Dance Marathon

In February 1999 a group of around seventy-five UNC—Chapel Hill students danced for twenty-four hours to raise money for the North Carolina Children's Hospital. The Dance Marathon, inspired by a long-running student fund-raiser at Penn State, became an annual tradition. The number of stude...

Craige Residence Hall

One of the new high-rise dorms built on South Campus in the 1960s, Craige was completed in 1962. The six-story building was designed to house around 700 students —all men when it first opened. Nicknamed "Maverick House" by early residents, Craige was home to the "Victory Gong,"...

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...

Chapel Hill

In 1792, when trustees selected this site for the university, locals called the area New Hope Chapel hill, for a deserted Anglican chapel that had once stood on a high ridge near a crossroads. In 1793, when university trustees sold lots to create a town, its name became Chapel Hill. It was a small v...