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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2018 VOLUME 126, ISSUE 29125 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY
DTH/ALEX KORMANNUNC graduate student Maya Little speaks at the Peace and Justice Plaza on Monday against monument Silent Sam.
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By Ryan SmootSenior Writer
Following the removal of Silent Sam by protestors Monday night, local and state leaders issued state-ments that ranged from condemning demonstrators’ actions to praising the absence of the Confederate mon-ument from UNC’s campus.
Gov. Roy Cooper denounced the forcible removal of the statue, assert-ing that change — in the statue’s removal or relocation — should have came through legal means.
“Governor Cooper has been in contact with local law enforcement
and UNC officials regarding tonight’s rally and appreciates their efforts to keep people safe,” the Governor’s office said in a statement Tuesday night. “The Governor understands that many people are frustrated by the pace of change and he shares their frustration, but violent destruc-tion of public property has no place in our communities.”
Damon Seils, a Carrboro Board of Aldermen member, said the forced removal of Silent Sam was predict-able after years of gridlock in state government and inaction by campus administration.
“Really, we saw this coming didn’t
we? My feelings about it are the Carrboro Board has been consistent for a long time now in encouraging leadership to find a new place for the statue, so I’m glad to see that it’s finally gone,” Seils said.
In a statement, NC Senate Leader Phil Berger labeled protesters as a violent mob, and he insisted their actions would not heal racial injus-tice in North Carolina.
“Many of the wounds of racial injustice that still exist in our state and country were created by violent mobs, and I can say with certainty that violent mobs won’t heal those wounds,” Berger said in his statement.
Berger continued to attack Gov. Cooper and local officials for their rhetoric surrounding protests and a lack of law enforcement.
UNC’s administration has pre-viously sought relocation for Silent Sam but faced legal obstacles. In 2015, former governor Pat McCrory signed Senate Bill 22, a General Assembly bill that banned removal and restricted relocation of historical monuments such as Silent Sam.
In the wake of Silent Sam’s removal, the political debate over Confederate statues in North Carolina is still deeply divided.
On WBT radio Tuesday morning,
McCrory labeled the Monday night protest as mob rule and questioned whether people will begin to call for the destruction of the Washington Monument or Jefferson Memorial, due to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owning slaves.
“Do you think these left-wing anarchists are going to end with Silent Sam?” McCrory said.
At another stage in the interview, McCrory compared the actions of the protesters to that of the Nazis’ actions during the Holocaust.
Cooper’s administration said he
By Taylor BuckAssistant University Editor
After releasing a short statement Monday night following the Silent Sam protest where the Confederate monument was forcibly removed by demonstrators, UNC has released an updated statement.
“We have asked the (State Bureau of Investigations) to assist the police to fully investigate the incident, and they have agreed,” it reads. “We do not support lawlessness, and we will use the full breadth of state and University processes to hold those responsible accountable for their actions.”
Tuesday afternoon, activists gath-ered around the pedestal. Although they denied any involvement in the actual toppling of the statue, UNC graduate students and activists Lindsay Ayling and Samee Siddiqui expressed solidarity for those who pulled Silent Sam down.
“It’s up to the administration to decide if they want to prosecute stu-dents for doing what they were afraid to do for over a year,” Ayling said. “I would discourage the administra-tion from pressing charges against students.”
An arrest record from UNC Police confirms that one male was arrested on Monday night for resisting arrest and wearing a mask or hood on pub-lic property. Both charges are misde-meanors.
The statement addressed police presence during the protest. Many have questioned how police officers at the statue, who numbered approx-imately 30 at the time of the top-pling, allowed demonstrators to get in a position to pull the statue down.
‘We saw this coming’: elected officials react to campus protest
DTH/EMILY SARTINThe UNC System Board of Governors met Tuesday to talk about the future goals of the committee at the UNC System Office in Chapel Hill.
SEE STATEMENTS, PAGE 6
“Safety is always paramount, but at no time did the administration direct the officers to allow protestors to topple the monument,” the state-ment says. “During the event, we rely on the experience and judgement of law enforcement to make decisions on the ground.”
The statement was signed by Carol Folt, Chancellor; Harry Smith, UNC Board of Governors Chairperson; Margaret Spellings, UNC System President; and Haywood Cochrane, UNC Board of Trustees Chairperson.
Although the University’s state-ment says no one was injured during the protest, Ayling and Siddhiqui stated that they witnessed violence from counter-protestors directed toward protestors.
“I saw the counter-protestors dive into the crowd and immediately start violently attacking the protestors,” Ayling said. “Earlier that night, I saw a different white supremacist dive into the crowd and attack pro-testors.”
Randy Young, director of campus safety, has provided the following statement on allegations of activists being assaulted by Confederate sym-pathizers and police officers: “We cannot confirm this because UNC Police has not received any official reports of assault.”
M o n d a y a f t e r n o o n , t h e Undergraduate Executive Branch, headed by Student Body President Savannah Putnam, released a state-ment on their website.
“Last night, a group of students and community organizers did what few were prepared to do: they cor-rected a moral and historical wrong,”
SEE GOVERNMENT, PAGE 6
Q&A with demonstrator Maya Little
SEE LITTLE, PAGE 6
At the protest against Silent Sam on Monday, Aug. 20, graduate stu-dent and activist Maya Little gave remarks before the group marched on McCorkle Place, and hours later, removed the statue from its pedes-tal. She spoke about her experience with police at previous protests, as well as her continued dissent of the Confederate monument on campus.
The next day, she spoke with Assistant University Editor Kate Karstens about her relationship with protesters, her criminal and honor court charges and her next steps. DAILY TAR HEEL: How do you think the protest went yesterday?MAYA LITTLE: I think it went very well. I think the community of students and workers at UNC and communi-ty members came out and did what Chancellor Folt should have done a while ago, what UNC should have done a while ago. DTH: So, can we backup a little bit to the current criminal charges you’re facing from the April 30th incident? What are the next steps you’ll have to take with the legal system?ML: Vandalism of a public monument,
and I’m also facing honor charges from UNC which hasn’t been noted yet by The Daily Tar Heel, but I’m facing honor court charges that could result in my expulsion from the University.DTH: So you’re still a student at the University?ML: Yes, I am. DTH: When is your honor court hearing?ML: That’s not been set yet.DTH: When is the next hearing for your vandalism charge?ML: October 15 at 9 a.m.DTH: Going back to the protest, how do you feel about the police presence and conduct?ML: The police act as they always have around the monument, to pro-tect the monument and not students or workers or people in the commu-nity. They acted very aggressively, very physically in the beginning, and were very physical. They stood guard around the monument. They did nothing to stop white supremacists who chose to get physical and were violent with anti-racist protesters. So the police responded at UNC as they always have around Silent Sam, by protecting the symbol to white
supremacy rather than students. DTH: Did you see any Confederate sympathizers?ML: There were many Confederate sympathizers actually. And some of them got very violent with people.DTH: Can you give any specific exam-ples of when they got violent?ML: I saw a Confederate sympathizer punch someone. They were very in our faces. I mean, they were doing as they always do. I mean, this is a group who organizes around white supremacist symbols, who has made threats against my life, against other students’ lives. They were there, they were present. Many of the anti-racist protesters who were at the demon-stration also showed them that we are not afraid of them. We are not going to be cowered by them. DTH: What are the next steps for pro-testers of Silent Sam? ML: I think that we offered a number of alternatives to Silent Sam. One of those was the banners, which depict-ed memorials to people who have been murdered by white supremacy in this area, including James Lewis Cates, who was killed in 1970 in UNC’s Pit.
