Carolina Hall

The building now known as Carolina Hall was named Saunders Hall from 1922 to 2015. Completed as part of the campus expansion in the early 1920s, Saunders was built as a classroom building, originally housing the Departments of History, Economics, and Commerce. It was named for William L. Saunders, a...

Boxing

Boxing was a popular varsity and intramural sport for a few decades in the early twentieth century. It began informally in 1924 with a match between UNC student boxers and soldiers from Fort Bragg. The university hired a boxing coach the following year, and it was soon established as a varsity sport...

WXYC

Student-run FM radio station WXYC began broadcasting in March 1977 at 89.3 FM. WXYC was preceded by WCAR and other smaller stations, many of them based in dorms. Beginning in the early 1970s, Carolina students began the process of applying for an FM license, which would enable them to broadcast over...

North Carolina Botanical Garde

The UNC Board of Trustees first approved the use of university-owned land for a botanical garden in 1952. The original land was supplemented by private gifts, and the North Carolina Botanical Garden now manages more than 1,000 acres. The garden, overseen by the university's botany department, fi...