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McIver Residence Hall

McIver Residence Hall was part of a late-1930s rush to provide more on-campus housing for women students. It was completed in 1939, at the same time as neighboring Kenan Residence Hall, also built as a dormitory for women. The building is named for alumnus Charles Duncan McIver (class of 1881), who was the founder and the first president of the State Normal and Industrial School for Girls, the institution that is now UNC-Greensboro.

Date Established: 1939

Date Range: 1939 – Present

McCorkle Place

McCorkle Place, the forested quad stretching from Franklin Street to Cameron Avenue, is the center of the university's original campus. This space holds some of the university's iconic emblems and monuments, including Old East, the Old Well, the Davie Poplar, Caldwell Monument, Unsung Founders Memorial, and Confederate Monument (removed in 2018—19). The quad is on the National Register of Historic Places.

It is named in honor of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, farmer, slave owner, Presbyterian minister, and educator. McCorkle, along with William R. Davie, successfully campaigned for a state-supported university. He was a founding member of the UNC Board of Trustees and is credited with influencing the quadrangle-based design of the campus, modeled after universities in England.

Marching band

The tradition of music at Tar Heel sporting events goes back to 1903, when the University Brass Band played at a baseball game on campus. The band played occasionally at games in subsequent years but did not become a fixture at sporting events until the 1920s, especially after the opening of Kenan Stadium. By the 1940s marching band performances were common at halftime of home football games and featured creative formations by the band members. The Marching Tar Heels prospered under the leadership of John Yesulaitis, who took over in 1964 and led the band for more than twenty years. Yesulaitis grew the marching band to include more than 200 students, and it became known as the Pride of the ACC.

Manly Residence Hall

Opened in 1922, Manly was one of several new dorms built in the early 1920s (nearby Grimes, Ruffin, and Mangum opened around the same time). It is named for brothers Charles and Mathias Manly, from Chatham County. Charles Manly, an 1814 graduate of UNC, was a lawyer and politician, serving as governor of North Carolina from 1849 to 1851. Matthias Manly, class of 1824, was also a lawyer and served for many years as a judge. Both brothers were long-serving members of the UNC Board of Trustees. In 1938 the dorm made news in the school paper by holding a formal banquet for its residents in Swain Hall, featuring formal table settings, a steak dinner, and entertainment. Future governor Terry Sanford, then a resident of Manly, presided over the ceremonies. In 1985 Manly changed from being an all-male dorm to a women-only residence hall.

Date Established: 1922

Date Range: 1922 – Present

Mangum Residence Hall

Mangum Residence Hall opened in 1922, around the same time as nearby Grimes, Ruffin, and Manly dorms. It is named in honor of three members of the Mangum family. Willie Person Mangum, UNC class of 1815, was a prominent politician, representing the state in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and also serving for decades as a member of the UNC Board of Trustees. Adolphus Williamson Mangum, a Methodist minister, served as a chaplain in the Confederate army and later joined the UNC faculty. William Preston Mangum was an 1860 graduate of Carolina who died in the Civil War fighting for the Confederacy.

In the 1980s and 1990s dorm residents turned Mangum into a haunted house for Halloween. The tradition began in 1981 as a way to raise money for an ice machine for the dorm. One of the organizers told the Daily Tar Heel it would contain "madmen, a hell scene, a cemetery scene, and a lot of other scary scenes." In subsequent years the haunted house was held as a fund-raiser for the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center.

Date Established: 1921

Date Range: 1921 – Present