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Timeline of Monday’s protestOn Monday night, demonstrators
pulled down Confederate monument Silent Sam, a statue that had stood on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus for more than 100 years.
7 p.m.
The protest began at the Peace and Justice Plaza, which included around 250 students, faculty and community members.
Between 7 and 9 p.m.
As the protest went on, tensions rose, and demonstrators moved from the courthouse to the Confederate monument at McCorkle Place at approximately 7:45 p.m. Silent Sam was completely covered in banners by approximately 8 p.m.
9:30 p.m.
Silent Sam was surrounded by banners and a ring of demonstra-tors. At some point during the pro-test, demonstrators wrapped ropes around the monument. According to witnesses, the monument fell within ten seconds.
Between 9:30 and 10 p.m.
Demonstrators began chant-ing and burying the statue in dirt. Police presence lightened. Shortly after, police surrounded the statue and told demonstrators to back away.
Around 11 p.m.
Police set up a barricade around the pedestal and statue. They told our reporters that they would not be moving the statue that night. At this time, Gov. Roy Cooper issued a state-ment, where he said that though he understood demonstrators’ frustra-tions, “violent destruction of public property will not be tolerated.”
Around midnight
A frontloader truck arrived to McCorkle Place to pick up and move the statue. The statue was put on a UNC Maintenance truck, and the driver told our reporter that they
did not know where they were taking the statue. Silent Sam was removed from McCorkle Place. The Daily Tar Heel contacted UNC Facilities and Maintenance and the UNC Media Relations line but received no response on the statue’s current location.
Around 2:30 a.m.
Chancellor Carol Folt released a statement, saying that the monu-ment had been divisive for years but that the night’s actions were “unlaw-ful and dangerous.”
10:30 a.m., Aug. 21
N.C. Senator Valerie Foushee and N.C. House Representatives Verla Insko and Graige Meyer released a joint statement on Silent Sam, say-ing it was time that the monument came down.
11:10 a.m.
The UNC Board of Governors Chairperson Harry Smith and the UNC-system President Margaret Spellings issued a statement, stating that “mob rule and the intentional destruction of public property will not be tolerated.”
Around 2 p.m.
T h e U N C Un d e r g r a d u a t e Executive Branch published a state-ment, where they praised demon-strators for bringing down the statue.
Around 6:30 p.m.
Chancellor Carol Folt, UNC Board of Governors Chairperson Harry Smith, UNC-system President Margaret Spellings and Board of Trustees Chairperson Haywood Cochrane released an updated statement, saying that they would be working with the State Bureau of Investigation as local police investi-gate the protest.
Taylor Buck, Kate Karstens, Myah Ward and Charlie McGee contribut-ed reporting.
What did you think about Silent Sam coming down?
“This board does not represent the prevailing beliefs and attitudes of the active university community, which are in overwhelming support that the statue had to be removed. These kids are courageous. When history looks back, the naysayers on this board will sound like the people in Montgomery who argued that Rosa Parks should have just respected precedent and moved on back to the colored section of the bus. Those same people decried mob rule and other nonsense just like is happening with the confeder-ate monument.”
A comment on our website by user Ignatius.
“I would agree somewhat that most people who want it taken down don’t necessarily support it being ripped down in a mob action.
On the other hand this is nothing like the civil rights movement. You can’t logically equate this to Rosa Parks. She didn’t violently destroy property in a anarcho-marxist mob action. Nonviolent protest was here MO. The opposite of what hap-pened here.”
We received hundreds of comments, replies, direct messages and letter submissions in
response to our cover-age of Monday night’s protest. Here are just a few of your responses.
A response to the above comment by user Gordon Trenchard.
“Wow! This is happening”Tweet by user @IMSYD_
“Yes bro. Bc of Maya Little and the student protestors. Not bc of the governor or the school staff or even the students parents. The kids.”
Response to the above tweet by user @ElStrickland
“Well I hope all these 20 year old kids that have come into MY hometown and have succeeded in persuading the school to remove/destroy Silent Sam are happy now. My father James Shumaker was a professor at the J School and he would have been furious at this event. I spent a lot of my youth and adulthood sitting at the base of Sam with my friends from high school, my father for lunch, playing music, etc. we never even thought about that statue being a symbol of racism. These kids will be gone and I will be left with an empty base of a statue that I spent many many years hanging around spinning my future and creating happy mem-ories. How about this? Lets get a mass crowd and go to their home-towns and destroy something that meant a lot to them! What RIGHT does anyone have to come into Chapel Hill MY HOMETOWN and
determine/destroy ANYTHING in my town.”
A Facebook comment on the DTH’s breaking news post from
user Jill Gabel.“What a joke. Check your priv-
ilege, lady. The statue has always been about racism. How nice for you that you’ve never had to experience it. “Your town?” UNC belongs to its students, not the town of Chapel Hill. Get over your-self.”
A response to the above Facebook comment by user Stephanie Marie.
“Whether or not you believe the statue should stand , I will never celebrate mob rule. This is a disturbing trend in our country and again I am disappointed in my alma mater.”
Tweet by user @foreverblue85“Oh the irony of considering
200 people tearing down a racist statue “mob rule” but not, you know, the usurpers it was put up to honor. The Confederate army was an anti-American mob, ma’am.”
Response to the above tweet by user @Kno.
