These words usually are associated with raucous college parties, but this past weekend they adorned posters advertising Alumni Weekend, which offered UNC graduates a chance to relive their undergraduate experiences.
The alumni in attendance were excited about the opportunity to reminisce about their years at UNC, including Don Ingalls, class of 1972, who has come back to Chapel Hill for three alumni weekends.
"It's an opportunity to get back, see old friends and remember past years," he said.
Attendance at Alumni Weekend was slightly higher this year than in previous years, said Rick Davis, the General Alumni Association's director of enrichment programs.
He said about 1,500 people registered with either the GAA or the Black Alumni Reunion to attend the weekend's activities, compared with an average of 1,400 in the past.
The GAA planned several special events to help all the alumni mingle with each other, including a party after Saturday's football game against Maryland and a comedy show featuring UNC alumnus Lewis Black that night.
The Black Alumni Reunion sponsored other activities over the weekend, including a sold-out tribute to the history of blacks at UNC on Friday evening and two functions Saturday night.
But the scheduled events could not fully evoke the nostalgic remembrances of the undergraduate experience at Chapel Hill, said Meridith Rentz, class of 1992, who coordinated her visit to the University with several close friends from around the country. "It's really been things we wanted to do that weren't planned," she said. "We'll visit favorite restaurants and our sorority house (Chi Omega)."
Graduates registered with the Black Alumni Reunion were more inclined to attend planned events because this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first black student to graduate from the University, said John Hinton, who received his UNC undergraduate degree in 1983 and a graduate degree in 1995.
