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Moonlighting as mayors UNC graduates Black male athletes at 10th lowest rate
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Many Chapel Hill officials, such as Town Council member Karen Stegman, work other jobs in addition to their town roles.
By Lauren TalleyAssistant City Editor
Karen Stegman sees her kids off to school before she gets an early start to her job at IntraHealth International, a nonprofit where she works closely with IntraHealth’s offices in sub-Saharan Africa six hours ahead of Eastern Time. However, the early end to her day job works well since she also serves as a Chapel Hill Town Council member, a demanding position that often requires council mem-bers to work longer work weeks than average.
“While it is challenging to bal-
ance working, serving as an elected official and raising a family, part of the reason I decided to run was to have broader representation of per-spectives and experiences on the Council,” she said.
Stegman isn’t alone either. Many members of Chapel Hill Town Council and the Carrboro Board of Aldermen — as well as both the Chapel Hill and Carrboro Mayors — hold full or part-time jobs on top of their duties as elected officials.
“I will say this council has more people who work full-time jobs and have young children than we’ve ever had before,” said Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger.
The positions of mayor, town council member and board of alder-men member are part-time in both Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The mayor of Chapel Hill earns an annual sala-ry of $24,524 and council members earn $14,652 per year.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro Town Official day jobs
Hemminger herself owns a small commercial real estate company that has five properties. She does the bookkeeping — mainly on eve-nings and weekends — while another employee maintains the properties, allowing her a flexible schedule for
UNC educates during Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Civil servants work in addition to serving town
By Charlie McGeeStaff Writer
UNC has graduated Black male student-athletes at the 10th lowest rate among 65 major universities across the nation in recent years, according to a recent study.
The study, conducted by exec-utive director of the University of Southern California’s Race and Equity Center Shaun R. Harper, sparked discussion at last month’s Faculty Athletics Committee meeting. Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham said the University has a challenge.
“I think part of the discus-sion was, ‘Are we doing enough?’” Cunningham said. “You know, there’s still a gap. Even if our rates get better, there will still be a fairly significant gap.”
Harper’s study assessed the six-year graduation rates of Black male student-athletes at every Power Five conference university, which are the primary revenue-boosting universities in the NCAA. That data was drawn from the four under-graduate classes that entered these universities from 2007 to 2010.
UNC had the lowest graduation rate for Black male student-athletes of any university in the Atlantic Coast Conference, at 43 percent. In contrast, UNC had the fifth high-est graduation rate when looking at all undergraduates during that period, at 90 percent. This gap between graduation of Black male student-athletes and all students was the largest in the ACC and the fourth largest in the nation.
During the time period the study
drew its data from, UNC was in the midst of an investigation and national media scrutiny over allega-tions of fake classes being taken by student-athletes. Cunningham said this played into the study’s findings.
“A lot of them didn’t finish, for a variety of reasons,” Cunningham said. “One, that we had our chal-lenges with the NCAA, with agents and amateurism. And we had some academic issues at the same time.”
Harper’s study posed that low graduation rates for Black male stu-dent-athletes across all universities are rooted in deeper problems. He cited research that found a pattern of unequal academic preparation coming into college between Black and white student-athletes, with Black students being recruited from less prestigious, poorly resourced high schools at a higher rate.
Harper also related the issue in the modern day to problems that have persisted for generations. He cited previous works stating that Black male student-athletes face unfair assumptions of being “dumb jocks” while also facing racist ste-reotypes of intellectual inferiority from their peers.
“This caricature and other racial stereotypes continue to plague Black male student-athletes at many predominantly white colleges and universities,” Harper wrote in the study.
Victoria Jackson, a sports histo-rian at Arizona State University and former UNC track and field athlete, said these prejudiced mindsets can also affect the classroom experience for Black male student-athletes.
“It’s not as extreme as a situation of being set up for failure, but you encounter faculty biases all of the time,” Jackson said. “Assumptions
By Kate KarstensStaff Writer
UNC kicked off its recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month on Sunday with tabling in the Carolina Union by One Act and Heels United. In addition to signing pledges and handing out ribbons, this month will include workshops about sexual violence prevention, lectures and a Slut Walk.
These events are hosted by Safe at UNC, student groups, sororities, Chapel Hill Public Library and more. Many workshops focus on support-ing sexual assault survivors and
training students on how to identify warning signs.
“What I love about SAAM is that there is an event for everyone,” said Shelley Gist Kennedy, the program coordinator for the Carol ina Women’s Center, which will host a variety of events for the month. “We work to cultivate a calendar of diverse events and awareness initiatives to reach as many people as possible during the month of April. We encourage people to look through the full calendar at safe.unc.edu and find something that interests them, whether that’s a training (session), discussion, film screening or lecture.”
For survivors of sexual assault, this month is particularly import-ant. Junior Emma Hayes has been a victim of sexual assault three times
in her life — twice when she was 14. She said fear of stigma and questions about what actually constituted rape or assault prevented her from report-ing the incidents.
“SAAM is so crucial because it breaks that barrier that might be the thing standing between some-one speaking up and someone stay-ing quiet for fear of judgement,” Hayes said. “SAAM is also really comforting as a survivor, because it shows me that there are a lot of people who care about me and other survivors, and that while assault is horrible and definitely something no one wants to think about, people are willing to think and talk about it to support vic-tims.”
Several planned events aim to support survivors and inform the community.
A study evaluated UNC among 65 major universities
in the United States.
DTH/STELLA RENEKEUNC-Chapel Hill graduate and current associate professor at James Madison University Dr. Matt Ezzell gives a talk for Sexual Assault Awareness Month.SEE SEXUAL ASSAULT, PAGE 11
SEE BLACK ATHLETES, PAGE 11SEE TOWN COUNCIL, PAGE 11
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History repeats itself in ‘Leaving Eden’ playBy Will Shropshire
Staff Writer
After years of workshops , PlayMakers Repertory Company will be performing the world premiere of “Leaving Eden,” a play it commis-sioned, from April 4 to April 22.
The play takes place in the fiction-al town of Marah, N.C.
“It’s a play that deals with two time periods, 1933 and 2016, and deals with the parallels between the two that include topics such as rac-ism and prejudice and stereotyping,” said senior Carlos Alcala, who plays Javier in the play.
In the 1933 timeline, the play focus-es on the treatment of Black people in Marah, and in 2016 it focuses on the treatment of the Latinx community and undocumented immigrants.
“I felt that the play needed to take on the story of the cyclical nature of humanity,” said Mike Wiley, the playwright. “We continue to make the same mistakes that our forefa-thers made.”
In the 2016 timeline, Alcala portrays Javier, an undocumented teenage immigrant who has moved to Marah with his mother after his father’s deportation.
“It’s been a process for sure, trying to represent everyone to the best of our abilities — trying to give voices to those that don’t normally have a voice,” he said. “I’ve been given per-mission and a voice to enlighten those who may not have been aware of the struggles that go on with people that others may assume have ill intent.”
Approaching a story as politically involved as this comes with its obsta-cles. Vivienne Benesch, the director
PHOTO COURTESY OF PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANYThe world premiere of “Leaving Eden” will be performed by the PlayMakers Repertory Company on April 4.
of the production, said that working on this play has fostered a great deal of openness.
“This was one of the most chal-lenging, inspiring and vulnerable rehearsal processes I’ve ever been through in my 20-plus years of directing,” she said. “It scares me, and I love that.”
The play seeks to start a conversa-tion about today’s politics.
“I think that today, because we’re in a P.C. culture and because we like to quickly label something sexist or racist, it’s harder to have conversa-
tions because people don’t listen any-more,” said Alex Givens, who plays Seth in the 1933 timeline and Andre in the 2016 timeline. “I think that it would be great for the community to come out and have a dialogue.”
Givens’ characters also reveal a relationship between economics and education, which Benesch said reso-nates with society today.
“In 1933, the character Seth is going off to college and there’s this sense of hope and prosperity,” Benesch said. “In 2016, his character of Andre is working at a pork pro-
cessing plant and kind of has a dead end feel.”
Alcala, Benesch, Givens and Wiley all said that one of the biggest chal-lenges was to tackle the issues pre-sented by this story because of their complexity and scope.
“The greatest obstacle is that there is still so much and so many issues to want and try and touch upon,” Wiley said. “But at the same time create an entertaining dramatic piece without overstepping or losing grasp of a strong story to tell.”
Journalism professor Paul O’Connor to retireBy Marine Elia
Staff Writer
After a 42-year-long career in journalism as a reporter and profes-sor, Paul O’Connor announced his retirement.
From a young age, O’Connor had always taken an interest in current events. He grew up in the 1960s, amidst the anti-war movement, the women’s movement and the begin-ning of the environmental move-ment. His family’s involvement in public service, and the news he observed around him, developed his future career of public service.
“It fascinated me,” O’Connor said. “I consider myself a very patriot-ic American. Not in the sense that flag-wavers do, but I think we all have our role in building a successful society. I think that journalism done well, in protecting our freedom and our democracy, is essential. I see it as my civic calling.”
After graduating with a master’s in journalism from the University of Minnesota, he worked for small newspapers in Wisconsin and North Carolina. Later, O’Connor was hired by a future MJ-school professor Michael Yopp, the managing editor of the Raleigh Times, a former-division of the News and Observer. Despite spell-ing Yopp’s name wrong on a thank you letter with his application, O’Connor began covering state politics.
