WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 127 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 128, ISSUE 29 Court ruling restores voting rights to thousands By Maria Morava conviction to vote. a strategy,” Gaddy said. “That’s Many organizations and political science at UNC, to draft an Staff Writer Dennis Gaddy, founder and something that the Second individuals involved in the Second expert report on North Carolina’s executive director of Community Chance Alliance team is trying to Chance Alliance acted as plaintiffs disenfranchisement of formerly For formerly incarcerated people Success Initiative, said up to 5,000 figure out.” in the CSI v. Moore case, litigated incarcerated people. in North Carolina, the beginning people in North Carolina were The N.C. Second Chance by the Durham-based law and Baumgartner found that post- of September brought news of made newly eligible voters by way Alliance is a statewide alliance policy center, Forward Justice. In conviction financial obligations re-enfranchisement just eight weeks of this decision. CSI is a Raleigh- of people with criminal records, May 2020, the plaintiffs filed a average more than $2,000 per before the 2020 presidential election. based non-profit and the lead service providers, congregations, motion for summary judgement individual on probation, and On Sept. 4, the Wake County plaintiff in the case. community leaders and concerned — a decision by the court not over $500 for those on post- Superior Court ruled that the Now, Gaddy said, the task is to citizens that address the barriers involving a trial. release supervision. state must allow citizens who owe identify and register new voters. that criminal records pose to The plaintiffs also commissioned fines, fees or debts from a felony “We’re still putting together successful re-entry. Frank Baumgartner, a professor of SEE FELON VOTING FEES, PAGE 2 DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/ANGELINA KATSANIS ILLUSTRATION/ANGELINA PHOTO DTH COMP-110 class goes viral on DTH/HELEN MCGINNIS Tik Tok Sports | Page 3 By Carolina Nihill Staff Writer Men’s soccer MEYER GRAPHIC/MATTHEW DTH What started as a video celebrating UNC beat N.C. State 1-0 in a the completion of a long project for computer science class COMP110, season-opening scrimmage Introduction to Programming, became a viral TikTok within hours. The 59-second video, posted by sophomore Ibrahim Shakhtour, has gotten the attention of around 862.6K views and 183.2K likes in less than a week. Shakhtour did not originally UNC could experience a deficit of $400 million from the pandemic’s onset in March up to the middle of summer 2021. plan on posting the TikTok, but he decided to share it with his 60 followers at the time and woke up the next morning TikTok famous. DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/BAILEY YOUNG “I’m like, ‘What on Earth is going on?’” Shakhtour said. “People were University | Page 4 UNC’s losses could posting positive comments and telling me it looks great. It made me feel really good because I spent so Chemistry tests long on that project.” extend to $400 million Shakhtour’s project took Linear testing format piles approximately 15 hours comprised anxiety, stress on students. By Preston Fore financial outlook is a different $300 million in revenue during this of 286 lines of code until completion. Senior Writer and much deeper “crisis” than the fiscal year — which runs from July 1, “There were some assignments University has ever experienced. 2020 to June 30, 2021. that were very tedious and it’s difficult UNC could experience financial Moeser said it is a “perfect storm Knuffman said the declines until you finally get the code to work,” losses of $400 million between the of financial problems” that will have average to an 8 percent decrease in Shakhtour said. “That’s basically like onset of the pandemic in March up impacts that last for at least five years. UNC’s revenue. Of the $300 million, that rush of euphoria when you finally to the middle of summer 2021. “Already, state support has been a loss of $54 million is expected to be get (the code) to work. That’s what I At meetings throughout the weaker than it had been,” Moeser from this fall semester alone. love about comp sci.” semester, University officials have said. “There’s been a greater reliance Thomas Ross, president of the Many of the comments on said UNC is seeing declines in on tuition and fees, and I think UNC System from 2011 to 2016, Shakhtour’s video were users sharing auxiliary revenues such as housing, the University had its own interior said the System had financial needs their personal experiences with dining and parking. structural problems which existed before the pandemic even began — coding, as well as congratulating These revenue shortfalls before COVID.” and public higher education itself is him on his hard work. One of DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/PARKER BROWN caused by COVID-19 have only Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said facing a “historically difficult time.” the top comments acknowledged exacerbated UNC’s and the UNC on Aug. 28 the University suffered a Shakhtour’s excitement throughout Opinion | Page 5 System’s financial troubles from the $100 million loss from March until Potential budget cuts the finished project. 2008 financial crisis — leading to the end of the 2020 fiscal year in June. “I was so happy in the video, and questions about how the University Then at last week’s September Becci Menghini, vice chancellor that resonates with a lot of people,” Got a social dilemma? will make up for the deficit. Faculty Council meeting, Interim for human resources and equal Shakhtour said. “People could connect Former Chancellor James Moeser, Vice Chancellor for Finance and opportunity and compliance, said to the fact that after they finish Here’s the tips you need to step who headed the University between Operations Nate Knuffman said away from the screen. 2000 and 2008, said UNC’s current UNC could see an additional loss of SEE BUDGET, PAGE 6 SEE COMP110, PAGE 2 UNC to allow fans in Kenan Stadium By PJ Morales starting Oct. 2. to start welcoming spectators back to on Aug. 28 that fans would not be Senior Writer “We share this news today so Kenan Stadium in October, and we allowed in Kenan Stadium until at those outdoor venues with seating are hopeful that the number of people least October, meaning that the home A limited number of spectators will capacity of more than 10,000 can allowed in our stadiums will safely opener for UNC football against be allowed to attend football games in begin preparations that are key to increase as Fall progresses,” UNC Syracuse on Sept. 12 went unattended. Kenan Memorial Stadium beginning safely re-opening their doors to have Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham “This decision ... was the only in October, the athletic department a limited amount of socially distanced said in a statement. way we could move forward with announced Tuesday. fans,” Cooper said in a press conference. Cunningham said in the competition,” Cunningham said in a The decision from UNC comes in Now, just under 3,600 fans will be statement that the athletic statement in August, referring to the the wake of a Tuesday announcement allowed to watch the Tar Heels take department is “particularly excited” move to have no fan attendance. “Our from North Carolina Governor Roy on Virginia Tech on Oct. 10 — nearly to have parents and students, who student-athletes want to play, and we Cooper, who said venues with seatings a year since their last full-capacity were not able to attend the opening must do so as safely as