List some of the more notable contributions Chapel Hill has made to our society.

UNC graduate student, Donald R. Currey, killed the world's oldest non-clonal organism in 1964. Prometheus was a pine tree in a Nevada park that was nearly 5000 years old. For many unclear reasons, Donald ended up chopping it down for research when it was arguably unnecessary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28tree%29

Reuben Hill, a research professor in Family Life, made this gem of a film called "Appreciating Our Parents."

Here's the video from MST3K



Or if you don't like MST3K, here's the plain version in color




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4/26/2011 7:51:11 PM

4/26/2011 7:54:22 PM

It worked! I posted before the

4/26/2011 7:55:43 PM

While I do see the potential itt I am too lazy to research past failures of our neighbor.

4/26/2011 7:57:27 PM

Yeah, it's really an "as you notice them" kind of post. I don't condone any research of any kind.

4/26/2011 8:00:25 PM

5 national championships in men's basketball

4/26/2011 8:05:50 PM

making State students try to rationalize their being with thread like this.

/thread

4/26/2011 8:31:26 PM

Who came up with the FUCK DUKE T-shirt? If it was a UNC person, than this should go on the list. If not, it still should be celebrated.

4/27/2011 12:13:39 AM

This thread is for making a UNC fail an achievement, not for actual achievements.

4/27/2011 12:16:11 AM

Quote :

"UNC graduate student, Donald R. Currey, killed the world's oldest non-clonal organism in 1964. Prometheus was a pine tree in a Nevada park that was nearly 5000 years old. For many unclear reasons, Donald ended up chopping it down for research when it was arguably unnecessary."

I came to post this when I saw the thread title...damn.

4/27/2011 12:26:41 AM

haha, you probably saw it on reddit last week like I did. I figured I needed at least two examples to start this thread and those have been the most recent ones to pop up.

4/27/2011 12:41:07 AM

I hate UNC grads too, but I thought I would mention this thought (because a prof told me about this once too)

If you believe in the fact that things in nature exist that we can't explain and that the stories passed down from generation to generation mean something, then maybe, just maybe, chopping down a 5000 year old tree was a really really bad idea.

4/27/2011 12:43:09 AM

Quote :

"haha, you probably saw it on reddit last week like I did. I figured I needed at least two examples to start this thread and those have been the most recent ones to pop up. "

Actually my horticulture prof (Bryce Lane...would highly recommend him) talked about that in class a few weeks ago. He could have seen it on reddit though.

4/27/2011 12:55:03 AM

haha, getting lecture material from reddit. Did he show you guys the latest FUUUU comic, too?

4/27/2011 1:05:16 AM

lol...maybe I can expect that in Thursday's lecture.

4/27/2011 1:09:13 AM

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4/27/2011 6:46:02 AM

Yeah that didn't work

4/27/2011 6:57:46 AM

Great people like John Edwards and Lawrence Taylor

4/27/2011 7:40:56 AM

Well we could also mention that their alumni Bruce Ivins is the man who supposedly perpetrated the anthrax mail attacks and killed himself when the investigation closed in on him.

Or that their heralded alumni who still lives in the area imploded his presidential career by fucking around on his wife who was fighting a losing battle with cancer. Oh yea, but he did go to NCSU too, although he seems to have embraced UNC and gave us the middle finger. Good riddance.

On a positive though, Ken Jeong did go to UNC Med School after graduating from Duke. But this is the wrong thread to celebrate "great achievements" isn't it?

[Edited on April 27, 2011 at 7:47 AM. Reason : ^Beat me to John John.]

4/27/2011 7:47:26 AM

You got Packpride in my Wolf Web!

4/27/2011 7:49:52 AM

Boz Zellinger is a UNC graduate and doing a bang up job of prosecuting his first big case.

4/27/2011 9:13:07 AM

4/27/2011 9:21:18 AM

Quote :

"Great people like John Edwards"

LOL, Edwards is our most famous alumnus

4/27/2011 9:33:38 AM

^I thought John Tesh was.

4/27/2011 10:12:50 AM

Yeah, I didn't really mean for this thread to be about criminal acts. More like silly, little instances of carlface.

4/27/2011 12:31:35 PM