Inside

WOMENS BASKETBALL
BEATS WAKE FOREST
In pink uniforms, the North Carolina
womens basketball team scorched
Wake Forest, 83-45. Page 7

LOTS OF MOLD FOUND

IN MORRISON HALL

MASSIVE ONLINE
COURSE DRAWS 50K

The University will spend $90,000

cleaning up the widespread mold
found in Morrison Residence Hall
this semester. The mold sent one
resident to Campus Health this
semester. Page 3

An online psychology course

offered by a UNC professor drew
50,000 students this semester. The
course was created with a private
company, and the professor wont
be compensated for it yet. Page 4

This day in history

FEBRUARY 20, 1792
In 1792, the U.S. Post Office was
created when President George
Washington signed the Postal
Service Act. Prior to this act,
correspondence largely relied on
private letter carriers.

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Friday, February 20, 2015

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AT UNC

The Real Silent Sam Coalition called for the University to contextualize the history of its buildings. The Daily
Tar Heels Projects and Investigations Team has provided more information about the namesakes of some
buildings that the University identified as having a history related to racism or slavery. In some cases, The
Daily Tar Heel also included buildings that celebrate the black men and women who helped build campus.
UNSUNG FOUNDERS
MEMORIAL

SAUNDERS HALL
Saunders Hall is named for William L. Saunders, a colonel in the
Civil War and a chief organizer of the Ku Klux Klan in North
Carolina. Saunders was also secretary of state in North Carolina for
a period of time and served on the Universitys Board of Trustees
from 1874 until 1891.

The Unsung Founders Memorial was created by artist Do-Ho Suh

to commemorate the people of color who helped build the
University. It features bronze figures that hold up a stone tablet
with seats around it, suggesting that the memorial could be used
as a table.

AYCOCK RESIDENCE HALL

WILSON CALDWELL
MEMORIAL

The dorm was named after Charles Aycock, a former governor.

Aycock supported segregated schools and the disenfranchisement
of black people.

One of President Caldwells slaves, Wilson Caldwell, worked several

jobs at UNC. He eventually would open a school for black people in
the area.

SILENT SAM
The monument was erected by UNC to honor the students
and alumni who died during the Civil War. Julian Carr, a North
Carolina businessman, spoke at the inauguration for the
statue and recalled that he horse-whipped a Negro wench
by the monument.

MURRAY HALL
Murray Hall was named after Pauli Murray, an attorney and civil
rights activist. Murray applied to the Universitys graduate
sociology program, but she was denied because of her race.

CAMERON AVENUE

SONJA HAYNES STONE

CENTER FOR BLACK
CULTURE AND HISTORY

Cameron Avenue, which runs through UNCs campus

is named after Paul Cameron, who was a University
trustee and the states largest slaveholder at one time.
He owned 470 slaves.

Named in honor of Sonja Haynes Stone, the first black female

professor at UNC, the building was the subject of years of
controversy and protests before it was built.

SPENCER RESIDENCE HALL

Spencer Residence Hall was named for Cornelia Phillips Spencer,
who worked with William Saunders and former slaveholders to
reopen the University during the Reconstruction period. The
North Carolina General Assembly proposed closing the
University during this time, and it was Spencers tireless work
that ultimately kept it open under the control of Saunders
and other white supremacists.

HORTON RESIDENCE HALL

SOUTH CAMPUS

CALDWELL HALL

GRAVE MARKER IN OLD

CHAPEL HILL CEMETARY

Joseph Caldwell, UNCs president from 1804 to 1812

and from 1816 to 1835, is the namesake of the building
that houses the philosophy department. Caldwell owned
slave November Caldwell. The Ku Klux Klan stoned Novembers
house in 1869.

Originally, this his grave marker commemorated Joseph Caldwell,

the Universitys president from 1804 to 1812 and from 1816 to
1835. Now the marker honors three slaves, including November
Caldwell, after the University created a new monument to honor
Joseph Caldwell. At one point, Joseph Caldwell owned November
Caldwell.

DANIELS STUDENT STORES

Known by most students as Student Stores, the Daniels Building is
named after Josephus Daniels, the editor of The (Raleigh) News &
Observer in the early 20th century and a longtime member of the
Universitys Board of Trustees. Daniels used his position at The
News & Observer to campaign for white supremacy and the
disfranchisement of blacks.

By Bradley Saacks
University Editor

Since 2008, UNCs donation arm has

enjoyed the best of both worlds.
While taking advantage of the privacy from public record requests granted
by its status as a nonprofit, the Chapel
Hill Foundation has used its connection
to the University to exempt itself from
filing tax forms required of nonprofits.
The Chapel Hill Foundation
which paid for the $3.1 million
Wainstein report classifies itself as a
nonprofit under the IRSs definition of
a 501(c)3 nonprofit entity, according to
the Universitys public records office.
In a response to a public records
request for the foundations working
budget, the public records office said
the groups budget was not a public
document because of its tax status.
That foundation is a North Carolina
nonprofit corporation and is exempt
from tax under Internal Revenue Code
section 501(c)3, the public records
office said in its response.
But the foundation has also not filed a

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for more information and the complete

list of University buildings with a history of
racism and slavery.

DTH/CLAIRE COLLINS
Students protest outside Saunders Hall, which
is named after a chief organizer of the KKK in
North Carolina Col. William Saunders.

Foundation stonewalls public

The fund that paid for the
Wainstein report refused to
release budget information.

Horton Residence Hall was named after George Moses

Horton, a Chatham County slave who taught himself to read
and write. He authored the first book ever published by a
southern black person The Hope of Liberty.

Form 990 since fiscal year 2007-08 a

document the IRS requires 501(c)3 nonprofits to file to maintain their status.
Mike McFarland, a spokesman for the
University, said the foundation has not
had to file the form because of an exemption IRS Revenue Procedure 95-48
which allows the foundation to request
that the IRS rule that the entity is an affiliate of a governmental unit like UNC.
Because the IRS has deemed the
foundation to be an affiliate of a governmental entity, Procedure 95-48
excepted the foundation from the
requirement to file an IRS Form 990,
McFarland said in an email.
Yet, under North Carolinas public
records law, the foundations working
budget, like almost every University
record, should be accessible to the
public especially if the foundation is
exempt from filing a Form 990 because
of its affiliation with the University.
McFarland said audited financial
statements submitted to the University
are available upon request, but the budget is not.
Because the foundation is a private,
nonprofit corporation, other internal
documents of the foundation that are
not submitted to the University, such
as a budget, are not a public record,
McFarland said in an email.
He also said Chancellor Carol Folt

pushed the foundation to publish a Form

990 this year which will be published
by May 15. Folt is an ex-oficio member of
the foundations board of directors.
The foundation has been in this limbo
state since before former Chancellor
Holden Thorp rose to the position.
Former Chancellor James Moeser,
who was an ex-officio member of the
board of directors for the Chapel Hill
Foundation until he stepped down from
the chancellor position in 2008, said
he did not recall discussing the foundations Form 990 or a decision to stop
publishing them.
I have no idea what a Form 990 is,
he said in an email.
McFarland said the foundations auditors were the ones to decide to stop filing
the Form 990 to save time and money.
Foundation auditors pointed out
that this exemption from filing was
available, and the foundation leadership at that time concluded that not
filing under the exemption would save
time and money, he said.
McFarland said he doesnt know how
much it will cost the foundation to file a
Form 990 for this fiscal year.
He said donors were not notified of
the decision to stop filing.
Throughout this period, the

SEE TAX RULES, PAGE 10

DTH/DANIEL ULYSSES LOCKWOOD

ECUs medical school

battles budget cuts
ECUs chancellor once
said it could close, but
clarified his remarks.
By Hallie Dean
Staff Writer

East Carolina Universitys

Brody School of Medicine
isnt likely to close in the next
five years as ECUs chancellor
remarked in early February
but financial hardships
remain a problem for the
school as budget cuts pile up.
The school is one of two
public medical schools in
North Carolina, along with
UNC School of Medicine. Like
public universities, a significant portion of both schools
funding comes from the state,
and state support has continuously dropped since the recession impacting ECUs school
more due to its smaller size.
Brody School of Medicines
revenues were $267 million in
2014, compared to UNC School
of Medicines $1.1 billion.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

But ECU Chancellor Steve

Ballard clarified in a Feb. 10
statement that the medical
school wouldnt be closing.
Ballard said the state paid
for 53 percent of the schools
budget in 1990 compared to
just 21 percent today. Last year,
the school saw $14 million in
cuts to its state support.
Chapel Hill hasnt escaped
cutbacks either.
When we move state support, we either have to cut
programs or find new sources
of support, said Karen McCall,
spokeswoman for UNC School
of Medicine. During the years
when the cuts are made those
transitions are very difficult.
Despite the cuts, Paul
Cunningham, dean of the
Brody School of Medicine,
said ECU has not allowed
them to become a setback.
We have not had to reduce
admissions, and we have
been very careful to shelter
the Brody School academic
experience for our students,

SEE ECU MED SCHOOL, PAGE 10

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From staff and wire reports

pparently the cold is really bothering people in Kentucky.

