WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2020 127 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 128, ISSUE 12 ‘You don’t walk towards a red flag’ Amid COVID-19, students the status of her on-campus job at the library was uncertain. The third debate returning to UNC’s reason was more personal. campus. “My dad works in the ER, so why would I risk taking it back to By Hunter Haskett campus?” Wommack said. “There’s Senior Writer a lot of safety reasons on top of convenience and financial reasons.” “What will Chapel Hill look like Students have been given the with an empty Kenan Stadium or opportunity to rearrange their classes Dean Dome?” after seeing whether they will be “What if I get COVID-19 while offered as completely remote, hybrid attending UNC?” or face-to-face on Connect Carolina. “Will professors have an alternate Even with the option to go remote, syllabus for this situation?” some students, like sophomore Jolie These are just some of the many Koonce, are choosing to come back questions UNC students had to ask to Chapel Hill in the fall. themselves as they debated their return to campus this fall during the “Just being in the area makes COVID-19 pandemic. me feel much more like it’s With Black student leaders calling for an all-remote semester and the actually school you know?” recent announcement by Granville Jodie Koonce Towers that students living in East UNC Sophomore Tower will be unable to move in until at least Aug. 29, many factors went After learning there was a chance into the decision. refunds would not be given for housing, Koonce signed a lease for DTH/ANGELINA KATSANIS Breaking down the decision an off-campus apartment. Sophomore Tamsin Engel brings a suitcase into Kenan Residence Hall for move-in on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. With most of her friends living in Sophomore Madison Wommack the Triangle area, Koonce felt that didn’t want there to be the possibility off-campus, but remaining in primarily is that they secured recently made the decision to stay remaining in Chapel Hill would make that I had to go back home, because I Chapel Hill to have some sort of on-campus jobs and so they want home and complete her classes the semester feel as normal as possible. live fairly far away from Chapel Hill. normalcy — and a few are choosing to make that money and in order remotely after weighing out all “Just being in the area makes me And everyone else lives in the Triangle to live on campus. to do that, they feel like it would be aspects of returning to Chapel Hill. feel much more like it’s actually school, that are my friends.” “I do have a couple friends who best if they lived on campus.” One reason was that her classes you know?” Koonce said. “And being Sophomore Clay Morris also are living on campus,” Morris said. were all remote. Another was that around my friends and everything, I said most of his friends are living “The reason that they went back SEE CAMPUS RETURN, PAGE 2 Students create Local restaurants coping with businesses to earn uncertain football season The uncertainty surrounding pandemic. To non-athlete students, beverage industry has already been alumni and fans, it could mean a hit hard by COVID-19. Because in pandemic fall sports leaves restaurants lack of opportunities to watch the of the virus causing an especially in uncharted territory Tar Heels play in person. financially slow summer, restaurants But for the restaurants and bars like LOTSA Stone Fired Pizza, Peño By PJ Morales that line Franklin Street — which Mediterranean Grill and Lula’s have Senior Writer rely heavily on profits coming from been forced to close their doors. foot traffic and fans coming to eat and Bawcom said there are likely more For over 10 years, Kristian drink on game days — the uncertainty establishments that have already Bawcom has owned Franklin Street’s of COVID-19 brings with it fear. closed their doors, and that the Four Corners, one of the many “I use this word (fear) right now number will only increase. restaurants where fans can more than I think I ever did,” Bawcom “It’s tough, that’s all I can keep go to celebrate or mourn everything said. “Because there are so many saying,” Bawcom said. “All you from a huge victory in the Smith different variables that are based can ask for is for the people to Center to a tough loss in Kenan around fear. As a restaurant owner, understand that the majority of Memorial Stadium. or as anybody else in the world, the places on Franklin Street right now However, with the COVID-19 last thing you want is for somebody to are trying to stay open. We try to be pandemic bringing society to a come into your place and they get sick. as safe as we can for the patrons who screeching halt, Bawcom and his staff “So when you start throwing that come in and we try to make them feel have had to endure a difficult summer. type of stress on top of everyday comfortable, but at the end of the He doesn’t think the struggle is going operating stress and just trying to day, you understand why they don’t.” to end any time soon. make ends meet right now, it’s a lot.” When it comes to the fall sports Franklin Street’s food and SEE RESTAURANTS, PAGE 3 season — one of the staples of student life at UNC, and a major PHOTO COURTESY OF TAMIYA TROY revenue point for local businesses Anaía Brewster, a rising senior and hair stylist, started a business cutting hair — uncertainty remains just weeks amid the COVID-19 pandemic while many local barbershops were closed. before competition is slated to begin. The ACC confirmed on July 29 Students use their talents boxes, jewelry trays and coasters. She that football and other fall sports runs the business through Etsy and would have a season beginning the to get extra cash her Instagram page. week of Sept. 7-12, but made no during a pandemic “I really began to think about how ruling as to whether fans would be I wanted to emerge officially to the allowed in the stands. Even with By Emma Gerden world as a businesswoman,” Woldu the ACC’s announcement, things Staff Writer said. “I had more time to think about are still subject to change, with what I wanted to do, so I thought it ACC Commissioner John Swofford While COVID-19 caused many would be great to start my business.” reiterating the conference’s flexibility summer internship and job She learned from Carolina and willingness to adjust its cancellations, UNC students found Women in Business and the UNC protocols depending on continuing other ways to make money and start Marketing Club, though she has public health trends surrounding the their own businesses. always been interested in business. COVID-19 pandemic. Aiyana Woldu, a sophomore and She believes she has always had an For athletes, this could mean intended business major, created a entrepreneurial spirit inside her. a mix of emotions ranging from business during quarantine called “I used to charge my family an excitement to play to wariness DTH/ANGELINA KATSANIS Tsanai Tingz. Woldu makes resin- of the health risks associated A customer receives his order from Four Corners on Franklin St. on Thursday, based products including trinket SEE STUDENT BUSINESSES, PAGE 2 with competing in the midst of a Aug. 6, 2020. Game day restaurants have seen less traffic due to COVID-19.

