Holden Thorp to Campus Rally: Back to Classroom for Me Posted Sep 21, 2012 Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86, who grew up working in the community theater his parents ran, made a dramatic entrance onstage outside South Building at the end of an hourlong rally Friday and gave what appeared to be the definitive word on his future — despite campuswide calls for him to reconsider the resignation he announced on Monday, he insisted he is returning to the faculty. (UNC General Alumni Association)