MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 127 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 128, ISSUE 25 Chancellor looks ahead to spring semester By Maddie Ellis KEVIN GUSKIEWICZ: I am optimistic. As we’re sitting here now in nearly mid- to think about being strategic, bold they flow through the South building. University Desk Editor we said from the beginning, we know September with, still, uncertainty and student-focused. So, this is why Do you regret any of your UNC’s that the best Carolina experience is about the path of the virus. And we talked to so many people as we decisions made over the summer or at For the first time since the one that occurs here on campus and as we’re beginning to plan for the developed the roadmap for the fall, the start of the fall semester? University moved to remote we tried to, obviously, provide that spring semester, I think that the recognizing that we’re never going to instruction one week after the first day opportunity for as many students as biggest challenge has just been the please everyone but working really KG: I don’t regret any decisions. We’ve of class due to COVID-19 outbreaks, possible, even knowing it was going to uncertainty. And in trying to provide hard to try to accommodate as many learned a lot — and there’s some University desk editor Maddie Ellis be a different fall semester. But we are, the best opportunities for as many people as possible. And so I think that areas that we know, as we reflect talked to Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz I think, in a good place right now. people as possible, continuing to we want to continue to focus on this, back on the development of that over Zoom to discuss the fall semester provide flexibility and choice. and we’re gonna have to make some roadmap and the implementation and plans going forward. DTH: What has been the most tough decisions again moving forward of it in the start of the semester, This interview has been edited for challenging aspect of your job as DTH: How does it feel experiencing for the spring, but we’re going to do it that I believe we’ll look closely at content and clarity. chancellor this semester? this major shift in the higher in a very inclusive way. and and modify as we make plans education landscape, while still just for the spring semester. And what THE DAILY TAR HEEL: So, how are you KG: Well, obviously, the situation with now starting your time as chancellor? DTH: In your email last Friday, you said I’m proud of is that we prepared a feeling going into the rest of the fall COVID-19... It’s just difficult whenever final decisions about the University “will semester? there’s so much uncertainty. And KG: I’ve always encouraged our team always rest with the Chancellor” and SEE Q&A WITH CHANCELLOR, PAGE 2 Student, Tar Heels win 31-6 over Syracuse N.C. filmmaker, museums adrenaline welcome junkie patrons UNC junior Josh Neuman has Museums are allowed to over 140 million views on his reopen at 50 percent capacity YouTube channel. under phase 2.5. By Emma Craig By Jacob Meredith-Andrews Senior Writer Staff Writer

Skydiving from tiny planes Now that museums are allowed to thousands of feet in the air. reopen at 50 percent capacity, some Dangling feet off the edge of locations in the Triangle are using a skyscrapers. Flying down the sides variety of methods to bring visitors of mountains in the Alps. back and expand virtually. Over 750,000 subscribers later, The North Carolina Museum of junior Josh Neuman never could Art was among the first to reopen its have anticipated that the tutorials he doors Sept. 9. Janis Treiber, director shot at 12 years old on his dad’s video of visitor experience, said staff knew camera would lead to some of the the announcement would come most-watched skateboarding videos DTH/MORGAN PIROZZI eventually, and the museum began on YouTube. Syracuse junior wide reciever Taj Harris (3) dodges members of UNC’s defensive line during a game on Sept. 12, 2020. preparing for physical reopening Neuman, a filmmaker, downhill early this summer. skateboarder and adventurer, “Luckily, we had done so much wakes up each morning with the with our facility to clean and prepare goal of pushing himself out of his Strong defense carries and make it safe, and our marketing comfort zone and getting the most team had everything ready to go out of his life. that we pretty much could open He has collaborated with well- immediately,” she