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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Gene Nichol at center of attention

THINGS TO
KNOW ABOUT
THE CENTERS
AND INSTITUTES
REVIEW

1. The review began in September

In summer 2014, the North Carolina
General Assembly directed the UNC
Board of Governors to consider taking
$15 million from the UNC systems centers and institutes and redistributing it
to other campus priorities. A working
group began its review in September
and has whittled down the systems 237
centers across three phases.

3. It involved three phases

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Gene Nichol, director of the Universitys Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, spoke about the centers closure Monday evening in Bingham Hall.

The professor says politics caused the poverty centers closing

By Marisa Bakker
Staff Writer

Gene Nichol is a man who wont be moved.

Hes no stranger to controversy hes been
criticized for removing a cross from the chapel
at the College of William & Mary and, more
recently, for his outspoken crusade on poverty
and Republican politics in North Carolina.
On Friday, the UNC-system Board of
Governors voted unanimously to close the
Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity,
along with East Carolina Universitys Center for
Biodiversity and N.C. Central Universitys Center
for Civic Engagement and Social Change after
a review of the centers and institutes across the
UNC system over five months.
Critics of the review argue that the process
was targeted at Nichol, the director of the poverty center, who has written several editorials in
the (Raleigh) News & Observer over the past two
years condemning the policies of the Republican
state leadership. Most of the current board has
been appointed by a GOP-controlled legislature.
North Carolina has embarked on a war on
poor people that is unprecedented in its cruelty,
Nichol said in an interview. He spoke on Monday
to a crowd of about 75 UNC-CH students about
politics and poverty in North Carolina.
Despite having crushing issues of poverty,
income inequality, racial disparity, racial wealth
disparity, income disparity, problems of hunger
and massive child poverty, our legislature and
governor started a regime of decisions that
have posed powerful wounds and injury to low

income North Carolinians, he said.

Nichol firmly believes that it was his political
opposition to the states government that led to
the centers closure, citing direct threats from
the legislature. He said he considered the boards
decision a form of censorship and a violation of
the First Amendment and academic freedom.
It cannot be reproved for professors to criticize the actions of the government something
doesnt become unacceptable speech just because
a politician says he doesnt like it, he said.
Nichols columns were controversial enough
that he was asked to include a disclaimer, stating
that his opinions were not the opinions of UNC.
UNC Provost Jim Dean said the University
is committed to free speech and academic freedom. He said academic centers have a right and
responsibility to speak about their research.
Speaking out about research and public
issues is certainly not unique to Professor
Nichol its something you will see across the
whole University, he said.
Nichols reputation as a free speech defender
preceded his tenure as director of the poverty center. After a stint as dean of UNC School of Law,
he served as president of the College of William &
Mary in Virginia from 2005 to 2008.
While president, he made several controversial
decisions. Against the colleges wishes, he allowed
the Sex Workers Art Show to come to campus, citing a First Amendment responsibility to
uphold free speech. He also decided to remove a
cross in a secular, campus chapel, except when it
was used to observe Christian holidays.
The schools Board of Visitors chose not to

renew his contract

after the events.
Nichol then returned
to UNCs law school
as a tenured professor.
He currently makes
$212,900 annually.
Jack Boger, dean
of the UNC School
of Law, describes
Nichol as enthusiastic and passionate, a gifted
writer and speaker and a professor who challenges all students points of view.
He is very forthright hes been described
as pertinacious, willing to take on others, and I
think that exacerbates some people, he said.
Boger said there was no foundation for the
boards decision to close the poverty center. He
defended the value of the centers scholarship
as well as Nichols role as director.
Many students who take his courses in constitutional law have said that they had no idea,
from the classroom, what his political views
were, he said.
Nichol has been criticized by conservative think
tanks, including the John Locke Foundation.
Mitch Kokai, the foundations spokesman, said
while the boards decision to close the center was
not a result of Nichols politics, he had strayed
from the boards good side.
Im sure that members of the Board of
Governors who read Gene Nichols column
werent fans of Gene Nichol and didnt really

Center
& Institute

CUTS

SEE NICHOL, PAGE 4

ATHLETIC-ACADEMIC SCANDAL

In the first phase, the board chose

centers for further review including
26 at UNC based on factors such as
their budget and their economic return
ratio. The board then tapped 34 centers,
nine of which were located at UNC, to
give presentations to the board. The third
phase involved recommendations for 16
centers, including seven at UNC.

2. Ultimately, 11 centers closed

The board voted on Friday to
close three centers: UNCs Center on
Poverty, Work & Opportunity, N.C.
Central Universitys Institute for Civic
Engagement and Social Change and
East Carolina Universitys Center for
Biodiversity. Eight centers, including
UNCs Center for Law and Government,
voluntarily shut down during the process.

4. Some say politics is behind it

UNC law professor Gene Nichol, who
heads the Center on Poverty, has become
known for writing scathing editorials
criticizing Republican leadership in the
state legislature. Critics have said that the
review and the poverty centers closing
directly target Nichol threatening his
right to speak out as a tenured professor
and his academic freedom in general.

5. Centers impact UNC students

Many students do internships at centers while working on undergraduate
and graduate degrees. Students have
stood up for the centers throughout the
process the UNC BOG Democracy
Coalition attended most of the meetings,
and law students started a blog where
they posted video testimonials detailing
their experiences with the centers.

CHAPEL HILL SHOOTING

Reports: graduate school Chapel Hill shooter faces death penalty

say a capital
implicated in scandal Experts
conviction will be
Athletes were irregularly
admitted to a graduate school.
By Liz Bell
Staff Writer

Accusations of academic fraud have

reached a graduate program.
Cheryl Thomas, the former graduate
school admissions director from 2002-10,
has re-opened the wounds the University
hoped were beginning to heal.
Thomas shared documents with the News
& Observer in January that showed UNC
administrators broke standard protocol to
admit former UNC football player Michael
Waddell into the Exercise and Sports Science
graduate program in 2003.
Waddell had a low GPA and no GRE score
when he applied months after the application
deadline. Linda Dykstra, the former graduate
school dean, let Waddell into the graduate
program after then-senior associate athletic
director John Blanchards request.
Thomas told the News & Observer that
former basketball player Justin Knox was
also admitted after the application deadline
in 2010 to play for his fourth eligible year in
accordance with NCAA rules.
Kevin Guskiewicz, the graduate studies

director for the Exercise and Sport Science

Department, was also included in the e-mails.
He, along with Dr. Fred Mueller, thenchairman for the department, requested
Waddells admission into the graduate program as a non-degree seeking student.
In January 2004, after Waddell was expelled
from the school in December 2003 due to
failing classes and poor class attendance,
Guskiewicz sent an email to Blanchard expressing his anger with Waddells performance.
Four months later, we now look foolish,
he wrote in 2004.
Kenneth Wainsteins report, released in
October, laid out his extensive investigation
into the almost two decades of academicathletic misconduct at UNC.
The report looked into less rigorous classes
within the Exercise and Sport Science undergraduate program, but found no paper classes
or academic fraud. The report did not mention
graduate programs in any department.
The supplemental documents to the report
point to what could be considered irregularities
in the Exercise and Sport Science department.
In a string of emails between football academic counselors and Deborah Stroman, a professor in the Exercise and Sport Science department, the counselors said students could go to

SEE GRADUATE SCHOOL, PAGE 4

tough in Durham.
By Katie Reilly
Managing Editor

The Durham County

District Attorneys Office will
seek the death penalty for
Craig Hicks, the man indicted
on three counts of first-degree
murder for the recent killing of
three Muslims in Chapel Hill.
Hicks, 46, has been charged
with killing Deah Barakat,
23; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha,
21; and her sister, Razan
Abu-Salha, 19. The three were
shot dead in their apartment
on Feb. 10 in Finley Forest
Condominiums in Chapel Hill.
District Attorney Roger
Echols filed a notice of intent
to seek the death penalty on
Wednesday, and legal experts
say multiple factors could
have motivated that decision.
In order for someone to
be tried capitally in North
Carolina, there needs to be a
first-degree murder conviction and evidence of one of 11

TNS/AL DRAGO
Craig Hicks enters the courtroom for his first appearance on Feb.
11 at the Durham County Detention Center in Durham, N.C.

aggravating circumstances
which include a murder that is
especially heinous, atrocious,
or cruel or a murder committed along with other crimes of
violence toward other people.
Colon Willoughby, a partner
at McGuireWoods LLP and a
former Wake County district
attorney, said all of that would
factor into a district attorneys
decision-making process.
He said, when a case
involves multiple homicides, there is usually some

I won the lottery. I dont care what it costs.

JACK WHITTAKER

evidence of an aggravating
circumstance.
A crime like this where
it involves multiple homicides
is one where its not surprising that the community would
need to make that decision,
Willoughby said. The prosecutor might not feel comfortable.
Jim Coleman, the director of
the Center for Criminal Justice
and Professional Responsibility
at Duke University, said exter-

SEE HICKS, PAGE 4

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Trash
pickup
back on
track

SETTING THE STAGE

The recent snowstorms

delayed trash pickup for
several areas.
By Kiana Cole
Staff Writer

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Six-time Tony Award and two-time Grammy Award winner Audra McDonald performs a show of broadway standards in UNCs Memorial Hall on Feb. 6.

Carolina Performing Arts brings diverse artists to students

By Zhai Yun Tan
Senior Writer

Senegalese musician Youssou

NDours performance at Memorial
Hall in September wasnt just
greeted with applause the
Senegalese community rallied in
Chapel Hill, waving his nations flag
in support.
Mark Nelson, Carolina
Performing Arts director of marketing and communications, took the
flag to NDour, who wore the flag as
a cape and ran around the stage.
I got goose bumps because it
just feels right, Nelson said.
Carolina Performing Arts has
brought nearly 500 performances
to the Chapel Hill community in
the past nine years. The acts range
from traditional symphonies to regulars like the Alvin Ailey American
Dance Theater, but every season
also hosts a mix of popular and less
familiar acts.
More than 300 student tickets

are reserved for each performance.

