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Volume 123, Issue 9

Students
call for
higher
wages

Thursday, March 5, 2015

DPS investigating Cobb crash

The Campus Y hosted a


Raise Up for $15 campaign
event on Wednesday.
By Acy Jackson
Staff Writer

The message portrayed to students was clear.


Its just not fair, said healthcare
worker and panelist Mary Bell at
Wednesdays event in support of the
Raise Up for $15 campaign.
They want to overwork us and
underpay us, and I dont think its fair.
Raise Up for $15 is a national
movement demanding that the
minimum wage be increased to $15
an hour.
At the Campus Y event organized by Student Action with Workers
and Ignite NC adjunct professor
Robert Porter, four minimum wage
workers and the vice president of the
UNC Black Student Movement all
spoke on issues of job security and living on the minimum wage.
The four workers, who served on
a panel, shared their experiences and
struggles as well as why they feel the
minimum wage should be $15.
I work 60 hours a week and have
hardly no time with my 5-year-old
daughter, said Ebony Hughes, who
holds three different minimum wage
jobs. My income is always in the
negative when it comes to that math
the math of life.
Eric Winston, a Waffle House
employee, said he makes $2.19 an
hour plus tips.
He highlighted the racial aspects
of inequality and how he feels that
nobody should have to live this way.
It really ties into a racial issue of
equality, financial equality, access
to equal education, safe communities from theft and police violence,
Winston said.
I deserve more, you deserve
more, your future deserve more,
my kids, everybody deserves more.
Theres a value in black life and
black work.
While many panelists had written
speeches, the fourth panelist stood
up and spoke extemporaneously
about her experience.
Im not getting a raise from any
of the jobs Im working, but my rent
kept going up and up every year,
said Shawnette Lubin, a certified
nursing assistant.
Lubin attended nursing school,
expecting the education would
improve her job options.
I thought that education would be
a safety net, and it wasnt, she said.
Lubin is currently living in a
homeless shelter with her two children. She said she makes $8 an hour.
All the speakers discussed how
there are so many factors that are not
considered when thinking about minimum wage work, such as childcare,
rising rent and unavailable raises.
We cant afford to quit the
lights go off if we quit, Hughes said.
The panelists answered questions
after the event, which led to discussions about privilege, oppression
and lack of understanding from
managers and supervisors.
If (managers) had to walk in our
shoes, they would care more, Bell
said. We have the hardest jobs, and
no one cares.
The event was held to raise
awareness for a march in Raleigh
on April 15, organized in support of
raising the minimum wage.
There are people out there that
want to see people doing good,
Winston said.
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DTH/MONA BAZZAZ
A driver crashed into a parked vehicle on Country Club Road behind Cobb Residence Hall early Wednesday morning and fled the scene before police arrived.

An early morning hit-and-run dragged a car into a light pole


By Mona Bazzaz
Staff Writer

On a cold and quiet Tuesday


night, Cobb residents were jolted
awake with a bang.
Someone was driving on
Country Club Road heading toward
South Road and hit a parked
car, dragging it into a light pole,
according to the Department of
Public Safety.
The car responsible for the crash
was abandoned and still running
by the time the police arrived, witnesses said.
DPS is still investigating the
hit-and-run that happened around
1:26 a.m. Wednesday morning.
DPS spokesman Randy Young
said the driver who caused the
crash fled the scene.
We do know the owner of that
car, however, and we are following

some leads, and it is under investigation, Young said.


Cobb resident Cain Twyman,
who is also a reporter for The Daily
Tar Heel, said she owns the car that
was hit. The car is registered under
her sister Nia Twyman, but Cain
Twyman said she was using the car
at school.
Cain Twyman said she and her
sister had bought the used car just
this year.
But Young said the accident
report listed the owner of the car
that was hit as Yasco Salim.
Salim was at the scene but
claimed he was just a bystander.
Salim, who was visiting a friend, said
he was walking down Country Club
Road when the accident happened.
That was the craziest shit I ever
saw, Salim said. I was walking
by here and I heard boom, and I
looked and thought the guy in the

car was hurt. I ran up to the car,


and I was like Dude are you OK?
and he was like, Im fine, and then
he started running.
Young said the accident caused
$3,000 worth of damages to the
parked car and $7,000 to the car
that caused the accident, which
was a 2003 Nissan.
So we dont have anything
more to release on that, but we
are locating and making contact
with the owner, Young said of the
driver of the car who caused the
accident.
The crash knocked out a couple
street lights, residents said, which
made it difficult to see much of
anything.
It sounded like an explosion,
Cobb resident Mason Boyles said.
I was in bed and I looked out the
window and saw what looked like
lightning, but then there was a big

sound and I guess the explosion


was that of the street light.
Boyles said he didnt see anyone
running away from the scene.
Soren Watson and Valerie Davis,
who were both in Cobb, were the
first to come outside to see the accident and call 911.
Davis added that she saw a halfeaten burrito in the drivers seat of
the abandoned car.
I heard a large crash from my
room, and I looked out the window, Watson said. I saw a blinking red light and what looked like
two cars, and then I saw someone
jogging in that direction.
Junior Ashley Creese also saw
the accident and said what Salim
and Watson recalled was true.
I saw the guy running away,
Creese said.
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Legislators knock politics of redistricting


A bipartisan group of lawmakers
wants N.C. to reform its process.
By Kate Grise
Senior Writer

Seventy-seven percent of North Carolinas U.S.


House of Representatives delegation is Republican
while just 55 percent of North Carolina voters
cast ballots for Republican U.S. House candidates
during the 2014 general election.
For decades, both congressional and state
legislative districts throughout North Carolina
have been subject to gerrymandering, or manipulating the boundaries of political districts to
sway elections in a particular partys favor. The
phenomenon is commonplace in more than half
of the states, where state legislatures are tasked
with redistricting after each new census.
The way redistricting gets done these days
does not reflect the population of the state,
said Jane Pinsky, director of the North Carolina
Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform.
A bipartisan group of 63 N.C. House members
is trying to change that with House Bill 92, which
would establish a nonpartisan redistricting commission to oversee the process starting in 2020.
I think that redistricting is important to the
functioning that governs the state, said Rep.
Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, a primary sponsor
of the bill. I think that well all get a better result if

SEE GERRYMANDERING, PAGE 7

North Carolinas 12th congressional district, known as the squiggly line

The district was drawn by a Republican-controlled legislature in 2010 and largely conforms to Interstate-85. Stretching from Charlotte to
Greensboro, its been cited by political analysts as one of the most gerrymandered districts in the country. Its represented by Alma Adams.

733,499
population of
Congressional
District 12

Winston Salem

549.7

Greensboro

High Point

total land area


(square miles)

counties
included

Charlotte

representative
Congressional District 12
SOURCE: US CENSUS DATA

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White Supremacy: Difficult
Conversations Series: Andrew
Perrin, UNC sociology professor, will moderate a discussion
among faculty about the racial
history of the University. Kia
Caldwell associate professor
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diaspora studies will open the
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block of North Greensboro
Street at 12:56 a.m. Monday,
according to Carrboro police
reports.
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a woman screaming, reports
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ames Wallis, originally from New York, plays


guitar on the steps of the East Rosemary
Street parking deck on Wednesday afternoon.
(I have been) meeting people from all over the
world, playing music with them, Wallis said.

pute at the 100 block of Pine


Street at 11:30 p.m. Monday,
according to Carrboro police
reports.
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at the 100 block of North
Greensboro Street at 12:21
p.m. Tuesday, according to
Carrboro police reports.
Someone reported a
dispute at the 300 block of
Smith Level Road at 5:57
p.m. Tuesday, according to
Carrboro police reports.
The person said their
roommate was yelling at them
and making weird remarks,
reports state.
Someone reported
harassment at 1301 Mason
Farm Road at 12:45 p.m.
Monday, according to reports
from the UNC Department of
Public Safety.

