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CHAPEL HILL SHOOTING

They were loved

Friday, February 13, 2015

Colleges try to
manage Yik Yak
problems
Offensive messages are often
posted on the social media app.
By Paige Hopkins
Senior Writer

University administrators across the country

are still figuring out how to handle Yik Yak, the
popular social media app becoming known for
the anonymous, offensive sentiments that often
appear on its location-based message board.
Though some colleges have recently banned
the app on campus Wi-Fi, UNC administrators
have no immediate plans to follow their lead.
While I have a very low opinion of the utility

SEE YIK YAK, PAGE 8

Orange County
program ghts
prison pipeline
An event prompted by President
Obama will take place today.
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Family and friends of the Triangle students killed in Tuesdays triple homicide pray at the victims funeral, which was held at a Muslim cemetery.

By Hannah Jaggers

The victims were buried near Raleigh on Thursday

In the fall, President Barack Obama called for

expanding opportunities for young men of color
and this week Orange County is heeding the call.
Orange County will host a mini-summit
Friday at the Southern Human Services Center
in Chapel Hill to discuss Obamas My Brothers
Keeper Community Challenge.
In September, Obama challenged cities, towns
and counties across the nation to implement
career strategy goals for all young people in the
community, regardless of their background, as
part of the My Brothers Keeper initiative. Experts
are hopeful the program will curb what they call
the school-to-prison pipeline, which refers to
policies that can send students of color to prison.
The program aims to close opportunity gaps
faced by young men of color.
Orange County Commissioner Renee Price is
organizing Orange Countys event and said the summit will address more than socioeconomic gaps.
Some people may think that its about poverty
or delinquent children, but its not, Price said. Its
about young people having the options and the
opportunities to excel, to advance in their lives, to
have a career, to fulfill their dreams.
Municipalities that accept Obamas challenge can eventually become designated as My
Brothers Keeper communities.
Price said becoming a My Brothers Keeper
community means re-evaluating programs that
are already in place in Orange County.
It has more to do with looking at the programs
that possibly already exist, she said. Seeing if there
are any children falling through the cracks, determining how to address that and seeing what we can
do to improve our communities for everyone.
Mayor Lydia Lavelle said the mini-summit is a
good starting point for the discussion.
By participating in the mini-summit, we will
be able to evaluate what resources already exist
in our community and in what areas we can
improve to support the My Brothers Keeper initiative in Carrboro, Lavelle said. Hopefully, the
summit will help us recognize ways to start closing the opportunity gaps that are often faced by
our youth, specifically young men of color.
Orange County will focus on three challenge
goals: ensuring all youth graduate from high
school, attend post-secondary school and become
employed and at a fulfilling job, Price said.
The Rev. Anita Thompson, who is also organizing the summit, said resolving issues faced by
young men of color in Orange County must be a
community effort.
We need to truly realize that we are our brothers
keeper, Thompson said. It really takes a nation
in this era to raise these children. It really requires
everyone to come together in the village and outside
of the village to accomplish these goals.
Thompson said she hopes the summit will
result in an action plan and unite the community.
On this initial one, Im praying that we come out
more united and with some strategies that at least
we can begin to put in place, Thompson said. I do
not believe that it is going to be easy but I believe its
now time for us to start focusing in on tomorrow.
Price said she has no idea whats going to happen on Friday or what direction it will go, and she
thinks thats a good thing.
Its not programmed to do any one specific
thing other than to see what we can do for our
young people, to give them a future, Price said.
Thompson said it is imperative that the summit inspires a better future for young people.
Theres a saying, If tomorrow could talk,
Thompson said. I dont know whether wed be
happy or sad about what it would say but we have
to put something forward in order to know something positive will be coming out of tomorrow.

By Jordan Nash
Front Page News Editor

WENDELL, N.C. Under

gray and cloudy skies, thousands of people chanted as men
carried three caskets.
La ilaha illAllah there is no
god but Allah.
More than 5,000 people gathered to honor the three young
victims Deah Shaddy Barakat,
Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha
and Razan Mohammad AbuSalha, who were shot and killed
at Finley Forest Condominiums
on Tuesday.
The Islamic Association of
Raleigh organized the funeral
and prayer service on a field
on the west edge of N.C. State
Universitys campus.
Barakat was a second-year
student in the UNC School of
Dentistry. Yusor Mohammad
Abu-Salha, Barakats wife,
graduated from N.C. State
in December and planned
to attend the UNC School of
Dentistry in the fall. Razan
Mohammad Abu-Salha, Yusor
Mohammad Abu-Salhas sister,
was a sophomore at N.C. State.
Chapel Hill police arrested
and charged Craig Stephen
Hicks with three counts of firstdegree murder for the shooting
this week. On Thursday, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
announced it would look into

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page 9 for more coverage
of Tuesdays triple homicide in Chapel Hill.
the case to see whether any federal laws had been violated.
After the funeral service on
N.C. States campus, hundreds
drove about 25 miles to a Muslim
cemetery in Wendell where the
three victims were buried.
Kawther Asad, who attended
the funeral, said she knew the
victims and attended a summer
camp where Yusor Mohammad
Abu-Salha was a leader.
Everyone looked up to them
and you can tell everyone loved
them and they were loved and
so kind and generous, Asad
said. Everything about them
was amazing.
Tears streamed down faces
and arms held others close.
Everyone here should just use
them as role models and try to
live up to what they were and let
their legacy live on, Asad said.

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A man mourns as the caskets carrying the victims of Tuesdays
shooting are brought to hearses during a funeral service in Raleigh.

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Close family and friends cry over the buried bodies of the victims of
Chapel Hills triple homicide at a Muslim cemetery in Wendell.

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Friends and family mourn as the bodies of the victims are buried during a funeral service held at the Islamic Association of Raleighs cemetery.

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From staff and wire reports

oses are red; violets are blue. People hate their exes and
cockroaches, too. The Bronx Zoo gets all the credit for
drawing the fairly obvious parallel between ex-lovers and
cringeworthy critters. By popular demand, the zoo is again
offering Name a Roach, a Valentines Day special offer that allows people
to name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after a person of their choosing though were fairly certain it wont be a person they like very much.
According to the zoos website, tens of thousands of these hissing cockroaches remain nameless. They might have more luck advertising with
some alternative Taylor Swift lyrics provided theyre not already trademarked because, Ive got a cockroach, baby, and Ill give it your name.
QUOTED. Well, it doesnt have big eyelashes on the front,
Harriet Harman, deputy leader of
Britains Labour Party, responding to criticism that the partys bright pink campaign
bus, intended to target female voters, was
sexist. Unfortunately, this likely wasnt the
reassuring response critics were looking for.

NOTED. A 3-month-old kitten was returned

to a Minneapolis pet store this week with
an apology note attached. A man had stolen
the kitten from the store the day before
while looking at the kittens. In the note, he
wrote that he didnt have $150 to buy the
kitten, but he had wanted to give the little
guy as a Valentines Day gift.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR
TODAY

Tell about the South: Chuck

Reece, co-founder of The Bitter Southerner weekly web
magazine, has made a career
of telling the stories about a
new South. Reece will lead this
discussion. Light refreshments
will be served, and the event
is free and open to the public.
People interested in attending
are asked to RSVP to Patrick
Horn at pathorn@unc.edu.
Time: 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Love House &
Hutchins Forum

Carolina Skies: Valentine Edition: The Morehead Planetarium

and Science Center is hosting
this star-viewing event for adult
and teen couples. The event
will focus on legends of love according to ancient cultures and
constellations. Tickets will be
available at the door.
Time: 8:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.
Location: Morehead Planetarium

SATURDAY

Valentines Dance: The United

Church of Chapel Hill is hosting its

12th annual Valentines Dance and

Chocolate event. The dance will
have live music provided by The
Ambassadors Big Band. Tickets are
being sold for $15 per person in
advance and $20 at the door.
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Location: 1321 Martin Luther
King Jr. Blvd.
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they take place.

