"When we ask the university about this, they say, 'Why are you being loud about this? Why are you making a big deal about this?' They want us to quiet down about Silent Sam."
by Will Huntsberry
Sam, a Confederate soldier, stands tall and stoic, rifle across his chest, in the middle of the upper quad at UNC-Chapel Hill. Made of stone, he is in full uniform, is wearing shoes, does not appear to have diarrhea and is not at all bedraggled, which makes him unlike an actual Confederate soldier during the Civil War.…[ Read more ]