When O’Connor left the Raleigh Times in 1982, he began to publish political columns, which appeared in multiple newspapers across the state. In 1988, he was offered a position as an adjunct with the UNC School of Media and Journalism, where he would teach MEJO 153, formerly known as 53, in the evenings after working as a political reporter during the day.
He was promoted to his pres-ent-day position as a permanent part-time lecturer in 1993. He has taught various opinion writing courses and advanced reporting classes. He has also taught a legis-lative reporting course every-other-year, where he taught Erica Perel, the general manager of The Daily
Tar Heel. “I was demanding the way editors
were demanding,” O’Connor said. “I tried to push kids as much as I could, but I tried to be encouraging.”
Dedicated to the success of his students, O’Connor said he stays in contact with his former students and appreciates seeing their careers’ progress.
“The absolute best thing — and I think every teacher at UNC will give you the same answer — it’s the stu-dents,” he said.
Junior David Fee is enrolled in O’Connor’s Introduction to Public Affairs Reporting course.
“He’s definitely humorous, he always engages everyone in the classroom by assigning roles,” Fee said. “For instance, he incorporates scenarios, based on his experienc-es working in the field. I really like how he’s got an in-depth knowledge of reporting in North Carolina, espe-cially state politics.”
Dean of the MJ-school, Susan
King, said that O’Connor’s continua-tion of his journalistic career outside of the school is a defining character-istic of what he brings to the class-room.
“I think he has really taught stu-dents the importance of being a jour-nalist. He brings a lot of passion for the role of a journalist, and I also think he’s turned decent writers into a lot better writers,” King said. “He has shared that passion with many students, the impact journalism has upon their time, their society and their commu-nity. He really shares that palatable desire to go out and cover a story. And I think it’s contagious.”
With many years of 8 a.m. classes behind him, O’Connor wishes to use his retirement to travel and pursue a personal project, inspired by his course on writing family stories.
As of now, he does not plan on publishing it to the public, but will share it with family members upon its completion.
PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL T. O’CONNORProfessor Paul T. O’Connor, who has been teaching in the UNC School of Media and Journalism since 1988, announced his retirement.
By Sam JardenStaff Writer
On Tuesday, March 20, Kelly Whaley finished her pre-round routine at the final day of the Briar’s Creek Invitational the same way she always does: with five made putts in a row on the prac-tice green.
This day, however, was differ-ent. For the first time in over a year, the North Carolina women’s golfer entered the final round atop the leaderboard, looking to clinch her first individual title since 2016. She hadn’t finished in the top 10 of a tournament since the Central District Invitational in February 2017 — which is emblematic of a collegiate career that’s been charac-terized by inconsistency.
But the story of Kelly Whaley doesn’t start there.
It starts on May 6, 1997, when Kelly was born in West Palm Beach, Fla., to Suzy and Bill Whaley.
For those with a thorough knowl-edge of golf, the name Suzy Whaley probably sounds familiar. She became the first woman to compete in a PGA Tour event in 58 years when she teed off at the Greater Hartford Open in 2003. Eleven years later, in 2014, she became the first ever female officer of the PGA of America, golf ’s most prestigious organization. Now, she’s on course to become president by the end of this year.
Bill Whaley, Kelly’s father, was also a professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour during the 1987 season. Kelly’s older sister, Jenn, captained the women’s golf team at Quinnipiac University for three sea-sons.
It ’s safe to say that, for the Whaleys, golf runs in the family. But a legacy like this one doesn’t come without a level of expectation.
Kelly remembers a conversation with her mother after a tough round — one that proved to be a turning point in her young career. She was 8 years old.
“I didn’t necessarily like golf when I was younger,” Kelly said. “I would end up basically crying after every round I played. One day my mom said, ‘Just quit.’ She actually told me to quit, but I think it was a little reverse psychology because obvi-ously I didn’t want to quit. It kind of woke me up, and made me think, ‘OK, if you want to be good at this, you’re not going to become good by sitting on your butt.’”
Her mother recalls the story with a chuckle: “It wasn’t just one time.
She might remember one time, but it was multiple times. She just wasn’t happy, and I realize there are days when you play a sport where you’re not going to be happy because your performance wasn’t up to what you expected, but for her age and for the level of com-mitment she was putting in … we just wanted her to enjoy it, and she wasn’t having fun.”
“So I told her, ‘Enough is enough, you’re not having fun and it’s time to move on and do something else, because there are way too many other opportunities in the world that we can find that you love.’”
But an 8-year-old Kelly insisted that she did love golf. So, she stuck with it, and the story continued. In hindsight, that was probably the right decision.
Within ten years, Kelly had a high school state championship, a player of the year award and three Connecticut Women’s Amateur titles under her belt. It was time for the next step in her journey: playing at the collegiate level.
Suzy had played her college golf at UNC back in the 1980s, so being a Tar Heel was always on Kelly’s mind. Not to mention, UNC women’s golf head coach Jan Mann had also kept an eye on Kelly for some time in an effort to convince her to attend her mother’s alma mater.
“I always had a special eye out for her,” Mann said. “I knew early on that she would be a great addition to our team, and I certainly felt like she wanted to be a Tar Heel.”
In 2015, Whaley officially joined the UNC team, and she quickly proved that she belonged. She fin-ished her first season with the sec-ond-best stroke average on the team at 75.32, and posted her best finish of the year by tying for 10th at the ACC Championships.
She also began to grow close with her teammates. Bryana Nguyen is Whaley’s housemate and one of the first people Whaley met on the team.
The two played together in an amateur event back in 2013, and Nguyen, who had already commit-ted to UNC at that point, spent much of the round talking about the university.
“She always tells me that when-ever she thinks about when she committed here, that it’s because of our round together in junior golf,” Nguyen said.
Now, five years later, Whaley has become one of the leaders on the team, albeit in her own unique way.
“I think she’s a great teammate,” Nguyen said. “She’s always there for anyone who needs her. She might not be the most vocal leader… but we work really well together because she might have a great idea, but might
not want to vocalize it, so I can tell the team and coaches what she thinks.”
“She’s definitely a little bit quiet-er,” teammate Brynn Walker added. “But when she does say something, it’s usually pretty meaningful.”
In her three years at UNC, Whaley has experienced her fair share of ups and downs. After a promising first season, and her first individual victory as a sophomore, she appeared primed for success as a junior.
However, she has struggled with both her game and her confidence at times this season, and her best finish before Briar’s Creek was a 14th-place finish at the Entrada Classic.
Two weeks ago, at the Darius Rucker Invitational, Whaley fin-ished at 19 over par — her worst score of the season. Afterward, she looked to her teammate Walker for guidance.
“I said, ‘When is this team win, when is this individual win going to happen for us again?’” Whaley recalled. “She said, ‘Once you get out of your own head, and once you believe in yourself and your ability, it’s going to come.’ And I think that really stuck with me.”
So, on Tuesday, March 20, when Kelly made five putts in a row on the practice green before walking to the first tee — 18 holes away from her first victory in what seemed like ages — she kept some advice from her mom at the back of her mind.
“She always says to have no fear when you’re out there,” Kelly said, “Because fear can hold you back. Having no doubt is what she always says to me before I play, and just believing in yourself and knowing that if you do doubt yourself, it won’t be the best outcome.”
That fearless mentality resulted in a three-under-par final round, enough to clinch the individual victory by five strokes over second place, and the team victory for UNC by six strokes.
“It was so great,” Suzy said of her daughter’s win. “It’s just tremen-dous to watch your children play competitive golf. I’m grateful to have the chance to be with them, whether they play poorly or play great, and for us that’s the way we look at it. So to have her win and be able to celebrate with her, and the team win on top of that, was some-thing I’ll never forget.”
On Tuesday, March 20, as winter turned into spring and her doubt turned into belief, Kelly Whaley added another accomplishment to her family’s legacy.
And another chapter to her story.@sam_jarden@DTHSports
By Drew WaylandStaff Writer
Taking a left turn onto Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard can be frustrating. It can become fatal when pedestrians are involved.
In an effort to keep drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists safe, the town of Chapel Hill and the North Carolina Department of Transportation began installation of a new traffic signal at the inter-section of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Longview Street last week.
Better traffic control on this busy road has been a concern of the town for years, but two pedestrian deaths in 2018 brought additional atten-tion to the issue.
James Thomas Keeter Sr. of Chapel Hill was killed in the northbound lane of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on Feb. 18, and Stephen Daniel Taylor of Chapel Hill was killed in the southbound lane Jan. 16.
“This isn’t necessarily a direct response to any one incident,” said Ran Northam, Chapel Hill com-munity safety communications specialist. “We’ve known about this spot for a while as a high-risk area. There are two bus stops and this is a four-lane road. It provides some tricky situations for people turning, people on foot, people on
bikes.”M a r t i n L u t h e r K i n g Jr.
Boulevard is a state-owned road managed by the NCDOT. The Town of Chapel Hill worked closely with the NCDOT this year to study traf-fic patterns and vehicle volume on the road, eventually choosing the intersection closest to LUX at Central Park and Mill Creek Condominiums as the most high-risk section of the road.
“As a driver and for convenience’s sake a traffic light might be a lit-tle problematic, but from a safety standpoint it’s going to help a lot of people,” said sophomore Ritwik Pavan, a resident of Mill Creek Condominiums.
Pavan, who travels on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard three to four times a day, says he under-stands the town’s decision to make changes to the road.
