University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

==Campus==
[[File:Morehead Planetarium.JPG|thumb|The [[Morehead Planetarium]], designed by [[Eggers & Higgins]], first opened in 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=history2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030930074730/http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=history2.html  |archive-date=September 30, 2003 |title=Morehead Planetarium and Science Center :: Morehead History: Part 2 – Construction |publisher=Moreheadplanetarium.org |date=May 10, 1949 |access-date=July 10, 2012 }}</ref>|alt= A brick building with a rusted dome and ionic columns.]]
UNC-Chapel Hill's campus covers around {{convert|760|acre|ha}}, including about {{convert|125|acre|ha}} of lawns and over {{convert|30|acre|ha}} of shrub beds and other ground cover.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://facilities.unc.edu/departments/grounds-services/|title= Grounds Services|website=UNC–Chapel Hill|access-date=November 27, 2023}}</ref> In 1999, UNC-Chapel Hill was one of sixteen recipients of the [[American Society of Landscape Architects]] Medallion Awards and was identified (in the second tier) as one of 50 college or university "works of art" by T.A. Gaines in his book ''The Campus as a Work of Art''.<ref name="beautiful">{{cite journal|last=Ellertson |first=Shari L. |year=2001 |title=Expenditures on O&M at America's Most Beautiful Campuses |journal=Facilities Manager Magazine |volume=17 |issue=5 |publisher=APPA |location=Alexandria, VA |url=http://www.appa.org/FacilitiesManager/article.cfm?ItemNumber=394&parentid=203 |access-date=April 5, 2008  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219150922/http://www.appa.org/facilitiesmanager/article.cfm?ItemNumber=394&parentid=203 |archive-date=February 19, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gaines|first=Thomas A.|title=The Campus as a Work of Art|publisher=Praeger Publishers|location=Westport, CT|year=1991|page=[https://archive.org/details/campusasworkofar0000gain/page/155 155]|isbn=0-275-93967-7|url=https://archive.org/details/campusasworkofar0000gain/page/155}}</ref>

[[File:UNC Seal.JPG|thumb|A representation of the university seal, located in front of South Building and dedicated by the class of 1989.|alt= A seal for a school that contains the name and the date of founding.]]

The oldest buildings on the campus, including the Old East building (built 1793–1795),<ref name=OldSouth>{{cite web|url=https://docsouth.unc.edu/global/getBio.html?type=place&id=name0000796&name=Old%20East|title=Old East|website=UNC–Chapel Hill University Library|access-date=November 27, 2023}}</ref> the South Building (built 1798–1814),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docsouth.unc.edu/global/getBio.html?type=place&id=name0001062&name=South%20Building|title=South Building|website=UNC–Chapel Hill University Library|access-date=November 27, 2023}}</ref>  and the Old West building (built 1822–1823),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docsouth.unc.edu/global/getBio.html?type=place&id=name0000798&name=Old%20West|title=Old West|website=UNC–Chapel Hill University Library|access-date=November 27, 2023}}</ref> stand around a [[Quadrangle (architecture)|quadrangle]] that runs north to Chapel Hill.<ref name=OldSouth/> This is named McCorkle Place after [[Samuel Eusebius McCorkle]], who campaigned for the foundation of the university and was the original author of the [[bill (proposed law)|bill]] requesting the university's [[charter]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://maps.unc.edu/history/unc-museum/mccorkle-place/|title=McCorkle Place|website=UNC-Chapel Hill|access-date=November 27, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Powell|first=William S.|title=Dictionary of North Carolina Biography|publisher=UNC Press|location=Chapel Hill, NC|year=1991|volume=4|chapter=Samuel Eusebius McCorkle|isbn=978-0-8078-1918-0}}</ref> 