said. known names and brands like LG, Despite reopening quickly, Treiber Suspicious Antwerp, GoPro, MVMT, UNC after early struggle said the museum has not come close and most recently, EDM artist and to exceeding the mandated 50 percent producer Don Diablo. By Zach Crain job of that today.” multiple times after two Syracuse capacity. She said many more visitors Assistant Sports Editor Utilizing a talented group of interceptions and a muffed punt have chosen to explore the surrounding Social Media: highs and lows defensive backs, Syracuse initially deep in North Carolina territory. park’s outdoor sculptures or the After an offseason of hype for shut down UNC’s air raid offense. Despite the Orange’s field position museum’s online exhibits. Neuman’s top two Youtube videos, the North Carolina football team’s As the game wore on and the Tar in those moments, the Tar Heels The North Carolina Museum “Raw Run || Race Against the offense, it was the defense that stole Heels’ defense continued to force didn’t let them reach the end zone. of Natural Sciences will reopen Storm” and “Raw Run || 70 mph in the show in week one. Syracuse to give over possession in “We got put in some tough spots, with limited exhibits Sept. 22. Eric Switzerland” have 67 million and 39 While UNC pulled away from early drives, there was a noticeable them being on our side of the field a Dorfman, who recently became million views, respectively, which he Syracuse for a 31-6 victory with difference in the impact the Orange’s few times, and we were able to hold the museum’s director and chief said earned them the spot as the two rapid-fire scoring down the stretch, defensive backs unit had on the them out,” Surratt said. executive officer, said adjusting to most-watched longboarding videos the Tar Heels’ front seven altered the game. Syracuse was forced to punt While UNC’s defensive the new job amid a pandemic has on the internet. trajectory of the game from the first nine times throughout the game, and performance was impressive for the been surreal. time they took the field. UNC held control of the ball over young group’s first game as a unit, SEE EXTREME YOUTUBER, PAGE 4 Seven sacks — the most any UNC four minutes more than Syracuse. Syracuse’s ability to protect the passer SEE MUSEUMS, PAGE 2 team has forced in a single game Among the difference makers has been well below average in recent since 2013. For a unit that head coach were sophomore Tomari Fox — who years. In 2019, Syracuse quarterback Mack Brown said throughout the finished with two sacks and two Tommy Devito was sacked more offseason needed some work, it was a tackles-for-loss after only starting than any other Power 5 quarterback, dominant showing. That’s not to say twice last year — his brother Tomon averaging nearly 4.5 per game. the unit isn’t still relatively unproven Fox and Chazz Surratt. The trio Despite Syracuse’s struggles, a — with the likes of Jason Strowbridge dominated the line of scrimmage, season-opening performance in which and Aaron Crawford graduating last combining for five of UNC’s sacks and North Carolina held its opponent to year, the group is still young and 6.5 of the team’s 11 tackles-for-loss. just 202 yards and put pressure on the inexperienced — but fresh faces “What helped me get into the quarterback could signal another step protected a narrow UNC lead while backfield, honestly, it was everybody forward for the defense. the offense stagnated throughout the else around me,” Tomari said. “It “Today sets the bar, and all of opening frames of the game. just so happened to be me that was us know we weren’t perfect today,” “I think I was just trying to make there, anybody could have made Tomari said. “I think our ceiling is them mad,” Brown said, talking those plays.” absolutely through the roof. You PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSH NEUMAN about his comments throughout the While Syracuse was still within can’t put a cap on us.” PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NCMA UNC student Josh Neuman is a offseason. “There’s a lot of guys out a possession of the lead in the As North Carolina moves into Phase professional filmmaker, downhill there that can rush the passer now, first half, UNC’s defense had its @zachycrain 2.5, museums in the Triangle area are skateboarder and adventurer. and I thought they did a very good back thrown against the wall [email protected] able to reopen at limited capacity.