“Making a left turn is something I really have to pay attention to at that spot, and this should make that a lot easier,” Pavan said.
The project is expected to cost $135,000 including the traffic studies and construction costs. The traffic signal will be functional by April 20 if construction remains on schedule.
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“… from a safety stand-point it’s going to help a lot of people.”Ritwik PavanResident of Mill Creek Condominiums
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By Molly LoomanAssistant University Editor
If selected as editor-in-chief for the next school year, junior Rachel Jones, current online managing editor, said she wants to use her diverse profes-sional experience on staff to lead the paper into the new age of media.
Jones joined the paper as a first-year and served as a staff writ-er on what is now the Arts and Entertainment desk. She said she never intended to run for editor-in-chief. She originally wanted to save running for the position of online managing editor for her senior year. She remembers her first DTH ori-entation, listening to the editor-in-chief at the time introduce the staff.
“I remember seeing that and thinking, ‘Gosh I wonder if someday that’ll be me,’ and then I was like, ‘No, that’s dumb,’ and put it out of my head,” Jones said.
After years of involvement and rising through the ranks from assis-
tant editor of Arts to summer editor to her current position, Jones said she believes her diverse experience on the paper will help guide the DTH in a more modern, digital age. During the past year, the DTH has been struggling with financial issues. Part of Jones’ platform is to increase transparency on financial issues, but to keep in mind the content and progress of the paper.
“I think a lot of this year has been kind of survival mode. Just because we have been dealing with a financial crisis,” Jones said. “And while that’s still really important and something that is going to be a big challenge next year, I think we need to think broader and say outside of the DTH losing money (that) we have to make sure our content is good.”
Jones said these changes include increasing diversity on the DTH’s staff. She said she wants the paper’s staff to more accurately represent the demographics of UNC’s campus.
Ryan Schocket, former Arts
assistant editor who now works for Buzzfeed, hired Jones to the paper and said her leadership would help the paper connect more with students.
“I think with Rachel, there’s just always going to be that guarantee that she has that voice, she brings a voice, she brings a uniqueness to The Daily Tar Heel that hopefully is going to connect with students and readers,” Schocket said.
Much of Jones’ platform includes strengthening production desks such as photo and copy and shifting the paper to a more digital-minded direction. Paul O’Connor, a pro-fessor in the School of Media and Journalism who has taught Jones twice, said her dedication and news sense will help her succeed in the role if chosen.
“As a leader, I think the DTH should always have someone who wants to do this as a living, and Rachel wants to be in news,” O’Connor said.
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DTH/NATHAN KLIMAUNC junior journalism major Rachel Jones, from Ayden, is running for the 2018-19 Editor-In-Chief position at the Daily Tar Heel.
Hi. My name is Rachel Jones, and I’m running for editor-in-chief.
I’m going to spend as little time on my qualifications as possible: I’ve spent three years at the DTH in a variety of roles, starting as an Arts and Entertainment staffer and taking on roles as a Swerve assis-tant editor and social media man-ager my sophomore year. I served as summer editor before my junior year, and currently act as online managing editor. I’ve won state and national awards for my report-ing and as a part of our online team.
Since my first year, I’ve become a generalist and evangelist for The Daily Tar Heel, and I believe my wide range of experience, close relationships with staff and editors and drive to preserve this paper for future generations will help me excel as editor and surround myself with a team that can make the fol-lowing goals simple and actionable.
The tent-poles of my platform are simple, and they support each other:
I want to consolidate desks where it makes financial and prac-tical sense. We need to give online initiatives a permanent home on Copy to solidify the role of fact-checking and reader advocacy in our newsroom. We need to have more city staffers, and fewer nation-al news stories with tangential ties to campus: by combining our State & National and City desks, our newsroom values will better reflect our role as the leading paper in the county.
I want to increase the diversity and inclusivity of our newsroom. This is a public platform, so I’ ll take this opportunity to increase awareness of an issue that’s just as pressing as our financial crisis: the leadership of our current news-room is less diverse than UNC’s student body by almost 20 percent, and in 125 years, we have only had four people of color as editor-in-chief.
The good news is that we are more diverse at a staff-wide level. I believe our issues are recruitment and retention. We rely on word-of-mouth for the former, and for the latter we struggle to acknowledge our mostly white perspective. We can begin to fix this by reaching out to diverse journalism organiza-tions on campus to develop ongo-ing relationships and publicize staff opportunities, holding honest con-versations about race at our editors
retreat and encouraging people of color to apply for assistant editor positions — these are the people that go on to lead desks, join man-agement and shape the newsroom’s future.
I want to expand roles for senior staffers so that there is a clearer path to editorship, and an expanded role in the newsroom for those that want it, whether they’re on a writing or produc-tion desk. We can emphasize beat reporting for our senior writers, social media ownership for our veteran copy and online staffers and broadened visual storytelling for our photographers and design-ers. We can also institute break-ing news shifts that provide our reporters with massive responsi-bility and opportunity, while bet-ter positioning us as a paper that not only covers the news, but gets to it first.
I want to establish clear lines of communication between all of the DTH’s departments. Sharing equip-ment and talent between the news-room and brand studio should feel natural, and while it does in some regards, there are a lot of oppor-tunities on this front that we’re squandering.
I propose two solutions, one direct and one indirect: a joint task force to confront the issues facing our organization, and mov-ing most of our listserv commu-nication to Facebook groups to encourage interaction across desks and departments and responsive dialogues between leadership and staff.
These clear lines of communi-cation also include our Board of Directors, which I’m advocating to become more public. Every day, our staff fights to make sure that pow-erful institutions in our community are held accountable — we should ask the same from our leadership. For me, that means making some Board meetings open, supplying minutes to the staff and alumni when possible and advocating for more non-voting student represen-tation on the board.
These goals are practical. They’re achievable. They’ve been suggested and vetted in our newsroom. This paper has given me more oppor-tunities and experience than I could have possibly imagined as a 14-year-old from a small town, starstruck and learning for the first time what being a reporter really meant. It would be an incredible honor to lead this paper and make sure that legacy continues for UNC students like me and the commu-nity we serve.
By Mary Powell BoneyStaff Writer
After years of shimmying down narrow bleacher aisles and awkward-ly trying to find the right number to sit on, the decision has been made to do away with Kenan Stadium’s aluminum bleachers and bring in individual seats with chair backs and armrests.
Through volunteer feedback and a number of surveys over the last couple of years, UNC’s Athletic Department asked fans to rank what is most important to them and how satisfied they are with their gameday experience. One area in particular showed the greatest discrepancy between rankings of high impor-tance and low satisfaction — seat comfort.
During the 2017 season, UNC Athletics did a trial run and con-verted bleachers in sections 110 and 111 to seats with chair backs and armrests to increase comfort and improve the overall gameday experience. The plan was to collect feedback from fans in those sections to determine if similar large-scale renovations would be worthwhile. The Department received an over-whelmingly positive response from fans who sat in the new seats.
When it came time to address the removal of what would be hun-dreds of heavy aluminum bleachers, UNC Athletics partnered with the Sustainability Office and the Three
Zeros Environmental Initiative to make sure the project was executed in an environmentally friendly way.
“We knew that they had the Three Zeros campaign underway, so as soon as we were contemplat-ing what we were going to do as far as putting in chair backs and what we would do with the alumi-num, we immediately reached out to them to figure out what was the absolute best way to do that from a sustainability standpoint,” said Senior Associate Athletics Director Rick Steinbacher.
Launched fall of 2016, the Three Zeros Environmental Initiative is UNC’s united approach to reducing its environmental footprint through three sustainability goals: net zero water usage, zero waste to landfills and net zero greenhouse gas emis-sions.
“With a project this size, we work hand-in-hand with University Facilities Planning. Their proj-ect and construction managers advised us and that’s what led us to partner with a company that does great work with metals in the state of North Carolina. We knew they had a great reputation for not only doing great work, but very effectively recycling the mate-rial and making sure it would be put to great use moving forward,” Steinbacher said.
After a great deal of research, it was evident that the value of selling the metal would offset the cost of paying to remove the bleachers and power washing the stadium once the bleachers were gone. In the next few months, about 200,000 lbs. of aluminum bleachers will be sold to
L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company, a family business from Statesville that specializes in recycling various types of metals, some of which may become aluminum beverage cans.
In addition to its partnership with the Sustainability Office, UNC Athletics works with its corporate partners throughout the year to encourage as much recycling as pos-sible in and around venues. With thousands of fans cycling in and out, UNC Athletics works closely with Coca-Cola to ensure the best sus-tainability practice and the best way to educate those working within the department who help dispose and recycle materials.
“We spent a whole day at Coke’s world headquarters in Atlanta, and one of the biggest topics we spent time on was hearing from their chief sustainability officer about how to do those things” Steinbacher said.
As venues are renovated and recycling programs expand, UNC Athletics adds another dimension to the gameday experience of its fans and the everyday experience of the greater Chapel Hill community. Steinbacher said he saw the imme-diate appreciation of the renovation at a lacrosse game he attended this weekend.
“All the fans and parents of players who were sitting around me were saying the same thing. I think anyone who comes to Kenan Stadium is going to benefit greatly from the project and enjoy a game day in Kenan Stadium even more,” Steinbacher said.
Editor-in-Chief candidate Rachel Jones shares her goals for the newsroom.
