MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2020 127 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 128, ISSUE 43 On the front lines: UNC announces Life of a poll worker new spring plans

DTH FILE/KIARA ALVARADO UNC announced reopening plans for the spring semester, including various modes of instruction, COVID-19 screening and adjusted on-campus housing. By Anna Neil and remote courses for the spring Assistant University Editor are fundamentally linked with our choices regarding on-campus DTH/ALEX BERENFELD DTH/ALEX BERENFELD The University will offer five modes residency and testing,” Guskiewicz Matthi Shalev stands outside of an early voting site in Taryn Ward mans the Orange County Democrats of academic instruction, single- and Blouin said in the email. the University Mall on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. table outside of the University Mall early voting site. occupancy on-campus housing, According to the email, regular regular COVID-19 evaluation testing COVID-19 evaluation testing, as By Elsa Karcher is a phone banker and text banker — and in and mandatory reentry testing in the well as mandatory reentry testing, Staff Writer previous elections, she went door-to-door. She spring 2021 semester, Chancellor will be required for students, faculty said she is a Democrat, a retired social worker Kevin Guskiewicz and Provost Bob and staff. Halfway down the hour-long line for voting outside and a proud Bostonian. Blouin said in an email Friday. This decision is based off of the the Carrboro Town Hall stands a tent where two poll She sees her job as a chance to assist people in The email lists five modes of success of saliva-based evaluation workers, Dede Corvinus and Lori-Anne Shapiro, pass understanding the voting process and the gravity of instruction that courses may fall testing for students, administered in out sample ballots and offer insight while knitting and voting, but is adamant that she has no place in telling under. There are two in-person the Student Union, Guskiewicz and talking to each other. anyone who to vote for. modes and three remote modes. Blouin said in the email. It’s a peaceful scene, one that Shapiro calls a “I try to do my best in helping them understand In-person modes will be mainly “We are still actively evaluating “celebration of citizenship.” Poll working is a job that that different people represent different ideas, have reserved for courses with less than options for frequency, administration both Corvinus and Shapiro take very seriously. different ramifications for our lives, and that they 35 students; however, a course with and processing of the tests,” “I feel that it is very important for people to be can be pretty far reaching and critical ramifications,” a maximum of 50 students has the Guskiewicz and Blouin said in the involved,” Corvinus said. “For the first time in my Shapiro said. opportunity to be taught in person. email. “We will share more details lifetime, I have fears for our democracy, and that She said the highlight of her job so far was helping Courses prioritized for in-person with you in the coming weeks.” means get involved.” inform a Burmese couple what the voting process instruction will be those made for There are currently 1,500 would look like. first-year students to learn about students living on-campus this The life of a poll worker As a social worker, she has spent her life helping specific academic disciplines, fall, a number that will increase in people anticipate and understand the impacts of those which enable seniors to take the spring. According to the email, Rachel Raper, the director of elections for Orange their actions. She said she sees similarities when she capstone and seminar courses and there will be anticipated housing County, said poll workers are critical to elections and tells voters what their ballots will look like or how the any additional courses which are for approximately 3,500 students, a complete a variety of roles during early voting and voting process will work. She is heartened by the fact particularly hands-on. 2,000-student increase. Only single- Election Day. that so many people are coming out to vote, despite Details regarding the mode of each occupancy rooms will be offered in “Poll workers are on the front line of democracy, this year’s wait times. course will be indicated at the beginning on-campus housing. and the experience voters have with poll workers “People are really coming out in numbers right now of November on ConnectCarolina, in Blouin told The Daily Tar Heel shapes their opinions of elections and going to vote,” and they seem willing to wait in line,” Shapiro said. time for registration appointments to that the Campus & Community she said. “I think being a poll worker is a great way Corvinus answers the questions of approaching start Nov. 30. to give back to the community and also to give back voters while she knits a scarf in various shades of blue. “Our decisions on in-person SEE SPRING, PAGE 3 to democracy.” She points people in the right direction to where they Both Shapiro and Corvinus have been poll workers can drop off their mail-in ballots and is available to since 2016. Shapiro, in addition to working at the polls, SEE POLL WORKERS, PAGE 3 Tar Heels run to victory over NC State By Ryan Wilcox forthcoming recruiting classes are Senior Writer any indication, could become more and more common as the second The phrase “second-half team” has Mack Brown tenure rolls on. two slightly different meanings for This time, Tar Heels were a North Carolina football this season. second-half team in that they simply Last year was the year of the TV dominated the second half against the Tar Heels, they of the thrilling game- Wolfpack, rushing for 178 yards and winning drives and last-second scoring three touchdowns in a four- finishes, not all of which were in their minute span — all courtesy of junior favor. That, of course, culminated running back Javonte Williams — to in a 6-6 regular season in which the put a bow on their most dominant surprising highs canceled out the stretch of football since (at least) expected lows. There’s been a fair a season-opening 31-6 win over amount of drama this year, too; take as Syracuse. No theatrics necessary. evidence a pick-two on a game-tying “We never want to lose, but the loss conversion attempt to book a 26-22 last week gave us a little boost this week,” win over Boston College or three Williams said. “We knew we had to come straight dropped passes to end a final out and play hard the whole game.” drive and a furious, oh-so-close rally in North Carolina held a healthy 17-7 last week’s loss to Florida State. lead at the half, but N.C. State was But Saturday’s commanding 48-21 suddenly posing a threat with the win over N.C. State was a different insertion of first-year Ben Finley. DTH/ALEX BERENFELD kind of win for UNC, one that, if An early voting poll worker hands a voter a pen at the Univesity Mall polling site on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. the trajectory of the program and its SEE FOOTBALL RUNNING, PAGE 9

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If you want to register to vote October 15th during this period, bring a photo ID OR a utility bill, bank statement or paycheck with through your name and current October 31st address on it. You can also cast your ballot on Election Day, Nov 3rd. To make your plan to vote we can early visit ncvoter.org - decide where, when, with who, and how you will make your vote and voice heard. register on the same day. ncvoter.org The Daily Tar Heel News Monday, October 26, 2020 3 The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893 COVID-19 concerns at fair food event 127 years of editorial freedom ANNA POGARCIC By Maria Morava “They’d come by and say ‘Hey, you EDITOR!IN!CHIEF Staff Writer need to spread people out in your line EDITOR"DAILYTARHEEL.COM — take some ownership — not just of BRANDON STANDLEY Those missing deep-fried your tent or your trailer,’” he said. EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR delicacies may have been relieved The Daily Tar Heel reached out to MANAGING.EDITOR"DAILYTARHEEL.COM with the N.C. State Fair Division’s the Fair Division for comment, but WILL MELFI decision to hold a fair food festival they did not respond. DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR instead. Others, however, called it a Wrenn does not agree with the DIGITAL"DAILYTARHEEL.COM super-spreader event. judgment of the food festival as a The fair, originally scheduled for superspreader event. Most people MAEVE SHEEHEY Oct. 15-25, was canceled in late July. In were wearing masks, he said, and it DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE its place, the Fair Division advertised helped that the event was outside. For ENTERPRISE"DAILYTARHEEL.COM N.C. State Fair Food — an 11-day event him, it was no different than going MADDIE ELLIS featuring 22 local North Carolina fair grocery shopping — and the feeling of UNIVERSITY EDITOR vendors. A list of virtual vendors able normalcy was welcomed. UNIVERSITY"DAILYTARHEEL.COM to ship items was also advertised. SONIA RAO Criticism spread on Twitter as news ‘A deep-fried anything is not CITY & STATE EDITOR stations documented large crowds and worth my life’ CITY"DAILYTARHEEL.COM maskless eating, even though the event was meant to be take-out only. RAMISHAH MARUF Felicia Turrentine-Daniel of Chef’s DTH FILE/JESSICA HARDISON ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Here’s what they had to say about D’Lites was unable to participate in In place of the in-person N.C. State Fair, the Fair Division held the N.C. ARTS"DAILYTARHEEL.COM their experiences. this year’s event on what would have State Fair Food event featuring 22 local North Carolina fair vendors. BRIAN KEYES been the business’ 21st year at the N.C. SPORTS EDITOR ‘We draw strength from each State Fair. Besides, she said, she can deep fry To discourage patrons from eating SPORTS"DAILYTARHEEL.COM other’ “We got the call probably two weeks almost anything by herself. their food on the fairgrounds, Neal before (the event) was supposed to PAIGE MASTEN Turrentine-Daniel said she did not said Hickory Tree Turkey BBQ has Chris Wrenn, owner of Ragin’ happen,” she said. “It’s one thing if OPINION EDITOR want to put anyone in her family in been double packaging food items in Cajun, said mental health is a valid you’re setting up for a one-day event.” OPINION"DAILYTARHEEL.COM jeopardy by participating in the event. a closed container and bag. concern as the state enters its ninth Given the commute to the JEFFREY SHUTTER She is, however, one of the event’s Hickory Tree Turkey BBQ month reckoning with COVID-19. fairgrounds from her home in virtual vendors — meaning patrons has a brick and mortar shop in DESIGN & GRAPHICS EDITOR “We’ve all been looking at computer Greensboro and the months of DESIGN"DAILYTARHEEL.COM are still able to place orders with Greensboro that has stayed open screens, been on the phone a lot — planning required to operate, Chef’s D’Lites. throughout the pandemic. 