possible.” capacities of over 10,000 people would home game. game, back in the stands. be able to reopen at 7 percent capacity, “We are thrilled that we will be able UNC had previously announced [email protected] DTH FILE/ABE LOVEN Let’s go. I’ve had enough waking hours for one day. MOIRA ROSE, “SCHITT’S CREEK” 2 Wednesday, September 23, 2020 News The Daily Tar Heel The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893 Students tune in to dating shows during quarantine 127 years of editorial freedom ANNA POGARCIC By Rylee Parsons EDITOR!IN!CHIEF Staff Writer EDITOR"DAILYTARHEEL.COM BRANDON STANDLEY Clutching the edge of their seats EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR wondering who will receive the final MANAGING.EDITOR"DAILYTARHEEL.COM rose or which islander will fancy another, students binge-watched WILL MELFI various dating shows as they self DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR isolated over quarantine. DIGITAL"DAILYTARHEEL.COM Jessica Wu and Theresa Yu binged MAEVE SHEEHEY "Are You The One," "Love is Blind," DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE "Too Hot to Handle" and "Love Island" ENTERPRISE"DAILYTARHEEL.COM in quarantine using Netflix Party to MADDIE ELLIS watch with friends even when they UNIVERSITY EDITOR were separated. 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DESIGN"DAILYTARHEEL.COM said. “The newer shows are one-to- MORGAN PIROZZI & one ratio, the same number of guys these Bachelor tweets.” actually knowing them, and then fit a bunch of different roles within and girls so they get to go through The day he launched his fan page, ANGELINA KATSANIS passing that judgment off,” Kapiko the show,” Kapiko said. “I think that their options.” @MattTheBach, he was shocked said. “Which I do think is somewhat much of the cast is very different CO!PHOTO EDITORS Sophomore Matthew Wood has when some of his tweets blew up with of a toxic environment.” from each other personality-wise in PHOTO"DAILYTARHEEL.COM been watching "The Bachelor" since hundreds of likes and retweets. 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[email protected] All rights reserved CORRECTIONS teacher assistant for the course, said COMP110 that over the summer she started FROM PAGE 1 tutoring children with this program, The Daily Tar Heel reports something so difficult, that’s how specifically the feature of Python with happy they are, especially people the turtle program. any inaccurate information who have programmed.” “(Turtle is) so visual, it’s really published as soon as the The completed project Shakhtour easy to put two and two together error is discovered. had filmed was for the class’s Turtle between the code that you’re writing Scene, a project where students can and then what’s actually happening make a design by controlling a digital on the screen,” White said. “I think Contact Editorial Managing turtle by giving it instructions for its it’s an exciting project for more visual Editor Brandon Standley at: movement. The turtle drags a marker learners as well.” as it moves and is able to jump around Jordan said that the tradition of [email protected] the canvas, filling in the shapes. programming with turtle graphics with issues about this policy. The course is trying out the Python in introductory courses has a rich programming language for the history over the past 50 years. first time, which teaching assistant “Our idea with projects has been to professor Kris Jordan said is well-suited leave them pretty open-ended,” White for data science problems. The program Editorial corrections will be said. “So that students can really like DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/MATTIE COLLINS includes the turtle feature which get the most out of it and truly express printed on this page. Errors A video made by sophomore Ibrahim Shakhtour about his COMP 110, students have used to create artwork. some creativity. I don’t know if we committed on the Opinion “One of the early projects we have were quite expecting the number of Introduction to Programming, Turtle Art project recently went viral on TikTok. Page have corrections this semester was a turtle graphics students that really put their full effort printed on that page. project,” Jordan said. “Students were to this project this semester.” to be shown. programming, they are very quickly Corrections also are noted to design and come up with a theme White said that they invited The course now has a Museum of and easily able to relate to that sort on their own of their own design for students to say whether or not they Turtle Art page on the course website, of euphoric feeling of seeing your in the online versions of our just producing some interesting work wanted to submit their projects displaying the projects students have program actually work and doing stories. of art that has some requirements for to be displayed somewhere, and submitted to be displayed. what you wanted to do.” how they structured their program.” soon received an overwhelming 115 “The joy is palpable,” Jordan said. 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people make up 22 percent of North “The verdict was a perfect said. “Incarcerated people are people. FELON VOTING FEES Carolina’s population, but 55 percent Helping folks get connected to their FROM PAGE 1 of the incarcerated population. solution to what we were humanity through civic engagement He also investigated racial Gaddy comes from a family trying to do, which was is what this lawsuit is about.” disparities, reporting that Black engaged in the democratic process. As 5,000 new voters are identified people are disenfranchised by such His mother, he said, worked to expand the right to vote.” and registered in North Carolina, policies at a rate 2.76 times higher register voters during his summers Dennis Gaddy the push for re-enfranchisement is than white people. growing up, while his father served as Founder of Community Success Initiative not over. Around 51,000 people on “I was not surprised by the precinct chair for his local voting site. probation or post-release supervision findings in the report, but as I often However, after spending over five are disenfranchised – and the court’s tell people, we have to put a number years in prison, Gaddy was released the decision along with Gaddy and ruling applied only to the 5,000 on these things,” Baumgartner said. on probation and unable to vote in CSI. Kristie Puckett Williams, unable to vote because of financial “My role was simply to calculate the 2008 presidential election. manager of the statewide Campaign obligations. what that number was, and what I “I was unable to vote for the for Smart Justice at the ACLU “We broke a little bit of the glass found was 2.7.” first African American president,” of North Carolina, is a formerly ceiling,” Gaddy said. “But the verdict Gaddy, in addition to his role at he said. “I kind of lived for that incarcerated scholar and activist was a perfect solution to what we The Daily Tar Heel CSI, serves as the criminal justice day, when that would happen. So, for disenfranchised communities. were trying to do, which was expand chair for the North Carolina for me, (disenfranchisement) is a “It felt really good to see a decision the right to vote.” Established 1893 NAACP. The court’s decision, he personal experience.” that meant our people would be 127 years of editorial freedom said, was an “implicit win” for the Leaders in the formerly able to be reconnected in a way they @MarMorava Black community, given that Black incarcerated community celebrated hadn’t been connected in years,” she [email protected] The Daily Tar Heel