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This is just like C-SPAN, except I’m not bored.ELLE WOODS
By Marin WolfSenior Writer
Young families and students filled every chair in the Purple Bowl at lunchtime on Thursday. Despite the late summer heat and little protection from the sun, customers trickled to the outdoor seating.
Manager Paula Gilland knows the acai bowl shop could use a bigger
building for its operations. She said she knew that before Purple Bowl even opened its doors.
But when selecting the business’ location two years ago, she and her son, owner Taylor Gilland, chose a smaller, more expensive space to take advantage of an increasingly
hot commodity in downtown Chapel Hill: parking.
“We knew we needed parking to survive on Franklin Street,” Paula Gilland said. “We’ve seen all the other places come and go.”
The Town of Chapel Hill’s focus on downtown development has
surged in recent years, most notably with the opening of Carolina Square in 2017.
But the fact remains: people still need a place to park.
NC Supreme Court hears DTH public records lawsuit against UNC
By Maeve SheeheyUniversity Editor
Over a year after the North Carolina Court of Appeals said UNC must release the names of people found responsible for rape, sexual assault or any related acts of sexual misconduct through the University ’s Honor Court, Committee on Student Conduct or Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office to complete a Freedom of Information Act request made by The Daily Tar Heel, lawyers argued the case before the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Stephanie Brennan, special deputy attorney general for the North Carolina Department of Justice, said
the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the University was required to disclose this information for three reasons: the North Carolina Public Records Act has an exception for when the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act applies; there is conflict between FERPA and the Public Records Act in this case; and the Public Records Act poses an obstacle to federal objectives.
Brennan said that when FERPA, a federal law, comes into conflict with state records laws, the records law should yield, allowing the University to have discretion when it comes to disclosing the names of perpetrators. Hugh Stevens, an attorney representing the coalition, argued that FERPA does not apply in this situation.
Bre n n an’s a rg uments a l so referenced concerns that releasing the names of sexual assault perpetrators would jeopardize the
anonymity of their victims. She referenced affidavits filed that provided reasoning for the University not to include this information in sexual assault cases.
“With respect to the victims, the affidavits testified that there would be a chilling effect if the names were put out to the press,” Brennan said.
Stevens, on the other hand, argued this should not be a concern because the DTH is not requesting the names of sexual assault victims. He said the University’s brief only referred to perpetrators once and questioned why the University was protecting these people’s privacy.
“What’s the privacy interest in keeping secret the names of people who have committed heinous sexual offenses on campus?” Stevens said. “Why is the University protecting sexual predators at all?”
Brennan rejected what she called “attacks” on the University’s motives,
saying that there is no supporting evidence for bad faith on UNC’s part.
The DTH filed the lawsuit in November 2016, along with WRAL, The Charlotte Observer and the Durham Herald-Sun, after the University failed to meet a one-month deadline for the public records request. The North Carolina Superior Court ruled in May 2017 that the disclosure of the request was at UNC’s discretion.
The DTH appealed the decision in September 2017, and the North Carolina Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in April 2018 that the University must release the names of people found responsible for rape, sexual assault or any related acts of sexual misconduct through the University’s Honor Court, Committee on Student Conduct or Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office.
Jane Wester was the editor-in-
chief of the DTH when the request was filed. Wester has since graduated from the University, but came to Tuesday’s arguments to follow the course of the conflict.
Wester and her coworkers at the DTH initially requested to see how the new UNC sexual assault policy, which was instituted a few years after a Title IX complaint, was working. She said the request is still as relevant now as it was three years ago.
“ T h e y ’ v e b e e n u s i n g t h e argument of, ‘It reveals details of the victims,’ all along, and I think it’s just important to know that the request is only about perpetrators and how they’re being punished,” Wester said. “We’re not requesting the details of what led to the punishment or anything like that.”
The lawsuit over the release of sexual assault perpetrator
names was filed in 2016.
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On Sept. 30, 2016, The Daily Tar Heel submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act asking for “copies of all public records made or received by UNC-Chapel Hill in connection with a person having been found responsible for rape, sexual assault or any related or lesser included sexual misconduct by the Honor Court, the Committee on Student Conduct, or the Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office,” setting Oct. 28 as the deadline to receive the records.
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Vice chancellor for Communiations and Public Affairs Joel Curran sent a letter to the DTH on Oct. 28, 2016 denying the records request, citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as “requiring the University to protect the educational records of students and consider the well-being of the campus community.”
The Daily Tar Heel filed a lawsuit against the University under the Public Records act in November 2016 following the denial.
The lawsuit was heard in Wake County Superior Court in April 2017. The DTH filed on behalf of itself, the Capital Broadcasting Company, the Charlotte Observer Publishing Company and the Durham Herald Company.
In May, the trial court denied The Daily Tar Heel’s request, with the judge concluding that the Public Records Act does not compel UNC to release the records, and that FERPA grants the University discretion to determine whether to release the names of sexual assault.
The DTH’s representation filed for an appeal to the May 2017 ruling, with oral arguments being heard by the North Carolina Court of Appeals in March 2018.
In April, the court unanimously ruled in favor of The Daily Tar Heel, ordering that UNC must release the records because “FERPA does not prohibit the disclosure of the limited information requested by Palintiffs, except for the dates of offenses.”
Why businesses keep closing on Franklin
The University filed petitions with the North Carolina Supreme Court in October 2018, pointing to a worry that the release of information would discourage victims of sexual assault from coming forward.
The Court agreed to hear the case as arguments zeroed in on the conflicts between FERPA and public records law.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the appeal on
Tuesday.
Eleven downtown Chapel Hill businesses have closed
since July of last year.
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OWASA releases Wastewater Report CardBy Cailey Howard
Staff Writer
O r a n g e Wa t e r a n d S e w e r Authority wants residents to think about what happens to the water they use after they flush.
The OWASA releases an annual Wastewater Report Card, which is an informative document that details water treatment, recycling, wastewater uses and other important statistics. This year’s report explained some of the ways OWASA is working to improve its service for the community.
OWASA is the public service agency responsible for delivering water, wastewater and reclaimed water services to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area. The organization recently released a document on Aug. 21 outlining different parts of how they handle, treat and recycle wastewater.
Monica Dodson, wastewater treatment and biosolids recycling manager, said OWASA completely revamped their Wastewater Report Card this year.
The report card explains how OWASA maintains and tr ies to improve its systems. It gives information about what can and cannot be flushed as well.
“Wastewater is one of those things that you kind of flush it, and it kind of becomes invisible, but there’s a whole team of people that’s ensuring that it makes it to our treatment facilities successfully, and we treat it to a level in which we can return it back to the environment,” Dodson said.
Nicholas Rogers, assistant distribution and collection system manager at OWASA, said while the report shares a lot of valuable information, he thinks the most
important is notifying the public about what should and shouldn’t be flushed.
