FROM THE HILL
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Ross taught in the UNC’s Institute of
Government immediately after his graduation, before going back to his native
Greensboro to practice law. He was an aide
to U.S. Rep. Robin Britt ’ 63 for two years
and was appointed to the Superior Court
bench in 1984 — at age 33, the youngest
Superior Court judge in the state. He was
on leave from the bench to direct the N.C.
Administrative Office of the Courts in
2000 when he took over the helm of the
Reynolds Foundation.
A former high school athlete, Ross said
at the time his only ambition other than
running the foundation was to be commis-
sioner of baseball, Lambeth said.
“He knows the nonprofit community
in the state very well,” Lambeth said. “He
has a national reputation in philanthropy.”
The Reynolds Foundation is one of the
largest family foundations restricted to
operating in a single state. Under Ross, its
worth grew to more than $500 million.
In 2007, Ross moved on to be the 17th
president of his undergraduate alma mater.
Davidson, an elite private liberal arts school
founded in 1837, enrolls 1,700 students.
One That
Keeps
Giving
The aquarium in the Student Union
is one of the more
unusual class gifts
in a tradition that
goes back 142 years.
Now, single physical
gifts have given way
to individually designated monetary donations, and participation has risen
significantly. Katie
Lubinsky, a Southport
senior who is an
editorial intern with
the Review, spent
months researching
class gifts and visiting their locations to
produce an interactive feature on all the
known gifts of graduating classes. Visit
and explore at
alumni.unc.edu/
class-gifts.
KATIE LUBINSKY
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Broome has served as the University’s fac-
ulty athletics representative to the Atlantic
Coast Conference and the NCAA.
“We are treating this issue with the seriousness that you would expect,” Thorp
said. “It’s a privilege to put on the North
Carolina uniform and to represent this
University, and it’s our job to make sure the
people who do so have earned that privi-
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lege. We have to work with the NCAA to
determine all the facts.”
Baddour expressed support for Davis,
now in his fourth season as head coach. “I
believe in the leadership of this football
program. He has my support,” Baddour
said.
In response to a question, Baddour said
he didn’t know whether the tutor issue
would have been discovered if not for
interviews conducted for the original
probe. He said rules governing tutors were
explicit, that they sign statements saying
they understand the rules and that they are
asked at the end of the year whether they
have experienced anything that might fall
afoul of the rules.