Sports Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3 Jackie Manuel starts new chapter at UNC 15 years after national title, Manuel returns to where it began By Jared McMasters After eight different stops as a first-year guard thought to himself. Assistant Sports Editor player or coach since he graduated By the spring of Manuel’s in 2005, having a new job closer to sophomore year, Doherty held a When the final buzzer sounded, his wife, who works at UNC’s College press conference to announce his Jackie Manuel searched for someone of Arts & Sciences, means he gets to resignation. Williams left Kansas to to hug. spend more time with his family while take the helm of his alma mater, and He could head for Roy Williams, pursuing his passion for coaching in a immediately spoke with Manuel. who just led the North Carolina place he considers his home. He heard the sophomore might men’s basketball team to a national not be happy on the team, and championship. The pile of teammates ‘Coach, I want to be here’ Williams offered to help him look burying Rashad McCants in for transfer options if that’s what celebration was another option. When North Carolina opened he wanted. Or he could stay and cut Now, they could finally reap the the 2001-2002 season with a loss to back on his 3-pointers. rewards of their hard work after a Hampton, the normally easy-going “Coach, I want to be here,” 75-70 win over Illinois in the 2005 Manuel was nervous. Manuel said. national championship after four long It was supposed to be an easy tune- He ran so hard in his first practice years of rebuilding. up game for the Tar Heels. Instead, under Williams that he puked. He Fifteen years later, Manuel is they lost to a program that, at that honed his defensive skills, especially returning to his college town in a new point, had only been to the NCAA maneuvering around screens, enough role. He’s making the switch to women’s Tournament once. After the game, to earn All-ACC Defensive honors basketball to work on Courtney Manuel sat in the locker room, growing twice. His 3-point attempts dropped DTH ARCHIVE/ KARA ARNDT Banghart’s staff as the team’s director more pessimistic by the minute. from 2.7 per game as a first-year to 0.5 UNC’s Jackie Manuel races for the ball against Georgia Tech’s Tony Akins during of player personnel, development and “Are we even going to be able to his senior season. a 2002 game. Manuel was hired to coach UNC’s women’s basketball team. recruiting operations. win a game on our schedule?” the “He was darn near perfect,” the coach said. Hinton James while she stayed right league with the wrong mentality around the corner in Ehringhaus, so and wanted to help prevent them ‘Hey, G.I. Jane, what’s up?’ the two were always able to spend from making the same mistakes he time together, and after a few did, so he reached out to Williams In the moment, Sean May gave months, their friendship blossomed for advice. Manuel hell for dragging him along into dates. “Well, answer this question for to pick up ice cream for his girlfriend Three kids and 15 years later, Jackie me: Would you be willing to move to after a summer practice. Looking back runs tickle time and plays games Idaho?” Williams said. “The reason I on it, though, he realizes his teammate with Ryann, Kameron and Jordan ask is because in coaching, you never had bigger plans. whenever their mom needs a breather. know where you’re going to be living.” “He was laying the foundation for From on the court to in his home, he’s Manuel decided he could live a marriage,” May said. always been great with the younger with that uncertainty and bounced Manuel spent almost three years of crowd. between coaching gigs. his college career delivering treats to “He’s really someone who’s living Now, Manuel wants to help the his future wife, Ronda Norman. his purpose through coaching,” next generation of Tar Heels learn She met Manuel one day when she Ronda said. from his example to remain resilient was walking through the Pit in her throughout whatever life has in store. ROTC uniform and someone from a ‘Would you be willing to move to “Everything that’s happening to you group of nearby athletes called out Idaho?’ is happening for your good,” he said. to her. “No matter what, it’s happening for a DTH ARCHIVE “Hey, G.I. Jane, what’s up? You By his third year in the NBA’s reason because it’s going to make you Jackie Manuel (5) and several other members of the 2003-2004 UNC going to war?” D-League, Manuel was ready to try better. That’s what my life has been.” something new. men’s basketball team lift up a basketball during a team huddle. She turned to see Manuel jogging over to walk with her. He lived in He saw players coming into the [email protected] UNC beats N.C. State in scrimmage By Hunter Nelson Change organization. to find Montesdeoca making a run Staff Writer “We had a Zoom call with him, and into the box. After his blast found the he shared a lot of stories about what back of the net, the Tar Heels led 1-0, a After a whirlwind of an offseason, the MLS is doing, and we wanted to lead they would never give away. the crisp air and fading sunset at feed off that and show unity, not only As the uncertainty of COVID-19 Dorrance Field on Sunday night for social justice, but for the soccer still looms over the college sports painted a picture of normalcy for the community as well,” Somoano said. landscape, the Tar Heels’ coach wants North Carolina men’s soccer team. At Following the demonstration, everyone to be ready when their name long last, the Tar Heels were back in the opening whistle blew, and the is called. action against the Wolfpack. season was underway. For the first 20 “Every day, it seems like we’re But before the new campaign could minutes, the stadium was silent. To dealing with something new, so I think begin, both teams needed to tackle an energize the atmosphere on the pitch, we’re going to need a lot of players issue that was bigger than sports. As the speakers echoed artificial crowd prepared to play,” he said. the UNC and N.C. State players lined noise for the remainder of the game. With two weeks until UNC faces up to take the field after the national “Honestly, I couldn’t even hear the off against Duke on Oct. 2, Somoano anthem, each player, coach and referee crowd noise on the field because I was is embracing the positives of an collectively took a knee to promote so zoned in,” senior forward Giovanni extended preseason. racial unity. Montesdeoca said. After both teams “Having a two-week preseason – UNC head coach Carlos Somoano entered halftime scoreless, the Tar the way they usually do it – is not a said the team was inspired after Heels ramped up the intensity in the great experience for a soccer team, so speaking with former Tar Heel Jalil second half. in some weird way, having the extra DTH/HELEN MCGINNIS Anibaba, who is currently a member In the 58th minute, the pressure led time this year is a silver lining.” UNC senior forward Alex Rose (21) and junior midfielder Jacques Bouvery (37) of the coalition board for the Major to a Wolfpack giveaway, which allowed prepare to kick the ball during a scrimmage against NC State on Sept. 20, 2020. League Soccer Black Players for sophomore forward Jonathan Jimenez [email protected] International athletes weigh return to campus