Each student ticket costs $10, and
there are free tickets for Carolina
Covenant Scholars. Student tickets
are only capped for certain performances that sell out quickly.
Emil Kang, CPA executive and
artistic director, said he has had
people telling him that the programs can be too weird or strange.
But its part of his vision for CPA
to widen horizons and promote
curiosity.
My fantasy world is that people
feel as much excitement about
something they dont know as they
do something they already know,
Kang said. The only way to do
that or even have a chance of that
coming true is always doing things
that are different and not worrying
about who its for.
Kang travels nearly every
three weeks to build relationships with performers around the
world. Shantala Shivalingappa, an
acclaimed Indian dancer based in

Paris, was one of the performers

that he approached.
In Paris, she sold out 3,000
seats why should she come here
when she can go to (the) Kennedy
Center? he said. I have a vision
and they want to be part of the big
idea. The point is that you can see
the value of trying not just this, but
everything you want to encourage a generation of people who are
excited about trying.
Durham resident Kate Dobbs
Ariail has been coming to Memorial
Hall for decades. She said she
appreciates CPA for bringing in
world-class acts as well as innovative performances such as Taylor
Mac, who was named the best cabaret performer in New York.
Taylor Mac drew a much younger crowd, and they had a different
appreciation of what (Mac) did than
older people who were not as used
to being put upon in that way, she
said. Its part of the Universitys role
to broaden peoples minds.

She said she knows students who

arent fully utilizing their opportunities in having CPA on campus.
You may have a form of music
you like better, but you dont know
that until youve heard some different kinds, Ariail said.
The unreached group of students
is Nelsons target. He said he used
to be one of them.
I think of myself growing
up we didnt have something
like Memorial Hall so close to us,
Nelson said. When I was in college
I may have been a little intimidated
by this, thinking that this is not for
me, and I know there are students
on campus who feel the same way.
But Nelson hopes that students
can use their college experience to
expand their horizons.
You learn new things, and you
meet new people, he said. This
small town becomes a little bit
bigger.
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Snowstorm delays quad construction

The project, which was
supposed to finish in
March, might end in April.
By Ashlen Renner
Staff Writer

Classes werent the only things

delayed during the snowstorm.
Dana Leeson, associate director
of construction management, said
workers in the quad lost about five
days of work during the storm.
The contractor couldnt come
into work same as the workers and
same as the students, he said. The
icy conditions on the roads were
dangerous for people to come in.
Workers have been removing
asbestos from the insulation in the
steam lines since June. The project is
supposed to finish in March.
The process involves shutting off
steam lines to work on them.
We were delayed a bit, but it
wasnt just because of the icy roads,
he said. We couldnt shut down
a couple of the lines to make sure
everyone had steam and heat.
Because a full work week was lost,
the project may stretch into the first

or even second week of April. But

Leeson said most of the barriers will
be cleared by the end of March.
Theres a lot of work going on
above ground, but most of the work
is being done below ground that
people cant see, he said.
Leeson said the project is still
within its $5 million budget.
The snowstorm also brought trees
and large branches crashing to the
ground, blocking walkways and roads.
We had five major spots where
trees came down, said Tom Bythell,
University forest manager. A lot of
them were causing travel problems
and blocking roads.
Trees fell on Manning Drive near
the UNC Family Medicine Center,
near Odum Village and near Quail
Hill where the chancellors house
is located. Large branches blocked
pathways near South Campus residence halls and Lenoir Dining Hall.
We havent had a heavy snow
event in a while, so it was a target
for trees with weaker limbs that
would have broken with some
stress, Bythell said.
Junior Michelle Brint, who lives
in Carborro, said walking to class
was challenging.
When there was something in the

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Construction equipment has cluttered the quad since August. The recent
snowstorms have postponed the project that is now expected to finish in April.

way, I walked in the roads, she said. I

definitely didnt try to step over them.
Bythell hopes to clear most of the
limbs by the end of the week.
There were trees that brought
down wires and power lines that
slowed us down, he said. If people
see stray trees laying around, its probably because it may be too dangerous
to approach them. Its an extreme hazard working around wires.
There is no set budget for

snow-related cleanups because the

amount of snow varies each year.
Bythell said he has yet to assess how
much clearing the trees will cost.
For now, he and his team are focusing on clearing high traffic areas.
Our biggest concern was
Manning Drive and the emergency
room and, of course, the basketball
stadium, Bythell said.
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Group sues NC in support of humanist inmate

The suit wants prisons to
allow atheist and
humanist study groups.
By Hallie Dean
Staff Writer

A secular group sued the N.C.