Flushing items such as grease, dental floss or medication can cause thousands of dollars’ worth of damage and can also raise the chance of chemicals in the water. While he sees this specific information as most valuable, Rogers said the improvements and changes made to the Wastewater Report Card summarizes OWASA’s roles and goals in the community.
“To me, this is a real good overview of our wastewater system and things that we do,” Rogers said. “It doesn’t have everything that we do in there, but it really hits the high notes of the things that can really cause issues.”
The data presented in the document shows how OWASA met and in some cases exceeded its Environmental Protection Agency requirements for
cleaning and inspection.In order to avoid water crises
like OWASA has had in the past few years, Rogers explained that communication amongst employees at the facility is vital. He said OWASA has procedures for handling water and wastewater treatment, so it is important that when a problem arises, employees are quick to act and communicate that there is an issue.
“We kind of run a tight ship on what is put into our system,” Rogers said. “When our guys are out cleaning the sewer system or inspecting the sewer system, if they smell funny odors that are not leaning toward wastewater, but maybe leaning toward chemicals, we can grab a sample of that wastewater, take it to the plant and have it checked prior to it coming to the plant.”
Law school unveils Julius Chambers portraitBy Mary Mac Porter
Staff Writer
Julius Chambers was known during his life as a distinguished litigator and tireless champion of civil rights at state and local levels. Now, his portrait hangs prominently in the school where he earned his law degree.
A portrait of Julius Chambers was unveiled in the Rotunda of the UNC School of Law on Tuesday. Chambers was a notable alumnus of the school and served as the first director of the law school’s Center for Civil Rights..
The portrait was commissioned by the law school’s committee of diversity and inclusion to honor Chambers’ legacy and his profound impact on North Carolina and the nation,
Andrew Chin, a law professor, said. The ceremony had a variety of
speakers including multiple law professors, the artist and Chambers’ brother, Kenneth Chambers . The speakers took turns praising Chambers’ legacy and emphasizing the impact he made on the law school.
“Julius Chambers’ spirit dwells in our halls, a shining source of pride in the difference one person’s dedication to the law can make in the lives of countless others,” Martin Brinkley, dean of the UNC School of Law said.
John Charles Boger, a professor of law emeritus, told the story of Chambers inviting a woman to a professional lunch because she had been standing in his office, seeking his assistance on behalf of her son,
who had special needs and was being locked in the closet at school.
“Julius Chambers deserves to be remembered, and would want to be remembered, for always being available to the thousands of poor people of color, who for centuries had not had anybody to represent them but who knew that they could call first the lawyer, Chambers,” said Richard Rosen, a professor of law emeritus.
Theodore Shaw, the current director of the Center of Civil Rights, emphasized how Chambers continued to give back to UNC despite the discrimination and mistreatment he faced while attending law school there.
Shaw reminded the audience that despite Chambers’ success — among other accomplishments, becoming
the first editor of a law review at a predominantly white university in the South — he still faced inequality.
Despite being the editor-in-chief of the school’s law review, Chambers could not attend the law review’s annual soirée, Shaw said. The event was held at a country club that did not admit or allow Black people to attend.
William Paul Thomas, the portrait’s artist, discussed the parallels he found between himself and Chambers throughout his creation of the project.
Thomas’ work includes intimate portraits of Black subjects. He said that his art, like Chambers’ legal work, seeks to represent the marginalized and advocate for the underrepresented.
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On the heels of Carolina’s trouncing of Duke on Sunday, it’s valid to wonder about the legacy of the World Cup this summer. For one, five players of the championship team are Tar Heels, and recently-retired Heather O’Reilly makes a cool six recent Carolina superstars on the U.S. side and another two for other teams. While working with Reuters this summer, I covered the entirety of the World Cup, following the U.S. squad across France interviewing the players, the coach and FIFA officials. Here are five things I learned:
1. Turns out women’s soccer is — hot take alert — soccer!
Talking to people about my assignment amounted to my conversational partner assuming I asked them if women’s soccer was valid or not, or entertaining or not, or worth watching. What it felt like: me: “Did you watch the game last night?” Other human: “No, but are women really supposed to kick balls around?” Me: “Uhhh…well the game was awesome…”
2. Turns out it is possible: Women don’t flop!
Imagine a utopia where the beautiful game flows by, uninterrupted by players spiraling across the pitch in complex, rolls, clutching body parts at random. Hard to imagine? Welcome to women’s soccer! I hadn’t watched a ton of the sport before my assignment, but each game I went to, I was just astounded by the lack of flopping. There’s research to suggest that dramatic behavior to elicit calls is directly linked to male star-power, so it will be interesting to see if this awesome mainstay of women’s ball changes or not in the coming decade.
3. The U.S. team is what role models are made of, but that’s not necessarily great…
Turns out when you force athletes to be advocates for very reasonable things in order to play, get paid, etc., they do it! Tobin Heath just wants to play. She didn’t want to talk all the other stuff — that’s not why she’s a footballer. But she doesn’t really have that luxury, because being a female footballer is tantamount to being an advocate for gender equality. Let’s just say that’s not something we expect from any other athlete, or really anyone in a position of high social status.
4. Title IX changed the game.In soccer, quantity begets quality.
When I was crunching numbers on things like margins of victories for the sport and scratching my head over why the Stars and Stripes were just SO dominant, Title IX’s allure became clear. It’s normal to bring your five-year-old (female) kid to soccer in the States, and that’s not the case in, for a pertinent example, Thailand. And Title IX helped us get there, reframing existing structures for what girls can or cannot do.
5. Crystal Dunn is the most versatile soccer player of all time and deserves a street named after her and she’s kind and incredible and so great and if you’re reading this Crystal ily and I miss you!!!
kvetch: v.1 (Yiddish) to complain
Not a kvetch but we have a Twitter account now if you’d like to take a break from note-taking and complain
instead!
That Twitter account is at the bottom of these kvetches
Yeah, we’re going to make you read all of them
Okay, here we go
Anyone else notice that Gary the pit preacher has lost some of his spunk?
I spilled water on my laptop during FWOC and it wasn’t CCI. RIP.
Greek rush is happening. That’s it. That’s my kvetch.
Hot take: I don’t really think Taylor Swift’s new album is all that great
If I hear “Old Town Road” one more time I’m going to take the horses from the back and ride them far, far away
from this campus
My roommate’s hair is all over our shower and I don’t know how to
politely tell her to clean it up
If I have my headphones in I am DEFINITELY not interested in
signing your petition
Anyone else really irked by how literally all of the projectors on campus do that random blue screen
thing every day?
C hoose your fighter ; over ly-enthusiastic Morehead scholar vs the Robertson who was just ~abroad~ at
Duke for a semester
Juul-ing is so 2018
Are we still supplying our dining halls with that private-prison supplier?
I’m tired.
