UNC Chancellor: Silent Sam ‘Has a Place’ on Campus But ‘Not at the Front Door’

Posted Sep 1, 2018
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt said in a message to the campus community on Friday that the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam “has a place in our history and on our campus” but “not at the front door of a safe, welcoming, proudly public research university.” Folt said the university was entering a process to determine its options moving forward. (Chapelboro.com)

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