There are several ways to show your school spirit. You can wear your team’s colors. You can attend football games. You can also brutally gouge your school’s logo into a giant orange fruit. UNC Creative and Office of University Development prefer the latter.
UNC Creative is a group that provides print and online services. One of its most recent endeavors was titled #HappyHeeloween, promoting four UNC-themed pumpkin stencils. The organization worked with the Office of University Development, a University-wide academic fundraising organization, to promote the #Heeloween project.
These are the stencils available from the @unc_creative Twitter page:
We had a blast creating these UNC pumpkin stencils with @CarolinaDevelop! Download here: https://t.co/L4zyh3zwxE pic.twitter.com/L5Jxd8Slz2
— UNC Creative (@unc_creative) October 26, 2015
Share your pumpkins with us using #HappyHeeloween to be entered to win a @UNC prize. Happy carving! pic.twitter.com/xZRLhkpmED
— Carolina Development (@CarolinaDevelop) October 23, 2015
Upon looking at the designs I had available to me, I thought UNC Creative’s designs were all but creative.
Needless to say, your options are quite limited. You see the little Tar Heel insignia on every piece of clothing, and you see the Old Well that has let down tens of thousands of students with its false promise of a 4.0 GPA, so I decided to go with the little UNC logo. I considered the “Proud UNC Donor” stencil out of the question because the only donations I’ve made to UNC are through my inflated tuition.
To incentivize students to carve these stencils, Carolina Development tweeted:
Share your pumpkins with us using #HappyHeeloween to be entered to win a @UNC prize. Happy carving! pic.twitter.com/xZRLhkpmED
— Carolina Development (@CarolinaDevelop) October 23, 2015
A Carolina prize? Are we talking a dinner with Carol Folt and Roy Williams or an Isaiah Hicks basketball card?
Considering the former prizes, I felt obliged to tackle this task. Here was my first attempt.
As you can see, the pumpkin turned out to resemble more of a murder scene than the UNC logo. Observe the detailed lacerations on the far right side of the pumpkin. Being that I am not a man of mediocrity, I decided to bite the bullet and give it another shot:
Looking at my second project, one can easily see I made vast improvements from my first disaster. Three cuts and 25 stitches later, my masterpiece is complete! Look at how the sun illuminates its orange tint. Observe our beautiful school’s logo — Ben Carson couldn’t have performed better surgery on this pumpkin. I think I have a future in brain surgery.
Soon afterward, I logged onto Facebook and saw an impeccably detailed Ryan Switzer UNC pumpkin. My dreams of being a professional pumpkin carver were shot down.
I applaud the Office of University Development and UNC Creative for promoting school spirit, but I would appreciate a little larger potpourri of stencils for our choosing.
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