Carolina Political Union

Organized in 1936 by students in E. J. Woodhouse's political science class, the Carolina Political Union sought to share information and promote debate about current affairs. The group invited speakers to campus and succeeded in bringing many prominent politicians to Chapel Hill, including Presi...

Cheers

When UNC began participating in intercollegiate sports in the 1890s, students developed a series of school cheers for the games and pep rallies. Unlike the alma mater and other school songs, the "university yells" were not set to music. Among the most popular was the "Yackety Yack," ...

Davie Poplar

The legendary tulip poplar at the heart of the UNC—Chapel Hill campus is older than the university. The earliest known reference to it is in the reminiscences of a member of the class of 1818. In his recollections of campus, he talks about the "old poplar," which shows that even in the...

Aycock Family Medicine Center

Located on Manning Drive adjacent to Fordham Boulevard, the center is home to the Department of Family Medicine and its clinics. UNC—Chapel Hill has one of the top-ranked programs in the country for training family physicians. The state legislature funded the building, which was named in honor...