Tour Around UNC-CH

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Also known as The University of North Carolina, UNC-CH, or simply UNC, is the oldest institution in the University of North Carolina System. Although not the first public university to be chartered, it was the first to open to students, and the only public university in America to graduate students in the eighteenth century. Academically, the University is among the United States' best, consistently ranking in the top five public universities in the nation.

The way to campus

The Bell Tower of Chapel Hill



Statue of Silent Sam

Erected in 1913 as a monument to the 321 alumni of the University who died in the Civil War and all students who joined the Confederate Army, this statue is known by students as Silent Sam.



The Old Well

The most enduring symbol of the university is the Old Well, a small neoclassical rotunda based on the Temple of Love in the Garden of Versailles, at the spot of the original well that provided water for the school. It stands at the south end of McCorkle Place, the northern quad, between two of the campus's oldest buildings, Old East and Old West. There is a symbolic drinking fountain (providing city water) at the center of the rotunda so that one can "drink from the Old Well" for good luck. It is tradition for entering freshmen to drink from the well, and the superstition is that if one does this, one will make all "As" that semester.



Dudley Dewitt Carroll Hall

Carroll Hall, which is on the west side of Polk Place between South Building and Wilson Library, was named after Dudley Dewitt Carroll, founder of the School of Commerce, later named the Kenan-Flagler Business School. It was completed in 1953, and an addition that wraps around the original building was completed in 1971.




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