CORRECTIONS
Due to a reporting error, Thursdays front page story Social media fuels tragedy coverage incorrectly spelled the name of the vice president of the UNC-Chapel Hill Muslim Students Association
vice president Ayoub Ouederni.
Due to a reporting error, Wednesdas page 3 story did not accurately identify Taffye Benson
Claytons title. She is the associate vice chancellor for diversity and multicultural affairs.
The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the errors.
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ichael Howell, a sophomore linguistics major from Lenoir, participated in

a discussion about the deaths of Deah
Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha
Thursday at Carolina Uniteds weekly Real Talk.

POLICE LOG
Someone committed larceny at a bar on the 100 block
of East Franklin St. at 2:02
a.m. Wednesday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
The person stole a purse
and an electronic key, valued
at $175, reports state.

Someone attempted fraud

at a store on the 100 block
of East Franklin St. at 2:07
p.m. Wednesday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
Someone broke and
entered a vehicle on the 200
block of Erwin Road at 11:15
a.m. Wednesday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
The person broke a window, valued at $150, and
stole a purse, valued at $50,
reports state.
Someone was trespassing
at a store on the 100 block
of East Franklin St. at 2:27
p.m. Wednesday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.

Someone broke and

entered a vehicle on the
900 block of Martin Luther
King Jr. Blvd. at 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
The person opened the
unlocked door and stole a
purse, valued at $15, and its
contents, valued at $248,
reports state.
Someone committed an
illegal U-turn through a yard
on the 100 block of Pearl
Lane at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday,
according to Chapel Hill
police reports.
The person ruined landscaping, valued at $250,
reports state.
Someone was charged
with possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia
and methamphetamine
on the 500 block of South
Greensboro St. at 8:51 a.m.
Wednesday, according to
Carrboro police reports.

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Friday, February 13, 2015

Elements of surprise, tears Systemwide,

faculty protest
of joy at Rams Head
Ross ouster

Faculty senates are discussing and

voting on a drafted resolution.
By Marisa Bakker
Staff Writer

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Carolina Dining Services employee Deborah Paige reacts to a presentation of $5,000 from students Sarah Adams and Caitlin Ball on Wednesday.

Students raise money to repair UNC employees car

By Mona Bazzaz
Staff Writer

When Deborah Paige walked into Rams

Head Dining Hall on Wednesday and was
met with a chorus of Thank Yous, the tears
of joy came instantly.
Paige has been working for Carolina
Dining Services for nearly 40 years, and
shes faced some financial difficulties recently. But thanks to the ideas of two UNC students, things are starting to look up.
Sarah Adams, a sophomore psychology
student, and Caitlin Ball, a senior journalism
and political science student, have become
good friends with Paige this past year.
Adams found out on Feb. 5 that
Paiges car had been broken down since
Thanksgiving.
I couldnt understand why a Carolina
Dining Services employee would not be able
to pay to get her car fixed, Ball said.
Paige filed for bankruptcy on her house
last year and pays about $1,600 a month
toward it. Her husband hasnt been able to
work for the past four years because of med-

ical conditions and was recently diagnosed

with cancer.
Paiges son has also been in and out of
the hospital recently. In addition to everything else, Paige also had knee-replacement surgery, and Ball said her bills had
since been piling up.
Ball came up with the idea of creating a
GoFundMe page on Feb. 6. The idea spread
through Facebook and, as of Thursday evening, theyd raised about $6,700.
The initial goal was to reach $1,650 in
order to help Paige pay for her car repairs.
We reached our goal in 54 hours, Ball
said.
The goal has been extended since then to
$79,000 in order to help Paige pay off the
rest of her medical and bankruptcy bills.
Ball and Adams said there is no deadline
for those who want to contribute to the
GoFundMe page.
A group of approximately 50 students
gathered in Rams Head Dining Hall on
Wednesday to surprise Paige. Adams and
Caitlin presented her with a check for
$5,000, and Paige burst into tears.

Excellence center spurs

classroom performance
The Center for Faculty
Excellence is under review
for budget cuts.
By Kristen Chung
Staff Writer

Without the Center for Faculty

Excellence, biology professor Kelly
Hogan would have waited a lot longer to
see the achievement gap in her Biology
101 class almost disappear.
Hogan applied for a grant from the
center to help her restructure her Biology
101 class. She said she would have eventually made the changes on her own, but the
grant gave her the support and resources
needed to speed up the progress.
Every teacher is motivated to want
to be the best teacher, but youre pulled
in a lot of directions. But if someone
gives you the time and support, it allows
you to push forward, she said.
Hogan said the center also helped her
measure the effects of her course redesign. Since changing the format, she said
the achievement gap for first-generation
college students disappeared, and the
gap in African-American students was
cut in half. She said more than 2,000
students have been impacted since her
Biology 101 course was redesigned.
The center, which is one of nine centers and institutes at risk of losing state
funding, pays for up to 10 full-time staff
members who support its mission.
Created in 2008 out of the former
Center for Teaching and Learning, the
center is unique because it expands
beyond teaching to research, leadership
and professional development, said Eric
Muller, director of the center.
We are instrumental to faculty
members growth and development as
teachers and leaders and scholars, he
said. We are crucial to breaking down
the walls and silos that separate faculty
members from each other.
In the last three years, the center has
given 26 grants worth up to $5,000 to
professors to increase interactive learning in large lecture classes.
Aside from funding, Hogan said the
center helped her make valuable interdepartmental connections that allowed her
to exchange and learn from other faculty.

Dr. Viji Sathy and I met through the

Center for Faculty Excellence through the
learning community Weve learned so
much from each other, she said.
Psychology professor Viji Sathy
echoed Hogans feelings on the role the
center has played in making interdepartmental connections, which promote classroom
development.
Muller said
his center spends
the majority of
its budget paying
for its full-time
employees, who serve in various capacities ranging from administrative support to IT service. While his center fell
under Board of Governors criteria for
review, he said he feels that judgment
alone did not merit the center being
placed on the final examination list.
One of the criteria focused on
was return on investment or what
kind of financial return was coming
back, he said. Unlike the Morehead
Planetarium that charges money for
show, we do not charge for our services. Thats not our model. Thats not
the model of a professional development center.
Michael Fern, associate chairman
for administration, finance and entrepreneurship for the computer science
department, said the center helped him
gain an understanding of University
structure and better connected him during his first year at the University.
I think the most valuable thing for
me is the relationship building and
understanding what groups do, and
being able to follow up with them, he
said. Without this program, Im not
sure I would know who to reach out to.
The Board of Governors will decide
final funding for the nine centers in
question at the end of the month.
Alison Fragale, board chairwoman
for the center, said the center has a lasting impact on the University.
Given the cost of retaining top faculty, the cost of funding the CFE is small
in comparison but is critical to getting
the most out of our largest financial
investment, Fragale said.