With great power… comes great need to take a nap. RICK RIORDAN 2 Wednesday, August 12, 2020 News The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893 UNC moves classes 3 miles off campus 127 years of editorial freedom ANNA POGARCIC By Sara Raja EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Staff Writer [email protected] BRANDON STANDLEY Some classes that were going to be MANAGING EDITOR offered on campus have been assigned [email protected] to locations off of main campus, just WILL MELFI days leading up to the first day of class. DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR Many students and faculty [email protected] members have raised concerns on MAEVE SHEEHEY social media about how students DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE will find transportation to classes [email protected] held off campus. Paul Delamater, an assistant MADDIE ELLIS professor of geography, said he found UNIVERSITY EDITOR out last week that one of his classes [email protected] would be held at the Friday Center for SONIA RAO Continuing Education, located about CITY & STATE EDITOR 3 miles away from campus. [email protected] UNC Media Relations said in an RAMISHAH MARUF email that some courses are being held ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR at the Friday Center to “de-densify the [email protected] central campus, maximize flexibility BRIAN KEYES and promote physical distancing.” SPORTS EDITOR Delamater said he is teaching DTH/YATES MCCONNELL a HyFlex course, so some of his [email protected] Alberto Rivera, set-up coordinator for the Friday Center, exits the building on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. PAIGE MASTEN students have already opted for OPINION EDITOR a remote version. He said he has justification I had for living on campus received an email that said she could Abby Boettcher, a senior majoring [email protected] postponed any in-person meetings and I was already pretty nervous about either take the bus or get a parking in economics and public policy, said of his course until next week and is COVID-19 and everything with moving permit to drive to her class located in her economics class was first going JEFFREY SHUTTER waiting for more information. in, I decided for me the best option the Friday Center. to be held at the Friday Center, then DESIGN & GRAPHICS EDITOR “I’m a little bit not sure what was to just drop the class, take it next Students and employees with any in Fetzer Hall, before finally being [email protected] I’m going to do about it because it semester and just stay home,” she said. weekday main campus permit may moved online on Thursday. 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[email protected] [email protected] © 2012 DTH Media Corp. All rights reserved As upperclassmen are figuring But after making a pros and the University,” Wommack said. “I CAMPUS RETURN out new living situations, debating cons list, Pless ultimately ended up wasn’t getting the information that CORRECTIONS FROM PAGE 2 their return to campus and trying enrolling in Carolina Away for the confirmed whether or not I was ‘You don’t walk towards a red flag’ to sign up for their major classes fall semester. Staying home allows going to be able to stay home.” this fall, the incoming class of 2024 her to save money on what she would Koonce also agrees that there has The Daily Tar Heel reports Whether on-campus or off, has to weigh the pros and cons of have spent on housing and a meal been a lack of communication from any inaccurate information Morris said his friends are nervous, starting their college career in the plan at UNC, she said. the University. especially with rising COVID-19 midst of a pandemic. As students are making alternate Executive Vice Chancellor and published as soon as the case numbers on campus. As of Aug. First-year Savannah Pless told plans for this semester, having Provost Bob Blouin responded to error is discovered. 10, there are 189 cumulative total The Daily Tar Heel in late July that access to pertinent information is an students’ dissatisfaction. positive campus cases, according to she was “99.9 percent positive” she’d essential. UNC’s Roadmap for Fall “We are doing everything the UNC COVID-19 dashboard. live on campus this fall, despite all of 2020 attempts to provide students possible and working diligently Contact Managing Editor “Even my friends who are off her classes being online. with updated information regarding to address their questions and Brandon Standley at: campus were pretty terrified when “It’s a hard decision to make the fall semester. to provide the most thorough [email protected] they saw that because they were like, when all your classes are online But not everyone agrees that the information so they can make ‘We’re obviously not getting any better, anyway. And I’m actually financially University did its best in providing a decision that is best for their with issues about this policy. so why are they leading us into what responsible for my schooling,” Pless up-to-date information via its weekly individual situation,” he stated. you could call a death trap?Why are said. “So I have to think, do I want email updates and the Roadmap for Blouin concluded his email they putting all of this extra burden to pay for a dorm and maybe have Fall 2020. statement with the reassurance on Chapel Hill and its residents if the a little bit of that freshman year “I feel like a lot of the information that UNC is committed to having Editorial corrections will be numbers are so clear?’” Morris said. experience? Or do I want to just that I have figured out about my a safe fall semester. printed on this page. Errors “You don’t walk towards a red flag, you stay home, save money and do situation and what’s going on, has committed on the Opinion typically turn around.” classes online?” not been received clearly through [email protected] Page have corrections printed on that page. STUDENT BUSINESSES Johnson said. “Now I only take three like I didn’t really have the pandemic due to many barbershops Corrections also are noted to five clients a day, whereas before I financial means to be financially being closed. FROM PAGE 1 used to take about six to eight.” independent,” Holly said. “I’ve “The barbershop that people had in the online versions of our members to paint their nails, or I’d The business allows Johnson a relied on my parents financially been going to before they knew stories. sell baked goods around the house sense of financial stability. and I feel like this has opened new about me had been closed, but I and around my family,” Woldu said. “It kind of provided me with opportunities for me, whether that was still cutting hair,” Brewster said. “So over COVID-19 and the break, I the extra cushion that I needed,” be purchasing a car so I can have it “We like to double-mask up. I wear felt like this was the perfect time to Johnson said. “If things were to for the next three years at UNC or a mask, they wear a mask — and I start my own business and start my happen and I needed to pick up opening a Roth IRA.” keep my hands clean, of course.” Etsy shop.” some extra fees somewhere, I While Holly and Pierce will Currently, Brewster works from Jordan Johnson, a licensed nail would be able to afford it.” begin classes soon, they plan to her home in Durham, though she technician, started a business Quarantine has given develop their marketing strategy is still unsure of where she will be over quarantine in her hometown sophomores James Pierce and to reach new customers. They are working this school year. Brewster is of Fayetteville. Justin Holly the time they needed hiring Holly’s younger brother reinvesting the profit she makes back “Every day I try to take it with to start their own business, called and his friend to carry out the into her business so she can afford to a new approach and make sure J & J Landscaping, in Chapel Hill. physical work while they manage upgrade some of her equipment and I’m as safe and cautious as I can “We started off mowing lawns and to company. get a new barber chair. be to ensure the health of me and doing yard work for neighbors in the “For me, this has been a really “I used to use a regular office my clients,” Johnson said. “I have area our junior year in high school cool opportunity to grow, develop chair or desk chair, but now I’ve a little screen between me and the and then going into our senior year,” and fine-tune the skills that I need been able to invest in getting a clients so they just stick their hands Holly said. “In April, we decided to to maybe make my own business barber’s chair,” Brewster said. “It through the holes, and I make scale it up and form an LLC, and in the future,” Pierce said. “And it’s affords me the opportunity to everybody wear masks.” now we have J&J Landscaping.” also helped me to build on what I’ve re-invest back into myself to make Before COVID-19, Johnson always Holly said they’ve been learned this past semester inside the the brand better and make my The Daily Tar Heel wore a mask when doing her client’s working on bigger projects classroom and go beyond that in a service overall a better experience.” nails, but now she must require her recently, including building fire hands-on way.” pits, mulching jobs and custom Anaía Brewster, a rising senior Established 1893 clients to wear one as well. “I also used to take more clients,” landscaping projects. and hair stylist, was able to @ejgerden 127 years of editorial freedom “Before this summer, I feel gain more customers during the [email protected] The Daily Tar Heel News Wednesday, August 12, 2020 3 OCS discusses device delay and Title IX Orange County Schools is in the process of expanding tech support for families. updated district on changes, Dawson said these physical hotspots logistics for coming year. will be an option for students who need to download materials or have By Alexandra Smith a brief conference with their teachers. Staff Writer Director of Exceptional Children Connie Crimmins said students with The Orange County Board of disabilities will be provided devices as Education met Monday to discuss needed. Teletherapy will be available. plans for instruction in the coming Chief Equity Officer Dena school year, meal delivery logistics and Keeling discussed preparing staff updates to Title IX regulations. for conversations about race, which The Board voted in July to start includes teaching them to create space the semester with fully remote for student voices and help center the instruction for the first nine weeks. voices of students of color. Testing Coordinator Crystal Vaught “We recognize that teachers might said while the district is remote, it will be going through their own reflection continue with its current attendance and might not have all the answers, policy: students will be marked present and students know this,” she said. upon completing daily assignments or “They want teachers to speak their check in with their teacher. truth, and move in the direction of Deputy Superintendent Kathleen culturally relevant teaching.” Dawson addressed issues with device After discussing meal delivery distribution to district families. options for the first nine weeks The distribution of 1,700 online of school, the Board motioned to learning devices to families has been prepare meals for distribution at delayed due to accusations of human six to eight school locations, where rights and child labor law violations families will be able to pick up meals against the device manufacturers. for all of their students for multiple DTH/ALEXANDRA SMITH Instead, students in first through days at a time. Orange County School Board members discuss Title IX and online schooling at meeting on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. third grade will receive a combination This change from the summer meal of new and older devices. These could delivery program, which delivered bullying, along with the complaint harassment and required higher and we could lose federal funding if either be devices that are in inventory food to 10 locations, was favored due procedure. standards of evidence for complaints. we don’t pass these, so I will vote in or rentals set to arrive Aug. 12. to lower costs, as state transportation The changes were intended to Board member Hillary favor of them even though I am not Dawson said 270 mobile hotspots funds can no longer be used. ensure compliance with revised Title MacKenzie said she has a moral indeed in favor of them,” she said. have been ordered from Verizon Chief Human Resources Officer IX regulations in time for the federal issue with the new definition in the The rest of the board agreed, and to support students with low Teresa Cunningham-Brown deadline of Aug. 14 while staff review revisions. She feels it loosens the the motion to approve the interim connectivity. The district will also introduced interim changes to two broader action on the six affected consequences for sexual offenders, changes was passed unanimously. be setting up hotspots in secondary policies related to the prohibition policies. The changes reflected but agreed to approve the changes. parking lots and on yellow buses, and of discrimination, harassment and the amended definition of sexual “I understand that it’s federal law [email protected] UNC practicing as Big Ten, Pac-12 delay football conferences announced they were With the COVID-19 situation postponing their football seasons fluctuating by the day, Brown and until further notice. his staff are taking precautions Before this news broke, UNC to make sure the players are not football head coach Mack Brown pushing their limits. addressed these concerns at a “We told the guys, don’t practice Tuesday morning press conference. at all if you feel uncomfortable,” “If the ACC decides not