“This is really troubling. Mob rule and violence are not how we’re supposed to resolve our disputes. Why didn’t campus police restore order? Why didn’t they disperse the mob? This was not a peaceful
protest. Why did the university allow it to continue? This illegal riot and hateful act of vandalism cannot be allowed to stand. People directly involved should be pros-ecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Those affiliated with UNC should be fired or expelled. Finally, Ms. Folt must restore Silent Sam to his original location--this time in such a way that he cannot be toppled. If she doesn’t, she’s siding with the violent over the peaceful. She’d be letting the bad guys win. UNC ‘94, ‘98”
Comment on The Daily Tar Heel website by user Rob McDonald.
“It was erected in 1913!According to research by W.
Fitzhugh Brundage, who is the William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the purpose of this statue was clearly stated at its 1913 dedication. In his now controversial dedication speech, industrialist and former Confederate soldier Julian Carr emphatically praised the stu-dent-soldiers and soldiers of the Confederate army for their war-time valor and patriotism.
However, he also notes towards the end of the speech his belief that “The present generation, I am per-suaded, scarcely takes note of what the Confederate soldier meant to the welfare of the Anglo Saxon race during the four years immediately succeeding the war...their courage
and steadfastness saved the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the South.” “The four years immediate-ly succeeding the war” refers to the terrorization of blacks and white Republicans by the Ku Klux Klan, which worked to change the dom-inance of whites in the south. Carr went on to boast to the crowd that “one hundred yards from where we stand,” soon after his return from Apomattox,
“I horse whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds because she had maligned and insulted a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison.
F that statue.”Reply to the above comment on the DTH website by user Nope.
“Bye traitor trash”Tweet by user @shotamonRN4L
“Will the removal of Silent Sam result in a significant increase of Native-born Black American enrollment and graduation at UNC? Will this result in the end-ing of implicit or explicit racism toward Black American students at UNC? I don’t think so”
Tweet by user @ReconIntell
Chancellor Folt, President Spelling, and Mr. Smith and Mr. Cochrane;
As a parent of a current UNC student, I received the email from the four of you tonight regarding the Universities actions and reac-tions to the toppling of the “Silent Sam” monument on campus. Thank you for your communica-tion.
As a parent, and as an alum, I am writing to you tonight to express my utter outrage with the entire incident. I am furious.
But not with the protestors. With the four of you.
Anyone who didn’t sense that this moment was coming has not been paying attention. It would have been nice if the statue had never been erected. It would have been wonderful if it had been removed during my tenure as a student, when many were already speaking out about the shameful past that it represents.
And it would have been late, but the right thing to do, if it had come down last summer after the protests both in Durham and on our campus. After the terror of Charlottesville. After the mil-lionth, billionth, ad infinitum request to remove it.
You’ve hidden behind laws that were written rapidly to protect these symbols of a horrible chap-ter in our country. Even when the mayor of Chapel Hill asked for you to remove the statue, even when the governor gave you a loophole that would allow a stat-ue to be removed to “protect” it, you insisted that the damn thing remain.
I blame you.Thank God that no one was
harmed last night. Thank God that you have no current blood on your consciences, such as they may be. My son is a Junior at UNC. He was at the protest last
summer (as was I); he was not at the one last night, but could have been. I’m proud of him for sticking up for what he believes is the right thing to do. But I am furious at you all for allowing this situation to escalate to the point that anyone could have been hurt. I cannot believe that you would put ANY monument of metal and concrete, even if it did not carry the heinous baggage that this one does, over the flesh and blood of your students.
And please don’t insult my intelligence, or my degree in History, by claiming that the statue is merely to honor dead soldiers. There IS a place on UNC’s campus to honor those who fought for their country: it’s a couple of hundred yards away from that wretched monument, and is called Memorial Hall. Catchy name for a ... memorial.
No, this statue was erected for one reason - to instill fear in former slaves, to remind them that even if they had won legal freedoms, their lives were still worth nothing to certain people. To remind them who held power. Actually, I suppose there may have been another; for the racist, white supremacist Southerners to bolster their egos, and let them revel in the power they still held.
And you allowed it to stand.I am so utterly proud of my
fellow Tar Heels who brought that monstrosity down yesterday.
And I have never been more ashamed of this University’s lead-ership.
Regards,
Margaret (Craddock) Cohen, AB ‘89
Letter to UNC’s top administrators from a parent and alum
Sports Wednesday, August 22, 2018The Daily Tar Heel 3
Men’s soccer looks for Final Four return
DTH/GABI PALACIOThe North Carolina men’s soccer team celebrates an overtime win over Providence in the 2016 NCAA Elite Eight.
By Madeline ColemanSenior Writer
The North Carolina men’s soccer team has high hopes of making it back to the Final Four.
After a long training season and an undefeated spring and preseason, UNC will kick off the regular season on Friday night against East Tennessee State at 7:30 p.m. in Greensboro.
Recap of last seasonDespite the unexpected 2-1 knock-
out in the ACC Quarterfinals against Notre Dame, UNC powered through the NCAA Tournament to reach the Final Four. It finished the 2017 season with a strong 17-4-1 record with nota-ble wins against top-25 teams Virginia (OT 2-1), Duke (2-1), SMU (2-0), and Notre Dame (3-0).
During the fall season, the Tar Heels outshot and outscored their opponents, scoring 2.41 goals per game and compiling a 53-290 goals-to-shot-attempts ratio. Out of those shots, 134 were on goal.
Fast forward to 2018, UNC finished the season as undefeated champions of the U.S. Soccer Spring Program. Now, the Tar Heels are ranked No. 3 in the United States Soccer Coaches presea-son poll.
Who to Watch for this seasonStrong players left for professional
teams with three of UNC’s top play-ers signed to play in the MLS — Zach Wright, Cam Lindley and Alan Winn.
But don’t expect this to be a rebuild-ing year. Four current players were named to the Premier Development League 50 Players to Watch List after the spring season — junior transfer Taff Wadda, sophomore midfield-er Alex Rose, senior defender Alex
Comsia, and sophomore goalkeeper Alec Smir.
North Carolina also added some new additions, bringing nine more players to the roster. The total includes six upcoming first-years and three transfers, including Wadda and Matthew Constant, who hold a lot of promise.
Constant, a defender from Dallas, Texas, was a four-star recruit from Top Drawer Soccer. He started all 18 games and 1,666 minutes for New Mexico as a sophomore. He also played with the U-20 Canadian Team in the World Cup qualifying competition, the U.S. U-17 National Team and was ranked the 27th prospect in the U.S.
Wadda, a forward from Bracknell, England, has soccer in his blood as his father was a Gambia International striker. The younger Wadda scored 26 goals and tallied 11 assists in 35 games with Bethel University. In high school, he scored 102 goals with 66 assists, leading to his jersey number being retired.