Police in the small town of Harlan put out a warrant for the
arrest of Queen Elsa of Arendelle. The warrant even listed a
description for those who arent as familiar with the Frozen
character. As you can see by the weather, she is very dangerous, the warrant stated. Do not attempt to apprehend her alone. Police then posted
another message saying the cold was actually something to not joke
about and to please stay safe and warm. The cold has been rather brutal
to Kentucky, dumping snow and causing temperatures to plummet during the past few days. Its safe to say some in the town really dont want to
build a snowman and would be happier telling the snow to Let It Go.
QUOTED. I bought a bunch that was
clearly too small for me, and I find it difficult to sit for any length of time.
A Canadian politician explaining
that he had to leave during a House of
Commons vote because he stocked up on
discounted underwear that were too small
for him. Thats a pretty solid excuse.

NOTED. Usually people light candles

to get rid of bad smells, but one candle
company has taken a different approach.
Stinky Candle company sells candles in
scents, such as potting soil, No. 2 pencils,
urine and gasoline. Good to know that if a
normal candle doesnt work, you can just
mask the bad smell with a worse smell.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR
TODAY

Black and Blue/Priceless Gem

Tour: UNC historian Cecelia
Moore will be leading a tour of
historical landmarks and the racial history of UNC. The tour will
begin at the UNC Visitors Center
on East Franklin Street. The event
is free and open to the public.
Time: 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: UNC Visitors Center
Carolina Jazz Festival: The
UNC Jazz Combos, directed
by Stephen Anderson, Dan
Davis, Jason Foureman and Ed
Paolantonio, will be performing
along with artists-in-residence
Etienne Charles and Rodney
Whitaker.

Time: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Location: Kenan Music Building,
Rehearsal Hall
La Pocha Nostra: A performance will be held as a culmination of the work done by core
members of La Pocha Nostra on
UNCs campus.
Time: 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Location: Swain Hall, Studio 6

SATURDAY

UNC mens lacrosse game: The

North Carolina mens lacrosse
game will take on Johns Hopkins
Universitys Blue Jays in regular
season play.
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Navy Field

SUNDAY

Celebration of Coach Dean

Smith: There will be a public
memorial service to honor
Dean Smith, including remarks
from Chancellor Carol Folt
and others who knew Smith.
Seating will open at 1 p.m. and
is available on a first-come,
first-served basis.
Time: 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Dean E. Smith Center
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uan Alamo (left), an associate professor in the

UNC Department of Music, plays vibes with
freshman Kenan Music Scholar Chase Carroll
on Latin Jazz Night: A Tribute to Cal Tjader, as part
of the 2015 Carolina Jazz Festival on Thursday night.

POLICE LOG
Someone reported loud
music on the 700 block of
Trinity Court at 12:25 a.m.
Tuesday, according to Chapel
Hill police reports.
Someone reported a
dispute at the Spotted Dog
restaurant at 11:54 a.m.
Wednesday, according to
Carrboro police reports.
The person was a nonpaying customer who used
the restroom facilities at the
restaurant, reports state.
Someone reported a
suspicious person on the 100
block of Culbreth Road at
12:14 a.m. Thursday, according to Carrboro police reports.
Someone reported a
missing person at Rams
Head Dining Hall at 5:51
p.m. Wednesday, according
to reports from the UNC
Department of Public Safety.
Someone reported a

person possessing and concealing drug paraphernalia

at Cobb Residence Hall at
1:09 a.m. Thursday, according to reports from the UNC
Department of Public Safety.
Someone reported damage to property on the 1000
block of Weaver Dairy Road
at 11:33 p.m. Monday, according to Chapel Hill police
reports.
The person burned a playground structure, valued at
$1,000, reports state.
Someone reported
property damage in Coker
Hall and Genome Sciences
Building at 5:34 p.m.
Saturday, according to reports
from the UNC Department of
Public Safety.
Someone was trespassing
in Ehringhaus Residence Hall
at 12:35 a.m. Sunday, according to reports from the UNC
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BOA halts
plans for
arts center

No technology x for this

With proposed Arts and Innovation

Center, Aldermen want more say.
By Maggie Monsrud
Staff Writer

Im sure theres nothing out there the

military isnt aware of, but these days its not
just coming out from the military, he said.
Clark spoke about his experience working
with innovative energy start-ups, like one
company that created separate solar panels
to efficiently capture each wavelength of sunlight. Many start-ups at the conference were
eager to show their innovations to Clark.
Five years ago, the issue was trying to
get people to buy into it and excited about it
and we made the argument that its not just
tree-huggers, that there is a military, national security aspect to it, Darvosky said. It
becomes a broad enough thing that we get
people to buy into it, but through their version that appeals to them.
Harmony Bouley, a junior environmental
science major, said climate change is a threat
multiplier in the area of national security.
Energy is really crucial to Americas security whether its financial security or national
security in terms of where we send our troops
and who we are threatened by, she said.

The Carrboro Board of Alderman decided

Thursday not to move forward with the
original proposal for the Carrboro Arts and
Innovation Center.
Instead, the board proposed modifications to
the original proposal, wanting to take everything
off the table and start fresh.
The original proposal included the construction of a new ArtsCenter in downtown Carrboro,
which would house the two non-profits, Kidzu
Childrens Museum and the Carrboro ArtsCenter.
The ArtsCenter currently resides in the same
strip mall as Cats Cradle. If the ArtsCenter
vacated its current location at 300 E. Main St.,
a new hotel beside the Hampton Inn and Suites
could be built in its place.
Aldermen said they didnt agree with how
the proposal was given to them as a package
deal that included both the ArtsCenter and the
new hotel.
Its limiting to each of these projects to consider them together, and it does neither of them
justice, said Alderman Damon Seils.
Seils said the proposal was presented to the
board in a backwards manner.
What were seeing here is a process we should
have seen before, he said.
We should have seen the goals of the
ArtsCenter before hand, but the ArtsCenter
doesnt have a strategic plan.
Alderwoman Michelle Johnson said the town
was asked to contribute $4.5 million to the project and the county might contribute $3 million,
but there hasnt been any commitment by the
two participating non-profits to raise the remaining $7.5 million.
Aldermen also complained they were not
given an active roll in planning the ArtsCenter.
If were going to give $4.5 million to the
project, we need to be part of the planning,
Johnson said.
Alderwoman Bethany Chaney proposed a list
of modifications to the original proposal, which
included separating the ArtsCenter and the
hotel, establishing a more generous guideline
and creating time-bound benchmarks.
Alderman Sammy Slade said he would like
the Cats Cradle separated from the proposal, but
given equal attention.
Carrboro is all about supporting locally
owned businesses, he said. I feel like the Cats
Cradle is like the poster child of what were talking about.

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Retired army general and former presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark was the keynote speaker at the N.C. Clean Tech Summit on Thursday.

Clean energy tech conference talks national security

By Stephanie Lamm
Assistant University Editor

A retired army general and former presidential candidate presented his national security strategy, including his recommendations
for defeating the Islamic State, in a speech at a
clean energy conference Thursday night.
The N.C. Clean Tech Summits keynote
speaker, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, connected the countrys energy plan with its
national security plan.
Clark said the top five long-term challenges for the U.S. are terrorism, financial
stability, climate change, the rise of China
and cybersecurity.
Whats common in all of these problems is
they take money, and were short on money,
he said. Those of you entrepreneurs and those
in the military understand this very well.
Clark spoke about the threat of ISIS, and
the need to attack its recruiting rhetoric
rather than put troops on the ground.
Theres no technology fix for this its
not going to be solved with a better bomb,
he said.

Clark said Americas greatest concern was

the lack of a national security strategy. He
said in the Cold War period, there was a clear
enemy and a clear response. After 9/11, Clark
said Americans gained a greater understanding of external threats to their security.
What I learned when I taught economics
at West Point was you cant have guns and butter, Clark said. But in the first decade of this
century, we believed we could have guns and
butter and sugar. We got ourselves into a mess,
and the question is: What is the strategy?
Clark eventually tied things back to clean
energy, saying he wants to see the national
government create a clean energy infrastructure in the same way the country created the military industrial complex.
He wants the U.S. to take over the global
energy market, displacing OPEC. To do
this, Clark said they must incentivize energy
production in the U.S., especially renewable
energy sources.
Daniel Darovsky, an alumnus of Duke
University, said innovation has increasingly
come from the private sector to the military,
rather than vice versa as it had been recently.

Rules for domestic drones unveiled

NC experts say many
questions remain about
the unmanned aircraft.

By the numbers: proposed rules for unmanned drones

The Federal Aviation Administrations proposed rules which will now enter a 60-day public comment period
would limit drone speeds, times when drones can travel and the conditions under which they can fly.