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I just felt love once I walked into the

room, Paige said.
I knew Sarah was up to something
because one day, this random student came
in and said, Youre going to get your car
fixed. But thats all I knew.
Paige has been staying in Chapel Hill
with her daughter since her car, which she
named Betsy, broke down. She goes home
to Snow Camp, where her husband lives, on
Fridays and comes back Sunday evenings
for work.
With all this stuff thats going on in
the world, its amazing that we can all get
together regardless of race and help one
another when theyre in need, Paige said.
Amanda Yarbrough, a freshman majoring
in management and society, attended the
surprise reveal Wednesday.
I think its great that any time somebody
needs something or something happens, the
community here can come together and be in
support of somebody, even if we dont know
them.

Faculty across North Carolina have spoken out

passionately against the forced resignation of UNCsystem President Tom Ross in January and now,
faculty leaders are organizing concrete responses.
The systems Faculty Assembly, which represents
faculty on all 17 campuses, has drafted a resolution
on Ross ouster. Its now being circulated around the
UNC systems faculty senates for their support.
The resolution praises Ross presidency and
asks the Board of Governors to explain the reasoning behind his removal, said David Zonderman,
chairman of N.C. State Universitys faculty senate,
which voted Tuesday to endorse the resolution.
Winston-Salem State Universitys faculty senate
followed suit on Thursday.
Both as faculty and citizens of the state, wed
like some explanation and some sense of whats
guiding the board in its decisions, Zonderman
said. If they wont tell us their reasoning, how do
we know where were going as a system?
Zonderman said faculty concerns center on
Rosss performance as president and confusion
about why he was removed.
UNC-CHs Faculty Council will discuss the resolution later this month, said chairman Bruce Cairns.
It is crucial that faculty across the UNC
system stay engaged and involved this is an
important time for all of us, he said in an email.
Other faculty senates have also approved the
resolution, including UNC-Pembroke and UNCAsheville, which did so unanimously.
At UNC-A, we value open discourse, said
Dee Eggers, chairwoman of UNC-As faculty senate. Changes in public policy are best arrived at
through deliberative public processes.
Scott Hicks, faculty chairman of UNCPembrokes faculty senate, said faculty on UNCPs campus are concerned about the politicization
of higher education, especially in its leadership.
We want to play the role that faculty are supposed to play in determining curriculum and
academic policy, and were not sure thats happening when these kinds of leadership changes are
occurring, Hicks said.
Faculty members have also rallied around
other initiatives, including an online petition with
hundreds of signatures disapproving of Ross
ouster, said Jim Peacock, one of the organizers
and an anthropology professor at UNC-CH.
Im sure youve been in class and heard a professor say, I dont want a one-word answer; you have
to explain your reasoning, Cairns said. Thats what
university education is all about, explaining your
reasons. So to have our own Board of Governors, our
own leaders, give no reasons strikes faculty as odd.

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Students talk about sexual taboos

The event aimed to
educate students about
sexual health.
By Victoria Mirian
Staff Writer

Talking about a subject that is

traditionally uncomfortable, students put an interesting twist on
a classic board game, Taboo.
Students played a sexual healththemed Taboo at an event promoting awareness and knowledge on
about sex Thursday night.
Project Dinah and Campus
Wellness hosted Sexual Health:
College Edition in conjunction
with Interactive Theatre Carolina.
Madelyn Frumkin, co-chairwoman of Project Dinah, said
the group provides a student perspective to Campus Wellness.
She said the UNC Board of
Governors felt that Orgasm?
Yes, Please!, a past event, was
too focused on pleasure, not
sexual health.
The Board of Governors cited
Orgasm? Yes, Please! as a misallocation of fees in May when it
approved a budget cut to UNC
Campus Health.
Our partnership with Wellness
is going to have to continue to
involve because of the constraints
theyre working under, and they
want to be able to function and
still reach students, Frumkin said.
Interactive Theatre Carolina
performed The Condom
Negotiation Scene and offered
audience members the chance to
offer ideas about how to approach
the topic of contraception.
Sometimes its difficult in

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Students Jhana Parikh (left) and Noah Boyd perform improvisational
skits promoting sexual health during Sexual Health: College Edition.

the moment, especially if its the

moment, to make that decision,
said Amy Burtaine, Interactive
Theatre Carolina coordinator.
Frumkin said Interactive
Theatre Carolina is an effective
tool to get students involved.
They have partnered with us
in the past, and we wanted to keep
them involved, have them act out
some scenarios, she said. Theyre
always funny and entertaining.
The groups discussed Title IX,
pointing to the newly required
online training as something that
is a good starting point for sexual
assault prevention but could be
more personalized by UNC.
In a poll at the event, 12 students said theyd already completed the mandatory training and
five students said they had not yet
completed it but plan to.
Its good just to get a view of
the policy and know whats going
on, especially if youre in a situ-

ation where you want to help a

friend, Frumkin said.
Senior Jasmine Wiggins said
the event helped break down the
awkward barriers that prevent
people from talking about sex.
Where Im from, its hard to
talk about issues like this or topics
about sex, Wiggins said. You kind
of just have to figure it out on your
own.
She said the game of Taboo was
her favorite part of the event.
It was surprising how hard it
was not to use certain slang terms
and use technical terms for sexual
things, or the medical terms for
different things, she said.
Frumkin said the event was a
success, and student responses to
the activities were positive.
Im graduating, but I hope the
group will continue to do something like this, she said.

UNC. The bus will leave from UNC

at 8 a.m. Saturday.
For students interested in signing up, there is a form available
at: http://bit.ly/1Auc8g8
The form is also accepting
information from people willing
to carpool.

People will gather at Shaw

University on South Street at
9:30 a.m. in downtown Raleigh.
The march to Jones Street and
the N.C. General Assembly will
begin at 10:30 a.m.

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Carrboro barista takes talents to Honduras

By Marisa Bakker
Staff Writer

Ready, set, roast!

Scott Conary, president of
Carrboro Coffee Roasters and
owner of Open Eye Cafe, has
been invited to participate in
a televised competition called
Barista & Farmer.
The show, now in its second season, is being co-produced by Francesco Sanapo
and Rimini Fiera. This years
competition was filmed
in western Honduras and
wrapped Tuesday. It will air
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Conary described the experience as phenomenal.
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are on a whole new level of
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Every day brings challenges, learning and eyeopening experiences that
are always colored by the
sheer joy of the program. The
days are long, but even as a
teacher, we come away from
it learning every day.
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Is Ring
by Spring
still a thing?
A closer look
at the Ring
by Spring
phenomenon

COURTESY OF DILLON DENNIS

Katy Folk (right), a junior at UNC, got engaged to Danielle Martin, a
junior at George Washington University. The couple will marry in 2016.

COURTESY OF KYLE LEGGETT

Sara Eagle and Kyle Leggett got married
this summer. They met in the Air Force
ROTC program while students at UNC.

No pressure to marry, students say

By Morgan Vickers
Staff Writer

As the cold weather melts

away and warm feelings start to
rise, social media sites are filled
with images of engagements
and love at the Old Well.
And as couples all around are
committing to spend the rest
of their lives with one another,
upperclassmen might feel the
pressure of a seasonal phenomenon known as Ring by Spring.
The concept of Ring by
Spring is simple: College students are attempting to find
their lifelong partners and get
an engagement or wedding
ring by the spring of their
senior year.