As far as returners go, the defensive line has key players in Jeremy Kelly, Jack Skahan and John Nelson. Since coming to UNC, Kelly, a junior, has played in every game, while classmate Skahan played in all but four.
Nelson, a sophomore, also played in all 22 games last season, earning his spot on the 2018 Preseason Best XI team by TopDrawersoccer.com. He had one goal and one assist, but placed third on the team in minutes with 1,923.
What to expectOut of 12 ACC teams, UNC is
ranked highest in the top 25 and is the favorite to win the ACC Championship after 10 coaches predicted a top finish
in the preseason poll.North Carolina will face an early
challenge this season in a battle against No. 2 Indiana on Sunday, Aug. 26 at WakeMed in Cary, N.C, and will play other big games against No. 10 Duke, No. 11 Clemson, No. 15 Virginia and No. 17 Notre Dame.
While UNC will face tough match-ups, they have another obstacle in their path for the second season in a row — no home field. Prolonged con-struction of Fetzer Field forces the team to split its home games between WakeMed and Koskinen Stadium in Durham.
If the construction timeline holds true to finishing in November and the Tar Heels play well, UNC has the chance to have a true home field advantage in the early College Cup.
@mwc13_3@DTHSports
Volleyball hopes for bounce back 2018
Three takeaways from Bahamas exhibitions
By Megan DennehyStaff Writer
The North Carolina volleyball team has a lot to learn in 2018.
In 2016, the North Carolina volley-ball team captured the ACC title and reached the NCAA Regionals. The return of more than half of the starting lineup in 2017 meant the team entered the new season with high expectations.
They did not live up to those lofty goals, but the bar will be set lower this time around.
Injury after injury devastated the Tar Heels last year, keeping the antic-ipation of a successful season from being a reality. With multiple players unable to compete for large parts of the season, the team was never able to find its groove.
UNC finished the regular season 14-14 (11-9 ACC), and missed the NCAA tournament for the first time in almost a decade. It probably won’t make it this year either.
DeparturesThe Tar Heels have some major
adjustments to make, as 10 of their 19 players from the 2017 season will not be returning this year.
The team will have to deal with the graduation of Taylor Fricano, Keimaya Hunter and Beth Nordhorn, who were all key offensive players in 2017.
Nordhorn was consistent despite constant lineup changes. She led the ACC in hitting percentage and ranked ninth in blocks per set.
Fricano was a standout defensive player, helping UNC lead the ACC with 2.82 team blocks per set. The Tar Heels also lost outside hitter Taylor Leath, who led UNC in kills and points, and had the second highest number of digs and aces as an outside hitter. Leath transferred out of the program to Penn State. Without those contributors, the team will need its newer players to fill the large shoes the departures left behind.
Other notable exits include junior
Taylor Borup, redshirt sophomore Holly Carlton, junior Julia Scoles, and redshirt junior Sydnye Fields, who all transferred to other universities to continue their volleyball careers.
ReturnersDespite losing close to half of its
roster from the 2017 season, North Carolina returns a number of promis-ing players.
UNC should expect to be strong defensively. Senior Casey Jacobs stepped up as libero last season after an injury to junior Mia Fradenburg. Junior Greer Moseman and sopho-more Maddie Grace Hough will pro-vide strength on the backline.
Jacobs, Kendra Koetter and Madison Laufenburg make up the senior class this year that will need to lead the new players and fill the voids.
AdditionsThe Tar Heels secured three trans-
fer students — Hunter Atherton from Nebraska, Aristea Tontai from Coastal Carolina and Skylar Wine from Pacific. All three could strengthen the offense.
First-years Annabelle Archer, Erin Boone, Destiny Cox and Lauren Harrison were also recruited to help strengthen the Tar Heels after their 2017 losses. Along with those players, Ava Bell and Hadden LaGarde joined the Tar Heels in January and will be playing their first season with North Carolina this fall.
OverallThe regular season starts Aug.
24 in Minneapolis against No. 9 Wisconsin and continues against No. 4 Minnesota on Aug. 25 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. These tough ear-ly-season matchups will prepare new faces for a tough ACC schedule.
North Carolina should utilize its tough schedule to get its new players the necessary experience they need to grow as a program and a team in the upcoming years.
@megandennehy@DTHSports
By Holt McKeithanAssistant Sports Editor
The North Carolina men’s basket-ball team dominated inferior com-petition last weekend in a two-game exhibition swing in the Bahamas, out-scoring its opponents by a combined 106points.
On Friday, UNC took down the Bahamas All-Stars, 112-91, in the Kendal Isaacs National Gymnasium in Nassau, then followed up the victory with a 130-45 drubbing of StarSports Basketball Club on Saturday.
While such gaudy numbers sug-gest an impressive performance from the Tar Heels, it’s important to bear in mind the level of opposition and purpose in these games. These trips provide more of an opportunity for team bonding than for facing quali-ty squads. So, take the results with a grain of salt before diving deep into their meaning.
That said, here are three main take-aways from the Tar Heels’ pair of exhi-bition wins.
Starting LineupFollowing the departure of seniors
Joel Berry II and Theo Pinson, one of the biggest questions facing North Carolina is who will take the spots the pair once occupied in the starting lineup.
In the Bahamas, head coach Roy Williams went with a starting lineup of Seventh Woods, Kenny Williams, Brandon Robinson, Luke Maye and Sterling Manley, for both games. The lineup decision indicates Williams’ preference for veterans over talented first-years.
Graduate student Cameron Johnson did not play, leaving an open-ing in the lineup. Williams chose to start the junior Robinson in place of highly-touted first-year Nassir Little to fill the hole left by Johnson’s absence. This roster choice is not necessar-ily indicative of what the coach will decide once the season starts, however.
DTH/NICHOLAS BAFIAJunior forward Luke Maye (32) attacks the basket against Bucknell on November 15, 2017 in the Smith Center. UNC won 93-81.
Robinson played 17 minutes but only scored 4 points, while Little posted 11 points in 13 minutes.
Similarly, Williams tabbed junior Woods for the starting point guard spot over first-year Coby White.
Expected SloppinessNorth Carolina committed 44
turnovers in two games, including a 27-turnover performance against the Bahamas All-Stars on Friday. To put that number into perspective, the Tar Heels averaged 12 turnovers per game in 2017-18, and committed a season-high 19 turnovers in contests against N.C. State and Virginia.
Twenty-seven turnovers is a high number, and the Bahamas All-Stars certainly aren’t as stingy a defense as Tony Bennett’s Virginia Cavaliers. However, a certain degree of sloppi-ness is to be expected during a presea-son exhibition.
