As the Fall 2018 semester draws to a close, many undergraduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could face uncertainty about their final course grades for the semester due to a potential revolt by their graduate student instructors.

In response to an ongoing campus controversy over the “Silent Sam” Confederate statue that stood on UNC’s campus from 1913-2018, a large number of graduate student teaching assistants have pledged to withhold their student’s final grades until new demands for the statue’s removal are met.