100 mph

By Michael Liguori
Staff Writer

The Federal Aviation

Administration released new rules
regulating how drones are allowed to
operate in the United States.
The FAA will open the rules on a
temporary basis for a 60-day public
comment period, said Liz Woolery,
analyst at Washington, D.C.-based
think tank New America and a UNC
Ph.D. student in media law.
Next there will be a longer
approval period that could be up to
two years, and after that the laws will
become finalized.
Its difficult to regulate something
when there are so many unknowns
about it, Woolery said. To use a cliche,
theyre dipping a toe into the water, but
not making any big splashes.
The proposed rules include restricting drone use to daytime hours only as
well as requiring drone operators to be
at least 17 and to pass a federally sponsored aeronautical knowledge test.
Drones also must be within the line
of sight of the operator while they are
airborne likely putting commercial use of drones by companies like
Amazon on hold for now.
Mike Meno, spokesman for the
N.C. American Civil Liberties Union,
said while drones are useful tools,
they present privacy problems that
need to be addressed.
We are concerned about the spread
of drone technology, along with other
types of surveillance tools, without
proper safeguards to protect the privacy rights of individuals, he said.
The N.C. General Assembly considered a bill regarding drone regulations
in 2013, but it failed to pass the Senate.
The current regulations in North
Carolina were added as a rider to the
2014-15 state budget meaning it
was an amendment that had little to
do with the original bill. Meno said
getting the rules passed as a rider
meant the rules lacked a level of vetting that most legislation sees.
Police using a drone wouldnt need a
warrant to use that drone on an event
open to the public, a term that is not
defined further, he said. And there are

maximum airspeed

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17 years
minimum age to
operate a drone

3 miles

minimum weather
visibility from
control station

55 lbs.

maximum weight
for an unmanned
aircraft

SOURCE: HTTP://WWW.FAA.GOV

far too many opportunities to perform

surveillance without a warrant, he said.
Does an event open to the public mean if I have a neighborhood
block party and I invite everyone in
my neighborhood over, that now law
enforcement can fly a drone over?
he said.
A second concern with the N.C.
rules, Meno said, is that private citizens like artists or journalists would
be unable to use drones in their work.
We want a balancing law that not
only protects peoples privacy, but
also protects their First Amendment
rights to use drones for certain purposes, he said.
Gary Roberson, a biological
engineering professor at N.C. State
University, said drones would be useful for monitoring crops on North
Carolina farms. The average farm size
in the state is around 150 acres, and
Roberson said that conventional means
of collecting information on crops can
be difficult and time consuming.
Satellite images can take two to
three weeks, but a lot of the time a
farmer needs to make a management
decision in days, he said.
Crops such as cotton, peanuts and

500 feet

maximum altitude
above ground level

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vegetables, as well as livestock herds,

would benefit greatly from drone
surveillance, Roberson said. Drones
could be used to control the spread of
diseases and apply water.
Although drone regulation is fairly
new within U.S. borders, they have
been causing controversy for several
years for overseas military operations
in countries like Yemen and Pakistan.
Major Gen. Charles Dunlap Jr., a
law professor at Duke University, said
a frequent point of concern is where
drones are used outside of areas of
active hostility.
The U.S. has used drones for surveillance and targeted military strikes
against enemy combatants. Dunlap
said while he supports using drones
abroad, he is against military resources
crossing into the domestic sphere,
except under necessary circumstances.
For example, the Coast Guard
looking for a lost child, he said. But
for other sorts of uses such as border
enforcement, controlling the roads
or surveying a drug deal, I dont
think the military should be used for
that purpose.
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Two student reports that

caused an investigation into the
Morrison Residence Hall heating,
ventilation and air conditioning
system have led to the discovery
of widespread mold that will cost
$90,000 to repair.
Rick Bradley, associate director of the Department of Housing
and Residential Education,
said the mold was unexpected
because the current HVAC
system was installed as part of
Morrisons renovation in 2006.
It isnt a dated system where
one would expect that, he said.
Morrison resident Matt Wotus
was one of the students who submitted a maintenance request.
He said beginning in the fall
semester, he noticed a dusty substance coming out of the air vent
in his room.
When I came back from
winter break, my bed was covered in whatever was spewing
out, Wotus said. It was just an
annoyance.
Wotus said several people came
to investigate his request, and one
of them expressed concern.
On Thursday, an email was
sent to all Morrison residents in
anticipation of this process. The
email emphasized that all cleaning
would take place during the day.
He never got back to me. I
guess that email this morning
was getting back to me, Wotus
said. I found out this morning
that it was mold.
Beginning Tuesday, all vents
will be cleaned and new filters
will be installed. This will require
Facilities Services to spend 15 minutes in all rooms in the building.
Bradley said this step of the process is expected to take four days.
Students will be minimally
inconvenienced, Bradley said.
Itll have very little impact on

students that are here currently.

Bradley said the ductwork will
be cleaned more thoroughly this
summer and is expected to take
up to two months.
You really need to have an
empty building (to do that cleaning), Bradley said. There wont
be air conditioning in the building at that time.
Resident Emal Wafajow said
he appreciated the planned timing of the cleaning.
Itll be during the day, so it
shouldnt be a problem, he said.
Bradley said in total, the work
to clean the HVAC system will
cost about $90,000. Housing will
fund the process.
Its student rent dollars that
pay for system repairs, he said.
Bradley said the main source
of the mold was built-up moisture in the HVAC system.
Because the moisture wasnt
escaping the system, that caused
the mold to attach to dust particles in that ductwork naturally,
Bradley said.
He said other dorms on campus have routine maintenance
checks that normally discover
issues like this. Morrisons HVAC
system is unlike any other on
campus, which allowed the mold
to grow unchecked.
The preventative maintenance would not have discovered
this until the students reported
what they saw, Bradley said.
Wotus said the mold hadnt
made him sick, but that its still
concerning.
Its just kind of freaky to think
about it, Wotus said. Mold
is not a good thing to have in
dorms. Sickness can spread very
easily on college campuses.
Bradley said one resident
had visited Campus Health for
worsening allergy symptoms this
semester. Other than that, no
residents have visited Campus
Health for respiratory conditions.
We havent heard from RA
staff or other staff in the community of issues of people having
illness, Bradley said.
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Friday, February 20, 2015

News

50,000 enroll in UNC online course

By Sarah Kaylan Butler
Staff Writer

Almost 50,000 students

have enrolled in a massive
open online course on positive
psychology taught by UNC
professor Barbara Fredrickson.
Fredrickson said the free
course, which is only six weeks
long, lets people of all ages
from all over the world explore
without strict accountability.
The course, taught through
the website Coursera, doesnt
substitute for a traditional
classroom, she said.
Most people that are
enrolled 95 percent of them
say that theyre interested
out of their own curiosity, she
said. (The course) is applicable to anybody. Its not necessarily something that people
need to get a degree in.
The class, Fredricksons
first MOOC, has grown popu-

lar since it began on Feb. 9.

The first week it was adding several thousand a day and
this week theres been several
hundred per day, Fredrickson
said. The last couple days the
rate of increase has slowed, but
it wouldnt be surprising for us
to pass 50,000.
Provost Jim Dean said
UNC is happy to have an
agreement with Coursera.
They came to us some time
ago and asked us if we wanted
to cooperate and we do, Dean
said. UNC asks for proposals
from faculty and then we work
with the faculty to develop the
classes.
He said he thinks its
an appropriate time for
Fredrickson to be teaching
this course at UNC.
Shes teaching a course on
positive psych during a time
when UNC is experiencing
such tragedy on campus and

her students are reaching out

to UNC using her courses
forums, Dean said, referencing the triple homicide in
Chapel Hill earlier this month.
Fredrickson said the course
videos were filmed to simulate an in-person classroom.
The course is based on a
small group format of teaching,
but its a small group that we
have prerecorded, Fredrickson
said. Because of the need
to get really good audio and
video, it was limited to a very
small class. There were only
four people in that class.
She writes books about psychology, but she said she knows
thats not going to reach the
broad audience that it used to.
Ive written a couple of
books for general audience
and one of the things thats
clear about our changing audience is that people dont necessarily want to read books,
but they like ideas, she said.

