Jubilee
Jubilee was an annual music festival held at the end of the spring semester from 1963 to 1971. It was popular from the beginning. The headliners of the first Jubilee, the Four Preps, drew around 5,000 people to their performance on the lawn in front of Graham Memorial Hall. The concerts grew in popu...
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High Noon
In the early 1970s small groups of Carolina students began gathering at the bell tower at noon to smoke marijuana —they called it High Noon. The location was likely selected because of its central location and also due to the tall hedges that used to surround the bell tower. Their meetings wer...
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Building names
Most campus buildings, along with some schools, units, and physical spaces, have a namesake. While the mechanism for selecting people to honor in this way has changed over time, the reasons for doing so remain much the same. In general, the university has honored donors, past presidents and chancell...
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South Building
Construction on South Building, known originally as Main Building, began in 1798, but lack of funds delayed its completion until 1814. Students reportedly built rough cabins inside the unfinished structure to escape crowded conditions in Old East. When it finally opened, South contained dormitory ro...
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