By Jeremiah Holloway “Hearing that news that we are not her other responsibilities as an athlete winter and summer breaks at home, citing the team’s preseason bonding Staff Writer gonna be able to compete as a team to train and prepare for the spring. but quarantine guidelines have led to and hassles at the border as reasons was just like a last statement for me She plans to return in January him spending more time around his for his decision. With much of the athletic year up in to be very sure that I’m gonna stay and participate in the women’s golf loved ones. Like Junkkari and Castro, Young the air, some North Carolina athletes at home.” season during the spring semester, Castro will take some time to decide would like to return to play whenever have been placed in unique situations. Despite being away from Chapel but nothing is set in stone yet. if he will return in January, though he he can. Like many students at UNC, some Hill, Junkkari has participated Luis Castro, a junior on the men’s would like to do so if possible. “I’m just looking forward to being international athletes have decided to in tournaments during her time golf team, also decided to stay in his “My decision to return for the spring on the field again with my brothers,” stay home during the fall semester, outside the US to get some home country, the Philippines, for the semester is something I’ll still have to he said. while balancing the responsibility additional competition. fall semester. think about in the near future, but I Young and his team arrives at of staying prepared for a potential “I wasn’t able to go into national “I took into consideration the will likely take into consideration the every practice with masks, and playing season by continuing to train. league to play tournaments, but I slim likelihood of the fall season same aspects that helped me decide for their temperatures are checked Krista Junkkari, a sophomore did manage to play tournaments in pushing through, the evident travel this fall,” Castro said. before it begins. on UNC’s women’s golf team, is Finland and I got to compete against restrictions and concerns, increasing Some athletes have opted to “If we want to proceed and have a spending the fall semester in her professionals who play on European COVID positive case rates, and most remain in Chapel Hill and train until season, we’ve got to abide by the rules,” home country, Finland. tour,” Junkkari said. importantly, what my family felt was the beginning of their respective Young said. “I think we’ve done a great “I kind of made my decision before Being back at home, Junkkari can the safest decision given the situation,” seasons. Zach Young, a sophomore job as a whole.” we knew that we wouldn’t be able see people she normally would not see Castro wrote in an email. defenseman on the men’s lacrosse to compete this fall,” Junkkari said. as often, though she also recognizes Castro typically only gets to spend team from Canada, chose this option, [email protected] 4 Wednesday, September 23, 2020 University The Daily Tar Heel UNC changes course for spring planning By Kate Carroll the University’s lack of authority over Staff Writer parties and off-campus events. “It’s really tough for the University The University is taking a new to tell kids, ‘Hey, don’t go to parties.’” approach to planning for the spring Gonzalez said. semester — which includes a new Blouin also said the density and Campus and Community Advisory natural dynamics of on-campus dorms Committee made up of faculty, increased the speed of the spread. students and community members “Those were all things that we — following an unsuccessful return observed and would need to mitigate to in-person classes this fall. if we were to attempt to bring our Bob Blouin, executive vice campus together like we tried to end chancellor and provost, is leading this in the fall, but do it in a more spring semester planning. Three successful way,” Blouin said. advisory groups will work together and Additionally, public health report directly to Chancellor Kevin concerns and uncertainty Guskiewicz regarding a potential surrounding the progression of the return to campus. COVID-19 pandemic continue to “One is very operational oriented, pose new challenges. the other is a team of health, “I think the central challenge medical and public health experts is trying to weigh public health and the third is a group of faculty, considerations against the academic staff, students and local county pursuits of the University and the representatives or community student body, understanding that members,” Blouin said. the students, faculty and community Blouin said this new committee have been disrupted in operations is a part of the University’s goal now since March,” Phillips said. to include voices that were not DTH/KIARA ALVARADO “But that student, staff, faculty and prominently included in the A group of students wearing masks study together on the quad at Polk Place, on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. community public health and safety decision-making process going into is the paramount concern.” the fall semester. the spring semester.” return — or if a return to in-person on-campus settings. The newly formed committee “There are students of color being Aside from redesigning the instruction is even viable — the “Where we did not succeed well is has yet to meet, and there are many able to voice their concerns and have roadmap planning process, University is also learning from in those areas where we have a lot of decisions yet to be made. But Blouin a seat at the table, and community leaders are also approaching the how other universities dealt with social gatherings,” Blouin said. “And said that he is always optimistic members who were excluded spring semester from a different COVID-19 this fall. those primarily occur in the evening about UNC’s students. from many of the conversations perspective and with less certainty. In reflecting on the fall semester around social activities, many of “We believe our students want the in planning for the fall as well,” “When we were doing planning for at UNC, Blouin said that the them non-sanctioned activities by very best education that Carolina Ethan Phillips, one of the student the fall, it was very clear what we were University had success in limiting the University, and that was because can offer, and we’re just going to do committee members, said. “I am going to be planning for,” Blouin said. COVID-19 transmission in areas many of them occurred off campus.” our very best to try to maximize that optimistic about new voices being Blouin said that as they wait where it could assert more control Gustavo Gonzalez, a first-year opportunity for our students,” he said. included that will hopefully produce for more clarity on whether or not over student behavior, such as exercise and sports science major, a more equitable and safe plan for the UNC System will mandate a classrooms, research and other echoed Blouin’s concerns surrounding [email protected] Students turn to Student government issues demands By Kaitlyn Boeckel hotels for housing Staff Writer By Emily Shih The hotel is also in the process Student representatives in Staff Writer of adding some amenities to select the UNC Student Government packages based on length of stay and undergraduate executive branch With remote classes underway for room type, Norris said. cabinet and the student safety and the fall 2020 semester, some students “At Graduate Chapel Hill we’re wellness committee published a have moved out of residence halls and focused on being a community memorandum on Sept. 17 with 11 into nearby Chapel Hill hotels. partner and gathering place,” Norris demands for UNC administration. It can be difficult to find a said. “We deeply value the lessons The memorandum, addressed to community through online learning and relationships that come with Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and and Zoom, but hotels have offered campus life, and hope to provide the current UNC administration, some UNC students a more college- a