Leonard White, a neurobiology professor at Duke

University who teaches
two Coursera courses, said
Coursera wants to be profitable, but the company, professors and universities are not
currently making any money
from the open online courses.
Im not making any
money. This is considered
something that I would be
willing to do something in my
spare time, White said.
White said major universities are all offering MOOCs or
are trying to establish them.
It really is part of the higher education landscape and I
think its here for the foreseeable future, White said. I
think education is good and
free education is better and
there are, Im sure, quite a few
North Carolinians that are
enrolled in these courses.
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Construction causes
parking challenges
By Bridget Dye
Staff Writer

Customers who frequent

Whole Foods or any other
store in Chapel Hills Village
Plaza might run into parking difficulty in the next few
weeks.
Construction will cause
changes to parking and traffic patterns beginning this
month around the shopping center, located off East
Franklin Street.
A new development, the
Village Plaza Apartments,
will be built on South Elliott
Road, next to the center.
In an early phase of construction, a fence will surround the apartment site,
which is currently a parking
lot between the ABC Store
and the building that used to
house the Red Hot and Blue
restaurant.
There will be a little bit
of a mess and some discomfort associated with parking
and traversing the parking lot for about six weeks
while we take down the
antiquated and unsightly
former Red Hot and Blue
barbecue building, said Jay
Kanik, property manager for
Regency Centers the company that owns and manages
Village Plaza.
He expects the building to
be gone by next week.
After demolition, the lot
will provide 40 temporary
parking spaces until the new
garage for the apartments is
complete.
Once that temporary
parking field is in place and
available to customers we
think that will go a long way
to help easing the congestion
associated with the construction, Kanik said.
Regency Centers, East-

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West Partners the Village

Plaza Apartments developer
and the town of Chapel
Hill have been working
together to provide as many
temporary parking spaces as
possible.
We try to anticipate issues
and review construction
issues prior to the projects
beginning, said Chapel Hill
Parking Superintendent
Brenda Jones.
A 4,000-square-foot
building will replace the
former Red Hot and Blue
building about 18 months
after the parking garage
opens.
All this change was inevitable, and everybody came to
the table willing to give up a
little bit in the short term to
produce the best long-term
product, Kanik said.
Village Plaza businesses
will have to adapt to the
changes during construction.
Its going to be a great
project once its completed,
said Barbara Jessie-Black,
executive director of the PTA
Thrift Shop in Village Plaza.
We are preparing ourselves
for the challenges, and we
look forward to an end product that the entire town can
be very proud of.
Transportation improvements will also occur, including a new road, which will
connect the Village Plaza
shopping center to the new
apartments. New sidewalks
and bike lanes will improve
the area for cyclists and
pedestrians.
There is a great deal of
angst associated with all the
change that is going on within Chapel Hill right now, as
change often makes people
uncomfortable or worrisome
over the future, Kanik said.
I think everybody agrees
that all these changes that
are in process are for the
betterment of the town as a
whole.
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Public hearing on
housing set for March 3
The Orange County Board
of Commissioners will hold
a public hearing at 7 p.m.
March 3 to give residents of
Chapel Hill, Carrboro and
Hillsborough an opportunity
to voice opinions about Orange
Countys housing and community development needs.
The meeting will take
place at the Richard Whitted
Meeting Facility at 300 W.
Tryon St. in Hillsborough.
Needs identified by attendees will be addressed in the
Orange County consolidated
housing plan for the 2015-19
fiscal years.

Duke-UNC China
Leadership Summit
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Development Program (IDEV), and the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at Johns
Hopkins Universitys School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). A leading expert on
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China in Africa and Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution.
Professor Brautigam regularly advises international agencies and governments on China-Africa
economic engagement, and is currently writing a book on China, Africa and global food
security, focusing on the land grab issue.

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Friday, February 20, 2015

SportsFriday

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Turnovers
trouble
Wake Forest

WOMENS BASKETBALL: NORTH CAROLINA 83, WAKE FOREST 45

FLU GAME REMASTERED

Allisha Gray
scored 16
points in
15 minutes
Thursday

The Deacons had 34 turnovers

against the Tar Heels.
By Brendan Marks
Assistant Sports Editor

By Logan Ulrich

I wake up every morning, I see

it and I remember that horrible
feeling I had in my stomach of losing and being so close, said Price,
one of six returning players and
the teams only senior. (This is)
my last year, so I just dont want
to have any regrets.
And for Price whose performance nearly two weeks ago
earned her the tournaments Most
Outstanding Player award and
ACC Player of the Week honors
a season-ending consolation prize
simply isnt enough.
We arent satisfied, she said.
Yeah, we won national indoors
and were currently ranked No.
1, but we think that we can still
improve and get better.
We are still hungry and theres
still so much more that we want
to prove.

Is there such a thing as a normal number of turnovers?

Perhaps its five. For other teams, it
could be higher say 10, or even more.
Or maybe theres no such answer. Maybe
turnovers, no matter the quantity, are just a
part of basketball, as fluid a matter as scoring droughts or shooting streaks.
Some teams average more than others,
but in the end, a turnover is the same for
every squad: an immeasurable measure
of ineptitude. After its 83-45 throttling of
Wake Forest on Thursday night a game
in which the Demon Deacons gave the ball
away 34 times the No. 17 North Carolina
womens basketball team couldnt understand that message any more clearly.
When you throw so many different
things out there we threw traps on
screens, we threw some switches, we throw
a lot of different things out there, Coach
Sylvia Hatchell said.
Yes, Wake Forest came into the game
averaging 20.5 turnovers per game 332nd
in the nation but UNC took advantage of
that. The Tar Heels forced giveaways early
and often, making life as difficult as possible
for each of the players in black.
So it was an errant bounce pass broken up on its way to a teammate. It was a
rushed drive to the basket, only to be met
by a forest of forearms, lanky bodies rooted to the court. It was even a five-second
violation, when nobody for Wake Forest
wanted the ball enough to get open.
Any way possible, UNC made life for its
opponents a nightmare on offense. With
6:48 to go in the first half, nearly 15 minutes of play eclipsed, Wake Forest had as
many turnovers as it did points: 15.
Turnovers, they come in bunches, and
once they start coming, its hard to stop
them, said Wake Forest coach Jen Hoover.
By halftime, Wake Forest already had 17
turnovers. The first possession of the second
half, it was clear that nothing had changed.
Wake Forest dribbled the ball deep into
the UNC paint, but a sloppy dribble
sweaty palms, a slight deflection, whatever
it was gave the ball over to UNC. The Tar
Heels wouldnt score on that possession, but
over the long haul they did, turning those 34
giveaways into 40 points of their own.
Context is important to remember in
situations such as these. With a 20-point
lead at the half, the Tar Heels were in
every position to be aggressive on defense,
forcing steals off of reach-ins and blocks
off of hurried offensive possessions.
But North Carolina did all of these things
and more. It forced the turnovers, it played
physical defense and it converted those giveaways into points of its own.
Were a fast break team, so steals are
great for us because I feel like we finish
well, and thats what Carolina basketball is
about: getting steals and getting fast break
points, said junior guard NDea Bryant.
Its just normal, really its what were
here to do.

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sports@dailytarheel.com

Staff Writer

Before each North Carolina

womens basketball home game, a
video plays showing a train obliterating the opposing teams logo.
Usually its dismissed as part of
the pregame bravado, no different
than spotlights or pulsing music.
This time though, it proved
prophetic.
The No. 17 Tar Heels eviscerated
Wake Forest 83-45 on Thursday
night, pushing them to 21-6 overall
and 8-5 in the ACC. Sophomore
guard Allisha Gray led UNC with
16 points despite only playing 15
minutes because of the flu.
I told her at halftime, Youre
pulling a Michael Jordan, Coach
Sylvia Hatchell said.
Wake Forest scored the first basket of the game, but that was the
only time it had a chance at breaking its 18-game road losing streak
to UNC. Then Gray went to work.
She snared three offensive
rebounds, two of which she
put back into the basket. After
subbing out for a short bit, she
re-entered the game and immediately sank a baseline jumper.
The next possession, she
drained a 3-pointer that gave
UNC a 19-7 lead. By halftime,
she had 14 points and a teamhigh four rebounds in only 10
minutes of work.

DTH/EVAN SEMONES
NDea Bryant (22) handles the ball during No. 17 North Carolinas 83-45 win over Wake Forest on Thursday.

We were really worried about

her coming in because shes a really
good shooter, and shes so strong
she can take you off the dribble
as well, Wake Forest coach Jen
Hoover said.
Despite the heroics from Gray,
Wake Forest clung to hope through
much of the first half, trimming
the lead to nine points midway
through. The score was 24-14 with
8:20 to go when the Tar Heels
crushed whatever hope remained.
Wake Forest succeeded with its
size in limiting sophomore forward Stephanie Mavunga to nine
points and four rebounds. But
UNCs guards had a lot of success
in the first half with slashing into
the paint and either scoring or
passing it out to open players who
knocked down their shots. Five

Tar Heels finished in double digits, with two others at nine points.
This, combined with 17 Wake
Forest turnovers in the first half,
gave UNC a 30-20 advantage in
shots attempted and 43-23 halftime lead. The trend continued in
the second half, as Wake Forest
never gave itself a chance, commiting a staggering 34 turnovers.
Junior guard NDea Bryant,
who finished with 12 points,
spearheaded a smothering UNC
defensive effort. She held Wake
Forest senior forward Dearica
Hamby to only seven points with
seven turnovers, the first time
since January 2013 that Hamby
was limited to single-digit scoring
in back-to-back games.
(I was) just trying to stay in
front of her, not letting her body

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me up, Bryant said. Moving my

feet a lot, because shes definitely
bigger than me.
By the end of the game, the Tar
Heels had fulfilled the prophecy
of the train in the pregame video.
But perhaps the prophecy wasnt
referring to UNC, but a flu-ridden
Gray who could score 16 points in
15 minutes and what she could
do if she was healthy.
When shes healthy and plays
hard, she can do anything she
wants, Hatchell said.
Just like a runaway train.
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WOMENS TENNIS: NORTH CAROLINA 7, N.C. STATE 0

Womens tennis handles Wolfpack

The No. 1 Tar Heels

cruised to a 7-0 victory
in Raleigh Thursday.
By C Jackson Cowart
Staff Writer

Just a year removed from its

best finish in program history
ending with a 12-2 ACC record
yet falling short of an ACC or
NCAA championship the North
Carolina womens tennis team desperately seeks to capitalize on an
even stronger showing this season.
And on Thursday, the topranked Tar Heels showed just how
dangerous they can be.
UNC (10-0, 1-0 ACC) easily dismissed N.C. State claiming the
doubles point and winning all 12
singles sets en route to a dominant 7-0 victory in Raleigh to kick

off conference play.

