As the hub of university administration, South Building has long been a site of protests and deliberation over a more just and inclusive Carolina. In early 1970, it was at the center of the Female Liberation Movement on campus. That March, Female Liberation #27 (a feminist student group based at UNC) delivered a list of demands (shown above) to the university administration at South Building in an effort to improve the status and treatment of women affiliated with the University.
The next month, activists sponsored a “baby-in” --an event at which 75 students, professors, and professors’ wives with babies gathered at South Building to demand a child daycare center. The administration claimed they did not have the funds--to date, while UNC subsidizes several child-care options , it does not offer an on-campus daycare for student and employee parents.