to play, Brown said. “If there’s anything that then it’s because they didn’t feel it you’re concerned about, tell us, and was safe for you,” Brown said. “And we’ll address it.” that’s good enough of a reason.” Now a week into training camp, With a number of sources sharing Brown continues to stress the different information on how or if the importance of wearing masks and season will be played, Brown said it remaining responsible with more is easy for players to get caught up in students returning to campus. He tells false reports. He added that he wants his players that this process is not only to be sure his players are relying on essential for returning to competition, news directly from the coaching staff. but also to protect those on the team “I know it can be a roller coaster who are viewed as “at-risk” by health when you read and hear what’s professionals, like Beau Corrales, who happening out there, so I told them has Type-1 diabetes. as soon as we know something, we Despite dominoes falling and will let them know immediately,” threatening the team’s Sept. 12 start Brown said. date, Brown and his squad are still Brown discussed options he working hard to be game-ready ahead believes the NCAA and conferences of their matchup with Syracuse. DTH FILE/BRANDON STANDLEY should consider to satisfy all parties, “If they decide in two weeks that Football’s head coach Mack Brown delivers a speech during press conference on Wednesday, July 31, 2019. including holding out for a spring we aren’t going to play, practice to By Hunter Nelson there are still plenty of unknowns conferences were discussing kickoff similar to what the Pac-12 the best of your abilities,” Brown Staff Writer regarding a return to competition in postponing or canceling their and Big Ten are reportedly trying. said. “We told them, ‘Let’s use this the midst of a global pandemic. seasons, with a vote expected to take “It seems that it would be better to get better.’” The college football season sits On Monday, reports circulated place the next day. That became if we were all on the same page, but only a month away — for now — yet that the Big Ten and Pac-12 the reality on Tuesday when both hopefully, we’re getting there,” he said. [email protected]

One could assume that some of said that even a return of students to Street full of hungry and thirsty maybe by default we’ll have a few RESTAURANTS the strains felt by businesses this campus or an athletic season might students and fans. Maitland said customers because a lot of businesses FROM PAGE 1 summer might be assuaged by not be enough to save Franklin Street’s that this crisis is a fight for existential are closed. But if there’s no in-person People’s fears about eating out are students returning to campus or restaurants and bars from further survival and many of the unknowns semester and no football season, it’s certainly understandable, with many athletic season in the fall. Despite economic distress. He said the only about the upcoming athletic season just going to be incredibly brutal on states across the country — including this, Carini said he’s afraid of this thing that would truly help business have left him even more worried. any and all businesses, especially — experiencing an drought continuing throughout the come back is a common feeling of “When you look at the business, Top restaurants on Franklin Street.” uptick in positive COVID-19 tests. fall and winter. safety among people. of the Hill, people think about football While UNC and the ACC have In order to limit viral spread, Orange “I know it’s slated to happen, but “I do think it’s quite possible that we and basketball, but there’s also lacrosse announced the return of students County has implemented precautions the way things are going right now, would see an explosion of business.,” and women’s field hockey and soccer and an 11-game football schedule, like limited dining room occupancy you have to look at the way things Maitland said. “The new normal might and all of these sports that bring so respectively, things are always subject occupancy and, most recently, a ban are spreading,” Carini said. “We’re even be better than the old normal many people,” Maitland said. “So I’m to change. Despite uncertainty about on the sale of alcohol after 10 p.m. looking at the peak of what we have because people appreciate being in very concerned about whether we’ll be what the fall semester will look like With the limitations on the service seen in our country right now.” public. But there has to be that feeling allowed to open or not, and then what on Franklin Street, Oliverio said he industry, some restaurateurs — like “You know, more people equals of safety.” the landscape is going to be like even knows one thing. Christopher Carini, the owner of more people eating,” Carini said. Maitland, like Carini, has also if we are allowed to open.” “If a restaurant can survive this, Linda’s Bar & Grill — have tried to “So everyone’s got to eat. And I’m employed a bit of creativity in order to Sup Dogs owner Bret Oliverio then there is no stopping that monetize their businesses in other assuming there’ll probably be already generate income during the slowdown, acknowledged that, at his restaurant’s restaurant,” Oliverio said. “This is the ways. Linda’s has begun offering more places shut down. So it makes for including using TOPO’s distillery current operating capacity and under worst-case scenario. So, on a positive large-scale, family-style food more business for the rest of us already to make hand sanitizer and selling current restrictions, it is impossible to note, if a business can survive this, deliveries, and is also hoping to begin here. But again, I just don’t see the restaurant-quality meals people could make money. However, he pointed out then everything else will be easy an electric-bike delivery service. students returning. And if they do, I cook at home themselves. some of the opportunities that could going forward.” “Everybody will fail if you don’t probably see them going home early.” Both Maitland and Carini said arise thanks to the pandemic. find a way to survive,” Carini said. Scott Maitland, the owner of Top that none of those methods can make “My game plan is to stay open,” @pjdaman12 “It’s survival of the fittest.” of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery, up for the profitability of a Franklin Oliverio said. “[If] we stay open, [email protected] 4 Wednesday, August 12, 2020 News The Daily Tar Heel NAACP meeting interrupted by racist Zoombombing

