House Undergraduate Library
As early as 1960, library and university administrators began discussing the need for a library space devoted to the needs of undergraduate students. The Robert B. House Undergraduate Library opened in 1968, around the same time as the new Student Stores and Graham Student Union buildings. The three...
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Berryhill Hall
Berryhill Hall opened in 1971 to provide much-needed classroom and laboratory space for the growing School of Medicine. It was named in 1973 for W. Reece Berryhill, longtime dean of the school. Berryhill, from Charlotte, graduated from UNC in 1921. He practiced medicine for several years before retu...
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Cardboard Club
In 1948 home football games got a lot more colorful when cheerleader Norm Sper founded the Cardboard Club. The club made creative displays out of squares of painted cardboard that students held up during football games to make composite pictures. Requiring careful organization and coordination, the ...
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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 ...
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