The Tar HeelMonday, August 18, 198617
Intramural program puts everybody on the team
By SCOTT GREIG
City Editor
The UNC Intramural
Recreational (IM-REC) Sports Pro
gram offers a diverse selection of
activities for the students, faculty and
staff at UNC.
The program, administered
through the Department of Physical
Education in the College of Arts and
Sciences, attempts to appeal to a
broad range of interests and needs.
The primary objective of the UNC
IM-REC Sports Program is to
provide high quality recreational
opportunities for the members of the
University community.
Five administrative staff members
oversee the program with the help
of two graduate assistants and a
publicity assistant. In addition, the
program annually employs hundreds
of students as officials, supervisors,
facility monitors, office staff and
fitness instructors.
Forty-four activities are available
for participation in team and indi
vidual categories. These activities
range from basketball and football
to rarer sports such as fencing and
whiffle ball.
Basketball and softball are the
most popular of all the sports offered,
with as many as 400 teams competing
in each.
The intramural program offers
many students the opportunity to
continue competing in sports they
played in high school.
While the fanfare of high school
sports does not exist, the competitive
spirit among the participants does.
This is very appealing to students
who take their sports seriously.
Nowhere is this more evident than
in basketball, where tempers tradi
tionally run high among the athletes.
The competitive spirit that the
program produces can be best seen
in the team competition between
individual dormitories and fraterni
ties. Dorms like Lewis and Teague
and fraternities like Delta Upsilon
and Chi Phi are consistent winners
and are traditionally found atop the
point-system leader board.
Individual dorms and frats who
wish to participate in the point system
must sign up to do so at the beginning
of the school year.
The point system awards the
individual units for participation and
victory in various sports and also
determines who will take part in the
annual "Super Teams" competition
at the end of the school year.
This "Super Teams" event pits the
top four dorms in a tournament-like
play-off against each other. The top
four fraternities do the same. They
compete in five randomly chosen
sports and are awarded between five
points and one point, depending on
how they finish in the individual
sports.
When "Super Teams" is finished,
the dormitory and fraternity cham
pions square off for a tug-of-war to
determine the all-campus intramural
champion. Each member of the
winning unit receives an intramural
championship T-shirt, a highly prized
item among those who take part in
the program.
In the intramural program's offi
cial publication, various University
officials expressed their feelings
about the program's impact and the
program itself.
"We strongly encourage our stu
dents to take advantage of the
University's athletic facilities and
physical education programs so they
will derive the benefits from partic
ipation in both individual and team
sports," said UNC Chancellor Chris
topher C. Fordham III.
"The organized sport and physical
recreation interests of students and
staff of the University are provided
for by offerings in a wide variety of
activities," said John Billing, Chair
man of the Department of Physical
Education.
"Competitions are conducted- in
many team and individual sport
activities. The goal of the Intramural
Recreational Sports Program is to
provide for the organized recrea
tional sport interest of all University
students."
Gillian T. Cell, Dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences, said: "Through
its intramural program the physical
education department reaches not
only the students on a continuing
basis, it also reaches the faculty and
staff. This program helps the Uni
versity to be one."
Intramurals begin in late August
with the grail softball tournament
and end in late April with the power
lifting competition.
In between, there is almost always
something going on that is open to
all skill levels. As the program's
motto says, "There's something for
evervone."
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