DTH FILE/NICHOLAS BAFIAAluminum from the old bleachers in Kenan Stadium will be sold to a metal recycling facility in Statesville, N.C.
The metal Kenan Stadium bleachers may live new lives
as soda cans.
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Jennifer Walker, M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Grant from the American Musicological Society
Neurobiology
Dan Bloodgood, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Nick Boyer, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Andrew Crowther, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute of Mental Health
Jennifer Ocasio, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Katie Veleta, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Nursing
Heather Alico Lauria, Mary Lewis Wyche Fellowship
Melissa Holt, American Cancer Society Doctoral Degree Scholarship in Cancer Nursing
Rebecca Rabenberg, American Cancer Society Master’s Degree Scholarship in Cancer Nursing
Samantha Russomagno, Mary Lewis Wyche Fellowship
Rebecca Salomon, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute of Nursing Research; Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar
Michael Schultz, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31)
Elizabeth Slater, Mary Lewis Wyche Fellowship
Nutrition
Tania Aburto Soto, CONACYT (Mexican National Council for Science and Technology) Scholarship
Anna Kahkoska, NRSA Fellowship (F30) NIH - For MD/PhD Students - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Nancy Lopez Olmedo, CONACYT (Mexican National Council for Science and Technology) Scholarship
Melissa Orenduff, National Cancer Institute Cancer Control Education Program Fellowship
Lilia Pedraza Zamora, CONACYT (Mexican National Council for Science and Technology) Scholarship
Natalia Rebolledo Fuentealba, Beca De Doctorado En El Extranjero (Becas-Chile Scholarship)
Jessica Soldavini, Mary Swartz Rose Graduate Scholarship
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mrudula Borse, U.S. Health Outcomes Fellowship
Ashley Cole, Pre-Doctoral Graduate Fellowship in the Pharmaceutical Sciences
Carla Coste-Sanchez, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Scott Davis, PhRMA Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Samantha Fix, National Cancer Institute Research Service Award
Yazeed Ghawaa, Cultural Mission of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Funding
Kelsey Lamb, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Medicinal Chemistry Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Junghyun Lee Suh, Kwanjeong Overseas Scholarship
Morgan McSweeney, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Christina Parker, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
John Prybylski, National Institute of General Medical Sciences Research Service Award
Adam Sage, PhRMA Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Jennifer Schiller, PhRMA Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Pharmacology
Reid Olsen, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Tigist Tamir, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship
Physics and Astronomy
Casey Berger, Krell Institute (Department of Energy) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Henry Corbett, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Christopher Frazer, North Carolina Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship
Ward Howard, North Carolina Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship
Andrew Loheac, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Christopher Munna, North Carolina Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship
Zachary Nasipak, North Carolina Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship
Gulden Othman, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Carl Ziegler, North Carolina Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship
Political Science
John Curiel, Institute for Humane Studies Graduate Fellowship
Bilyana Petrova, Ernst Haas Fellowship
Psychology
Gabriella Alvarez, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Donte Bernard, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Kathy Do, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Cameron Doyle, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Monica Faulkner, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research Program
Amelia Goranson, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Christina Lebonville, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Jennifer MacCormack, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute on Aging
Laura Machlin, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Kristin Meyer, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Mian Ong, Wikipedia Research Coordinator Fellowship; Varda Shoham Clinical Scientist Training Initiative Award
Deirdre Sackett, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute on Drug Abuse
Stephanie Salcedo, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Effua Sosoo, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
Leigh Spivey, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Eleanna Varangis, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Heidi Vuletich, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Henry Willis, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar
Jennifer Yi, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute on Drug Abuse
Public Administration
Justin Stirewalt, Megan Cornog Memorial Highway Safety Scholarship
Public Health Leadership
Julia Considine, Alice D. Hamling Award
Grace Dumayas, U.S. Army Long Term Health and Training Award
Gabriele Gardenal, Rotary World Peace Fellowship
Maria Johanna Schubert, Rotary World Peace Fellowship
Public Policy
Katherine Saylor, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Religious Studies
Timothy Smith, Kokugakuin University Visiting Fellowship
Social Work
Annie Francis, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar
Claire Poindexter, Kappa Kappa Gamma Graduate Scholarship
Sociology
Max Reason, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Blaque Robinson, Beinecke Scholarship
Anna Rybinska, American Institute of Polish Culture Harriet Irsay Scholarship
Brionca Taylor, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Katherine Tierney, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Joshua Wassink, NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Ashwaq Alzamel, Minority Student Leadership Program (MSLP)
Abigail Messinger, Love of Learning Award
Daniel Picetti, Van R. Johnson Sutter Scholars Program
Michael Smith, Students Preparing for Academic Research Careers Award (SPARC)
Statistics and Operations Research
Mark He, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Fernando Ramirez Juarez, JIE/CONACYT/Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellowship for Doctoral Studies in the U.S.
Toxicology
Kezia Addo, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Graduate Partnership Program
Madelyn Huang, NRSA Fellowship (F31) NIH - National Institute of Environmental Health; Society of Toxicology Graduate Student Travel Award; Society of Toxicology Sheldon D. Murphy Student Travel Award
AWARDS & HONORS
SPECIAL THANKS
PRESTIGIOUSEXTERNALFELLOWSHIPS
Congratulations to UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate and Professional Students for Outstanding Achievement
in Research, Community Service, Teaching and Leadership During Academic Year 2017-18
Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering
Bruce Carney, Physics and Astronomy
Jan Hannig, Statistics and Operations Research
Harvey Jeffries, Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Matthew Lockett, Chemistry
Social Sciences
Navin Bapat, Political Science
Xiaodong Chen, Geography
Thad Thurston Domina, Education
David Guilkey, Economics
Ruth Humphry, Occupational Science
Boka W. Hadzija Award Selection Committee
Jimena Giudice, Cell Biology and Physiology
Temperance Rowell, Cell Biology and Physiology
Laurie Straube, Mathematics
Chastan Swain, Law
Gabriel Trop, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Graduate School Administrative Board
Kristy Ainslie, Pharmacy
GerShun Avilez, English and Comparative Literature
Melinda Beck, Nutrition
Robert Bourret, Microbiology and Immunology
Eileen Burker, Allied Health Sciences
Brian Coussens, Graduate and Professional Student Federation
Christine Durrance, Public Policy
Rhonda Gibson, Media and Journalism
Eric Hodges, Nursing
Eric Houck, Education
Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Information and Library Science
Erica Johnson, Global Studies
Michael Lambert, School of Social Work
Christian Lundblad, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Andrew Nobel, Statistics and Operations Research
Patricia Parker, Communication
Jan Prins, Computer Science
Bill Rivenbark, School of Government
Graeme Robertson, Political Science
Michelle Robinson, American Studies
Anne Sanders, Dentistry
Graduate Education Advancement Board
Penny AldrichDonald BuckleyIvy CarrollDebashish ChatterjeeLinda DykstraLisa FeyHarold GlassJean GraingerMichael HarpoldFrances HochPaul HochVerla InskoBlair KutrowHoward LeeDavid LewisAndrew McMillan Jr.Drusilla ScottKenneth SmithCarol SmithwickThomas SoxCharles StewartJudith ThornBurnet TuckerBeth WhitakerAnne York
"Our University depends on the work and original ideas of graduate
students. They are vital in making powerful connections – teaching
to research, undergraduates to faculty and the lab to the field, to
name only a few. Through their outreach, graduate students also
invite the public to share in the life of our University. I am also
grateful to faculty and staff members and administrators, who
support our graduate students and are so pleased to see them
succeed." – STEVE MATSON, Dean of The Graduate School
The 20th AnnualGRADUATE STUDENT
Recognition CelebrationTHURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2018
GEORGE WATTS HILL ALUMNI CENTER
Recognition Ceremony • 4 pm to 4:30 pm
Research Poster Displays & Reception • 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
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M.J. Stewart, Andre Smith highlight Pro Day
DTH/BEKAH POUNDSLinebacker Andre Smith runs through a drill at the UNC football team’s pro timing day April 3.
By Chapel FowlerSports Editor
The athletes filed out of Kenan Stadium’s south tunnel and onto the field, where cones and stopwatches awaited them.
A year ago at this same event — North Carolina football team’s pro timing day — around 75 scouts made their way to Chapel Hill. SportsCenter and NFL Network did as well. They came for Mitchell Trubisky, the No. 2 over-all pick in 2017 by the Bears, and the five other Tar Heels who were eventually drafted that year.
The crowd was smaller on Tuesday morn-ing: about 20 scouts, along with some family members and teammates. But the motive of all of UNC’s participants — seniors and graduate transfers alike — was the same. It always is.
“All eyes on you,” defensive back M.J. Stewart said. “But you’ve just got to take a deep breath and remember that you’ve been training for this. So I was ready.”
Of all the participants, Stewart and line-backer Andre Smith drew the most attention. They were the only two UNC players to receive invites to the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, and both entered Pro Day with different goals.
Stewart, who ran a 4.54 in the 40-yard dash at the combine, didn’t run the 40 on Tuesday. He went through shuttle and three-cone drills, as well as some positional workouts to showcase the versatility and sideline-to-sideline move-ment that he feels are some of his best qualities.
“I feel like I’m going to fit in wherever a team needs me,” Stewart said. “I’m a versatile player who can fit in at nickel, corner, safety if need be.”