Residents spar over bamboo forest


By Erin Kolstad
Staff Writer

Bamboo: a pandas favorite


food source and at least one
homeowners worst nightmare.
Chapel Hill resident Gregg
Marcellus said bamboo is
invading his yard. The bamboo
forest in his neighbors yard has
roots that grow underground
and spread onto his property.
Marcellus has lived in his
house for nine years, and he
has been dealing with the
neighbors invasive bamboo
since he moved in.
He sent an email to the
Chapel Hill Town Council
asking about any ordinances
that would deal with the
bamboo invasion and require
his neighbor to put in a barrier to prevent spread.
I usually just knock it
down, but eventually you
have to dig the roots out,
Marcellus said in a telephone
interview. I probably dug
about 15 feet to dig underneath the roots, but then
there are extensions you have
to dig around. It was a day of

back-breaking work.
Bamboo is one of the
fastest growing plants, with
some species growing 24 to
36 inches in a day. Marcellus
said his neighbors yard is
filled with bamboo stalks that
are 50 to 60 feet tall.
It is just a wall of bamboo
when I look out my window
towering in the air, he said.
In Long Island, N.Y., invasive bamboo is such an issue
among homeowners that one
municipality charges a fine
of $350 and up to 15 days in
jail for planting the bamboo.
Another town in the area will
charge up to $2,000 for a
first offense and $3,000 for
subsequent violations.
Mike Klein, a zoning
enforcement officer for Chapel
Hill, said bamboo is not specifically listed on the schedule
of invasive species, so there is
not an ordinance in place to
address Marcellus complaint.
It is a private party dispute between property owners, Klein said.
Landscape architect Emily
Cameron said this kind of dis-

pute between homeowners is a


civil matter since it occurs on a
single-family residential lot.
If a developer were
to propose planting it as
part of a non-residential,
multifamily, commercial
or mixed-use project, the
town would only allow it
in a planter or container
with proper root control,
Cameron said in an email.
I dont recall bamboo being
proposed on a development
project in the last 15 years.
Marcellus has gotten in
touch with his neighbor
before but has just been told
to be patient. He said two
other houses in his neighborhood are also impacted by the
spreading bamboo.
All I want him to do is create a barrier so the bamboo
cant go from his yard to my
yard, Marcellus said.
Homeowners can buy a
plastic sheet to build a barrier
to protect and control bamboo. Two hundred feet of the
plastic can cost around $400.
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Israeli
leader
speaks to
Congress

Thursday, March 5, 2015

50 shades tackles colorism

President Obama and


others had opposed
Netanyahus visit.
By Corey Risinger
Staff Writer

Israeli Prime Minister


Benjamin Netanyahu followed
through with a controversial
appearance at a joint session of
Congress on Tuesday where
he assailed Iranian military
threats and U.S. nuclear negotiations with the nation.
President Barack Obama publicly opposed Netanyahus visit,
and he had previously declined a
meeting because of approaching
Israeli elections and potential
progress in nuclear talks between
Iran and the U.S.
Netanyahus speech was
coordinated by House Speaker
John Boehner, who invited the
Prime Minister in the interest of
bipartisan leadership through
a Jan. 21 letter. Boehners perceived slight toward Obama
created a partisan element to the
affair and caused a number of
politicians, including Obama, to
boycott the appearance.
Naomi Dann, a spokeswoman for Jewish Voice for
Peace, an organization promoting international human rights,
said it led a campaign demanding that nearly 60 members of
Congress skip the speech.
Dann said the organization
has long objected to Netanyahus
claim that he speaks for all Jews.
But Frank Pray, vice president
of UNCs Christians United for
Israel group, said Netanyahu had
a justified and moral obligation
to speak in front of Congress.
Netanyahu appealed to his
audience through comparisons
between action against Iran and
those against the Nazis.
My friend, standing up to
Iran is not easy, Netanyahu
said. Standing up to dark and
murderous regimes never is.
Despite the severity of such an
emotional reference, Pray said he
believes the prime minister carefully considered the statement.
I think that Prime Minister
Netanyahu knows what hes
doing, Pray said.
Still, Dann said she thinks
such a broad comparison to the
Holocaust was inappropriate.
Omid Safi, director of Duke
Universitys Islamic Studies
Center, said Netanyahus speech
was motivated by Israels desire
to establish geopolitical power
and defy international law.
This perspective revives the
dark and savage discourse of the
19th-century colonialism about
white, civilized people schooling
allegedly primitive dark savages,
Safi said in an email.
Obama issued a response to
Netanyahus speech in a news
conference Tuesday, noting that
such invitations are supposed
to run through the executive
branch and not Congress and
questioning Netanyahus alternatives to U.S. negotiations.
Prime Minister Netanyahu
has not offered any kind of viable
alternative that would achieve
the same verifiable mechanism
to prevent Iran from getting a
nuclear weapon, Obama said.
Obama refuted the claim
that stricter economic sanctions
would discourage future Iranian
nuclear development, citing
decades of failed attempts.
Obamas remarks come after
talks with Iran dating back to
2013, when the P5 + 1 the
negotiating team of the U.S.,
the U.K., Germany, France,
Russia and China established
its objectives. These included
allowing only a peaceful nuclear
program in Iran and gradually
scaling back the supply of centrifuges and nuclear equipment.
But Obama assured that
this policy difference between
America and Israel would not
endanger the nations alliance.
Pray said the UNC organization disagrees with proposed
U.S. plans for decreasing
nuclear capability but believes
Netanyahus speech will not
cause any permanent divisions
between the U.S. and Israel.
We both believe in freedom,
individual liberty. Thats something that many other nations
dont have, and thats forever
forced a bond between us.
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UNCs Black Student Movement holds a discussion about colorism, what it means and whom it affects on Wednesday afternoon in the SASB Upendo Lounge.

Black Student Movement hosted the panel event Wednesday


By Luman Ouyang
Staff Writer

Junior Jaelyn Coates grew up resenting her


skin color.
I also resented black people in general, to be
honest, because I thought I didnt have a place.
As I was growing up, I didnt want to be told I am
black, I am a black woman, Coates said. I am
not black! Im a mix.
Coates joined six other panelists and about 50
students Wednesday at Fifty Shades of Black, an
event addressing the prevalence of colorism a
type of discrimination in which people with lighter skin are treated better than people with darker
skin, in the black community.
Coates said she tried to detach herself from the
black community at first but changed her attitude
during college, where she met people of different
skin colors and races.
I felt a lot more comfortable of being just who
I was, Coates said. Now I am proud of being a
black woman.
Senior Alyssa Townsend said she first thought

about her skin color at about 11 years old.


When Townsend was in middle school, she
said she thought she could not be sexy because of
her dark skin.
I always thought, I am cute, but I cant be
sexy because you have to be a lighter skin to be
sexy, she said.
In college, Townsend once referred to herself
as being dark-skinned, but said she was corrected
the moment she said it.
I was like OK thats just how I see
myself. Its kind of catching ourselves in our own
mindsets, Townsend said.
Junior Shadai McMillan said a lot of men
criticize women with darker skin, but this issue is
rarely talked about. She pointed out that plenty of
black women criticize black men as well.
Even before we say, overall, black men are all
in this together, we need to look at each other
because each gender is doing its fair share of taking each other down, she said. We have to realize what were doing. Its not only joking.
McMillan said colorism is becoming integrated
into peoples daily lives, including jokes or stereo-

types that are associated with colorism in the media.


