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UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINA at CHAPEL HILL
BASIC INFORMATION:
BRIEF HISTORY:
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Located at Chapel Hill in North Carolina
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Its motto is lux libertas meaning “light and liberty”
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There are 31 705 students which makes the student-faculty radio 15:1
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The school’s famous athletic teams are known as The Tar Heels
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Opened in 1789 when its location was chosen as a central point within the state
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First and only public university in the US to award degrees in the 18th century
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During the 1960s the campus was a place for significant civil rights protests
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From the 1990s onward, UNC expanded rapidly thanks to new facilities
UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS AND MINORS:
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Students can choose from more than 70 majors and minors
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The most popular ones are biology, business administration, psychology, media and journalism and political science
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Broad liberal arts education is received as some courses are compulsory for everybody
ALUMNI:
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Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine and Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research
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40 NCAA championships
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Gold Olympic medalists, mainly in men's basketball and women's soccer
SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:
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James K. Polk (11th President of the US)
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Michael Jordan (basketball player)
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​Sharon Lawrence (actress)
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Thomas Wolfe (author)
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Andy Griffith (actor, TV producer and writer)
CAMPUS INFO:
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The oldest buildings from the 18th and early 19th century (the Old East Building, the South Building, the Old West Building) stand around a quadrangle, named McClorke Place
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A few other buildings such as The Wilson Library form a second quadrangle called Polk Place
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Legend says that as long as the Davie Poplar tree stands, so will the university – the tree under which the university’s founder selected its location
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Probably the most important symbol is the Old Well, a small rotunda, which used to provide water for school
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