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Mail and Office: 109 E. Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Anna Pogarcic, editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 Plaque to mark former Freedmen’s School One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. last year at Carrboro Town Hall to particular site is important to the Please report suspicious activity at our recognize the history of Julian Carr, community because there is evidence distribution racks by emailing the white supremacist who Carrboro Cordal and Craig began dreaming [email protected] is named for. and planning for the school before the © 2012 DTH Media Corp. All rights reserved “The plan is to do numerous truth Civil War ended. Bausell said Craig plaques around the town that speak to purchased the land at auction from the CORRECTIONS our true history,” Gist said. man who had very recently enslaved Tom Tucker, the owner of Carolina him. Craig’s wife, Dilsey, also played Car Wash in Chapel Hill, said he an instrumental role in the school’s The Daily Tar Heel reports first approached the Carrboro Town formation and upkeep. any inaccurate information Council about recognizing the history Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle said of the school in 2015. When he bought there were three or four places the published as soon as the the property for the car wash in 1997, Town wanted to place the plaque, error is discovered. he said he noticed in the title work including near Tucker’s car wash, but that the land was originally owned by the only place the NCDOT authorized Quakers, and the Freedmen’s school was on the side of St. Paul A.M.E. Contact Editorial Managing and the St. Paul A.M.E. church were Church on Main Street near the Editor Brandon Standley at: on that property. Carrboro welcome planter. [email protected] DTH/HELEN MCGINNIS In 2015, Tucker met Sherick Council member Barbara Foushee Hughes, a professor in the UNC said telling the truth during this time The former Freedmen’s School site, as pictured on Oct. 21 2020, is the location with issues about this policy. School of Education, whose students is important because of today’s climate of a truth plaque that will be implemented soon by the Town of Carrboro. researched Freedmen’s school. with the University grappling with By Britney Nguyen purchased this land for a Freedman Torri Staton, one of Hughes’ former Silent Sam and recent protests over doctoral students, said Freedmen’s racial injustice. Staff Writer School and church. With funds from Editorial corrections will be the Society of Friends, they built a schools were a form of protest. “Truth telling opens it up and printed on this page. Errors The Town of Carrboro will place a schoolhouse that served hundreds of Staton said Freedmen’s schools takes power away from it.,” Foushee committed on the Opinion “truth plaque” at the site of the former free Black children and adults.” were not only spaces for Black children said. “Acknowledgement of what’s to come and learn, but also a place for happening in the community or the Page have corrections Freedmen’s school at the border of It’s unclear when the plaque will be Chapel Hill and Carrboro to recognize placed. The Truth Plaque Community them to gain a cultural understanding nation starts the process of healing.” printed on that page. its historical importance. Task Force, initiated by Carrboro of their contributions to society. Corrections also are noted The sign will read: “Green Cordal & Town Council member Jacquelyn Gist, Sarah Bausell, another former @britneycath in the online versions of our Benjamin Craig, freed from bondage, implemented its first truth plaque doctoral student of Hughes, said this [email protected] stories. for around 30 years, and began SPRING POLL WORKERS because her mom was a poll worker. FROM PAGE 1 FROM PAGE 1 She said when her parents took Advisory Committee has weighed in answer the questions of approaching her to vote, it allowed her to see the on decisions regarding reopening in voters. She also passes out sample process of voting, something that the spring. ballots and collects used ones in a later inspired her to be a poll worker. “They have indicated the support cardboard box. However, she said in-person voter if we were to bring students back, turnout at the Carrboro Town Hall this it should be in single residence, so The impact of COVID-19 year has been different. individual dorm living,” Blouin said. “Coronavirus is going to affect a “So that means the students would Because of the virus, the polling lot of the folks who would possibly be be more spread out.” sites throughout Orange County here,” Verne said. Guskiewicz and Blouin said in are following safety protocols such She said she voted by mail, and this the email that the University plans as maintaining social distancing, year, a lot more people are discovering to expand isolation and quarantine enforcing masks, limiting the number alternate ways to voting in person. spaces for COVID-19 as well. of people inside the polling site, Raper said Orange County has DTHALEX BERENFELD Students who are currently and not reusing sample ballots and employed over 475 poll workers and Katie Jamieson works as a poll living on campus, as well as those putting up plastic barriers between has a waitlist with over 2,000 people. observer outside of the Carrboro who previously held UNC housing voting stands. She said additional ways to get involved Town Hall on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. contracts, should expect more One poll worker’s job is to sanitize in the election include reaching out to The Daily Tar Heel information from Carolina Housing the poll stations between every use. a political party for a partisan role, or that comes with voting, and urged by Oct. 27, Guskiewicz and Blouin Corvinus said despite the pandemic, a nonpartisan organization such as the all voters to view voting with the Established 1893 said in the email. she still has found great joy interacting League of Women Voters. seriousness it deserves. 127 years of editorial freedom with voters. Shapiro said she wants people to [email protected] Trish Verne has been a poll worker recognize the gravity and privilege [email protected] 4 Monday, October 26, 2020 News The Daily Tar Heel UNC professor wins MacArthur Genius Grant years, the pathway to upward mobility we formally met that I knew she in society has been to go to college. was an extraordinary individual,” “Sociologically, I’m interested Summers said. in the myths of that mobility,” Summers said McMillan Cottom’s McMillan Cottom said. “How does writing is both affirming and life- that work in actuality?” changing for many readers. But McMillan Cottom said she “I try to tie together all of the doesn’t know if she chose to pursue emotional impact of creative writing these topics — rather, they chose her. with all of the rigor of academic MacArthur Fellows are chosen by writing,” McMillan Cottom said. “It’s anonymous nominations, and the a space that is not very attractive to program does not accept applications people, because you have to become or unsolicited nominations. skilled at two entirely different skillsets, “It truly is an award about how and in many ways, it’s double the work.” others think of you, which is probably McMillan Cottom said before the most overwhelming part of it all,” she begins writing, she reads. She McMillan Cottom said. starts with a question — and once Lauren Garcia, a former student she determines whether it is an of McMillan Cottom, said McMillan academic or creative question, that Cottom takes being a genius a step shapes her form of writing. further, by bringing her community Chioke I’Anson, another up with her. colleague of McMillan Cottom’s “From supporting bail funds for and a faculty member at Virginia Black moms and making libraries Commonwealth University, said for little Black girls, to mentoring she is a seamless worker. every Black/femme student in “She doesn’t need her favorite our department, she is wholly chair or office or cafe to start doing PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION committed to making life better for work,” I’Anson said. “She will write Associate professor Tressie McMillan Cottom was named a MacArthur Fellow in the foundation’s Class of 2020. those most ravaged by our unjust essays on her phone, on the side of system,” Garcia said. the road sitting in her car or while By Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata and Library Science, was named a at the confluence of race, gender, Brandi T. Summers was a colleague she is cooking.” Staff Writer MacArthur Fellow in the foundation’s education and digital technology.” of McMillan Cottom for four years at McMillan Cottom said her overall class of 2020. She received the Genius McMillan Cottom studies how Virginia Commonwealth University goal in her work is to ensure that every UNC professor Tressie McMillan Grant, an award of $625,000, given higher education does and does not in Richmond. reader is surprised — through learning Cottom received a MacArthur over the course of five years. Former pay off for different kinds of students “As a fellow sociologist, I was new facts, caring about something Genius Grant in recognition of her students and colleagues agreed the from different kinds of institutions. She aware of the stellar reputation she new, experiencing moments in the work in shaping the conversation award is well-deserved. has a sociological interest in the means had garnered as a social media world through someone else’s eyes or around important social issues. The MacArthur Foundation of mobility in society. She said this is maven on topics related to race, just asking a new question. McMillan Cottom, an associate recognized McMillan Cottom for where her interest in higher education gender, education, social