¶ … UNC-CH as an organization, but its boundary is ambiguous. Propose a boundary which separates UNC-CH from its environment and defend this choice. How might a different boundary influence the paper? One clear boundary established between UNC-CH and the rest of its environment is provided by its sports teams. Although sports fanaticism may vary from student to student on an individual level, it would be a rare student who would admit to being a Duke fan. Some students might adopt a studied indifference to sports, based upon a desire to separate themselves from the rest of the sports-mad student body. But overall, sports is a common, uniting issue that draws together most of the UNC campus. When teams, particularly basketball teams are doing well, there is a collective and unified excitement. Even when teams are not doing well, there is a protective sense of unity around the UNC brand.

Of course, the North Carolina community at large does contain some UNC fans. But overall, the affection of someone...

That fandom might be diluted by interest in other professional sports, while the sense of identification with the success of one's college team is very personal and intimate. Furthermore, the community at large is also infiltrated by some fans that root for UNC's main rival Duke.
One question that often arises when discussing different teams is why some rivalries are so historic -- why do the Yankee fans hate the Red Sox fans so much and vice versa. The answer, of course, is that proximity breeds contempt. There exist few Syracuse or UConn fans of note in the outside Chapel Hill community but Duke's extreme closeness to UNC means that in the community at large, fans of the two schools walk side-by-side. This sense of infiltration causes students to be even more emphatic in how much they detest their lead, nearby rivals.

Sports rivalry, of course is 'healthy' for sustaining interest in the team (once again, the…