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...

Summer Reading Program

This annual project, directed by the New Student and Family Programs office, introduces incoming students to intellectual life at Carolina. On the day before the fall semester begins, new students join small-group discussions on a selected book that they read during the summer. The late chancellor M...

Contempo

Published for only a few years in the early 1930s, the Chapel Hill literary magazine Contempo managed to attract national attention. Former UNC students Milton Abernethy and Anthony Buttitta founded the magazine and began to solicit contributions from well-known authors. They published works by Will...

Sutton's Drug Store

Sutton's Drug Store opened on Franklin Street in 1923 and quickly became a vital part of student life. It is now one of the few remaining links to the past in the rapidly changing downtown. In its early days, when the store was known as Sutton and Alderman's, students went to the drugstore t...