Flags at UNC to be lowered Saturday in honor of chancellor who died Posted Jul 7, 2017 Flags at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus will be lowered to half-staff Saturday as a tribute to the late chancellor, Paul Hardin, who died July 1. Gov. Roy Cooper issued the order Thursday. All United States and North Carolina flags on the campus will be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Saturday. (Raleigh News & Observer)