justice and professor at the School of Information “shaping discourse on pressing issues stemmed from, because, for the last 40 digital sociology, but it wasn’t until [email protected] University aims to be self-reliant with in-house COVID-19 testing By Charlotte Geier entire collection and testing process know that if classes are starting on Jan. Staff Writer would take place on campus instead of 19, this has to be ready and operational through contract labs, Audrey Pettifor, before the end of the year. So, I think The University hopes to decrease a UNC epidemiologist and Campus they’re working to try and get the the cost of COVID-19 testing in & Community Advisory Committee machine, work out the personnel and the spring semester by having member, said. work out all the systems so that it University-reliant testing, Provost “Contract labs are charging could be operational.” Bob Blouin said at a Tuesday Campus people,” she said. “We still have First-year student Kate Bryan, an & Community Advisory Committee the cost of the (testing), and we Asian studies major, said she thinks meeting. Currently, the University still have the cost of personnel, but the switch to University-reliant uses an outside vendor for testing. we’re bringing it in-house. We can testing will enable the University to “We feel the only way we could have bring down costs by kind of doing it implement more widespread testing. a safe return would be to stand up our ourselves is my understanding.” “I think that the decrease in the cost own testing,” Blouin said. “It will be Pettifor said this testing would be of testing is great since it will increase somewhere in that $30-35 a test.” as accurate as outside testing. the incentive to test people,” Bryan Blouin attended the committee “My understanding is they’re said. “Claims that it is not financially meeting in order to receive feedback looking into the same kind of responsible to test someone who is from members on this plan. (testing) that’s being done,” she said. asymptomatic will be invalidated.” “University leaders are working to “They’re still hoping that it can give Pettifor said this might also make finalize plans for the spring semester a result in 24 hours.” reporting results more seamless. DTH FILE/ANGELINA KATSANIS and are receiving recommendations The University’s ability to bring “We won’t have as much confusion A volunteer sanitizes her hands while a student waits in line to hand in a from partners, such as the Campus testing in-house is dependent upon around reporting results, for testing form in the Student Union on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. & Community Advisory Committee,” getting the right resources before example, because it will be here at Leslie Minton, associate director of spring semester, Pettifor said. UNC,” she said. “So we then just “We are evaluating, with guidance student evaluation testing we are Media Relations, said in an email. “I know that they’re talking right report results back to students.” from public health experts and offering for students now,” Minton “Their feedback is an important part now with the testing group and are In an email Friday, the University state and local health departments, said in the email. of our planning process.” looking to suppliers to get a PCR announced that it would require options for re-entry and evaluation University-reliant testing means the machine here,” Pettifor said. “They re-entry and surveillance testing. testing based on the success of the [email protected] Anxiety abounds while waiting for COVID-19 test results COVID-19 testing can vary from what her results were going to be. biology major, was living in Morrison person to person. “I haven’t really been nervous since Residence Hall at the start of the fall “I think it depends on the person’s then,” she said. “All of my other tests semester. When the de-densification circumstances,” he said. “But if they have been precautionary, so I haven’t of residence halls occurred, she said are experiencing anxiety (due to been too worried about them.” she wanted to get tested for COVID- testing), it is totally valid.” While waiting for her results, 19 before moving off campus. Some students said feelings of Tallmadge said she stayed at home. “I got my results back fairly quickly anxiety diminished after future tests. “Honestly, it wasn’t that different — it was less than 24 hours,” she said. “It But for students who do experience from what I usually do,” she said. was kind of anxiety-inducing, because I anxiety around testing, O’Barr “I went to class, spent a lot of time wasn’t sure what would happen if I did recommended strategies centered outside on my patio and just took the test positive. I had to move out of my on finding mindfulness. time to relax.” dorm in less than a week, and testing Zoe Tallmadge, a sophomore O’Barr said one important strategy positive could have impacted that.” environmental studies major, said to help students alleviate test-result During the waiting period, she she has been tested three times for anxiety is practicing mindfulness. self-quarantined in her dorm room, COVID-19 in the last few weeks. “The strategies for this are the same Kaeppler said. “I first got tested after coming strategies that people use for any time O’Barr said CAPS is currently back from a trip from Boone,” she of uncertainty where you don’t have offering COVID-19 groups to DTH FILE/ABE LOVEN said. “After that, I realized it was so control,” he said. “Trying to center support students who are struggling Students enter the coronavirus testing center at UNC Campus Health on Aug. convenient to get tested, that I might oneself in the present and notice the during this time. 18, 2020. For some students, the waiting period for results can lead to anxiety. as well get tested every week as a experience of being in the now — “We are a complex and beautiful precaution. I don’t want to lose my job, focusing on how I can experience the species, and we will get past COVID By Lauren McCarthy students, the waiting period for test or put any of my housemates at risk.” beauty of being with my family or being like we have gotten past other Staff Writer results can induce anxiety. Tallmadge said she has had to wait with my pets or even by myself.” things,” O’Barr said. “We just have Dr. Allen O’Barr, a licensed three days for each of her tests to O’Barr said this strategy is a lot to try to be as gentle and care-taking Campus Health has been offering psychiatrist and director of come back. During the first waiting easier said than done, but it is a practice with ourselves as possible.” COVID-19 testing since the start of Counseling and Psychological period, she said she experienced a that each person can strive toward. the fall semester. But for some UNC Services, said anxiety around bit of anxiety, since she didn’t know Emma Kaeppler, a sophomore [email protected] The Daily Tar Heel News Monday, October 26, 2020 5 Women’s soccer dominates rival Duke team By Eliza Hart Duke warmed up towards the its first matchup against the Tar Staff Writer end of the first half, putting UNC’s Heels last month, scored an own goal defenders in the action. This when a cross from UNC’s Rachel In a game of rivals, the No. 1 North culminated with Duke’s lone first-half Jones deflected off Duke defender Carolina women’s soccer team (7-0, shot by midfielder Maggie Graham Mia Gyau in the 63rd minute. 6-0 ACC) faced No. 4 Duke (5-2-2, that flew over the top of the goal. “Every time a cross is across the six, 3-1-2 ACC) on Dorrance Field in a The Tar Heels got seven shots at it’s really dangerous,” Isabel Cox, the high-energy match on Friday. Both the goal in the first half, but none North Carolina forward who Jones’ teams showed why they are ranked could quite find their way to the pass was headed towards, said. “We so hightly and how ACC women’s back of the net. Four shots were by were lucky that it deflected off their soccer is a force to be reckoned with. forward Izzy Brown, with the fourth player into the back of the net.” The Tar Heels entered the game occurring in the final minute of the North Carolina was able to pick with a 6-0 record, one of only two first half. up the pace the remainder of the undefeated teams that have played Duke came out in the second second half, with shots by Brown, multiple games this season. North with back-to-back attempts within Talia Dellaperuta, Jones and Pinto. Carolina also held an impressive moments of each other. The second However, none of these attempts record of 41-3-3 in the all-time series half continued to feature Duke’s could quite finish, making the final against the Blue Devils. newfound drive, with two more shots result a 1-0 Tar Heel victory. To start the game, UNC played as well as a corner kick. “Duke has an outstanding team, so close to Duke’s goal, putting pressure “The first 15-minute block, Duke I think that’s the reason it’s tough for on Duke’s defense. With the same was in the ascendancy,” Dorrance us to create scoring chances against tenacity that she has displayed said. “I couldn’t wait to get my them,” Dorrance said. “They’re all season, junior Brianna Pinto reserves in because I thought that not just outstanding in one or two attempted a shot early in the first the starters were being outplayed positions, I think they’re outstanding DTH/ABE LOVEN half that missed to the right. during that stretch.” all over the field.