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Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 Volume 123, Issue 39 dailytarheel.com Friday, April 24, 2015 A SILENT LEADER Chancellor Carol Folt believes she should keep her opinions private By Bradley Saacks University Editor To Ayesha Faisal, most incoming freshmen have false expectations coming into UNC about what their time at the University will be like. After spending nearly a full year at UNC, she has come to realize that, as a Muslim student, academics were not the most strenuous part about the University — it was finding a place on campus where she felt safe. “A lot of people are like, ‘Oh, I thought it was going to be harder.’ My only false expectation was that I thought this school was going to be a lot more accepting of and more tolerant of minorities,” said the freshman, who is member of UNC’s Muslim Students Association. Faisal, who said she was close with the three Muslim victims in the off-campus shooting in February, remembers feeling appalled by the hate speech on Yik Yak just hours after the shooting. “We live in a world where Islamophobia is the modern day McCarthyism. It’s kind of popular to point out people and be like, ‘You’re DTH/CLAIRE COLLINS a terrorist, you’re a terrorist, you’re a Chancellor Carol Folt looks on to the Old Well from her South Building office. Folt has faced many pressures this year, including scandal and student protests. terrorist,” she said. “I’m walking through the Pit and “You create what is a polarizing ago, I would have said no.” in an email. “He or she needs to be the notion that the chancellor needs I hear people talking to each other conversation — it’s either, ‘you’re Folt refused to give an opinion the voice of the institution and must to be more public. like ‘Oh my God, is that a Muslim? with me or against me,’ and I’m on the ongoing discussion about stand for justice. He or she must “My personal opinion is that she’s Are we safe? Can they be here?’” never going to lead with a ‘with me renaming Saunders Hall. take care of the victims and the striking a tough balance, but the Faisal was pessimistic about or against me’ posture.” “I wouldn’t be doing my job if I perpetrators in racial incidents. He answer is not for her to throw a pub- whether UNC’s administra- This academic year, dozens of were always stating my opinion.” or she is the leader of all students. lic opinion out more,” Villemain said. tion would do more to make the students have protested for the Faisal said with Folt’s position Higher education should be a force Villemain — who helped put University more inclusive — about University to rename Saunders Hall, — and the clout that comes with of justice in the nation rather than together Carolina Conversations, an both the political climate and the which was named for a confederate it — Folt should use reactionary.” initiative to create dialogue about chancellor’s willingness to offer sup- colonel who led the Ku Klux Klan. her voice to lead the But Folt issues on campus — said especially port for marginalized students. In this academic year’s student University to a more “I wouldn’t be doing doesn’t believe when it comes to issues of race, the “It’s not like (Chancellor Carol body president elections, minority accepting place. her opinions chancellor knows her opinion is not Folt) can make a stance without student leaders were vocal about “I feel like there my job if I were on matters like always the one that students and offending people,” she said. “But I their dislike of the candidates. More should be a big- the renaming community members need to know. feel the administration is more cau- than 400 students wrote in writer ger push (from the always stating my of Saunders “I don’t think her opinion is the tious about who they offend and Zora Neale Hurston, whose name administration) to Hall need to be most important, and I think she who they don’t offend.” activists want to use as the replace- make all students opinion,” known by the understands that … She doesn’t have ment on Saunders Hall. feel inclusive,” she Carol Folt, student body. personal feel of what it means to ‘The largest voice in the room’ Alston Gardner, a member of the said. chancellor “I think walk by Saunders Hall (as a student Board of Trustees, was tasked with Marybeth students want of color).” In an interview last week, Folt researching Saunders Hall. Gasman, a higher to know my said she considers her leadership “(Folt) has not been actively education specialist who teaches opinion about every single thing, A conversation too late style to be “consensus-building.” engaged with it,” he said. at the University of Pennsylvania, and I don’t think that’s always “I like to work