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EDITORIALWe’re afraid
As we are walking between classes, hopping between bars and attending religious services on our campus, students are concerned with more than just trying not to trip on a brick, dancing with our friends and listening to the sermon.
Many of us are now conditioned to sit where we can see the doors, think up hypothetical escape routes from the club or train our ears to discern between a truck back-firing or a gunshot.
Though it may only be a quick thought, or an outlandish-seeming hypothetical that we soon dismiss, the potential for gun violence on our campus has evolved into a possibility that preoccupies our pursuit of an education at Carolina.
We don’t say this to inspire fear among students or be alarmist, but to make a point to the adults and representat ives who are responsible for our lives as young adults — we’re afraid.
At this point in time, many of us have seen headlines of mass gun violence on school campuses since our K-12 years. Though most of us
don’t remember Columbine, a lot of us remember Virginia Tech, Newtown, Parkland, Santa Fe, and the most close to home, UNC Charlotte in May.
The policy responses have already placed a heavy burden on K-12 students and instructors across the country. Schools are implementing strategies anywhere from encouraging teachers to confront assailants to having students bring canned foods to school so that they can hurl them at a shooter.
UNC’s “Run, Hide, Fight / Defend” policy reflects the mentality that we should just accept, as students and faculty, that we are at risk for an act of mass violence and always “have an escape route in mind.”
We have seen plenty of bloodshed with little justice to speak of for the deaths of those who were simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time, on the wrong end of a barrel. Every time this happens, and there is nothing done, we become more complicit and more afraid.
Frankly, it’s terrifying. No student should have to worry about whether they can run in the shoes that they wear to class or keep their head on a swivel at sporting events. No professor should have to be on their toes while lecturing, with a plan of action in their back
pocket. We’re here to learn, to grow and to be the leaders of our generation.
We all hope that we will never see the day that anyone on this campus is a victim of senseless violence; some of us will pray on it, others will write letters to representatives and some of us will simply keep hoping. But as well-informed college students, most of us know that 290 people have been killed and 1121 wounded in 271 mass shootings in 2019 alone.
Just this past May we had a group of armed, Confederate demonstrators walk onto our campus (a felony), shake hands with law enforcement and leave without penalty. Furthermore, UNC students have received death threats from those very same people who have brought weapons onto our campus.
One man threatened that he was “ready to kill” for what he believes. In response, we feel inclined to pose the question — what are we willing to do to ensure the safety of our community?
We know that the necessary policy action is largely out of the hands of anyone on this campus. But we must ask ourselves what we can do, as members of a premier academic institution, to put pressure on the necessary stakeholders and make this campus safer for the Tar Heels who will come after us.
COLUMN
Cash (bail) rules everything around me
Claude Wilson is a third-year columnist for the opinion desk
There are about 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States today, more than any other country in total, or per capita. There are multiple factors that have led to this mass incarceration, but a significant one is the way that the criminal justice system is stacked against the poor: a striking example is the legal institution of cash bail bonds. A cash bail bond requires defendants to provide an immediate payment to the court, to be returned when the court’s requirements are met.
If the defendant is unable to meet this payment, they must either pay a fee to a commercial bondsman to post bail for them, or they are imprisoned without trial. Judges usually have the discretion to modify the bonds based on the financial circumstances of the defendant,
but often these circumstances are ignored or not even brought up.
This is why over 60 percent of the people in U.S. jails have not even had their trial yet. Bail bonds impose serious financial burdens on working class people, as almost half of the population struggles to raise $400 in emergency situations.
All across the country, we’re spending $14 billion every year to imprison people before they’ve been convicted of any charges, and the vast majority of them have been charged for trivial non-violent offenses. About 75 percent of all criminal cases are for misdemeanors that would be punishable by fines or by less than a year in jail if the defendants are proven guilty.
What’s especially frustrating about this system of mass incarceration is that a number of reforms and policies can be readily, almost immediately, implemented to reduce unnecessary and unjust detention.
We could reduce the number of pre-tr ial incarcerat ions by
ensuring that judges are made aware of the defendant’s financial c i r c u m s t a n c e s a t t h e i r f i r s t appearance, and they take these circumstances into consideration when sett ing bonds, or using “unsecured bonds,” which require payment only after the first time a defendant fails to appear in court.
We could even end cash bail altogether, by using supervised release programs similar to parole, instead of detention without trial, and by providing programs to treat substance use disorders and mental illnesses as medical issues rather than punitive cases.
At times, it is appropriate to hold someone in detention prior to their trial, such as with defendants charged with serious, violent felonies, but this should be the exception not the rule. If we want our criminal justice system to live up to the ideal of ‘justice,’ then we must stop imprisoning people for their poverty and abolish the cash bail system.
Students are preoccupied by the threat of gun violence on campus.
Rachel Joyneris a senior Peace, War and Defense and History double-major from Tallahasee, Florida
Wednesay, August 28, 2019
QuickHitsSyllabus week is
officially over. Like, actually over. This means no more time for binge-watching
o u r favo r i te show s . S ay i ng goodbye to Brooklyn 99 and The Handmaid’s Tale is a real bummer.
No Time For Netflix Okay, not going to lie, that random couple days of 70 degree weather served with a
side of no pit stains was glorious. Wa l k i n g o u t s i d e w i t h o u t condensating was huge. But, like, we’ve only got one planet, y’all.
Climate ChangePraise be! We’ve
only been in class for a week and a half and we already
h a v e a w e l l - d e s e r v e d l o n g weekend. This break could not come soon enough. Y ’all have plans to celebrate?
Labor Day Weekend
If you’re eating in the bottom of Lenoir, you’re making the conscious choice to sacr i fice quanti ty
for quality. That doesn’t mean we want to leave hungry. Fill up my compostable to-go box, please.
Getting Skimped in BOLIf you’re into having
28 screens to look at a n d s p i n n y - b o i chairs during your
lecture, this is the room for you. Otherwise, this ‘modern learning space’ will drive you, like many of us, absolutely nuts.
Greenlaw 101I f t h e c o l u m n
over yonder wasn’t enough to convince you, we’re BIG fans
of the women’s soccer team. We stan and you should too. They’ve got more natty championships than Greenlaw 101 has screens. Literally.
Women’s Soccer
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Q&A with CPA on Misty CopelandCarolina Performing Arts will be
hosting Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theatre’s first Black female principal dancer, to kick off CPA’s 15th anniversary season at Memorial Hall on Sept. 6 at 8 p.m.
Arts & Culture editor Jessica Hardison spoke with Jess Abel, Carolina Performing Arts marketing and communications coordinator, about Copeland’s upcoming talk and how Copeland will bring a different perspective to campus.
The Daily Tar Heel: Why did members of the Carolina Performing Arts team decide to bring Copeland to UNC?