similar sense of community and details 11 demands regarding the like experience. belonging while learning stays health and safety of students who Mcclaren Hopper, a first-year remote this school year.” remain on campus. student, said she is now living in the Other students have had to live in Nikhil Rao, a senior health policy Graduate Chapel Hill on Franklin hotels for a short-term basis. and management and psychology Street after moving out of Granville. Hallie Turner, a first-year student major at UNC, serves as a senior “I’ve lived in the Graduate for a majoring in environmental sciences, adviser within the executive board. month, and it’s been great,” she said. said she moved from Hinton James He commended the initiative of “It has a bunch of freshmen in my hall, Residence Hall to the Courtyard by the student safety and wellness so it feels like a dorm all over again.” Marriott in August to quarantine committee for spearheading this Her previous residence hall, herself after several of her suitemates project this semester. Granville Towers, is only a few blocks tested positive for COVID-19. “I’m also glad that it was very away from the Graduate Chapel Hill. “I stayed basically in the hotel interdisciplinary and cross-cutting The hotel’s location on West room the whole time,” she said. in nature, just started heading on a Franklin Street provides a bustling, Turner said she was in the process ton of different topics such as food homely feel for students who miss of moving her belongings back home security, discrimination — even Franklin Street’s vibrant atmosphere before she was notified that she had within just the larger COVID sphere and normal campus life, Hopper said. to quarantine at the Courtyard. She — which was what the entire memo Jennifer Norris is the director of lived there for 12 days before moving was about,” Rao said. DTH/AUSTIN WANG sales for Graduate Chapel Hill. back to her permanent residence. The memo outlined demands, Recently, members of UNC student government sent a memorandum to In an email, she said the hotel “Classes were stressful to keep up including accountability for the Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz outlining 11 demands for student safety. is offering semester-long leases for with while I was moving my stuff in actions of the Interfraternity Council large number of responses, Singh this project. Tadikonda said it’s students “looking for alternative and out of the hotel and then moving and Panhellenic members through said she found the responses important for the University to housing options.” Norris said they back out of my dorm afterwards, but an external review board, hazard pay submitted to be extremely helpful prioritize the interests of students are working on options for students it was still manageable,” she said. to resident advisers and protections and detailed. and their well-being over the who are looking to stay long-term for students still on campus. “I know it can seem sort of “interests of the institution.” through the spring 2021 semester. [email protected] Examples of protections include unreachable and mysterious, which In an email to The Daily Tar the promotion of “adequate mental is why we stressed getting student Heel, UNC Media Relations said health resources” for international input to ensure we were actually Guskiewicz will respond directly to and out-of-state students, required listening to our friends and peers,” the committee. COVID-19 testing for students still on Singh said. Dubey said there were drafts campus and increased transparency Anusha Dubey, a junior in the works even before the fall from UNC administration. health policy management and semester started. The memorandum In order to gain insight as to what neuroscience major, said as a was sent back to the drawing board students were facing that could be member of the student safety and for revisions before it could get voiced to University administrators, wellness committee, she helped initial approval because things were the executive branch posted a survey write the memo. changing rapidly. on its Facebook account, allowing The members who wrote the “And so I’m skeptical, but I’m also anonymous submissions. memorandum requested a response hopeful at the same time that with Avni Singh, a sophomore studying within one week, and Dubey said she enough power behind our voices and behavioral economics, said the remains optimistic. enough helpful pressure, that maybe committee had a desire to ensure Ananya Tadikonda, a sophomore some change will be coming from that demands would protect every public policy major, is a chairperson this,” she said. type of student. for the student safety and wellness Though the survey didn’t elicit a DTH/MADDEE BURT committee that spearheaded [email protected] The Daily Tar Heel Opinion Wednesday, September 23, 2020 5 COLUMN EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

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COLUMN anyway? Layla Peykamian is a junior majoring in Managing your own social dilemma communications and political science. Will Melfi is The partisan divisions globally. Daily Tar Heel’s digital The documentary appears to be email: laylagp@ managing editor. a call to the major tech companies ad.unc.edu to adjust their models — to focus email: digital@ less on the profits and more on the inking into a comfortable dailytarheel.com discord social media is producing conversation with old friends in politics and the disconnect it is over FaceTime, I can’t help creating in human relationships. S but think about how different some am the digital managing However, if you find yourself of our language is compared to the editor at The Daily Tar Heel. spending an average of three hours last time we spoke. Our slang is A large part of my role is a day on TikTok, then you, too, are drawn from social media platforms I victim to these powerful algorithms. analyzing data to determine how to and internet culture, and evolves at get and keep you engaged with our As someone who uses social media DTH/PARKER BROWN an unprecedented rate. It helps us content. I use numbers to guide how every day for work, here’s how I 6. Understand the game. Don’t let thing we all desperately need: to stay feel connected and bonded with one we deliver the news to you. control my screen time: yourself be swayed by who’s liked your connected with the ones we love. another — even when miles apart. Over the weekend, I watched “The 1. Recognize the problem. What post or how many followers you have. Social media is neither good nor But when I speak with my parents Social Dilemma” on Netflix. The do you gain from using your phone? It is not a reflection of who you are. bad. It just is. How we use it is what and grandparents, my speech documentary features former leaders Is it helpful, or is it a time sink? My last tip is to recognize something matters. The major concern of the completely shifts. I adapt an entirely and product designers at major 2. Notifications — turn them off. the documentary barely touches on: documentary is how it’s being used new vocabulary to communicate social platforms such as Facebook, Or at least turn off the notifications social media can be really good. for bad. with the older generation. Instagram and Twitter, whose work for the apps you don’t need constant When people don’t feel seen by In some instances, our news The process of creating and has forever altered the framework of updates from. major news networks, they turn to has become partisan, which speaking in a generationally distinct our society. 