with people, and He said the rise in attention to questioned why someone would be going to be what I am going to do, While Villemain does not think I think there is always a problem race on campus has been notable. a leader if he or she did not want to despite the fact students may want Folt needs to proclaim her opinion when you start off with the largest “If someone had asked me objec- use their voice to implement change. to know it,” she said. about sensitive topics, he was critical voice in the room stating their opin- tively if this was even in the top 25 “Why be a leader if you don’t have Former Student Body Vice ion,” Folt said. of the issues we were facing a year values and integrity,” Gasman said President Kyle Villemain also refutes SEE FOLT, PAGE 11 Energy investments outpace rest of endowment From 2004 to 2014, most returns on investments in the UNC endowment slightly exceeded their benchmarks. Real UNC misrepresented estate was the only category in which investments fell short of the benchmark and did not produce a positive return. 20 15 sexual assault policy 10 5 “It has never been the policy “Once FERPA no longer 0 For years, UNC filed or practice of the Office of the applies to a record, then it 1.6 3.7 0.4 3.1 2.4 15.1 reports saying it would Dean of Students, or any other becomes a public record at a state -5 University department to my institution and must be disclosed. -10 -6.9 identify perpetrators. knowledge, to release the names It’s really rather remarkable that Traditional Short Commodities Bonds Private Real Energy and of individuals convicted of sex- UNC, apparently having learned By Langston Taylor ual assault pursuant to a public nothing from touching the hot stocks sales and currencies equity estate natural Percentage-point dierence from benchmark from dierence Percentage-point Senior Writer records request.” stove of secrecy, would take the and short resources Melinda Manning, who was an position that whether your next- term stocks For at least 12 years, UNC said assistant dean of students from door neighbor in the dorm is on it had a sexual assault policy it 2001 to 2012, said otherwise. disciplinary probation for rape is SOURCE: UNC-CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INVESTMENT FUND, INC. DTH/KRISTI WALKER didn’t actually practice. “I knew that our documents none of your business.” UNC doesn’t release the said we would publish the names UNC spokesman Rick White names of students found guilty of students found guilty of crimes disagreed. of sexual assault or the sanctions of violence — as allowed by “Carolina disagrees with Mr. Investment debates they face — even though those FERPA,” she said in an email, but LoMonte’s view of FERPA. There records are unprotected by Family she said she didn’t know if the is no gray area. ‘May’ does not Educational Rights and Privacy office ever got such a request then. mean ‘shall,’” White said in a Act — because it believes it has no Sauls said the reports are only statement. “Neither FERPA nor complicate endowment legal obligation to do so. summaries of UNC policies. its enabling regulations require a But in the annual security Regina Stabile, director of insti- university — state or private — to “The reason they brought me to reports UNC filed from 2000 to tutional records, told The Daily release the final results of a student Administrative bureaucracy North Carolina was because UNC had 2011 under the federal Clery Act, Tar Heel in July that though the disciplinary proceeding involving a and student campaigns one of the worst performing endow- UNC said it would publish the University was allowed to identify crime of violence or a sex offense.” ments in the country, and the chancel- names of students found guilty of guilty students, FERPA “does not He said identifying the perpe- influence UNC’s investments. lor, Michael Hooker, was tired of losing sexual assault. mandate such public disclosure.” trator might identify a victim, too. every year to Duke. Not in basketball or “If the accused is found guilty, Student Press Law Center Andrea Pino, a UNC alumna By Nick Niedzwiadek & Samantha Sabin football but investing,” Yusko said. the Office of the Dean of Students, Director Frank LoMonte chided who filed a federal complaint Senior Writers The former head of the University of on request, will make public the the University for what he called against UNC for its handling of Notre Dame’s endowment fund wanted name of the accused, the viola- a habitual misunderstanding of her sexual assault case, was sur- It wasn’t long after Mark Yusko arrived to get UNC invested in alternatives tion committed and the sanction public records law.

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