The 6-foot Stewart left North Carolina as the school’s all-time leader in pass breakups with 41, and also logged 199 career tackles and six career interceptions. Stewart said he doesn’t look at mock drafts, but feels confident that he’s established himself as one of the best cor-ners in the nation. He spoke with a Ravens scout on Tuesday, and said he has two work-outs and three visits scheduled. NFL.com proj-ects him as a second or third-round pick.
Smith, Stewart’s defensive teammate, is coming off a left meniscus injury that limited him to the first two games of the 2017 season. He decided to enter the draft instead of risk-ing another injury, and left behind two years of eligibility to do so.
“Since I was 4 years old, I’ve been playing organized ball,” he said. “I knew then I want-ed to play in the league. That was outright my goal, outright my dream.”
The 6-foot, 240-pound linebacker pulled his hamstring during his 40-yard dash at the combine and finished at 4.63 seconds. That was short of his goal of 4.5, so he ran the 40 again at Pro Day — but only once, not twice, with his hamstring still in mind. Although the time wasn’t yet official, he’d been told it was somewhere between 4.55 and 4.7.
Like Stewart, Smith does not seek out mock drafts to read. But when his dad and brother send them to him, he joked that he doesn’t have much of a choice. Drafts have projected Smith as being selected somewhere from the fourth to seventh round. So far, Smith has scheduled workouts with the Ravens and Giants.
“As long as I get my foot in the door, I’m grateful,” he said.
Stewart would be the first UNC defensive
back drafted since Tre Boston in 2014; Smith would be the first UNC linebacker since Zach Brown in 2012. Both have hired agents, and after their final performance in Kenan Stadium, both are ready to take the next step in their respective football careers.
“It’s hard,” Stewart said. “You’re so excited to see where you land; you don’t know where to go. You’ve just got to sit back and wait.”
Former defensive teammates prepare
for 2018 NFL Draft in April
By Parth UpadhyayaStaff Writer
RALEIGH — Caroline Alcorta finished the 10,000 meters race on Friday night at the Raleigh Relays, walked off the track at the Paul H. Derr Track and Field Facility and threw her hands on her knees in exhaustion.
It was the North Carolina senior’s first time running the event — the longest distance event in track and field — and the toll it took on her body may have caught her by surprise.
“I think she was just happy to have it done, if I’m being honest,” assistant coach Mark VanAlstyne said. “I think it took more out of her then maybe she expected. Just relief is what I saw in her face.”
Alcorta had just etched her name into the UNC record book, but had no idea. The Springfield, Va., native finished the race in second place with a time of 33:54.23 — good for second in the country this season.
It was also the second best time a Tar Heel athlete has recorded in the event in program history. Only Joan Nesbit, who ran a time of 32:54.19 in 1984, had a better performance in the 10,000 meters.
“I had a feeling I was going to break 34, if nothing bad happened,” Alcorta said. “But I wasn’t really aware of where I stacked up against the (all-time) UNC list.”
Alcorta didn’t find out that she made history until several minutes after she finished the race. She felt her cell phone buzz and saw a tweet from the UNC track and field Twitter account that recognized her perfor-mance.
“I got like a little notification on my phone that was like, ‘You’ve been tagged in such and such tweet’ and I’m like, ‘Oh neat,’” Alcorta said.
Then, it began to sink in. “It was pretty shocking,” Alcorta
said. “I didn’t know that’s what our records looked like. It was really kind of humbling to know that the best person has also been an Olympian and is pretty close to a minute fast-er. So, there’s definitely room for
improvement, hopefully.”That person — Nesbit — was a
three-time All-American at UNC. She also represented the United States at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
“Joan’s a Tar Heel legend,” VanAlstyne said. “She’s got a couple of USA vests and that was a fantas-tic run when she was the best in the ACC. So, that’s still a target out there. Like I said, I hope we get back to the 10-k with one of those girls and we can take a real shot at it.”
Alcorta is a distance runner who participates in a variety of events. Although Friday was just her debut in the 10,000 meters, UNC’s coach-ing staff believes Alcorta is capable of even more in the event.
“I had a chance to talk to her a lit-tle bit afterwards,” head coach Harlis Meaders said. “She was a little bit frus-trated because she thought she could have done a little better, which is true of all elite-level athletes — they always think they can run a little bit better.”
VanAlstyne said breaking this record, or any record, was not a goal set for Alcorta at the beginning of the season. However, he and Meaders knew the ceiling was high for the senior.
“We don’t target any specific marks like that,” VanAlstyne said. “We just knew she was capable of being one of the best that’s come through Chapel Hill. It’s confirma-tion of that.”
Alcorta was not the only Tar Heel that had a standout performance in Raleigh this past weekend. Junior Morgan Ilse won the 1,500-meter race with a personal-best time of 4:20.57, which was good for second in the ACC and top 20 in the nation.
In the field events, sophomore Daniel McArthur won the men’s shot put for the second time this season. McArthur threw for 17.95 meters on his last attempt — over a meter fur-ther than the next best finish.
Even though other UNC athletes had exceptional showings in Raleigh, none shined brighter than Alcorta.
“We can tell what she’s capable of running, even if she’s never run it,” VanAlstyne said. “We knew she was capable of doing that, but she’s equally capable of being one of the best in every event in the record book.”
Caroline Alcorta etches name in UNC track record books
First-years lead UNC to revenge
DTH/ALEX KORMANNNorth Carolina first-year Ben Sigouin celebrates during a match against Virginia on April 1 at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
By Daniel PetrucciStaff Writer
Sunday afternoon could’ve been a story about Tar Heel upperclassmen taking revenge.
Instead, it was about a pair of first-years that had never been introduced to the rivalry.
After losing to Virginia in the 2017 national championship, 4-2 — and three other times last season — the No. 5 North Carolina men’s tennis team (14-4, 5-1 ACC) finally triumphed over the Cavaliers on Sunday in a 6-1 victory. And first-years Ben Sigouin and Mac Kiger were big reasons why.
The Tar Heels greatly needed this win following a 4-3 loss to No. 1 Wake Forest last Wednesday. UNC lost the doubles point against the Demon Deacons, and head coach Sam Paul took notice.
There was no question about whether UNC’s senior captain Robert Kelly and sophomore William Blumberg would win their doubles match. The third-ranked duo won its doubles comfortably, 6-2. After nearly two years of dou-bles play together, these two Tar Heels have gelled nicely.
“We’ve been meshing well and moving together just a lot more than last year,” Blumberg said. “We’ve kind of been on the same wavelength.”
Kelly and Blumberg rode that momentum into their individual singles matches. Kelly clinched his match in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2. The senior’s win was particularly pun-gent after last year’s pair of losses against Cavalier opponents.
“We definitely had some battles with them last year,” Kelly said, “but this feels really good.”
After winning the first set with admirable ease, No. 2 Blumberg admits he had a “mental lapse” during the second set. His oppo-nent, Carl Soderlund, who is also highly ranked in men’s singles (No. 32), kept the window open, winning a close second set.
“I was never going to give up,” Blumberg said. “I was going to give it all I had.”
Blumberg opened the third set
by winning three straight games, breaking serve in the second game. Blumberg pushed on to win the third set and take the match, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2.
Blaine Boyden, a junior from Raleigh, also won his singles match, with the second set going into a tiebreaker game. Boyden remains undefeated in singles play (15-0) this season.
The only loss for UNC came from Court Three, where sopho-more Simon Soendergaard fell to Virginia’s captain, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, after being up 3-1 in the third.
The older Tar Heels’ superiority over the Cavaliers would have been moot, however, without the success of their underclassmen cohorts, specifically the first-years. Kelly, Blumberg and Boyden all won their singles matches in the national championship last year.
The remaining effort needed to topple a team like Virginia, a team that had the Tar Heels’ number last season, had to come from somewhere. And it came from the young guns.
Paul and UNC’s veteran players all acknowledged the Cavaliers’ dimin-ished strength from last year, large-ly due to the graduation of several vital seniors from their squad. Apart from the major improvements made by older North Carolina players, the addition of several talented young-sters — like Sigouin and Kiger — truly made this revenge victory possible.
“They’re good team guys,” Paul said about the first-years. “That’s what’s impressive about them.”
Winning the first doubles match just moments before Kelly and Blumberg, Kiger and Soendergaard helped generate that much-needed momentum from the doubles point that Paul stressed so heavily.
Kiger matched up against a first-year from Virginia, Jefferson Dockter, in singles play, winning 6-3, 6-3. And after an unfinished doubles match because of the two quick UNC wins on Courts One and Three, Sigouin showed the specta-tors at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center why he was ranked No. 34 in singles — handing his opponent a loss in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3.
Though they seemed to be UNC’s special ingredient for success against the Cavaliers, Kiger and Sigouin humbly gave a lot of credit to their leaders. When asked about his key to success in college play so far, Kiger had nothing but praise for his elder teammates.
“We’ve got some great leaders on the team,” Kiger said. “Both Will and Rob have helped me a lot to get ready for each match, get my mind right.”
Kiger and Sigouin weren’t Tar Heels last year. But, as their upper-classmen counterparts point out, they’ve been an integral part of this team’s development — and proved to be exactly what their team need-ed to seize revenge on Sunday.
“Right from the get-go, they fit right in,” Boyden said. “They bring a lot to the table. Both of them are just natural leaders.”
