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Carolina Back to School 2008 |
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New first-year students greet each other before Carolina Kick-Off the week before classes began in August.
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Bryan Jones, left, watches as Nicholas Becketti wipes water from the Old Well through his hair after arriving at the campus landmark on Aug. 15. Jones and Becketti, set out from near Wilmington on Aug. 2 to recreate the 1795 trek by Hinton James, who walked 170 miles from Wilmington to Chapel Hill to become the University's first student.
|  | Chancellor Holden Thorp, left, high fives Matt Kelley as his son Nicholas, a new sophomore, looks on during move-in at Morrison Residence Hall.
|  | A steady stream of parents, students and the personal items that make a dorm room a home for the year flow into Morrison Residence Hall.
|  | New students check the words to “Hark the Sound” as they join arms at the new student convocation in the Dean E. Smith Center.
|  | Chancellor Holden Thorp, left, and Student Body President J.J. Raynor display the Class of 2012 banner.
|  | Frederick Meyer of New York City holds up a mortarboard tassel that new students received at convocation.
|  | Dramatic Art Professor Ray Dooley uses a cricket bat to make a point to new students at convocation.
|  | Students and faculty applaud Chancellor Holden Thorp as he steps to the podium in Smith Center.
|  | Chancellor Thorp and Terri Houston finish a rousing rendition of “God Bless the Child” as the opening act for Fallfest 2008. Thorp, an accomplished musician who plays jazz bass and keyboard, performs occasionally with Houston, director of recruitment and multicultural programs.
|  | Students in the Fallfest crowd react as Chancellor Thorp and Terri Houston perform.
|  | Women's field hockey coach Karen Shelton greets the crowd and introduces team members at FallFest.
|  | Football coach Butch Davis helps pump up the FallFest crowd as he calls out the names of Tar Heels.
|  | Members of the Marching Tar Heels are a swirl of color as they perform at FallFest.
|  | | Provost Bernadette Gray-Little leads a discussion group during the Summer Reading Program, held the day before classes began in August. The voluntary program is an academic ice breaker for new students. | | | | |
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