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UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Lift 16-Year Moratorium On Renaming Campus Buildings

The freeze on renaming any campus buildings or monuments was implemented by the board in 2015, after it voted to change the name of a classroom building named for a reputed Ku Klux Klan leader.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to lift its 16-year moratorium on the renaming of campus buildings.

"Many people have realized it's important to move forward with some of these issues. And that's

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