Last year we had a really strong
finish to the year, but we didnt
really accomplish anything, Coach
Brian Kalbas said. We didnt win
an ACC tournament title, we tied
with three other teams for the regular-season, we didnt win an indoor
title, we didnt win a national title.
This team is very hungry
for more opportunities to prove
themselves.
And against the Wolfpack (5-2,
0-1 ACC), UNC seized its chance.
We just wanted to show that
we werent satisfied, said senior
Caroline Price, who never trailed in
her straight sets singles win. Were
still getting better and improving
and coming after everyone.
Coming into the match,
Price had clinched UNCs second ITA National Team Indoor
Championship just 10 days prior,
propelling the Tar Heels to the top

spot in the country.

And after a similar 7-0 drubbing of N.C. State in the 2014
match in Chapel Hill, Thursdays
mismatch on paper led to a hardly
unexpected result.
But this year, the stakes were
higher.
(We) showed the Wolfpack
that we were there to take them
down, said junior Whitney Kay,
who dropped just three games in
her three combined sets of doubles and singles. Were not going
to stop with the Indoor win. We
want to win an ACC title and then
an NCAA title.
Price knows these challenges
better than anyone. The senior has
yet to win an ACC title, and after
coming within one set of clinching
a team NCAA championship last
season, her attempts at a dramatic
rally netted a second-place trophy
on her bedside.

DTH
PICKS
OF
THE
WEEK
The DTH sports staff and one celebrity guest compete to pick the winners
of the biggest ACC and national college basketball games each week.

Remember a few weeks ago when Brendan

Richard Marks came at you guys with a diary
entry explaining how excited he was about
being in first place?
Yeah, hes currently in the middle of the pack
now and Ill tell you why: BECAUSE HE WRITES
IN A DIARY.
Thats why today, Im giving all of these
sorry pickers a glimpse into whats actually
important: A BRAIN.
More importantly, the brain of someone
whos currently in first place. Thats right,
Goosie Raynor, for two weeks now, Ive been
eating your cookies.
I didnt ask if I could, and Im not about to


Record to date
Georgia Tech at UNC
Pittsburgh at Syracuse
Miami at Louisville
Florida State at Virginia
West Virginia at Okla. State
Gonzaga at Saint Marys
UCLA at Arizona
Ohio State at Michigan
Florida at LSU

apologize for it either.

But let me give you some tips, so this competition is more than just me and Dodson along
with The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Girl with an
Asterisk and Swaggy Pat: USE KEN POM.
(Or you can ignore these tips, pull your best
Daniel Wilco and just concede defeat. He knows
whats happening. Just look at those freaking
picks. Saint Marys over Gonzaga right.)
Grace, you literally have insane basketball
analytics at the tips of your fingers, but rather
than, I dont know, using them, you just look
at me and ask, Whos ranked higher?
But thats fine if you want to go with a group
of people who actually thought Louisville was

Dijana Kunovac is this

weeks guest picker. She
graduated from Georgia
and covers UNC football
and basketball for Inside
Carolina.
better than Virginia. Go for it.
In the meantime, Ill continue winning. As
my good friend Cade Barefoot would say: I
aint here to make friends.
Dijana Kunovac is this weeks guest picker.
She is known and loved by many in the UNC
sports community and we wish her well as she
prepares for her new job in Atlanta.

Grace
Aaron
Daniel
Carlos
Pat
Brendan
Dijana
Raynor Dodson Wilco Collazo James Marks Kunovac
31-14*
30-15
16-29
32-13
30-15
30-15
29-16
UNC
UNC
UNC
UNC
UNC
UNC
UNC
Syracuse
Syracuse
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Syracuse
Syracuse
Pittsburgh
Louisville
Louisville
Miami
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Louisville
Virginia
Virginia
Florida State
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Okla. State
West Virginia West Virginia
Okla. State
West Virginia
West Virginia West Virginia
Gonzaga
Gonzaga
Saint Marys
Gonzaga
Gonzaga
Gonzaga
Gonzaga
Arizona
Arizona
UCLA
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Ohio State
Ohio State
Ohio State
Ohio State
Ohio State
Ohio State
Michigan
Florida
Florida
LSU
LSU
LSU
LSU
LSU

THE LOWDOWN ON
SATURDAYS GAME
Georgia Tech at North
Carolina

12:00 p.m.
Dean E. Smith Center
12-14, 3-11 ACC Broadcast: ACC Network

18-8, 8-5 ACC

HEAD-TO-HEAD
Backcourt

Travis Jorgenson and Chris Bolden

are averaging a combined 10.7
points and 4.3 assists per game.
Also, Bolden just got suspended
so yeah. EDGE: UNC

Kennedy Meeks and Brice Johnson

have been hot lately, and the two
are averaging a combined 25.4
Frontcourt
points and 15.6 rebounds per
game. EDGE: UNC

Bench

Nate Britt and Isaiah Hicks have

done enough to earn starts in
several games this season, and
have both provided sparks for the
team repeatedly. EDGE: UNC

Even though UNC is coming off of

back-to-back losses, it still hasnt
Intangibles lost 11 of its last 14 games and
gone 3-11 in the ACC. Georgia Tech
has. EDGE: UNC

The Bottom Line North Carolina 79, Ga. Tech 57

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Friday, February 20, 2015

Report: American youngsters lag peers

By Cole del Charco
Staff Writer

Although millennials are

the United States most educated generation ever, the
country is still falling behind
the rest of the world.
American millennials those born after 1980
ranked worst among
developed nations in math,
tied with Italy and Spain,
according to a study released
Tuesday by the Educational
Testing Service. The U.S.
ranked 16th out of 22 countries in literacy, and in problem solving, the U.S. was last
again, tied with Slovakia,
Ireland and Poland.
The poor results come as
the country has an increasing

number of people graduating

with a college degree.
Millennials were the target
group because they are the
most recent products of their
countries education systems.
Nick Cabot, a UNC education professor, said he thinks
more education might not be
the solution to poor performance it could be part of
the problem.
He said curricula tend to
focus on preparing students to
pass a test rather than emphasizing retention and complete
understanding of the subject.
The United States is
always worried about covering material in order to pass
some kind of test since No
Child Left Behind was passed
in (2001), Cabot said.

The U.S. routinely scores

poorly in math skills compared to other countries
it was vastly behind others in a 2012 study from
the Programme for the
International Assessment of
Adult Competencies.
Another issue Cabot believes
is hurting the countrys millennials is that teachers try to
cover too much material.
There were a couple of
studies done with the first
series of these international
tests, and what they identified is that American teachers try to cover too much
stuff, while their German
and Japanese counterparts
spent more time looking at
things in depth, he said.
Teachers dont ask stu-

dents about their answers,

especially their wrong
answers, Cabot added.
Theres a lot you can learn
from a students wrong
answer.
James Thompson, UNCs
associate dean for undergraduate curricula, said he thinks
the main problem is the lack
of government investment
in the American education
system.
I think that public education has been under assault
for a decade and a half in
this country for reasons that
are still not clear to me, he
said. Teachers are getting
the blame for poor outcomes
when they get no support
from the state, and they get
attacked when money that

would have gone to public

education gets siphoned off
for charter and for vouchers
for private schools.
Thompson said federal
and state leaders need to
prioritize support for public
education if the U.S. wants

to rise in the international

rankings.
You cant take money
out of public education and
then say, See, youre doing
worse, he said.
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Q&A with astronaut and

speaker John B. Herrington
John B. Herrington, an
astronaut and an advocate
for education, was recognized
as the first Native American
man to go to space.
The Gillings School of
Global Public Health recently
announced that Herrington
will deliver its spring commencement speech. He talked
to Staff Writer Mona Bazzaz
about his experiences in space
and his upcoming speech.

The Daily Tar Heel: What

made you decide to agree
to give the commencement
speech for the School of
Public Health?
JOHN B. HERRINGTON: My
brother, Dr. Jim Herrington,
was recently hired at the
School of Public Health.
One thing led to another ...
and Im honored to be invited.
DTH: When did you first

want to go into space?

JH: I was selected to NASA

in 1996 after applying twice.

