What is The Pit?

The Pit at UNC is, without question, the center of campus society. It's the free speech zone where students talk with their friends, bask on its alternately shaded and sun-drenched steps, buy used books, class rings and lattes all while checking e-mail from wireless laptops, and being asked if they have a minute for the environment or 30 seconds to help stop hunger in a third-world nation. More »