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During the 1990s, record companies were looking for the next big alternative rock breakout and focused a lot of attention on Chapel Hill, where bands like Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, and Polvo resided. Two Chapel Hill bands would hit it big, but they were the last two anyone would have expected -- the hot-jazz band Squirrel Nut Zippers and piano-pop trio Ben Folds Five.

This chapter describes how Carolina North represents the next half-century of UNC's campus development potential. Located a mile and a half north of the main campus, the 250-acre Carolina North research campus holds the key to the University's future growth. Implementation of the 2007 Carolina North Plan and the 2009 Development Agreement between Chapel Hill and the University promises to open a new era in campus sustainability and in town/gown relationships. The Carolina North site comprises about a quarter of the 979-acre Horace Williams property. The proposed development occupies the lower southeast part of the overall property extending west from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to Seawell School Road, the boundary between Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Its southern frontage lies along Estes Drive Extension.

This chapter describes how Susie Sharp's formal legal training at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Law outstripped not only her father's legal education but also that of the vast majority of practicing lawyers in the state. Her arrival in Chapel Hill coincided with fundamental changes taking place in legal education in general and at the UNC law school in particular. These changes, which were related to the emergence of the New South as an increasingly integral part of the nation as a whole, were reflected in every aspect of the law school experience, from admission requirements to teaching methods and curriculum to graduation requirements. When Susie entered the UNC as a first-year law student, she was right on the cusp of the school's transformation from a clubby bar-review factory to a modern law school. She was one of the very first to graduate with what today would be considered a proper legal education.

This chapter focuses on Crystal N. Feimster, the historian who instead wanted to practice law when she entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a freshman in 1990. Feimster had decided on a career in the legal profession not out of some compelling interest in law but because it provided a valid excuse for turning down a four-year academic scholarship that required a commitment to teaching in the North Carolina public schools upon graduation. She had been awarded the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship, and had she accepted the award, it would have meant not only having to commit to teaching but also having to give her dream of attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill because the fellowship committee required that she attend the university of its choice: Appalachian State University.

This chapter discusses the important lessons about sustainable campus development UNC and Chapel Hill learned from their experience in planning, reviewing, and building a huge campus addition during the dynamic decade. They learned to define sustainable campus development as a balance of historic preservation concerns, current development demands, and future potential needs. They learned to use the University's mission statement as a touchstone for assessing development proposals. They learned to collaborate on building consensus to solve problems arising from the unprecedented scale and impacts of the resulting growth. They learned to determine the responsible capacity of the campus in light of sustaining natural systems. Finally, they learned to use an ongoing review process to ensure that project designs respected broader needs for campus character and consistency.

This chapter describes the role of Chambers's law practice and law firm as a locus and focal point of the African American struggle for racial equality in North Carolina from the mid-1960s onward. Chambers and the firm were well known to African Americans in every corner of the state, and Chambers provided legal representation, mostly free of charge, to civil rights demonstrators and activists of every persuasion and mode of protest while also advancing the interests of black citizens in other ways. In 1968, James Ferguson managed Rev. Dr. Reginald Hawkins's gubernatorial campaign, designed to energize the state's newly enfranchised black electorate. Ferguson and Adam Stein represented and insurgent, racially-mixed delegation from North Carolina at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Stein assisted striking black cafeteria workers at UNC-Chapel Hill, adroitly securing most of their goals despite a highly-charged political atmosphere. Ferguson convinced a disciplinary panel at Duke University to forego punishment of black students who had occupied the administration building. Working ceaselessly, Chambers and his partners encountered racist judges, endured the occasional missed paycheck, but kept on, persuaded that their work was essential to the goal of full black equality.

This chapter begins with the death of Senator Clyde R. Hoey, considered by the author as a truly great human being. Governor William B. Umstead was empowered to name somebody to occupy the Senate seat that Hoey's death had made vacant until the general election in November. The author had held Bill Umstead in high admiration and deep affection ever since a far-off day in September 1913, when, as a bashful freshman, he attended a Bible class that Bill, a sophomore, taught each Sunday morning in his room in the Old East dormitory at Chapel Hill. Governor Umstead was always a deliberative official; he welcomed advice from those he respected, but always made his own decision in the end.

This chapter discusses Lovie Shelton’s nursing training at Norfolk General Hospital (through the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps) and early nursing experiences in the 1940s, when delivery room nurses were little more than handmaidens to the doctors (often instructed, for example, to hold a laboring woman’s legs together to keep her from delivering before the doctor’s arrival). The chapter not only takes readers on an interesting historical side trip, but gives them a benchmark for gauging the significance of Lovie’s later career as a nurse-midwife attending home births by herself. The chapter also describes the highly routinized, medicalized hospital births at the time Lovie was in training and how birth in the U.S. arrived at this point. After graduation, Lovie worked for a country doctor and sometimes found herself attending deliveries of babies all on her own in homes. Wanting more training, she enrolled in the public health nursing program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she learned about nurse-midwives from visiting lecturer Laura Blackburn, a public health nurse-midwife employed by the state board of health in South Carolina. Lovie “caught on fire” to become a nurse-midwife herself.