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UNC-Chapel Hill students are part of a national movement to put college and university endowments where their values should be when it comes to climate change. In short, get their money out of coal and fossil-fuel stocks and send a message to the investment world that it's wrong to finance companies whose products threaten to wreck the planet.

We've had a couple of columns about the UNC campaign previously — in November and in December. The latter noted UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp's view that doing the right thing would get in the way of his $2 billion endowment buying the hottest hedge funds on the market — and between money and morality, he picked money.

So yesterday was student elections day in Chapel Hill, and the divestiture campaigners put a question on the ballot: Should UNC-CH divest its holdings in coal companies?

Answer: Yes, by an overwhelming margin.

This is from the organizers of the UNC Beyond Coal campaign: