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Thursday, February 19, 2015

MENS BASKETBALL: DUKE 92, NORTH CAROLINA 90 (OT)

DEVILS ESCAPE
WITH CLOSE WIN

In Durham, the Tar Heels lost by two points in overtime

By Grace Raynor
Sports Editor

This was an old-fashioned, impossible-to-script,

picture-perfect basketball showdown in its purest
form: two teams that despise each other. Hundreds
of screaming, raucous, eccentric students painted
from head to toe, looking for their six-and-a-half
week stay in freezing tents to culminate with jubilation. A moment of silence for the passing of a
North Carolina coaching legend, that rivalry aside,
brought together all of Cameron Indoor Stadium in
touching silence Wednesday night.
This was No. 15 North Carolina at No. 4 Duke,
the game that wont soon be forgotten. There
were runs, there was overtime. And then there
was heartbreak for UNC.
Its certainly been hype the last couple days. If
you just care about college basketball, you had to
enjoy that part of it, said UNC coach Roy Williams
after his team lost to Duke 92-90 in overtime.
The Blue Devils (23-3, 10-3 ACC) exploded
to a quick start on their home hardwood, taking
an early 15-6 lead just over four minutes into
the game behind the hot stroke of guard Quinn

DTH/HALLE SINNOTT
North Carolina junior J.P. Tokoto (13) pauses on the court before losing to Duke in overtime.

Cook. Cook drained five 3-pointers in the first

half for 15 points, part of his 22 total points.
But as quickly as Duke went ahead, the
momentum shifted. Back and forth it went. UNC
(18-8, 8-5 ACC) would pull it to within six, Duke
would go up 13. The Tar Heels would take a nine
point advantage, and Duke would tie it with 27
seconds left to send the game into overtime.
For the most part I really, really enjoyed the
toughness and poise of my team, Williams said.
Yes, we missed some free throws and missed some
wide open shots but its college basketball.
The Blue Devils sealed the deal in overtime
when UNC brought the ball down the court for the
second-to-last time of the night. With junior guard
Marcus Paige guarded so tightly he fell, the Tar
Heels scrambled to get a shot off, one that clanked
off the rim moments after J.P. Tokotos release.
Duke, up two, came down with the rebound with
eight seconds left, forcing Nate Britt to foul.
Just as Duke guard Tyus Jones flashed his Duke
jersey to the Cameron Crazies, North Carolina
guard Joel Berry tucked his face inside of his UNC

SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 6

Joel James role as emotional rock takes toll

The forward was stuck on
the bench as UNC lost its
lead against Duke.
By Daniel Wilco
Senior Writer

Joel James has forged his fame on

the sideline. The 6-foot-10 forward
has compiled a catalog of celebrations and all but trademarked the
menacing mean mugs he unleashes

on unsuspecting opposing players.

James doesnt wear his emotions
on his sleeve so much as his emotions
wear him as their vessel. Its a tough
task to be a teams emotional rock,
but James has embraced it in his
time at North Carolina. Wednesday
night, though, he was challenged with
a harder one guarding one of the
nations premier players, Jahlil Okafor.
Hes a guy whos going to get his,
guard Marcus Paige said Tuesday.
Were going to have to deal with that.
For 12 minutes Wednesday, that

Poverty Center
likely to close
Working group
recommends 3 UNCsystem centers to cut.
By Sarah Brown
State & National Editor

After UNC Board

of Governors member
Jim Holmes announced
Wednesday that UNC-Chapel
Hills Center on Poverty, Work
and Opportunity would be
recommended for discontinuation, he asked if the boards
working group on centers and
institutes had any questions.
Silence ensued before a
lone UNC student voice broke
through: Why?
Public comment wasnt
allowed, but UNC freshman
Ebony Watkins stood up and
demanded a conversation
before eliminating the poverty center. Its headed by Gene
Nichol, a UNC law professor
known for his passionate editorials criticizing Republican
state leadership.
If youre trying to represent the interests of all North
Carolinians, it is very important that you hear the opinions
of all North Carolinians, said
Watkins, who was admonished

by a police officer but allowed

to stay.
It was one of several tense
episodes at Wednesdays meeting, where the boards working group also recommended
the discontinuation of the
Center on Biodiversity at East
Carolina University and the
Institute for Civic Engagement
and Social
Change at
Center
N.C. Central
& Institute
University.
The
review
began in
September, and the working
group has whittled down the
UNC systems 237 centers. The
drafted final report included
recommended action for 16
centers, including seven at
UNC-CH.
The impetus behind conducting a review of the centers
and institutes came from the
N.C. General Assembly, which
last summer tasked the board
with considering reallocating
$15 million from the centers
to other campus priorities, like
distinguished professorships.
Holmes said after the meeting that he doesnt know how
much money the system will

CUTS

SEE CENTERS, PAGE 6

DUKE: STILL THE BEST

at being a reliably unpleasant presence eight miles down the
road. We apologize for causing undue stress with this headline
and the inferior color of todays masthead. We lost an annual bet
to The Duke Chronicle because we always bet on the Heels.

onus fell on James.

In his toughest matchup to date,
James gave UNC 12 minutes of
leave-everything -on-the-court. He
gave six points on 3-for-4 shooting,
five rebounds and a steal, yet No. 15
North Carolina fell in overtime to
the No. 4 Blue Devils 92-90.
It would be a disservice to pretend as though James contributions
could be wholly encapsulated in
digits, though. That type of contribution that was as present as ever
Wednesday night in Durham.

Hes invested, Coach Roy

Williams said. We need everybody
to be invested like that.
He prides himself on being an
energy guy, a bench guy who can
give us a different look and he did
exactly that today, Paige said. He
got us going by his actions on the
court and his vocal leadership.
In the second half, that leadership
was mostly contained to the bench.
For 16 minutes in the second half,
he could only watch as his teammates
improbably stole a lead and then

gave it right back. He was confined to

the sideline when the deciding plays
were materializing. For most of the
second period, he was a spectator.
If you didnt care who won the
game, you had to enjoy a great college basketball game, Williams said.
But James cared. You didnt have
to ask him to figure that out. In fact
you couldnt have. He ducked from
the cameras and microphones that
swarmed the locker room at the end

SEE JAMES, PAGE 6

Houston Summers wins presidency

The junior will take over as
UNCs student body
president on April 1.
By Kelly Jasiura
Staff Writer

After a 22-hour extension in the

voting period due to Tuesdays winter
weather, Houston Summers emerged
victorious in the election for the 201516 student body president race.
Its kinda surreal right now, said
Summers, a 27-year-old former minor
baseball player and a member of UNCs
track and field team. Taking a second
and reflecting back on everything thats
happened over the last few weeks, its
been a little bit of an emotional roller
coaster in understanding some of the
issues that people deal with on our campus on a daily basis.
Summers won the election with 64.8
percent of the vote while runner-up
Kathryn Walker received 35.2 percent.
Summers was the front-runner in
last Tuesdays general election, when
he won 35.6 percent of the vote, while
Walker received 26.3 percent. David
Marsh, the third candidate in the race,
received 21.2 percent and was eliminated after the general election.
Because no candidate received a
majority, a runoff election was deemed
necessary.
This year, 3,051 students participated
in the runoff election. That number
means only 16.6 percent of undergraduates voted, the lowest turnout in a runoff
or general election since at least 2005.
Last years student body president
runoff election drew in 7,441 undergraduates, one of the largest in UNCs history.
Summers said he does not know
what policy he will chose to work on
first, but after his team is assembled,
they will choose which items are most
pertinent on campus to address.
He also said his team will be com-

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Houston Summers and Kathryn Walker await the results Wednesday evening for the
student body president election. Summers won with 64.8 percent of the vote.

prised of both members from his campaign team as well as outside students.
We have some unbelievably talented
and strong individuals on our team
right now that do represent a lot of
diverse areas of campus; however, there
are some areas on our team that we are
missing, Summers said.
Summers said he believes he won
over some of the votes from those who
wrote in author and folklorist Zora
Neale Hurston, who died in 1960, in the
general election.
Hurston, who took classes in secret
at a segregated UNC, received 10.6
percent of the total votes in the general
election earlier this month.
I want to prove to those individuals who didnt (switch their vote) that I
am ready and willing to stand and hear
their voices and incorporate everyone in
the conversation, Summers said.
Walker, who received endorsements
from former candidates Marsh and
Tyler Jacon, said she is disappointed she
was not elected, but she is proud of her

Its OK not to be OK.

JESSIE J

teams work.
This was a
very hard campaign cycle,
and weve been
through a lot
with the tragedy, and Dean
Smiths passing and the snow, so congratulations to Houston, and Im very
proud of the campaign that we ran,
Walker said.
Walker said she would be happy to
help Houston in any way he needs it,
but ultimately it is up to him whether
he chooses to incorporate her or any of
her ideas into his administration.
Summers said this is very much a
possibility.
Its very difficult to view those policies that an opponent has put forth, but
I think now obviously Im going to be
more open and receptive to those things
and the ideas that she put forth.

student
elections

2015

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that will give consumers instant heart attacks. The newest
addition to that trend? Little Caesars is introducing a pizza
wrapped in 3.5 feet of bacon. Its a deep dish pizza with
bacon serving as the crust around the outside. And its making our arteries cringe just thinking about it.
For only $12, you can be the proud owner of a heart attack in a pizza
box. David Scrivano, the Little Caesars CEO, said the new dish is an
example of the company leveraging our core strengths built around
value, convenience and quality. The company might also want to add
fatty deposits to one of its core values.

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Professional Image Workshop:

Projecting Professionalism:
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be professional in a work setting. The session will be led by
personal branding professionals from Lily Winston Inc. The
event is free and open to all UNC
students.
Time: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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UNC Womens Basketball
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team will take on Wake Forest in
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Hutchins Lecture with Sophie
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Africana studies and history at
the University of Notre Dame,
will give a lecture entitled
Beyond the Slave Narrative.
Whites current research focuses on the stories that enslaved
individuals sought to tell.
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Graham Memorial
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Kenan-Flagler Business School.
The two-day event will highlight innovations in the states
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ryan Whitecotton, 27, an orthodontics resident at the UNC School of Dentistry, and his
two-year-old daughter, Chapel, build a snowman outside Ridgehaven Townhomes in Carrboro on
Wednesday. UNC was closed for class until 11 a.m.

POLICE LOG
Someone pried up the
stop arm at the entrance to
the Carr Mill Mall parking lot
between 7 p.m. Sunday and
7:30 a.m. Monday, according
to Carrboro police reports.
Someone pushed a shopping cart into a vehicle at 201
S. Estes Drive at 4:34 p.m.
Saturday, according to Chapel
Hill police reports.
The damage was estimated
at $500, the report states.
Someone reported the
theft of groceries at the 700
block of Pritchard Avenue
Extension at 11:10 a.m.
Monday, according to Chapel
Hill police reports.
The groceries were valued
at $10, reports state.
Someone stole a cell
phone at a gym at 120 S. Estes
Drive between 2:30 p.m. and
4:50 p.m. Monday, according
to Chapel Hill police reports.
The phone was valued at

$500, reports state.

Someone reported a
disturbance at the 300 block
of Smith Level Road at 6:05
p.m. Monday, according to
Carrboro police reports.
The person said his roommate was yelling and threatening him, reports state.
Someone reported a
missing juvenile at the 100
block of BPW Club Road at
3:21 p.m. Monday, according
to Carrboro police reports.
Someone reported larceny from Phillips Hall at
8:08 p.m. Monday, according to reports from the UNC
Department of Public Safety.
Someone reported a person possessing and concealing drug paraphernalia at the
Stadium Drive Parking Lot at
12:37 p.m. Tuesday, according to reports from the UNC
Department of Public Safety.

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Danny Nett of Olde Campus
Upper Quad was the only
person brave enough to
face the fierce Chapel Hill
Snowpocalypse and head to
The Daily Tar Heel office,
inspiring N.C. Senator Jeff
Jackson to do the same in the
legislature, probably.
When Nett showed up
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He decided to take advantage of the newfound freedom

and take more than the allotted portion of M&Ms.
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mous tip from a trustworthy

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PlayMakers
director to
leave post
in July

Thursday, February 19, 2015

A BREWING RIVALRY

Joseph Haj is credited for making

the company more visible.
By Sindhu Chidambaram
Staff Writer

The man who got PlayMakers Repertory

Company on sound financial footing will leave
his post for Minneapolis Guthrie Theater in July.
During his nine-year tenure as producing artistic
director at PlayMakers, Joseph Haj added a second
stage series, created a rotating repertory, doubled
the number of shows produced each year, started a
summer youth conservatory and developed a teaching artist residency program.
Haj said one of his greatest contributions to UNC was
extracting PlayMakers from its
ivory tower, making it visible
to the Carolina community.
Haj began his career as
an actor at UNC. A graduate
student from 1985 to 1988 in
UNCs Master of Fine Arts
Joseph Haj is
Professional Actor Training
the producing
Program, Haj moved on to
artistic director at
work as an actor nationally and PlayMakers, but he
later took over PlayMakers in
will leave that posi2006 after he began directing.
tion in July.
When Joe took over,
PlayMakers was going through a rough patch,
said Ray Dooley, a UNC professor in dramatic
art and PlayMakers actor. He immediately took
an active and positive approach, increased our
programming and found the resources necessary
to support the programming and put the theater
on a sound financial footing, which has continued through his entire tenure.
Haj also made community involvement a priority when he took over. Although he found it difficult
to balance finances along with garnering support
from the community and creating high-quality
work, he remained dynamic in his leadership.
The challenge is balancing all of those many
aspects in order to make the quality of art that
our community has come to expect and to link
that work meaningfully to the community that
we are charged to serve, Haj said.
Jeff Meanza, an associate artistic director of
PlayMakers, recounts the transformation Haj
initiated within PlayMakers to make its walls
more transparent.
He can look at the big picture and understand
what needs to happen in order to accomplish the
larger goals of the organization, Meanza said.
Hajs willingness to collaborate with all
members of production stands out to Meanza
whenever Haj was in rehearsal hall, he would
listen to all the ideas in the room and believe the
best idea should lead.
Dooley remembers the open atmosphere during rehearsals and the feeling of collaboration.
He believes Hajs collaboration was not limited
to the rehearsal hall but extends to the diversity
in programming and hiring of staff.
The job is to honor all of those various points
of view even while you are moving the team forward in pursuit of agreed upon goals, Haj said.
Under Hajs leadership, PlayMakers has received
numerous grants and awards including the
Triangle Business Journals Leaders in Diversity
Award and a $25,000 grant from the Shakespeare
in American Communities program.
Haj was also awarded the prestigious Zelda
Fichandler Award in October.
Dooley said Hajs numerous accolades and
improvements to PlayMakers are also a nod to
his character off the stage.
Joe likes to say that the only reason to be an
artist is to become a bigger person, Dooley said.
He leads by example by setting an example of
hardworking, unfailing honesty (and) kindness.
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From left: Rick Tufts helps Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt pour hops into a vat at Triangle Brewing Company as Aaron Caracci supervises.

Local breweries joined in the UNC-Duke competition

By Elizabeth Harvell
Staff Writer

In the midst of one of the greatest rivalries in sports, top breweries of Chapel Hill
and Durham began an attempt to bridge the
bitter gap with a smooth brew
Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery
and the Triangle Brewing Company began
their first-ever collaboration brew, A Beer
Divided, on Wednesday. The brew will be
unveiled the week of the next Duke-UNC
matchup in March.
The beer is a joint effort between Chris
Atkins and Aaron Caracci, head brewers
for TOPO, and Rick Tufts, head brewer for
Triangle Brewing Company.
Weve been friends for a long time,
Atkins said. We were just talking about
basketball and other things when the idea
was suggested.
Atkins said A Beer Divided will be a pale
ale with a 5.5 percent alcohol content.
He said the beer was brewed for six hours
Wednesday and takes two weeks to ferment,

condition and finish the brewing process.

The entire process takes two weeks from
grain to glass, Tufts said.
Were calling it the bitterest beer in
North Carolina, but not because the beer
itself is bitter it has to do with the rivalry,
he said. It will be a smooth drinking beer
with full hop flavor.
Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt was present in
the afternoon Wednesday to help add some
of the hops to the brew.
Its more than just about basketball,
Kleinschmidt said. Its about two universities, two communities and, just like on the
court, competition tends to increase the
quality of a lot of what we do. This is an
example of how the rivalry elevates us.
Dana McMahan, a spokeswoman for
TOPO, has been a part-owner and investor
in the brewery since 2012 and is also a professor in the UNC School of Journalism.
She said 34 kegs will be brewed, the
equivalent of 4,080 pints, and will only be
available on tap. The unveiling of A Beer
Divided in March will be held at both TOPO

and Pint & Plate in Durham, the taproom

for Triangle Brewing Company.
Timothy Doc Harvey, a spokesman
for Triangle Brewing Company, said the
brew will be available at select bars around
Chapel Hill and Durham after its unveiling.
Despite the collaboration, Atkins said the
two breweries still have a healthy sense of
the intense rivalry.
Theres a friendly bet on the second
Duke-Carolina game, Atkins said. The
brewery on the side of the losing team will
be bartending at the opposing bar in the
winning teams colors.
Although the final brew is still weeks
away from its unveiling, both TOPO and
Triangle Brewing Company hope to make it
a yearly event to accompany the basketball
rivalry every spring, Tufts said.
McMahan said the beer will serve as a testament to the spirit of the basketball season.
It pays homage to one of the greatest
rivalries in basketball, McMahan said.
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Report: Duke Energy pays for sway

A UNC senior authored
a report on special
interest groups in N.C.
By Grant Masini
Staff Writer

Duke Energy is the leader in

a pack of special interest groups
who hold the most sway over the
N.C. General Assembly, according
to a new report from the Institute
for Southern Studies in Durham.
The report, co-authored by
research interns Alex Kotch and
Brian Freskos, ranks 101 special
interest groups according to political spending and lobbying power.
While these groups influence government in many ways,
spending and lobbying are two
of the most clear metrics, said
Kotch, who recently received his
Ph.D. from Duke University.
To be included in the rankings, a group had to have hired

one of the states top 60 lobbyists and spent money politically

at the state level.
Freskos, a UNC senior, said
while the report has some limitations, it provides a new glimpse of
who really controls the assembly.
Some companies pour huge
sums of money into politics without lobbying, or vice versa, and
they werent captured in our rankings, said Freskos. While this is
certainly a first step for this kind
of research, its a big one.
The report discusses the
extent to which money is a factor for the groups.
As youd probably expect, the
game is definitely tilted in favor
of the deep-pocketed groups,
said Kotch.
Linda Millsaps, executive
director of the N.C. Center for
Public Policy Research, said there
was a possible shortfall in the
report because organizations have
changed the way they approach
lobbying in the past 30 years.

Brian Freskos is
a UNC senior and
a researcher who
co-authored a
report on special
interest groups
sway over the N.C.
General Assembly
Organizations that used to
have one full-time lobbyist now
have large teams of lobbyists
that represent multiple clients,
she said.
And lobbyists who represent
many clients have to know the full
agenda of all the organizations
they represent, said Millsaps.
When you have this network
of lobbyists who work for competing organizations, its that
much harder to reach consensus
or make compromises about the
important issues, she said.
Neither Kotch nor Freskos
were surprised when Duke
Energy emerged as the most
powerful special interest group.

Duke Energy is clearly a

very influential entity in North
Carolina, but what surprised us
was just how connected it is to
the assembly and to the governor, said Freskos.
Freskos was referring to Gov.
Pat McCrorys 28-year tenure at
Duke Energy.
The thing is, there isnt
a clear partisan distinction
between the groups, said
Freskos. These organizations
dont choose just one side, they
throw money at both parties and
sort of hedge their bets.
Other surprises came from
those groups that trailed Duke
Energy and other powerhouses.
The N.C. Beer & Wine
Wholesalers Association (and)
the Alliance for Access to Dental
Care these are the kinds of
groups that people dont associate with widespread influence,
but here they are, said Kotch.
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ATHLETIC-ACADEMIC SCANDAL

Learning specialist quits job to make documentary on scandal

A Kickstarter for the
proposed documentary
raised $50,000 in one day.
By Kate Albers
Senior Writer

Bradley Bethel feels so strongly

about what he calls the medias sensationalism of UNCs athletic-academic scandal that he quit his job to
make a documentary about it.
Bethels documentary,
Unverified: The Film, raised
$50,000 after just one day on the
crowd-funding website Kickstarter.
The films Kickstarter has raised
over $90,000 with more than 525
backers since the campaign began
online. The fundraising campaign
will end on Feb. 28 with a stretch
goal of $110,000.
On Bethels popular, and
occasionally controversial, blog,
Coaching the Mind, he wrote about
his decision to leave his position as
a learning specialist as a member of
the Academic Support Program for
Student-Athletes a position he
has held since 2011.
Yesterday I left UNC, on good
terms, to begin working on a feature documentary film that will

challenge the popular understanding of the alleged athletics scandal,

he said on his blog, he said in his
blog. The decision to leave was
difficult, but I made it with the conviction that this film is important
and with the hope to return to UNC
after the film is completed.
Bethel, writer and executive
producer of the film, said he was
shocked by the initial success of the
Kickstarter campaign.
I had no idea, he said. We
reached $50,000 in a day. I mean, it
was overwhelming. I was in awe.
Bethel said he has many goals in
mind for the documentary, including showing another perspective of
the scandal.
He said he believes in the power
of documentary filmmaking to
show a different side and shake the
accepted story of the scandal.
We are going to give a voice to
people whose voices havent been
included in the narrative so far,
Bethel said in an interview. Were
going to give an opportunity to former academic counselors, former
athletes, former athletic officials to
share their experience.
Rick White, associate vice chancellor for communications and public affairs, declined to offer a comment on behalf the University about

Bethels project and his resignation.

Connie Lo Ferrara, producer
of the documentary, has previously worked on 365 Days: A Year
in Happy Valley, a documentary
focused on challenging the medias
perspective of the Jerry Sandusky
scandal at Penn State University.
She said she was contacted by Bethel
to work on the film.
I think there are a lot of parallels
between the situation at Penn State
and the one at the University of
North Carolina, she said.
She said there is no specific
debut date yet. She said the group
plans to put out the documentary
as quickly as possible without sacrificing quality.
Ferrara said she was also surprised with the immediate success
the Kickstarter had.
But Jay Smith, a professor in
the Department of History and the
co-author with Mary Willingham,
former athletic learning specialist, of Cheated: The UNC Scandal,
the Education of Athletes and the
Future of Big-Time College Sports,
said he was not surprised by the
Kickstarter campaign.
Boosters have deep pockets, and
the protection of the Carolina brand
has become something of an obsession with many of them, he said in

DTH/BEREN SOUTH
Bradley Bethel, former learning specialist in UNCs athletic department, left his
job to produce a documentary about media coverage of the athletic scandal.

an email.
Smith said he doesnt believe the
media has distorted the scandal.
Of course media figures, especially on TV, occasionally get a fact
wrong or overstate things, he said.
Its the nature of the beast.
Smith and Bethel have a history
of public disagreement.
Bethel admitted it is paradoxical
that he, a former UNC employee, is

making a documentary about UNC

and media bias.
First, I would say I do have bias.
I dont deny that, but the claim that
I make from the beginning, from
the first time I started blogging
about this Ive always made great
efforts to support the claims with
the facts.
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UNC faces long road to green goals

The University
pledged to be carbon
neutral by 2050.
By Olivia Bane
Staff Writer

In 2007, UNC pledged to

become carbon neutral by
the year 2050, but those in
charge of UNCs energy services are not optimistic about
meeting that deadline.
Honestly, in 2007, when
this commitment was made
by Chancellor James Moeser,
it was the thing to do for
forward-thinking universities. A lot of universities have
backed off that commitment
in the years since then, said
Stephen Senter, UNCs greenhouse gas specialist.
Senter gave an update on
UNCs Climate Action Plan at
the Campus Y on Wednesday.
Were not where we
should be and where wed
like to be, Senter said. As far
as our coal-free goal, people
dont like to talk about it
because its hard to achieve.
We havent met our interim
goal, but we can still talk
about it. We can learn from
every missed opportunity.
In 2010, UNC further
pledged to become coal free
by the year 2020, but it has
already conceded that it will
likely not reach that goal.

Senter explained that UNC

currently has two specialized
boilers that require about 80
percent coal and 20 percent
natural gas. He said it is possible, though difficult, to convert
them to 100 percent natural
gas. UNCs other three boilers
are traditional gas boilers.
This is the big question,
but also the one with the most
opportunity is it possible to
get off coal by 2020? he said.
But I dont know. I wish I did.
To carry out UNCs Climate
Action Plan, a steering committee of faculty, administrators and two students is being
created this year.
The students bring a little
bit of the idealism to the committee that I think we need
when were talking about
climate change, said Jasmine
Ruddy, student government
environmental affairs chairwoman.
There will also be student
groups that will each focus on a
specific environmental issue on
campus, such as commuting,
food purchases or land use.
I think its a really positive
thing that were reframing
the Climate Action Plan in a
more collaborative way thats
data driven and still focused
on reaching these goals, said
Spencer Nelson, co-chairman
of the renewable energy special projects committee.
The Universitys sustainability director, Cindy Shea,

DTH/KYLE HODGES
Stephen Senter, a greenhouse gas specialist for UNC, gives an environmental talk called The Road to 2050 in the Campus Y.

had some ideas for how the

general student body could
help encourage the efforts.
One of the things is to
understand your greenhouse
gas footprint. There are a
number of tools online if you

Google them that will look

at where you live, where you
eat on the food chain, how far
your food travels and things
like that, Shea said. Air travel leaves a huge footprint.
Aside from its carbon-neu-

tral and coal-free goals, UNCs

environmental groups hope
students focus on how their
actions affect energy use.
The theme thats driving all
of this is how we can be more
sustainable. We want this to

be a living laboratory for sustainability, and people need to

be more aware of the positive
things were doing and what we
can do better, Shea said.
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New report touts financial Ice machine advocate

impact of higher ed in NC wins housing presidency
By Sarah Chaney
Senior Writer

RESEARCH TRIANGLE
PARK A portrait of 1950s
N.C. Governor Luther Hodges
hangs outside his office,
reminding Scott Ralls of a
time when our state was failing economically and needed
a new vision.
One of (Hodges) crazy
ideas was to create a huge
research center in the middle
of a pine forest between three
great universities, and thats
where we are today, said Ralls,
president of the North Carolina
Community College System.
Ralls, among other state
higher education leaders, gathered in Research Triangle Park
on Wednesday to discuss a new
economic report detailing the
impact of colleges and universities in North Carolina.
Higher education added
$63.5 billion in income to
North Carolinas economy
in 2012-13, according to the
report from Idaho-based
firm Economic Modeling
Specialists International. Its
being touted as the first effort
to measure the statewide
impact of the UNC system
and North Carolinas community and private colleges.
Of that $63.5 billion added
annually, $27.9 billion came
from UNC-system operations.
Since Republicans took over
the N.C. General Assembly
in 2010 at the tail end of the
recession, politicians have
placed an increased emphasis
on public universities return
on investment and ability to
get students jobs. State support for the UNC system has

Colleges and universities in NC yield returns

Schools within the UNC system, the community college system and the private
education sector had a $63.5 billion economic impact in the state in 2012-13.
N.C. Communtity
College System

$21.5 billion
Alumni impact

$19.6 billion

Senior class officers

and RHA president
were elected.
By Katie Reeder

equivalent to

The UNC system

jobs

Alumni impact

1,021,158

$17.9 billion

N.C. Independent Colleges

and Universities Alumni impact:

$14.2 billion $4.9 billion

SOURCE: NORTHCAROLINA.EDU

dropped more than $1 billion

since 2007 and schools have
felt pressure to prove economic
value to avoid further cuts.
The new study asserted that
taxpayers of North Carolina
receive a significant return
on investment year after year.
From 2012 to 2013, state taxpayers invested $4.3 billion in
higher education, generating a
return of almost $17 billion.
EMSI economists said the
report was conservative in
how estimates were calculated,
meaning the actual impact of
colleges and universities could
have been higher. The $63.5
billion impact is equivalent
to the creation of more than 1
million jobs.
Were in the talent production business, UNC-system
President Tom Ross said.
Throughout Wednesdays
presentation, speakers emphasized how the study helps
quantify research done by
UNC-system faculty and medical institutions which has
been a recent rallying cry for
Gov. Pat McCrory. During his
State of the State address on

$27.9 billion

*Numbers in the report were

rounded to one decimal

DTH/LINDSEY SCHAEFER AND KAITLYN KELLY

Feb. 4, McCrory touted his new

Innovation to Jobs initiative,
an effort to commercialize
university reports and not just
have them up on a shelf.
When people think of a
private college, they often
think solely of their own
college or university, said
Hope Williams, president of
North Carolina Independent
Colleges and Universities. But
together, she said, these institutions have billions of dollars
of impact on the state.
North Carolina is actually
bringing in more students to
its higher education institutions than are leaving the
state, she said.
The business community
strongly values the talent pipeline universities are generating, said Harvey Schmitt, president of the Greater Raleigh
Chamber of Commerce.
I cannot say how important workforce preparation is
in the marketplace, Schmitt
said. Its hard to imagine our
market without these schools.
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Staff Writer

After weeks of campaigning, the work is just beginning for newly elected senior
class officers Brent McKnight
and Ying Lin and re-elected
Residence Hall Association
president Taylor Bates.
Bates won with 52 percent
of the vote in his re-election,
while McKnight and Lin won
with 51.2 percent of the vote.
Bates said his work will
begin tomorrow when he
meets the other candidates
to talk about their roles next
year and gets the application
up for the executive board.
But Wednesday the incumbent president was just excited.
Honestly, Im at a complete and total loss for words,
Bates said.
As an incumbent, Bates
said many of the conversations he had with voters
were about the work he
had already done. He said
many components of his
campaign, such as the ice
machines in dorms, were
already in progress.
He does have new things
planned for residence halls.
He wants to implement a live
enhancement inventory system that will allow residents
to see items available for
checkout on a computer. He
said he hopes to roll this out
over the summer, but it will
be ready by fall semester at
the latest.

Bates complimented his

opponent, Grayson Berger,
but said it was difficult to be
on opposite ends of the ballot
with someone he was close to.
Weve always been great
friends, he said. We came
into RHA together.
Berger expressed an interest in working with Bates
next year.
I would be more than willing to help him out, he said.
Berger said his primary
interest was fulfilling a public
service and advocacy role, so
he said he is still figuring out
what he will do next year.
McKnight said he and Lin,
who could not be reached for
comment, were also excited to
jump into their new roles.
For us its about starting
to plan things, like Senior
Day and Joy Prom, and fulfilling those promises that
we put in our platform and
fulfilling our goal of making
senior year our biggest year
yet, McKnight said.
He said he was most
excited about implementing
Senior Day, which will be a
day in the fall semester for
senior games and activities,
and Joy Prom, which is a
prom put on for people with
special needs.
Both have the potential to
bring our class together into
a community, he said. And
both have the potential to be
really special moments in our
senior year.
Cat Leipold and Max
Williams, the opponents of
McKnight and Lin, congratulated their opponents and
said they were happy with the
effort of their campaign.
Im looking forward to

Ying Lin was

elected senior
class president,
winning 51.2
percent of the
vote along
with Brent
McKnight.
Brent
McKnight
was elected
senior class
vice president
in the runoff
election on
Wednesday.
Taylor Bates
was re-elected
Residence Hall
Association
president with
52 percent of
the vote on
Wednesday.

what Brent and Ying bring to

the table, Leipold said.
The pair still hopes to see
parts of their platform come
to life.
I think theyre important
tools that can help create a
positive senior experience,
Leipold said.
Williams said he plans to
continue his work with the
Boys and Girls Club, while
Leipold wants to work with
their idea of a senior story
day, which would be an event
where different members of
the senior class could share
their stories.
Wed love to work with
you, McKnight said to
Leipold and Williams.
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Live action role players bring costumes and characters to Chapel Hill
By Rachel Herzog
Senior Writer

On a sloped stretch of grass between the

pavilion and a patch of bare trees, a blonde
woman in a bright green dress and a fox
headpiece brandishes a PVC bow and a
sheath of foam-tipped arrows.
You all are no match for the mighty
Tashika! she shouts to the laughing group
of five others dressed in costumes ranging
from medieval-inspired cloaks to fluffy animal ears sparring with padded swords and
shields. Stay back there like the cowards
you are!
They are the Shire of Aes Sidhe, the
Chapel Hill branch of the worldwide live
action role-playing society Amtgard.
Chapel Hill resident Amanda Usary, 31,

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discovered the group while walking her dog.

She plays as Tashika, a fairy character she
created from Irish folklore.
Aes Sidhe, a name from Celtic mythology
that translates to people of the hills, is the
only branch of Amtgard in North Carolina.
Noah Fisher, a UNC junior majoring
in dramatic arts, started the group after
encountering the game for the first time on
an AmeriCorps project in Utah.
I found I enjoyed it much more than
I expected and tried to bring back what I
could, he said. I had an interest in fantasy,
but nothing like this.
There are other live action role-playing
games with varying rules and intensity, but
Amtgard strikes a balance between fighting
and assuming characters, Fisher said.
You have people who want to be combat-

centric and others who want to be role playcentric, so its a good middle ground for
people, Fisher said.
If they want to come out and fight and
take hits and that kind of thing, they can
do that, but if they just want to come and
have fun and make things, they can do
that, too.
He recruited two classmates, Alex Ruba
and Katelyn Mitchell, who are both seniors
at UNC. The three met while performing in
a Shakespeare play together.
Word spread in the community, and the
group, which started meeting in January,
now has about 15 active members who are a
mix of UNC students and local adults.
They meet at Chapel Hills Southern
Community Park every Saturday at noon
until 4 or 5 p.m. for outdoor games. They

also meet for fighting practice and crafting

nights throughout the week.
Its just nice because everyone works
together, and we help each other out with
the skills we have, said UNC freshman
Gaby Phillips.
The group plays a mix of games fighting in teams or role-playing quests.
Players create their own characters and
costumes, and they fight and play in the
style of their character, acting out their special abilities.
Thats dead; thats torso! shouts
Phillips, raising her black cloth-wrapped
sword over her head with both arms after
taking a hit in Saturdays sparring game.
Im not very good at this game, but its fun.
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

BASKETBALL

FROM PAGE 1

one. Kennedy Meeks stood

frustrated, hands on his head.
Heartbroken, junior forward Brice Johnson said. We
thought we did the little things
to get the win, but we didnt.
As Britt stood on the free
throw line for the final play of
the game, after he was fouled

JAMES

FROM PAGE 1
of the night, red eyed and sullen faced.
Being an emotional rock
takes its toll.
You cant play this game
without emotion, forward
Brice Johnson said. You have
to be in to it. Joel is probably
torn up more than any of us.
Sitting eight feet from

by Matt Jones, UNC had one

last chance to make something
happen. If Britt made the
first, which he did, and missed
the second, UNC could force
double overtime with a tip-in.
Paige nearly had it.
I was probably a split second away from being able to
catch it and shoot it because I
almost got both hands on the
ball, he said. It was exactly

what we wanted. It just didnt

work out.
But Williams still found a
reason to believe.
I am really proud of my
team, he said. Some guys
grew up tonight, and some
other guys gotta grow up
tonight. Its a marathon. In this
league, its a tough marathon.

Johnson were the UNC jerseys

the team had worn that night,
lumped together in a pile as
deflated as the Tar Heels themselves, ready to be washed.
James No. 42 jersey didnt
just need to be washed. It
needed to be sewn. That emotion that fuels his teammates
had taken over him. His ripped
jersey was the unlucky target.
No one could blame him
for that. James is a role

player, one whose passion is

rarely matched, and whose
on-the-court contributions
are steadily improving.
Joel is a big piece to our
puzzle that were trying to
put together, forward J.P.
Tokoto said.
But Wednesday night,
James was the one in pieces
how could he not be?

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counties and municipalities.

Its really not an academic
center at all. Its an advocacy
organization, he said. I think
its inappropriate for any center to be suing the state.
The board should consider a
policy to prevent centers from
suing governments, Long said.
Mark Dorosin, an attorney with the Center for Civil
Rights, interrupted the discussion, acknowledging that
he wasnt allowed to make
public comment but charging
that Mr. Longs presentation
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applause before being quieted by a police officer.
When we represent clients, its not UNC-Chapel
Hill whos their lawyer. Its

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save from the three discontinued centers, plus eight centers

that have folded voluntarily.
Money was a factor; it was
not the factor, he said.
Wednesday marked the
groups last public meeting.
The report will now be voted
on by the educational planning, policies and programs
committee and by the full
board on Feb. 26 and 27.
The Universitys Center for
Civil Rights which would
undergo a campus-level
review over the next year, per
the groups recommendation was a hot topic on
Wednesday. Board member
Steven Long spent seven
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The Daily Tar Heel

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Q&A with snowed-in Sen. Jeff Jackson

The Democrat from
Mecklenburg found himself the
lone legislator at the General
Assembly on Tuesday.
For state N.C. Sen. Jeff
Jackson, D-Mecklenburg,
Tuesdays snow featured the
warmth of government collaboration with himself.
While others were huddled
by the fireplace at home,
Jackson found himself the
lone legislator at the General
Assembly. Taking advantage
of the opportunity, Jackson
unanimously resolved issues
like Medicaid, puppy mills
and university funding
documenting his progress on
his Facebook page using the
hashtag #JustOneLegislator.
Staff writer Corey Risinger
spoke with Jackson about
his snow day of legislative
accomplishments.

Jeff Jackson
is the North
Carolina senator who had
some fun at
the General
Assembly on
Tuesday.

THE DAILY TAR HEEL: Have

you ever had a better use of a
snow day?
JEFF JACKSON: As a kid
growing up in North Carolina,
my friends and I all knew that
snow days were special. They
were these rare gems; you
usually only got one a year,
so you had to try to make the
absolute most out of each one.
Thats what I tried to do.
DTH: What led to your decision to document your day

through social media?

JJ: Well, I showed up at 8

in the morning; no one was
here. Security told me they
hadnt seen another legislator, and I figured I had the
rare opportunity to reshape
the political landscape of the
state. So I went with it.
DTH: How did you end up

at the legislature?

JJ: I had scheduled a meeting last week for 8 a.m., and I

decided to keep it even knowing that the other person
probably wouldnt show. And
sure enough, they didnt. So I
kind of found myself here.
DTH: What do you think
was the most important
change you could have made?
JJ: The most important

change that we can make is

to increase support for early
childhood education. That
will have the most dramatic
long-term impact on the states
economy and social well-being.

JJ: Yes, independent redistricting which I mentioned

a little yesterday is a major
priority. We have to stop letting politicians draw their
own political districts.

DTH: What do you want the

takeaway to be?

DTH: What was your reaction to your story ending up

on BuzzFeed?

JJ: I think humor is a form

of advocacy. Ideas travel farther when theyre tempered
with a little levity. We get
bogged down in these political debates, and they can get
a little bitter. So every once
in a while, you have to lighten the mood. But this was a
humorous way to talk about
some very serious issues.
DTH: Aside from early
childhood education, do you
have any other priorities for
this session?

JJ: Very unusual being on

BuzzFeed. (MSNBC anchor)
Rachel Maddow did a segment last night. This is what
the internet is good at: finding little sources of entertainment and giving them a life
of their own. And being along
for the ride on something like
that was truly unique.
DTH: Do you have a personal favorite of the posts that
you made yesterday?
JJ: I do actually. It didnt

get a lot of play, but the one

that I chuckle at when I read
it is that, This is going to be
like Night at the Museum,
except at the end well have a
stronger middle class. Even
just thinking about it makes
me laugh because it was a
funny movie, but itd be a
lot cooler if at the end of the
movie wed have a stronger
middle class.

DTH: When did you realize

that #JustOneLegislator was
going to go viral online?
JJ: I had no idea. You know
because when youre on
Twitter as an elected official,
you use hashtags, you kind
of throw them out there, and
they never stick. To have one
actually stick and work like
its supposed to was amazing.
Who knew?

CHAPEL HILL SHOOTING

Merritts fundraiser honors shooting victims

A memorial fund was
created to honor Deah
Shaddy Barakat.
By Graves Ganzert
Staff Writer

Donations are beginning to pour in for a special

memorial fund set up to
honor the three victims of
the Chapel Hill shooting.
Students braved this weeks
cold weather to honor the lives
of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23;
Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha,
21; and Razan Mohammad
Abu-Salha, 19, who were
shot dead in their off-campus
apartment earlier this month.
A special Merritts Mondays
a periodic lunch special
held by Merritts Store and
Grill from noon to 2 p.m. in
the Pit was held this week.
Proceeds from the event
were donated to a newly established memorial fund that honors the lives of the three young
people who were shot and
killed Feb. 10 at Finley Forest

Condominiums in Chapel Hill.

The fund was created by the
UNC School of Dentistry
where Barakat was a student
and Yusor Mohammad AbuSalha was planning to enroll
in the fall.
Tiffany Brannan, spokeswoman for the School of
Dentistry, said the fund is in
the early stages of development but has received a large
amount of support already.
Brannan said administrators
will meet this week to discuss
the direction the fund will take.
Brannon said the fund is
unofficially called the Barakat
Memorial Fund.
When we heard about
Merritts Mondays switching
their efforts to honor the lives
of these individuals, we were
delighted, she said.
Its another way to help
the school and community get
through these tough losses.
We are incredibly grateful for
their efforts.
Chris Elkins, manager of
Merritts Store and Grill, said
the call to help the community was a way to further live

out the stores vision.

This event stands for a lot
of what our store stands for.
We are all about community
and getting people together,
she said.
Elkins said the memorial
fund was a way to heal from
the tragedy.
We were happy to switch
over to sending the proceeds to the memorial fund,
Elkins said.
It was perfect timing and
a perfect setting to do that.
Zack Newbauer executive director of the Eve Carson
Scholarship, which helps organize Merritts Mondays said
the turnout for the two events
that have been held so far has
been better than expected.
In light of the events on
campus in the past week, we
wanted to do something special, he said.
Newbauer said the event
was a way to connect individuals with the community
and the University.
The important thing more
than the money raised is simply providing an opportunity

Professor launches
veterans reading club
The Chapel Hill Public
Library will host the
monthly club.
By Mengqi Jiang
Staff Writer

Reflecting on war experience can be intensely emotional but John Howell,

Hilary Lithgow and Theresa
Yuschok hope to turn those
reflections into valuable
discussion with a new reading group for veterans at the
Chapel Hill Public Library.
Lithgow, an English professor at UNC, said group
members will read war literature and share thoughts on
both war literature and their
own war experiences.
Its important to create
an opportunity for veterans
to get together to talk about
anything, Lithgow said.
Literature is kind of an
excuse. One of the things
that makes arts important is
that there is a way for people
to kind of reflect on their
thoughts and experiences.
The group could be helpful for veterans because they
face challenges when trying
to re-adapt to civilian life,
said Yuschok, a psychiatrist at
the Durham Veterans Affairs
Medical Center.
Military culture is different from civilian life, she
said. And people need to
adjust to a different pace and
timing and relationships.
Yuschok said she will serve
as a guide for the group, helping the veterans find medical
help if needed and helping
to create the groups reading
curriculum. She said that for
some veterans, problems might
emerge from the discussions,
including intense emotions,
intrusive memories and grief.
Sometimes people have
avoided thinking about what
theyve gone through, she
said. There might be some
intense emotion that they
pushed aside while they were
in the battlefield.
Howell, a ten-year veteran
of the N.C. National Guard

and the founder of the group,

said he doesnt expect much
negative emotion to come
from the discussions.
When a veteran goes to
groups like this, or they go to
the VA, they meet other veterans, he said. They are able to
express something and share
something that they cannot
sincerely share with their
friends and family.
Lithgow said the theme
for the first group discussion
was homecoming after being
in service and communicating with families and friends.
Yuschok said this is a common theme in war literature.
Many authors have articulated the challenges of adjusting to civilian life after war
experience, she said.
Howell said six people
signed up for the first group
discussion, and he hopes to
keep it small. Lithgow said
there are drawbacks to large
discussion groups.
We want to make sure that
no one person dominates the
conversation, and we want to
make sure that people find
a way into the conversation,
because sometimes it could

READING CLUB

COURTESY OF MERRITTS STORE AND GRILL

Merritts Store and Grill has started a fundraiser for the families of Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor
Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, the students who were killed last week.

to engage with the community, Newbauer said.

Andrew Wells, a junior economics major, said Mondays
fundraising event was valuable
for the UNC community.

I love the opportunity to

provide any help I can to a
great organization while also
getting to eat Merritts; its a
win-win, he said.
Its a great move on all

Top of the Hill and

Triangle Brewing Company
made a rivalry beer together.
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be hard, she said.

Yuschok said its important
for veterans not to feel isolated.
We are hoping that seeing
and reading how other people
have described this transition
and these experiences will be
helpful and inspiring and let
people know that they are not
the only ones wrestling with
the adjustment to civilian
life, she said.
Howell said the veterans
reading group could be helpful
to other veterans in other areas.
We can help to bridge that
gap, in a way. For veterans
come together and discuss
their experiences and get to a
place where its not so hard for
civilians to understand us, or
for us to understand civilians,
because ultimately we are all
Americans, we are all family.

sides because it raises peoples

awareness of a great scholarship and is great publicizing
for a local restaurant.

Solution to
Wednesdays puzzle

Live action role play

A live action role-play
group started the only
chapter of its kind in the
state. See pg. 5 for story.

Ice machines prevail

Taylor Bates, an advocate
for cleaner ice machines, was
re-elected RHA president.
See pg. 4 for story.

Poverty center a target

A Board of Governors
working group said the center should be dissolved. See
pg. 1 for story.

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songwriter Del Rey
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past, nowadays
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annual Ottawa festival
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market
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nowadays
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plea
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setting
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Beavers
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amethyst
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go there,
nowadays
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twin
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Zealand
settler

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nowadays
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

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Whats
lost with
surprise
albums?

NEXT

pon the surprise

release of Drakes
If Youre Reading
This Its Too Late, a 17-track
mixtape, on Feb. 12, fans
and critics alike devoured the
music, consuming it with gluttonous determination.
Its musical quality aside,
I cant help but wonder if
the surprise album is a
commercialized gimmick
intended to capitalize on
our insatiable appetites for
the new. The tapes name
acknowledges youth cultures
obsession with being hip to
emerging musical artists,
albums and trends.
Media gluttony, primarily
via Netflix and Spotify, allows
us to binge-consume our
favorite media. Consumers
can access R.E.M.s entire
discography or the Sons of
Anarchy episode catalogue,
which eliminates the need for
label gatekeeping or cableinflicted self-control.
The self-proclaimed 6
God isnt the first to shock
fans with an un-hyped completed project. From U2s
Songs of Innocence to
Beyonces self-titled visual
album, the surprise album
seems a new mainstay for
widely-known artists.
Both Jay Z and J. Cole
dropped albums with only one
months notice Magna Carta
Holy Grail and 2014 Forest
Hills Drive, respectively.
In 2007, Radiohead
announced In Rainbows
ten days before its pay-whatyou-want digital release.
Considered an experiment,
the successful release brought
the band immense acclaim
as both an artistic and business venture. Whether a
marketing ploy or an attempt
to undermine the industrys
hyper-capitalist tenets, dropping surprise/previously
unknown albums invites
media attention.
Critics and industry followers believe If Youre Reading
This Its Too Late is Drakes
final contracted project with
YMCMB, Lil Waynes Universal
Music Group-owned label. As
founder of his own label, OVO
Sound, Drake may be using the
album as the shift piece between
Young Money and OVO.
Ill always support artists
who push themselves to create
independently of The Man; the
bravado of a $12.99, iTunesreleased mixtape as a send-off
is admirable.
Though I was intensely
excited, I must admit to
feeling overwhelmed by the
news. I guess Im nostalgic
for the days when album
releases were drawn-out,
year-long processes.
Those days when Id drive
myself to buy a physical copy,
leafing through the artwork
while hearing the music for
the first time through my car
speakers, an isolated tunnel of
personal reaction.
Twitter responses were
already rolling in before
my download of If Youre
Reading This Its Too Late
was complete. An unsullied
first impression is in 2015
an impossibility.
You cant relive a first listen. Theres something almost
spiritual about pressing play,
dropping the needle on an
unheard track.
I fear our culture of instant
gratification has lost its respect
for patience.
DROPPING THE THE
Matt Leming discusses the
inaccessibility of SACC.

The chancellor must

take stands where
necessary.

hat does
Chancellor
Carol Folt really
think? Regarding the call
for Hurston Hall, political attacks on centers and
institutes, the Wainstein
report and other pressing
campus issues, students,
faculty and staff have often
been left wondering where
the chancellor stands.
Indeed, instead of
addressing these issues,
Folt often steers the
conversation away from
constructive and critical
dialogue and toward an
idealistic image of UNC.
Folts November letter
on the Wainstein represents this tactic well. It
begins by proclaiming the
importance of many acts
of character on our campus and thankfulness for
the constructive criticism
offered after the reports
release. Yet, it quickly shifts
from somber reflection to
joyful pride in four student
and staff accomplishments
completely unrelated to
the concerns of students
regarding athletics or the
AAAD department.
In regard to continuing
efforts to establish Hurston
Hall, Folt stated, A part of
Carolinas history is inextricably linked with difficult
issues of race and class,
and how we address those
issues today is important.
Statements like these are
devoid of a truly principled
stand. Instead, they demonstrate a willingness only
to recount facts that are
already evident and uncon-

troversial proclamations of
the Universitys values.
While it is important to
commend Chancellor Folts
stated commitments, which
range from promoting a
more inclusive campus to
leadership in college affordability, these statements
mean little when they are
not paired with the bold
action required to make
them realities.
At a meeting to discuss
the potential closing of
several UNC centers and
institutes, Chancellor Folt
was asked why students
should trust the BOG to act
with the best interests of
students at heart in light of
their previous decisions to
cap and freeze tuition-funded financial aid and end
plans for widely supported
gender non-specific housing on campus. She asked
students to simply trust
that the BOG saw each of
these matters as separate
issues, and she said she had
faith they would consider
these actions carefully.
This is often what we as
UNC community members
are left with: pronouncements that each of us
needs to have faith that
everything will be okay as
the details are worked out
behind closed doors.
Now that the UNC
Center on Poverty, Work
and Opportunity and other
centers across the state are
likely being forced to close
for political reasons, her
reassurances ring hollow.
This situation has required
a forceful defense from her
office. It has been absent.
As the review of centers
and institutes has taken up
the bulk of observers attention, Folt has quietly back-

tracked from her promises

to attempt to halt further
tuition increases. While we
understand the need to stay
competitive with other universities, shifting an even
greater financial burden
onto students is unacceptable. UNC cannot continue to promote itself as a
University of the People
as it heads toward further
financial inaccessibility.
We must ask if the job
of our chancellor and the
chancellors office is to
respond thoughtfully to
student concerns or whether it is to appease the forces
that control the financial
and political power of the
University through carefully calculated public relations campaigns.
Public attempts to redirect conversations, while
at the same time assuring
students that important
discussions are happening
behind the scenes with
these power holders, suggest the latter approach is
being taken.
We must be concerned
with this approach, as it
implies the chancellors
malleability with regard
to the UNC communitys
most pressing concerns.
All of us deserve to know
where our chancellor
stands not just in broad
proclamations of her values but in how she intends
to apply them.
While it is important for
the chancellor to reserve
judgment at times and
gather input before stating her opinion, many of
our concerns boil down to
questions regarding the
chancellors priorities. We
urge Folt to use her position to answer them.

QuickHits
Lose-lose

Duke for Dean

Sore winner

Kreyschewizzle-ville takes
the worst parts of camping
and deprives its
inhabitants of its
physical rewards
and natural
beauty. This is in
keeping with Dook in general, which takes the worst
parts of Ivy League schools
and deprives its students of
the satisfaction and respect
of attending a school
people actually admire.

Its not often that youll

catch a UNC fan approving
of a navy blue
shirt emblazoned with a
four-letter word.
But if those
letters spell D-E-A-N, it gets
the nod. Chapel Hill-based
streetwear company Thrill
City worked with Duke grad
Aaron Kirschenfeld on the
shirt, and the profits will go
to the Inter-Faith Council.

Yeah, OK, so Coach K has

1,000 wins. If only winning basketball
games made
you a good
person, right?
Unfortunately,
Coach K remains a categorically awful person. Whether
hes swearing at student
reporters, intimidating his
players or shilling for ugly
cars, its clear hes sold his
soul to the devil.

Chapel Hill Transit

Whats in a name?

The real devils

Despite the icy weather,

UNCs basketball team managed to make
it to Durham
Wednesday.
This news came
to the surprise
of Dook fans everywhere,
who, despite being almost
uniformly from snowy New
Jersey, have been insisting
all year that no one should
ever be expected to drive
eight miles in the snow.

This is totally arbitrary and

unfair, but Dooks players
have some wack
names. Justise
Winslow. Grayson Allen. Nick
Pagliuca. And,
lest we become inured to
its decades-long presence
on the Duke roster, what
kind of name is Plumlee? They all sound like
rejected character names
from Downton Abbey.

This goes out to the Board

of Governors, which
announced
Wednesday itd
recommend
the closure of
UNCs privately
funded Center on Poverty,
Work and Opportunity,
again failing to provide an
explanation for its actions.
Today, the BOG can claim
the honor of being scummier than Duke.

EDITORS NOTE: We lost a bet. Go to Hell, Duke.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

I think humor is a form of advocacy. Ideas
travel farther when theyre tempered with a
little levity.
Jeff Jackson, the only North Carolina senator at work on Tuesday

EDITORIAL

Meredith Shutt

The Daily Tar Heel

FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT

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any posts that mention competitors.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
A message of support
from two chancellors
TO THE EDITOR:
Dear N.C. State and
Carolina communities:
As we have come
together during the past
week to grieve the loss of
Deah Barakat, his wife
Yusor Abu-Salha and her
sister Razan Abu-Salha, we
have been inspired by their
incredible life stories
recounted with grace and
resilience by their family
and friends.
As our own campus
communities came together
in vigils Wednesday and
Thursday, and in so many
other displays of love and
support over the past week,
we have also been heartened by your compassion
and respect for one another. Collectively, it has been
an incredible testimony to
the strengths of our shared
university communities.
At the vigil on the
Carolina campus, we
were joined by N.C.
Central Chancellor Debra
Saunders-White and Dukes
Vice President for Student
Affairs Larry Moneta as
they brought students from
their campuses to join ours
in an outpouring of love
and support.
Students and community members from Chapel
Hill and around the region
came to N.C. State the following evening to honor
and celebrate the lives of
Deah, Yusor and Razan. We
would like to thank everyone who has stood with us
during this difficult time.
To those in the N.C. State
and UNC Muslim Student
Associations, as well as the
broader Muslim community, we know this tragedy
has been especially trying
for you. We will continue to
care for you in all that we
do and strive to build on
the response to this tragedy as a way to bring us all
closer together.
To all in our campus
communities, we encourage you to honor the
memories of Deah, Yusor
and Razan by following
their examples of working
to make the world a better place. We also ask that
you join us in our ongoing efforts to ensure that
Carolina and N.C. State are
communities that always
value inclusion, respect,
tolerance and equality for
people of all faiths, ethnicities and perspectives.
We would like to extend
our deepest appreciation
to the many campus organizations and support staff
who worked around the
clock to make the campus
vigils, funeral service and
other events possible. We
also would like to thank
the Chapel Hill Police
Department, the FBI, the
U.S. Attorneys office and
other law enforcement
agencies for their tireless
work. We ask for everyone
to remain patient as their
investigations continue.
Thousands of us gathered on our campuses last
week to remember and
celebrate the lives of three

young people who showed

compassion for all humanity. Let us continue to
honor them by respecting
one another in our words
and our deeds.
Carol L. Folt
Chancellor
UNC-Chapel Hill
Randy Woodson
Chancellor
N.C. State

AAUP demands voice

in UNC governance
TO THE EDITOR:
As members of the
American Association of
University Professors, we
write to remind the Board
of Governors of the important role of shared governance throughout the
UNC system. According to
the AAUP, shared governance means that power is
shared among three bodies: faculty, administrators
and boards. The UNC
General Administration
has itself endorsed this
position (on its website)
in its statement on the
important traditional role
of faculty in the governance of the academy.
The 11,022 faculty
working at 16 campuses
of the University of North
Carolina system have the
right to be involved in all
decisions at the University.
The board does not own the
university system. It should
make decisions only with
the participation of the
other two pillars of governance: faculty and administrators.
In firing Tom Ross, the
president of the UNC system, the board declared
its disregard for shared
governance. The board can
technically fire a senior
administrator, but it simultaneously demonstrated
its hostility and disrespect
to faculty across the UNC
system by doing so. Adding
to this disrespect, the chairman of the board, John C.
Fennebresque, declined
to give any rationale for
ousting Ross, and instead
praised his skills as the system president.
By leaving faculty out of
this important decision, the
board leaves us questioning
whether it is acting in the
Universitys best interest.
How will the board restore
our trust in it?
As an organization
whose mission it is to
advance academic freedom and shared governance and ensure higher
educations contribution to
the common good, we as
members of AAUP call for
solidarity among faculty at
all campuses and reiterate
our commitment to defend
one another across the
system. We encourage all
who value academic freedom and integrity to speak
out against these recent
actions that undercut the
principles of the UNC system.
Prof. Altha Cravey
Geography
Vice president, UNC AAUP
Prof. Mark Driscoll
Asian studies
President, UNC AAUP

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