“ UNC first-year defender Abby Allen (2) defends against Duke senior forward “I think the thing that does The Blue Devils were creating shot UNC has been the only team to Tess Boade (8) on Dorrance Field on Oct. 23, 2020. UNC beat Duke 1-0. distinguish us is our high press,” after shot, while the Tar Heels were defeat the Blue Devils this season, with Dorrance said. “We will pressure the struggling to turn the direction of the Friday’s win snapping Duke’s four- “We were really intense tonight always pushing each other to be other team even if the other team’s game in their favor. A breakthrough match win streak. Despite its previous and pushing them and fighting for our best.” goalkeeper gets it to her feet, we’re came for North Carolina after just success, North Carolina made sure not the ball,” Cox said. “Every day in pressing the goalkeeper.” over an hour of play. Duke, mirroring to underestimate Duke’s ability. practice we always go at it. We’re [email protected] UNC committee discusses increasing Campus Health fee By Bronwyn Campbell Director of Business and Support called the multicultural health that I requested the use of our changing the name of one fee and the Staff Writer Services Kim McCown and Director program, that focuses on hiring more reserve monies to do a one-year hire description of another. of Counseling and Psychological Black counselors for CAPS. of four new Black therapists.” • The name of a fee for medical UNC’s Student Fee Advisory Services Dr. Allen O’Barr of Campus • “One of the things that this • The revenue from the fee would students was changed from iPad fee Subcommittee met Thursday Health gave a presentation about pandemic has pointed out is the go to maintaining their employment. to M.D. Technology Fee. afternoon to discuss adding $10 to increasing student fees. Members of the significant health and economic • The students on the committee, • The description of a fee for the yearly Campus Health student fee, subcommittee were in favor of raising disparities which exist for people including Student Body President students in the Gillings School of as well as renaming fees in the public the annual Campus Health fee by $10. of color and for marginalized Reeves Moseley and Undergraduate Global Public Health that goes health and medical school programs. • The fee would be increased to populations,” Pittman said. Student Government Treasurer toward students’ capstone projects $410 from $400 per year and would •“When the civil rights Stephen Wright, expressed approval was changed in accordance with the What’s new? be billed as $5 extra each semester. reawakening began in May, it for the program and Campus Health’s ways the project has changed. • The increased revenue for the seemed like a very critical time,” attention to racial justice issues. • Executive Director Ken Pittman, fee would go toward a new program, O’Barr said. “It was at that point • Members also voted in favor of [email protected] The OC Report is a project that was launched in January, 6 2019. Supported by a Strowd Roses grant, we seek to provide timely and quality local news to our Chapel Hill and Orange County readers. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter at dailytarheel.com/page/dth-subscription. And we want to hear from you. If you want to submit a column or story idea, contact us at Monday, October 26, 2020 Graphic By: Garrett Bolter The Daily Tar Heel [email protected]. Sonia Rao Jordan Barish Henry Haney Brittany McGee Kayleigh Carpenter The lasting legacy of Rev. Robert Seymour you can desegregate the basketball Edinburgh, Seymour took on team,’” Freeman said. ministerial assignments in Smith did. In 1966, he recruited Charlotte, Warrenton, Mars Hill – Charlie Scott, the men’s basketball where he met his wife, Pearl Francis team’s first Black player. – and eventually, Chapel Hill. Seymour’s church assignments Seymour became the first pastor also played a role in desegregating of Olin T. Binkley Memorial Chapel Hill schools. Years after Baptist Church in 1958, where he the Supreme Court had mandated ministered for three decades. integration in Brown v. Board of In 1962, the Student Interracial Education, Chapel Hill’s school Ministry of Union Theological board remained split. Seminary in New York ran a Seymour issued a church program to place students of color assignment, this time to Fred in white congregations as interns, Ellis. A church member with four and vice versa. daughters at every level of the It was through this program that school system, Ellis was to run Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., senior for school board and break the minister emeritus of Riverside deadlock. Seymour told him that if Church in New York, ended up he declared himself a school board at Binkley Baptist Church as an candidate, he would be relieved of intern. No other church in the area his duties as a deacon. would accept a Black student. Ellis ran and was elected. At his “You might have felt as if first meeting, he cast the decisive vote you were his relative,” Forbes to break the deadlock, leading to the said of Seymour. “It’s a very integration of Chapel Hill schools. unusual thing for Black people to experience white people DTH FILE/KAKI POPE From Greenwood to Chapel Hill where the issue of race becomes Chapel Hill pastor and local civil rights advocate Rev. Robert Seymour of Binkley Baptist Church died Oct. 11, 2020. insignificant in your exchanges.” S e y m o u r w a s b o r n i n Seymour and Forbes shared By Maria Morava in his trademark suit and tie. He Dean Smith, UNC basketball Greenwood, South Carolina in a lifelong friendship. In 1964, Staff Writer left behind a community he was coach from 1961 to 1997, for 1925. He graduated from Duke Seymour officiated Forbes’ fundamental in building. nearly 30 years. For Seymour, University, after which he attended wedding, and his wife, Pearl, played Sunday may be the pinnacle of the “Look around Chapel Hill and you the church’s purpose was not Yale Divinity School. It was there the organ. week for many pastors, but never for will find his fingerprint everywhere,” contained in a weekly hour of that Freeman said Seymour Seymour’s words and body were Rev. Robert Seymour. For him, the Curtis Freeman, research professor worship – it was defined by understood the teachings of the in sync, Forbes said. pinnacle came anew every day. of theology, director of the Baptist continual deed. This prompted Bible to be more than simple words “If he preached about it, he Seymour, who died on Oct. 11, House of Studies at Duke Divinity Seymour to give Dean Smith what or a Sunday appointment. was going to do something to spent the majority of his 95 years School and Seymour’s friend, said. he called his “church assignment.” Freeman said Seymour’s world tangibilitate the gospel – to make pastoring churches, founding “Dean Smith was teaching the exploded. it real,” he said. organizations, serving on boards, “Church assignments” men’s Bible class and (Seymour) After completing his studies, penning editorial columns and said ‘Dean, we’re going to release earning his doctorate in historical @marmorava integrating Chapel Hill – always Seymour famously pastored you from all your work here so that theology at the University of [email protected] Mutual aid fund benefits LGBTQ+ people of color By Mary King for years. $5 all the way up to $2,000. At any Online Editor Giordano and activist Bakari given time, the fund has between 20 Roscoe had previously discussed the and 30 recipients. As the pandemic crept across the idea of a mutual aid fund for local This mutual aid is especially globe and stay-at-home orders loomed marginalized groups — and now that necessary now, as the fund’s Black, on the horizon, professor Sharon P. Holland had several thousand dollars’ brown, Latinx and Indigenous Holland spent one of her last days at worth of seed money at her disposal, recipients are disproportionally UNC standing on the Roy Williams the three could finally make it happen. affected by the pandemic. Court, $5,000 richer than she’d been Thus, the COVID-19 Queer/Trans/ Amanda Ashley, one of the fund’s the week before. Indigenous People of Color Survival recipients, said she had already During halftime of a March 3 Fund was born. Seven months later, faced difficult circumstances prior men’s basketball game against the fund has distributed over $46,000 to COVID-19 — and the pandemic Wake Forest, Holland, the to queer, trans and Indigenous people only exacerbated her struggles. For chairperson of the Department of of color in Orange County and rural Ashley, the money from the COVID- American Studies, was recognized North Carolina. 19 QTIPOC Survival Fund has acted with a Distinguished Teaching A low-barrier initiative, the as a life preserver. Award for Post-Baccalaureate fund offers financial assistance, This isn’t the first time Holland Instruction. The prestigious award particularly to those who has organized through a pandemic. came with a hefty stipend. don’t currently have access to She was in her 20s at the height of the “I had this extra cash, and I wanted unemployment benefits or stimulus 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis. PHOTO COURTESY OF SHARON HOLLAND to do something good with it,” she said. checks, according to its website. “I was that generation where we Sharon P. Holland, a professor of American Studies professor at UNC Determined to funnel her prize About a quarter of the money has started getting phone calls,” Holland Chapel Hill, spearheaded the COVID-19 QTIPOC Survival Fund. money toward someone in need, come from grants from organizations said. “‘Can you take such and such to Holland turned to Chapel Hill like the antiracist group Southern the hospital? Can you cook for them?’” each other. So, when the COVID-19 every day we’re listening to the news,” organizer Tiz Giordano, with whom Vision Alliance, Giordano said. The Subject to the scorn of their families pandemic hit, Holland felt she was she said. she had brainstormed ways to foster rest consists of individual donations, and the national press, she said, the working on autopilot. queer and transgender community Holland said, ranging anywhere from LGBTQ community had to help “We can’t just shake our heads [email protected] OC Voice: Pressing through the pandemic have come and yet, how far we still have additional burdens American society Dismantling the multigenerational If visual media is more your to go. places on people of color. legacy of white supremacy is a thing, a great documentary is Ava Barbara Foushee We have to wear masks, stay 6 The question is: what now? daunting task indeed, but doable if DuVernay’s “13th.” is a Carrboro Town feet apart and wash our hands more We’ve been down this road before we move forward together. Lastly, open your heart and your Council member. times a day than we can count to on other issues and the proposed We are definitely at a crossroads, minds, be willing to engage outside protect ourselves and others from the solutions have not produced and the intersectionality of these issues of your normal circle, delve deeper for virus. Our lives have changed for the sustainable changes. Now, we all is clear. Which path will we take; will a better understanding of each other. foreseeable future and we’re adapting must address structural issues like there be healing as we move forward Moving forward is actually going to The OC Voice is a portion of the to move on. It has been difficult, but systemic and institutional racism, together, or will we