The UNC Flash Rave, the 10-minute, formerly spontaneous dance party that students hold at the campus library now each semester during final exams, has turned into quite the event.

It has quickly grown in size since a small group of students started it three semesters ago, and now, with campus officials worry that maybe it's going to soon get out of hand.

Campus officials have pledged to give the rave issue a thorough review now, but many will base their discussions on youtube video, because top officials from some key campus offices - fire marshal, student affairs - knew the event was happening but did not attend.

So should the raves continue?

Click here for video and photo coverage of the rave.

By now you've read about the flash rave event held last night/this morning at Davis Library at UNC-Chapel Hill.

You haven't? 

Gasp!

Well click here.

Then, click here for Ted Richardson's photo gallery.

And finally, click below and watch it unfold.

Note: Check back here Tuesday for video from the UNC Flash Rave

Davis Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

10:30 p.m.

All is quiet. It’s finals, so there are plenty of students here, clickety-clicking away on their laptops. Nothing seems amiss in this vanilla, institutional facility with bright walls and floors that echo loudly with the squeaking of shoes. But it’s a library, which means people talk mostly in whispers and little is heard aside from the occasional buzz of a ringing cell phone and the bright, cheery ‘ding’ that accompanies the opening of an elevator door.

It doesn’t exactly scream “Dance Club.”

It will get louder.

11 p.m.

Three students march some heavy audio equipment across the second-floor landing, aiming speakers towards the floor below.

Several people look up and, unfazed, go back to their work.

The floor, a long walkway, will get more crowded.

11:30 p.m.

There will be no more studying tonight. Not with the buzz growing louder. Students are jockeying for position now, aligning themselves along the second-floor railing for the best view of the madness to take place below.

This is Rave Night at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Parents of UNC Chapel Hill students: Here's what your kids were doing last night at the library.

If it seems familiar, it should. These flash dance parties are apparently all the rage on college campuses now. Students at UNC organized one at the undergraduate library on campus last semester. You can view that one here.