Deadline postponed for dealing with UNC Confederate statue
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The board governing North Carolina's public universities has again pushed back its deadline for deciding what to do with a Confederate monument at its flagship campus.
The University of North Carolina system issued a news release Tuesday saying it would not be discussing the statue known as Silent Sam at its May 21 meeting as planned. May had been picked after a March deadline was pushed back.
No new deadline was given Tuesday. The next scheduled Board of Governors meeting is September.
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The news release says the board and universities have been focused on other issues including the legislative session.
"Silent Sam" stood in a main quad for over a century before it was torn down last August by protesters who called it a racist symbol.