans were 8 percent of Carrboro's 19,582 residents and 12 percent of Chapel Hill's 57,233. Chinese residents were the largest Asian group in both towns, while people from Burma made up a fifth of Carrboro's Asian population and 6 percent of Chapel Hill's; 24 percent of Carrboro residents and 16 percent of Chapel Hill's were born abroad.

UNC Hospitals employs about 7,000 people

Town figures show UNC Hospitals employed 6,680 full-time and 359 part-time staff in 2010, and the UNC Health Care System, with 7,964 employees, was Orange County's second-largest public employer after the university.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

UNC discloses possible academic misconduct in its football program

An NCAA and university inquiry into agent benefits to football players, set off by a player's tweet on May 31, 2010, turned up possible academic misconduct by a tutor, which Thorp announced at a press conference. Later investigation found grade changes and classes that did not meet in the African and Afro-American studies department.

UNC starts the Building Integrated Communities program

The Latino Migration Project began Building Integrated Communities, which Gill co-founded, to help North Carolina local governments plan with immigrant and refugee residents. Each partner community works with the program for about two years.

Ralph Frasier speaks at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center

Ralph Frasier, one of UNC's first three Black undergraduates, gave a free public talk in the Hitchcock Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. He had left the university in 1958 without a degree.

Subject: Sonja Haynes Stone Center (Black Cultural Center)

The Eve Marie Carson Garden is dedicated on Polk Place

UNC dedicated a garden behind the Campus Y in memory of Eve Carson and of all students who die before they graduate. A stone slab carries a quotation from her, and private gifts paid for it.

People: Holden Thorp

Daniel H. Pollitt dies in Chapel Hill

Pollitt died in Chapel Hill on March 5, 2010. His honors included the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the Thomas Jefferson Award and the Order of the Golden Fleece.

Chapel Hill adopts an inclusionary zoning ordinance

The Town Council unanimously passed an ordinance requiring for-sale developments of five or more units to make 10 to 15 percent of them affordable to households earning 65 to 80 percent of area median income, or to give land, housing or cash in lieu. It took effect in 2011 and does not cover rental projects.

UNC honors its first three Black undergraduates, 55 years on

John Lewis Brandon and LeRoy and Ralph Frasier returned to UNC for a weekend of tributes marking 55 years since they enrolled, including a Friday dinner at which the Rev. William Barber called them heroes.

People: LeRoy Frasier · Ralph Frasier · William J. Barber II

Karen Shelton receives UNC's C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award

The university gave Shelton its C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award for her long service to Carolina. She had been inducted into the campus honor society the Order of the Golden Fleece in March 2002.

Orange County commissioners raised the landfill tipping fee to pay for Rogers Road remediation

Commissioners raised the tipping fee from $52 to $57 a ton to create a remediation fund of about $50,000 to $60,000 a year for water and sewer connections, cleanup of illegal dumping and a community center in Rogers Road. The county also moved $750,000 out of its solid waste reserve for the same purpose. Chapel Hill and Carrboro objected to the timing of the fee.

People: Robert Campbell · Mark Kleinschmidt

UNC graduates wear Alexander Julian's true-blue recycled gowns

UNC's new commencement gowns, designed by Alexander Julian in true Carolina blue with white piping and made from recycled plastic bottles in North and South Carolina mills, were first worn at the May 2011 Commencement.

Council freezes building in Northside and Pine Knolls for six months

The council voted 7-0 for a six-month development moratorium in Northside and Pine Knolls, backdated to May 23, 2011, while a community plan was drafted. Jackson Center staff helped organize residents in support.

Subject: Marian Cheek Jackson Center

Rebecca Clark's name is added to the Peace and Justice Plaza plaque

Clark, Yonni Chapman, the Rev. Charles M. Jones and Dan Pollitt were honored after their deaths for their work for civil rights, social justice and equality in Chapel Hill. Their names were added to the plaque at Peace and Justice Plaza, in front of the historic post office on Franklin Street.

