UNC head: Confederate doesn't belong at campus 'front door'
Source: Associated Press
Jonathan Drew, Associated Press
Updated 4:38 pm CDT, Friday, August 31, 2018
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The chancellor of North Carolina's flagship university strongly indicated Friday that the school won't return a torn-down Confederate statue to the main quad where it used to stand, but stopped short of confirming its former spot has been ruled out.
In a campus-wide statement , University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt said that she was working with the school's trustees on finding an "alternative location" for the statue that was torn down during a protest on Aug. 20.
"Silent Sam has a place in our history and on our campus where its history can be taught, but not at the front door of a safe, welcoming, proudly public research university," she said.
McCorkle Place, where it stood, is often called the university's "front door."
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