Department of Public Safety on
Thursday on behalf of an inmate
who practices humanism and alleges
that he isnt allowed to have the
same study group opportunities
afforded to religious groups.
Inmate Kwame Jamal Teague
claims that his rights were violated when authorities at Lanesboro
Correctional Institution in Polkton
prohibited him from holding a group
meeting for atheists and humanists
such as himself. Teague has been in
prison since 1996 and is serving two

life sentences for a double murder.

Humanism is a worldview that
promotes humankind and rational thought as the highest end, as
opposed to religions that place faith
in God or other deities.
Monica Miller, an attorney
from the American Humanist
Association, said humanism emphasizes empirical thought as the way
to attain truth and a strong commitment to ethics and human rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court has
ruled that inmates retain many of
their rights in prison, Miller said,
including the right to equal treatment on matters of religion.
The Supreme Court and lower
federal courts have also made clear
that atheism and humanism are
treated as functional equivalents to
religion such that the government
cannot give preferential treatment
to theistic religious groups while

denying similar benefits to atheist

and humanist groups, she said.
The lawsuit seeks to allow for similar group meetings for all inmates,
regardless of their religious practice.
It is important that the government respects the rights of all individuals including atheists and
humanists, Miller said.
For some prisons, the presence
of smaller religions or philosophies
might be a newer concept, said
Stephanie Gaskill, a UNC graduate
student studying the intersection
of religion within the American
prison system.
In most prisons in the United
States, Christianity was once the only
officially sanctioned religious practice
for prisoners, said Gaskill in an email.
Religions practiced in prison
appear more diverse now, but it is
important to note that such diversity probably existed before, just not

in an officially recognized capacity,

she said. Prisoners 50 years ago
may have considered themselves
humanists and atheists but not
been vocal about it.
Randall Best, a member of the
North Carolina Secular Association,
said he believes precedent backs
Teague and the AHA.
If you look at legal precedent,
the prison system doesnt have a leg
to stand on, Best said. The federal
prison system has recognized atheism and humanism as life stances
that are equivalent to religion.
Best said the prison system will
not see progress unless advocates
are persistent in protecting inmates.
They would rather not make
changes, so they are going to wait
until enough fuss is made until they
no longer have a choice, he said.
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Residents of Carrboro and

Chapel Hill were reminded at
the end of last week that delays
because of snow and ice can
really stink.
Carrboro town officials made
the decision Thursday and
Friday to delay trash pickup
for those two days because of
inclement weather conditions.
The trash was scheduled to
be picked up on Monday and
Tuesday instead.
Trash pickup will resume
its normal schedule this week
for Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday.
David Andrews, the town
manager for Carrboro, said this
is the first time there have been
any sort of trash pickup delays
this year.
Generally, people understand, he said.
He said the public works crew
has been working diligently to
clean up Carrboros main roads,
including Main Street and
Weaver Street.
Andrews said the secondary
streets are challenging to get to
for clean up making them a
challenge to maneuver.
He said due to the abnormal
amount of snow this winter
season, it has been more difficult to deposit the trash once it
has been picked up because the
landfills consist of more snow
than land.
Even if we picked up the
trash, we wouldnt have anywhere to take it, Andrews said.
Meanwhile, the town of
Chapel Hill experienced less
challenging snow days.
While some Chapel Hill
residents took to social media
to voice their concerns over the
delay in trash pickup, most residents saw their trash service go
unaffected.
The recycling routes on
Thursday were delayed until
approximately 9 a.m. The
towns public works crews also
collected routes they missed
on Tuesday on Friday. There
was no yard waste collection on
Friday.
Any houses that were missed
will not be made up.
Wendy Simmons, Chapel Hill
solid waste services manager, said
in an email that only Thursday
routes were delayed from the
inclement weather.
The Public Works
Department was able to finish the collection of residential
solid waste on Friday, Simmons
said.
Simmons said the only streets
that were not attended to were
the ones that were blocked by
vehicles or had low-hanging
power lines.
These residential customers
will be collected on their next
scheduled collection day, she
said.
Run-off from the snow
resulted in black ice in many
areas throughout Chapel Hill
and Carrboro overnight, creating treacherous conditions for
drivers.
State and local maintenance
crews were busy spreading salt
on a lot of the towns main roads
and overpasses.
Weaver Dairy Road, N.C. 54,
East Franklin Street and Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard were
particularly impacted by the
freezing conditions, the press
release stated.
Similar to the conditions in
Carrboro, Chapel Hills secondary streets were the most dangerous because of the inclement
weather.
This made trash and recycling
pickup in largely residential
areas more of a challenge, a
town of Chapel Hill press release
stated.
As for this coming week, the
warmer weather will allow for
regular trash pickup schedules in both Chapel Hill and
Carrboro.
Waste management services
resumed pickup yesterday,
and will remain on schedule
throughout the rest of the week.
Everything is on track,
Andrews said.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

GRADUATE SCHOOL

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Stroman for a paper class a

bogus class that had no attendance requirements and only a
single assignment.
Stroman currently teaches
first-year seminars on sports
entrepreneurship. In the
past, she has taught sports
administration classes for
the departments graduate
program.
On Monday, Guskiewicz
said in an email to The Daily
Tar Heel that he has no issue

with the admissions committees past decisions.