Jess Abel: One of the major goals of CPA’s 15th anniversary season is to celebrate the creative leadership of women in all forms, and Misty Copeland definitely embodies that creative leadership and so much more. She’s a world-class dancer, she’s a barrier-breaking artist and a determined and inspiring person. It’s an honor to have her kick off our season.
DTH: What about Copeland stands out as a performer?
JA: She didn’t begin dancing until she was 13, which is a lot later than most professional dancers begin
their practice. She also rose to an incredibly high level of dance really quickly. In just two years, she began to garner attention nationally, and then she studied at the San Francisco Ballet School and the School of American Ballet for her intensive program, and she did that on a full ride. Through all that success, she was also battling people who told her that she was too muscular or that she lacked the right look or the right form. Now, in her professional career, her strength, dramatic style and energy are what a lot of dance critics often point to as her strongest qualities. In the end, the same things she was criticized for in her earlier days are her greatest strengths now as a performer.
DTH: What do Copeland’s story and perspective bring to campus?
JA: She is the first Black woman to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, and they’ve been around for over 75 years. She can offer perspectives into her career and the discipline of dance and diversity and classical ballet that I don’t think any other dancer can.
DIVE: What will attendees gain from conversation with Copeland?
JA: I think that same perspective of her being the first ever Black woman as one of American Ballet Theatre’s principal dancers is a part of it, and she’s also in the midst of her performance season right now. So it’s definitely an honor that she’s taking a break from actually dancing to come speak with us. While she’s here, she’ll be focusing on her career, diversity, ballet and her hopes for the future of dance, so we’ll get a good perspective on that.
DTH: How does Copeland fit into the theme of the Carolina Performing Arts 15th anniversary season?
JA: One of my favorite aspects of this season is that a vast majority of performances are either produced, created or directed by women — or the performances themselves are women-led — so most of the performers on stage will be women. Misty definitely encompasses all of this because she’s an artist who has pushed boundaries since the beginning of her career, and she’s always had to self-advocate when someone doubted her. She’s a leader at American Ballet Theatre and in her dance community and beyond that, so she’s everything we’re hoping to honor this season
PHOTO COURTESY OF UNDER ARMOURMisty Copeland, American Ballet Theatre’s first Black female principal dancer, will be speaking at an event hosted at Memorial Hall on Sept. 6.
“We knew we were going to be fighting an uphill battle with this whole parking thing.” Paula GillandManager of Purple Bowl
wrapped up into our season opener.
DIVE: How do members of CPA think her story will impact the UNC community?
JA: We hope ever yone who is able to attend Misty’s talk will have a greater appreciation not just for how much energy, effort and strength Misty herself has committed to becoming the artist
that she is, but for every artist who’s tasked with breaking the barriers in their field that Misty has already broken. It’s definitely an awesome opportunity to hear from an artist who’s at the top of her game, and we just hope that everyone in the UNC community and surrounding communities take advantage of her being here.
First-year places third at Pokemon championship By Aaron Sugarman
Arts & Culture Assistant Editor
Competitive Pokémon Trading Card Game player and first-year Blaine Hill got third in the Pokémon World Championship last weekend.
Hill was the American who made it the furthest in the championship. He said it was the culmination of over a decade of training.
Hill’s older siblings introduced him to the game and inspired him to start playing Pokémon. Curran Hill, one of Hill’s older brothers, won his division in the 2005 Pokémon Trading Card Game World Championship.
“They were the reason why I got into it, I wanted to be like them, I wanted to do better than them,” Hill said. “It was the competitive spirit.”
Hil l said he began playing competitive Pokémon when he was 5 years old, learning the basics of
the game around the kitchen table as a family.
“I still have friends myself that I met when I was five or six that are still playing, and I get to see them around the world and at Pokémon events still,” Hill said.
To qualify for the Pokémon World Championship, a player needs to win a certain amount of points from good performances at local, regional or international events. Players compete for thousands of dollars in prizes and the title of Pokémon World Champion.
Hill said the Pokémon Trading Card Game, or Pokémon TCG, is a combination of poker and c h e s s . T h e Po k é m o n Wo r l d Championships also has categories for the Pokémon Video Game, the popular mobile game Pokémon Go and a Pokémon fighting game called Pokkén.
“The poker element is where you
don’t know what your opponent could play, there’s a lot of Pokemon cards, and the chess part is that once they play those cards, you have to figure out how to get your cards to defeat the other ones,” Hill said.
There are currently 809 Pokémon, but Hill’s favorite is one of the original 151 Pokémon — Mew.
“For me, Pokémon has always been just about having fun, seeing my friends, hanging out and having a good time,” Hill said. “The competition is always a side part.”
Carl Barone, one of Hill’s friends
and a fellow competitive Pokémon TCG player, said one important quality of a successful Pokémon TCG player is intellect.
“You have to be able to predict, you have to be adaptable and pick up a game plan on the fly,” Barone said. “You have to be a quick thinker, you have to be confident you have to be decisive — it’s a lot of intellectual traits that I think you need to be good, and I think that’s why Blaine was able to do what he did.”
‘Tilting’ is a term in certain competitive games like Pokémon TCG where an unlucky loss results in frustration and an emotional breakdown. Barone said he has never seen Hill ‘tilt.’
“You love those underdog stories, and he was the one main one, he’s the American that got the farthest — there’s one American in the top four and it’s Blaine Hill, that’s
insane,” Barone said.According to Chip Richey, another
competitive Pokémon TCG player and friend of Hill, dedication is one of the most important qualities in creating a Pokémon master.
“He practiced more for Worlds than I think I ever saw him practice for any other tournament, so it was really cool to see that pay off for him in such a big way,” Richey said.
Barone said unlike some other top Pokémon players, Hill has never cheated and that Pokémon TCG is lucky to have him as a good role model for kids that love the game.
“UNC is lucky to have him down there, he’s very smart, very personable, very confident — we’re all super proud of him and he’s just a good kid to have around,” Barone said.
Franklin Street at a glance
Eleven downtown businesses have closed since July last year.
Hops Burger Bar, MidiCi and Tama Tea each closed around one year after opening. Several other restaurants and stores that closed, however, had been on Franklin Street for much longer.
Noodles & Co. shut down in August 2018 after a decade of operation, and BSki’s closed after 13 years. Asia Cafe, the oldest restaurant to close in the past fiscal year, was open for 19 years before closing last January.
Two boutiques, Fedora Boutique and Bevello Clothing, also closed.
Six of the nine closed restaurant locations have been leased to new occupants. Durham-based Dame’s Chicken and Waffles plans on opening in BSki’s previous location. Blue Spoon Microcreamery, Peño Mediterranean Grill and Curry Point Express have already taken the place of other closed businesses and are open.
Downtown Partnership Executive Director Matt Gladdek said Franklin Street businesses face several challenges, such as increasingly competitive businesses in Durham and Raleigh, and improved food options on UNC’s campus. Franklin
Street businesses also compete with other Chapel Hill commercial hubs like University Place and Meadowmont Village.
