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FILE - TCU center Ernest Udeh Jr. (8) guards Kansas center Hunter Dickinson (1) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann, File)

Fifth-year seniors set for last runs after added COVID-year eligibility

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From left, North Carolina's Eric Montross, Donald Williams and Pat Sullivan smile as they hold hands and sit out the last seconds of their overtime victory against Cincinnati at the NCAA East Regional Final in the Meadowlands Arena on March 28, 1993 in East Rutherford, N.J. Montross, the former North Carolina and NBA big man, has died after a cancer fight, his family said. He was 52. The school released the family's announcement Monday morning, Dec. 18, 2023 saying Montross died Sunday surrounded by loved ones at his Chapel Hill home. He had been diagnosed with cancer in March, leading to him stepping away from his duties as a radio analyst for UNC game broadcasts. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file) **FILE**

Former UNC, NBA big man Eric Montross dies at 52 after cancer fight

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University of North Carolina President Molly Broad, center, talks with former systems president, William Friday, left, and Gov. Jim Hunt, right, before her formal inauguration, April 29, 1998, in Raleigh, N.C. Corbett Broad, the first female president of the University of North Carolina system and who later became a top advocate for U.S. higher education, died early Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, according to a statement from her family. She was age 81. (AP Photo/Karen Tam, File)

Molly Broad, UNC’s first female system president, dies at 81

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A family walks by an LGBTQ pride mural in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, just a few blocks away from the Legislative Building, on Nov. 16, 2022. Statehouse victories for Republicans this month are resonating for transgender people as they mark Transgender Day of Remembrance Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

Anti-transgender legislation resonates on Day of Remembrance

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In this May 21, 2016, file photo, Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones wins UNC tenure after uproar

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Nikole Hannah-Jones, 1619 Project journalist, UNC tenure resubmitted

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Foundation boots UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity from house

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Jenny Deview, right, picks up meals from Jamie Sohn, a member of The Chapel Hill &amp; Carrboro Mothers Club, which is providing free meals to UNC-Chapel Hill students staying on campus over the seven weeks of their extended and isolated winter break during the COVID-19 pandemic, on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (Casey Toth/The News &amp; Observer via AP)

Mom’s group feeds UNC students with financial struggles

By KATE MURPHY and The News & Observer - Associated Press

Students carry their belonging away from Ehringhaus dormitory following a cluster of COVID-19 cases on campus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. The university announced that it would cancel all in-person undergraduate learning starting on Wednesday causing some students to pack and leave. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

New COVID-19 clusters reported at NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill

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Producer of Netflix’s ‘Outer Banks’ explains geography gaffe

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Author Elizabeth Spencer is pictured in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in front of a personal library in 2005. Spencer died on Dec. 22, 2019 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at age 98, according to the playwright Craig Lucas. (News Observer via AP, File)

Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

Chapel Hill pastor arrested; fake Cartier jewelry seized

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The Latest: Duke University pays $54M to end hiring lawsuit

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With statue gone, interim UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor named

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UNC-Chapel Hill to resume classes 2 days after water issues

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Police stand guard after the confederate statue known as Silent Sam was toppled by protesters on campus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

The Latest: Former governor compares activists with Nazis

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Black student who helped desegregate university dies at 80

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Pediatric surgeons: A rare breed

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FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2015, file photo, Old Dominion University head football coach Bobby Wilder smiles during NCAA college football practice in Norfolk, Va. Old Dominion takes on North Carolina on Saturday. (AP Photo/Jason Hirschfeld. File)

Old Dominion preparing to host struggling North Carolina

By HANK KURZ Jr. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1993 file photo, University of North Carolina Chancellor Paul Hardin III, right, stands with President Bill Clinton as he goes over a book of essays at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C., before taking part in the opening ceremonies of the school's bicentennial observance. Hardin, who led the school into its third century while increasing faculty diversity, died on Saturday, July 1, 2017. He was 86. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Former University of North Carolina chancellor Hardin dies

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