I am highly confident that
our departments admissions
committee has always carefully considered every admissions
case before making a recommendation to the Graduate
School, he said in his statement, which was given to The
Daily Tar Heel through Rick
White, a spokesman for UNC.
White said in an e-mail that
exceptions for certain graduate
applicants are normal, adding
that all applicants to UNCs
graduate school are reviewed

under the same process, which

has been in place since Steve
Matson, the current dean
of UNCs graduate school,
replaced Dykstra in 2008.
Matson was at the helm when
Knox was admitted in 2010.
Because graduate education is highly individualized,
its not unusual for exceptions
to the admissions process
to be made by committees
representing an academic
department or school, he said
in a statement.
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The fact that the three
victims in this case were
Muslims, and they are investigating whether there might
have been an anti-religion
factor to the crime those
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mind seeing him have to

squirm as this process moved
forward, Kokai said. Gene
Nichol can talk about the
political nature of higher
education, but hes one of the
major contributors he is
spending much of his time
bashing Republican lawmakers in regular columns rather
than spending time working on
dealing with the issues of poverty and improving the poverty
programs we have.
In response to the boards
review of the centers, students formed the UNC BOG
Democracy Coalition. Shannon
Brien, a UNC junior and member of the coalition, said she
agreed with Nichols assertion
that the center was closed on
account of his political speech.
Gene Nichol took a stance
that had to do with policy
and the politics going on in
Raleigh, and the connection
between the board members
and the legislators is clear
they have the exact same
political agenda, and anything that targets legislators
is going to be taken out by the
board, she said.
Nichol said hes proud of the
states tradition of education,
but hes concerned its at risk.
I came to the University of
North Carolinas campus for
its remarkable commitment
to public education North
Carolina has been the beacon
of a public university which
achieves greatness and clings
to its sense of public obligation and sticks in the craw of
the Board of Governors and
its benefactors, he said.

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to seek a capital trial, though

thats not the intention.
There are some crimes
that are so inflammatory that
the community demands
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the human factors that would
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Coleman said death penalty convictions are rare in
Durham County, where juries
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SOFTBALL: NORTH CAROLINA 9, VIRGINIA TECH 5; NORTH CAROLINA 6, VIRGINIA TECH 1

Youth movement leads Tar Heels past Virginia Tech

By Jeremy Vernon
Staff Writer

DTH/BEN LEWIS
Freshman pitcher Kaylee Carlson pitched a complete game
against Virginia Tech in game one of Mondays doubleheader.

Doubleheaders and conference openers. These two

aspects of the game of softball
are generally won with experience, as a team tends to look
to its older players for leadership and production.
This was not the case
Monday, however, as a trio
of freshman lifted the North
Carolina softball team (11-4,
2-0 ACC) to back-to-back wins
over ACC-rival Virginia Tech
(13-3, 0-2), 6-1 and 9-5.
The trinity of freshman players pitchers Kaylee Carlson
and Sydney Matzko and second baseman Taylor Wike
carried the Tar Heels with the
same type of consistency and
levelheadedness normally seen
in more veteran players.
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(Pitchers) can get out there

and throw their pitches and
know that they have a good
defense behind them and that
we are going to make the plays.
From the first pitch of game
one, it was clear Carlson was
a step ahead of the Hokies.
The California native worked
through the first four innings
without conceding a run.
And even when she allowed
Virginia Techs Michelle Prong
to go deep over the left field
wall in the top of the fifth, she
didnt get rattled and earned
the last seven outs of the game
while only giving up one hit in
the process.
Carlson said her ability to
stay composed came from
knowing the rest of the team
had her back.
It takes a load off your
back, you know. You can trust
your team even when you give
up a run like I did, she said.
Leading that support was
Wike, who finished the first

string of four straight doubles

across both games.
With the lead and the
momentum falling back into
the Tar Heels hands, Matzko
was in charge of keeping it
there. And while facing a powerful Hokie lineup, she did
just that, giving up just one hit
over her 5.1 innings of work.
Looking at the way the
freshmen played Monday,
several Tar Heel players
expressed their excitement for
the rest of the season.
Im honestly blessed to play
with such a group, Carlson
said. I cant wait to see how
we progress over the years and
see how far we go this year.

game 2-for-3 with two doubles and two RBIs.

The second leg of the
doubleheader saw the Hokies
jump out to an early 5-1 lead
after roughing up sophomore
Kendra Lynch, who only mustered 1.2 innings before she
was replaced by Matzko.
With her team down and in
danger of losing momentum,
Wike stepped up again, collecting two more doubles in
her first two at bats, the latter sparking a five-run third
inning that gave UNC the lead
I think I struck out my
first at bat but after that,
I was seeing the ball really
well, Wike said.
The freshman finished the
series 4-for-6, including a

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Voted Carolinas Finest

Solution to
Mondays puzzle

Gene Nichol discussion

The director of the Center
on Poverty, Work and
Opportunity spoke at UNC
Monday. See pg. 1 for story.

