“What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well or the bell or the stone walls. Or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie, though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is, as it was meant to be, the University of the people.”

-- Charles Kuralt, Journalist, Host of "On the Road" and "Sunday Morning," at the UNC Bicentennial in 1993

 

Source: Steven J. Tepper. The Chronicles of the Bicentennial Observance of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1998, p. 219.