Communism

Having weathered complaints of excessively liberal bias since the leadership of Frank Porter Graham in the 1930s, the university faced new accusations, beginning in the 1950s, of being a training ground for Communists. The claims were frequent enough that consolidated university president Gordon Gra...

Franklin Street

The main street of Chapel Hill is named in honor of Benjamin Franklin for his promotion of education. Students and townspeople famously take over the street to celebrate basketball championships and Halloween. It has been the site for parades and protests, as well as for annual street fairs, includi...

Radio, Television, and Motion

This department, popularly known by its acronym, RTVMP, existed from 1954 to 1993. It was the brainchild of Earl Wynn, a faculty member in drama and speech, who developed the first courses in broadcasting at Carolina. Wynn also led the closely allied Communication Center based in Swain Hall to centr...

Seal

The UNC Board of Trustees first adopted a school seal in 1791. The seal featured the face of the god Apollo and his symbol of the rising sun as being "expressive of the dawn of higher education in our State." It also included the Latin words "Sigal Universitat Carol Septent," transla...