3. Delete your apps. Remove social media to share their stories, such makes us susceptible to targeted language is an element of generational The primary focus of the apps you just don’t need to have in as the #BlackLivesMatter campaign. disinformation campaigns. Tune into social differentiation. By creating new documentary is twofold: one, how your pocket. When school curricula are lacking, your local news station, read your phrases and redefining old ones, we technology companies have created 4. Set limits. Use your phone’s queer youth turn to social media to local newspaper and don’t believe identify who is in, and not in, our a business model that takes an native screen time settings to give connect with others and learn the everything you see from unverifiable generational group. Having been unprecedented amount of user you reminders when you’ve been necessary sexual health education sources on the internet. raised online, Gen Z is inevitably data to sell for profit; and two, using certain apps for a long time. often excluded from their classes. crafting our own linguistic code with how unchecked disinformation 5. Physical separation. Leave the When a pandemic hits, the world @willmelfi heavy influence from social media campaigns have emboldened phone somewhere out of reach. turns to social media to get that [email protected] trends and digital culture. L a n g u a g e s h a p e s o u r understanding of who we are and where we belong in society. It has the COLUMN QUOTE OF THE DAY capacity to separate or build personal connections. However, history also “I’m not gonna put this on my personal Twitter, but I think I’m reveals similarities within languages Cutting recruitment hilarious.” outweigh their differences. Matthew Wood, sophomore, on “The Bachelor” fan page he created on Twitter A month ago, being called a “Heather” wouldn’t have meant anything to me. But when my friends won’t fix the issue endearingly use the term to describe FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT me during our FaceTime, I know Jennifer about how the history department’s exactly what they mean. Popularized Standish is a Ph.D. budget is allocated. It’s also not the “Hey DTH staffers, QUIT WHINING!” initially by the 1989 movie “Heathers,” candidate in the first time the history department the term has reemerged with a slightly history department. has arrived at the conclusion that Doug Montgomery, responding to the Editorial Board’s plea for a break in the fall semester new meaning. In response to musical stipends cannot feasibly be raised, schedule, on Facebook artist Conan Gray’s song “Heather” email: jstand@unc. though the circumstances (and and a viral TikTok trend, the term edu budget) were different. has come to describe a popular or However complicated departmental beautiful “it-girl.” budgets are for everyone, there Although the term Heather used n Sept. 14, UNC’s history are some things we know full well. in this way might be new, the concept department announced CARTOON Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz makes behind the word is not. The slang it would pause graduate O over half a million dollars a year, and term “Betty” was popularized in the student admissions for the 2021 the highest-paid faculty members 1970s, and was used in a very similar cycle. The decision — made so the in our department earn six-figure way to Gen Z’s Heather. program can financially “prioritize salaries as well. Meanwhile, campus By now, we’ve all heard of a those who are already in our staff, international graduate students “Karen”: a woman whose white program” amid the pandemic and and resident assistants have been privilege and entitlement warrant potential state budget cuts — caught furloughed in the middle of a deadly speaking to the manager (at best) and many graduate students in the pandemic and economic crisis. needlessly calling law enforcement on department off guard. Any ethical collective response people of color (at worst). Karen is What’s clear right now is that to a departmental budget crisis has the reincarnation of “Becky,” a name our department, and academia as to involve a level of transparency, given to describe the peppy, younger a whole, is confronting twinned humanity and a radical imagination 1990s version of its successor. Becky financial and moral crises. But that we graduate students — at least was formerly known as “Miss Ann,” a these crises have been evolving for in history — have yet to witness from white woman who was complacent in years, and will not end with cutting this University. Making decisions a discriminatory Civil War America. graduate recruitment. without input from the lowest-paid Slang terms for virtually every As a graduate worker in the workers as tuition and administrative activity have evolved generationally. department, I am mostly concerned salaries continue to soar only The Gen Z term “tea” comes from its about how our department came perpetuates the financial priorities Boomer predecessor “the skinny.” The to this decision, and how it relates that got us here in the first place. Gen Z term “lit” followed the Boomers’ to existing wealth and power Most importantly, none of us can “loaded.” Although our generational differentials within academia. continue to accept that the invisible vocabulary might be different, we In a town hall meeting two hand of budget structures decide are, in the most fundamental way, days after the decision, faculty whose teaching and research labor speaking the same code. leadership attempted to lay out the is worth nearly $10,000 below the We are living in a divisive time departmental finances and funding Orange County living wage and in history. The world seems bent on mechanisms. Teaching assistants, whose is worth two, three or 10 separating us — physically, socially they explained, are meant to be paid times North Carolina’s median and ideologically. But now is not the by the instructional budget from the CARTOON BY HALLEY ZHANG household income. time to give up on connecting. College of Arts and Sciences. Yet the Without addressing the graduate Individuals often say they feel College sends only enough money to funding crisis in conversation with SPEAK OUT Interested in writing a letter to the editor or submitting an misunderstood by those of different pay half of us. the stark wealth inequality on our op-ed? Limit submissions to 500 words. Include name, graduation year generations, and in many ways, those So, they have to make up the rest own campus, graduate school will and title or department (if applicable). The DTH edits for space, clarity and critiques are valid. But it’s clear that, through other forms of department accuracy. Submit via email to [email protected]. cease to be an option for college at least in our language, we aren’t as money. In the end, savings from graduates, and graduate programs different as we might believe. faculty on fellowship or leave cover will be divided between those We’re speaking the same the TA stipends not paid for by the EDITOR’S NOTE: Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily who live in poverty and those with language. Now, we just need to hear instructional budget. represent the opinions of The Daily Tar Heel or its staff. Editorials reflect independent wealth. the opinions of The Daily Tar Heel editorial board, which comprises 15 each other out. This isn’t the first time graduate board members, the opinion assistant editor and editor and the editor- students have brought up concerns [email protected] in-chief. [email protected] 6 Wednesday, September 23, 2020 University The Daily Tar Heel Linear testing for chemistry classes adds stress about their experiences and to students from the professor. The concerns,” You said. highest score was 100%.