Coates suggested the black community unite to
address colorism.
Colorism stems from racism. If we want to fight
the bigger challenge, the bigger issues, we have to
decide for ourselves, decide our differences, and
work on the real problem on hand. Light skin, or
dark skin, were all black. Were a community, so we
need to come together in that sense, Coates said.
Senior Tyshawn Sutton said he came to this
event to see how other members in the black
community, specifically at UNC, view colorism.
I found that the black community is very
united, and they would like to see the end of colorism, he said.
Sutton is biracial, a Puerto Rican American.
He said he was sometimes called yellow.
I dont know if I have a tough skin, but I never
thought that I was affected by color jokes. But
then again, I am lighter than some of the panelists, so a darker-skin male might experience
something different, Sutton said.
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Wheelchair basketball changes perspectives


The game was used to
raise awareness for
disabilities on campus.
By Brielle Kronstedt
Staff Writer

The well-trodden bricks in front


of Davis Library transformed into
something other than a path for
frantic students rushing to cram for
midterms on Wednesday.
Passing students stared quizzically
at the basketball hoop and cluster of
wheelchairs surrounding it.
The disability subcommittee of
Best Buddies a group that supports
people with intellectual and developmental disabilities organized a
four-hour pickup wheelchair basketball game to raise awareness about
disabilities on campus.
The substitutes for the game
included UNC basketball players
Kennedy Meeks, Justin Jackson and
Sasha Seymore. A crowd gathered,
entertained by their attempts to
adjust their famous shooting skills
to wheelchair play.
It was difficult. It was the first
time I have ever done it of course,
but its always fun to find out how
life is for others, Meeks said.
Best Buddies President Jack

Witty said the event received a lot


of attention, and the wheelchairs
were never empty.
We wanted to do something
really fun that was very visible on
campus and would ultimately raise
the standing of people with disabilities here at UNC, he said.
The Carolina Athletic Association
donated a phase one Duke ticket for
Saturdays game as a part of Beat
Duke Week. The ticket was awarded
to the winner of an around-theworld shooting game.
They fired off a tweet 10 minutes
before they wanted the event to start,
and people were literally running to
sign up, Witty said.
Elizabeth Schroeder, Campus Y
co-chairwoman of Best Buddies, came
up with the idea for the event because,
like many UNC students, she loves
basketball.
Especially if we had some basketball players come out and play and
show their support for disability rights,
we thought that would draw a lot of
people in and expose them to ideas
they havent heard before, she said.
Tyler Petty, a JV basketball player,
played for a while alongside Meeks
and Seymore.
I think its a great way to raise
awareness its interesting to see
people rolling around in wheelchairs
outside of a library, especially with

DTH/KATY MURRAY
UNC Best Buddies held a wheelchair basketball game in front of Davis Library
on Wednesday. Players from the varsity and JV basketball teams participated.

Kennedy Meeks, he said.


Best Buddies has two more major
events planned this semester a talk
by motivational speaker Kyle Maynard
and Joy Prom, a dance held for community members with disabilities.
We are having a really incredible
month, and it looks like its just going
to go up from here, so this was a great
starting point for us, Witty said.
Schroeder, who also took a shot at

wheelchair basketball, said she feels


the event was successful at reaching
students and creating conversation.
I think today just reaffirmed how
difficult it is and how impressed I
am by people who play it, she said.
I hope other people who played
felt that as well it garnered a new
respect for paralympic sports.
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Director leaves Inter-Faith Council for health


Elizabeth Waugh-Duford
will stay to finish a policy
on a transitional program.
By Bridget Dye
Staff Writer

After just eight months in the


position, Elizabeth Waugh-Duford
has left her post at the Inter-Faith
Council for Social Service.
The council runs the only homeless shelters in Orange County.
HomeStart is a shelter for women
and children, and Community House
is an emergency shelter for men.
The residential services director is
responsible for both shelters and
works with community partners on a
daily basis.
Waugh-Duford, the councils

former residential services director,


stepped down for health reasons.
Waugh-Duford was replaced by
Stephani Kilpatrick, who began her
work at IFC as an intern in 2008.
Leaving is not something I
wanted and not something the organization wanted, but its what I need
to do for my health and my family,
Waugh-Duford said.
John Dorward, executive director
of the IFC, said Waugh-Duford will
be missed.
Shes got great boundaries, and
she really cares about the people that
were working with, he said. Trying
to get them back on their feet and
back into independent living.
Kilpatrick said she has become
attached to the council in her time
working there.
I developed a passion for this
population and this agency, so Im

really glad to be able to step up into


a bigger role, she said.
Kilpatrick previously worked as
a social worker at both the women
and childrens shelter and the mens
shelter.
Im hoping that what I can bring
is a good balance between employees perspectives, because Ive been
an employee of both shelters, and at
the same time be a resident advocate because I am trained as a social
worker, she said.
During its residential services
transition, the IFC is also working
to rent out space in its administrative building in Carrboro at 110 W.
Main St. after two long-term tenants
moved out. The council rents space
to other non-profits in Carrboro.
Dorward said the space is ideal for
nonprofits because it offers reasonable rent, and the organization sees

many of the same clients potential


renters might.
Along with finding new nonprofit
tenants, the councils next big project
will be opening a new mens shelter
in August. It will be a transitional
facility rather than an emergency
one, Waugh-Duford said. WaughDuford will work part time for the
group for another week or two while
she finishes a new policy manual
outlining the transitional program,
she said.
Kilpatrick said she has worked
with Waugh-Duford since June.
Im excited about my position,
but Im really sad to see Elizabeth
go, Kilpatrick said. Shes done
so many good things for us in the
short amount of time that shes
been here.
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News

Thursday, March 5, 2015

The Daily Tar Heel

Harrell family legacy alive and well at UNC


By Karli Krasnipol
Staff Writer

With three generations


of dentists and three past
presidents of the North
Carolina Dental Society, the
Harrell family is a treasure
to the town of Elkin and the
University alike.
Jim Harrell Sr., 92,
attended undergraduate
school at UNC before there
was a dental program, following in the family dentistry business his father,
Roy B. Harrell, established.
Although Roy Harrell did
not attend the University,
there is an annual Roy B.
Harrell Symposium at the
dental school in his honor.
Today, Jim Harrell Sr. has

two sons that practice, both of


whom graduated from UNCs
School of Dentistry.
Jim Harrells love for UNC
began in the 1940s. He was a
part of the class of 1944 and
has been a member of the
Carolina family ever since.
Jim Harrell, who has
served as the mayor of Elkin
and as the president of UNCs
General Alumni Association,
reflected on many of his
favorite memories over the
past 71 years, including the
UNC mens basketball team
national championship title
in 1957.
Oh my goodness, I
couldnt believe how excited I
was, he said.
Jim Harrell said he appreciated the way the University

community handled the


recent passing of his personal friend, the late Coach
Dean Smith.
I was a real good friend
of Dean Smiths, said Jim
Harrell.
Jim Harrell was even
at the ceremony when the
basketball arena was named
the Dean E. Smith Center.
Harrell said the humble coach
was reluctant at first.
I was there when he didnt
want it named after him, but
he finally gave in. And when
he did, he wanted it named
Dean Edwards Smith, Jim
Harrell said.
He remained involved with
the University after graduating, as World War II was
coming to a close.

UNC-system happenings

For several years we had


an annual Carolina Giving
campaign, which was raising money to supplement
salaries for professors to try
and keep them there, Jim
Harrell said.
He later started a fund to
raise salary and sabbatical
for young professors in the
name of Hugh and Richard
Chatham.
His contributions have
been so important to the dental school that an award was
named after him.
The James A. Harrell Sr.
Citizenship and Leadership
Award is given to a dental student who brings leadership,
enthusiasm, wisdom and service to his or her profession.
I have been doing some

type of volunteer job in the


dental school or Carolina ever
since I got out, he said.
Following in their fathers
footsteps, brothers Jim
Harrell Jr. and Gavin Harrell
both have their own dentistry
practices in Elkin.
Jim Harrell Jr. and Gavin
Harrell agreed the best part
about being a dentist is taking
care of their community.
My grandfather started
care in 1916, Gavin Harrell
said. Its just a part of a tradition thats fun to be a part of.
Besides dentistry, the
Harrell brothers other love
is UNC.
We just loved everything
about it, said Gavin Harrell.
The atmosphere, you know,
small town, but all the oppor-

Part of a update on
UNC-system schools.