People: Yonni Chapman · Charles M. Jones · Daniel H. Pollitt

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

Demonstrators re-read Julian Carr's 1913 dedication speech at the monument and unveil a mock plaque

A campus demonstration read Carr's dedication-day speech aloud at the statue and unveiled a new plaque of its own giving the monument's history. The Daily Tar Heel reported a further Real Silent Sam movement protest on the statue's history later that month.

Part of Silent Sam · 15 events

Subject: Silent Sam (UNC Confederate monument)

Speaker Ban marker dedicated at the McCorkle Place wall

On University Day a bronze marker naming the twelve student plaintiffs was dedicated at the wall where Wilkinson and Aptheker spoke, a gift of Anne Dickson Fogleman and Robert Dickson.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: Holden Thorp

Subject: McCorkle Place (with the Davie Poplar)

Bubba Cunningham is named UNC's director of athletics

Chancellor Holden Thorp introduced Lawrence R. (Bubba) Cunningham, athletics director at the University of Tulsa, at a press conference in the Dean E. Smith Center, and the trustees approved his six-year contract that morning. He took office on November 14, succeeding Dick Baddour as the seventh athletics director in UNC history.

People: Holden Thorp

Karen Community of North Carolina is incorporated in Chapel Hill

The Karen Community of North Carolina was registered as a nonprofit corporation with a Chapel Hill principal office and Eh Tha Pwee as registered agent. In May 2012 he estimated that about 400 Karen families lived in Orange County.

Asian Americans are the largest racial minority in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools and in Chapel Hill

By 2012 Asian Americans outnumbered every other minority group in the school district and in the town of Chapel Hill. In 2012-13 they were 15 percent of district students and 31 percent at Seawell Elementary, where many Chinese immigrant families had settled.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Section 74A parents organize to stay out of the Northside redistricting

Parents in the Larkspur, Parkside and Northwood neighborhoods, most of the vocal ones recent Chinese immigrants, started an online group, met at the Chinese school, petitioned the board with hundreds of signatures and wrote letters to the Chapel Hill News. They backed Plan 4.1, the only draft that kept their children at Seawell, and drew up alternative assignment plans of their own.

The Asian American Parent Advisory Council declines to back the Section 74A parents

The council, a parent group formed to represent Asian American families in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools, said in a letter to the Chapel Hill News that it did not see the redistricting as a racial matter and would not join the opposition. Its vice chair said she also hoped to counter a growing belief that Asian American parents were racist.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board decides to build a new Northside Elementary on the old school's site

The board announced a new elementary school on the grounds of the Northside school that had closed in 1966, to carry the Northside name. Black families in the Northside neighborhood, whose children had been bused to other schools for decades, welcomed it as a return of their school.

Part of Historic Black neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro · 55 events

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools · Northside School

UNC confers an honorary Doctor of Laws on Thomas W. Lambeth

The university gave Lambeth an honorary degree for public service and philanthropy, citing his two years as chair of its Board of Trustees.

Council adopts the Northside and Pine Knolls community plan

The council approved three resolutions under the plan, amending both conservation districts with building rules effective February 1, 2012 and a four-vehicle-per-lot parking limit effective September 1, 2012.

Commissioners set the landfill's closing date and created the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force

On the night the Orange County commissioners voted to close the landfill on June 30, 2013, they also authorized an eight-member task force, with two members each from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, the county and RENA, to recommend how to deliver sewer service and a community center and how to guard against displacement. An interim report was due that August and a final report to the Assembly of Governments on December 6, 2012.

People: Penny Rich

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

New Roots interview records the history of the Spanish Mass at St. Thomas More

Luis Royo, coordinator of Hispanic ministries at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Chapel Hill, told New Roots interviewer Kelsey Jost-Creegan that the parish's Spanish Mass went back almost twenty years. He said his coordinator post had existed for about ten years and that he was its fourth holder.

Chapel Hill's comprehensive plan describes the town as a university and health care town

The Chapel Hill 2020 data summary opens with a chapter titled Chapel Hill: A University and Health Care Town, names the UNC Health Care System among the town's three largest employers, and describes its expansion beyond the main campus toward NC 54, the 15-501 corridor and a new UNC Hospitals site in Hillsborough.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

Chancellor Thorp announces his resignation

After two years of scandals in the football program and the African and Afro-American studies department, and a fundraiser's resignation over personal trips, Thorp announced he would resign. Students and faculty held a rally asking him to stay.