A second quadrangle, Polk Place, was built in the 1920s to the south of the original campus, with the South Building on its north side, and named after North Carolina native and university alumnus President [[James K. Polk]]. The [[Louis Round Wilson Library |Wilson Library]] is at the south end of Polk Place.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/history/presidents/jp11.html|title=Biography of James Polk|access-date=April 5, 2008|year=2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803010748/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/history/presidents/jp11.html|archive-date=August 3, 2010|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://museum.unc.edu/exhibits/show/architecture/polk-place---s-new-classroom-b|title=Polk Place|website=The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History|access-date=November 27, 2023}}</ref>

McCorkle Place and Polk Place are both in what is the northern part of the campus in the 21st century, along with 
the Frank Porter Graham Student Union, and the Davis, House, and Wilson libraries. Most university classrooms are located in this area, along with several undergraduate residence halls.<ref name="campusmap">{{cite web|url=http://www.maps.unc.edu/CampusMaps/PdfMaps/CampusMapIndexed2005_11x17.pdf|title=Campus Map|year=2007|publisher=UNC Engineering Information Services|access-date=May 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528035541/http://www.maps.unc.edu/CampusMaps/PdfMaps/CampusMapIndexed2005_11x17.pdf|archive-date=May 28, 2008}}</ref> The middle part of the campus includes [[Fetzer Field]] and [[Woollen Gymnasium]] along with the Student Recreation Center, [[Kenan Memorial Stadium]], Irwin Belk outdoor track, [[Eddie Smith Field House]], [[Boshamer Stadium]], [[Carmichael Auditorium]], [[Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History]], School of Government, [[University of North Carolina School of Law|School of Law]], George Watts Hill Alumni Center, Ram's Head complex (with a dining hall, parking garage, grocery store, and gymnasium), and various residence halls.<ref name="campusmap"/> The southern part of the campus houses the [[Dean Smith Center]] for men's basketball, Koury Natatorium, [[University of North Carolina School of Medicine|School of Medicine]], Adams School of Dentistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Gillings School of Global Public Health, [[UNC Health Care|UNC Hospitals]], [[Kenan–Flagler Business School]], and the newest student residence halls.<ref name="campusmap"/>

=== Campus features ===
[[File:Old Well UNC.jpg|thumb|Students walk past the [[Old Well]], a symbol of UNC-Chapel Hill for years]]
[[File:The Morehead Patterson Bell Tower.jpg|thumb|upright|The Morehead–Patterson Bell Tower was completed in 1931 and stands 172 feet tall.<ref name="unc.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.unc.edu/tour/LEVEL_2/belltower.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011223144653/http://www.unc.edu/tour/LEVEL_2/belltower.htm |archive-date=December 23, 2001 |title=Belltower Tour Stop|publisher=Unc.edu|access-date=July 10, 2012}}</ref>|alt=A bell tower in the night with lit up archways at the base and a clock near the top of the tower.]]

Located in McCorkle Place is the [[Davie Poplar]] tree under which a popular legend says the university's founder, [[William Richardson Davie]], selected the location for the university. The legend of the Davie Poplar says that as long as the tree stands, so will the university.<ref name="poplar">{{cite book|last=Loewer|first=H. Peter |title=Jefferson's Garden|publisher=Stackpole Books|location=Mechanicsburg, PA|year=2004|page=228|isbn=0-8117-0076-3}}</ref> However, the name was not associated with the tree until almost a century after the university's foundation.<ref name=McCorklePlace>{{cite web|url=https://gradschool.unc.edu/funding/gradschool/weiss/interesting_place/landmarks/mccorkle.html|title=McCorkle Place|website=UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School|access-date=November 27, 2023}}</ref> A graft from the tree, named Davie Poplar Jr., was plated nearby in 1918 after the original tree was struck by lightning.<ref name=McCorklePlace/> A second graft, Davie Poplar III, was planted in conjunction with the university's [[wikt:bicentennial|bicentennial]] celebration in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unc.edu/tour/LEVEL_2/davie.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011223154454/http://www.unc.edu/tour/LEVEL_2/davie.htm  |archive-date=December 23, 2001 |title=Davie Poplar |access-date=April 5, 2008 |year=2001 |work=A Self-Guided Tour of Campus |publisher=UNC Visitors' Center }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Valle |first=Kirsten |date=2004-10-12 |title=Reflections of a storied past |url=http://www.dailytarheel.com/2.1393/1.174415 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207171930/http://www.dailytarheel.com/2.1393/1.174415 |archive-date=2008-12-07 |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=The Daily Tar Heel}}</ref>The student members of the university's [[Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies]] are not allowed to walk on the grass of McCorkle Place out of respect for the unknown resting place of [[Joseph Caldwell]], the university's first president.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unc.edu/di_phi/join.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105084705/http://www.unc.edu/di_phi/join.html|archive-date=January 5, 2008|title=The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies|publisher=Unc.edu|access-date=July 10, 2012}}</ref>