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By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezStaff Writer
With summer right around the cor-ner, local middle and high school stu-dents are getting ready for CampWrite UNC, a free, two-week day camp for aspiring authors and casual writers.
Since its founding in 2011, CampWrite UNC has helped hundreds of students improve their writing in a fun, nonjudgmental environment.
U N C s e n i o r a n d f o r m e r CampWrite president Larissa Wood said the camp’s most important goal is to allow the campers to express themselves in creative ways.
“I think CampWrite is really cool because all of these local middle school and high school students who do like to write, and might not know that many other people that like to write in their own schools, get to come together and have a communi-ty that really supports their creative quirks and interests,” she said.
Senior Samuel Silverstein, who ran the 2017 camp, said a normal day at CampWrite begins with a short lesson from one of the counselors, followed by small group writing workshops, lunch and finally, the students’ favor-ite activity: reading their stories in front of all the campers.
“Any of the campers can share anything they’ve written, and a lot of campers really love that, they love to get up in front of everyone and share their work,” Silverstein said.
CampWrite is so popular with stu-dents that they attend year after year, and sometimes even become camp counselors when they graduate.
“We’ve had a couple of campers from last year who have not graduat-ed high school, who are going to grad-
uate high school in the next couple months, who are going to come back as counselors this year,” Silverstein said. “In fact, there are some local, previous campers who have been accepted to UNC and are now in leadership positions or are leading the process of planning camp.”
UNC senior and CampWrite counselor Erin Scannell said coun-selors should encourage younger stu-dents to keep writing even as they get older.
“I think it’s really, really important to provide a space for creative outlets, especially for middle and high school-ers, and to show them that creativity like that doesn’t have to end when you graduate from middle school or when you graduate from high school, that you can continue to do it while you’re in college and that it’s a worthy activ-ity to engage in,” she said.
Wood said most of the funding for CampWrite comes from fundraisers by the student organization, but that they are looking for new sources of funding this year to be able to pub-lish each campers’ favorite work in a small booklet.
“That, I would argue, is our most expensive project, and that is what in past years sometimes hasn’t hap-pened — sometimes it’s been a PDF version of that compilation just because of the expense of the book,” she said. “We’re trying to figure out this year if we can maybe get some funding through the creative writing department or some other avenue on campus so we can create hard-copy books for this year’s camp.”
Applications for this summer’s camp are due Sunday, April 8 and are available on the camp’s website.
Here’s what students on campus think about Arts Everywhere Compiled by Staff Writer Elsa
Mark
“I really like the UNC Arts Everywhere. I remember last year when we did it there was a piano right outside the window for one of my classes, so when the weather was really nice outside, we would open the windows and could just hear the piano coming up, and it was just really fun.”Schuyler MossSophomore physics major
“I found the piano here as perfect, because it’s hard to find pianos that are free to be played in the open nature and beautiful surroundings of the UNC campus, so thank you.” Vera ReedChapel Hill resident
“Arts programs are heavily overshad-owed at schools, so I think it’s good support is being shown for them in public spaces.” Ty CrawfordFirst-year computer science major
“The arts initiative event is happening this Friday. … So come out on Friday, there will be so many games and events to celebrate art on Carolina’s campus.” Candice GreeneJunior media and journalism major
“Last year I explored all of campus and played all of the pianos, every single one, and I’m glad that they’re back. I was sad that they were gone.”Holden RuchSophomore political science major
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Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is an 8 -- Discuss financial matters with your partner to determine priorities. Strategize for challenges together. Things can get expen-sive. Stick to stable, reliable options.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)Today is a 7 -- Keep secrets and confidences as well as your temper, despite distractions. Practice patience, especially with your partner. Listen to experience. Wait for developments.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)Today is an 8 -- Keep your wits about you. You can figure out a puzzle. Stay patient with someone who’s not. Stick to the budget, and follow your schedule.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 7 -- Romance may not go as planned. Interruptions and distractions abound. Exercise restraint. Avoid impulsive outbursts, and think things over before speak-ing. Consider consequences.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is an 8 -- Rely on trusted partners with home projects. Keep to simple objectives as expenses can multiply. Discuss priorities and roles. Postpone travel. Do the research.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 6 -- Private communications make a difference. Provide stability. Resist impulsive-ness. Follow through on what you said you’d do. Use your own good judgment.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is an 8 -- Fire up your financial engines. Make sure you know what’s required before promising results. Friends help you make a positive connection. You’re gaining respect.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is an 8 -- Go ahead and obsess over details with a personal project. Find out what’s available and what the costs are. Ask around. Consider before choosing.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is a 5 -- Recuperate and relax. Avoid ir-ritations and controversy. Find some peace and quiet. Don’t make expensive promises. Clean, sort and organize while considering options.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is an 8 -- Share ideas and information with your team. Together, you can take huge ground, if you can avoid misunderstandings. Slow down to finish faster.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is an 8 -- Schedule carefully to prepare for a professional inspection. Don’t rush or try unproven tricks. Put your talent to work. Postpone other chores for later.
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UNC-System schools cracking down on fraternity violations
DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/NATHAN KLIMAIn response to a series of serious infractions at fraternities across the coun-try, UNC system schools have cracked down on codes of conduct violations.
By Georgia Wieland-StanfordStaff Writer
Three East Carolina University fraternities were closed in the first four months of 2018: Tau Kappa Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Epsilon will shut down for four years. Delta Chi will be closed indefinitely.
Officials cited hazing and alcohol violations as among the causes for the closures.
Sigma Phi Epsilon also closed its ECU chapter in May 2017. At N.C. State University, Delta Sigma Phi’s national office revoked the university’s fraternity chapter in September 2017. At UNC-Charlotte, Sigma Phi Epsilon closed its chapter in May 2017, Delta Chi was suspended in November 2017 and Lambda Chi Alpha was suspend-ed in January 2018.
After a series of serious infractions at fraternities across the country in 2017, universities in the UNC system have cracked down on fraternities for violating student codes of conduct — specifically for violating policies regarding hazing and alcohol use.
How are fraternities being punished?Johnny Sao, spokesperson for
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said the national organization can impose sanctions on any member or chap-ter that fails to follow the fraternity’s guidelines or expectations.
“The severity of the sanctions are determined on a case-by-case basis,” he said. “We maintain a zero-tol-erance policy for any behavior that deviates from our mission and creed.”
At UNC-Chapel Hill, Honor Court can also impose sanctions on student organizations, but only after the organization has gone through the first phases of an Honor Court hearing and been found guilty of a violation, said Jacob Friedman, the UNC-CH undergraduate student attorney general.
Friedman said UNC-CH’s chapter
of Delta Kappa Epsilon is involved in a case with the UNC-CH Honor Court.
“What I can tell you about the Delta Kappa Epsilon case is we have received a report regarding them, and the case is currently pending with us,” he said.
In the past year, three UNC-CH student organizations have accepted responsibility or have been found responsible for the charge of haz-ing in the honor code, according to Friedman.
UNC-CH’s Instrument of Student Judicial Governance lists conduct violations, which include hazing and possession or use of controlled substances. Friedman said individu-al students or student organizations can be charged with these violations and given sanctions based on what punishment the UNC-CH Honor Court decides is fair.
“Some sanctions include a written warning, conduct sanctions — like community service and educational activities — group restrictions and activity restrictions,” he said. “But until there’s a finding of guilt and a sanction assigned, there are no restrictions.”
Fraternities, drinking and possible solutions
A study conducted on the rela-tionship between Greek life and drinking by the National Association of Student Personnel Adminstrators confirmed there is a link between fraternity involvement, binge drink-ing and significant risks that accom-pany binge drinking.
“The majority (86 percent) of fraternity house residents engaged in binge drinking, compared with about 71 percent of the nonresident fraternity members and 45 percent of the non-fraternity men,” the study reported.
The study found residents of fra-ternity houses were more likely to drink and drive or ride with a drunk driver after a night of binge drinking.
“Twice as many residents of fra-ternity houses, 39 percent compared to 19 percent of non-fraternity men, reported riding in a car with an ine-briated driver,” according to the study.
In 2017, there were hazing-relat-ed deaths at Penn State University, Louisiana State University, Texas State University and Florida State University. In response to these deaths, the four universities have suspended or curtailed fraternity activities such as parties and initia-tions. Ball State University, Indiana University, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan have also enacted similar policies.
In response to the deaths, Sigma Phi Epsilon banned alcohol and adopted a substance-free policy for fraternity facilities at all of its 215 chapters across the country, including its UNC-CH chapter, in November 2017.
Chandler Kania, a former mem-ber of Sigma Phi Epsilon’s UNC-CH chapter, killed three people in a wrong-way drunken driving crash in July 2015. Kania was sentenced to a maximum of 16 years and four months in prison for involuntary manslaughter and one count of reck-less driving in October 2016.
Sigma Phi Epsilon said in the 2017 statement fraternities today have problems that need addressing. The fraternity said it had previously removed pledging from its member-ship requirements and established several substance-free chapters to protect the health and safety of stu-dents.
“Sigma Phi Epsilon and our peers have unfortunately earned a reputa-tion for being organizations that pro-mote alcohol consumption, misogy-ny and violence,” the statement said. “For SigEp, there can be no more dis-cussion about maintaining that sta-tus quo. Fraternities must change.”
The deaths that resulted from hazing and alcohol in previous years
have sparked a national conversation on how to prevent hazing and alco-hol abuse in campus Greek Life.