Sexual assault reported at NCSU

UNC-W track might shut down

Civic Engagement center closes

N.C. State University


and police are investigating a sexual assault
reported on Sunday.
The victim reported
that she had been sexually
assaulted at a fraternity
party at the Alpha Tau Omega house on Varsity
Drive in Raleigh. N.C. State police said no
further details could be released. Several investigations into the incident are ongoing.
One is on the criminal side, and thats being
led by university police, and the other is on the
university side, who have to determine if there
have been any violations of the student conduct
code, said spokesman Fred Hartman.

UNC-Wilmington
recently chose to shut
down its track and field
team for financial reasons
but the Save UNC-W
Track group has stepped
in to save the day.
Roy Love, a leader of the group, said
UNC-W administrators said if the group can
raise $250,000, it could compete next year. If
the group raises $800,000, the university said
the team would be sustained beyond 2016.
This is an outreach project to all folks
who support active lifestyles and support
track and really look at how important it is
to exercise, Love said.

N.C. Central
Universitys Institute for
Civic Engagement and
Social Change was one
of the three centers shut
down by the UNC Board
of Governors on Friday.
Jarvis Hall, director of the institute, said
the mission of the center was to build civic
engagement. He said their work was effective, with student voter turnout and student
engagement increasing. The center was also
helping develop a new curriculum for the
universitys political science department.
He said his reaction was one of disappointment and bewilderment, especially
since it is still not clear to him why the
institute was closed.
Based on the reasons that they said, I dont
see how they apply to our particular institute,
Hall said. It may be that they are concerned
for the kinds of issues that we raise, but these
are not issues that should be controversial and
that people should be concerned with.

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Compiled by staff writer Haley McDougal.

UNC-C in system for 50 years


Fifty years ago,
Charlotte College
became the fourth institution to join the UNC
system today, UNCCharlotte is the fastest
growing public univer-

sity in the state.


Bells were rung and celebrations were
in order at the university on Monday.
Chancellor Philip Dubois recognized several
people who had a crucial role in its founding, according to a press release.
Im delighted to have two of those individuals here with us today: Mr. Irwin Belk
and Dr. Loy Witherspoon, he said.
Belk was the state senator responsible
for pushing the legislation through the N.C.
General Assembly in 1965 that allowed the
university to join the UNC system. Dubois said
Witherspoon was the universitys grounding force and moral compass, serving as the
Department of Religious Studies chairman
and as the campus chaplain in its early years.

Art students pursue passions


through unpaid internships
Nationally, more than
half of all arts majors
accept unpaid work.
By Elizabeth Baker
Staff Writer

UNC senior Miles


Bonsignore spent his summer
making his hobby his job.
Not only was he a script
intern at NBCs Late Night
with Seth Meyers a job he
thought far-fetched when he
applied he also spent his
days off immersing himself in
New York Citys comedy scene.
The communication studies and dramatic art major
spent his days trying to find
his comedic voice. His nights
consisted of watching comedy
shows and taking classes at
the Upright Citizens Brigade
improvisation comedy theater.
An internship isnt
just about the internship,
Bonsignore said. Its about
where youre going and how
youre spending the rest of
your time and treating your
creative hobbies like a job and
working at it like a job.
He treated the experience
like a job, but the internship
was unpaid. Bonsignore said
pay wasnt a huge factor in his
internship search.
Bonsignore wasnt the

Time to start thinking about

Summer School

tunities of a big school and a


big campus.
Jim Harrell Jr. agrees that
there is a lot to love about
UNC.
I love the fact that its
a public university and the
strides they make to fulfilling
that purpose of being a public
university in the state, the
nation and the world.
To the Harrells, dentistry
means more than just the
business. Gavin Harrell said
he feels dentistry is more
about serving people and
doing what he loves.
They say if you do what
you love to do, youll never
work a day in your life, and I
havent worked in 37 years.

DTH/JUSTIN PRYOR
Miles Bonsignore lived in New York City this summer and worked
as a script intern for NBC at Late Night with Seth Meyers.

only artist doing unpaid work


this summer. Research from
Michigan State University
showed that only 43 percent
of arts and humanities majors
reported taking a paid internship and 68 percent of companies in the arts, entertainment
and broadcast sector offer
mostly unpaid internships.
I would have taken anything. I feel like Im young,
and if I need to take something unpaid, thats just kind
of how it has to be because it
gets my face in there, he said.
If I wasnt getting paid currently, I could put in groundwork for a job in the future.
Payment did factor into
senior studio art major Kerry
OSheas internship search
OShea couldnt take an unpaid
summer internship unless it
was close to her hometown
in Maine. When she didnt
find a paid internship in cities such as Boston and New
York, she accepted a graphic
design internship with the
Greater Portland Convention
and Visitors Bureau, a mere 10
minutes from home.
To offset the internship,
the studio art major worked a
retail job five days a week.
In the search, the hardest
thing is probably having to
cope with the unpaid aspect,
she said. You have to compromise sometimes as a college student and go with an
unpaid one.
OShea said her internship
added to her education by
focusing more on the commercial applications of fine
art applications she said
are found more in professional schools like UNCs
School of Journalism and Mass
Communication than in her
studio art major.
It was really good to get a
real world application of the

The hardest thing


is probably having
to cope with the
unpaid aspect.
Kerry OShea,
senior studio art major

design principles that I pick up


in studio art classes, she said.
Madeline Hurley, a senior
journalism and dramatic art
major, is interning at Carolina
Performing Arts as an artist
relations intern, from which
she receives a small stipend per
semester.
Hurley discovered halfway
through college that she wanted to work in the arts professionally.
CPA brings in amazing artists, so Ive got great opportunities to meet and interact with
some of them, she said.
Bonsignore is moving forward with plans to move to
New York City or Los Angeles
after graduation, already using
his connections to begin a new
project hes hoping to start
at an entertainment company.
If that doesnt happen, he
plans to work in a restaurant,
write his own material and
continue to build relationships
with people in the comedy and
entertainment industries.
No matter which scenario
plays out, Bonsignore is excited for the future.
On the one hand, if I get
something at a pre-existing
company, then Ill be able
to start on something thats
already beautiful and already
flourishing, he said. Or, on the
other hand, if I dont get something right away, Ill be able to
create my own work, which is
also super exciting.
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InFocus

The Daily Tar Heel

Thursday, March 5, 2015

SAME HITS, NEW IMPACT


A 2010 survey by the NCAA assessed the reporting practices of
student-athletes who had experienced a diagnosed or suspected concussion.