“For the number of businesses that are here and the amount of wealth that is in that trade area, you would expect businesses on Franklin Street to do very well,” Gladdek said.
Casey Fox co-owns four Mellow Mushroom locations: Raleigh, Durham, Wake Forest and Chapel Hill. He said the Franklin Street location brings in only a fraction of the revenue of his other restaurants.
Many business owners said they think the difficulty of parking downtown is making customers choose to shop and dine in more convenient locations.
“It’s very frustrating watching people go elsewhere,” Fox said.
Parking downtown
With three parking decks , 12 downtown lots and street parking, the Town manages 1,442 public parking spaces downtown, according to Meg McGurk, the community safety planner for the Town of Chapel Hill.
But Chapel Hill is still struggling with public disapproval of its downtown parking, Gladdek said. Nearly 50 percent of participants in the town’s 2018 Community Survey said they were dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the availability of parking downtown.
The Town revamped its parking program, Park on the Hill, in the summer of 2018 with the introduction of new pay stations, as well as an app that allows customers to pay for parking online. It also replaced parking lot attendants with downtown ambassadors. Two lots — the Rosemary/Columbia Lot and the Wallace Deck — switched from parking booths to meters.
The Town updated what McGurk cal led a “woeful ly outdated” parking system while enhancing efforts to inform the public of its parking program. It also updated its website with more information about parking options and the duties and priorities of its Parking Services Division.
Efforts to raise awareness of the system overhaul included the implementation of the Lots to Love campaign, with a monthly photo contest encouraging downtown parking customers to post a picture on social media, somehow incorporating both parking and kissing. Participants had the chance to win $50 gift cards.
But even a kissing contest couldn’t change the reputation of
downtown parking. “There’s such a negative feeling
about parking in downtown that many people that I meet, like families, will say ‘Oh I would come down to the store, but we don’t like to go there because there’s no parking on Franklin Street,’” Gilland, the Purple Bowl manager, said. “So they haven’t even given us a chance.”
Business owners aren’ t just concerned about parking for p o t e n t i a l c u s t o m e r s . T h e i r employees need to put their cars somewhere, too.
Yogurt Pump manager Emily Je ff e r s o n s a i d s h e m a k e s a point to ta lk about parking during interviews with potential employees. YoPo shares alleyway parking with other businesses, making it difficult to guarantee a space for employees.
But not all business owners think parking is to blame for the difficulties of operating downtown.
“Parking is an issue,” said Don Pinney, owner of Sutton’s Drug Store. “But decline of your business is not the parking situation. It does cause inconvenience.”
Pinney said parking hasn’ t changed during his 41 years on Franklin Street.
“I lost a lot of customers to parking that are older and don’t want to park three blocks away,” he said. “If it’s somebody coming in town specifically to come to Sutton’s, they’re gonna park in the deck and
come on in.”St i l l , business owners are
expressing their concerns with the town and the Downtown Partnership.
“We knew we were going to be fighting an uphill battle with this whole parking thing,” Gilland said. “I go to so many meetings with the Downtown Partnership and I’m constantly trying to brainstorm how to overcome that misperception about parking downtown.”
Looking forward
Despite any concerns downtown businesses may have about the future, downtown shops and restaurants are excited about the coming months.
Gilland and Jefferson said they think UNC’s football season and the return of head coach Mack Brown will bring alumni and other visitors to Franklin Street. Gilland is also feeling positive about the return of women’s sporting events to campus following construction that closed several UNC fields.
Gladdek said that he thinks businesses hold on to Chapel Hill because they love the town, regardless of business interest.
“We’ve got some really fantastic business owners here that are here and working and fighting because they care,” he said.
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Readmission process simplified to survey
DTH FILE/HANNAH BURNETTEA person walks into the front of Jackson Hall, the home to the University’s Undergraduate Admissions office in January of 2019.
By Maydha DevarajanSenior Writer
Beginning this semester, students re-enrolling at UNC will have to navigate a new and, hopefully, easier set of readmission policies.
The new system, Return to Carolina, is set to launch on Sept. 9. Prior to the policy update, students hoping to be readmitted to UNC had to submit an application. Now, students only need to fill out a brief survey.
Depending on the student’s response, administrators from various departments, including the Office of the University Registrar and the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid, will provide guidance on next steps for the student’s individual case.
Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Admissions Steve Farmer said while Return to Carolina is still new, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions plans on examining how to provide support for undergraduates navigating issues such as holds on student finances or records.
“ We w a n t t o h e l p p e o p l e understand the steps they can take,” Farmer said. “We don’t want there to be any surprises.”
Farmer highlighted a report
produced by the Mental Health Task Force last semester that outlined issues identified by UNC students about the re-enrollment process.
Senior Emma Caponigro, who served on the Policies and Procedures Subcommittee of the Mental Health Task Force, said the group collaborated with several mental health organizations on campus. Some of the greatest student concerns included a lack of clarity on timelines for loan availability, academic holds and visa considerations for international students.
Caponigro also said the committee looked into best practices at other universities and discovered that things like detailed readmission checklists are especially helpful.
Asia Chance, who returned to UNC as a full-time student last semester, said while the University’s checklist is useful in outlining what is needed to re-enroll, it doesn’t help students readjust to campus life. She said there needs to be more emphasis on communication between offices so resources are already in place when a student returns to campus.
Chance, who took a medical withdrawal her junior year, said she had to fight to be cleared for
Accessibility Resources and Service accommodations, despite having worked with Counseling and Psychological Services during the withdrawal and re-enrollment process.
“I had to start from scratch and give them my entire situation,” Chance said. “Which meant, again, getting more documentation from my therapist, making more documentation for myself when it could have been much easier if departments were speaking with each other.”
Chance said when she returned to UNC her second major and minor had been dropped, which made it difficult to get into classes for her degrees.
Caponigro said she wants to see how the University has incorporated the task force’s policy recommendations to Return to Carolina, but she’s worried the changes could not be implemented due to funding.
Farmer said that readmissions practices haven’t typically had a University-wide coordinated effort, but Return to Carolina will need student feedback to evolve and fit student needs.
On average, 400 to 500 students re-enroll at UNC per year, Farmer said. He said the University is dedicated to ensuring those students
complete their degrees. “When students apply to UNC as
first-year, transfer students, when they earn admission and enroll, they can come here confident that they earned their places here,” Farmer said. “... We
don’t want to make it really hard for people who’ve already earned their place at UNC to come back and finish what they started.”
DTH FILE/MOLLY SPRECHEREmployees work behind the counter of Open Eye Cafe in Carrboro in February of 2017. Open Eye participated in the discount campaign this month.
By Crystal YuStaff Writer
Local Chapel Hill and Carrboro businesses found a new way to greet new students during the first week of classes this year.