Married student housing

On campus, married students and students with children have the option to live
together in the Baity Hill at
Mason Farms apartment community. The community provides family-specific services
and creates a family-oriented
environment for students who

choose to live at UNC with

their partners or children.
Monica Boswell, manager of
Baity Hill, said the apartment
community used to offer housing to engaged couples, but it
no longer provides these services to newly engaged couples
because they are looking to provide a family-oriented environment within the community.
We used to offer couples
who were engaged, but that
really wasnt the intention of
the property, Boswell said.
We do have some people who
are grandfathered in because
that is what we used to do.
Boswell and Rick Bradley,
associate director of housing
and residential education,
said the housing department
doesnt maintain statistics on
married couples taking advantage of Baity Hills services, but
they do believe that the number of undergraduates at Baity
Hill overall has risen.
Anecdotally, we have seen
an increase in undergraduate
students who are either single
parents or are married students, Bradley said.

But Bradley emphasized

that though the number of
undergraduates has risen at
Baity Hill, there is no statistical evidence to prove whether
or not this is related to the rise
of engagements and marriages
of university students.

Marriage research
Phil Morgan, sociology professor at UNC, said that when
he was a university student,
many people joked that women
attended college to get their
MRS degree, alluding to the
idea that women sometimes
went to school with the sole
intention of finding a husband.
Now, Morgan believes that
trends are changing and that
students are less likely to get
married right after graduation,
if they even get married at all.
The most dominant thing
in family formation in the
U.S. is for people to postpone
marriage and childbearing
until later, he said. The other
thing that is happening in the
U.S. is that more and more
people are cohabiting and

Katy Folk & Danielle Martin

Junior Katy Folks engagement to
Danielle Martin, a junior at George
Washington University, appeared on
the Overheard at UNC Facebook
page on Jan. 24.
We knew we wanted to get married
eventually, said Martin. Were getting
married two weeks after Katy graduates so that we can get started on the
new paths of our lives.
The couple notes that although their
wedding will coincide with the end of
their college careers, it is a matter of
coincidence and economic convenience,
rather than a necessity or a deadline.
Martin believes that some people
her age do feel the pressure to get married, especially if they have been in a
committed relationship for a long time.
If youre a senior and youve been
in a relationship since freshman year,
the spring feels like your deadline,
she said. Youre either engaged by the

fewer are marrying and

more people are not getting
married ever.
Morgan notes that there
is a correlation between the
education level of people and
the time at which they get
married, stating demographic
trends suggest people with
higher education are more
likely to postpone marriage.
Lisa Pearce, associate professor of sociology at UNC,
notes that though the Ring
by Spring trend has been
decreasing over time, there are
still groups of people who fall
into the category of looking for
marriage right out of college.
People have different understandings of how they plan
their future marriage to work
or how they want their family
life to unfold, Pearce said.
Pearce noted that there are
two common groups among
young adults today when it
comes to ideologies on what
it means to get married: marriage planners and marriage
naturalists.
Marriage planners meet the
more modern trend, wherein

young adults plan to get married eventually but are waiting for economic stability,
emotional maturity or other
factors they believe make them
adult enough to get married.
Marriage naturalists meet
trends more similar to those
in the 1950s and 1960s, where
the transition to married, adult
life happens much earlier.
Both Morgan and Pearce
believe that some people still
may have the mentality of
Ring by Spring, but the rise
in engagements and marriages
that can be seen across the U.S.
and around UNCs campus
has more to do with the warming weather than it does with
demographic trends.
Were moving into springtime springtime is when
people get engaged and marriages are more common,
Morgan said. Its a spring
phenomenon, but I bet its
actually less likely than a
decade ago, and a decade
ago was less likely than two
decades ago.
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Kyle Leggett & Sara Eagle

spring or your relationship is ending.
Yet, the couple believes societal
pressures to get married have reduced
for college-aged students.
I think the average age of engagements and marriages has gotten
older, Folk said. So, theres not so
much a drive to get engaged before
you graduate.
Although the couple believes the
trend of marriages in college or directly after college has decreased, samesex couples like Folk and Martin now
have the opportunity to get married
younger, whereas this was not possible
historically.
We are the first generation of
same-sex couples who are able to go
the more traditional route of getting
engaged in college and getting married after college, Folk said. Nobodys
had that option before. So its exciting
to be that first new wave.

Senior Air Force ROTC cadet Kyle

Leggett met his now-wife Sara Eagle
two years ago when the two served in
the AFROTC together.
Even from the very beginning, I
was very clear with her that I wasnt
going to pursue a relationship unless
marriage was something that we
would be going for, he said. It was
on the table pretty much from the
beginning.
Eagle graduated from UNC in
2014. That, combined with her move
to Texas for Air Force training, led to
the couples decision that the summer
was the best time for their wedding
because it would mark a permanence
in their relationship.
We knew that with the Air Force
it was going to take us apart for a
while we had to make a decision,
Leggett said. We were either going
to go all out with the relationship and

we were really going to commit it to

our faith and our beliefs, or not going
for it at all.
Leggett believes that although there
is less pressure for people to get married in society, social media and interactions with peers around campus can
cause some people to feel the pressure
to get engaged or married while still
in college.
You tend to notice through
Facebook or through social media that
there is a certain sense of loneliness
that people are trying to fulfill in some
ways, and I would say that (Ring by
Spring) is one goal that is kind of
created, he said. It is something that
still exists, but as more of an underlying issue.
There are similarities but its
hard to see some of the similarities
since so much has changed in the
culture in 50 years.

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Friday, February 13, 2015

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The heart wants what it wants

A heart defect almost
forced a UNC alum to
quit swimming for good
By Pat James
Assistant Sports Editor

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Hillsborough Aquatic Club head coach and former UNC swimmer Vinny Pryor encourages some of his swimmers on Tuesday night.

The potent smell of chlorine fills your nose, shocking

your senses as you step into
the Aquatic Center at the
Orange County Sportsplex.
Its a scent Hillsborough
Aquatic Club head coach and
former North Carolina swimmer Vinny Pryor has grown
more than accustomed to.
He sits on top of a box of
equipment, his long legs out
in front of him. His shoulders
are broad, and if you didnt
know better, youd think he
still swam competitively.
Its 5 p.m. on a Tuesday,
and the 26-year-old is going
over the days schedule with
his 10- to 14-year-old group.
As childrens voices echo
across the humid complex,
Pryor collects his team in the
far corner of the pool deck,
underneath the scoreboard.
Pryor reviews the practice
agenda. The children listen
attentively. When he finishes, Pryor asks the team if

its good to go. The answer:

a resounding yes heard
throughout the complex.
This is what Pryor loves
most about his job.
Working with kids, theres
just a genuine joy and love for
the sport, he said.
Pryor can identify.
Its this same sort of ecstasy
and childlike exuberance for
swimming thats been present
in him his entire life.
From the moment he started swimming, Pryor has given
the sport his whole heart
even when it was exactly that
that almost prevented him
from swimming another lap.