SOCCER
Women

LACROSSE

Men

Women

Self-reported concussions

Men

Self-reported concussions

None

None

79 percent

79.5 percent

76.8 percent

74.4 percent
Once

16.8 percent

17.8 percent
Multiple

100

Multiple

20

30

14.3 percent

40

13.9 percent

50

60

70

80

Once

7.1 percent

6.2 percent

6.4 percent

7.8 percent

Concussion risk compared to


a baseline set by track and field

Concussion risk compared to


a baseline set by track and field
Lacrosse

Soccer
4.1

3.7

3.7

4.4
Softball/Baseball

1.0

1.8

1.0

1.7

Ice Hockey

Basketball

5.7

Track & Field

4.0

3.2
SOURCE: SELF-REPORTED CONCUSSION AMONG NCAA STUDENT-ATHLETES: FEBRURARY 2014

DTH/HEATHER CAUDILL, KRISTI WALKER, KAITLYN KELLY

2.8

Concussions wrack Impact has a price


for men in lacrosse
womens soccer
Researchers at UNC
are working to stop
soccer head injuries.
By Brendan Marks
Assistant Sports Editor

For UNCs concussion


experts, its not about what
theyve done yet its about
what theyre going to do.
According to data compiled by the Womens Sports
Foundation, soccer is the
most highly concussed
womens sport offered at UNC
a statistic that has given
researchers at the Matthew
Gfeller Sport-Related
Traumatic Brain Injury
Research Center plenty of
questions to answer.
Is there something about
a hot, humid day where youre
dehydrated, which affects,
potentially, your cerebrospinal fluid levels, and so your
brain is not as buoyant? said
Dr. Jason Mihalik, co-director
of the Gfeller Center and an
associate professor in the
exercise and sport science
department.
Could it be anticipation?
If you see a hit coming, you
can prepare for it?
Is it that some people are
just genetically robust, and
they can handle these types of
collisions and others cant?
The answer is the same for
all three nobody knows.
At least not yet.

Getting the ball rolling


The 2014 group was the first
North Carolina womens soccer
team to be studied, but it wont
be the last.
Mihaliks staff outfitted
each player with an xPatch
a chapstick-sized accelerometer that tucks hidden behind
the right ear.
The purpose is simple:
When players incur head
impacts, the accelerometer
measures those forces.
The patches monitor both
rotational and linear acceleration. Rotational acceleration happens when the head
turns or rotates following
an impact, whereas linear

You can be strong as an ox, but if you dont


see it coming, who cares?
Dr. Jason Mihalik,
co-director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center

acceleration occurs when the


head moves suddenly in a
particular direction.
With video assistance, the
xPatch becomes even more
useful. Researchers watch
game tape alongside their
hit data to determine who
exactly got hit and how
hard at different points in
the game.
You can be strong as an
ox, but if you dont see it coming, who cares? Mihalik said.
The ability to measure
these things in real time,
which is the key is just very,
very, very difficult.
It might be, but researchers
and coaches believe the potential benefits are worth it.
That starts with the coach,
a 22-time national champion
in womens soccer: Anson
Dorrance.
Dorrance recognizes that
data show his athletes are
more easily concussed than
their male counterparts, and
hes willing to try different
experiments if they could help
his team.
I know theres a colleague
of mine in Denmark that is
building a womens soccer
ball and she is trying to
introduce it in the leagues
in Europe that is a little
bit lighter and maybe a tad
smaller, Dorrance said.
But Dorrance has another
idea, and it revolves around
Roy Baroff.
Baroff was one of
Dorrances players early in
his mens coaching career,
but the left defender had a
quirk he never used his
head.
Because he never headed
the ball, he developed an
incredible amount of skill
because any ball that was
played to him in the air, he
didnt head it, Dorrance
said. He would back up and
chest it.
Brandi Chastain, formerly
a defender for the United
States womens soccer team,

has proposed a similar solution to reduce the potential


for head injuries: eliminate
heading in the youth game
until the age of 14 and slowly
work it in from then on.
Doing so would not only
mean fewer head-to-head collisions going for balls in the
air but also more awareness
about the dangers of concussions.
Regardless of the solution,
experts say theres more that
has to change than just policy.

Changing expectations
Theres a perception that
every hit over the accelerometer-triggering 10 G might
cause an injury.
I think that that is inherently problematic in defining
the precise threshold due to
individual variability. I dont
think its going to end up
being a one-size-fits-all kind
of problem, said Dr. Dan
Kaufer, director of the UNC
Memory Disorders Program.
Some boxers can just sit
there and take a punch and
look like theyre not affected
at all, and other people take
the same punch and theyre
down on their back and it
can be the same punch.
The truth of the situation
is that, like different eyes or
fingerprints, every person has
a unique brain.
But its another perception,
too that as long as the pain
is manageable, playing is all
right.
What people really have
to alter is the expectation
that playing through a concussion is not the same as
playing through an elbow
injury or a knee injury,
Kaufer said. Having the
effects of a concussion and
still playing is likely going to
make them less effective in
performing that sport and
also makes them more liable

SEE WOMENS SOCCER, PAGE 6

This year, concussion


experts will study
UNC lacrosse players.
By Logan Ulrich
Staff Writer

Impact.
Its part of why contact
sports like football are so
popular. We engage in them
to feel a sense of achievement, not just physically, but
emotionally.
But impact has a price.
In recent years, concussions have become a source
of controversy for sports like
football and hockey. A growing body of research shows
the impact of playing lingers
long after the last hit.
Parents throughout the
country are questioning
whether its safe for their
children to play youth
football and seeking safer
options like soccer and
lacrosse and researchers
at UNC are trying to answer
those questions.
Working off a joint program between the NCAA
and the U.S. Department of
Defense, UNC has been on
the cutting edge of concussion research in football
for more than a decade.
Because of a combination of
technological advances and
$1.1 million in grant funding, UNC has expanded its
research to other sports,
including lacrosse.
Starting this season,
researchers at UNC are
partnering with the North
Carolina mens lacrosse team
to study how much force
players endure on the field
and how much force causes
a concussion. Jason Mihalik,
assistant professor in the
Department of Exercise and
Sport Science and co-director
of the Matthew Gfeller SportRelated Traumatic Brain
Injury Research Center, is
leading the research.
Weve studied collision
sports such as ice hockey and
football so long, said Kevin
Guskiewicz, co-director of the
Gfeller Center.
This is an opportunity to
look at sports that havent

been studied as closely.


Because its a full-contact
sport in which objects are
wielded with high velocities near players heads,
lacrosse was an apt choice for
researchers to study.
Using accelerometers
attached behind players ears,
researchers can measure
impact in real time, letting
them pinpoint the exact hit
that caused a concussion.
They then review the circumstances and severity of the hit.
The accelerometers are set
to trigger with an impact of
10 G, which excludes basic
activities like running or
jumping, Mihalik said. The
average football impact is
around 22 G, while concussion impacts often exceed
80 to 90 G and have been
measured as high as 168 G
more than some high-speed
NASCAR crashes.
But suffering a hit over 80
G doesnt necessarily cause a
concussion for an athlete, he
said. There are a multitude
of factors that contribute to
whether an athlete sustains
a concussion or not, though
researchers dont yet have
specific answers.
Why can someone get
involved in this 35-mile-perhour car crash on the field
and pop up and be perfectly
fine and someone else not?
Mihalik said. Thats what
weve been trying to figure
out for the better part of a
decade now.
Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in the U.S.,
due in part to the popular
perception that while its still
a contact sport, collisions
occur much less frequently
than in football.
Although the body of
research concerning concussions in lacrosse is still in its
infancy, it does show that
lacrosse yields the third highest concussion rate for youth
sports behind football and
hockey. A study published in
2014 by The American Journal
of Sports Medicine found 22
percent of injuries suffered by
high school lacrosse players
between 2008 and 2012 were
concussions.
Unfortunately, its relatively common in our sport,