Plus, with new faces still adjusting to Williams’ offense — which has an especially tough learning curve at point guard — turnovers are inevita-ble.
Big Performances
Brandon Huffman had the most eye-catching stat line of any Tar Heel this weekend, posting 20 points and 20 rebounds in only 17 minutes of Saturday’s blowout win. While an impressive performance, it came against weaker competition. In Friday’s game, Huffman managed only 2 points and 8 rebounds in nearly 17 minutes of playing time.
Manley, the starter, was con-sistent. He followed a 9-point, 13-rebound performance with a 10-point, 10-rebound double-double on Saturday.
While Huffman’s 20-and-20 sticks out, the most interesting takeaway is Williams’ decision to start Manley for both games. Once the season begins, it will be interesting to see if one of the three can separate and earn a spot in the starting lineup, or wheth-er Williams will slide Maye to center to accommodate an abundance of tal-ent on the wing that includes Johnson and Little.
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On Monday August 21 UNC’s a cappella groups perform at Sunset Seranade at Memorial Hall. This event is put on every year before FDOC. Among the performers were the Loreleis (top left), Harmonyx (top right), Walk-Ons (bottom left), and Achordants (bottom right).
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News Wednesday, August 22, 2018The Daily Tar Heel 5
By Laura BrummettSenior Writer
This summer Franklin Street saw several storefront changes, with at least four icons leaving town and five new businesses opening their doors.
Starbucks remodeled their store while Trolly Stop Hot Dogs rebranded to a new name, The Beach on Franklin.Toppers Pizza, R&R Grill, Smoothie King and Noodles & Company were among Franklin Street’s casualties. For students who haven’t been on campus since May, new spots include Midici, The Pizza Press, Hops Burger Bar, Lula’s and YaYa Tea.
Danielle Moore, spokesperson for Noodles & Company, said their lease ran out, and the restaurant decided to close.
Elinor Landess, interim exec-utive director of the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership, said they’re encouraging more restaurants to offer sidewalk seating for customers.
In addition to storefronts chang-ing, Franklin Street also got a
“facelift,” Landess said. The entire street was repaved, and the lines were freshly painted over the sum-mer. The actual street is owned by the state, so the town has no control over when the street is redone.
The Downtown Partnership tracked the number of open busi-nesses on Franklin Street in January 2013 and again in January 2018. The retention rate for the 5-year peri-od was 75.6 percent, meaning three fourths of the businesses stayed open.
Barry Smith, the assistant director of public information for the North Carolina Department of Insurance, attended UNC from 1974 to 1978. He said Franklin Street has always meant a lot to the University.
He said a lot has changed in regards to who occupies what store fronts, but that’s one of the most con-stant things about Chapel Hill.
“It looks like it did in the 70’s,” he said. “Restaurants have changed but still look a lot the same.”
His favorite place, The Porthole Restaurant, is now gone, but his
second favorite restaurant, Carolina Coffee Shop remains, Smith said.
“Obviously some restaurants I wish had made it,” he said. “But I like the changes. I like seeing new restaurants, new places to go, to shop and eat.”
Smith mentioned the past existence of Michael Jordan’s restaurant as being something he particularly missed.
“When I think of Chapel Hill I think of Franklin Street. It’s iconic,” Smith said. “When I was there, you had students, townsfolk, professors — everyone would congregate and say hello. It’s still like that, and I love it.”
Both Smith and Landess agreed that the people on Franklin Street, students and Chapel Hill residents, are what make the street so special.
Landess said it was important to the Downtown Partnership to keep Franklin Street the spiritual center of Chapel Hill, so everyone could feel at home there.
She said everyone in the com-munity, including students, Chapel Hill residents and visitors, can find
DTH/EMILY SARTINMediCi is one of the many new establishments that has opened on Franklin Street this summer. The Italian Kitchen specializes on 90 second pizza.
something they love in downtown. Although Franklin Street is looking shiny and new, the vibrancy of the street will never change.
“There’s no place like Franklin
Street anywhere you go,” Smith said. “It’s bustling, it always has been and I hope it always be.”
Here are the changes you missed on Franklin Street
NC Promise Plan kicks off the semester with cheaper billsBy Blake Weaver
Senior Writer
Students at three UNC-System schools – UNC-Pembroke, Western Carolina University and Elizabeth City State University – are seeing decreas-es this semester in their tuition costs thanks to the NC Promise Plan.
The N.C. Promise Tuition Plan, which the program’s website calls a “significant investment,” aims to support economic development in the state by helping North Carolina grow a well-educated workforce and
increase the number of high-per-forming, out-of-state students while also decreasing the amount of stu-dents with college debt.
According to the program’s website, these schools were partly chosen for the program due to a historical com-mitment to providing accessible edu-cation and their locations in the state. WCU is located in the Western part of the state, ECSU is located on the coast and UNC-P is relatively in the middle.
The site says the schools will be able to afford these tuition changes because the state has a matching dol-
lar-for-dollar fund between current tuition costs and the N.C. Promise Plan Tuition Plan cost.
Luke Marsden, a sophomore at WCU, said since tuition has gone down, students are a lot happier.
“Tuition is super cheap now,” he said. “Students are a little bothered by the increases in other things, but overall, students are really happy.”
Graham Harrington, a first-year at WCU, said she did know about the N.C. Promise Plan when she initially applied to the school, but it did seal the deal for her. She said the overall senti-
ments of the other students were pos-itive and the first-year class continued the school’s growth trend with ease.
Skylar Toms, a sophomore trans-fer student at UNC-P, said the N.C. Promise Plan was pivotal in her col-lege-decision process.
“Part of the reason I chose (UNC-P) was it was so much cheaper than other North Carolina schools,” she said.
The North Carolina General Assembly passed $11 million of fund-ing that made the plan possible in the Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2018. The bill also referred
to the plan as a state “buy down” of certain financial obligations, which allows borrowers of money to obtain a lower interest rate.
The source of the $11 million in funding was the General Fund.
Provisions in the bill lay out plans for the UNC-system Board of Governors and the chancellors of each university to submit reports to legislative committees about the amount of financial obligations and the numbers of students enrolled.
