Craige North Residence Hall

Craige North Residence Hall opened in the fall of 2002, one of four new dorms completed at the same time (Hardin, Horton, and Koury are the others). The new dorms were built near existing high-rise dorms and given temporary names borrowing from the names of the older dorms. Craige North's tempor...

George Watts Hill Alumni Cente

In 1993, after several years of construction, the General Alumni Association dedicated the George Watts Hill Alumni Center, located on Stadium Drive. The center was designed to be used both as a gathering place for alumni and as an event center. It houses the offices for the Alumni Association, incl...

Jackson Hall

The building now known as Blyden and Roberta H. Jackson Hall was originally built in 1942 to house the campus's U.S. Navy pre-flight school. After World War II a kitchen and dining room were added and it housed the Monogram Club, an organization of current and former varsity athletes. The buildi...

Beat Dook Parade

The practice of misspelling the name of UNC—Chapel Hill's rival as "Dook" probably began in the 1930s, when "Beat Dook" banners were common at pep rallies. The annual Beat Dook Parade, sponsored by Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, began in 1948 with a procession of twenty-eight c...