William C. Friday dies at his Chapel Hill home

Friday, president of the University of North Carolina from 1956 to 1986 and a longtime Chapel Hill resident, died in his sleep at home on October 12, 2012, at 92.

The school board votes 5-2 for the attendance plan that fills the new Northside Elementary

After two months of public hearings on four draft plans, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board chose Plan 2.1, which spread at-risk students most evenly among the elementary schools and reassigned about 1,045 children. Most came from the two schools nearest Northside, including crowded Seawell Elementary, and the whole Section 74A area north of town was moved.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools · Northside School

A new Northside Elementary opened on the old Training School grounds

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools opened a new Northside Elementary on the former Orange County Training School site. In 2012 neighbors had rallied to make sure the new school kept the Northside name.

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School · Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools · Northside School

Lee Charter School, the first charter school proposed for Chapel Hill, fails to open

The school, meant to serve minority and low-income students and narrow the achievement gap, had been set to open in fall 2012 and was put off a year while it looked for land and space. It then broke with its parent company and never opened, and most Section 74A families sent their children to Northside.

Neighbors form the Rogers Road Community Unity Board

The Community Unity Board brought together leaders from every sub-neighborhood of Rogers-Eubanks, among them Historic Rogers Road, Billabong, TallyHo, Meadow Run, Phoenix Place and Sandberg, for continuing talks about the area's future. RENA and the Jackson Center reconvened it in 2015 for the planning work the three governments had asked for.

Part of Rogers Road environmental justice · 54 events

People: Robert Campbell

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association · Marian Cheek Jackson Center

UNC School of Social Work launches its Refugee Mental Health and Wellness Initiative

Josh Hinson launched the initiative at the UNC School of Social Work in 2013 to support resettled refugees, connecting refugee communities to interpreters, mental health screening and treatment.

Foster's Market in Chapel Hill passes to Sera Cuni and Susan White

Sera Cuni, who had managed Foster's Market in Chapel Hill since 2008, bought the market with her partner Susan White and later renamed it The Root Cellar.

William J. Barber II speaks at a rally at Silent Sam on its 100th anniversary

On the Confederate monument's 100th anniversary, William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, spoke at a rally at its foot organized by the Real Silent Sam Committee, saying the statue had never been silent.

Subject: Silent Sam (UNC Confederate monument)

The Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy begins

The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation funded a five-year chair at UNC honoring Lambeth's retirement, and three professors were named to it from July 1, 2013.

Dean Smith is named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Obama named Smith among sixteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing his 36 seasons as UNC's head basketball coach (1961-1997), two national championships, a 96 percent graduation rate among his players and his civil rights advocacy.

Carol Folt is installed as chancellor at Chapel Hill

Folt was installed as the eleventh chancellor of the university on University Day in Polk Place, the first woman to hold the post. Chief Justice Sarah Parker administered the oath, and system president Tom Ross presided and presented the chancellor's medallion.

Chapel Hill extended its extraterritorial jurisdiction over the Historic Rogers Road area

Because none of the neighborhood lay inside Chapel Hill's limits, the town could not legally spend money on its sewer, so the council held a public hearing set for October 15, 2014 on bringing its part of the area under the town's extraterritorial jurisdiction. Afterward the neighborhood was split between Carrboro and Chapel Hill's ETJ.

People: Robert Campbell

NEH funds public access to the New Roots oral history archive

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded UNC-Chapel Hill a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant (PW-51527-14) to open public access to New Roots interviews through a bilingual digital archive.

People: Hannah Gill

Students call for William L. Saunders's name to come off Saunders Hall

The Real Silent Sam Coalition, a student group, began a campaign to remove Saunders's name from the building because of his leadership in the Ku Klux Klan. The trustees renamed it Carolina Hall in May 2015.

Eric Van Loon presents his Carolina Story to the alumni association board

The General Alumni Association published Van Loon’s My Carolina Story, given as a member of its board of directors. In it he recounts chairing the Carolina Political Union and signing the Speaker Ban lawsuit as one of a dozen students who were plaintiffs.