continue down take us coming together and staying OC Report newsletter where local we are doing it and we are surviving exclusion of important elements in the same path with no real progress or together in a way we never have before. residents may have a platform to talk and we will remember the many lives teaching American history, elevation change? What if we take a few steps There are actually folks out there who about local issues they care about. that have been needlessly lost. of white supremacist culture and other toward broadening our perspectives? are counting on us staying divided, so Barbara Foushee is a Carrboro Town The disproportionate impact of discriminatory practices, have difficult We’re all at home with more time, let’s prove them all wrong! Council member. the coronavirus on our Black and conversations and seek transformative so might I suggest some reading to In the words of the incomparable brown communities has been front change at the highest levels. begin? A few of my recommendations: Fannie Lou Hamer, “I am sick and As our nation and our communities and center for all to see. This disparity These conversations and the work “Nobody” by Marc Lamont Hill, tired of being sick and tired.” Let’s continue to grapple with the is disappointing but not surprising, required are difficult, but if we are “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle walk a different path together to a coronavirus pandemic, increasing as nearly every social indicator from serious about Black Lives Matter Alexander, “How to be an Antiracist” more equitable and just future! social unrest and the election of our income to life expectancy, housing, and End Racism Now, we must by Ibram X. Kendi and “The Color of lifetimes, I am reminded of how far we education and so on reveals the press forward with meaningful work. Law” by Richard Rothstein. [email protected]. The Daily Tar Heel Sports Monday, October 26, 2020 7 Tar Heels recover together after missed year By Madi Kirkman came back down, my knee just gave time seemed to bring them closer. Staff Writer out. So after that I knew.” “You know, they just worked For Sholder, she went into the together,” Shelton said. “Some Coming home from spending 2019 season healthy, feeling like she things they could do together, some another game on the sidelines, was in better shape than ever before. things they couldn’t, but I think they Meredith Sholder came to a “I was really excited,” Sholder said. handled it very well.” realization: she would never take “But yeah, unfortunately, it was the Sholder said there were times the field with the Tar Heels’ senior second day of preseason, and I was when the team would win a game class again. She had spent her going to cut for a ball and I twisted and she would feel happy for the junior season last year with the my ankle and fell.” team in the moment, but later shared UNC field hockey team out with a X-rays revealed that she fractured with Sumfest that she wished she foot injury. her fifth metatarsal, a long bone on could have been a bigger part of the Sholder said that realization really the outside of the foot. At first, there win. Sharing concerns like this with took a toll on her when one of her was still some possibility of her each other was a major part of their teammates returned home to the returning at the end of the season, recovery process. Netherlands following graduation. but her recovery regressed and she “No one will be able to understand Cassie Sumfest, who also lives had to return to crutches. Sholder until they are injured,” Sholder said. with Sholder, tore her ACL the then had to accept the fact she would “It was like we were fortunate enough spring before the start of the 2019 miss the entire season. that we were injured at the same time.” season, and she admitted feeling UNC’s head athletic trainer, Scott Ali Rushton, a senior in 2019, also the same way. Oliaro, said when Sholder’s setback tore her ACL and was out for the “Being able to understand each happened, Sumfest gave her comfort season alongside Sumfest and Sholder. other was super special because and encouragement. “We were the three injured I knew that everything she said “I think that helped Meredith out, people, so we called ourselves ‘the was 100 percent genuine, and 100 knowing that there was somebody wounded warriors,’” Sholder said. percent valid,” Sholder said. else that was in her boat and that was “So for every game, we would sit DTH FILE/ANGELICA EDWARDS Sholder and Sumfest were going to be doing the same thing she on the sideline or we’d stand on the Redshirt junior forward Meredith Shoulder (2) gains possession of the ball injured prior to UNC’s undefeated was,” Oliaro said. sideline, and we would make it a against Syracuse on Oct. 16, 2020 in Karen Shelton Stadium. UNC won 1-0. national championship run in 2019. goal to be as loud as possible.” They were both from Pennsylvania ‘The wounded warriors’ ready to play and participate.” was different without Sholder and and knew each other during high ‘They were certainly ready’ In the pair’s first game back Sumfest, but they were perfect school through Junior National Sumfest and Sholder would go against Wake Forest, Sumfest examples of becoming stronger teams. They lived together at UNC together to Stallings-Evans Sports Even though Sumfest and and Sholder both scored goals to because of their injury. She said UNC throughout their shared injuries, Medicine Center, where they got Sholder recovered and were ready contribute to the team’s 3-1 win. field hockey wouldn’t be where it is recoveries and triumphs. treated. Oliaro said they would do to play by spring, COVID-19 hit and “When you have something that today without them. In the spring of 2019, Sumfest mostly injury-specific recovery work any games they could have played in you love taken away, you tend to come “I think with both Meredith tore her ACL when she planted to but would be with each other as they were canceled. back with a renewed attitude about it and Cassie this year, they have a shift directions with the ball. She was did their exercises. “That had to be frustrating for and you tend to appreciate the little 100 percent chance of winning the able to walk off the field and hoped UNC field hockey head coach them because they waited so long,” things even more,” Shelton said. “And National Championship again,” the injury wasn’t serious as she went Karen Shelton said during team Oliaro said. “But to their credit, they so they have come back. They’ve been Rushton said. into the training room for testing. practices, the two would be off on just kept improving from the middle terrific both contributing largely to “I went into a squat, like I did a their own, working together on their of March until the summer, and when our success this fall.” @madikirk31 squat jump,” Sumfest said. “And as I respective recoveries. She said that they got back they were certainly Rushton said the 2019 season [email protected] UNC football rebounds in 48-21 win over N.C. State

266 rushing yards — deserved the football games,” head coach Mack forcing turnovers. rest. Linebacker Chazz Surratt — Brown said. “We come in here on Not only did UNC win the who finished with an interception, Saturday afternoon, we come in here turnover contest, but the defense a forced fumble, a sack and eight on Sunday, I’m going to look right held N.C. State to 34 rushing yards. tackles — deserved the rest. at that (rushing yards) stat and I’m After showing that the UNC The starters were able to take a going to look at turnovers and tell you defense is capable of stuffing the much-deserved seat on the bench to who won the game.” running game and forcing crucial watch the backups close out the 48-21 The UNC defense got the turnovers that swing the momentum victory, the third-largest margin message: Brown wanted turnovers. in the Tar Heels’ favor, Surratt rested of victory against an AP Top-25 They gave him four. in the fourth quarter. opponent in North Carolina history. “As coach Brown always says, Like in any rivalry game, there After a frustrating game last they come in bunches,” sophomore was the potential for emotions to Saturday against an unranked defensive back Don Chapman said. run high, tempers to flare and egos Florida State team that saw a too- One was simply not enough. The to show. But UNC didn’t pay much little-too-late comeback attempt for defense wanted bunches. Chapman attention to a pregame N.C. State the Tar Heels, subbing in first-year took his coach’s message to heart and hype video that questioned UNC’s quarterback Jacolby Criswell for made a crucial interception in the ability. The Tar Heels were confident most of the final quarter felt like end zone to help maintain a 14-point in themselves. And as the final much-needed vindication for UNC. lead in the second quarter. minutes ticked off the clock, North DTH/ABE LOVEN Not quite redemption, but it was a From there, the momentum shifted Carolina’s confidence multiplied — UNC sophomore defensive back Don Chapman (2) intercepts a pass in the end crucial bounce back for a team that into high gear and UNC dominated from the Tar Heel starters’ resting zone of Kenan Stadium Oct. 24, 2020. The Tar Heels beat the Wolfpack 48-21. has fought against the “overrated” the second half, scoring on three spots on the sideline, of course. label in recent weeks. consecutive possessions in the third “That’s for them, to give them By Macy Meyer impressive 24 points going into the The team will always have at least quarter. After an interception and a false confidence before the game,” Senior Writer final quarter. one mark in the losing column for forced fumble by Surratt on N.C. State Howell said. “We don’t really care The Tar Heels’ starting the season, but that FSU hiccup quarterback Ben Finley, the Tar Heels about them. We know what a Ram Early in the fourth quarter of quarterback, who is now over 5,000 seemed to push UNC to fix the costly quickly sealed a comfortable 38-7 is to a Wolf. I think we saw that out UNC football’s rivalry game against passing yards in just 18 games for mistakes from a week ago — namely, lead with less than two minutes left there today.” N.C. State, Sam Howell rested. UNC, deserved the rest. The starting the Tar Heels’ lack of turnovers in the in the third frame. Howell and the Tar Heels were running backs — Michael Carter and previous four games. But the defense didn’t stop at @macyemeyer leading their in-state rival by an Javonte Williams, who