“Administrative abuses,” wrote Faculty Executive Committee member Joy Renner during an out-of-cycle meeting about the nature of the Board of Governor’s decision to give the Sons of Confederate Veterans the Silent Sam monument and a $2.5 million trust.
#onassignment @dailytarheel Provost Robert Blouin came to reiterate that the University found itself presenting the Board of Governors with a “binary decision”: a “legal” option that meant returning Silent Sam to campus, or the “illegal” option of partnering with the North Carolina Museum of History.