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Monday, the museum will virtually to serve that part of the public in a way night Sept. 25, the museum is selling MUSEUMS REOPENING host BugFest, a week of programming that can earn revenue.” $5 activity packets and encouraging FROM PAGE 1 about bugs that coincides with the The Kidzu Children’s Museum in participants to donate more if they He said the pandemic has provided launch of a podcast, “Love Nature: The Chapel Hill is another organization have the means to do so. the museum an opportunity to think Biophilia Podcast.” that has been thinking creatively Van Deman said she hopes to deeply about its mission and develop Although Dorfman said the about making up lost revenue. reopen the space in the coming new strategies for reaching people. museum has been supported by the Executive Director Lisa Van Deman months. She said her greatest “We are in a really lucky position state, a substantial portion of its said although the small nonprofit concern is the dynamic and hands- being a part of the state that most income is still dependent upon gift developed online programs within on nature of Kidzu, and that rigorous of us could keep going during this shop sales and donations. He said the a few weeks of closing, community cleaning protocols will need to be time, whereas many other museums museum has worked to develop new fundraising and a Paycheck Protection implemented before visitors can have had to furlough a lot of people, sources of revenue online. Program loan were the museum’s only expect to return in person. so we feel very blessed from that “For instance, being able to have sources of revenue for weeks. “The whole premise of the children’s perspective,” Dorfman said. virtual birthday parties for kids, so you “We had to do staff reductions, and museum is experiential — it is hands- The Daily Tar Heel He said support from the can get online and for a ticket price, we had to minimize our expenses,” on and making and doing,” Deman government and the large size of the we can show you animals and gear Van Deman said. “We also increased said. “We’re going to have to rethink Established 1893 museum enabled it to develop online the whole party towards your child,” our fundraising efforts, since we were the visitor experience a bit.” 127 years of editorial freedom exhibits quickly, including virtual tours Dorfman said. “We just have to keep losing all our prior earned income.” and events with live animals. Starting thinking nimbly and finding new ways In addition to a virtual benefit [email protected] The Daily Tar Heel Opinion Monday, September 14, 2020 3

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS COLUMN ABBAS HASAN CHO NIKOI NASIHA RIZWAN Established 1893, 127 years of editorial freedom ABHISHEK SHANKAR ELISA KADACKAL OLIVIA ROJAS ANNA POGARCIC EDITOR!IN!CHIEF ADITI KHAROD LAYLA PEYKAMIAN RAJEE GANESAN Your guide AYSHA DIALLO LIAM BENDEZU RYAN SMOOT PAIGE MASTEN OPINION EDITOR ADEJUWON OJEBUOBOH MICHAEL BEAUREGARD VIKTORIA ALSTON AMENA SAAD ASSISTANT OPINION EDITOR CAITLYN YAEDE MUBASHSHIR KHAN WILKINS SWIGER to surviving OPINION!DAILYTARHEEL.COM Zoom burnout COLUMN Ryan Smoot is a senior majoring in advertising and UNC is facing two public health crises political science.

number rises to nearly half for those rhetoric around sexual assault on cooperative safety commission that email: rsmoot@live. Savannah unc.edu Bradley is a junior in their fourth year or higher. campus. The emphasis is not on the is not in the hands of the police. majoring in English These numbers come as no administration’s shortcomings — In order to successfully confront wake up on my fourth alarm. literature. surprise to me, as someone who instead, it asks for the student body both COVID-19 and sexual assault Class starts in five minutes. I has spent my undergraduate career to do the work necessary to end on campus, the University must Ilog in to Zoom, my camera off, email: saveden@ in a whirlwind of anxiety. My fear campus sexual assault. first admit their culpability. The my blanket on, my curtains blocking live.unc.edu has manifested itself in tiny ways: Not dissimilarly, UNC argument that sexual assault on the sun so the screen doesn’t glare. I walk back to my dorm with my administration has increasingly campus only occurs because of the For a moment, I try to focus on the keys between my knuckles each pushed the narrative that students fter the University’s choices of individual students is a lecture as the professor’s voice lags night. I always wear shoes I can run are to blame for COVID-19 cases on disastrous plan to cancel flawed one; it ignores the University’s on my overcrowded WiFi. It’s not in. I even resigned from my former campus; such as in the case of UNC in-person classes, the overarching power structure, which long until my attention deficit finds A position at The Daily Tar Heel — System President Peter Hans, who overarching sentiment from off- hinges on silence and complicity, and rescue in my Twitter feed. as a reporter on the Arts & Culture suggested that a “very small number campus voices has been: “Could keeps victims in the dark. Likewise, Honestly, I’m exhausted. It’s tough desk my freshman year — because I