Student protests echo Civil Rights era

by Elise McGlothian

Students and other activists interrupted yesterday’s UNC Board of Governors meeting to protest the hiring of Margaret Spellings as the new UNC System President. This week’s protest was the latest of several on campus this semester, amid simmering racial tension between students and administrators.

But the university’s history shows that that tension is not new.

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