Quad construction
Due to recent snowstorms
and icy conditions, construction on the quad has been
delayed . See pg. 3 for story.

Attracting artists
Carolina Performing Arts
continues to attract bigname performers to Chapel
Hill. See pg. 3 for story.

Its not too early to start

thinking about summer!
Check out summer.unc.edu

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS
1 With 69-Across, subject
of this puzzle
7 Portrayer of
1-/69-Across in
Sherlock Holmes
(2009)
14 Not straying from the
subject
16 Satan
17 The Diary of Anne
Frank police
18 Muscle-to-bone
connectors
19 Audio jack label
20 Took charge of
21 Wise folk
22 Rewrite for the screen
24 Set a price of
26 Northern California town
that once had a
palindromic bakery
29 Mentally sound
30 Live, in the studio
32 Kool-Aid instruction
33 Ostrich kin
35 I __ Fine: Beatles hit
37 Antlered beast
38 Portrayer of
1-/69-Across in the
BBCs Sherlock
42 World games org.
43 A bit open
44 Cest la __
45 Cry for seconds
47 Battery end
49 Rise dramatically
53 Sticking point
55 Game won by
discarding all your
cards

56 Iditarod jacket
57 Wood finish
59 DKNY rival
61 Press __
62 Dannon yogurt brand
64 Natives of Tibets capital
66 Unlisted candidate
67 Erode, as savings
68 Portrayer of
1-/69-Across in CBS
Elementary
69 See 1-Across
DOWN
1 Rigid beliefs
2 Tableware company
named for a New York
town
3 ER diagnostic tool
4 Day care attendee
5 Eyeball-bending gallery
display
6 TV host Kelly
7 Watercraft rider
8 Eye layer containing the
iris
9 Dull-colored

10 Senior officials
11 Its brewed in infusers
12 Political writer Coulter
13 Director Anderson
15 With 48-Down,
1-/69-Across creator
Arthur
23 Jury member
25 Paella spice
27 Ceramics oven
28 Noahs flood insurance
30 Message-spelling board
31 Superman player
Christopher
34 Former Boston
commuter org.
36 Welcome to Hawaii
gift

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All rights reserved.

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39 Quotation puzzle
40 Morks sign-off
41 Southwestern tableland
42 Tough kid to handle
46 Thing
48 See 15-Down
50 Morks people
51 Quite like
52 Gives away to the cops
54 Sold! punctuator
56 Spanish silver
58 Four, on some sundials
60 Major Barbara
playwright
62 Hole-making tool
63 French wine word
65 Grab a chair

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

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Justice League

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FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Death
will not
bring us
justice

ATOMS TO ZEBRAFISH
A look at how science is portrayed in social media.

Our biggest concern was Manning Drive

and the emergency room and, of course, the
basketball stadium.

Dominic Mercurio, on challenges to gay marriage laws in the U.S.

Senior political science major from

Durham, N.C.
Email: sethrose25@gmail.com

QUOTE OF THE DAY

State rights do not have precedence over

civil rights, else separate but equal would still
be acceptable.

Seth Rose

was in Alabama for a job

interview when I learned
about the brutal killing
of Deah Barakat, Yusor AbuSalha and Razan Abu-Salha.
My interview was set to
begin in 30 minutes, and all I
wanted was to be back home
with the support of my friends
and loved ones. Most of all, I
was furious at Craig Hicks for
reportedly committing such
a hateful crime. I could only
imagine the fear his actions
would inspire in the Muslim
community in Chapel Hill and
across the nation.
I was interviewing for a job
with an organization that represents people on Alabamas death
row. Despite my deep belief in
the work they do, it was difficult
to bring myself to talk about
injustice in light of such a terrible tragedy. But as I took a tour
of the office in the afternoon, the
importance of the work became
especially clear.
According to a 2014 Gallup
poll, 63 percent of Americans
supported the death penalty
down from a high of 80 percent
in 1994. Our society likes to
think people on death row are
the worst of the worst. The photographs on the wall during the
tour painted a different picture.
In the meeting rooms, hallways
and offices were framed news
stories featuring the organizations clients. Many were poor
and black and sentenced to
death under suspicious circumstances. None of them were the
monsters one might expect.
Monday night, we learned
that the Durham County
District Attorneys Office will
seek the death penalty in
Hicks case. If Hicks is convicted of first-degree murder,
a jury will determine if he has
surrendered his right to live.
I do not believe we can excuse
the heinous hate crime Hicks is
accused of. Deah Barakat, Yusor
Abu-Salha, Razan Abu-Salha
and their families deserve justice. But the death penalty is not
a tool of justice.
It is a tool of modern
racism. A person in North
Carolina is 40 times more
likely to get the death penalty
if they kill a white woman than
if they kill a black man.
The death penalty is representative of our collective
lust for vengeance and overly
punitive measures. It is no coincidence that the rise of the modern death penalty has coincided
with the launch of mass incarceration. According to the Equal
Justice Initiative, there were
fewer than 300,000 people
in jail or prison in the United
States when the death penalty
was reinstated in the mid 1970s.
Today, there are 2.3 million.
It is also administered
arbitrarily. The county where
someone commits a murder
is a far stronger determinant
of whether someone will be
executed than the nature of the
crime itself.
No person sentenced to death
in Durham County has been
executed since 1976. Each death
sentence has eventually been
reversed. If Hicks is sentenced
to death, it will almost certainly
be a costly waste of time.
More importantly, Hicks
should not be sentenced to
death because he is not simply
a monster. No one is.
We must continue to honor
the memory of Deah Barakat,
Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan
Abu-Salha. A death sentence
will not serve this purpose.

