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The Carolina Adventure Center offers various activities, like the high ropes
course and mountain biking trails, that emphasize teamwork and cooperation.
Adventurous ropes course
builds trust, communication
BYIENNIFER WILSON
STAFF WRITER
If you are up for a challenge, UNC
is certainly the place for you. While
professors try to fry your brain with
exams and term papers, you can test
your physical and mental strength at
the new Carolina Adventure Center,
located at the eastern edge of cam
pus.
The CAC is an outdoor educa
tional center for UNC students, staff
and faculty, funded by a SIOO,OOO
alumnus donationby the late Charles
Aycock Poe.
“It is a wonderful addition to cam
pus,” said Mike Lyons, CAC direc
tor. “It is a great opportunity for
people to try new things and learn
about themselves and others.”
Since it opened last October, more
than 1,000 people have survived the
ropes course, including groups of staff
members, athletic teams, first-year
medical and law students, fraterni
ties, sororities, the Residence Hall
Association, The Daily TarHeelstaff
ers and Carolina Athletic Associa
tion members.
“The goal (of the CAC) was to
offer University groups the opportu
nity to work together through train
ing in communication, leadership,
group problem solving and facing
individual challenges,” Lyons said.
Junior Dave Wessels said he chal
lenged the ropes course as part of a
team-building exercise with CAA to
get to know each other better and
work as a group.
“I met a lot of people on the cabi
net I hadn’t met before through trust
builders and icebreakers," Wessels
said.
The CAC has two courses, a high
course and a low course, and the
difficulty of the course depends on
the nature of the group.
The low course is designed for
groups of people who do not know
each other as well, said sophomore
J B. Rosen.
The ropes course is only open to
groups of 12 to 15 people, but there
are open sign ups for individuals in
terested in participating. Prices range
from $lO to $55, depending on which
program you choose.
The center is run by a group of six
to 15 students who serve as “facilita
tors.”
See ADVENTURE, Pace 17
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