Opposition to Name Change: UNC-Raleigh
John Earnhardt recalls student opposition to the proposed university name change to University of North Carolina at Raleigh.
Interview on 2012-11-15 00:00:00 -0500
Transcript
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Dr. Friday was right in the middle of that, and he talked with me.
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We did not want to be the University of North Carolina at Raleigh.
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The University of North Carolina, I have to say, was a bad connotation to NC State.
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We didn't want to be the University of North Carolina at anything.
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As I recall the student council had a lot to do with that, and a lot of people [were] involved much more than me,
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but we were pretty united that we didn't want to be called the University of North Carolina at Raleigh
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because there was a University of North Carolina somewhere else that had already been known as the University of North Carolina. [Laughs]
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So we became North Carolina State University, of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh,
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and we thought, well, that's better than being the University of North Carolina at Raleigh. [Laughs]
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But I remember there were a lot of people active in student government and there were some strong feelings about that.
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