I was in NASA for about six
years partaking in a variety
of training as well as engineering work. Finally, I was
selected to fly in 2000 and we
took off in 2002.

DTH: How selective was

that process?
JH: There were 3,000 applicants the year I applied, and
of those 3,000, 44 students
were chosen. In order to be
considered, you have to have a

technical background either

math- or science-related. I was
a Navy test pilot previously
and had recently earned a
masters degree in agronomical engineering, which I think
gave me a competitive edge.

DTH: What was space like?

JH: I was in space for 14

days. We went to the international space station, and

our mission was very unique.
There were four people on our
crew and we took an additional three people to space
to stay there for six months
and brought back three
people who had been there
for six months. We also had
an assembly mission where I
did three spacewalks to help
install a large truss on the outside of the space station.

DTH: What was the training

like for spacewalks?
JH: So you spend an average of seven to 10 hours of
training in the pool for every
hour of spacewalk youre
planning. I conducted nearly
200 hours of training myself.
The training gives you the
experience of being neutrally
buoyant because it is easy to
move in space but hard to
stop because there is nothing
pushing against you.
DTH: What was it like knowing you are the first Native
American to go to space?
JH: It was very cool, and

COURTESY OF NASA
Astronaut John B. Herrington prepares to egress the airlock to
begin the first of three scheduled STS-113 spacewalks for work.

I did not realize I was in

that position until I came to
NASA. I was able to share my
experience with other people
who were native. It put me in
the position of a role model,
which I did not expect to be
in, but I take it very seriously.

DTH: How was the food?

JH: Half of us became

dehydrated because, for every

pound of weight, it costs
$10,000 to take something
to space. So water was sparse.
We ate a lot of shrimp cocktail
because it cleared your sinuses
well. Nothing is pulling the
fluid in your body down anymore so you get congested and
your face looks puffy.

DTH: What have you taken

away most from this experi-

ence and from other experiences in your life?

JH: Flying in space allowed

me to see this world on a
macro level I also lived
underwater for 10 days for
this space flight stimulator program called Nemo.
It allowed me to see life on
a much more micro level.
My final experience was the
cross-country bike ride I
took. I wanted to do something special with it, though,
so I stopped along my way
to speak to NASA explore
schools and Native American
reservations I met fascinating people including this
woman who ended up becoming my wife, and you end up
experiencing the world on a
more personal level.

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Studio art minor draws 15 students

Professors fear it will
take away interest
from the major.
By Karli Krasnipol
Staff Writer

Two semesters after it was

introduced at UNC, 15 students have declared a minor
in studio art.
The minor, consisting of
five courses, has already created an opportunity for students who desire the ability to
do what they love while also
focusing on their future.
As a high school student
looking at colleges, sophomore
Hunter Travers was interested
in graphic design. She decided
she needed a major that was
more practical, eventually
choosing to pursue public
relations and advertising.
The small number of people
taking advantage of the minor
might mean the University
will discontinue the minor.
Having this minor has
been a really great opportunity
to continue studying a real
passion of mine, Travers said.
Jim Hirschfield, chairman
of the Department of Art, said
he is proud of the minors success so far.
I dont think we would
have created the minor if we
didnt think that it would be
successful, Hirschfield said.
Too many people declaring
interest in the minor could be
equally problematic.
Beth Grabowski, undergraduate director for studio art,
said she fears the department
couldnt accommodate all students interested in the minor if
it becomes too popular.
We only have so many
faculty and so many teaching
hours, Grabowski said.
Grabowski said she worries the minor will displace

some studio art majors. She

believes people are choosing
the minor to practice art with
a less rigorous workload.
Would people not
major if they could minor?
Grabowski said.
Despite the appeal a studio
art minor has, Grabowski is
hopeful the number of students
will balance itself out, allowing
the department to retain the
minor without losing majors.
Hirschfield is also concerned, but has confidence
that there will still be enough
majors.
Well probably lose some
majors, but well probably gain some majors from

minors who decide they want

to major, he said.
The minor has opened
doors for students who didnt
necessarily realize they were
interested in art, including
freshman Kristen Goldberg.
I honestly didnt think I
was going to consider doing
art because I didnt see it as
a future, but Ive been able to
keep it up, she said.
For students such as
Goldberg, the structure of the
minor is perfect.
I think its nice for me
because its not a huge commitment and its extremely
reasonable, Goldberg said.
For more serious artists,

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though, the five mandatory

courses of a minor might not
fulfill their artistic needs.
I believe that by creating a minor, we can serve
more UNC students in ways
that we couldnt before,
Hirschfield said.
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Israel and author of various books including Davids Secret
Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King, will discuss
how and why monotheism was institutionalized in ancient
Judah and Jerusalem, how this ideological strand continued after the
exile, and influenced evolving Judaism as a whole, and then Christianity
and Islam, what occasioned the idea and its socialization and governmental
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Foundation has continued to

be listed on the IRS website
as a tax-exempt public charity. That designation is whats
vitally important to donors,
he said.
Tom Kelley, a professor at
the UNCs School of Law, said
he has never heard of organizations that have started
publishing Form 990s and
then stopped.
If the foundation is in
fact supposed to be filing
annual Forms 990 and is
not, the penalty would be

loss of 501(c)3 status, he

said. Normally, the IRS will
automatically revoke an organizations exempt status after
three successive years of failing to file a required 990.
UNC avoided losing its status by claiming the exemption
McFarland referenced.
Kelley said most nonprofits
would agree to make budgetary
information available.
Many (c)3 organizations
do a comprehensive annual
report, which includes financials, and post that on their
website, he said.
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ECU MED SCHOOL

FROM PAGE 1

Cunningham said.
One major difference
between the schools is the relationship they have with their
respective hospitals, according
to a UNC Board of Governors
report from October. Brody
has an affiliation agreement
with Vidant Medical Center, a
private hospital nearby. UNCs
school is a primary partner
with UNC Health Care.
The report said that most
top-performing and financially
sound medical schools are
under the same umbrella as

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the hospital they work with

unlike ECUs school.
Kevin FitzGerald, chief of
staff for the UNC system, presented the report in October
and said the differences
between the schools and hospital affiliations affect funding.
UNC is a larger school in
terms of number of students
and is recognized for its level
of research as well as training
for primary care, FitzGerald
said. ECU is a newer medical
school. Its focus is on providing primary care physicians to
remain in N.C., and it is very
well regarded for doing that.
The report stated that 54

percent of Brody graduates

practice medicine in the state,
compared to only 44 percent
of those from UNC-CH.
FitzGerald said he and
schools across the state are
joining ECU to advocate for
more state funding for the
Brody School of Medicine.
Brody is much more dependent upon state support than
UNC, but both schools are
working hard to diversify their
revenue and ongoing state support is very important, he said.
Brody is looking for the
financial assets to continue
the legacy it has established
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Friday, February 20, 2015

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Teachers take to Twitter on snow days

By Erin Wygant
Assistant Arts Editor

Allison Stewart, a dual language teacher at Frank Porter

Graham Elementary in Chapel
Hill, turned to social media
during this weeks snow days.
Stewart engaged in North
Carolinas Twitter trend known
as #ncsnowchats, which
helped teachers and administrators across the state make
the most of their days off.
Got my coffee, started a
fire and turned on the jazz
ready for another awesome
#ncsnowchat in less than
half an hour! #NCed #teachinginNC, Stewart tweeted
Thursday morning.
The hashtag was created
during the stretch of snow
days in early February 2014,
and it is back for a second
year thanks to this weeks
statewide school closures.

The online discussions are the

brainchild of North Carolina
principals Robert Breyer and
Derek McCoy, who saw the
opportunity to engage educators on their days off.
Its just a small thing that
we didnt expect to take off,
Breyer said. After the first
one we did, every snow day
people tweet at us asking,
Is there going to be another
snow chat?

Yoga balls for chairs

On a snow day, Breyer and
McCoy tweet out the hashtag
#ncsnowchat and propose
topics that center on opportunities for school growth,
Breyer said.
The discussions can be
moderated by anyone, he said,
giving way to a host of Twittersavvy teachers chatting online.
Its a way to continue

learning for educators and let

people talk in an open forum,
Breyer said. We think of the
hot topics that people need to
know about and tweet them.
In the three snow days this
week, the chats discussed the
Four Cs of Education, ways to
re-create learning spaces and
teacher leadership.
Trey Ferguson, a math
teacher at Leesville Road
High School in Raleigh,
mediated the Tuesday discussion on redesigning
classrooms. During this chat,
educators discussed the need
to make classrooms engaging
places for students.
I got into the chats this
time last year when we were
having the snowpocalypse,
Ferguson said. I was new to
Twitter and found it a really
useful tool to connect with
other educators who I wouldnt
otherwise be able to talk with.

