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One play separates UNC, No. 1 Clemson DTH/ANGELICA EDWARDS DTH/PHOTOG NA Tar Heels fall just short of biggest upset win in program history A failed 2-point conversion Carolina football team, that was the wide receiver Tee Higgins to give spread had already shut off their Tar Heels convert not one, but two difference between a heartbreaking the Tigers their first lead of the televisions. The rest of the football fourth downs to keep their upset attempt sunk North Carolina 21-20 loss to Clemson on Saturday game, 21-14. world, though, had its eyes on hopes alive. in a 21-20 loss. and a season-altering win against the To that point, North Carolina, a Chapel Hill. A 22-yard scamper from Javonte No. 1 team in the land. team that went 2-9 a season ago, Like every other game this Williams would set up 1st-and-goal By Ryan Wilcox The stage had been set. At the had matched Clemson, the reigning season, it would be up to first-year from the 3-yard line. When the Sports Editor 9:54 mark of the fourth quarter, undefeated national champion, quarterback Sam Howell to deliver running back punched it in two sophomore quarterback Trevor for more than 50 minutes of in the fourth quarter. Deliver he did, Two yards. Lawrence, Clemson’s own football game time. Those who had bet on leading North Carolina on an eight- SEE CLEMSON, PAGE 6 Two yards – for the North wunderkind, delivered a strike to the Tigers to cover a 26.5-point minute, 32-second drive that saw the Rebuilding campus safety after spike in crime After a string of crimes in the Sept. 13 in the Shortbread Lofts for the suspect but were unsuccessful. against the identified man for were on edge. parking deck. The Chapel Hill Police Two days later, a suspicious man attempted breaking-and-entering “The school needs to bring Chapel Hill area, some are described the suspect as a Black male approached the Zeta Tau Alpha into the ZTA house. A trespassing students, faculty and law enforcement working to improve safety. wearing dark clothing and standing house midday, asking a member of letter will also be delivered to him together to create better solutions at about 5 feet 8 inches tall. the sorority for money in exchange for from the sorority, Northam said, and put systems in place that make By Anna Southwell UNC Police are assisting the bitcoin, Ran Northam, Chapel Hill making it clear that he will not be everyone feel safe,” Turner said. “We Staff Writer Chapel Hill Police Department Police Department community safety allowed to enter that property again. need long-term change.” in continuing to investigate the communications specialist, said. The man, identified as 19-year-old In response to concerns and Editor’s note: Safety tips and incident, as well as providing And early in the morning, at Anthony Washington from Chapel community unrest, interim advice never guarantee safety, nor is additional patrols on foot and by about 1 a.m. on Sept. 23, the same Hill, was served a criminal summons Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz it ever the survivor’s or any potential vehicle, UNC Police Chief David suspicious man tried to gain entry on Sept. 27, according to the Chapel addressed campus safety concerns survivor’s fault in any way if they Perry said in an emailed statement. into the sorority house and vehicles, Hill Police Department. on an online message. did not or do not act on them. On Sept. 17 on campus at Davis according to a Town of Chapel Hill UNC Graduate Student Mallory “We continually make Library, a male subject made Police report. From the premises, Turner said she has noticed fear improvements to the safety features The recent string of crimes at UNC inappropriate comments to a female the man was seen pulling the door among students and people in the around campus, most recently and the surrounding Chapel Hill UNC student at about 7 p.m., handles of the vehicles and looking community and believes solutions installing more interior locks in community has ignited unease and according to a police report. UNC inside a window of the house, need to be addressed. She said at classrooms and increasing lighting fear among students and residents. Police spokesperson Randy Young Northam said. one point, she drove her classmates A sexual assault occurred early said the police conducted a search Charges have been brought home at night because many of them SEE RECENT CRIMES, PAGE 6 in the morning at about 3 a.m. on Leadership shakeup in UNC System continues With Harry Smith’s “And that changed pretty “And that changed pretty dramatically when the GOP took announced resignation, the over,” he said. dramatically when the BOG shakeup continues. Since 2008, the number of