Constantly pushing
Michael Pryor, Vinnys
younger brother, was 3 years
old when he competed in his
first swim meet.
He sat along the edge of
the pool, ready to jump in at
the sound of the buzzer.
But he didnt at least not

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WOMENS BASKETBALL: NORTH CAROLINA 71, FLORIDA STATE 63

Tar Heels come from behind to win it

The womens
basketball team beat
Florida State 71-63.
By Jeremy Vernon
Staff Writer

Allisha Gray knew the ball

was headed out of bounds.
With her team down 56-49
and in danger of letting No.
7 Florida State pull away, the
sophomore guard for the No.
17 North Carolina womens
basketball team lunged over
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the ball back to a teammate.
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off of the bottom of the backboard and into the hands of
junior NDea Bryant.
As Bryants put-back went
long, Gray re-established herself, leapt for the rebound and
went back up. She made the
layup while getting fouled and
cut the deficit to four with a
foul shot, one of her 22 points.
It was weird. It was different. And it was the epitome of
UNCs 71-63 win.

We got fortunate there

at the end and some things
went our way, Coach Sylvia
Hatchell said. We missed
some shots and we missed
some fast break layups but
Hey, we still won.
Things started differently for
the Tar Heels, as Jamie Cherry
and Bryant filled in for Latifah
Coleman and Danielle Butts
in the starting lineup. Hatchell
said the changes were due to
nagging injuries for Coleman
and strong play from Bryant.
As the first half wore on,
things did not go as planned
for the Tar Heels. With its
normal producers struggling,
the team turned to an unlikely hero in Hillary Summers,
whose knack for running the
floor kept UNC in shouting
distance. Summers had eight
of her career-high nine points
in the first half, and gave
the Tar Heels the spark they
needed to stay in the game.
Coach Hatchell had been
on us all week about competing, so that was mainly
what I was thinking about,
Summers said. Just do everything I can to compete, so I

You hurt one of

my cubs and youre
wrong, then mama
bear gets upset.
Sylvia Hatchell,
womens basketball coach

guess it just worked out.

The second half featured
more of the same in terms
of excitement and calamity,
maybe at no greater point
with 13:28 remaining in the
game.
After Coleman missed a free
throw, Butts raced to grab the
loose ball and collided with
FSUs Shakena Richardson
before falling to the floor. The
referee immediately called a
foul on Butts, and this sent
Hatchell into a fit.
As she ripped off her jacket
and started towards the official,
an assistant coach reached out
to hold her back before she
could receive a technical.
Im a mama bear, you
know, said Hatchell after the
game. You hurt one of my
cubs and youre wrong, then

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Sophomore guard Allisha Gray (15) takes a shot om FSU sophomore guard Brittany Brown (12).

mama bear gets upset.

The officials conversed
shortly after and decided to
reverse the call, but a fire had
already been lit under Hatchell,
and that heat rubbed off on the

team down the stretch.

After that moment, the
Tar Heels didnt look back,
and behind an inspired team
rebounding effort and an
equal performance from Gray,

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Its been a tough week for the entire Chapel
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The UNC community immediately began to
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PRYOR

FROM PAGE 1

at first.
Vinny just came up and
pushed me in the pool,
Michael said.
Pryor and his family moved
from Orlando to Jaffrey, New
Hampshire when he was 10
years old. When he wasnt
swimming, he would mountain
bike and play pond hockey.
Swimming wasnt big in New
Hampshire, but it was for
Pryor.
He and Michael would
travel to and from Gardner,
Massachusetts a 30-minute drive four days every
week for club practice
throughout high school.
It was pretty much like
having a part-time job in high
school, but one that you get
to do stuff you really enjoy
doing, he said.
In practice, the brothers
trained together and occasionally went head-to-head.
Sometimes, theyd fight in
practice due to their competitive nature. But theyd hop in
the car and ride home after,
like nothing happened.
Pryor was always in
Michaels ear, pushing him
like he did all those years ago.

A blessing in disguise
The summer after he
graduated from Conant High
School, Pryor arrived at club
practice one day just as he
had thousands of times before.
But nearly nine years later,
this practice still stands out.
When he walked into
practice, Pryor was under the
impression hed be heading to
Rutgers in the fall to swim.
Someone came up and
said, Hey, did you hear about
Rutgers? They cut their program, Pryor said.
He was now faced with
a choice: go to Rutgers and
transfer after the program was
shut down, or sit out a year,
go to community college and
redo the recruiting process.
Pryor chose the latter.
After committing to Rutgers
in December of his senior year,
he significantly improved as a
swimmer, and he was recruited
more heavily.
For Pryor, it was a blessing
in disguise. He committed to
UNC.

"(UNC) was really the only

place where as soon as I set
foot on campus, I felt like,
Yeah, this is definitely where
I belong, he said.
One of his first days on
campus, he and his teammates opened training with a
run: from the Smith Center to
Franklin Street and back.
He crushed me, crushed
most of us, said Flynn Jones,
a UNC teammate. He probably came in first, if not second
or third at the worst.
The New Hampshire breaststrokers run left a lasting
impression on his teammates.
Pryor went home each
night and wrote down every
workout, filling numerous
notebooks. His times were
ingrained in his mind, compressed by his swim cap.
He pushed his teammates,
much like he once did with his
younger brother.
You knew you could count
on Vinny to give 100 percent
when he dove in the water,
Coach Rich DeSelm said.
On Saturdays after practice,
Pryor would head to his job
at Suttons Drug Store, where
hes still greeted with a smile.
Not much has changed.
But for a short while in
Pryors college swimming
career, things did change.

All heart

supraventricular tachycardia,
caused by the hearts electrical
system working incorrectly.
Pryor was entering his
junior season when he received
the news from his cardiologist.
He had just set a school record
in the 100-yard breaststroke.
With his teammates gathered around him, he fought
backs tears as he stood outside Koury Natatorium and
announced the uncertainty of
his swimming future.
Pryor watched from the
pool deck as a water boy during practices. Instead of being
in the water, he now served it.
Jones said Pryor kept a
brave face but there were
many times where Pryor said
he had to leave during practice to get away and cry.
But he refused to accept
his swimming career was
over. Hed call his cardiologist
constantly, pleading for other
alternatives. He even met with
a surgeon to discuss bypass
surgery to switch out his aorta.
It was not something I was
ready to give up yet, he said. I
was going to keep fighting until
there were no more options.
Finally, after endless begging, Pryors cardiologist made
a set of guidelines and gave
him the OK to swim again.
He hung up the phone,
sprinted to the pool deck and
rejoiced with his teammates.
Just knowing someone

that had the opportunity

to do something they love
renewed kind of makes you
appreciate your own opportunity even more, Jones said.
Its this same appreciation
Pryor now teaches his students.

A new joy
Before practice begins, children flock toward the coach.
Two girls come up to Pryor
and ask for help putting their
swim caps on, like its routine.
A boy, no older than age 9,
approaches the coach as his
practice ends on the other end
of the pool. He waits patiently,
with a broad grin on his face,
for Pryor to acknowledge him.
As soon as the coach turns
his head, he holds up his hand
for a high-five. The child jumps
up and smacks Pryors hand
before running to his parents.
Practice is officially over
now that hes gotten a highfive from his coach.
Moments like these make
up for the small paycheck.
Where its not rewarding in some places, its more
rewarding in others, he said.
Pryor is in his second year
as head coach and director
of the Hillsborough Aquatic
Club, a program that began
nearly four years ago.
In his first year with the
club, it grew from approximately 65 children to more

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than 100. He hopes to build
the program by fostering a
love for swimming in the children similar to his as a child.
Just like when he was competing, hes still straightforward, but not jumping down
anyones throat.
He still obsesses over the
technical aspects and keeps
papers overflowing with notes
like he did in college.
Jones, who has lived with
Pryor in Raleigh since they

graduated in 2011, says Pryor

comes home with notes from
the children, raving about
their beloved coach.
It all boils down to caring.
He legitimately cares about
them and their performance
as people, Michael said.
Pryors heart is now devoted to the children. And the
children are devoted to swimming, just like their coach.

