At UNC Chapel Hill, student leaders are bringing back an old tradition: the homecoming parade.

Homecoming is this weekend in Chapel Hill, and Carolina takes on Duke in football at 3:30 p.m. The parade will start at 11 a.m. at the Columbia Street/Cameron Avenue intersection.

As Student Body President Jasmin Jones writes today in the Chapel Hill News, student leaders want the event to be a town/gown initiative.

The last homecoming parade is believed to have been in 1993, according to this Daily Tar Heel report.

Okay. This is just crazy.

Jasmin Jones, the student body president at UNC Chapel Hill, wants her fellow students to chill out just a little bit when storming Franklin Street each time the basketball team beats Duke. Or wins a Final Four game. 

No, she's not trying to throw a wet blanket over what has become a Carolina tradition. But she's concerned about the safety of those students who clearly didn't think things through when they decided it would be fun to light a fire to celebrate the big win and then jump over it.

Jones would like to see a slightly more structured celebration, perhaps one that even has a service element to it.

Read it all in today's Chapel Hill News.