UNC system president wants no return of 'Silent Sam'
CHAPEL HILL — Preventing teachers and researchers from being distracted by problems swirling around North Carolina’s public universities – including an ideological divide over the future of a Confederate memorial on the flagship campus – is a top priority for the 17-campus system’s interim president, he said Friday. William Roper addressed the University of North Carolina’s governing board for the first time since the group pushed out his predecessor and the head of […]