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LITTLEFROM PAGE 1There is not one existing monument to James Lewis Cates on our campus. There could be one put there. The only existing information about James Lewis Cates was a historical placard that we made and that was torn up by the police on April 30 after my action. Again, when we talk about white supremacy happening, Silent Sam wasn’t an outlier. He wasn’t the most white supremacist, the only white supremacist thing at UNC, he wasn’t an outlier. He was a symbol of what goes on on the grounds, which is a lot of violence, a lot of disregard, a lot of denigration toward the Black people in this area and in this University ... We’re going to keep focusing on the ways that UNC is one of the few employers who doesn’t have a living minimum wage and how their work-force is largely Black and brown peo-ple who are being exploited by that. We can talk about the many ways in which police are used in Chapel Hill to target poor Black people on Franklin Street, to arrest them for things they wouldn’t arrest frat boys and other students for. The continued gentrification and raising of rent and push into historically Black neigh-borhoods with no concern for what’s going to happen to the residents of those neighborhoods. These are all issues we’ve been talking about and working on since the beginning and what we’ve always said
is the symbols we put in our public square reflects what happens on the ground. They reflect our law, our pol-itics and our culture. Silent Sam was not just a figure, but he was the repre-sentation of the sanitized, clean-kept, garden white supremacy at UNC. DTH: Just to be clear, the pedestal remaining on campus is something that you still oppose? ML: I think they should take the ped-estal down. I think that a memorial to the years of resistance the Black community has faced in Chapel Hill because of white supremacy would be a better, more fitting monument. DTH: Is there anything else you’d like to add?ML: What I think is important to note is that the students, workers and com-munity in Chapel Hill, Durham and North Carolina took this upon them-selves. Chancellor Folt did not do this. Chancellor Folt did not help us at all. UNC Police did not help us at all. Administrators, deans, Winston Crisp did not help us, in fact, they belittled us, they had officers surveil us. It was us who did this. We took it upon our-selves to try and make UNC a more fair equitable place. That’s something people are going to remember.
Editor’s note: Randy Young, direc-tor of campus safety, has provided the following statement on allega-tions of activists being assaulted by Confederate sympathizers and police officers: “We cannot confirm this because UNC Police has not received any official reports of assault.”
GOVERNMENTFROM PAGE 1
PROMISEFROM PAGE 5
STATEMENTSFROM PAGE 1the statement says. “Last night, they tore down Silent Sam. They were right to do so.”
In the final debate before her election, Putnam showed support for removing the Silent Sam mon-ument and placing it in a museum. After activist Maya Little was arrest-
hopes to preserve the full scope of North Carolina’s history through the public school curriculum and aims to relocate Confederate statues to more appropriate venues.
Lt. Governor Dan Forest said the state government was ready to dis-cuss solutions regarding Silent Sam’s future on Wednesday.
“A committee was scheduled this week to discuss next steps on Silent Sam and other historical monu-ments,” Forest said in a statement. “Instead, a mob took matters into their own hands, throwing to the wind the rule of law. Regardless of where you find yourself on the politi-cal spectrum, this is a slippery slope.”
C h a p e l H i l l M a y o r Pa m Hemminger said the city is committed to moving past Silent Sam and ensur-ing a future of safe, peaceful protest.
In a joint statement, N.C. Sen. Valerie Foushee, D-Orange, N.C. Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange and Rep.Graig Meyer, D-Orange, Durham, said the removal of UNC’s Confederate statue was long overdue.
“It was past time for Silent Sam to be moved from a place of honor on the campus of the University of the People,” the statement said. “It is unfortunate that state legislators chose not to hear and pass the bill we filed earlier this year to move the monument to an indoor site where it would stand as a reminder of the bitter racial struggle that continues to burden our country.”
The N.C. Historical Commission Confederate Monuments Study Committee is still scheduled to meet Wednesday at 10 a.m., fol-lowed directly by the NC Historical Commission. The committee will make a recommendation to the N.C. Historical Commission on whether to relocate three Confederate statues from Raleigh state capitol grounds.
Phil Cauley, assistant vice chan-cellor at WCU, said Western has sent previews to the BOG, but there will not be an official report sent until it conducts the annual census of the undergraduate population on the tenth day of classes.
The news about the legislation ini-tially surprised the university commu-nity, he said. Although it was appre-ciative, there was a fair amount of skepticism and confusion from faculty, students and parents due to the vague and minimal description of the pro-gram in the language of the legislation.
Cauley said the impact of the pro-gram has yet to be seen because the
ed in April, Putnam released a letter in which she called upon the Office of Student Conduct to drop Little’s Honor Court charges.
“Yesterday was a great day to be a Tar Heel,” the letter says. “By work-ing together, tomorrow will be too.”
Questions remain regarding the future of the monument. Although a UNC Facilities and Maintenance truck removed the statue Monday
night from where it fell, the pedes-tal on which it stood remains. Signs featuring the names of prominent activists of color, including James Lewis Cates, Oscar Diggs and Henry Owl, were taped around the pedestal Tuesday afternoon.
University officials and Chapel Hill police have declined to state where the statue was taken.
program only went into effect at the beginning of this fall semester, and the university is avoiding attributing any change in student demographics to the NC Promise Plan, noting that there has been a steady increase of almost 300 students per class each year for 10 years.
He said the most notable reaction he got for the program came from the parents – partly due to a sizable por-tion of parents bearing the responsi-bility to pay the bill – but the great majority of students did not know about the program before applying.
“If it wasn’t a decider for them to apply, it was a decision-shaper once they applied, and it was one of the things that sealed the deal or tipped the scale in favor of Western,” he said.
Cauley said the program has the potential to increase access and decrease indebtedness for students, especially since it is the status quo for the universities until the General Assembly says otherwise.
“Hopefully it does this for students – students who may otherwise have thought that a four-year degree was not in their future because of cost and a price point,” he said. “Suddenly, that gives them hope that this is attainable.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF ASHLEY EVANSWestern Carolina University welcomes the class of 2022, which is the first to benefit from the NC Promise Plan.
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Black fraternities and sororities get new home
Q&A with co-author of bestselling ‘Freakonomics’
Stephen Dubner Co-author of New York Times best-sell-er “Freakonomic,” and host of Freakonomics Radio.
By Kate KarstensAssistant University Editor
On Wednesday, August 22, at 5:30 pm, the UNC Department of Philosophy will host Stephen Dubner, co-author of New York Times best-seller “Freakonomics,” and host of Freakonomics Radio. Before his lecture at Gerrard Hall, Dubner spoke to The Daily Tar Heel about what brought him to UNC and how to handle fame.
DTH: What brought you to Chapel Hill?
