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...

Tar Heels

UNC—Chapel Hill's unique "Tar Heels" nickname is also the nickname for a resident of the state, as well as for the state itself. The term traces back to the eighteenth century, when North Carolina, with its plentiful pine trees, was a major producer of tar and turpentine for the na...

Old Students Club

Founded in 1936, the Old Students Club is a section of the General Alumni Association for people who were students more than fifty years ago. In the 1950s the group considered changing the name. "That word Old is the point of criticism," the club president wrote. "We just don't like ...

Van Hecke-Wettach Hall

Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, the current home of the UNC School of Law, sits on Ridge Road on the eastern edge of campus. The building was completed in 1968 to give more space for the law school, which had outgrown its home in Manning Hall. The building is named for two law school deans, Maurice Taylor V...