addition, they said the attacker some friends, called them the n-word said because of this incident, future called on various female call and told them to “go back to the chapter teleconferences will require participants by name and urged jungle.” After the Zoom call, she said pre-registration and vetting. them to expose themselves. she had trouble sleeping. Zoom’s statement added that Several participants, including Particularly for older participants, the company encourages users to Crawford and Northern Orange the references to lynchings provoked report these kinds of offenses to law NAACP assistant secretary and institutional memories, Crawford said. enforcement authorities. co-chairperson of the voting Strong recounted hearing Alicia Stemper, director of public committee Emily Elstad, said the monkey sounds in her head after information at the Orange County attacker’s voice sounded like that the conference. Sheriff’s Office, said the sheriff’s office of a child. “As a Black person, I’m less than is currently investigating the town hall Elstad emphasized how quick the human is what that signaled,” she Zoombombing. She said these kinds of attack was. She said she estimated said. “I certainly don’t believe investigations can be tedious and often the entire Zoombombing happened those things, but when something involve working with IP addresses and over the course of about 60 to 90 like this happens it does create this pursuing search warrants to follow the seconds before organizers ended stress that you don’t need.” electronic trail. the meeting. She said within around Elstad said the offender intended As of now, it appears that the crime 30 seconds, the perpetrator sent to provoke these emotional reactions. falls into the category of a harassment approximately 85 chat messages. “They were trying to scare us and or communicating threats charge, but DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/MORGAN PIROZZI Strong expressed that the hardest shake us up and discourage us from it is also possible that it will be charged A virtual law enforcement transformation town hall hosted by the Northern part of the Zoombombing was being doing the work that we’re doing,” she as a cybercrime, Stemper said. Orange NAACP on Sunday, July 26, 2020 was interrupted by ‘Zoombombers’. forced to end the meeting early. said. “And so I think it’s really important Strong explained that many “Here we had firsthand accounts to say that even though we were really individuals defend these types of By Sofia Lesnewski Confederate flags. of people who had really stepped out shaken up by it, because how could you crimes on the basis of free speech. Senior Writer “For me that felt very personal courageously to tell their story and not be, we are not deterred in our work.” “We are at the mercy of a system because I led a team of folks to ban this happens,” she said. A Zoom spokesperson said in an that hasn’t done a good job of EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes the Confederate flag in our schools,” Robbyn Davis-Ellison, a member email that the company condemns protecting people of color from racial references to racial violence and she said. of the Northern Orange NAACP, behavior like that of the town hall. terror and racial harassment,” she sexual harassment. Brian Crawford, the meeting host questioned why the perpetrator According to Zoom’s statement, the said. “Not much has changed since and the Northern Orange NAACP wanted to silence this conversation. company has recently updated and the early 60s in terms of making this When the Northern Orange communications director, recalled “It’s kind of interesting that added security features, including kind of behavior illegal.” NAACP met over Zoom on July seeing Trump 2020 signs as well. we were talking about police and controlling screen sharing, removing North Carolina state law classifies 26 for the second part of a law Call participants such as policing, and who didn’t want that and reporting participants and offenses based on a victim’s race, enforcement transformation town Hillsborough Mayor Jenn Weaver conversation to be had?” she said. locking meetings. color, religion, nationality or hall series, participants planned to said in a Facebook post that the Crawford said the Zoombombing “We have also been educating country of origin as misdemeanors. share their personal experiences with perpetrator disseminated racist and didn’t surprise him. He said people users on security best practices for North Carolina state officials are not police officers. misogynistic messages via audio, commented offensive messages on the setting up their meetings, including required to track hate crimes. However, according to participants, video and the chat function. Northern Orange NAACP’s Facebook recommending that users avoid According to the Federal Bureau someone quickly hijacked the event, an “To put it plainly: the white in anticipation of the town hall. sharing private meeting links and of Investigation’s Uniform Crime example of a phenomenon commonly supremacists took over accounts — “In most cases, we understand passwords publicly on websites, social Reporting program, there were 142 referred to as ‘Zoombombing’ including mine — and posted clips that there’s always that element of media or other public forums, and hate crimes in North Carolina in — when uninvited users invade as if they were from us of monkeys society that when you talk about encouraging anyone hosting large- 2018, 83 of which were motivated teleconferences, often with disturbing screeching, a scene of a Klan rally Black Lives Matter, that somehow scale or public events to utilize Zoom’s by race, ethnicity or ancestry. with a cross burning, a naked “If we don’t have the right statutes images or language. becomes offensive,” he said. webinar solution,” the statement said. older man sitting at a desk while on the books, then we’re going to see LaTarndra Strong, vice president Davis-Ellison said the town hall Crawford explained that the masturbating,” she said in the post. this happening over and over again,” of the Northern Orange NAACP, triggered memories of another time Northern Orange NAACP didn’t Participants reported that the Strong said. said the first images she saw over the she was racially harassed. She said use Zoom’s registration protocols invader repeatedly used the n-word Zoom screen share function depicted when she was in college, a group of because organization members along with calls for lynching. In [email protected] Klansmen holding Ku Klux Klan and white males screamed at her and wanted it to be an open forum. He The Daily Tar Heel News Wednesday, August 12, 2020 5 Students fear cybersecurity of new UNC app