combined for “It’s obviously the way you win just making an impressive show of [email protected] Banghart prepares for upcoming women’s basketball season By Annie Gibson things maybe at a little bit different We just completed it, and it is not Staff Writer ebb and flow than we would in a what it would have looked like had regular year,” Banghart said. we scheduled the way we wanted Heading into her second year So much is unknown about the to and could,” Banghart said. “It’s at the helm of the North Carolina upcoming season, but Banghart different, it’s regional, it’s — I hope women’s basketball team, head coach has focused her energy on teaching — safe, and I hope it lets us get five Courtney Banghart is optimistic her team. nonconference games in before we about the team’s combination of “We’re just going to defend with dive into ACC.” new and old talent, even with the a little more toughness which will The team is a completely different uncertainties of the months ahead. allow us to score against non-set makeup than last season, featuring “We’ve just tried to stay in the defenses more often,” she said. seven new players and five first-years. moment and be prepared for “We have a lot more versatility The two new graduate transfers whatever might come our way,” offensively, but we’ve got a whole are guards Petra Holešínská, who Banghart said in a Zoom press lot more depth and speed on the led Illinois in scoring in 2019-20 conference Friday. defensive end.” by averaging 12.6 points per game, Because of the constant threat of The team has faced scheduling and Stephanie Watts, a former UNC DTH FILE/ZAYRHA RODRIGUEZ a season disruption due to COVID- difficulties due to the pandemic player who left last spring amid the Head coach Courtney Banghart talks to players during a timeout at exhibition 19, Banghart has had to adjust her and only just recently finalized its school’s investigation of the program game against Wingate in Carmichael Arena on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. coaching style and the path of the schedule. Banghart did not say and former coach Sylvia Hatchell. team’s progression. when it will be officially released to The NCAA recently granted all being cut short. This has allowed has relieved stress for the team. “We’re not gonna take shortcuts, the public. winter sport athletes an extra year athletes to play five seasons in a but we’re gonna have to introduce “Scheduling was really difficult. of eligibility due to their seasons six-year span, which Banghart said [email protected] 8 Monday, October 26, 2020 News The Daily Tar Heel WXYC staff works to keep music flowing alumnus David van Dokkum. experience lacking. DJs who choose to come into the “When I go in the station to do a station for their shifts do so alone show, I’m having fun every moment,” and are required to wear a mask at she said. “Doing a remote show is all times. Additionally, the space is torturous, at least for me.” sanitized during 30-minute breaks Sophomore DJ Grace Yannotta, between sets. on the other hand, stuck with the WXYC has long prided itself on remote option. sticking to tradition while other “I stream remotely from my college radio stations embrace laptop, which has been so nice automation, but they now use an because I’m intimidated by going automated system – also created by into the studio right now, even van Dokkum – to play music during though they are taking all the proper the half-hour sanitation breaks. precautions,” Yannotta said. “It’s always been 24 hours a day,” At this point, Yannotta is Diallo said. “There’s one person in comfortable broadcasting from there all day, every day. So it’s kind home, but she misses the social of a shift in a direction that I’m not aspect of WXYC. a fan of.” Despite the disappointments, the Junior Tallulah Cloos, a DJ at the WXYC staff haven’t lost the things station, also misses the days of 100 that drew them to college radio in percent live, in-person shows. the first place. “The station itself is just this magical Cloos hosts “Orange County place,” she said. “There’s just so much Special,” which explores American physical media that even like doing so folk music, while Yannotta analyzes many sets, you can’t get through it all film and TV soundtracks during “Your and you’re just discovering something Regularly Scheduled Programming.” DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/MARIS AVA CRUZ new every day.” Before taking on the responsibilities The staff of WXYC, UNC’s student run non-profit radio station is working to preserve the station’s during the pandemic. Cloos is going into the station to of station manager, Diallo hosted DJ, but she did some virtual shows “Free Samples,” which focuses on hip- By Chloe Joseph air since 1977. of a pandemic,” Diallo said. over the spring and summer months. hop and its influence on other genres. Staff Writer Senior Aysha Diallo joined WXYC Diallo and her management team At first, access to technology “We’re not around each other, but as a DJ during as a first-year and is had to reimagine station operations was the greatest challenge. DJs we’ve all kept up with one another, The staff of WXYC is working now the station manager. She fell in to stay safe during the COVID-19 need a computer that can support through the Slack or the GroupMe or to preserve the station’s culture love with the work and the community. pandemic. About half of the DJs are the necessary software, as well as a Zoom,” Diallo said. “It’s still refreshing and core values amid the COVID- “I always wanted to be station coming into the studio, while the catalog of music to play. to talk to DJs and discover new music.” 19 pandemic. The student-run, manager, but I didn’t know I was rest broadcast from home through a Even after jumping the technical nonprofit radio station has been on going to inherit radio in the middle streaming system set up by WXYC hurdles, Cloos found the virtual DJ [email protected] Virtual exhibit features artwork inspired by film noir By Natalie Huschle were adapting to life in quarantine. operating on a different plane.” Staff Writer “I thought paying homage to film There are eight artists featured in noir through photography made “Out of Darkness,” including, I’Nasah “Out of Darkness,” a virtual perfect sense considering the genre Crockett, who is being featured in an exhibition at Block Gallery in first came about following World War exhibition for the first time. Raleigh that opened last month, II and was a result of artists making Crockett, who is from Atlanta, features photographs and videos due with minimal equipment and describes her artistic style as inspired by film noir, a style of dark limited resources,” Rexrode said. instinctual, bringing hidden narratives Hollywood film. “Out of Darkness” is juried by to life in a visual form. She is inspired The exhibition will be on display George Jenne, a UNC alumnus and by Black history and the South and online until Jan. 15. gallery director. Jenne is a huge fan of aims to capture the relationship Film noir usually incorporates film noir himself and said it plays a role between the two in her photography. the use of low-key lighting, off-angle in the basic training of every filmmaker. “Black artists are currently and deep-focus camera shots and As the juror of the exhibition, Jenne’s experiencing a moment of heightened stark chiaroscuro, a technique that duties include viewing applications and visibility, but I don’t see as many emphasizes contrasting light and selecting artists to be featured in the people engaging the work of Black darkness. Although there is a variety show. When considering submissions, artists who don’t focus on portraiture of techniques and styles used by the Jenne says he focused more on the or figurative work,” Crockett said in an different artists in the exhibition, each allure of the photographs rather than email. “I hope viewers of my work will PHOTO COURTESY OF STACY BLOOM REXRODE. of their images evokes a shared sense the quality of their execution. allow themselves to have an experience of mystery and isolation that is also “I mean, they can’t be terrible, they might not have anticipated.” “Out of Darkness,” a virtual exhibition at Block Gallery, features photographs common in the film noir style. but the concept is what’s really Although the pandemic has and videos inspired by film noir and will be viewable online until Jan. 15. Stacy Bloom Rexrode, the curator important,” he said. “Then I try to restricted artists’ access to resources, that is rich in meaning even if it’s not I wasn’t before — when darkrooms of exhibitions and collections for narrow it down to work that conveys Crockett is embracing shifting times. technically perfect,” she said. “I’ve are shut down due to COVID, you do Raleigh Arts, said the idea for this that its maker knows something that “I’ve become a lot more also become way more interested in what you have to!” exhibition came from an earlier social we don’t. I’m looking for something comfortable trusting the camera and exploring and pushing the limits of media project focusing on how artists that hints that this person is myself to be able to create a photo instant film photography in a way [email protected] Students look to sublease over long winter break By Hannah Rosenberger Ortiz said she successfully sublet school going on in the middle of the Staff Writer her room over the summer but wants sort of, wintertime break,” he said. UNC Resident Advisers to make sure that her roommates, Some students are also struggling Students’ off-campus residences who will be in the apartment over financially to justify added rent costs grapple with media policy may be sitting empty for nearly the break, aren’t put at risk. over the prolonged break. two months due to the University’s Junior Audrey Kayser is one of “I don’t want to be paying two extended winter break, since the Ortiz’s roommates. She said that in months’ worth of rent if I’m not living spring semester’s start date has been past experiences with subleasing, here,” Ortiz said. pushed back to mid-January. people had different levels of caution. University spokesperson Jeni Cook Because of the prolonged break, “We had an exposure scare ... said in an email that the University some students are trying to sublease and we all had to get tested and has a number of resources in place for their unused rooms from the end of the quarantine,” she said. students facing financial difficulties fall semester until the