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News The Tiger, Clemson • The Daily Tar Heel, UNC • The Red & Black, UGA • The Cavauer Daily, UVA Alumnus donates $28.6 million to UNC by Sophia Raff The Daily Tar Heel A UNC alumnus has donated $28.6 million to the university, the largest sin gle gift in the school's history, officials an nounced Thursday. The bequest, from the estate of David Benjamin Clayton, a member of the Class of 1949, was announced at an afternoon press conference following a Board of Trustees meeting. Officials said the money would go toward funding more scholarships, re structuring the advising system, endowing the School of Law and building a free-standing black cultural center. “This is enlightened philanthropy,” BOT chair woman Anne Cates said. “This is ful filling a lot of needs we have been talk ing about for a long time.” Clayton, who owned a number of H&R Block franchises, died in 1978. Before his death, he requested that the franchises be sold in 20 years and all proceeds given to the universi ty Provost Dick Richardson said at the press conference the late Chancellor Michael Hooker approved the plan for allocating the money before he died'of lymphatic cancer in June. “Many of these initiatives were very dear to his heart,” Richardson said. . ”' ".— ■■■ ■ would have been excited to have a gift that would do any one of these things.” Student Body President Nic Heinke said the beauty of the whole gift was that all the components worked well to ben efit the entire campus. “This is something that embodies to me the university community,” he said. “These projects are things that have been priorities for so long. It's great to see politics step aside and really look at the needs of the university.” A laige portion of the money, $11.8 million, will create a Chancellor's Dis cretionary Fund-to benefit university pri orities. This year, some money from the fund will be used to build a free-standing Son ja H. Stone Black Cultural Center and en dow the School of Law. “I think it's im portant for a great university to have a great law school, and I think this money helps,” said Gene Nichol, dean of the law school. “It's a tremendous gift.” Nichol said the money was part of a package that would allow the school to hire a number of new faculty members, open more scholarships to graduate stu dents and offer a broader curriculum. “Gifts like this can make the differ ence in terms of providing, quite literal ly, the best education in the world,” he said. Money from the endowment will be used to build a free-standing BCC build ing. The Board of Trustees authorized a plan Thursday to build this $9 million cen ter, with $6 million coming from the Clay ton endowment. ENTER TO WIN AN ALL-EXPENSE-PAID TRIP TO THE COLLEGE HALL OF FAME IN SOUTH BEND, IN. 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