Gardner Hall

Opened in 1953, Gardner was one of three new buildings built for the School of Business Administration (Carroll and Hanes were the others). The new buildings were designed to match the older buildings directly across Polk Place (Saunders, Manning, and Murphey). It has served as the home for several ...

Black Student Movement

Formed in 1967 by a group of around forty African American students, the Black Student Movement (BSM) has grown into one of the largest student organizations at UNC—Chapel Hill. The group was founded by students frustrated with the campus chapter of the NAACP and by lack of representation in s...

Escheats

To provide funding for the newly founded university in 1789, William R. Davie wrote and helped pass through the legislature an act that would give to the university all unclaimed land and property in the state. Known later as the Escheats Act, after a legal term for the reversion of property to the ...

Religion

Despite its status as a public university, the university had a close relationship with Christianity for much of its first 100 years. Students had to attend daily chapel or Sunday church service, and the distribution of Bibles to graduating seniors was a commencement tradition until the mid-1970s. I...