of students behaving irresponsibly anyone have expected this?” the argument that COVID-19- finding purpose and discipline in was too afraid to walk from Franklin off campus” were to blame. That is Here’s the short answer: of course positive students have contracted these days. Street to Craige Residence Hall alone their common thread: COVID-19 we could. With the recent release of the virus out of their own accord is It’s easy to deflect my burnout on in the dark each week. and sexual assault are not taken sexual assault disciplinary records, a flawed idea, too; it ignores UNC’s the University, which still refuses Before I even arrived on campus, seriously, blamed on students and coalesced with a time of chaos and glaring structural problems, which to give students a fall break or the I heard the whisperings from handled poorly (or not at all) by confusion, it’s easy to forget about have tangled student safety, security standard reading days before exams. student activists and organizers: UNC’s administration. UNC’s poor record of handling crises. and health into a Gordian knot. But the reality is, I’ll grow old waiting sexual assault was a deeply These emergencies are not Sexual assault is not an It is not a radical idea to suggest on the administration to make a right embedded problem, spread so monolithic. They require a holistic idiosyncratic issue to Carolina — that students deserve basic safety. decision, and I’ll waste this last year thinly throughout the UNC System approach, one that includes but it is certainly an extremely Let’s hope that UNC will sit with and of college if I don’t start making the it rendered itself opaque. establishing an interpersonal and intense one. In data released by the learn from the ghosts of their past — right decisions for myself. It doesn’t help that the rhetoric sexual violence center, updates to the 2019 AAU Campus Climate Survey, instead of treating them with apathy. Here’s how I’m trying to survive used by UNC’s administration required sexual assault module that more than a third of undergraduate Zoom burnout: in the wake of COVID-19 is an acknowledge sexual assault from a women said they were sexually @savbrads eerie, funhouse mirroring of their minority and LGBTQ+ lens and a assaulted while at UNC — and the [email protected] Turn off your camera (or change your Zoom settings) Look, I don’t think I’m that attractive or anything, but I just physically could COLUMN QUOTE OF THE DAY not resist looking at myself on Zoom every 10 seconds. I’d briefly zone out in “My players always ask me, ‘Do you know what you’re my reflection, adjusting my expression wearing?’ And I say, ‘Yeah, shoes.’ They say, no, no, you’re to appear engaged while I’m actually Thom Tillis never missing something important. And wearing this number. But I don’t know what that means.” when I miss something, I miss it — Roy Williams, UNC men’s basketball coach, discussing his collection of Air Jordans there’s no longer anyone I can nudge cared about N.C. and whisper, “Hey man, do you know what’s going on?” The quick fix is to change your Zoom settings to hide mind about the issue during his Aditi Kharod is a your video from yourself. I realized 2014 U.S. Senate campaign — that senior from Cary, N.C. FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT my expression doesn’t matter as much is, at the exact moment when he majoring in political when everyone else is busy staring could no longer do anything about science. “That’s the dumbest thing EVER!” blankly at their own reflections. it — when he sensed he was losing to incumbent Kay Hagan. Susan Young, responding to the news that UNC Athletics will allow football fans to reserve email: aakharod@ Setting a schedule guided by your Clearly, the flip-flop worked, since virtual spots in Kenan Stadium with cardboard cutouts on Facebook live.unc.edu intentions he ended up winning that race. You probably already have each of Despite changing his mind on your assignments in your planner or en. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., statewide Medicaid expansion, Tillis Google Calendar, but go beyond this made national news last continued to campaign on repealing to add structure and keep yourself Sweek after one of his and defunding the Affordable Care CARTOON accountable. Lean in to what energizes staffers was recorded telling a cancer Act, calling the legislation a “cancer” you — put in time to workout, to eat, to survivor that finding affordable on the economy. meditate, to do any action of self-love healthcare was something she would In the middle of a pandemic that that makes you happy. Schedule time “have to figure out” and comparing is ravaging our country and state, to drive on backroads bumping some health care to a dress shirt. Tillis continues to show that he has Gucci Mane or Taylor Swift. Schedules Bev Veals of Carolina Beach, a no compassion for his constituents. are tough to stick to, I’ll admit, but it’s three-time cancer survivor, called Days after the phone call made easier to be disciplined if you write Tillis’ office, fearing she might lose national news, Tillis introduced out and understand your intentions her healthcare. She recorded her a bill in the Senate to prevent for the day. I