spring semester’s El-Baradie said the process of finding because of COVID-19, which can be start date to offset the cost of rent. tenants has been difficult, because found on the Keep Learning website. Noor El-Baradie, a sophomore many students who had to leave Chapel “... Emergency funds are available living in an off-campus house, said Hill during the fall semester are looking to students through various resources she and her housemates are trying for spring housing. including the Carolina Student Impact to sublease their entire house over Although her post in the UNC- Fund, the student portion of CARES Act winter break, as well as summer 2021. Chapel Hill subleasing Facebook funding from the U.S. Department of She said when they signed group specified that the house Education and the Office of the Dean of their lease last year, they weren’t was only available from the end of Students Emergency Fund,” Cook said. anticipating having to pay for an November to mid-January, she said Routh said students must make empty house for this long. she had more than 40 respondents sure their lease allows for subleasing “Three weeks, we could justify expecting spring accommodations. contracts if they are considering that that,” she said. “But six to seven weeks Tristan Routh, a staff attorney for for over the break. He suggested is really hard to make that financial Carolina Student Legal Services, said consulting Carolina Student Legal investment in the space you’re not he isn’t used to seeing many students Services to work out any concerns, even going to live in.” plan to sublease over break. especially because the pandemic has Junior Veronica Ortiz said she “I think it’s going to be difficult no effect on lease obligations. is living in a Carrboro apartment to find people that want to sublease complex and facing a similar dilemma. for just two months when there’s no [email protected] The Daily Tar Heel News Monday, October 26, 2020 9 LEVEL Retreat provides space for Orange County artists By Emma Gerden have stayed at the Scout House, come on the property, work on a Staff Writer including sculptors, painters and project, enjoy some time out in the filmmakers. In addition to having sun, watch the leaves change colors, The LEVEL Retreat, located in access to the Scout House and property and hopefully be inspired and get southern Chapel Hill, is working to for one week, artists will receive a $100 some work done,” Warshaw said. provide local artists with a peaceful stipend to offset additional costs of art Jean Gray Mohs, an abstract and safe space to work. supplies or travel. artist from Raleigh, participated in Thanks to a grant from the Orange Rossettie and Warshaw both a “Daycation” at the LEVEL Retreat, County Arts Commission, LEVEL live on the property of LEVEL in a spending one full day alone on the is offering three week-long retreats. separate house. property to work. Artists can apply on their website for “We’re nearby if needed, but “The gift that the LEVEL Retreat either the fall, winter or spring session. there’s also a tremendous amount of was able to give me was the gift of Founded in 2016 by Marie privacy and space for an individual time and space,” Mohs said. “It was Rossettie and BJ Warshaw, the who wants to just disconnect from exactly what I needed.” retreats have long been popular with everything and focus,” Rossettie said. As an immunocompromised artists across the world as a way to Rossettie and Warshaw said they person and a mother of 6-year-old find leaps in creativity. are taking precautions seriously. twins, safety and sanitization was a “Part of our decision-making “We’re very attentive to making priority for Mohs. will come down to people who sure the space is cleaned and “It was very COVID-friendly and lack formal studio space and need sanitized before and after their stay,” COVID-aware,” Mohs said. “To have PHOTO COURTESY OF MARIE ROSSETTIE to get out of a stressful situation,” Warshaw said. been able to stay a whole extra week The LEVEL Retreat, located in southern Chapel Hill, is working to provide Warshaw said. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the would have been incredible.” local artists with a peaceful and safe space to work during the pandemic. Amenities include walking trails, a retreat is only being offered to one The LEVEL Retreat hopes to pond, plenty of outdoor space and a single artist at a time. There are also provide artists with a place to create, to — to make sense of the world, to Warshaw said. fully-furnished home called the “Scout no parties or unauthorized guests process and unwind. communicate our experience and House” — a former Boy Scout cabin. allowed on the property. “In all times of upheaval and share our experience with others, @ejgerden In the past, artists of all disciplines “Otherwise, artists are free to just societal strife, art is where we turn and hopefully inspire people,” [email protected]

I definitely snap my head around to “They’re tough, they’re smart, FOOTBALL RUNNING look and see what he’s doing,” Howell they protect the ball, they run with FROM PAGE 1 said. “He’s gonna put someone on the power, they both have patience,” he Finley replaced Bailey Hockman ground every single time he has the said. “And really, no one has tackled — who got the nod after usual starter ball in his hands. It’s definitely fun them on a consistent basis all year.” Devin Leary suffered a broken fibula watching him do what he does.” The Tar Heels remain in control last week — and impressed in his It was proof, if you needed any of their conference destiny despite first two drives. The first ended with more, of North Carolina’s ability to last week’s loss, with games against a fluke play, an interception after a dominate on the ground. Despite Notre Dame and Miami still on the bobbled pass to a wide-open receiver the preseason buzz for Howell as docket. If they want to reach the in the end zone. The second ended a Heisman candidate, it might heights they think they can — Brown with a touchdown. be Williams — who leads the admitted that this team isn’t one Then came a trip to the locker nation in touchdowns among non- of the five best in the country, but room and the requisite flipping quarterbacks — who is playing his there’s no reason to think an ACC of the switch, starting with a Sam way to national acclaim. title game isn’t in the cards — they’ll Howell touchdown pass to Josh And you can’t forget senior do it with a whole lot more helpings Downs to stretch the lead to 17. After Michael Carter, who had 106 yards of Williams and Carter. that, Javonte Williams did Javonte and a touchdown of his own. Brown And, apparently, by doing enough Williams things, running through, was right in his postgame press to make it to the next second half. DTH/ABE LOVEN over, around and past defenders on conference to call them “probably UNC senior running back Michael Carter (8) rushes in Kenan Memorial the way to 160 rushing yards. the best combination of backs in @ryantwilcox Stadium on Oct. 24, 2020. The Tar Heels beat the Wolfpack 48-21. “Every time I hand him the ball, the country.” [email protected] 10 Monday, October 26, 2020 News The Daily Tar Heel UNC artists use music to work through mental health challenges By Madison Ward the “Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll” in of a better future. He believes that and get into the “flow state” of Staff Writer Memphis, Tennessee, followed by only by letting go, regardless of how heightened focus and creativity. stints in Los Angeles, New York frightening or uncomfortable, can “I love to experiment with music With the unrelenting challenges and now Chapel Hill, where he something stronger emerge. production, and I can somewhat of 2020, UNC graduate student is pursuing a master’s degree in Faith Jones, a 2020 UNC compare it to playing video games,” Simon Spire articulates what many social work. graduate, is another musician who Ellis said. “You take your mind off are feeling in his new acoustic Spire is a self-described singer- addresses mental health issues something and get into a flow state single, “Uncomfortable”: an songwriter, and many of his songs through her songs. In her first where you just feel good. You don’t expanding black hole of discomfort follow his love of social outreach. single, “The Absence of Light,” really realize that you’re in that threatening hopes and leaving They focus on mental health issues she shared her struggles with Zen mode when you are. It’s really people feeling helpless. and the pain of being confined to depression, which many listeners beneficial to mental health.” Spire, like other local musicians an identity and self-isolation. found relatable and moving. Spire hopes his music will and UNC students, uses his craft to “Many of us experience the “For me, music has always been connect on a meaningful level work through and help understand dandelion seeds of anger and the place I go to no matter what I’m and provide comfort to listeners his mental health challenges. As the alienation, maybe dread around the feeling – if I’m happy, if I’m sad, if undergoing struggle and surrender. COVID-19 pandemic continues to state of the world and the state of I need motivation, if I’m stressed – He wrote a blog post called “An affect the country, these musicians our culture. ‘Uncomfortable’ names I can always find a song for any of Uncomfortable Conversation with PHOTO COURTESY OF SIMON SPIRE have found music especially that and evokes that,” Spire said. “In those emotions,” Jones said. “Music Death, Birth, and Waking Up,” UNC graduate student Simon Spire important and helpful. certain ways, people have expressed has always helped me feel a little which discussed the meaning recently released “Uncomfortable.” Growing up in Auckland, they find some catharsis and comfort bit less alone. As an artist, I seek to behind the song “Uncomfortable.” New Zealand, Spire studied in that, but at the same time, the provide that same sense of feeling “I talked about a certain take through collectively feels unbearable, economics and finance during song also points to the possibility of for people that listen to my music, on the birth process and the but I also have a sense that there’s his undergraduate education and a process of transformation.” as much as music has helped me in interminable experience of being possibility for transformation on the planned to pursue a career path Spire said “Uncomfortable” my life too.” trapped and confined in this other side of this.” in the world of index funds and emphasizes the eternal process of UNC junior Drew Ellis, commonly uncomfortable space during labor stock portfolios. However, music human struggle and the sense of known by his stage name of “Drell,” and during the birth process,” Spire @madisonn4263 pushed him to the U.S. — first in surrendering the present in pursuit also uses music to express himself said. “In some ways, what we’re going [email protected]

