Vance Hall

Vance Hall was built in 1912 as part of a three-part dormitory for men students, along with Battle and Pettigrew. It is on the northwest corner of McCorkle Place on Franklin Street . The buildings were converted to offices in the 1960s. In excavations related to building construction near the Pettig...

Carolina blue

The university's distinctive school color originated only a few years after the university opened. Not long after the first students arrived, they organized two debating groups: the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. The "Di" and "Phi" societies played a large role in campus ...

Title IX

In 1972 the U.S. government passed Title IX of the Education Amendments Act —laws that govern various educational policies —to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. Its enactment struck down the last of UNC's rules that res...

Ruffin Residence Hall

Ruffin Residence Hall was opened in 1922, at the same time as nearby Grimes, Mangum, and Manly dorms. Originally housing only men, Ruffin was converted to a women's dorm by 1976. It is named for two members of the Ruffin family: Thomas Ruffin and Thomas Ruffin Jr. Both were lawyers, served on th...