The Chamber For a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro, the Carrboro Business Alliance and Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership coordinated with local businesses to build a local deals and discounts campaign from Aug.17 to 25.
Katie Loovis, vice president for external affairs at The Chamber, said the idea of promoting foot traffic in downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro showed up in the Business Alliance’s monthly leadership council meetings. During the discussions, the council decided to narrow its focus to students.
“When we were brainstorming about what might be some ways to attract shoppers and diners, we thought, ‘Oh gosh, UNC students,’” Loovis said.
She said the campaign would help to “entice them to come off campus,”
and enjoy Franklin Street, Main Street and Carrboro.
Loovis said shopping locally gives people purchasing power and stimulates the local economy. The chamber referenced a study commissioned by American Express that said 67 cents of every dollar spent at a small business remains in the community.
In the past few months, most students were away from campus during summer break, so the amount of available customers for businesses fell. But Loovis recognized the energy the back-to-school crowd has brought to them.
“Obviously, our population in the town of Chapel Hill skyrockets — students make up a big part of that population,” she said. “So when they’re gone for the summer, our local businesses feel it, but when they return, it’s a wonderful time.”
For Michelle Temple, retail manager of Caffé Driade and Open Eye Cafe, the deals and discounts campaign has brought some happy air into their space.
“It’s an extra little perk to go
somewhere for your first time,” Temple said. “Even regulars, people who have been here before, are coming back after their summer break. And they’re happy to be back here and get a little welcome back to Chapel Hill.”
Temple also said there is a sustainable relationship between customers, workers, staff and their products’ sources, like farmers. These things add to the community-based experiences residents can have, she said.
The Pizza Press Chapel Hill, another business that participated in the campaign, had a “Buy 1 Pizza, Get 1 Pizza Free with purchase of 2 Beverages” deal.
Andreas Handrinos, general manager for The Pizza Press and K-Panns, Inc., said the business h o p e s t o p r o m o t e i t s e l f b y attracting first-time customers and students to walk to their location on Franklin Street.
Despite instances of local b u s i n e s s e s s h u t t i n g d o w n , Handrinos said their goal is to work with the right neighbors and become
a permanent part of the community.“ You ’re here by yourse l f ,”
Handrinos said. “You have to do that as a community.”
The back-to-school local deals and discounts campaign is the first of several campaigns to encourage
people to shop and dine locally, according to the Chamber’s news release. The next campaign will be the Carrboro Music Festival on Sept. 28 and 29.
Deals and discounts bring traffic to small businesses
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By Abbey ThompsonStaff Writer
About 50 percent of UNC employees go somewhere else for their health care, N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell said during a panel on Monday.
The UNC Campus Community Forum held the panel to discuss the issues surrounding the North Carolina State Health Plan.
Shayna Hill, chairperson of the UNC Employee Forum, spoke to how the poor coverage is impacting UNC faculty and staff.
“One employee shared with me that for the past several years, she has had to make the decision between health care for her children or health care for herself — often choosing not to visit her health care provider for yearly checkups, and putting off procedures for herself,” Hill said.
Another employee is fi l ing bankruptcy due to staggering medical bil ls , while multiple employees are leaving UNC because
the cost of family coverage is prohibitive, Hill said.
Problems facing the plan
Folwell said the health care plan serves 720,000 individuals, which is almost as many people as the workforces of Amazon, J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway combined.
“You should be outraged at the fact that you’re involved with a plan which is the largest purchaser of something in this state, not just health care but pharmaceuticals, and we’re not getting the best possible prices,” Folwell said.
Folwell said the state health plan is going to run out of money in 2 ½ years. He said health care and pharmaceutical costs are increasing by more than 4 percent, while the funding in the budget remains at a 4 percent rate.
He said it is unclear to consumers what the money from the budget is actually being spent on.
“No one wants you to know what
the price of health care is,” Folwell said.The problems at hand are not
new problems, Matthew Brody, senior vice president of UNC-system Human Resources, said. He said the issues of increasing out-of-pocket costs, extremely high dependent premiums and artificially low individual coverage have been ongoing for several years.
Brody wants to ensure that employees do not get caught in the middle of the state’s attempt to solve these problems.“I’ve heard from many employees over the last few months, as this effort around the clear pricing and the state health plan network have come to the floor, that employees are very concerned,” Brody said. “We’ve had folks being very scared about losing access to long-trusted providers, and then all of a sudden being out of network.”
Potential solutions
Throughout the panel, possible solutions arose.
“In general, partnering with big systems and hospitals in competitive markets around the idea that they want to be committed to total cost and care redemptions, or at least a budget, where they can save money if they come under the budget, where they can gain if they do better or sharing the losses if they don’t,” Aaron McKethan, a senior policy fellow at Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, said. “That’s been going on and happening nationally with some really good results to show.”
Dr. Matt Ewend, president of UNC Physicians and the chief quality and value officer for the University of North Carolina Health Care System, said the only way to bend the cost curve of health care is to make everyone healthier, while putting more effort into prevention instead of trying to fix things once they have gone wrong.
“I think the key to this is par tnership be tween a l l the parties,” Brody said. “Between the employers who have employees
covered by these plans, between plan administrators and between our health care providers: our local physicians, our hospitals and health care systems. We’re all going to need to work together to figure this out, and we need to get this figured out in a way that doesn’t end up affecting our employees in a very negative way.”
In the meantime, open enrollment is going to start on Nov. 2 and will exist for 17 or 18 days, Folwell said. It will be simpler than it used to be, while not compromising the amount of choices that employees have in the process, Brody said.
“There are no guarantees, but I do not see that we’re going to reach the end of next year and somehow three quarters of the major health systems in the state of North Carolina are not going to be in network for 720,000 people,” Brody said. “So I am optimistic. I’ve told folks not to panic.”
Arrest warrants issued following Hillsborough KKK rallyBy David Saff
Senior Writer
The Orange County Sheriff ’s Office has warrants out for the arrest of two participants of the Ku Klux Klan rally in Hillsborough on Saturday.
On Aug. 24, members of the Ku Klux Klan held a demonstration in Hillsborough that drew national attention and were quickly met with opposition by the community and local government officials.
D e m o c r a t i c p r e s i d e n t i a l candidate Beto O’Rourke tweeted over the weekend following the rally. O’Rourke criticized the president for emboldening the actions of the klansmen.
The participants, some wearing white hoods and robes, stood on the sidewalk in front of the Orange County Courthouse holding confederate and American flags.
While no one was arrested at the demonstration, the sheriff ’s office now plans to arrest two participants in the klan’s rally for openly carrying firearms, according to a joint statement from the Orange County Sheriff ’s Office and the Hillsborough Police Department.
“Although North Carolina allows people to openly carry weapons, this right is limited in certain situations, such as at parades, protests or
demonstrations,” they said in the statement.
According to Hillsborough Mayor Tom Stevens, law enforcement had a swift response to the rally.