The Daily Tar Heel

Professors support
Real Silent Sam

EDITORIAL

Essential, not adjunct

Job security is
necessary for
academic freedom.

iven the drastic

shift of faculty
positions away
from the tenure track and
toward more adjunct professorships, we must ask if
our university appreciates
the professors responsible
for our college experience.
On Wednesday, students, faculty and staff
from the UNC community
participated in the UNC
Adjunct Faculty Speak
Out, an event planned in
collaboration between faculty members and Student
Action with Workers.

While statistics on adjunct

positions at UNC suggest
that close to half of all current lecturer positions are
adjunct, few adjunct professors themselves spoke
out against current conditions at the event.
The stories featured on
the steps of Wilson Library
illuminated the reasons
for their silence. From
constant worries about job
security to difficult decisions about the health of
their families, adjuncts at
UNC work in positions
characterized by institutionalized vulnerability.
Factors contributing to the
structural stress of adjunct
status include substantially
lower pay, short-term con-

tracts and a lack of benefits. In an environment

intended to promote open
expression and a rigorous
academic climate, a lack
of tenure hinders professors ability to speak openly
about university problems
and de-professionalizes
academia generally.
UNC administrators should take steps to
improve per-course pay
from a current average
rate of around $7,000 per
course while also reversing
the trend toward adjunct
professorships as the
norm. Our faculty deserves
better. UNC should lead
national efforts to provide
greater institutional support to adjuncts.

EDITORIAL

Verified: A big waste

Bethels effort to
downplay scandal is
misguided.

film dedicated
to proving that
UNCs athleticacademic scandal was
imagined by headlinehungry journalists is difficult to take seriously.
But Bradley Bethel, until
recently a learning specialist with the University, has
quit his job to write and
produce a documentary on
just that.
Bethel started a blog
exclusively devoted to
downplaying the serious-

ness of the UNC academicathletic scandal, one which

has cost the University
millions of dollars, sullied
its reputation, led to the
departure of university
employees and even threatened its accreditation.
Bethels Kickstarter for
the documentary, to be
entitled Unverified: The
Film, has so far raised
more than $140,000.
That is some serious financial heft for a
delusional idea. Even the
University, the institution
with the least interest in
prolonging the scandal,
has admitted extensive
wrongdoing and taken sig-

nificant action in response

to the revelations, not least
of which was the extensive
Wainstein report.
Journalists, of course,
have professional pride
and are eager to report a
good story. But through all
the years of his blogging,
Bethel has failed to make
a convincing case for fabrication. And the motives
hes ascribed to the
whistleblowing activities
of Mary Willingham, who
recently settled a lawsuit
with the University, dont
pass muster.
Please give your money
to almost anything other
than this embarrassment.

ADVICE COLUMN

You Asked for It

In which we channel our inner Dad and learn to stop the music.
Drew Goins (Punctuation
is Fun-ctuation!) and
Kelsey Weekman (They dont
call her Kelsey Grammar.)
are the advice columnists of
You Asked for It. Results
may vary.

You: Im trying to impress a

girl. Are dad jokes attractive?
YAFI: Whats that? Youre

smitten? Why, hello smitten,

Im Dad.
Your mother and I heard
you were having trouble getting a date. Remember that
prunes are healthy as well!
You can try winning a gal
over with one of my famous
jokes. Not only do they work
on many levels like an elevator repairman but theyre
also a ground-breaking creation much like the shovel.
Dont rely solely on dad
jokes, though. Take her out to
dinner somewhere nice but
not the moon! I hear theres
no atmosphere. ;-) And before
anything, make sure shes not
a tennis player because love
means nothing to them.
Shell fall for you so fast
that you might want to elope

Kelsey Weekman &

Drew Goins

Assistant online editor and senior

writer.
To submit your own questions:
bit.ly/dthYFi

to Moscow, but theres no

use Russian into things.
With planning, you could
have a wedding so beautiful
even the cake is in tiers.
Child, I hope Ive helped,
but I cant honestly tell you
where these jokes could get
you in five years I dont
have 20/20 vision. But you
can call me later. Actually,
dont call me later. Call me
Dad.