During a University Affairs Committee meeting in Janurary 2018, UNC-CH Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Winston Crisp said the University has put in place pol-icies similar to those at Penn State and FSU.
The UNC-CH Office of Student Conduct has an online system to report violations, the UNC-CH Ethics and Integrity department has an anonymous reporting service and the UNC-CH Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life has an online service that gives reporters the choice to remain anonymous or give their name.
Friedman said the online report-ing systems are available to students who wish to report honor code vio-lations and hazing incidents they witness at fraternities or sororities on UNC-CH’s campus.
“All students have the right not to self-incriminate and not to share specifics,” he said. “Our goal is to get
as much information as we can and make sure we address the report as best we can.”
At the January meeting, Crisp said the types of hazing he investigates have changed. He said years ago, there were cases of extreme violence, but now violations mostly involve personal servitude, forced physical exertion and other acts.
“We are not actually seeing a spike in behavior in terms of num-bers of incidents,” Crisp said at the meeting. “But we are seeing more visibility.”
He went on to say the University needs a comprehensive re-evaluation of how the University changes cam-pus culture.
“While it is absolutely clear that our students need to be part of solutions, we have for too long put the vast majority of the burden of change on them,” Crisp said. “The truth of the matter is students didn’t create alcohol and hazing culture on campus.”
her duties as mayor. “I spend about 65 to 70 hours a
week being mayor — that includes going to events, speaking at events, meeting with folks, we get calls all the time,” Hemminger said. “I prob-ably spend about three hours a week responding to emails alone.”
Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle holds a full-time job as a professor at NC Central University Law School. She holds office hours, teaches class-es, serves as an adviser for three stu-dent groups and conducts academic research. Lavelle said it helps that her two jobs are flexible and often complement each other.
At Central, one of the class she teaches regularly is state and local government, where she has her stu-dents attend a Board of Aldermen meeting, visit the General Assembly and write memos on current political issues at the state and local level.
“I also teach sexual identity in the law, and that’s my area of legal scholarship,” Lavelle said. “That’s been really helpful too in recent years when we tried to grapple with things like HB2 and marriage equality and other discrimination-type revisions.”
Carrboro Board of Aldermen member Damon Seils is a commu-nications specialist at Duke Medical School where he works with people conducting health services research.
“Being on the Board is like having another job,” Seils said. “It’s not quite like having another full time job, but it sometimes can feel like that.”
Seils often uses his lunch breaks and time after work to make phone calls with constituents or attends meetings for his various aldermen responsibilities. He also regular-ly uses the transit system to get to his his job in Durham and uses the commute time to do some work on the bus.
He said their most visible work as local elected officials are their weekly board meetings, but they have other duties that go unrecognized as well.
More than just meetings The Mayor and town council
members must serve on various town boards and commissions as repre-
sentatives of the council, prepare ahead of time for the agenda items to be covered at their meetings and often meet with constituents and local businesses.
“I prep for the upcoming week’s meeting over the weekend, which generally involves four to eight hours of reading, review and depending on the topic, may include communica-tion with relevant community stake-holders,” Stegman said.
Although their duties often slow down during the summer months and towards the end of December, municipal election season tends to be a very busy time, Hemminger said.
“We have such an engaged com-munity, which is terrific, but it also makes for a demanding campaign schedule,” Stegman said. “There were a record 17 candidate forums in a period of approximately eight weeks, and six candidate question-naires. Along with that, you need to hold fundraising events, meet with key stakeholders and community groups and other ‘get out the vote’ activities.”
Although the community involve-ment in election season is great, Stegman said, she fears the demand-ing schedule and fundraising needs might keep people from running for town council.
“I was fortunate to have a support-ive spouse, an employer willing to be flexible with my schedule for that period and enough funds to pay for childcare,” Stegman said. “People in our community who don’t have these resources are not likely to consider running. This is one area I would like us to improve on as a communi-ty: removing barriers to full partici-pation and opening opportunity for greater representation from across our community.”
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ELECTION NOTICEIN ACCORDANCE WITH NC STATUTE CODE 163-33(8), NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: to the qualified voters of Orange County, the Orange County Elections will be held on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 to vote for Federal, County, and Orange County School Board contests.
The polls for the May 8th Election will be open from 6:30 am until 7:30 pm. Photo Identifica-tion will NOT be required to vote in person at this Election.
Residents who are not registered to vote must submit their registration application by mail or in person by April 13, 2018 to be eligible to vote in this election. Registered voters who moved within Orange County should notify the Board of Elections, in writing, of their address change by the same date.
Any qualified voter may vote prior to Election Day at one of the One-Stop voting locations listed below. Same Day Voter Registration is available during the Early Voting period at all Early Voting sites. If completing Same Day Registration, one must vote at the Early Voting site rather than on Election Day. The one-stop voting period begins Thursday, April 19, 2018 and ends at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, May 5, 2018. One-Stop sites and times are listed below and posted on our website: www.orangecountync.gov/elect.
LOCATIONS AND TIMES FOR ONE-STOP ABSENTEE VOTING
BOARD OF ELECTIONS OFFICE – 208 S. Cameron Street, HillsboroughThursday & Friday, April 19th & April 20th, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (1 site)BOARD OF ELECTIONS OFFICE – 208 S. Cameron Street, HillsboroughCARRBORO TOWN HALL – 301 W. Main Street, CarrboroSaturday, April 21st, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.Monday – Friday, April 23rd – April 27th, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Saturday, April 28th, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.Monday– Friday, April 30th – May 4th, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Saturday, May 5th, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.CHAPEL OF THE CROSS – 304 E. Franklin St, Chapel HillEFLAND RURITAN CLUB BUILDING – 3009 Forrest Ave, EflandSEYMOUR SENIOR CENTER – 2551 Homestead Road, Chapel HillSaturday, April 21st, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.Monday – Friday, April 23rd – April 27th, 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Saturday, April 28th, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.Chapel of the Cross will not open Saturday, April 28thMonday– Friday, April 30th – May 4th, 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Saturday, May 5th, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Voters may request an absentee ballot by mail. This request must be in writing on the “State Ab-sentee Ballot Request Form” and submitted to the Orange County Board of Elections, P.O. Box 220, Hillsborough, NC 27278, and received at the board office by 5:00 p.m., Tuesday May 8, 2018.
Citizens with questions concerning registration, absentee ballots, location of polling sites or other related matters, should call the board office at 919-245-2350, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. or inquire at our website at www.orangecountync.gov/elect.
The Orange County Board of Elections will hold Absentee meetings in the board office at 208 S. Cameron Street, Hillsborough, NC at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24th and May 1st. The Board will begin the Election Day Absentee Ballot count on May 8th at 2:00 p.m. in accordance with G. S. 163-234.
The Orange County Board of Elections will meet at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, May 18, 2018 in the board office at 208 S. Cameron Street, Hillsborough, North Carolina to canvass the votes cast for the May 8, 2018 Primary Election.
Please be advised of the following precinct changes:Efland precinct is now at Efland Ruritan Club - 3009 Forrest Ave, Efland, NCKings Mill precinct is now at St. Thomas More Catholic Church - 940 Carmichael St. Chapel Hill, NCEast Franklin precinct is now at Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church - 304 E. Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC
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The Orange County Rape Crisis Center will host workshops on April 14 and 21 titled “Supporting Those Who Say #MeToo,” which is centered around how to respond to survivors who have shared a sexual assault experience. Since the fall of 2017, the #MeToo movement has been quickly gaining momentum, encouraging survivors to speak up about assault, regardless of when it took place.
“As #MeToo is becoming a more significant part of our culture, our norms surrounding consent and rape culture are being challenged, which is a great thing,” said grad-uate student Taylor Hamlet. “The more we as a society talk about sex-ual assault, which Sexual Assault Awareness Month encourages, the faster we can transition to a cul-tural definition of consent more representative of folks’ needs and experiences.”
Organizers of SAAM hope the results of workshops and discus-sions this month will continue to manifest in the months and years to come.
“While April is a designated month to highlight awareness of sexual assault, we also need to make sure that we’re doing prevention and response work all year round,” Kennedy said. “So one of our goals in April is to start conversations, initiatives and people’s involvement in work that will continue beyond SAAM.”
Safe at UNC, the Carolina Women’s Center and the Orange County Rape Crisis Center grap-ple with issues surrounding sexual assault all year long and provide resources for students who are sur-vivors or anyone looking for more information or assistance surround-ing sexual violence.
TOWN COUNCILFROM PAGE 1
“I probably spend about three hours a week responding to emails alone.” Pam HemmingerChapel Hill Mayor
of intellectual inability in the class-room just because someone is an ath-lete. The thought of, ‘Oh, they must have only been admitted because they play a sport and they don’t want to be here and I don’t want them here either.’ And most faculty don’t think about the realities of the student-athlete experience.”
In her time as an athlete at UNC, Jackson said her coaches insist-ed that the team stayed on top of their grades and had time to study. However, she said this is not always true for sports with more rigorous travel and practice requirements.
“I’ve heard some coaches say outright, ‘You better not be up late studying, you need to get your rest tonight,’” Jackson said. “So it’s not even this idea that athletes are fooling around and going out on Franklin Street or whatever. They’re just prioritizing their rest over their academics at times.”