“Law enforcement came out p r e tty m u c h i m m e d i at e l y. I know the Hillsborough Police Department had extra officers immediately,” Stevens said. “I know the sheriff ’s office also had quite a number of officers there and were pretty much on the scene.”
However, demonstrators like Lindsay Ayling were disappointed with the police response. Ayling said she saw guns on some klansmen as they were returning to their cars.
“I was disappointed in the fact that the police were basically escorting the Klansmen to their cars as they were trying to intimidate community members,” Ayling said. “At that same courthouse, an antiracist activist was recently arrested because he had forgotten that he had a pocket knife in his pocket, and he accidentally brought it to court with him.”
Alicia Stemper, director of public information for the Orange County Sheriff ’s Office, said law enforcement is now taking the next steps in finding the weapon-holding demonstrators after reviewing photographic evidence.
UNC employees discuss expiring state health plan
PHOTO COURTESY OF GRAIG MEYERMembers of the Ku Klux Klan assembled illegally at the Orange County Courthouse on Saturday, Aug. 24 in Hillsborough.
“We were monitoring from a distance and did not see anybody with any weapons,” Stemper said. “As they were getting in their cars, people started telling us they had weapons, but we hadn’t seen it, and at that point they were leaving, so it made sense at that point to pursue
the investigation with a cool head.”N.C. Rep. Graig Meyer, a Democrat
representing Orange County, said the people in the counterprotest do not want their city to be represented by the Ku Klux Klan.
“Locals came downtown or walked over and set up a counterprotest
across the street, and stayed there until the klan members went home,” Meyer said. “They serenaded them away with a choral singing of ‘Hit the Road Jack.’”
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If August 28th is Your Birthday...
Aries (March 21-April 19)Today is a 7 -- Take a philosophical view, especially with family and romance. Things may not go as planned. Wait for developments. Optimism grows your heart stronger.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is an 8 -- Intuition and good fortune help you navigate domestic changes. Consider all options and possibilities. Connect people for mutual support. You can get what’s needed.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)Today is an 8 -- Despite traffic delays, communications can get the word out. Don’t get distracted by a heckler. Disagree respectfully. Friends help you make an important connection.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)Today is a 9 -- Prepare estimates, budgets and invoices. Keep generating positive cash flow. Look for hidden opportunities in the news. Luck follows quick, committed action.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 7 -- You may feel especially sensitive to changes. Pamper yourself with extra rest, good food and hot water. Enjoy trees and nature. Recharge your energy.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is a 6 -- Notice your dreams, aspirations and ambitions. Does it match your current situation? Choose your direction. You can make things happen. Wait and consider.
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UNC to honor Urso with student section
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By Chapel FowlerSenior Writer
Grant Porter arrived on UNC’s campus late in the summer, a month or so before North Carolina men’s soccer began its 2011 season. The newly hired assistant coach was no stranger to Chapel Hill — he played four years of soccer at UNC and graduated in 2004 — but he entered his second stint admittedly out of touch.
Outside of head coach Carlos Somoano and the rest of his staff, Porter said he didn’t know anybody. That included the roster he’d soon coach. He made immediate plans to introduce himself. Within his first few days on the job, though, senior midfielder Kirk Urso beat him to it.
“He stopped in my office and wanted to get to know me,” Porter said. “Usually, it’s kind of the reverse, where the coaches reach out to the players. That’s a little bit of his personality.”
Seven years after Urso’s death at age 22, from a pre-existing heart condition that caused sudden cardiac arrest, stories of his friendship, patience and personality still run through the UNC soccer community. Former coaches, teammates and friends will tell you this about the team captain and 2011 national champion they lovingly call Captain Kirk: he had time for everyone.
“I don’t think I’ve met anybody ever like him,” said Rob Lovejoy, a former teammate. “He was just a downright good guy.”
Urso had time for everyone. So it’s only fair, his friends said, that they do the same.
Since Februar y, the men’s soccer program, the Rams Club and the team’s a lumni base have collaborated on, and since completed, a $50,000 fundraising effort in Urso’s name. Its purpose: to offset construction costs for the UNC Soccer & Lacrosse Stadium and, more importantly, give Urso a spot in their new home.
Before North Carolina opens its season Friday night, the team will unveil a plaque and officially give Sections 3 and 4 of the stadium a new name: the Kirk Urso Student Section. His parents, Mike and Sandy, and his brother, Kyle, all of whom approved the idea, will attend the game.
To Urso’s teammates and coaches at UNC, it’s just one small way to honor their friend, whose impact on their lives and the program is still tangible years down the line in 2019.
“He made people around him compelled to do things like this, so it was great,” Somoano said. “I was very happy that it came together.”
‘He just had it’
Michael Callahan has seen firsthand that new players need an adjustment period. Especially so at a college level.
He kept that in mind ahead of UNC’s 2008 season. North Carolina had just welcomed its newest recruiting class, and Callahan, a rising senior and team captain, was ready to help out his younger teammates. He soon learned Urso needed little instruction.
“There was no nonsense in the way he went about his soccer,” Callahan said. “He was there to compete, to get better. That couldn’t have been more clear from day one.”
Urso made an immediate impact as a Freshman All-America selection. And as the midfielder further entrenched himself as a leader, a dichotomy emerged.
There was Urso, the fierce competitor: a player who relished every training session, developed a knack for taking and making long-distance shots and hated losing, even in the most informal scrimmage.
Then, there was Urso, the model student-athlete: coachable, vocal and a lock for the annual All-ACC Academic team. After intense practices, he’d still toss an arm around a teammate and chat him up as a friend, moments after they’d gone head to head.
Elmar Bolowich, who coached the UNC men’s soccer team for 22 years, including Urso’s first three, said one of the best compliments he’d heard about Urso came from his wife, Nina.
“My wife, and this is no lie, said, ‘If our daughter would marry a guy like Kirk Urso, we would be the happiest father-in-law and mother-in-law,’” Bolowich said. “That meant a lot.”
Urso’s UNC career coincided with one of the best stretches in program history. From 2008 to 2011, North Carolina made four College Cups and won an NCAA title under Somoano in 2011. Urso’s influence on each of those runs is tangible — game-winning goals, crucial assists, converted penalty kicks.
“He just had it, when it came down to finding a way to succeed,” Somoano said. “What other people consider the most high-pressure moments? For him, that was the opportunity to shine.”
As a senior team captain, Urso was a key starter for a North Carolina team that won the ACC regular-season title, ACC tournament title and national championship.
Porter, the assistant coach, said Urso’s equalizer in the team’s first-round tournament win — a 30-yard screamer of a shot to the top left
corner — was “one of the best goals I’ve seen since I’ve been at Carolina.”
Urso’s college career culminated in Hoover, Alabama, where UNC-Chapel Hill beat UNC-Charlotte, 1-0, to win its second national title.