Navigating roadblocks Taking down the structure

Sophomore neuroscience major A day before CHEM 102 students Jamell Mumford said he didn’t know took their first exam, those taking he couldn’t skip questions until he CHEM 261 felt relief because took the first one. He skipped through professors Joshua Beaver and Marcey a question he didn’t understand, but Waters announced the class would not soon realized his error. use a linear format for their midterm “We were always taught if we don’t exam, according to an email obtained know it, go to another question that by The Daily Tar Heel. we would know and then come back,” “While we implemented multiple Mumford said. “I see where they grading safeguards to mitigate the come from to minimize cheating, effects of this stress, we can see that the but it’s very time consuming to make stress regarding the linear format is sure you got a question right because detracting from the focus and purpose you can’t go back.” of the course,” they said in the email. When it came time for the exam, The news came after multiple Mumford said he finished a minute students started to voice their under time. He tried not looking concerns over the format. at the time while taking the exam “I feel as through this creates a because it raises his test anxiety. greater disparity between online “You are worried about all the learning and in-person learning other ones,” he said. “You feel like when there shouldn’t be one and DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/BAILEY YOUNG you could have figured it out, but makes the class harder,” one student Students in chemistry classes are struggling to adapt as professors continue to make adjustments to test formats. you just had to like click an answer wrote in a post on Piazza. and go. If you stay on too long, you Beaver cited that linear exams help miss the whole exam.” students become more confident in By Heidi Pérez-Moreno couldn’t go back to questions she during exams. About 600 students at UNC are their answers. He wrote the format Staff Writer already answered. “That’s your one chance to enrolled in CHEM102 this fall term, helps students become better test- She said the error could’ve been get that question right,” Tariro according to Media Relations. takers because they are not tempted Upon submitting her exam avoided with more time and with Magarira said. Two sections are being offered to change their answers. worksheet for her General Descriptive the ability to change past answers. Wei You, the chairperson of the this semester, which are taught by Several students drafted plans Chemistry II exam of the fall term, Students had 50 minutes to complete chemistry department, said in a professors Carribeth Bliem and Tavleen to publish a petition to abolish the sophomore Vanessa Barquera the exam through Sakai. statement that students can discuss Kochar three days a week. Neither format, but scrapped plans to do so realized she made a mistake. Other chemistry classes have their concerns regarding a course’s responded to multiple requests for once the news came out that the class The biology major forgot to switch implemented linear testing this structure or its exams by talking comment from The Daily Tar Heel. would stop using this format. the sign of a number from negative semester to avoid intended, or to their instructor — and students Students are required to get a C- “We have been accustomed to taking to positive after multiplying two unintended, Honor Code violations can reach out to him if they have or higher in the course in order to a test a certain way for the entirety of negative numbers. while students take classes online, additional questions. advance into any advanced chemistry our academic life; to suddenly altar our Her professor docked four points UNC Media Relations said. “I understand that this semester course, according to UNC’s website. test taking strategies will be detrimental from that question. The exam — But students have struggled to is different and more challenging The average test score among to us,” the petition draft read. one of three exams this semester — adapt to a new testing format that than a typical semester for our students in Kochar’s class was used a linear format, meaning she doesn’t allow them to skip questions students, and I appreciate hearing 77%, according to a that was sent [email protected] No breaks ahead through end of online semester By Natalie Johnson Marisue Peralta Macias, a first- in class when it is in person,” Burns Staff Writer year medical anthropology major, said “So that has really affected how I said she feels more stressed due to study and comprehend what is going As students grapple with a online classes. on in lectures.” semester with no breaks until after Macias said it feels like there is not Geetha Vaidyanathan, a exams, many are facing the struggles enough time to get work done, so she professor in the economics of studying and learning all online. always feels behind. department, said she has aimed to In accordance with the “I know we have 24 hours in a day, be very flexible and lenient to help University’s Roadmap to Fall 2020, but it is still not enough time,” she said. her students this semester. the semester started early and with But Macias said she has had a “I’m dropping three homework fewer breaks built in — leaving many positive experience with professors grades out of eight,” she said. “Then, students feeling stressed and rushed who have been very understanding. when the University canceled through their courses. “I had to learn how to use the classes Monday and Tuesday the Ronik Grewal, a first-year website Sakai,” Macias said. “It was third week, I decided to drop two information science major, said that my first time using it, and one of my out of ten grades from the reviews, he feels like he is having to teach the professors told me it was their first which are like quizzes.” material himself. time using it as well. We are both Vaidyanathan says that while she He said that without any more learning, and we are both growing.” has been teaching synchronously, she DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/MARIS AVA CRUZ breaks for students this semester, he She said she hopes next semester records videos for students who can’t As students stare down a fall semester with no breaks, many are feels like school is more stressful. For will be back to normal so that she can always meet. expressing frustration with class schedules and early academic burnout. Grewal, breaks lead to better academic have the whole college experience. “I have prepared a lot of short outcomes, because he can pace himself Abby Burns, a sophomore history videos for students to learn at their for extensions, Vaidyanathan said “It is hard for everybody. These and take time to get organized. and film studies major, said that she own free time and pace,” she said. she has been very understanding for are really rough times, and I know “Every day we have new content,” does not have the motivation to do Vaidyanathan also said that not students this semester. that many of my colleagues are Grewal said. “Every day there is a as much work as she would if her having breaks this semester has not “I really feel for the students, very accommodating.” new lesson and new homework, so classes were in person. only impacted students. and I feel for the teachers, my I definitely feel rushed.” “It’s so much easier to pay attention And when students have asked colleagues,” Vaidyanathan said. [email protected]

