Student leader wants safer celebrations

August 4, 2009

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The Chapel Hill News (NC)

By Eric Ferreri

"UNC's new student body president has a crazy notion: students should celebrate big basketball victories safely."

"Jasmin Jones' initiative is called Safe Celebration. The idea is this: when UNC beats Duke or wins a national championship, the subsequent Franklin Street bonanza could be safer if it was just a bit more structured. ..."

"'But the key,' [Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy] added, [to] Safe Celebration is that students buy into it. ...'It's not coming from the UNC administration and it's not coming from the town,' he said. 'It does have to be a student-led thing. I'm optimistic about this.' ...

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