GOP took over.” members on the Board has been T. Greg Doucette reduced by the N.C. Legislature, and By Preston Lennon Former BOG Student Representative Senior Writer partisanship on the Board has swung heavily to Republicans. When Harry Smith’s resignation “You’ve got this always-been- McCorkle Place. takes effect in October, multiple political body that is now more After the statue left McCorkle positions critical to the functioning openly political than it has been in Place, UNC and the Board of of UNC and N.C. higher education the past,” Doucette said. “At the same Governors took turns figuring out will be staffed by leaders whose time, you’ve got a General Assembly where it should be permanently predecessors dealt with the aftermath that has been very active in trying to housed. While UNC worked on a of Silent Sam’s toppling last fall. micromanage the universities.” plan for a few months, UNC-System Smith is the chairperson of the Smith has been labeled one of the President Margaret Spellings Board of Governors, which oversees board’s staunchest partisans in the resigned, marking the first vacancy all 16 public universities in the system. past, but his views on Silent Sam in a string of resignations from have taken a 180 degree turn this high-profile leadership positions. Partisanship and the BOG past year. At a meeting in May, Smith said his The Silent Sam decision T. Greg Doucette had a voting initial calls to resurrect the statue were position on the Board in 2008 as probably “quick and uneducated.” In December, UNC put forward its student representative. He said “Having taken the time, energy and an idea to construct a multi-million when the modern Board was created effort and talking to a lot of people, dollar building on South Campus in the 1970s, it was designed to craft I have tremendous faith and trust and display the statue there. Smith agendas and think big picture, while in — it’s my view and opinion as one and the Board of Governors shot leaving day-to-day control to the member that that’s not the right path,” individual universities. he said regarding the state’s return to SEE RESIGNATION, PAGE 6 DTH/ HELEN MCGINNIS Chairperson Harry Smith at a meeting of the Board of Governors on Sept. 20. You find out that life is just a game of inches. So is football. TONY D’AMATO 2 Monday, September 30, 2019 News The Daily Tar Heel The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893 New hotel may 126 years of editorial freedom MADDY ARROWOOD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF come to downtown [email protected] MARCO QUIROZ-GUTIERREZ By Kayleigh Carpenter to reflect our context,” Small said. MANAGING EDITOR Staff Writer “There’s something of a historical [email protected] context there. But we also feel that EMILY SIEGMUND By 2023, the residents of Chapel it’s important for each building to ONLINE MANAGING EDITOR Hill may be seeing a new four to reflect something of its time.” [email protected] seven-story, 140-room hotel above The historical former Chapel Hill their eyeline as they walk down Town Hall is located the corner of MYAH WARD Rosemary Street. West Rosemary and North Columbia, DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE Currently, the developers, but it will not be touched. The hotel [email protected] SMART Hotels LLC and The plans on being in an “L-shape” to MAEVE SHEEHEY Olympia Companies, are discussing wrap around the town hall. UNIVERSITY EDITOR the hotel with the Chapel Hill “In terms of aesthetics, there’s DTH/ YATES MCCONNELL [email protected] Community Design Commission certainly a strong brick masonry On Sunday, Sept. 29th, 2019 a student walks by the vacant lot on Rosemary ANNA POGARCIC and the Town of Chapel Hill. They character to the buildings,” Small Street where a new hotel is planned to be built by 2023 in Chapel Hill. CITY, STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR are looking for approval to take the said. “So my expectation would be in [email protected] next step toward construction. particular as our site wraps around hopefully set up a meeting with them. match the surrounding area. JESSICA HARDISON The hotel, if it makes it through the historic town hall, that’s the During the Community Design “The applicant has every indication ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR all of the approval stages, will be strongest architectural piece that Commission meeting Tuesday, some that they’re going to select materials [email protected] located on West Rosemary Street, we’ve got. And it’s an important residents voiced concerns about how that are responsive to the character of on the intersection near North the proposed hotel will fit in with the Chapel Hill,” Nicholson said.