Stephen Dubner: It was just good ser-endipity. Geoff Sayre-McCord — who I don’t know well but we interviewed for one of our episodes a year or two ago — had written to someone, maybe one of our producers asking if I would ever be in Chapel Hill to give a talk for his program … My (college) band was invited to reunite to play for an hour at Cat’s Cradle on Friday night as part of this benefit for a cancer foun-dation. When that arose, I responded to Geoff and said, “Hey, I could give a talk at Carolina for your department, but it would have to be this one day, Wednesday afternoon, because we’re going to be rehearsing the other days for our show Friday,” and he made that work.
DTH: In order to find a lot of the “hidden side of everything,” you have to ask the right questions. How do you do that?
SD: I routinely read papers from academia, mostly economics but from psychology and sociology and some-times there are just topics that are inherently interesting. That’s how I got started in this with my co-author Steve Levitt. He’s someone who’s just done a lot of research on things that make you sit up and say, “Wow, I would love to know more about why people give
their kids the names they do, I would love to know more about the econom-ics of a crack-selling gang, I would love to know about whether there’s collu-sion in sumo wrestling. A lot of it is just retaining childlike curiosity we all had when we were kids, but often gets beaten out of us as we get older and more serious.
DTH: How do you handle criticism? With an ongoing podcast, you’re always in the spotlight as opposed to the publicity a book would receive.
SD: One of the things I learned about Steve Levitt from Steve Levitt, is that most of the people in the world who do really great work in whatever field, they don’t care that much about what other people think … The fact is that if you’re worrying so much about other people’s perception of you, then you spend a lot of time not thinking your own thoughts.
DTH: What lessons have you learned that college students should really pay attention to?
SD: I know a lot of people go to college because they want to have a good career, and that’s what their parents want too, and I think there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. But, I also have come to believe that the people who do the best work in their life are going to be the ones who so love what they do that they drove themselves harder than any sane per-son would drive themselves to do.
By Suzanne BlakeSenior Writer
Beginning next fall, the eight black fraternities and sororities that comprise the National Pan-Hellenic Council at UNC will have hous-ing in Ram Village Apartments. Previously, NPHC chapters didn’t have official on-campus housing.
“It’s a step forward to have a phys-ical space for that,” NPHC President Alton Peques said. “This will be a great space for our organizations to convene, do the work that is mean-ingful to their organization, collabo-rate socially, professionally.”
D i r e c t o r o f Ho u s i n g a n d Residential Education Allan Blattner said the process to secure housing for the NPHC began around three years ago. Blattner said NPHC stood unit-ed in their pursuit of official on-cam-pus housing available to all members of this Greek community.
“One of the things that’s import-ant to them was that if it’s offered to one, it’s offered to all of them,” Blattner said.
Blattner said Carolina Housing is open to conversations with any stu-dent organization that believes living together would be beneficial.
“My hope is that it makes them even stronger than they are now,” Blattner said. “I think they’re some of our most vibrant chapters, and I think they add a lot of value to cam-pus already.”
Through these fraternities and sororities, students are often able to find a safe space on campus, Peques said.
“I think it’s important because people often underestimate the experience of being an underrepre-sented student,” Peques said.
Blattner said Ram Village was specifically selected for NPHC’s
DTH/MICHEALA STUTTSRams Village is the new residence of UNC’s black fraternities and sororities. Rams is located on south campus behind the First-Year dorm Hinton James.
housing because over half of the NPHC members were currently living there.
“They knew it was a place where their members already saw high value and again could add even more value by allowing them to live together and share a community and build off of that,” Blattner said.
The amount of space set aside for the NPHC community is conditional on the membership of the individ-ual fraternities and sororities and the desire of members to live on cam-pus.
Still, for Keith Beasley, president of UNC’s Omega Psi Phi Inc. chapter,
this is one of the first steps to bring the NPHC on a level playing field with the Interfraternity Council, whose chapters often have large houses on Fraternity Court.
“It’s just really important for us to one, all have a space where we can be together and two, bring about that greater sense of Greek commu-nity because not only does it affect your student organization,” Beasley said. “There’s a lot of organizations together to collaborate with housing initiatives, planning events and having a space for everyone to come together.”
“It’s a step forward to have a physical space for that. This will be a great space for our organizations to convene, do the work that is meaningful to their organizations, collaborate socially, professionally.” Alton PequesNPHC President
OpinionWednesday, August 22, 2018 The Daily Tar Heel8
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Demonstrators didn’t live up to the University’s ideals
TO THE EDITOR:
Today, I am embarrassed and ashamed to be called a Tar Heel. The illegal, irresponsible and disrespect-ful destruction of Silent Sam is a disgrace to the University and to the student body. As the flagship univer-sity of our state, it is our responsibil-ity to achieve a corresponding higher degree of social conduct, one which failed miserably last night when a mob destroyed a historic monu-ment. If you were part of it, you are not a hero. University members who participated in this action should be expelled in accordance with the code of conduct.
The issue here is not whether those students of the past were on the right or wrong side of a fight over 150 years ago, it is whether we as people, faculty, students and alumni have basic respect for every-one, even and especially those we disagree with. The mob that torn down Silent Sam proved a complete failure in this most basic tenant of civilized humans. As alumni, we share in the University’s successes and in its failures. The destruction of the statue was a tragedy which cannot be ignored, condoned or tolerated.
A few have allowed passion to overcome their best human quali-ties. Out of self-protection for our University and our state, we must fervently reject this violence lest we all be painted as uncivilized brutes. This action can either be a stain on our reputation or it can become one of the finest examples of the con-demnation of hatred.
Bryan FlynnClass of ‘97
Administrative inaction led to demonstrators’ actions
TO THE EDITOR:
Chancellor Folt, the UNC admin-istration, the Board of Governors and the General Assembly in Raleigh have had a year since the events in Charlottesville to see how strongly people feel about Silent Sam. Yet they have stalled on taking substantive action.
Their failure to act pushed people to act for them. I have no problem with what happened, but I would’ve preferred to see the administration take down the statue themselves. I would’ve preferred to see them acknowledge that what the stat-
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“This is a day that I celebrate unity.”Michelle McQueen, talking to the New York Times about Silent Sam being torn down
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Two nights ago, af ter hav-i n g s t o o d f o r o v e r 1 0 5
years, Si lent Sam was pulled d o w n b y d e m o n s t r a t o r s . A f e w h o u r s l a t e r, C h a n c e l l o r Carol Folt issued a statement on the protest, criticizing the act as “unlawful and danger-ous.” Those words are some of the strongest she’s ever shared on the subject of UNC’s long-standing Confederate statue. In her five years as chancellor of the University, Folt has done her best to stay away from the political.
