University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the eleventh-oldest institution of higher education (and the oldest public institution) in the United States. Known to many as Carolina, or simply UNC, it is consistently ranked among the elite American Universities in academics and is considered a "Public Ivy." Carolina has developed an excellent reputation in numerous academic fields, as well as in its successful and very popular basketball program, which last won the National Championship on April 4, 2005.

Campus

UNC’s sprawling and well-forested campus is dominated by its two central quads – large yards where it is easy to find a pick up game of frisbee. Students mill about in a lowered brick area known as the Pit, often entertained by the Pit Preacher. The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, located in the heart of campus, tolls the hour.

Related Topics:
Quads - Frisbee - Pit Preacher

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The most enduring symbol of the university is the Old Well, a small neoclassical rotunda based on the Temple of Love in the Garden of Versailles, at the spot of the original well that provided water for the school. It stands at the south end of McCorkle Place, one of two major grassy quads at the north end of campus, between the campus's oldest dorms, Old East and Old West. There is a symbolic drinking fountain (providing city water) at the center of the rotunda so that one can "drink from the old well" as a token of good luck. It is tradition for entering freshman to drink from the well, and the superstition is that if one does this, one will make straight A's for all four years.

Related Topics:
The Old Well - Quads

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