“You couldn’t have written that,” said Lovejoy, a sophomore on the 2011 roster. “I know that year was super special to him.”
‘Do our best to honor him’
They all remember where they were on Sunday, August 5, 2012.
Somoano had just flown into Washington, D.C., returning from a family vacation to Europe.
Porter was on a recruiting trip to Seattle with Jeff Negalha, another UNC assistant. Lovejoy was at his home in Greensboro. Callahan was in Richmond, Va. The news they got sent them into a state of shock.
Early on the morning of August 5, Urso, a rookie midfielder and starter for the Columbus Crew of the MLS, collapsed in a bar in the Park Street District in Columbus. Police officers took him to the nearby Grant Medical Center. He was pronounced dead at 1:51 a.m.
A final autopsy report from the Franklin County coroner released in 2012, concluded Urso had died from arrhythmogenic right ventricular
cardiomyopathy, a rare genetic heart disorder that wears down the muscular walls of the organ and can lead to cardiac arrest. Dr. Jan Gorniak, the coroner, told the Columbus Dispatch that Urso “probably didn’t know” he had ARVC.
Lovejoy drove to Chapel Hill that day to join his teammates, most of whom had played with Urso. Porter and Negalha attended a Seattle Sounders match to represent Urso and UNC; at that stadium and all across the MLS, the league held a moment of silence. Somoano rushed back to Chapel Hill to address his team.
“Obviously, there’s no formula or book you can read for that,” he said.
The following season was “easily the most challenging experience as a coach to go through,” Somoano said. Teammates and coaches attended Urso’s Aug. 10 funeral in his hometown of Lombard, Illinois, and had an exhibition game five days later. Somoano spent the 2012 season trying to support his players and keep them from falling apart while, he said, feeling like he was about to do the same.
“It was hard,” Porter said, “and it’s still hard when we really sit down and think about Kirk or hear his name.”
In the following years, the team has put Urso’s No. 3 on the field, held memorial matches and
created a plaque for Urso, which was displayed at Fetzer Field.
The construction of the new UNC Soccer & Lacrosse Stadium, over the past two years, gave the program a chance to do something even larger.
Lovejoy was the main point of contact with Urso’s family, whom he said “loved the gesture.” He led the effort with Lea Zagorin, an assistant development director with the Rams Club. They met their goal about a month ago and are still taking donations, Zagorin said.
The unveiling of the section on Friday will also coincide with the team’s alumni weekend, which has been in the works for around a year. Over 300 former coaches and players plan to attend the season opener in the new stadium, including Lovejoy, Callahan and Bolowich.
A little before 7:30 p.m., a video tribute will run, and Sections 3 and 4 will officially be unveiled as the Kirk Urso Student Section. Those who knew him at UNC hope the name will compel those outside the team to learn a bit about Urso and the legacy he left behind.
Because, as the saying goes around the program, Captain Kirk never met a stranger.
By Parth UpadhyayaSenior Writer
As Brice Johnson looked out the window of the team bus, he could almost feel the stares.
It was early February 2018, and Johnson was en route to Oshkosh, Wisconsin for a game as a member of the Grand Rapids Drive, the G-League affiliate of the Detroit Pistons. The recently traded 6-foot-10 forward was on FaceTime with DeAndre Jordan, his old Los Angeles Clippers teammate.
Johnson looked up from his call to see teammates holding their phones, glaring at him in shock.
Then, he saw the ESPN notification himself. Less than two weeks into his time with the Pistons, he was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies — his third NBA team since being drafted No. 25 overall by the Clippers in 2016.
“I was like, ‘Aye, I’m getting in a groove. Let’s not mess this up,’” he said. “Then they end up doing that. I was like, ‘Dang, alright. Back to square one.’”
Earlier this month, Johnson signed with Orlandina Basket, a club in Serie A2 Basket, an Italian professional basketball league.
Square one. Again. After a four-year collegiate career
as a Tar Heel that concluded with an All-American season and an NCAA title game appearance, this is Johnson’s reality.
“There have been times I’ve just wanted to quit,” he said. “I’m gonna be completely honest.”
Johnson purchased a home in Durham after his stint with Memphis, which ended with him being waived at the end of the 2017-18 season. Being close to the UNC basketball team and other familiar faces has helped keep his head up.
So has befriending Nolan Smith, a former All-American guard and 2010 national champion with Duke.
The two became fast friends after meeting in March 2017 — through then-UNC senior guard Nate Britt — at a UNC-Duke game in Chapel Hill. Britt grew up with Smith in Prince George’s County in Maryland. Smith was a special assistant for the Blue Devils; Johnson was back in town to support the Tar Heels.
Smith’s professional journey, in ways, parallels Johnson’s. The 2011 first-round selection played for the Portland Trail Blazers for two seasons before the franchise chose not to re-sign him. He spent another two years overseas until a left ACL and meniscus tear derailed his career.
Throughout what ’s been a whirlwind career for Johnson so far, Smith has been in his corner, offering advice and guidance.
“ When you ’re batt l ing for something like your career, your love for the game will be tested,” Smith said. “When you’re wondering, ‘Why am I not on a roster?’ Your love for the game will be tested, and you can go to a dark place. So, just for him to
stay positive and keep working hard, his talent will eventually get him to where he wants to get.”
Even with plenty of support, Johnson said he hit his lowest point last Christmas.
At his home, it was just him and his dog. He waited for a call from his agent. It never came.
Johnson thought: Why am I at home? I’m a former first-round pick.
“I went from being on a team that played on Christmas day to being not anywhere on Christmas day,” he said.
Soon, he fired his agent and hired a new one. His new agent, Jarinn Akana of Dynasty Sports Management, landed him the gig in Italy. Now, he looks to use the opportunity to play his way back into the NBA.
“His next step is, wherever he’s going, to just go there with an open mind and with the mindset to kill, the same way he did in a Carolina jersey for many years,” Smith said. “Just to go there with that same mindset. And then somebody’s gonna see him.”
During his time as a Tar Heel,
Johnson often capped off highlight-reel dunks with fierce displays of emotion.
Johnson’s 416 rebounds his senior year broke UNC legend Tyler Hansbrough’s single-season rebounds record. He also set the program record for the most double-doubles in a season with 23 in the same year.
B u t s u c c e s s d i d n ’ t c o m e immediately. In his first two seasons at North Carolina, he only started four games.
“I pushed him harder than any player I’ve ever pushed over a four-year period,” head coach Roy Williams said of Johnson to USA Today in 2016.
Johnson will now have to push himself just as hard to get over the learning curve, as he did in college, in the professional ranks.
“I’m ecstatic to go play,” he said. “I don’t care where it is. I just wanna be back on the court and be able to just prove myself.”
Brice Johnson seeking a fresh start in Italy“His talent will eventually get him to where he wants to get. ” Nolan SmithFormer Duke guard and friend of Johnson