North Carolina mens lacrosse


coach Joe Breschi said. Weve
lost probably five kids for
their career from multiple
concussions.
Player-to-player contact
is the most common cause
of concussions in the sport.
Players can be blindsided by
hits, and the hitting players
can give themselves concussions by leading with their
helmets. To combat this,
coaches and referees emphasize heads up hitting.
If youre taught the proper
techniques, its pretty hard to
get a concussion, said Patrick
McCormick, a freshman on
UNCs lacrosse team.
Possible rule changes in
the mens game include faceoffs, where two players are
crouching and have to fight
for possession of the ball, and
increasing the penalty referees give for headhunting.
Down the road, the research
UNC is doing could provide
an answer to what Mihalik
calls a fierce debate concerning whether or not to add
helmets to the womens game.
As lacrosse players have
gotten stronger and stick
sizes have lengthened over
time, the ball moves at higher
speeds during a game, which
can lead to concussions when
players are struck.
Shots are going at over
100 miles an hour now, said
Nina Walker, UNC mens
lacrosse head athletic trainer.
Twenty to 30 years ago that
was unheard of.
Walker and her staff are
trained to watch players
for concussion symptoms
during games. If Walker
tells Breschi a player needs
to come out, she has full
authority over the player
until she judges he can
return to action.
If theres an injury, theyre
mine until I give them back to
the coach, Walker said.
Walker says she typically
will treat anywhere from two
to four players per season
for concussions. She suspects the number might be
higher because athletes tend
to underreport symptoms of
concussions but adds that

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

WOMENS SOCCER

FROM PAGE 5

to further injury.
With technology still in
the works and data collection
still underway, trainers and
other team officials still rely
on players to admit when they
fear concussion. But often,
that doesnt happen.
I kept getting concussions during games, and I
just wouldnt come off, said
Caitlin Ball, a former womens soccer player and current
senior at UNC. I lied to my
trainers, and I was like, Im
fine, and I kept playing and
that made it worse probably.
I passed all the tests, but
you can still pass the tests and

not feel like yourself.


But changes in her state of
consciousness everything
from blurry vision to headaches to depression eventually caught up to Ball.
Eventually, the impact was
too great.

Why is this happening?


She prayed.
On that day, Balls cathedral
wasnt any building it was
the Carolina Blue sky above
her, taunting and reassuring
her all at once. Sobbing on
the steps of Kenan Memorial
Stadium, she looked up and
remembered.
She remembered that
color, the one shed worn for

almost three seasons as a


member of the UNC womens
soccer team.
She also remembered her
doctors voice, the same voice
that just minutes earlier had
confirmed she would never
wear her uniform again.
Ball, a junior at the time,
had sustained another concussion, less than a month after
recovering from her last one.
This one made it her fifth
in the span of about a year.
This one, after she consulted
with doctors and family
members, would also be the
last straw.
But Balls case isnt a rarity. She isnt the first and she
wont be the last to retire from
soccer because of concussions.

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After ankle sprains, head


injuries are the most common injury among female
soccer players, according to
data compiled by the NCAA
between 2004 and 2009.
Honestly, at this point, I
was just asking God, Why is
this happening? Whats going
on? Ball said. It was hard to
give up that dream.
And the goal of medical
experts and researchers, as
they continue to study head
injuries, is that no one else
has to do the same.
I think we just need to be
paying more attention to it and
making sure that we keep our
heads on straight, Kaufer said.
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its not as much an issue in


lacrosse.
I think that culturally, they
worry a little more about their
future, Walker said. Youre
not getting a million dollar
contract when you graduate,
its more important to graduate and get a good job.
The ultimate goal of concussion research is to make
sports like lacrosse safer. But
researchers say the inconvenient truth is that concussions are unavoidable in a
contact sport.
Because the brain floats
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BASEBALL: NORTH CAROLINA 6, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH 5

Tar Heels win on


walk-off wild pitch
By C Jackson Cowart
Staff Writer

It seemed poetic for the No.


16 North Carolina baseball
team after spending 18 days
away from Boshamer Stadium
to be tied in the bottom
of the ninth, with the bases
loaded and the overhead lights
showcasing their home return.
It felt dramatic for junior
pinch hitter Skye Bolt and
freshman pinch runner Brian
Miller to stand at the plate
and third base, respectively.
And it was fitting for
Wednesdays game to end in
truly chaotic fashion with a
walk-off wild pitch.
In a shocking battle of miscues and momentum shifts, the
Tar Heels watched a three-run
lead in the ninth inning slip
away, only to claim the 6-5 victory on the critical mistake by
Virginia Commonwealth (3-6).
I wasnt sure it was going
to end, said Miller, who
pinch ran for freshman Zach
Gahagan from second base.
It was a little shocker. We
bring our closers in, and we
expect to close the game.
But I was pretty confident we were going to get
the run in.
Just moments earlier, UNC
(8-3) was sitting on a threerun lead with two outs and
nobody on base, with surehanded closer junior Trent
Thornton on the mound.
But after the junior allowed
consecutive walks two of
UNCs nine and a RBI
double, Spencer Trayner gave
up yet another run-scoring
double to allow the Rams to
improbably knot up the score.
When you give another
team an extra out and you
walk and make errors, youre
generally not going to win the
game, Coach Mike Fox said.

GERRYMANDERING

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we try our best to put the redistricting in the hands of a more


or less neutral body.
Gerrymandering tends to
reduce the competitiveness of
elections. Since 1992, about 43
percent of state legislative races
have had only one candidate on
the ballot, and just 8 percent of
2014s races were competitive
meaning they were won by 5
percentage points or fewer.
The commission would
adjust the districts as needed
after each census and present
a revised map to the legislature, which would then hold
public hearings on the topic.
The legislature can then
accept or reject the proposal.
It doesnt allow people
to look at political factors
like where incumbents live,
the political makeup of the
district and voter turnout the
last time, so it makes it apolitical, Pinsky said.
According to a 2013 poll
commissioned by the N.C.
Center for Voter Education, 70
percent of North Carolina voters support creating a nonpartisan redistricting process.
This neutral plan, known
as the Iowa model, would
also lower costs in the long run
because the state would be less
likely to endure lawsuits about
inappropriately drawn maps or
delayed elections because legislators cant agree, Pinsky said.
It cant become a political
bargaining chip, she said.
There is no guarantee the
Republicans will still be in control of the legislature by 2021,
when the next redistricting
happens, said Rob Schofield,
policy director at left-leaning
N.C. Policy Watch.
We have this absurd situation in which the state is a
purple state, and the voters
are about evenly divided
between the major parties
and yet Democrats literally
have no chance in some of the
districts as they are drawn
right now, he said. At some
point that will change, and
the Republicans will rue not
having done this if they dont.
But the bills chance of succeeding during the 2015 session appears low. Several N.C.
Senate leaders have said the
chamber will most likely not
take up the issue.
Leadership in the Senate
has made it pretty plain that
... to voluntarily surrender
their power and possibly lose
their majority is not going to
happen, Schofield said.

DTH/SAMANTHA TAYLOR
Freshman Hansen Butler throws a pitch against VCU Wednesday.
The Tar Heels won 6-5 at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill.

One inning prior, Thornton


had come in relief of redshirt
junior Chris McCue, who
threw a wild pitch before
tossing four straight balls.
Our relievers have got to get
better, thats pretty obvious,
said Fox, who used eight pitchers including Nick Raquet,
who eventually got the win.
Thats supposed to be the
strength of our team, but
right now its not.
But it was the Tar Heels
play in two-out situations that
preserved the victory.
In the eighth, a two-out
throwing error to first scored
a UNC runner and kept the
inning alive for a run-scoring
shot in the subsequent at-bat.
And in the second inning,
sophomore Adam Pate, who
started in center field in place

of Bolt, kick-started a threerun inning with a timely RBI


single up the middle.
Thats what we pride ourselves in is having a good at-bat
and hitting the ball hard with
two outs, Pate said. I really
think that set the tone for the
rest of the game until they
started getting a rally going.
But the Rams rally wasnt
enough, as UNC mustered just
enough key hits to put themselves in a position to win.
Thats just the way the
game went, said junior
Landon Lassiter, whose
ninth-inning single put Miller
at third and in position for
the game-winning run.
But thats baseball.
Anything can happen.

McGrady said he doesnt


think the bill will pass this year.
Efforts to reform redistricting have been brought before
the legislature for decades,
but they have yet to succeed.
House Speaker Pro Tempore
Paul Stam, R-Wake, has
sponsored similar bills in the
past, and he is once again a
primary bill sponsor.

