FAYETTEVILLE -5/18/98- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Michael Hooker swings from his harness after jumping from the 34-foot high parachute training tower at Fort Bragg.  Hooker and new faculty and administrators from the university visited the base on the first day of their five-day tour of North Carolina.

FAYETTEVILLE -5/18/98- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Michael Hooker holds on tight during a jump from a 34-foot tower at Fort Bragg used to train recruits and veterans for the more than 100,000 parachute jumps at the base annually. Hooker joined new faculty and administrators in trying their hand at the tower during the first stop of the five-day, 1,200-mile Tar Heel Bus Tour.

FAYETTEVILLE -5/18/98- Assistant Professor Carol Pardun spreads her arms and legs to slow down as she slides to the end of her parachute training jump at Fort Bragg.  New university faculty and administrators visited the base on the first day of their five-day tour of North Carolina.

PEMBROKE -5/18/98- Assistant Professor Amelia Roberts examines Native American art on display at the Native American Resource Center at UNC-Pembroke.  New faculty and administrators toured the center on the first day of their five-day tour of North Carolina.  In background is a model log cabin which was also on display.

WASHINGTON -5/18/98- UNC-CH faculty members examine a driftwood sculpture, part of a modern art exhibit representing the flow of water from evaporation to the rivers to the sea, at the N.C. Estuarium in Washington.  The faculty toured the center on the first day of their five-day tour of North Carolina.

WASHINGTON -5/18/98- UNC-CH faculty members, from left, Greg Newby, Nancy Chafee and Andrea Hossong, chat as they take in the sunset on the waterfront in Washington.  The faculty toured the N.C. Estuarium on the first day of their five-day tour of North Carolina.