Pryor sat numbly, his

insides feeling like ice water.
With his mother by his side,
just like every appointment
before that, he sat frozen as
his cardiologist informed him
he couldnt swim anymore
because of an enlarged aorta.
He didnt want to believe
it. Pryors mother took him to
another hospital to get a second opinion. But the results
came back the same.
I remember being in the
car with my mom, being an
almost grown man, being like,
My mom isnt going to see
me cry, he said. So I crawled
in the backseat and cried the
whole way home instead.
Heart complications were
an issue for Pryor when he
was in high school. Whether it
was in the middle of a workout or even sitting around the
pool, his heart would spike to
nearly 180 beats per minute
around twice the average.
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of the app and do have grave

concerns about the negative
effect I believe it can have on
our campus community, I have
never said that we were considering a ban, Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs Winston
Crisp said in an email.
The app has been used to
spread discriminatory messages and threats of violence
on college campuses as
it was at UNC in the fall. A
UNC freshman was arrested
and charged with a felony in
November after posting a Yik
Yak message that threatened
an explosion in the Pit.
Crisp said he is looking at
how other campuses are dealing with the issue and is talking
with representatives at Yik Yak.
At the moment, though,
there are no plans to ban the
app as I believe there are clear

First Amendment implications

to doing so, and such an action
would need to be very measured and clearly researched
before real consideration was
given to it, he said.
Victoria Ekstrand, a UNC
media law professor, said
blocking these apps doesnt
necessarily solve the problem.
Its a difficult subject area
because some of this anonymous speech is obviously
harmful and is not protected
by the First Amendment, but
some of it is, she said. So
to create a rule that outright
censors the entire site is a rule
that is overbroad.
Ekstrand said there are a
few other anonymous social
media sites that have been
forced to shut down because of
mounting lawsuits over violent
threats and hate speech.
Norwich University, a military school in Vermont, banned
the app from campus Wi-Fi as

a result of negative comments

directed toward some students.
UNC senior Ashley
Winkfield said some of the
thoughts shared on Yik Yak following demonstrations against
the shooting of Michael Brown
in Ferguson, Mo., were racially
charged. Other students have
also spoken out about harassment on the app this semester.
Randy Young, spokesman
for the Department of Public
Safety, said threats cause high
levels of anxiety for everyone
in the University area.
I dont think its just solely
a burden to the Department
of Public Safety. Its something
that weighs heavily on the
entire University or any
entire community, Young said.
Cam Mullen, Yik Yaks lead
community developer, said
the company takes the threats
made on Yik Yak very seriously.
Yik Yak is a tool, and tools
can be used and tools can be

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ated with violence such as
bomb and asks users if
theyre sure about posting a yak
containing one of them.
Sameer Hinduja, criminology professor at Florida Atlantic
University and co-director of
the Cyberbullying Research
Center, said social media
applications like Yik Yak arent
inherently bad. The problem
lies with certain users.
With every app, there will
always be a minority of people
that screw around a little bit,
he said. For whatever reason, I
feel like kids or teens or young
adults, they dont think about
the long-term implications.
One student at Towson
University was expelled from
the school for threatening to
conduct a shooting at the university in October.
Ray Feldmann, Towson
spokesman, said he was
pleased with the way students
handled the situation by

misused. And while there are

people that misuse our app,
its a really small percentage
of our user base, Mullen said.
What people often dont
mention is all the other ways
you can use it for good and all
the positive cases and how Yik
Yak has united communities.
Jimmy Williamson, police
chief at the University of
Georgia, which faced a similar
threat in September, said there
is no one way to handle threats
conveyed through social media.
Every one of them is different; every one of them has a
different twist, he said. There
is no standard response to any
of these.
Mullen said Yik Yak has
responded to these incidents by
requiring users to be at least 17,
blocking high school students
from the app and appointing a
team of moderators. The app
also has a new feature that
looks for key words associ-

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Winkfield said her main
issue with Yik Yak is the lack
of user accountability.
I think the app has the
room to be a good thing, but
it also leaves a lot of space
for people to say things
without any type of accountability, she said.
I know people have been
concerned about the potential
banning of Yik Yak because
they feel like it limits their
own free speech, she said.
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Classes reect on
Vigil a call for
celebration of life Chapel Hill shooting
By Stephanie Lamm

Thursdays event at
N.C. State University
drew hundreds.

Assistant University Editor

By Sarah Brown and

Lindsey Brunson
Senior Writers

It was a candlelit vigil.

But in the frigid winds, the
candles wouldnt light.
The hundreds of students
and community members
in N.C. State Universitys
Brickyard gathered to honor
three students shot and killed
in Chapel Hill on Tuesday
instead shone their phone
lights through the darkness.
At Thursdays event to
celebrate the lives of secondyear UNC dentistry student
Deah Shaddy Barakat, his
wife, Yusor Mohammad AbuSalha and her younger sister,
Razan Mohammad AbuSalha, all bowed their heads
in prayer and respect and
remembered them.
Our faith tells us that they
are in a better place, said
Farris Barakat, Deah Shaddy
Barakats brother.
The wind roared against
his microphone as if in reply.
Wow. I think God agrees.
Huddled together in shared
sorrow and bitter cold were
family members, friends, faculty, officials, young and old,
Christians and Muslims.
Ive been telling people we
just returned from their wedding, Barakat said.
Now, he had just come
from their funeral.
So had his sister, Suzanne
Barakat. At first, she didnt
want to speak. But ultimately,
she wanted to help her family.
Looking out across the
plaza, she said, Im a Tar Heel.
I went to Carolina for nine
years. My brother is a diehard
Wolfpack fan, and in his memory, and Razans, and Yusors,
who were also Wolfpacks, I just
wanted to say: Go Wolfpack.
She raised her arm above
her head, her hand curled into
the Wolfpack symbol. With a
poignant silence, everyone in
the crowd matched her gesture with their own.
On Wednesday, thousands
mourned the three students
in the Pit. This occasion, however, was different.
Tonight is a celebration
a celebration of three very,
very bright lights that touched
so many people in their short
time on earth, said N.C. State
Chancellor Randy Woodson.
Woodson told the crowd to
continue to push for inclusivity and acceptance on campus.
Deah, Yusor and Razan
were a big part of the fabric,
the amazing mosaic fabric of
this great university, he said.
Gov. Pat McCrory spoke to
express his gratitude to the students who had gathered for the
second time in two nights to
show their compassion.
I want to say thank you to
the students of two wonderful universities representing
our state, for showing unity
and sending a message that
violence is not acceptable to
anyone, any place, anywhere,
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dents and communities have

come together.
Ive learned from Muslim
friends and family that this is
a time to smile and a time to
celebrate these three beautiful lives of Deah, Yusor and
Razan, she said.
Farris Barakat said he hopes
every student at N.C. State and
UNC felt impacted by the three
students during their short
time on the campuses.
I hope that means that
they somehow touched your
hearts in a way that you can
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Thats honestly the best thing
you can do for my family now.
UNC pharmacy student
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Yusor while they were N.C.
State undergraduates.
We used to study together.