You: My roommates terrible band practices all the

time at our house. How do
I politely tell him they suck
and get them to stop playing?
YAFI: Start dropping sug-

gestive objects around the

house to show your irritation:
earplugs, headphones, Van
Gogh-style severed lobes.
If your buddy doesnt pick
up on these subtleties (if
hes the drummer, in other
words), go big. Break out
the Christmas lights to rig
three enormous light-up Xs
above your roommates bed.
Triple-buzz your displeasure.
Nick Cannon is contractually
obligated to show up and
remove the performer from
the performance area any
time this happens ever.
You could always have a
fling with a bandmate and
insert yourself into every
artistic decision until the
others feel so under the Yoko
of your oppression that the
band breaks up.
After you succeed, preacher from Footloose, leave
your roommate some pride.
Maybe let him go wild with
your Guitar Hero because
the worst he can do is play
When You Were Young
over and over again. Hell be
sad, though, so look out for
whammy bar addiction.

TO THE EDITOR:
We, the undersigned, are
faculty in the Department
of Anthropology at UNCChapel Hill who would like
to voice our strong support
for the efforts of the Real
Silent Sam Coalition. This
growing movement seeks to
confront the racist histories
of the memorials commemorating white supremacy
on campus. We believe it
is morally reprehensible
that racist monuments and
building names are currently taken for granted as
an acceptable part of the
infrastructure.
Specifically, we support
the Coalitions demands to
mark the statue of Silent
Sam with a plaque explaining how it commemorates a
history of white supremacy;
to provide all incoming
first-year students with
educational material
addressing the history of
racialized violence on
campus; and to rename
Saunders Hall. As members
of the academic discipline
of Anthropology, which has
a long and complex history
of ignoring, justifying and
challenging white privilege,
we feel particularly committed to these efforts.
These efforts to address
both ongoing and memorialized racial violence on
campus give UNC-Chapel
Hill an opportunity to lead
the South, and universities
across the nation, in the
battle to shift how racial
inequality is silently commemorated on college campuses and in public spaces.
This movement, and the
important discussions it is
generating, is vital to creating a diverse and safe community here at Chapel Hill
and in the academy at large.
Assistant prof. Jean
Dennison
on behalf of eight other
professors in the anthropology department, whose
names can be viewed at
dailytarheel.com.

Nichol sucks value

from the University
TO THE EDITOR:
The only travesty is that
Gene Nichol and his wife
were allowed to gobble up
millions of dollars of funds
that should have gone to
students or the needy. I got
out of Rotary because of
that clown and the Rotary
having him speak in a
Luther Hodges Ethics luncheon, which costs $45.
I wrote a letter that was
published in the DTH last
fall asking how many hours
did he spend writing hate
letters to the legislature,
just as he did at William &
Mary before he was run out
of town on rails.
He is one of two reasons
I got out of the University
Presbyterian Church, when
they invited him to speak
to my Sunday school class.
Of course, his speech was
slamming the legislature,
blaming them for North
Carolinas poverty.

Maybe you ought to

Google him: The McClacky
newspapers love him and
publish all his hate letters.
He forced a cross to be
removed from that cathedral at William & Mary. My
letter questioned how many
hours did he actually teach,
and how many millions he
and his wife have siphoned
off from the University in
the name of poverty. He
probably spent more time
engaged in party politics,
many times with Bully Bill
Barber, who heads the state
NAACP, than he did at
teaching.
He is a big wind bag who
I would love to debate some
time. My letter suggested
he simply stop siphoning
money from the University
and students and get out
and run for office. Let the
voters decide if that is
what and who they want in
politics vacuuming millions
from college students and
those in real poverty.
The University has
enough problems now
without this clown taking
them down the drain.
Good riddance.
I will be glad to pay his
filing fee for whatever office
that may inspire him.
P.H. Craig
Chapel Hill

Adopt fairer grade

standards for Greeks
TO THE EDITOR:
In regards to the article
concerning grade point
average rules for fraternities and sororities recognized by the University: the
GPA rules, as they stand,
are removed from the real
problem, which is that
some Greek students are
falling behind academically.
If the rules were to be
amended to instead focus
on a mandate that each
individual member of a
Greek organization maintain a GPA above some
certain benchmark, and the
sanctions would be refocused upon the individual,
then every student would
be encouraged to succeed.
With a 3.0 average requirement, it is possible that
more than a few members
could maintain GPAs barely
within good standing, with
many grades in the C
range, while the chapter
escapes any punishment
due to some members
Deans List status.
In addition, it is wellknown that the average GPA
varies between courses and
even majors; in this case,
students are disincentivized
to pursue challenging majors
and incentivized to take easy
classes, which may limit their
personal intellectual growth.
If it was required that every
Greek student was within the
top two-thirds of the GPA
distributions of students pursuing their particular majors,
lest they be required to
abstain from attending social
events, cocktails or the like
until their grades improve,
the University could ensure
that Greek organizations foster academic excellence, as
some of them claim to do.
Illirik Smirnov
Freshman
Computer science

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