A symbol of the university is the [[Old Well]], a small neoclassical [[rotunda (architecture)|rotunda]] at the south end of McCorkle Place based on the Temple of Love in the [[Gardens of Versailles]], in the same location as the original well that provided water for the school.<ref name="landmarks">{{cite web|url=http://museum.unc.edu/exhibits/architecture/the-temple-of-love-versailles-1775-left-and-the-ol/|title=Architectural Highlights of Carolina's Historic Campus|access-date=September 11, 2010|publisher=The Carolina Story|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610011548/http://museum.unc.edu/exhibits/architecture/the-temple-of-love-versailles-1775-left-and-the-ol/|archive-date=June 10, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The well stands at the south end of McCorkle Place, the northern quad, between two of the campus's oldest buildings, [[Old East]], and Old West.

The historic [[Playmakers Theatre]] is located on Cameron Avenue between McCorkle Place and Polk Place. It was designed by [[Alexander Jackson Davis]], the same architect who renovated the northern façade of [[Old East]] in 1844.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unc.edu/tour/LEVEL_2/playmakers.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020112001540/http://www.unc.edu/tour/LEVEL_2/playmakers.htm|archive-date=January 12, 2002|title=Playmakers Theater Tour Stop |publisher=Unc.edu|access-date=July 10, 2012}}</ref> The east-facing building was completed in 1851 and initially served as a library and as a ballroom. It was originally named Smith Hall after North Carolina Governor [[Benjamin Smith (North Carolina)|General Benjamin Smith]], who was a special aide to [[George Washington]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]] and was an early benefactor to the university.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://museum.unc.edu/exhibits/early_benefactors/benjamin-smith-1756-1826-1/ |title=The Carolina Story—Carolina's Early Benefactors |publisher=Museum.unc.edu |access-date=July 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317051748/http://museum.unc.edu/exhibits/early_benefactors/benjamin-smith-1756-1826-1/ |archive-date=March 17, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> When the library moved to Hill Hall in 1907, the building was transferred between the school of law and the agricultural chemistry department until it was taken over by the university theater group, the Carolina Playmakers, in 1924. It was remodeled as a theater, opening in 1925 as Playmakers Theater. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://unchistory.web.unc.edu/building-narratives/playmakers/|title=Names in Brick and Stone: Histories from UNC's Built Landscape|website=UNC–Chapel Hill|access-date=November 27, 2023}}</ref> Playmakers Theatre was declared a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1973.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/NC01.pdf|title=National Historic Landmarks Survey|access-date=November 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104193510/http://www.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/NC01.pdf|archive-date=November 4, 2012}}</ref>

The Morehead–Patterson bell tower, south of the Wilson Library, was commissioned by [[John Motley Morehead III]], the benefactor of the [[Morehead-Cain Scholarship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unc.edu/about/landmarks.html|title=UNC.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991003033211/http://www.unc.edu/about/landmarks.html|archive-date=October 3, 1999}}</ref> The hedge and surrounding landscape was designed by [[William Chambers Coker|William C. Coker]], botany professor and creator of the [[Coker Arboretum|campus arboretum]]. Traditionally, seniors have the opportunity to climb the tower a few days prior to May commencement.<ref name="unc.edu"/>

