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Walking from campus and crossing Franklin Street to grab a drink and play a game of trivia at Woody's (Four Corners) after fall exams would be very high on the list, as would the classic post-midnight Hector's run on Friday and Sunday "mornings."

Posted: Friday, September 18, 2009

I'd like to think that freshmen are having experiences like mine. I remember sitting in an introductory Anthropology class with a young man on my left who was gay and a woman on my right who was an evangelical Chriatian. Both made sound intellectual arguments for their various positions over that semester. What a testament to deversity, true diversity? That openness to all ideas and a tradition of open debate is my favorite school tradition. Who remembers Greg the pit preacher facing off with the woman with the bald woman with the pet pig? Man, now that is 'open debate' in the pit.

Posted: Thursday, September 03, 2009

"Hark the Sound" being played as the crowd was leaving Carmichael after a basketball game. Tar Heels will always feel the tug of "Hark the Sound."

Posted: Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Without a doubt, my all time favorite tradition at Carolina is beating the crap out of dook. Basketball, field hockey, debate team, best looking cheerleaders.....I don't care what it is. Beating dook is a long standing Carolina tradition and one that never gets old. Beating up on wake and state has its moments, but nothing compares to sending the dookies down in defeat. Let the tradition continue!

Posted: Tuesday, September 01, 2009

I still love walking "the Grove" through campus to Battle Woods and continuing on past Ghimgoul to Piney Prospect. There, I reflect on all the folks who came before me as student and faculty and made this place what it is. Gives me a shiver. Not, however, cold enough to dissuade me from Locopops! The old, the new, the Heels!

Chapel Hill. Gotta love it (and I do!).

Posted: Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Through the decades, some former 'Carolina Traditions' have become memories. They include Hector's, the Porthole, and Pyewacket. But the time-honored tradition of browsing through the Ackland Art Museum has remained one of my favorite things to do since I entered UNC as a Freshman English major in 1972. (9/1/09)

Posted: Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Perhaps we should start a new tradition by asking Carolina alumni to answer the phone "HARK THE SOUND".

Posted: Tuesday, September 01, 2009

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