By Cynthia Dong allow friends and family to remotely Senior Writer monitor their location data until they reach their destination. Amidst the many changes Perry said the app would serve as an happening at the University this fall, additional resource for students and one may outlast the pandemic. would not replace physical blue lights On July 30, UNC announced around campus or Alert Carolina. the launch of the new Carolina At the University of Florida, the Ready Safety App, replacing the GatorSAFE app — also developed LiveSafe app. The app, developed in on the AppArmor platform — was conjunction with UNC Police Chief released in 2016. It offers similar David Perry and his team, brings features, such as the Mobile new features, such as a mobile Blue BlueLight system. Light system. But it has also raised Enasha Shah, a student at UF, said cybersecurity and privacy concerns in a message to The Daily Tar Heel among students and faculty. that she finds the app’s personalized The Carolina Ready Safety App is safety features the most useful and built with AppArmor, which provides appreciates the extra security it organizations with custom safety apps, offers to students. notification systems and more. “Knowing now that there’s an Prior to his tenure at UNC, application available for students Perry served as the Chief of Police that allows them to look after at Florida State University, which their friends is super comforting also uses AppArmor for its safety and I hope people put it to good app, SeminoleSAFE. use, because I am very confident that it could save lives and prevent New features of the app traumatic experiences,” she said. DTH/CHASE COFIELD Many of the features in UNC’s Cybersecurity concerns The Carolina Ready app provides COVID-19 resources to UNC students, but some are worried about the app’s safety. safety app pertain to COVID-19 — it offers a coronavirus information However, for some UNC putting it at medium vulnerability. Media Relations that AppArmor “Aside from that, we can’t reverse feed, as well as links to UNC’s community members, the security CVSS measures the software runs Qualys scans on the app — call you, we can’t look you up,” Perry Community Standards and campus of the app raises red flags. vulnerabilities of applications. Qualys is an information security said. “There’s no way for us to use mask distribution sites. Preeyanka Rao, undergraduate One of the issues that MobSF software company — and that Apple our data and we would not want to There are new safety features, student body vice president, voiced identified was that the app enables and Google required the app to retain it.” such as a mobile BlueLight system her concerns at the July 30 meeting cleartext network traffic. Cleartext undergo security testing. UNC ITS stated that the that connects students to emergency of the Commission on Campus means that the data travels Some students also worry about University can see the locations services through location-sharing and Equality and Student Equity. unencrypted. Thus, adversaries can user privacy. UNC Police has faced where Friend Walk is being used, but is only operational on campus. The DTH performed a static intercept or alter the data. criticism in the past for its use of geo- not any associated user information. WorkAlone allows students and analysis on the Android version Regarding potential security fencing to monitor the social media Perry emphasized that in any employees who may be working alone of the Carolina Ready Safety App vulnerabilities, Perry said AppArmor posts of protesters for other situation, UNC Police would to request that a push notification using Mobile Security Framework, is a “secure platform.” specific words and phrases. have to obtain a subpoena to access be sent to them at certain time an open-source security analysis He also emphasized that, to his But UNC Police will not have student location records. UNC ITS intervals. If the user doesn’t respond framework. The Carolina Ready knowledge, no safety breaches or access to user location data except stated that student data is hosted to the notification, a call can then be Safety App received an overall violations of student or employee in specific cases, Perry said, such on AppArmor servers, not within sent to a preset contact. Students or security score of 10 out of 100, with data have been reported on as when the user explicitly provides UNC’s systems. employees who may be walking alone, an average common vulnerability AppArmor apps. the data to UNC Police in the case of or at night, can use Friend Walk to scoring system score of 6.1, UNC ITS also stated via UNC Friend Walk or WorkAlone. [email protected]

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religious and personal rather than torture people,” he said. materials. Halliburton said he speculated • Force feeding of hunger the movement to dismiss Bogdan strikers, placing hunger might be related to his general strikers in solitary military experience. Lee disputed this confinement. position, claiming that the opposition • The enforcement of to Bogdan serving in his role is degrading genital searches associated with specific allegations of and violations of religious torture rather than military affiliation. rights by disrupting prayer The AAUP’s statement questioned times/access. why Bogdan was hired without prior In a letter to the editor published experience in higher education, in UNC-C’s student paper, The Niner despite the fact that it was listed as Times, rising senior Brian Halliburton required in the job advertisement, defended Bogdan’s record, a sentiment according to the statement. he reiterated in an interview. “On the one hand, the whole “(Bogdan) just did the duties that thing is morally appalling and were required of the job,” he said. outrageous,” Cox said. “But then The AAUP chapter’s statement at the same time, it also seems to made a distinction between legality many of us as just an example of the and morality. extreme incompetence of many of “While some of these actions our university administrations these were upheld by military judges, days and also of the way in which our they clearly violate human decency universities operate in secret, even PHOTO COURTESY OF COALITION TO REMOVE JOHN BOGDAN and the spirit of the Third Geneva for important decisions.” Students, faculty, staff and community members have called for the removal of John Bogdan, the associate vice Convention and other protocols for A June 11 response issued by chancellor of safety and security at UNC-Charlotte. This photo shows a classroom demonstration from Nov. 2019. the treatment of prisoners,” it said. former Chancellor Philip Dubois By Sofia Lesnewski recommendations. for Holocaust, Genocide & Human The statement also noted that, defended the hiring process. Senior Writer The recommendations to the Rights, said about 40 of the chapter’s according to Human Rights Watch, In his statement, Dubois said he university were as follows: 100 members voted unanimously in 731 of the 780 individuals detained considered the matter of Bogdan’s Last year, students and faculty • Immediately dismissing favor of issuing the statement. The at Guantanamo since Sept. 11, 2001, employment closed, will make at UNC-Charlotte called for the Bogdan from his role. issue of Bogdan’s hiring motivated the were released without charges. no further comment and urges removal of John Bogdan from his • Retracting and disavowing formation of UNC-C’s