Is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our city tour visits. Today, we are on the campus of the university of North Carolina at chapel hill, the First State University in the country. This is a contested claim that we argue with chartered first, chartered in 1785. Was first to open and had already graduated a couple of classes for the university of georgia. The university and the city were founded at the same time. Selected,area was there was no town or village. Farms, therefew was a chapel located on what is now the site of the carolina inn, but there was no town to speak of. On the day for the First University building, they also had an auction of town lots. They understood the university was going to succeed, there needed to be a town around it to support it, provide businesses, so really the town of chapel hill and were born on the same day. The university was chartered in 1781. The ground broken 7093, and it was about a year and a half later when t
The program for cyntoias visit. I would like to acknowledge ndmore than a dozen cosponsors tonights event. There are really too many to name individually but i hope you saw them recognized on the screen before we started. Its gratifying that so Many Organizations from across the university joined us to support this event. It demonstrates the concern and commitment of so many students, faculty, and staff on the issues we will discuss with tonights guest. We understand these are challenging topics that touch on difficult personal experiences and want to encourage you to support each other and to seek support from offices like care and others perhaps you are well prepared and committed to dealing with these issues. As you saw in the introductory abtisch was founded in 2000 with the purpose of advancing tops University Commitment to civic life. Our mission then and now is to ensure that all talk students across all schools and academic disciplines acquire the knowledge, skills, and values
More head planetarium in the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in about ten minutes, a conversation with howard lee chapel hills first African American mayor and the first African American mayor elected in the majority white southern city. Then, in about 30 minutes, the history of uncs Basketball Program as we tore the North Carolina Basketball Museum. Well also speak with author jay smith on the academic scandal that involve the universities athletic department. We will end our special with a local royal rufus edison talking about delivering a subpoena to president nixon in 1973 and his other experience as a deputy chief counsel on the Senate Watergate committee. Howard ali was the first African American elected mayor in the majority white southern city. Coming up we sit down with mr. Lee to talk about serving his chapel hill mayor in the 19 sixties and seventies and the challenges he faced while in office law. Mayor, why did you decide to run for mayor of chapel
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Scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or an apple someday and every doing our jobs correctly, were helping them grow the company so we dont obviously work in the businesses but we can provide and navigate new challenges as they go through the business, we like making ourselves as a money provider and a supporter as a business growth. Why can a company such as the one you described go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . A good question, the problem is most of the business we invest are very risky businesses that lose money for a long period of time as they invest in the business and banks unfortunately are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing the capital, we are willing to take that risk and about half of what we invested we will ultimately lose all her money and any bank to your promos will not be too e