Folt ’s apolitical nature has o f t e n b e n e f i t e d t h e s c h o o l , helping steady the always pre-carious relationship between the liberal UNC and the con-s e r v a t i v e N o r t h C a r o l i n a General Assembly. But on the issue of Silent Sam, her reti-cence to take a stand has done more harm than good. It has
The words of the Chancellor after Silent Sam’s removal
leave much desired
frustrated many in the student body, who hoped our chancel-lor would help lead the cam-pus conversation surrounding Silent Sam.
What to think of the actions of the protest is a complicat-ed affair. Should we celebrate t h e d e - p e d e s t a l i n g , t h o u g h illegal? Was this a true victory against racism or is it merely a display of idealism that may hurt the cause in the long run? These are questions the edito-rial board has struggled with, and in light of such a big occa-sion in the life of the campus, we had hoped for more from our chancellor. Silent Sam is a divisive figure, and in order for constructive conversation to take place the Univers i ty needs s trong leadership. We hope Folt will do more in the coming days.
It is a lso important for us to cons ider that u l t imate ly, the Nor th Caro l ina G enera l Assembly and, to an extent , the administration sti l l have the power to re-erect the stat-
ue. There is no time to rest on laurels . True progress comes n o t f r o m b r e a k i n g t h e l aw, but from revising it. Although Monday night may have been the catalyst for change, there is a long journey ahead. Lasting advances take time and work.
Sam may not be gone forev-er, and what it represented is certainly not. It ’s notable this stain on campus that symbol-ized white supremacy is gone f o r t h e t i m e b e i n g , b u t t h e injustices students of color face on this campus will not disap-pear overnight. The adminis-tration and local government still need to be scrutinized and held accountable.
Si lent Sam’s fal l has ener-g i z e d t h e c a m p u s , a n d i t ’s important to put that energy towards something posi t ive . T he s tudent body has made their voice clear, so it ’s t ime either for the proper authori-ties to act or for us to vote for ones that will.
I studied history at a college with a Confederate soldier monument during the big-
gest progressive social upheav-al since the 1960s. I know just about every single way that old boy can be interpreted.
What those idealistic college k ids and o lder antagonizers recently did in Chapel Hill was immature and will ultimately be a failure.
The history Silent Sam rep-resents is flawed, but it belongs to all of us and is important. Knocking him down did not make you a better person or end the problems you perceive.
Why? Hundreds will rise in his place, and they’ ll be flesh and blood and loud. Not silent.
I t s e e m s l i ke p o l i t i c s a r e p u l l i n g o u r c o u n t r y a p a r t . This hectic episode wil l fur-ther al ienate the l iberal stu-dent body and faculty from the conservative state government and its residents when unity is needed most.
If the protesters think they hold an enlightenment that all of those with battle flag mem-o ra b i l i a d o n’ t , t h e n t h e y ’ v e failed to consider the sensitiv-ity of the oppressed party. It is also ironic that some wore masks to disguise themselves,
violating a law once aimed at the KKK.
I a m a d e s c e n d a n t o f Confederate soldiers, and I am often thankful that William P. Rierson had chi ldren before marching off to war. He and a n o t h e r g r a n d f a t h e r n e v e r c a m e h o m e a n d s t i l l l i e i n u n m a r k e d V i r g i n i a g r a v e s . Thinking about that pains me, and as a histor y lover, I wil l always be devoted to preserv-ing their memory.
Wil l iam P. Rierson ser ved u n d e r C o l o n e l J a m e s T . Mo r e h e a d , a U N C g ra d u at e f r o m a f a m i l y o f g e n e r o u s University benefactors. Silent Sam is far from the only local symbol of the Confederate past, as rebel generals, members of c o n g r e s s a n d s y m p a t h i z e r s are memorial ized across the campus. Attending the school o f s laveholding Confederate leaders as a descendent of their poorer fo l lowers , ca l led Tar Heels, was a reflective experi-ence.
G oing to UNC dur ing the S i l e n t S a m t r o u b l e w a s i n f a c t e n l i g h t e n i n g f o r t h i s Southerner. It was cr i t ical ly important that I l ive among progressives for four years to t ru ly unders tand both s ides
of Civil War commemoration. I cannot perfectly empathize with people of color who felt oppressed by Silent Sam’s pres-ence on campus, but it is only right that I try to understand.
My wish as I watch the after-math of Silent Sam’s toppling is that all sides of this contro-versy can learn to think and feel from a different perspec-t ive . Respec t must be g iven to defenders of Confederate heritage, those who fe l t l ike s e c o n d - c l a s s c i t i z e n s u n d e r those watchful bronze eyes and everyone in between.
Today ’s Tar Heels need to consciously build understand-ing with one another for civi-lized community to survive this event, as it cuts to the core of a racial and historical identity divide. Unfortunately I doubt many good feelings can remain between an emboldened pro-gressive bubble and an enraged army of heritage defenders.
I f t h i s s y m b o l i c f i g h t becomes more violent, even the vandals may come to regret it.
Will RiersonClass of ‘18
Public RelationsWinston Salem, N.C.
Silent Sam’s Wake
ue symbolizes is wrong. Taxpayer money is tied up in the salaries of people whose course of action was to do nothing.
UNC was checking to see the donation levels of alumni who want-ed the statue to remain. What they did not see was how most people felt about having this racist symbol on a public university’s campus. Apparently, the higher your dona-tion, the more valuable your opin-ion.
Hopefully the University will not waste time and money on prosecu-tions. I see them as an avenue for UNC to retroactively claim action, and at worst a vindictive measure. The people who acted to take down the statue and what it symbolizes were forced to do so by the inactions of the powers that be.
I fully expect that UNC will try to re-erect the statue. Maybe not in the same place, but somewhere. I would like to see the argument they make for putting it back up.
John WilliamsBull’s Head Bookstore
Silent Sam should be left exactly where it is
TO THE EDITOR:
Over the past 24 hours, commen-tators have discussed what UNC Chapel Hill and the state should do with the fallen Silent Sam. I don’t understand why this is even a debatable topic. The answer seems so clear: leave it exactly where it is. An unheroic, toppled, and defeat-ed rebel to symbolize his defeated worldview. Preserve the memory of our history—the ugly and bad, alongside the good. Cake on the cement to hold him down, with big globs because this has been a messy fight. Leave the pedestal and leave it empty. We cannot replace our history.
If you want to add a commemora-tive inscription, go for it. Personally, my toddler has taught me that sometimes simplicity is best and in this case the symbolism is just as powerful without it. He is three now and even he has lessons to teach Silent Sam.
Jennifer AkinClass of ‘10
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