Ferguson said the snow

chats have given him and
other educators a chance to
bond over issues they all face.
It has definitely opened
up communication in the
field of education because I
can make connections with
teachers and administrators
across the state and can take
their feedback and implement it, Ferguson said.
For example, teachers who
want to get money to replace
chairs with yoga balls will
ask about which grants to
use and other teachers will
respond. Its pretty cool.
Julie Ross, a UNC alumnus and Spanish teacher at
East Forsyth High School
in Kernersville, said she
accidentally came across
Thursdays chat about teacher
leadership.
Its nice to know that there
are people who are trying to

further educate and develop

themselves. We are never done
learning, so these discussions
are promising, Ross said.

National models
Laura Sexton, a Spanish
teacher at Gaston Early College
High School, also weighed in
on Thursdays snow chat.
Ive been waiting for this
snow chat since last year,
Sexton said. The chance to
share your enthusiasm with
people around the state while
we have time away from our
students is great.
The snow chats evolved
from other Twitter chats such
as EDUchat, Adminchat and
#admincamp, during which
teachers use online forums
to discuss education issues,
Ferguson said.
N.C. snow chats are different than the others because

they arent on certain days of

the week with certain moderators. They just sort of happen, Ferguson said.
After every discussion,
Breyer uploads the tweets to
his Storify account, creating a
short story from the different
comments.
He said Storify helps keep
all the information in one
place and makes it easier for
people to read.
Whether a teacher,
administrator or curious
parent, all are welcome to
join the chats, which are
helping make snow days a
little more productive.
Great discussion this afternoon #ncsnowchat! Absolutely
incredible. #inspired #grateful
#teachinginNC #professionallydeveloping, Stewart tweeted
at the close of Thursdays chat.
city@dailytarheel.com

Saturday a makeup day for local students

By Kiana Cole
Staff Writer

The giggles erupting from

red-nosed, bundled up kids
make chilly snow days an
enjoyable break from the
regular school week but
the days off mean Orange
County Schools students will
have to go to school for a
make-up day on Saturday.
Orange County Schools are
prepared to host a school day
on an early release schedule
this Saturday to make up for
Thursdays snow day. .
We are not really that

happy about it, said Angie

Cooper, secretary of the
Parent Teacher Association
at Efland-Cheeks
Elementary School.
I understand they have
to do the make up time but
I wish there had been more
days built into the schedule
for make up time so that
Saturdays werent necessary.
Because of icy conditions
this week, Orange County
students did not go to school
on Tuesday, Wednesday or
Thursday. The first two snow
days will be made up later
this year.

Cooper said because

Thursdays snow day and the
Saturday school day are in the
same week, it leaves little time
to rearrange weekend plans.
As explained to me, making up school days comes
down to hours, not really
days, so I dont see why they
couldnt add hours by making
a half day during the week a
full day, she said.
Seth Stephens, spokesman
for Orange County Schools,
said the possibility of having Saturday school because
of missed days from snow
was decided by the Orange

County Board of Education

in November.
Calendars have to have
a plan for making up days,
Stephens said.
We realize that Saturday
school may be inconvenient
for some folks, but we set it
up so that the calendar still
protects spring break, which
was taken into consideration
when the make up days were
being planned.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools, which is a separate district, has not had to
address the possibility of
Saturday school this year.

Jeffrey Nash, spokesman

for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools, said in an email that
the district was fortunate
because the snow day on
Monday was already a scheduled teacher workday.
We have a predetermined
list of weather makeup dates
before the school year even
starts, Nash said. If we run
out of makeup dates, we
would consider Saturdays. But
so far, that is not the case.
Nash said its up to each
school district to weigh the
advantages and disadvantages of assigning makeup

days during spring break or

on Saturdays.
Usually, cancellations are
less about the weather and
more about the road conditions, as well as the conditions of our parking lots and
sidewalks, Nash said.
The first and most important question we have to continually ask is, What is safest
for our children? That may
not always be what is most
convenient for parents, but
it is our priority and that is
unwavering.
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Student body president

race drew little interest
The election saw less
than half of the
voters last years did.
By Victoria Mirian
Staff Writer

This years student body

president election drew a
historically low voter turnout
only 16.6 percent of undergraduates cast a vote.
Both the general election,
with 3,791 votes for president,
and the runoff, with only 3,051
votes, represented the lowest
numbers in at least 10 years.
Junior Houston Summers
won with 1,976 votes, representing only 10.8 percent of
undergraduates that, starting
April 1, he will represent on
the Board of Trustees.
Summers said he is not
worried about the low turnout affecting his presidency.
I think once we begin to
build those relationships,
word is going to spread, he
said. Were going to continue
to foster an environment that
is inclusive of all sorts of discussions and relationships.
He said this years candidates lacked the big contrasts
of those in the 2014 campaigns.
The 2014 runoff drew more
than double the votes compared to this years election.
Both student body president candidates, Summers
and Kathryn Walker, stopped
campaigning for several days
after former basketball coach

Dean Smith died and the

three students were shot at
their off-campus apartment.
It may have affected voter
turnout, but the student body
president elections, as important as they may be, mean
nothing in the grand scheme
of things to student deaths
and tragedy of that nature,
Summers said.
Snow and ice canceled
classes on Tuesday, the original runoff election date. Alex
Piasecki, chairman of the
Board of Elections, extended
voting to a second day.
The election took place on
a snow day, so we extended it
to give people the opportunity
to still vote. Its hard to really
get people out and voting
when its cold out and theres
ice out, Piasecki said.
The UNC-Duke game
Wednesday night was likely a
smaller factor, Piasecki said.
The election ended at 6
p.m., which is a good three
hours before the Duke game
started, so I dont really think
it affected it as much as the
weather and the week off campaigning did before, he said.
Piasecki said indifference is
not an extraordinary problem
for student elections.
Student apathy is always
something you have to combat a little bit, Piasecki said.
Some students said they did
not vote because the platforms
were not well publicized.
I didnt vote just because I
didnt know a whole lot about
the candidates. I didnt feel

like I could
make an
informed
decision,
said sophomore Emily
Briggs. The most Ive heard
is a little bit of screaming out
here.
In the general election Feb.
10, 403 students wrote in
Zora Neale Hurston for student body president.
The Kick out the KKK
campaign wants Saunders Hall
to be renamed after Hurston,
a writer and folklorist who
attended a segregated UNC in
secret and died in 1960.
Well have conversations
with anyone that is willing
to do that, as well as many
conversations with members
of Real Silent Sam, (the Black
Student Movement) and
(the National Pan-Hellenic
Council) to try to build some
confidence, Summers said.

student
elections

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the winners __: The
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agcy.
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clarifies its meaning
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before Frist
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QUOTE OF THE DAY

You would think that these leaders would

be worried about their reputations and not
their agendas.

Matt Leming

he Student Advisory
Committee to the
Chancellor is one of
many student committees that
meets up monthly or biweekly
to discuss stuff. A 14-member body headed by the student body vice president, it has
the distinct privilege of meeting with the chancellor once a
month for anything it wants.
SACC is not transparent to
the student body, or, at least,
it has not been for two years.
Neither meeting minutes nor
rosters of membership are published. SACCs Facebook page
and two Twitter feeds have been
inactive since last April. Even
student governments official
reports lack mention of SACC.
The last time sacc.web.unc.edu
was updated was during Holden
Thorps last year at UNC, back
in the committees heyday when
it spearheaded the dance minor
and was headed by a Rhodes
Scholar.
I previously brought up
SACCs transparency in an
editorial board interview with
Student Body Vice President
Kyle Villemain having
applied to be on it before, I was
curious. His response implied
that was the first time anyone
had brought up the issue.
Updating Twitter just isnt
that high on anyones to-do list.
SACC did host a diversity dinner
with the chancellor last month,
inviting 40 student leaders.
But thats just one event, and it
wasnt open to all students.
Normally, a student committees opacity would be inconsequential, but when a body with
such rare access to the chancellor of UNC pays no attention to
public accountability, its problematic. Secret student committees shouldnt be advising the
chancellor.
Chancellor Folt told me in
June 2013 that she would be
pleased to sit down for an interview with me, and Im still waiting. I can only imagine having
her attention once a month.
In an email with Villemain,
I was given the names of
SACCs current members.
For the record, they are Kyle
Villemain, Houston Summers,
Kiran Bhardwaj, Thomas
Gooding, Layla Quran, Ioan
Bolohan, Anne Baldridge, Harry
Edwards, Emma Zarriello,
Laura Limarzi, Lincoln
Pennington, Brandon Linz,
Andrew Brennen and Alexis
Flen. Two science majors, two
graduate students, one freshman, eight men, six women.
Membership, however, changes
every year, and the next administration will see new students
sit on it after the external
appointments process this year,
which is also overseen by the
student body vice president.
When SACC was founded
in 1995, its charter called for
12 members nominated by the
biggest student organizations
around campus. In this way, the
Campus Y, the Black Student
Movement, the Asian Students
Association and so on, each
chose a person to talk to the
chancellor once a month.
If that were done today, I can
see conflicts in actually choosing which organizations can
nominate, but that system is
better than having a few people
in student government select
its members.
The Summers administration ought to make this secretbut-integral committee transparent and democratic. Cmon,
at least update the website.