===Environment and sustainability===
 
The university has a goal that all new buildings meet the requirements for [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED]] silver certification,<ref name="UNC Sustainability: Buildings">{{cite web|title=UNC Sustainability: High Performance Buildings |publisher=UNC-Chapel Hill |url=http://sustainability.unc.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=54 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018111936/http://sustainability.unc.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=54  |archive-date=October 18, 2007 |access-date=June 8, 2009 }}</ref> and the Allen Education Center at the university's North Carolina Botanic Garden was the first building in North Carolina to receive LEED Platinum certification.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ncbg.unc.edu/ncbg/aec/green-features/|title=Allen Education Center|website=North Caroline Botanic Garden|access-date=November 27, 2023}}</ref>

UNC-Chapel Hill's [[cogeneration]] facility produced one-fourth of the electricity and all of the steam used on campus as of 2008.<ref name="UNC Sustainability: Energy at UNC">{{cite web|title=UNC Sustainability: Energy at UNC |publisher=UNC-Chapel Hill |url=http://sustainability.unc.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=64 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002170340/http://sustainability.unc.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=64  |archive-date=October 2, 2008 |access-date=June 8, 2009 }}</ref>
In 2006, the university and the [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina|Town of Chapel Hill]] jointly agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 60% by 2050, becoming the first town-gown partnership in the country to make such an agreement.<ref name="UNC Sustainability: Institutionalizing Sustainability">{{cite web|title=UNC Sustainability: Institutionalizing Sustainability |publisher=UNC-Chapel Hill |url=http://sustainability.unc.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=155 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018065602/http://sustainability.unc.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=155  |archive-date=October 18, 2007 |access-date=June 8, 2009 }}</ref>
Through these efforts, the university achieved a "A−" grade on the Sustainable Endowment Institute's College Sustainability Report Card 2010.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=
https://web.archive.org/web/20100620194946/http://greenreportcard.org/report-card-2010/awards
|url=http://greenreportcard.org/report-card-2010/awards|archive-date=June 20, 2010|title=Overall College Sustainability Leaders|website=The College Sustainability Report Card|publisher=Sustainable Endowments Institute|access-date=November 27, 2023}}</ref>

The university was criticized in 2019 for abandoning a promise to shutter its coal-fired power plant by 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2019/02/coal-plant-town-council-0224|title=Community frustrated with UNC's renewal of its coal plant over sustainable alternatives|website=The Daily Tar Heel|access-date=2020-02-13|archive-date=February 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213215043/https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2019/02/coal-plant-town-council-0224|url-status=live}}</ref> Initially, the university has announced plans to become carbon neutral by 2050, but in 2021, the plan was changed to 2040.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pequeño |first=Sara |date=2021-05-12 |title=UNC-Chapel Hill Stalls on Stopping Coal Use as the Climate Crisis Inches Closer to Catastrophe |url=http://indyweek.com/news/orange/unc-chapel-hill-cogeneration-plant-lawsuit-permit/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211012434/https://indyweek.com/news/orange/unc-chapel-hill-cogeneration-plant-lawsuit-permit/ |archive-date=December 11, 2023 |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=INDY Week |language=en-US |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> In December 2019, the university was sued by the [[Sierra Club]] and the [[Center for Biological Diversity]] for violations of the [[Clean Air Act (United States)|Clean Air Act]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pequeño |first=Sara |date=2019-12-04 |title=UNC-Chapel Hill Just Got Slapped With Another Lawsuit, This Time About Its Coal Plant |url=http://indyweek.com/news/orange/unc-chapel-hill-just-got-slapped-with-another-lawsuit/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205063956/https://indyweek.com/news/orange/unc-chapel-hill-just-got-slapped-with-another-lawsuit/ |archive-date=2019-12-05 |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=INDY Week |language=en-US}}</ref>

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