She was just so kind, she was

so loving, very calm, she said.
You want to be around her.
Tahiti Choudhury, a recent
N.C. State graduate, said she
didnt know them too well,
but that didnt matter.
I want to become a better
Muslim because of them
because you never know; life
is so short, she said. They
impacted everyone.
Josh Thomas, an N.C. State
senior, didnt know them at all.
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gained from just hearing
about (Deah), he said, is
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At Wednesday nights vigil,

family members of Deah
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And today, classes will
resume at the School of
Dentistry, where Barakat was
a second-year dental student.
Classes were cancelled
Wednesday for all graduate students in the School of
Dentistry. On Thursday, classes for first- and second-year
students were cancelled, and
third- and fourth-years were
allowed to take the day off as
their schedules permitted.
Across campus, faculty and
students are struggling to get
back into a routine. Some
professors have pushed back
assignments or spent class
time discussing the homicides. Others feel the issue is
too sensitive to discuss with
students for now.
Victoria Ekstrand, assistant professor in the School
of Journalism and Mass
Communication, gave her
media law students the
option to postpone their test
on Thursday if they were not
feeling up to it.
The test was on the limitations of free speech, including
hate speech. Ekstrand said
some students felt it was fitting to study the material
given Tuesdays homicides.
Other students requested
time to mourn.
I was going to do a case-bycase evaluation of who needed
an extension, but some students wanted to take the exam
as an academic response to a
horrific act, Ekstrand said. It
takes time for people to know
where they are in their grief.
Only eight of Ekstrands 90
students requested to postpone the test.
Nina Martin, associate professor of geography, said she
did not know how to approach
the subject with her students.
Martin said she planned
to bring the issue up in her

urban geography course, but

that she would give students
time to process the homicides
before it became a class topic.
Martin, who studies city
planning, said parking issues
have always been contentious
in her line of work.
People really do fight
about parking, Martin said.
I always say this to my
classes, and then something
vicious like this happens to
prove it. Ive never seen anything this extreme, though.
Shaena Mallett, a lecturer
in the School of Journalism
and Mass Communication,
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Thursday to teach students
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time in sensitive situations like
the vigil held on Wednesday
night for the three victims.
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Opinion

Friday, February 13, 2015

Established 1893, 121 years of editorial freedom

JENNY SURANE EDITOR, 962-4086 OR EDITOR@DAILYTARHEEL.COM
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By Drew Sheneman The Star-Ledger

Misadventures of a Naturalist

Scott Hicks, chairman of the faculty senate at UNC-Pembroke

FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Privilege
and the
great
outdoors

Mental illness not a

scapegoat for crime

NEXT

We want to play the role in determining

curriculum and academic policy, and were
not sure thats happening.

RalphUNC, on the ongoing debate over renaming Saunders Hall

Senior environmental sciences

major from Atlanta.
Email: corey.bu@gmail.com

HANDLE OF JACK
Jackie OShaughnessy does her
usual fun listicle thing.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

I would be happy with renaming it after

almost any human being who wasnt in a
white supremacist terrorist organization.

Corey Buhay

or being open to the

public, trails and mountains arent frequented
by a very diverse crowd. On the
way to climb at Sauratown, I
noticed that the carpool consisted of me and seven men
six of whom were white.
The cliffs were crowded
with more white people. They
were well-equipped, and at no
small expense. One climber
ran a successful blog. Another
was a Ph.D. student. A fourth
was a white-collar guy there
with his young daughter. He
talked about how incredible of
a climber she would grow up to
be. While he spoke, she toed the
dirt behind him, looking bored.
A wiry old man accompanied the father-daughter duo,
carrying their rope. He wore a
white beard that reached from
lip to collarbone.
The father was making conversation with me, asking what
I wanted to do with my degree.
The old man perked up and
shouted immediately,
Be a rock climber! A true
dirt bag, hed been coming
to Sauratown for 26 years,
and he seemed to be teaching
climbing only to make enough
money to keep climbing. True
dirtbaggery is rare because
its a full-time job and allows
only minimum commitment
to family or other pursuits.
I, like almost all the other
climbers I meet, am white
with white-collar aspirations.
Why is this?
One of the biggest turnoffs
to climbing is the expense.
Shoes and a harness can be
about $100 combined, and
a rope is even more. Even
climbing indoors requires
paying regular membership
fees to the gym.
How well-off do we have
to be to think enduring bad
weather and mimicking survivalism is fun? Those who
have to fight to survive on a
daily basis, to scrape together
money for groceries and electricity, find very little leisure
in sleeping in the cold and
walking long distances. For
them, its not fun to play at
being homeless.
I like to think outdoor adventure has made me an empathetic, humble, industrious
person as well as keeping me
out of trouble. Ive built a lot of
character through self-induced
suffering. Maybe thats because
Ive suffered so little otherwise.
Sometimes I wonder if I just
want to impress the people
around me, using the outdoor
world to benefit an image very
much grounded in the indoor
world of social media and conversation starters.
I dont know how to make
the outdoors more accessible.
Even so, I think privilege is
something hikers and climbers, including myself, need
to consider before casually
bragging about exploits that
couldnt have been financed
if they had been brought up
under different circumstances.
Last weekend, I met up with
a couple of friends who had
biked to Jordan Lake. We went
for a walk by the water and built
a campfire on the beach. Instead
of barhopping on Saturday
night, we skipped rocks and
played harmonica. We slept on
the sand and woke to the sunrise before biking home. To me
it seemed lovely, accessible and
cheaper than barhopping.
Even so, it was me and four
guys, all of us white.

The Daily Tar Heel

EDITORIAL

Suspend suspensions
Area schools must
take real action to
fight punitive bias.

n Chapel HillCarrboro City Schools,

black students are
five times more likely to be
suspended than white students. Black students are
also three times more likely to be sent to the office
than white students.
Mike Kelley, chairman
of the districts Board of
Education, said he thought
the disparity in those numbers was frightening.
Some patterns that,
frankly, were kind of silly,
he said.
There is no reason to
believe Kelley doesnt
mean well, and perhaps,
on the fly, he made a
mistake in his choice of
words, but this problem
goes well beyond silly.
This is not a problem
specific to Chapel Hill or
Carrboro. Research nationally suggests that disparate
practices of discipline in
school are related to racial
discrimination in the system of mass incarceration,
perhaps the most shameful
social justice issue facing
the nation. This problem

is commonly referred to
as the school-to-prison
pipeline for the continuity and similarity between
their respective punitive
approaches.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro
are not immune, and given
the horrifying scale of the
issue, the response of the
district to this injustice has
been inadequate.
State Rep. Graig Meyer,
D-Orange, suggested that
the districts awareness of
these numbers gives it a
leg up on other districts in
tackling the issue.
But merely being aware
of the problem and willing to talk about it, while a
good first step, is a woefully inadequate response to
the severity of the problem.
The trajectories of the
lives of young black students are being dragged
down by racism at institutions that are tasked with
the sacred responsibility
to educate, not institute
social control. Problems of
this scale require a more
robust response than
increased conversation.
Out-of-school suspensions should be ended.
There is no strong evidence
that these suspensions
increase future discipline,

but there is evidence that

they have a major effect
in pushing students out of
education and toward the
criminal justice system.
But out-of-school suspensions are neither the
beginning nor end of the
problem. The implicit racial
biases of teachers should be
addressed with training for
teachers designed to make
them conscious of their disciplinary biases.
Additionally, Chapel
Hill Town Council member
Maria Palmer is correct to
call on the district to make
the hiring of people of
color as teachers a priority.
The pressure on teachers should not be ignored,
and this issue shouldnt
be used to undercut how
valuable the services they
perform are. Meyer was
correct to emphasize that
teachers shouldnt shoulder all of the blame for a
society-wide problem.
Nonetheless, that cannot
be an excuse for inaction,
underreaction or delayed
response. This is a crisis,
and the district cannot
be happy with only being
aware of the problem and
talking about it in serious
terms. The trajectories of
students lives are at stake.