The Daily Tar Heel

EDITORIAL

Grading the graders

New school metrics
are so simple as to
be useless.

onsidering the barrage of newfangled

performance
metrics students now
face at school, its difficult
to understand how the
General Assembly could
think the old-fashioned,
five-letter grading scale
would be sufficient to provide a clear picture of the
performance of schools
themselves.
The correlation between
those schools which
received Ds and Fs
nearly one third and the
poverty of their student
populations is striking.
Poverty rates at F schools
uniformly top 50 percent.
The same was true of 97.9
percent of schools that
received a D.
More troubling still
have been the conclusions
legislators seem to have
drawn from the school
report cards.
If Im a principal of a D
school or an F school, Im
going to bust my fanny not
to be (on that list) again
next year, said Sen. Jerry
Tillman, R-Moore, in an
interview with NPRs All
Things Considered.

Tillmans words imply

a frightening unwillingness to grapple with what
actually causes schools
to underperform. He and
others in the General
Assembly seem to believe
that bad schools are bad
because their teachers
simply arent working
hard enough, that failing
grades will shake them out
of their stupors.
In reality, it is these
teachers who are forced
to work hardest to deal
with large class sizes,
meager resources and the
expectation of producing
adequate test scores from
students who likely receive
little academic support
outside the classroom.
State Superintendent
June Atkinson has said the
scores are a quick way to
determine where resources
need to go. This much is
certainly true, although a
quick look at school budgets would have yielded
nearly identical results.
But Atkinsons good
intentions stand little
chance against a metric
that seems to have been
devised to place the burden on poorer schools to
do more with less by a
General Assembly that
seems intent on making
the bleak evaluation of

the states public schools a

self-fulfilling prophesy.
As applied this year,
only one-fifth of a schools
grade is derived from its
students progress. The
remaining 80 percent is
based on standardized
testing. Tom Forcella,
the superintendent of
Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City schools, has called
for a greater emphasis on
student growth from one
year to the next in school
evaluation, even though
his district is among the
highest-achieving in the
state in absolute terms.
Those deciding upon
future metrics should
be wary of the attractive
simplicity of the fiveletter scale, especially one
whose bottom end connotes a failure of teacher
and student effort rather
than a failure of legislative
accountability to properly
support public schools. As
Forcella and others have
called for, these scales
should also recognize
student growth as being
at least as significant to a
schools evaluation as its
absolute performance.
If anyone deserves to
receive an F, its the General
Assemblys Republican
leadership, whose incompetence is plain and simple.

EDITORIAL

Ignored at every stage

The Oscars are
racist because
Hollywood is, too.

n just two days, the

Hollywood elite
will flock toward
the Dolby Theatre in
Hollywood, Calif. for the
87th Academy Awards.
Eventually, after
numerous forced jokes
and awkward hugs on the
red carpet, the awards
for the best films of 2014
will be given out. And
perhaps after its all said
and done, the producers
will pat themselves on
the back for putting on a
progressive show.
Its the second year in
a row that an openly gay
man or woman has hosted,
and its the fourth year in
a row that a film with an
African-American lead
is nominated for Best
Picture. But dont be fooled
by this veneer of inclusivity: Hollywood is still
incredibly monochromatic.
According to a study
done by UCLA in 2014,
the proportion of female
and minority actors, writers, directors and producers in film and TV ranges
from just one-twelfth to
one-half of their actual

percentage population.
Thats not to say that
you shouldnt watch the
awards show some
impressive films make
up the list of this years
nominees. But as you
are watching, be aware
of just how misleading
the demographics within
these films are compared
to the world in which we
actually live.
Around this time of
year especially, the Oscars
bears the brunt of the
blame for this disparity. But to solely indict
the Academy Awards is
shortsighted because of
the intrinsic link between
the Academy and the
American film industry.
Essentially, the only
American film in 2014
that fit the criteria for an
Oscar nomination and
portrayed anything other
than the story of the troubled, white protagonist
was Selma.
And while a lot of questions have been raised
about its apparent Oscarsnubbing, the more pertinent question to ask is
why Selma was the only
film in the conversation
for an Oscars nomination
that broke this mold.
The answer becomes

clearer when one considers the list of current

American directors who
have the most name
recognition due to their
bodies of work. While
the styles of these directors Christopher Nolan,
Martin Scorsese and
Quentin Tarantino to
name a few are varied,
their gender and race are
anything but.
Admittedly, it is completely up to the director
to cast a film as he or she
sees fit, but filmmakers
from underrepresented
backgrounds should also
be given the opportunity to explore complex
themes with their own
unique perspectives.
At its best, film allows
an audience to engage
with a director in an
extremely intimate,
human way. It is for that
reason film has the potential to become an influential tool in refuting preconceived notions across
race, gender and sexual
orientation. But until
Hollywood realizes the
potential of this notion
and acts upon it, be prepared for an awards show
that merely reinforces
the social barriers that it
could deconstruct.

TO THE EDITOR:
As I was reading Seth
Roses column, I couldnt
help but get teary-eyed.
That same day, I received
my five years of service certificate from the University.
Though five years is nothing
compared to 10 to 30 years
of service that others had, I
am proud and celebrating
nonetheless. Its five years of
honest hard work, sweat and
sometimes, tears.
I also cant help but
wonder, do we housekeepers really matter? A lot of
us are mothers. We spend
eight hours of our time each
day: Thats five days a week
doing things that probably
not everyone is willing to
do. Even on the days when
one of our kids are sick and
our problems are over the
hill, you still see us doing
our best to do our job with
patience, understanding, a
smile and a welcoming chitchat like you are our child.
I am writing this letter
for everyone that I crossed
paths with. To you who took
the time to get to know me,
spend a few minutes of your
time with me and appreciate
me for what I do and who I
am. I could have not done it
without you. Your kindness,
respect and appreciation
matters. It is my strength
when I feel like giving up,
and my joy when I feel like I
dont matter. Thank you for
being a part of my five years.
I owe you big time!
Charina Brooks
Housekeeping

Folt is the leader UNC

needs amid trouble
TO THE EDITOR:
During these unprecedented and challenging
times, it is understandable
that we focus on the difficult issues affecting our
campus, including the disturbing implications of the
Wainstein report, the troubled naming history of our
buildings, the overall governance of the University system and ongoing concerns
regarding student accessibility and affordability.
However, it is also
important to remember
that this University is a
complex enterprise with
tens of thousands of students, over 15 schools and a
multi-billion dollar budget.
Since Chancellor Carol
Folt arrived at UNC, she has
been tirelessly engaged with
students, staff, faculty and
members of the community
at large to address all the
issues facing Carolina. The
issues are challenging and
sensitive and, during these
times, we need a strong
leader who will make tough
decisions while balancing a
variety of perspectives.
Most importantly, we
need a leader that cares
deeply about what is best
for Carolina. Fortunately for
us, we have such a leader in
Chancellor Folt.
Bruce A. Cairns
Faculty Chairman

Kvetching board
kvetch:
v.1 (Yiddish) to complain
If I learned anything during the SBP campaign,
its the fact that Houston
Summers is Ryan Reynolds
long lost twin.
If you put on real pants
this Tuesday, youre doing
snow days wrong.
Women of UNC, Im not sure
how we are all of collegeaged and above yet still
havent quite fully grasped
the concept of flushing a
toilet after each use.
Alert Carolina: Do you stay
awake all night deciding
if 8 a.m. classes will be
cancelled or not? Because
I did while waiting for you
to decide.
Over the snow break I
spent my time wisely,
living vicariously through
the entirety of Super Mario
Sunshine from start to finish. Shoutout to me?
I feel like Buddy the Elf
waiting for Santa when it
snows. SAALERT CAROLINAAA!!!
There should be a mandatory first-year seminar for
all in-stater called: How to
Maneuver the Snow 101.
BRB while I freeze to death
on the way to class. Thanks
Carol.
Hey UNC students, instead
of spending your energy
protesting some a-hole
who died 124 years ago
maybe you could be
protesting the a-holes on
the BOG who are hurting
our campus right now. Just
sayin.
Fifty Shades of Grey? With
this weather its more like
Fifty Layers of Fleece
amirite?
Seriously considering taking an ostentatious tumble
in the pit just to really
drive home to Carol that
she done goofed.
The nice thing about
playing Duke is that even
if UNC loses, the Crazies
still have to wake up in the
morning and go to Duke.
Theres no sadder sight
than the police equipment that would have
been used in the event
of a Franklin Street rush
sitting untouched on the
sidewalk.
Houston Summers looks
like he could be Kathryn
Walkers babysitter.
New idea for the Pit redesign: Ice-skating rink.
If the Board of Governors
really wanted to shut
down the centers and
institutes, theyd just have
to install snow machines
outside all the liberal arts
buildings.
Win or lose, we shouldnt
have to go to class the
day after a Duke game:
It ought to be either a
national holiday or day of
mourning.
If the temperatures a
smaller number than the
time of my first class, Im
not going.
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