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email: pmmasten@ are a human issue live.unc.edu Adejuwon have plenty of examples. The Holy f you, like me, spend a Ojebuoboh Crusade, the Rwandan genocide, significant amount of your is a sophomore George Floyd. The abuse of power, day on Twitter, you may have authority and money afflicts both I majoring in business noticed some changes to your news administration. the richest and poorest of nations. feed lately. There’s only one common theme in When you try to retweet a link all these cases: humans are in charge. email: adejuwon@ you haven’t visited before, Twitter live.unc.edu Humans have and will continue to adds a label warning which says, abuse power, authority and money. or the past 14 days, my “headlines don’t tell the full story” History shows it. The question is: and encourages you to read the story family’s home of Lagos, how do people respond when abuse Nigeria, has erupted in a for yourself. The intended purpose F occurs? From revolutions and coups of the change is to make it harder national cry against injustice. As d’etat to civil disobedience and to share misinformation as we many UNC students sit in their off- whistleblower protections, humanity campus apartments, family homes approach the climax of a contentious has found destructive and proactive election season. or on-campus dorms struggling ways to combat abuse. to do online classes, Nigerians are But the feature has angered CARTOON BY HALLEY ZHANG But when will it stop? When will Republican lawmakers, who struggling to breathe. humanity have to stop responding Twelve protesters were shot claimed the feature only appeared to abuse and start using power, on articles from right-wing outlets, dead in the Lekki district, the authority and money strictly within QUOTE OF THE DAY neighborhood in which I spent a accusing Twitter of censoring appropriate parameters? Never. conservative voices. chunk of my childhood growing up. The 48.8 percent of Nigerians “This University was built on white supremacy, will always I’m not here to rehash the disturbing Twitter refuted the claim, saying who follow Allah and the 49.3 that the label appears on every continue to uphold white supremacy because of its details of abuse perpetrated by the percent of Nigerians who follow Nigerian government, nor am I here tweet, regardless of the publication foundation.” Jesus both concur. The Quran strikes or the article. A fact check from to demand your outrage. I am here to a warning to its followers: “Do not Julia Clark, sophomore, commenting on the omission of Morrison Residence Hall from the examine a widespread phenomenon Reuters confirmed the warning deprive the people of their due and applies to news sources across the renaming process that crosses all demographics and do not commit abuse on the earth, borders: abuse. political spectrum. spreading corruption.” Sharing articles without context My first memory upon arriving Striking a similar tone, the Bible in Nigeria as a 5-year-old American can be dangerous, and headlines FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT reminds believers, “the God of are often misleading. Even I’ve been boy was stepping out of the airport heaven will set up a kingdom that and seeing the never-ending line of guilty of retweeting incomplete “we have learned nothing it appears” will never be destroyed or conquered. information on Twitter without Black taxi drivers pleading to drive It will crush all these kingdoms into @hannawon72, responding to UNC’s latest updates to the spring semester, on Twitter my family home. thinking twice about it — especially nothingness, and it will stand forever.” if the tweet contains something My second memory was profusely Nigerian Muslims and Christians sweating in 93-degree weather funny or shocking. both recognize this twisted human Yes, the feature seems stupid while a Special Anti-Robbery phenomenon. Many of the disturbing Squad (SARS) officer prevented us and probably a little bit annoying. pictures and videos coming from It makes retweeting harder EDITORIAL from leaving the airport. His all- Lagos are filled with these followers of black uniform wasn’t a good look (temporarily!), but it’s a small price faith demanding change. This isn’t just to pay as we continue to stare down for him, but he strutted his AK-47 brave — it’s heroic. confidently. There was a tiny sliver the threat of foreign interference in The collective unrest is building, the November election. Mental health matters of fear running down the back of my and soon the government will (Bonus: Every time you use leg, but I didn’t know what fear was succumb to the roaring international he University of South understanding that we were not well the feature, you can bask in the — I was 5. All I knew was I didn’t pressure. That is expected. The C a r o l i n a ’ s s t u d e n t and that there was nothing we could satisfaction of knowing you’re like this man. But then, money unexpected abuse following the newspaper, The Daily do about it,” The Daily Gamecock probably making a Republican T exchanged hands and we were off to reforms the government installs is Gamecock, announced on Tuesday wrote. “We are choosing to disrupt angry. In my experience, the GOP’s go about our day. unclear. However, the 98.1 percent that it would be taking a two- that narrative.” irrational hatred of something Abuse: “improper or excessive of Nigerians who are followers of week hiatus from publishing in Nearly 31 percent of adults usually means that it’s working. use or treatment.” Improper use of faith know this, and are trusting in an effort to prevent staff burnout reported experiencing symptoms Just saying.) power, excessive use of authority anything but humanity. and prioritize mental health. of anxiety and depression at the This isn’t the only change that and mistreatment of money. All The Nigerian protests reveal a This decision comes amid a long peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Twitter has made in anticipation of occurred in a 15-minute span that human issue (arguably, the human semester of challenges presented late June, and student journalists the upcoming presidential election. day. Imagine what could have been issue): abuse. by the COVID-19 pandemic. are no exception. UNC students, done in an hour, a year or a decade? Twitter will now add warning Not only is this decision an especially, have endured plenty labels to tweets that contain Unfortunately for humanity, we [email protected] extremely difficult one, but it of chaos this semester, as campus false or misleading information. highlights the burden placed on quickly became a COVID-19 Users who attempt to retweet student journalists during such hotspot and residence halls closed misleading content will receive a unprecedented and chaotic times. shortly after classes began. prompt pointing them to credible Student journalism is important The staff of The Daily Gamecock information before they are able to and necessary. It builds a bridge doesn’t apologize for taking a amplify it. between students and their break — and it shouldn’t. As Additionally, tweets with communities. It fosters civic student journalists, the work we misleading information labels from engagement. It keeps busy college do is important, but we can’t serve U.S. political figures and other high- students informed, and it can our community if we’re not at our profile U.S. accounts will be further provide communication between best. It’s easy to forget that we can hidden behind warning screens. students and the administration. (and should) exist outside of our Why is this important? Well, Student journalists work hard to roles as reporters and editors, that research shows that misinformation provide accurate information as it is possible to wear all the hats often starts at the top. A Harvard soon as possible — on both print a student journalist is asked to study found that political and media and digital platforms — and are wear and still take the time to put elites are largely to blame for the constantly subjected to criticism ourselves first. spread of misinformation. And, and vitriol. The Editorial Board applauds unsurprisingly, Trump’s tweets, press Being a student journalist is a the staff of The Daily Gamecock conferences and interviews play the delicate balance between academics for making the decision to put their biggest role. and journalism — and this balance mental health first. It breaks the Social media sites like Facebook has been further complicated rules of what we are taught as both and Twitter have long been by academic anxiety, a semester students and journalists, rejecting criticized for their lax approach to without mental health breaks and the idea that we must keep going, misinformation and hate speech. the additional burdens of COVID- no matter what. While these changes don’t absolve 19. Feeling disconnected and For these reasons, it can be them of that — there’s still a long working mostly online presents difficult to set boundaries between way to go — it’s certainly a step in its own challenges, while students our work as student journalists and the right direction. themselves are often juggling full- our overall well-being. The Daily CARTOON BY TATE GODWIN Think before you tweet (or time coursework and jobs outside Gamecock’s decision to take a break retweet) and don’t believe everything of the newsroom. Sacrifices have to sets an important precedent for EDITOR’S NOTE: Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily you see online. Right now, it’s more be made, and sleeping, eating and student journalists: it is OK to put represent the opinions of The Daily Tar Heel or its staff. Editorials reflect important than ever. general self-care are typically the your mental health first. the opinions of The Daily Tar Heel editorial board, which comprises 15 first to go. board members, the opinion assistant editor and editor and the editor- @paigemasten “There was a general [email protected] in-chief. [email protected]