AAUP chapter. Halliburton said if people object Chancellor Sharon Gaber to do position as the university’s associate the Chancellor’s “Fact Set” — “That had already prompted us, a to Guantanamo as an institution, the same. vice chancellor for safety and security. which defended hiring process lot of professors, to get together and they should broach the topic with Gaber declined to comment beyond Supporters of the effort cited Bogdan’s as well as Bogdan’s record at begin to talk about the serious and policymakers. previous university statements. tenure as brigade commander at Naval Guantanamo. deep problems at the university, as Cade Lee, a recent UNC-C “If this is a problem with the Station Guantanamo Bay, accusing • Banning the use of the central problems of democracy and graduate who supports the movement Board of Governors — if that’s him of violating human rights. contracted Buffkin/Baker firm of what kind of a university is this to remove Bogdan from his position, who pushed John Bogdan on the The movement hasn’t stopped. in the hiring process. that hires someone who presided over said that while he understands university — then she also has the On June 10, UNC-C’s chapter of the • Increasing faculty input in the Guantanamo Prison Camp for Halliburton’s argument about the unique opportunity to stand up to American Association of University upper-administrative hires. two years?” he said. “Why would the chain of command, he believes torture them publicly,” Lee said. “Because her Professors — an organization for all • Establishing a council partially university even seek to hire someone, is a different circumstance. priority should not be her personal faculty, graduate students, librarians composed of students to why would they be attracted to “There are certain instances in job security, it should be the safety and academic professionals — evaluate policing practices. someone with that resume?” anyone’s career where in order to and security of UNC Charlotte.” issued a statement to the incoming John Cox, the president of UNC- Some of the accusations against stay on that ethical and moral high and outgoing chancellors and other C’s chapter of the AAUP, as well Bogdan include: ground, you should probably say no, @SLesnewski administrative officials with five as the director of UNC-C’s Center • Disrespect for prisoners’ turn in your credentials and leave [email protected]

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Continuing to make changes the University has chosen to sacrifice brands itself as, “the But is it really a recommendation that UNC go fully to students’ course schedules last- in order to turn a profit. Nor will we nation’s first public university,T [and] a global higher happy one? remote for at least five weeks — and minute, making it impossible forget the white tenured faculty who HIn the weeks and months failing to share the letter with faculty. for students to plan ahead and failed to use their privilege and job education leader...” What we often leading up to the beginning of the 3. The absurd lack of make preemptive decisions about security to advocate for all-remote forget is that brand identity is not fall semester, students and workers transparency regarding individuals their education. This includes the learning, even when asked to do the same as personal identity. UNC organized in protest of UNC’s within the campus community who sudden decision to move some so, and the administration who is furloughing its international reopening plans, demanding the test positive for COVID-19. classes to off-campus locations ignored the calls, emails, protests employees. A “global leader” would administration move all classes 4. The Carolina Ready app as — raising serious transportation and petitions from the students they have protected them. online, or at the very least take a supposed solution to student barriers for many students. claim to represent. I am an international graduate preventative steps to ensure the safety concerns, and the slew of 8. The prolonged confusion and Student activists and University student-worker. Two of my best friends safety of everyone on campus. cybersecurity issues that come miscommunication about CARES employees are risking so much to are having their contracts terminated But — unsurprisingly — the along with it. Act emergency funding for students. fight for our collective safety, while because they cannot return to the U.S. administration didn’t listen. The 5. Announcing that UNC Police 9. UNC continuing to allow full those in positions in relative power Twenty days before the start of University has always valued would be present at dorms during capacity in dorm buildings, despite largely remain silent. And the the semester, UNC announced, profits over people, so why would move-in to help make the process the plan being deemed ‘highest-risk’ consequences are higher than ever. “International students must be it stop now? “safe, healthy, and enjoyable” — by the CDC. All of these issues are in the U.S. to be paid as graduate One editorial is not enough grossly ignoring the concerns of This is by no means a complete intersectional — and it’s the same assistants.” My friends are on space to list all of UNC’s mistakes Black students who rightfully feel list. We must acknowledge the story every time. And when this approved research leave abroad. leading up to this semester (there unsafe and uncomfortable by police added trauma placed on Black and selfish, negligent plan inevitably After signing contracts and preparing are just so many!). So here is a presence on campus. brown students as they set foot results in death and suffering, the to teach online classes, they are being non-comprehensive list: 6. Forcing students to sign onto a campus that somehow feels University will be to blame. furloughed. They had no warning. 1. Not requiring testing for a community standards pledge even less safe than it did before. We We know little about why and students and employees upon their that could potentially be used to can’t forget the plight of University @DTHOpinion how this unilateral decision was return to campus. absolve UNC of any responsibility employees — who largely hail from [email protected] made. UNC has always employed international graduate workers abroad. It is especially confusing because the rule does not apply to SPEAK OUT CARTOON QUOTE OF THE DAY American citizens who are overseas. WRITING GUIDELINES “I believe a reporter’s My colleagues will face a number of • Please type. Handwritten letters consequences as a result of this sudden will not be accepted. identity only adds to assault. They will have their SEVIS • Sign and date. No more than two records and visas terminated. They people should sign letters. the story. That’s what will lose access to University resources. • Students: Include your year, major Elevate celebrates.” They will have to find other jobs to