UNC Story Archive recording with Carter McCormick: The Story of Us7 items
Date Deposited: 2021-12-17
Collection: UNC Story Archive (70096)
Collection Number: 70096
Finding Aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/70096/
During a remote recording session, Carter McCormick (Class of 2015), one of the first in his family to attend college in the United States and a proud Jew from Florida, describes how his UNC Story is shaped by “community, the development of community, and the development of spaces.” McCormick wanted to be a part of a social fraternity at UNC and... Read more
During a remote recording session, Carter McCormick (Class of 2015), one of the first in his family to attend college in the United States and a proud Jew from Florida, describes how his UNC Story is shaped by “community, the development of community, and the development of spaces.” McCormick wanted to be a part of a social fraternity at UNC and enthusiastically attended rush events his freshman year. After not getting called back, McCormick learned that the selection committee said, "I was "too insert homophobic slur here” to be in the organization,” and was disheartened. When he learned that friends were met with antisemitic remarks from other fraternities, McCormick worked with them to start a UNC chapter of Zeta Beta Tau in 2012, a national Jewish fraternity that is open to all. Although McCormick knows fraternities in general have much work to do, he is proud to have helped “create an organization and space for people in an institution that wasn’t designed for them.”Read less