The (current) process gets


done, especially, by the people
who really have something to
win from the process or lose
from the process, Pinsky said.
And so they act in their
own self-interest and not in
the interest of the people of
North Carolina.

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

UNC marathoner
runs with a message
By Katie Reeder
Staff Writer

Paul McIntosh has never


run a half-marathon. Or
a 10-mile race. Or even a
10-kilometer race.
But on March 15, he will
run 26.2 miles in the Tobacco
Road Marathon.
After being diagnosed with
Pompe, a neuromuscular
disorder, two years ago, the
second-year UNC medical student said he wants to run for
those who cant.
I wanted to do something
kind of insane, something
crazy, something to grab
peoples attention and hopefully inspire them to donate
and contribute to the cause,
McIntosh said. So I decided
to sign up for a marathon.
He is raising money through
the United Pompe Foundation.
With 10 days until the marathon, he has already exceeded
his $12,000 goal.
Pompe disease is a genetic,
autosomal recessive disorder,
said Stephanie Austin, a genetic counselor at Duke University
School of Medicine. She said
the cells of people with Pompe
disease do not produce enough
of the enzyme needed to break
down glycogen, which builds
up and damages cells. Pompe
disease impacts the muscle
cells, and patients often experience muscle weakness and
respiratory problems.
McIntosh said it often takes
a long time to diagnose the
disease, and patients often go
through misdiagnoses. He said
this was not his experience, as
he was diagnosed fairly quickly.
He said part of the reason
for the difficulty in diagnosing this disease is that not
many people are aware of it.
About one in 40,000 people have Pompe disease.
You dont really talk about
it in medical school, McIntosh
said. It might be on one slide
or maybe one handout that
you see one time, so unless you
go to residency or specialize,
thats not going to be on your
radar at all.

This lack of awareness is


part of what inspired him to
go public with his disease at a
patient presentation in front
of his entire class in January.
Its easy to have a disconnect between what
were learning and these
conditions, McIntosh said.
These diseases impact real
people who have friends,
who have families.
Caroline Newman, a friend
of McIntosh who has also been
training for the marathon, did
not know about his diagnosis
until the presentation.
Hearing him tell his story
and have that unfold quite
honestly I was just incredibly
proud of him, she said.
McIntosh said it took him
about a year to get comfortable
with his diagnosis. His girlfriend, Wendy Song, said she
has seen his faith help him.
His faith lets him rest

in the fact that God is in


control, and he knows that
through God and with Him,
he can make a positive impact
regardless of what his future
looks like, Song said.
But the focus of training
hasnt been on McIntosh or
how the disease affects him,
Newman said. She said when
he talks about what he hopes
the marathon will accomplish, he talks about how he
hopes it will affect others.
Im honestly honored that
Im running next to him, she
said.
McIntosh said he just wants
to be an inspiration to those
with Pompe disease.
Its been a long journey
from me first being diagnosed
until now, he said. Its been
something truly remarkable
to be a part of.
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By Daniel Pshock, danpsho@gmail.com

Heavy punishment by the NCAA is what


will ensure UNC (or any other school) will
not prostitute its academics for athletics.
Harry Ramstein, on UNC efforts to reform after the scandal

Senior English major from


Fayetteville.
Email: mshutt@live.unc.edu

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Its not
just a
catfight:
its beef

NEXT

WHY I STILL HATE DUKE


The 2007 follow-up to Ian
Williams classic hate column.

Yet Democrats literally have no chance


in some of the districts as they are drawn
right now.

FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT

Court of Culture

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Rob Schofield, on gerrymandered districts in North Carolina

Meredith Shutt

unashamedly watch E!
News every weekday
evening. The mostly
Kardashian-related coverage
might seem vapid, but I find
celebrity culture pertinent to the
films, music and other media I
consume on a daily basis.
Im rarely baffled by E! (the
network is fairly straightforward with its values), but I was
annoyed by a recent Taylor
Swift vs. Katy Perry story. After
a disagreement, Swift allegedly
wrote the song Bad Blood in
honor of Perry.
The entire story is hearsay,
yet media outlets have latched
onto the catfight and provoked its longevity by persistently asking Swift and Perry
about their relationship.
Girl-on-girl hate dominates
media narratives, from Bravos
The Real Housewives franchise to ABCs The Bachelor.
Women disparaging one
another is so common that
we often fail to recognize its a
case study in mutually assured
destruction.
Pitting women against one
another stalls the feminist
movement and discourages
solidarity. We, women and
men, are all responsible for
encouraging and supporting
one another creatively and
professionally.
During an interview with
The Telegraph, Swift commented that shes never going
to talk about (Perry). Her
focus is, and should be, her
music. But Swifts no comment comment gained more
attention than the rest of the
article and any artistic discussion involved.
As a fan of Swift and Perry,
Ive pondered the origin of
their supposed dispute. I cant
help but point to John Mayer,
a mutual ex-boyfriend, as the
source. But he isnt the enemy.
Media lends validity to male
vs. male beef. Theres credibility in Jay Zs Takeover but
not Lil Kims Black Friday.
Though both diss tracks attack
fellow artists, critics consider
Takeover a poetic firestorm
and Black Friday an exhibit of
female pettiness. Masculinity
supports healthy competition
and encourages men to measure
themselves against each other.
This problematic dynamic
promotes physical violence
rather than dialogue as a solution to problems. Patriarchal
ideals support women verbally
accosting one another while
men physically assault themselves. Neither approach is necessary or productive.
I recently attended a signing and Q&A for Kim Gordons
new memoir, Girl in a Band.
As a founding member of Sonic
Youth, Gordon is a revered
musical figure. Her expansive
knowledge would interest any
reader, regardless of whether
she or he is familiar with No
Wave music, the 80s New York
art scene or fashion design.
I was excited to read Gordons
memoir but upset by critical
coverage which focused almost
exclusively on scattered negative
comments about other women.
Gordon name-checks dozens of
high-profile male artists, yet her
anti-Lana Del Rey comments
caused undue uproar.
I learned a great deal from
Gordons observations of male
narcissism and female codependence, but these concepts
wont garner heavy traffic. I
guess well just have to write
our own narratives.

The Daily Tar Heel

Poverty must remain


a top priority for BOG

EDITORIAL

Were not gonna take it


Do not let tuition
hikes slide by
unnoticed.

tudents and faculty have been rallying, rightfully so,


against the UNC Board of
Governors recommendation to close centers that
dont fit its conservative
vision for UNC.
Shortly before the BOG
made their unanimous
final vote on the centers
at a meeting at UNCCharlotte, they deliberated on raising tuition,
prompting a vocal objection from the students
and faculty present. They
went ahead with the raise,
increasing tuition at an
average of 4.3 percent for
all in-state undergraduate
students across all UNCsystem campuses.
Yet popular attention to
the tuition hikes has been
scant, while the center
cuts are now a national
story. And even though the
issue directly affects them
more than almost any
other, students activism
around tuition hikes this
year pales in comparison
to the 200-person protest
in response to the round of
tuition hikes in 2012.
Perhaps the unrelenting
national tuition trends at
public universities have
fatigued some activists.
Indeed, UNC is not
unique in its steady
tuition increases. Even in
arguably more progressive states like California,
tuition has skyrocketed
in recent years. Federal
Pell Grants have failed to
keep up with the increases
by providing matching