focus on what I’m trying phone call with one of his D.C. any American manufacturer of a to accomplish, and I let those deeper staffers and sent it to WRAL after COVID-19 vaccine from distributing motivations drive how I allocate my getting frustrated by the clear lack of such a vaccine outside the United time. empathy on the other end of the line. States until the domestic need for “You’re saying that, if you can’t the vaccine had been met. Replace social media with phone afford it, you don’t get to have it? The bill, of course, contains no calls and nature That includes health care?” she provision to make this vaccine This is the toughest. You don’t asked the staffer in the recording. affordable to all Americans, despite want to disconnect and self-ostracize “Yeah, just like if I want to go to Tillis’ claim that he has worked to yourself from social media, I get it. the store and buy a new dress shirt, if “protect the health and safety of North I’m still trying to give up Twitter. But I can’t afford that dress shirt, I don’t Carolinians” since the pandemic one of my worst habits was making get to get it,” he replied. began. It is entirely unsurprising that social media a bedtime and morning After Veals objected to his Tillis would introduce a completely routine. Set limits for yourself on reasoning, the staffer replied, useless bill that has little likelihood social media, or delete it for a few “Sounds like something you’re going of even getting a committee hearing weeks. Go for a walk every morning, to have to figure it out.” instead of actually responding to the whether on a forest trail or into Although telling a cancer survivor at concerns of his suffering constituents. Carrboro, and call someone you love. risk of losing her healthcare to simply In the six years since Tillis tanked Nature is so much more beautiful “figure it out” in the midst of a deadly the Medicaid expansion bill, many and grounding than pixels or selfies. pandemic may seem uniquely cruel, states have closed the Medicaid CARTOON BY HALLEY ZHANG this behavior is not without precedent. coverage gap. North Carolina is not Embrace Pass/Fail For years, Tillis has been at the among them, and the Republican Don’t get me wrong. If a class forefront of the fight to deny North majority in the state legislature SPEAK OUT Interested in writing a letter to the editor or submitting an fascinates you, dive into that material Carolinians affordable healthcare. seems unwilling to be the next. op-ed? Limit submissions to 500 words. Include name, graduation year and make a high A. But if the lectures During his tenure as speaker of the Tillis directed a spokesperson to and title or department (if applicable). The DTH edits for space, clarity and and readings painfully bore you, don’t N.C. House of Representatives, he apologize for the insensitive phone accuracy. Submit via email to [email protected]. waste stress going above and beyond blocked a bill to expand Medicaid, call after bearing the brunt of right now. You’ll grow more passion which would have given healthcare national scrutiny, but in light of his and knowledge by focusing on what to more than 500,000 low-income record, his apology rings hollow. EDITOR’S NOTE: Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily North Carolinians — and then represent the opinions of The Daily Tar Heel or its staff. Editorials reflect truly piques your interest. bragged about it. @aditi_baditi the opinions of The Daily Tar Heel editorial board, which comprises 15 @ryan_smooth He then abruptly changed his [email protected] board members, the opinion assistant editor and editor and the editor- in-chief. [email protected] 4 Monday, September 14, 2020 News The Daily Tar Heel Student recreates campus on Minecraft By Maggie Dunn currently exists,” Yates said. “From Staff Writer structures established thousands of years ago to the modern buildings When UNC junior Dustin Duong of today, this project will capture a decided to recreate Carroll Hall on moment in time, and we have hopes Minecraft, he had no idea that it that this will inspire more large-scale would garner attention from students, community projects in years to come.” alumni and even ESPN writers. Placing importance on a friendly What began as a fun experiment and clean community, Build the Earth would morph into a full-fledged welcomes any and all new builders and passion project to build the entire hosts over 6,000 workers, 100 staff campus as part of the Build the Earth members and 3,337 ongoing projects. project, an effort to build the world on “The most challenging part had a 1:1 scale. to be the map projection conversion Duong, a former Daily Tar Heel to Minecraft. Due to the challenge photography editor, began building the of converting a spherical map into campus in early September under the a workable plane, one of the first name UNC Block’d. He has recreated challenges we noticed was distortion, several buildings thus far, including creating a huge problem with Carroll Hall, Hanes Hall, Phillips Hall building,” Yates said. and the Campus Y. Some have taken While this may sound daunting to hours or even days to complete. some, Duong said he feels that the “I started with Carroll because positives outweigh the