WRAL
Students, faculty and staff members, and alumni of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, were horrified and outraged at the sight of hundreds of students crowding onto a popular street full of bars and restaurants over the weekend to celebrate the men’s basketball team’s win over Duke University. The possibility of spreading the coronavirus and undermining the university’s attempt to safely begin in-person classes this Monday seemed lost on the jubilant crowd of revelers.
In a typical year, the crowd would be expected; it’s a tradition for Tar Heel fans to rush nearby Franklin Street after beating the rival Blue Devils, a cutthroat basketball foe based 20 minutes away in Durham, N.C. But after Chapel Hill’s widely publicized failed attempt to hold an in-person semester six months ago due to COVID-19 spread, people affiliated with the campus were quick to label the crowd of students “embarrassing” and “disgraceful.”