amounts of financial aid,


leaving the majority of the
responsibility for financial
aid provision to individual
universities.
This situation has created a particular burden for
UNC, which will no longer
be able to dedicate as much
tuition revenue to financial
aid after the freeze and
cap proposal passed last
year by the BOG. Since
the 2007-08 school year,
tuition has risen an average
of 55 percent among system
campuses.
The tuition increases
this year come in a notably different political and
economic environment
than previous increases.
In 2011, tuition increases
corresponded with the
North Carolina General
Assemblys cuts of nearly
half a billion dollars from
the system budget during
the height of the recession.
Now the tuition increases are aimed at raising
faculty salaries, with the
Provost and Chancellor
approving these costs in
collaboration with members of the Tuition and
Fee Advisory Task Force.
These recommendations
then moved to the BOG
for approval, leading us to
the current reality.
While efforts to raise
faculty salaries are
needed, college students
today should not bear
the brunt of the financial
responsibility in these
efforts to raise revenue. To
do so directly harms the
public nature of our university system, which was
founded partially on the
promise of accessibility to
state residents.
The state constitution

makes this explicit in its


requirement that officials
ensure education is free
as far as practicable.
The credibility and
principle of that promise
is weakened every year
administrators choose to
pass new increases. We call
on our administrators, who
are so far removed from
the pain of these costs, to
reject the tendency to pass
more costs to students.
For students, we must
recognize that the current
issues we face with respect
to affordability and the
cuts to centers and institutes are connected. Both
degrade the Universitys
values of accessibility and
public service.
The academic freedoms
and practical services provided by the centers are
fundamental to the role of
a state university.
Making higher education
accessible to students of
all economic backgrounds,
especially in a state like
North Carolina where those
backgrounds vary so widely,
does the same.
While the attack on
UNC centers demonstrated
unprecedented callousness,
both that decision and the
tuition increases are actions
on the part of the BOG that
fundamentally alter the
university system and make
it a still more exclusive
environment.
Concerned community
members should work
harder to connect these
issues and directly protest to both the BOG and
the General Assembly,
acknowledging that consistent attention needs to be
brought to the rising price
of a college education.

QuickHits
Just leave already

Go team!

Stay classy

When the snow stops falling, we have to deal with


the reality that
snow, however
pretty, is still just
water. And water
in contact with
large patches of ground inevitably leads to mud. Were
also looking forward to the
giant mounds of brown
snow in parking lots across
town sticking around into
late April.

Tuesday was a good day for


underdogs. Joel Berry had a
breakout game
against Ga. Tech
with 15 points.
And No. 43 got
his first action
off the bench, although his
blank jersey leaves his name
a mystery. We suspect Roy
just grabbed him an old
James Michael McAdoo
jersey from the basement of
Student Stores.

The Yik Yak himself paid


campus a visit this week.
Much to our
disappointment,
Rameses, our
beloved mascot,
chose to debase
himself by cavorting
around with the classless
Yak as if this representative
of the internets underbelly
were somehow his equal.
Rameses, you are good and
pure. Dont sell out.

Better than tents

Get out the vote

Enjoy it while it lasts

The underground Duke


ticket market gave a muchneeded boost to
the UNC campus
economy, whose
main commodities until this
point have been Girl Scout
cookies and swipes into the
dining hall. Calling upon
skills that have lain dormant
since their Pokemon cardtrading days, students have
shown no shortage of guile.

Jeb Bush came under fire


this week for possibly lying
about voting in
the 2008 election. It reminded
us of a certain
SPB-elect, one
whose voting history has
been called into similar
question. To be entirely fair,
we are glad to see Houston
Summers getting ahead of
the national conversation
on at least one issue.

The fickle airs of Chapel Hill


must be addressed. Like
lovers reuniting
during a soldiers
leave, our brief
tryst with spring
Wednesday was
bittersweet. It brought with
it a short-lived upswing in
our collective moods, reminding us that we are little
more than complicated
flowers whose fates depend
on a far-away, glowing orb.

TO THE EDITOR:
Most people who are born
in my county of residence,
Richmond County, die there;
it is a simple and harsh reality. Having the sixth highest
overall poverty rate in the
state at 27.3 percent and the
sixth highest youth poverty
rate in the state at 40.8 percent, residents of Richmond
County and other impoverished regions nationwide
know how difficult life can
be living in the uncertainty
of poverty. I come from a
very poor family myself, having been subjected to the
possibility of homelessness
many times in my life and
facing discrimination based
on my socioeconomic status.
Most people who come
from areas like Richmond
never have the opportunity
to advance in life. Without
the aid of the Carolina
Covenant program, I, along
with thousands of students
here at UNC, may have had
a similar fate. I have the
freedom to study what I
wish and go on the path that
I seek in life because of the
immeasurable assistance of
the late Fred Clarks program
and others like it. Such programs give disadvantaged
students the agency and
funding to pursue their
dreams. They even offer aid
for funding treatment in
mental illness, which offers
an unprecedented aid to students in need.
Programs and organizations that assist the
impoverished are crucial to
a diverse and equal opportunity experience at UNC, and
because of this, I can only
condemn the UNC Board of
Governors decision to close
the poverty center.
David Stewart
Sophomore
Political science and
medieval history

Smith and Willingham


must alter approach
TO THE EDITOR:
This letter was motivated
by recent postings on paperclassinc.com/blog, a blog
maintained by Jay Smith
and Mary Willingham on
athletic reform. As part of
a drumroll to the release of
their book, they published
postings delineating why
UNC cant move on from
our scandal, in which the
last aberrant classes were
offered nearly four years
ago. Obviously, they have a
vested interest in keeping
the story alive.
Even a casual reading of
the blog postings provides a
disturbing glimpse into the
fractured lens through which
Smith and Willingham
view the world. Their quest
started as an unrelenting,
media-pandering effort to
focus the microscope solely
on the athletics connection to the aberrant classes.
The blog postings show
further degeneration into a
malicious, petty critique of
productive actions made by
UNC to address the issues
uncovered, coupled with

personal attacks on those


doing the hard work to move
us forward. Their vitriol is
spread far by a committed
Twitter public relations team
made up of the most extreme
members of rival fan bases.
Perhaps the most disturbing
part of it all is that one of the
blogs co-authors is a faculty
member at UNC.
I agree that it is time for
us as a nation to reexamine
all aspects of the partnership
of revenue sports athletics
with institutions of higher
education. This movement
deserves representation
by people of high integrity
to lead a fair and balanced
treatment of the issues,
uncomplicated by personal
agendas, and with concerns
for the welfare and education of all student athletes at
the forefront. If Smith and
Willingham want to be constructive contributors to a
reform movement, they need
to alter their approach.
Prof. Cindy Schauer
Chemistry

DTH should apologize


for Bethel editorial
TO THE EDITOR:
As a former member of
The Daily Tar Heel editorial
board, I was disappointed in
the recent attack on Bradley
Bethel. Whether you agree or
disagree with his positions,
you have to respect the time
and care he takes to research
his subjects and present his
opinions. He has been far
more transparent and professional than many professors in this debate.
It takes little time and
research to understand
that Bethel is not seeking
to absolve the University
of wrongdoing. Instead, he
has attempted to make sure
that the wrongdoing is not
misrepresented and misunderstood. Thats the sort
of civic engagement that
newspapers and places of
higher education should be
encouraging, not mocking.
Bethel has pursued his
research and publications
despite intimidation by faculty members. He has done
so despite attacks from a
lunatic fringe through social
media and even the DTH. It
is exactly the sort of determination and professionalism in the face of groupthink and hostility to which
the journalists I worked
with at the DTH aspired.
Attacking Bethel discourages the very thing the DTH
should be encouraging:
civic involvement, careful
research and transparency.
Bethels methodical research
and essays raise important
questions that otherwise
would have never been
asked. Engagement of this
type makes democracies and
institutions of higher learning stronger.
The DTH should apologize to Bethel. Then, it
should ask itself why a
citizen blogger has contributed more to the public
understanding of this scandal than the Universitys
student newspaper. I wish
more people on all sides
of this debate emulated
Bethels practices.
David Starnes
Fletcher, N.C.

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