Jackson also said her track and field teammates represented a diverse mix of races, something that can’t be said for more time-constraining
sports like football and basketball. Harper’s study found that while Black males represented only 2.7 percent of the total undergraduate population at UNC, they represented 56.1 percent of players on the basketball and foot-ball teams. This unequal represen-tation was replicated at most of the other universities in the study as well.
Michelle Brown, director of the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes, said the University has been taking steps in recent months to increase student-athlete involvement with academics that are not reflected in the study. She mentioned working on initiatives for underrepresented students with other campus organizations.
Brown also emphasized summer bridge programs as being essential to preparing incoming student-athletes for college in the future.
“It’s about sharing and exposing students to study abroad oppor-tunities and unique experiences and internships,” Brown said. “It’s exposing them to different people and helping them find a certain community or cohort that they might not be exposed to otherwise.” [email protected]
BLACK ATHLETESFROM PAGE 1
SEXUAL ASSAULTFROM PAGE 1
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Chapel Hill has two main identities. One is that of a small college town where
everyone shops local and knows each other. The second is a major city with corporate chains and high rises buying up property for top dollar. Recent elections and events show that there is a strong anti-development sentiment in our town.
The Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town is an organiza-tion that opposes further major changes to the town’s landscape, and candidates it has endorsed and run have been successful in their campaigns for office.
Despite this, the Chapel Hill Town Council considered a development plan to build a lux-ury apartment complex while displacing the residents of 33
mobile homes and two duplexes. The plan received a preliminary hearing at the Town Council on Dec. 18, 2017, and was reviewed on Jan. 24, 2018. Not long after, residents were given until March 31 to relocate. Throughout this process, those living at the mobile home park have been kept largely in the dark. While much is already in motion and cannot be undone, there is a lot to be learned from this situation and how it unfold-ed.
While the prospect of a new high-end property, and the potential tax revenue it would bring, must be appealing to those in local government, it is important that Chapel Hill officials not lose sight of their responsibilities to the poorer members of our community. The plan to build yet another luxury apartment complex in a town with increasingly little affordable low-income hous-ing has problems of its own,
but even more problematic has been how little the town gov-ernment has done to help those affected. The Town Council had no apparent plan for how to assist those being displaced, something Council member Michael Parker admitted in January, rather bluntly saying, “We should have had a plan and we don’t.”
As members of the Chapel Hill community, we too have a responsibility to our fellow community members. We occu-py a position of privilege as stu-dents here, and should strive to give back the Chapel Hill com-munity. One of the best ways to do so is to educate ourselves on local issues. We have seen many examples of how student activ-ism can bring attention to an issue. Using the same tools stu-dents use to bring about change on their campus is one such way we can help those who need it in our local community.
People come before businesses
QUOTE OF THE DAY
How to vote in the upcoming North Carolina primaries
TO THE EDITOR:North Carolina has primary elec-
tions on May 8 (last day of final exams), with early voting in south-ern Orange County April 21-May 5 (LDOC is April 27). In 29 Chapel Hill and Carrboro precincts, there are Democratic primaries for 4th District US House, Orange County Commissioner at-large, Clerk of Court, and Sheriff, while Libertarians have a U.S. House primary. The county commissioner race is import-ant not just for public school funding, but also issues like transit and light rail. Unaffiliated voters can vote in either the Democratic or Libertarian primary. Republican and Green Party voters in those precincts can’t vote May 8, as their parties are not hold-ing primaries. Regular voter regis-tration for the primary ends April 13, with same day registration available at early voting. If you registered in Orange for a previous election and still live in the county, you remain eligible, voter address changes with-in Orange County can be reported easiest by using the form on the back of your voter registration card and mailing it postmarked by April 13, or your address can be updated at early voting.
If you live in Orange County but aren’t yet registered to vote, this can be done by printing the form at: https://bit.ly/2pZJmn and mailing it postmarked by April 13 to: Orange County Board of Elections, PO Box 220 Hillsborough NC 27278. There are often registration tables around campus, while forms are usually available at Davis Library on campus or the Student Government Suite, Room 3109 Carolina Union.
To vote by mail for the May 8 pri-mary in the NC county of your voter registration, an absentee form is available at www.ncsbe.gov (upper right-menu bar, select “Voting Options” then “Absentee voting”) You must print the form, then it can be snail-mailed, FAXed, (or scanned and emailed) to the board of elections of the county of your voter registra-tion. Contact info for county boards is at: https://vt.ncsbe.gov/BOEInfo/PrintableVersion/ (Your absentee ballot application must reach your county elections board by May 1, I suggest mailing by April 24).
In Chapel Hill and Carrboro, three early voting locations are open Mondays through Saturdays from April 21 to May 5. Closest loca-tions to campus will be at Chapel of the Cross (next to Morehead Planetarium) and Carrboro Town Hall, 301 West Main Street.
Gerry CohenRaleigh UNC’72
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
“The caricature and other racial stereotypes continue to plague Black male student-athletes.”Shaun Harper, on the struggles faced by Black male athletes at the university
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SATIRICAL ADVICE COLUMN
Perry Carter (will.i.am) and James Scalise (will.je.suis) are the writers of UNC’s premier (only!) satirical advice column. Results may vary.
You: Spring cleaning: is it worth all the work?
Perry: I used to detest cleaning. When I was younger, I would shove everything under my bed, which worked until it didn’t if you know what I mean. I learned to love clean-ing after I had the following positive experience tidying up:
I woke up late one morning in high school and, by the looks of it, I was barely going to make it on time to homeroom. This was during the messy days of my salad years, so I of course couldn’t find any of my stuff. I rummaged through piles of laundry and empty bottles of grape Faygo (I am not who I was), searching for my backpack and books. Hot sweat pre-cipitated in my armpits. Cruelly, as I had no time to shower. My cardigan barely buttoned, I barreled down the marble stairs separating my wing of
the house from the main corridor. I don’t know if I mentioned this, but my dad is Nicolas Sarkozy.
Even though my driver Jacobin stepped on it the whole way to school, it wasn’t enough. We pulled up in the Evoque 3 minutes past the hour and I walked to class to the bit-ter knell of the tardy bell.
The next day, I changed my ways. I cleaned, and I organized. I Iyanla-ed my room. And I’m so glad I did because, in the process, I came across a stack of gold bars that I had completely forgotten about.
My point is that spring cleaning
is great. You might say it’s worth its weight in gold.
James: Spring cleaning? You think I’m able to clean with these debilitat-ing allergies? You think I’m gonna stir up MORE particulate matter into the air, primed for my inhalation? You got another thing coming.
One spring, in seventh grade, a girl once asked me if I could stop sneezing. I wish I could, Gabbi!
Spring as a metaphor and spring as reality are two separate things for James Scalise. While you’re outside frolicking I’m applying lotion to the bottom of my nose because all of the tissues that have been chafing it.
I’m also allergic to horses. Once I had an allergy attack because Perry had been spending time with hors-es. My eyes started swelling shut. I wasn’t even near the horses! I was near her who had previously been near a horse! And yet I am the one must suffer? Have you ever sneezed while eating carrots? Try cleaning that mess up. Then you can talk to me about spring cleaning.
In which we start our spring cleaning, and as a result, spring sneezing
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Perry Carter and James ScaliseSenior English and communication major from Raleigh Senior computer science major from Cary.Email [email protected] questions with YAFI in the subject!
Finding out why
I actually hate rats
In my introductory psychology class, we’ve been learning about exposure therapy.
During our class discussion – in which we defined exposure therapy as continued confrontation of the thing causing a patient’s fear or anxiety – I could not stop thinking about the horrific ending to “1984”: the scene in which Winston, the protagonist of the story, is tortured with a cage of rats.
All rodents make my stomach twist in fear, but rats, specifically, induce an all-consuming sort of disgust. The situation with Winston in “1984” is, to date, the most dis-turbing literary scene I’ve read. In a column last year, I pondered where, exactly, this outsized fear of rats came from. I got my answer on the drive home to Washington D.C. this past weekend. I don’t have an AUX cord in my car, so I listen to podcasts on my iPhone speaker. Usually, this lasts for about 20 min-utes, until I get sick of holding up my phone next to my ear. This time, though, I was hooked.
During a Hidden Brain pod-cast episode, entitled “Crickets and Cannibals: Unpacking the Complicated Emotion of Disgust,” host Shankar Vedantam dissected the mechanics behind disgust. As it turns out, disgust is a conditioned reaction. According to Rachel Herz, an expert on the psychology of disgust and smell, if a baby smells vomit, they react positively; make them smell vanilla, and they react with disgust. This instinctive reac-tion to stereotypically disgusting smells reveals its learned.
Their discussion surrounding disgust and privilege, though, truly reframed my fear of rats. Vedantam explored the oft-cinematized incident of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes. The men who survived the crash resorted to cannibalism to survive, silencing their conditioned responses of disgust.
Herz cites the fact that if “you don’t have anything else to eat other than some who’s dead beside you,” you will quell your disgust in order to survive.
I’ve had the privilege, thus far, to live in places where I don’t regularly encounter rats, and in homes where I could hypothetical-ly afford to call an exterminator. I still couldn’t handle a “1984”-esque encounter, but it’s probably time for me to start analyzing and dismantling the environmental reasons for my disgust. Or I could just keep proceeding as I have been my whole life: shrieking hys-terically whenever I see any sort of rodent, like the privileged coward that I am. Either works.
Annie KiyonagaAnnie Get Your Pen
Junior English and art history major from Chevy Chase, M.D.Email: [email protected]
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