At UNC Chapel Hill, student leaders are bringing back an old tradition: the homecoming parade.
Homecoming is this weekend in Chapel Hill, and Carolina takes on Duke in football at 3:30 p.m. The parade will start at 11 a.m. at the Columbia Street/Cameron Avenue intersection.
As Student Body President Jasmin Jones writes today in the Chapel Hill News, student leaders want the event to be a town/gown initiative.
The last homecoming parade is believed to have been in 1993, according to this Daily Tar Heel report.
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