Yes, I acknowledge myself conquered - but my opinions, my heart and soul are unchanged and always will be.
— A Confederate supporter and Chapel Hill resident, writing to his son on the tenth day of the Union soldiers’ occupation of Chapel Hill in 1865.
To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses sports; it is locals against outsiders, elitists against populists, even good against evil… The rivalry may be a way of aligning oneself with larger philosophic ideals — of choosing teams in life — a tradition of partisanship that reveals the pleasures and even the necessity of hatred.
— Will Blythe, on the greatest rivalry ever.
(Source: Wikipedia)
The thing about Duke was, every time they sent me a letter, they wouldn’t spell my name right. They would have ‘T.J. Harrison’ or something like that. And I’m like, ‘OK. How can I go here? You can’t even spell my name right.’ It’s only two letters and HAIR and STON. I’m trying to figure out how that’s so hard.
— P.J. Hairston (via the News & Record)
(Source: uncaroline)
Reblogged from uncaroline
With the close of the football season of 1913 all eyes are now turned to basketball. It is a sport that is practically new with the University, having been in vogue here for only a few years, but one that is gaining ground.
— The Tar Heel in 1913 (via the North Carolina Collection)
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That there is this sense that there’s lots of little things to hate about Duke, but overall, people feel like they’re getting away with something that’s un-American.
— Andy Bagwell, co-author of a new book, Duke Sucks, on why people hate Duke. (via newsobserver.com)
That’s one of the great things about the social web. The good stuff rises to the top — there’s a cool precision about that — and it’s easy to help people, too.
— Alexis Ohanian (The Atlantic)
Facebook by numbers (via The Economist)