EDITORIAL

A proactive response
Sexual violence
prevention requires
a change in culture.

NC has been a
national leader
in its response to
campus sexual assaults.
This can be credited to
the tremendous amount
of work that activists and
advocates have done to
make the University a less
hostile place.
Programs and initiatives like One Act and
Project Dinah, in addition to the restructuring of UNCs response
to reports of sexual and
interpersonal violence,
have provided an incredible amount of support
for survivors.
While the results of
most campus sexual
assault initiatives are not
yet quantifiable, there are
noticeable changes in students attitudes when they
participate in intervention training.
According to a UNC
study, students who participate in One Act training report higher confidence in intervening as
bystanders compared to
pre-training self-reports.
But the majority of
programs that directly
address sexual assault

and the aftermath of its

cases are interventions,
focusing on the problem
when all its contributing factors have already
reached the point of
violent physical and emotional manifestations.
There are broader
attitudes that must be
changed in order to grasp
at the root of campus sexual assaults, and it must
begin with men.
Along with current
intervention programs
and initiatives, we must
also challenge harmful
notions of masculinity.
The UNC Mens Project
is one example of a group
taking this approach,
though such attitudes
should be expanded and
practiced by the entire
community.
Social constructions of
gender teach us there is a
rigid binary of roles that
we must fill. The parts of
our construction of masculinity that contribute
to rape culture are the
same ones teaching men
to be unemotional and
aggressively dominant.
Men are taught to be
this way, and the rest of
society is taught to accept
it before students even get
to college.
All the factors that
might lead to sexual vio-

lence stem from complex

systems that can involve
perpetrators personal
histories, relationships
and other factors that do
not completely explain
why certain men commit
these acts while others
do not.
It would be impossible
to take the case of any
individual man and determine whether he will be a
future perpetrator.
Not all those who
subscribe to traditional,
less healthy notions of
masculinity will commit
acts of sexual violence, yet
we must recognize them
as a commonality among
these cases.
There is no single best
approach that will eradicate sexual violence as a
whole. Social problems
are not and will never be
that simple.
But the community
as a whole especially
men, rather than survivors has a responsibility
to change the attitudes
and behaviors that lead
to mens violence against
women.
We need to shift our
campus climate to promote healthier masculinity, interpersonal relationships and sex practices,
and we must be proactive
in our methods.

TO THE EDITOR:
Deah Shaddy Barakat,
Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan
Abu-Salha were three
incredible, selfless and caring students who were taken
too soon from our community. It is an injustice to
the lives of the victims that
people are already speculating that the shooter, Craig
Hicks, has a history of mental illness.
Instead of understanding
the nuances of why Hicks
committed this horrific act
of violence, the media seeks
to shift the blame to mental
illness as a convenient explanation. For the record, Hicks
is not yet known to have had
a mental illness.
Dr. Mohammad AbuSalha, Yusor and Razans
father, and Dr. Suzanne
Barakat, Deahs sister, both
believe this act of violence
was grounded in hate, based
on what they had previously
been told by the deceased
about prior interactions with
Hicks. This atrocious act of
violence should not merely
be remembered as the manifestation of potential mental
illness. Deah, Yusor and
Razan deserve more than
careless journalism.
To be clear, intolerance
and hate are not symptoms
of mental illness. Even
if Hicks has a mental illness, it is essential that we
distinguish between the
primary and secondary factors that led to this tragedy.
Criminalizing mental illnesses and one-sided narratives only promote stigma
and fuel further discrimination and hate.
The overwhelming majority of people with mental
illnesses are not violent.
According to the American
Psychological Association,
about 5 percent of violent
acts are attributed to people
with a mental illness. Out
of these violent acts, only
7.5 percent of crimes are the
direct result of symptoms of
mental illness.
Obscuring the facts of
this story through prejudicial dialogue about mental
illness is not in anyones best
interests not the victims,
their families and friends,
nor the wider community.
Instead, let us concentrate
our efforts on standing up to
hate and ignorance in their
many forms. In the words
of Deahs mother, Do not
fight fire with fire. We would
do well to heed her call and
focus on critically assessing
flawed institutions, media
coverage and bias and the
deadening illogic that underpins intolerance.
Our hearts go out to the
families and loved ones
of Deah Shaddy Barakat,
Yusor Abu-Salha and
Razan Abu-Salha.
Taylor Swankie
Senior
Health Policy and
Management
Maximillian Seunik
Senior
Health Policy and
Management

Kvetching board
kvetch:
v.1 (Yiddish) to complain
To the senseless girl gossiping loudly in the top of
the union during Wednesdays vigil: Were you raised
in a barn?
To the freshman who got
Valentines Day reservations
at TOPO and pronounced it
TOEPOE brb crying.
Id like to thank the SBP
candidates for helping me
improve my bike handling
skills around the Pit. Those
randomly placed wooden
signs are great, especially
when theyre hidden in the
crowd!
Not much to complain
about this week just
thankful for my Tar Heel
family. #UNCstrong
Looking forward to seeing
my long-distance boyfriend for Valentines Day;
not looking forward to
shaving for the first time in
two months.
Heard through the paperthin wall of my duplex:
Is it just me or does Papa
John look like Rand Paul?
The SBP voting website
divided us into districts
and now Im freaking out
waiting for UNCs own
Hunger Games to start.
May the odds be ever in
your favor, yall.
Everyone has big plans
for Valentines Day and Im
just going to be sitting in
my room masticating.
To the girl selling brownies
on the quad for a dollar
out of tupperware: You are
the reason we have things
to kvetch about. Thank
you for being strange!
That awkward moment
when I get emails from the
chancellors office about
everything except Dean
Smiths passing
Hey, BOG: Yall ever gonna
say anything about firing
Tom Ross or nah?
As someone waiting for an
email with news on grad
schools, Id like to thank
everyone who thought it
would be funny to reply all
to a campus-wide Listserv.
My card just got declined
at [B]Skis. My struggle is
the realest.
DTH SBP Endorsement =
Kiss of Death.
Pingpong tables in the
Pit? I think you meant beer
pong tables.
To the dude with AFKBRB on his license plate:
You deserve a medal.
Thanks, Duke, for being
so gracious about Dean
Smiths death. But its really going to make it a lot
harder to gloat when we
beat yall next week.
I didnt realize 23 Jump
Street was being filmed
here until I saw Houston
Summers in person. Im
glad the film industrys
coming back to N.C.
Id rather just watch Hulu
than hear its CEO give the
commencement address.
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sentence entries to
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