University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Rushing Franklin=== While students previously held "Beat [[Duke University|Duke]]" parades on [[Franklin Street (Chapel Hill)|Franklin Street]] before sporting events,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Greene |first1=Caitlyn |title=30 years at Sutton's |url=https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2008/09/30-years-at-suttonsbr |access-date=January 16, 2022 |work=[[The Daily Tar Heel]] |date=September 24, 2008 |archive-date=January 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116055603/https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2008/09/30-years-at-suttonsbr |url-status=live }}<!-- prior url: http://www.dailytarheel.com/news/features/30_years_at_sutton_s --></ref> today students and sports fans have been known to spill out of bars and residence halls upon the victory of one of Carolina's sports [[North Carolina Tar Heels|teams]].<ref name="scene from franklin">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/the-scene-from-franklin-street |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213114557/http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/the-scene-from-franklin-street |archive-date=February 13, 2009 |title=The scene from Franklin Street (February 12, 2009) }}</ref> In most cases, a Franklin Street "bonfire" celebration is due to a [[Carolina-Duke rivalry|victory]] by the [[North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball|men's basketball team]],<ref name="bonfire">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/264/story/549933.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207072146/http://www.newsobserver.com/264/story/549933.html |archive-date=December 7, 2008 |title=News and Observer: Bonfires mark Tar Heels' win (March 5, 2007) }}</ref><ref name="fire">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/441142.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003007/http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/441142.html|archive-date=September 27, 2007|title=News and Observer: Radical changes for Chapel Hill celebrations}}</ref> although other Franklin Street celebrations have stemmed from wins by the [[North Carolina Tar Heels women's basketball|women's basketball team]] and [[North Carolina Tar Heels|women's soccer team]]. The first known student celebration on Franklin Street came after the [[1956β57 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team|1957 men's basketball team]] capped their perfect season with a national championship victory over the [[Kansas Jayhawks]].<ref name="chapelhillnews1">{{cite web|last=Magill |first=Samuel |url=http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2008/03/17/13289/basketball-flavors-franklin-street.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525174606/http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2008/03/17/13289/basketball-flavors-franklin-street.html |archive-date=May 25, 2013 |title=Basketball flavors Franklin Street celebrations |publisher=chapelhillnews.com |date=March 17, 2008 |access-date=December 30, 2012}}</ref> From then on, students have flooded the street after important victories.<ref name="chapelhillnews1"/> After a [[Final Four]] victory in [[1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|1981]] and the [[1981β82 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team|men's basketball team]] won the [[1982 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|1982 NCAA Championship]], Franklin Street was painted blue by the fans who had rushed the street.<ref name="chapelhillnews1"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page