pay and phone number. for the life they put on hold in America. • Faculty/staff: Include your And, they will lose health insurance in department and phone number. Ramishah Maruf, the DTH’s arts and the middle of a pandemic. • Edit: The DTH edits for space, culture editor and co-diversity, equity and Other things are uncertain. They clarity, accuracy and vulgarity. inclusion officer, on the launch of Elevate may have to delay their graduation. Limit letters to 250 words. In order to re-enter the US, they may SUBMISSION FEATURED ONLINE READER have to go through the arduous and • Drop off or mail to our office expensive process of reapplying for at 109 E. Franklin St. Chapel COMMENT SEVIS records and new visas. Hill, NC 27514 Email: opinion@ UNC has built a “global” brand dailytarheel.com “The article says, ‘At The by employing international students and international graduate-workers. EDITOR’S NOTE: Columns, Daily Tar Heel, we value We speak languages Americans cartoons and letters do not can’t speak. We build relationships necessarily represent the opinions accuracy.’ When did that Americans can’t build. We see of The Daily Tar Heel or its staff. start?” nuances Americans can’t see. And Editorials reflect the opinions of The we support each other when our American sponsors don’t support us. Tar_Heel, commenting on “The Daily Tar Daily Tar Heel editorial board, which We do these things under the comprises 15 board members, the Heel will no longer use the term ‘student banner of institutions that use our opinion assistant editor and editor athlete’” work to claim “global leadership.” and the editor-in-chief. COMIC ILLUSTRATION BY YOUNG HUER We persist with our work, making UNC a “global leader,” while facing daily indignities. Our American COLUMN colleagues take the liberty to correct our grammar during seminars. Our American students ruthlessly It’s time for college athletes to organize criticize our teaching because they have never heard English spoken in a he quickly-approaching Rajee Ganesan as the establishment of universal failing to develop a collaborative different accent before. Our American future for college football is a junior majoring mandated health and safety safety plan, and Ohio State has even professors make snide, generalizing this season is grim. in quantitative procedures; the opportunity to opt gone so far as to draft a document remarks about journals and research Programs nationwide are biology. out of the season, and a guarantee of for players to sign that could be published in our home countries. debatingT how and whether to move eligibility regardless of whether they construed as a liability waiver. We quietly accept these indignities and cope by focusing our attention on forward, and on Tuesday, the Big email: rganesan@ choose to do so; and the creation of Most professional sports leagues Ten and Pac-12 officially postponed live.unc.edu a permanent college football players are negotiating labor agreements other Americans who make life livable. their seasons. Given the current state association. The historic move that protect athletes from being Our American friends who bring us of the virus, hosting stadium games amateur athletes for years through represents the demands of players coerced into taking risks they may marigolds when our grandmother seems like an obvious no-go. ticket sales, merchandise and across all Power 5 conferences. This be uncomfortable with. It is what dies. Our American friends who honor Meanwhile, players from college advertising during televised games. marks the latest attempt to organize needs to happen in order for any our festivals, Lunar New Year, Easter football programs across the In July, the organization introduced since 2014, when Northwestern’s collegiate sports return this year — and Diwali, making sure we aren’t country have chimed in on social a bill to Congress that would limit football team tried to legally organize and to avoid the endangerment and alone on those days. Our American media to express their thoughts on the right of athletes to profit from to fight for better health protections, exploitation of college athletes by the advisers who recognize the ways that the season. Players like UNC senior their names, images and likenesses. compensation and other benefits. NCAA for decades to come. life across borders is harder, and carve Patrice Rene have been honest about The bill includes sections intended In that case, The National Labor Regardless of whether or not out the extra time and space to nurture this season being their last chance to to prevent athletes from unionizing Relations Board refused to exert its football is played this season, college our aspirations. Our American friends get serious looks from professional and seeking compensation. It would authority on the burgeoning union or athletes should continue their work to who pack up our life when the borders teams. Whether or not the season effectively make college sports one of rule whether or not the players were build a larger coalition across sports, close, wrapping up our sentimental happens, the movement to organize the least regulated industries. employees, stopping the movement colleges and even entire conferences. belongings with theirs. players may be a significant turning The current lack of communication in its tracks. It is the first step in combatting the Let it be known that, in the middle point in the NCAA’s history of and transparency from the NCAA’s Playing during the pandemic system of power dynamics that has of a global pandemic, UNC chose to amateur sports. administration has been a source poses a multitude of risks, primarily been used relentlessly by the NCAA terminate international graduate The NCAA has previously of frustration for players. Players because the long-term effects of to previously diminish the voices of worker contracts instead of protecting responded to union proposals across conferences and teams have COVID-19 are still largely unknown. these athletes. Establishing a player’s and honoring them. An assault like by claiming that there is no banded together on social media, With questionable respiratory and union could ensure that athletes this is not the mark of a “global leader.” employment relationship between sharing a call to unionize under cardiovascular impacts, the virus have a seat at the table in the league’s the organization and its athletes, the hashtags #WeAreUnited and could have unforeseeable effects on decision-making for years to come. Smita Misra and that participation in sports is #WeWantToPlay. the remainder of players’ amateur Ph.D. Candidate & Teaching completely voluntary. However, the Their demands include their goal and professional careers. The NCAA @rajeeganesan Fellow, UNC Department of NCAA has monetized the labor of to play football this season, as well largely disappointed its athletes by [email protected] Communication