Frank Alexander hadn’t thought of the cardboard box stashed away in his closet in almost 50 years. The simple gray container holds dozens of records from his time in college.
He’s a Tar Heel, class of 1973, and it wasn’t until he heard the story of another student at UNC-Chapel Hill that he was inspired to once again open that box.
Alexander first read about Laura Saavedra Forero in early January via a Daily Tar Heel article. The paper had been following her experience as a pro-Palestinian activist at UNC. This included her getting knocked out of her wheelchair at a large campus protest to getting served a search warrant…