faculty compensation is an example professional staff.” students and families, it puts pressure The 24 voting members are elected BUDGET of a budgetary issue that has been on the University since costs increase by the state legislature, which has been FROM PAGE 1 present for years and has been No changes to tuition and fees every year, even if tuition does not. under Republican control since 2010. at the Faculty Council meeting that exacerbated by the pandemic. Ross said previous budget cuts after Moeser said the UNC System was the University has begun looking Menghini said if the University The UNC Board of Governors the 2008 recession have put pressure a “model of governance,” on par with into available tools to solve a budget does make these personnel previously announced that tuition and on the current situation. He said it the University of California System, deficit, including furloughs, base reductions, it will work to ensure fees for schools in the System would not comes down to a simple equation. but with the “sacking” of Ross and adjustments and early retirements. “those with higher earnings assume be reduced for this school year, despite “Budget cuts equal either departure of Margaret Spellings, So far, she said, furloughs have a larger share of the burden.” any changes in mode of instruction. reduction in programs, reduction in political intervention left its mark. only taken place within athletics Jenna Robinson is the president Mandatory fees include those from quality or higher tuition,” he said. Ross said when he was president, and at the Morehead Planetarium. of the James G. Martin Center for athletics, student activities, debt Ross said the way policymakers he thought politics got left at the Broader furloughs would likely Academic Renewal, a Raleigh- service, education and technology treat the University moving forward door and there was a focus on how only be approved if there are based non-profit organization and campus health, Knuffman said. will determine if this is a short to make the UNC System better. He drastic drops in enrollment or state that performs research into higher Robinson said it is “egregious” that situation, but regardless, he thinks said there was a mix of members appropriations, Menghini said. education policy. students are having to pay the same some consequences will be long term. from both sides of the aisle. Some departments, though, have She said she thinks the University fees for things they are not accessing. “This is not going to be something But Moeser said “good leadership” already begun making their own should put an immediate freeze “I think the fees are the bigger we get through quickly or easily,” over UNC, especially within the cuts. UNC’s history department on hiring but also look at cutting sticking point than tuition because Moeser said. “The problems are Board of Trustees, has lessened his announced that it will not admit administrative positions. UNC has always been a really great systematic and fundamental.” worries about long-term impact. graduate students for the 2021 cycle. “Administrators outnumber faculty deal in terms of tuition,” Robinson said. “By and large, they have made Deb Aikat, an associate professor more than two-to-one at UNC, and For four years, the University The role of politics sound decisions for this campus,” of journalism, said in an email that the faculty and the education are the has not increased in-state Moeser said. “This University will potential impending UNC System core of what UNC does at its mission,” undergraduate tuition. Both Moeser and Ross said the survive whatever crisis this is.” budget cuts have left faculty and staff Robinson said. “So, I think if there are Eric Johnson, who formerly worked intervention of one-party-dominated “severely demoralized.” going to be layoffs, I think it should for the Office of Scholarship and politics on the BOG has been a @forepreston Ross said the lack of adequate be among the administrative and Student Aid, said while this is good for concern during this situation. [email protected] The Daily Tar Heel City Wednesday, September 23, 2020 7

population of the nation, taken at the purposes of the census. in the United States House of response per household is necessary. start of each decade. Because college communities Representatives are reallocated to Kristen Smith Young, What you The census plays a large part in are historically undercounted in reflect new state populations. North community relations director at determining where resources are the census, local governments have Carolina is among those predicted UNC, is a member of the Complete allocated for things like schools, engaged in purposeful efforts to try to gain a seat after in 2021, giving the Count Committee and manages need to infrastructure and public services. to remedy the undercounting. state a 14th representative. outreach between Chapel Hill and People are counted at the address One such effort is the Complete Redistricting for state legislators the University. where they live most of the time, Count Committee, an Orange will also occur, with boundaries “The Census Bureau did a really know about even if this was not where they were County government body designed being drawn by the legislature itself. good job of talking about why on April 1, the official census day. to help the Census get accurate This process is controversial and recent college graduates should For example, if a student’s primary numbers in the area. Todd McGee often results in gerrymandering, be interested in the census,” she the census residence is their off-campus housing, is community relations director something that several lawsuits have said. “It helps plan funding for but they were visiting their parents for the county and a member of been filed over in recent years. the Federal Pell Grant Program, By Graham Hill on April 1, they would still fill out the theComplete Count Committee. The census can be completed so it has an impact on education Staff Writer census with their off-campus address. “The census is important just entirely online at 2020census.gov, funding, and as students enter Students who were in on-campus because it helps determine $675 where a survey asks respondents the workforce, businesses rely Sept. 30 will be the final day housing are counted by the University. billion in federal funds,” he said. about the number of residents in on census data to make decisions people can submit the 2020 census. Students forced by the pandemic “College kids need to know that they the household, whether the house is about where to hire.” The census is a massive national to leave their on-campus housing should fill it out — don’t rely on their owned or rented, telephone number undertaking by the United States before April 1 will still be counted at parents to do it.” and names and demographic @GrahamHill3110 Census Bureau to assess the that address by the University for the After the census, the 435 seats information of residents. Only one [email protected]

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