negatives. I’m a journalism student,” Duong “I can overlook all the math and said. “I’ve spent a lot of time there the numbers and all that because it’s a and met a lot of people there, and I nice experience, and I think it makes just missed it.” people happy,” Duong said. After a friend suggested he become Though UNC Block’d is a completely PHOTO COURTESY OF DUSTIN DUONG involved with Build the Earth, Duong independent project, Duong has often took the recommendation and started collaborated with others in Minecraft UNC junior Dustin Duong has been working to recreate UNC’s campus on Minecraft as part of the Build the Earth project. to collaborate with others. Beginning and considers his current constructions ability to bring people together. connect the students at home to those reminiscence for campus, and on March 21, creator PippenFTS’ as a form of bonding with people. “I mostly collaborate with others. We on campus. passion for creating have made this a original goal was to make the biggest “It’s like being in a community have a Minecraft world for some people “I never would’ve interacted with rewarding experience for him. collective achievement in Minecraft. of people and you share the same in our graduating year, and I even met the people I’ve become friends with “Memory is a lot more appealing Jacob Yates, who began working experiences and memories as those some people through there,” she said. if the server hadn’t been around, and than reality, especially now,” Duong for Build the Earth as their public people,” Duong said. “Once you do Fellow first-year Isabella Siesel, who I consider them some of the greatest said. “And if I can give them a little relations manager in April, feels something that triggers one of those also participates in a Minecraft server friends I’ve made in my time being a slice of that nostalgia, and it makes strongly about the group’s mission. memories, it gets around, and people for her class year, has experienced freshman,” Siesel said. them happy, that’s the best feeling in “It’s about gathering people from can all relate to it.” much the same as Fishman. Siesel Duong may have never intended the world.” all over the world to come together First-year student Lily Fishman said that since many first-years were to begin such a large and time- and recreate humanity’s legacy as it feels similarly about Minecraft’s doing Carolina Away, they wanted to consuming project, but his [email protected] UNC students embrace an unusual fall season “During the whole coronavirus organization grow in diversity, grow quarantine, I’ve been taking a lot as a diverse theatre organization of walks,” she said. “I think it’s just and tell good stories,” he said. “And I something that’s keeping me sane, definitely want to have some virtual you know, going in nature and workshops, maybe things like taking trying to find the trails.” care of your voice, different ways Cooler weather brings with it to connect virtually, like through warm and hearty food and drinks. dancing, things like that.” The students shared some of their Another change this fall is that fall must-haves. due to COVID-19 restrictions, the “I’m not exactly a pumpkin spice band, cheer squad and fans will not girl, but I do like apple cider and be present at football games. Groves, candy apples,” White said. who is also in the marching band, Contrary to White, Tobaccowala said that fortunately he is still able likes pumpkin-flavored goods, and to maintain the friendships he made enjoys the cookies and chocolates in the band virtually. at Trader Joe’s. “I’m in a band fraternity, Kappa Eric Groves, a junior, is also Kappa Psi, and so I’m excited that looking forward to all things we get to connect virtually this pumpkin being in season. fall,” Groves said. “Then I’m also “I want to make some pumpkin the corresponding secretary for our muffins soon,” he said. “I also like chapter. My goal is to connect with pumpkin spice teas. Those are my other Kappa Kappa Psi chapters favorite drinks.” throughout the United States.” DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/CAROLINE BITTENBENDER Groves is the workshop As a cheerleader, White is also Although COVID-19 has affected many standard fall activities students are still making the most of the season. coordinator and diversity and experiencing an unprecedented inclusion chair for the student-run football season. While she is usually By Chloe Joseph but UNC students are still ready to mountain towns such as Blowing theater group, UNC Pauper Players. cheering at games every weekend, Staff Writer embrace the season. Rock and Boone. Last fall, he performed in Pauper this fall has been different. Senior Railey White and “When I think about fall, I definitely Players’ production of “The Rocky “I’d definitely readjusted my Fall in Chapel Hill brings to sophomore Tania Tobaccowala are think about taking trips to the Horror Picture Show” to a packed expectations for the year,” White mind images of a bustling Franklin both looking forward to spending mountains to see the leaves change Varsity Theatre. While live theater is said. “I’m just trying to make the Street, students packed into cafes more time in nature. and cooler weather,” White said. not an option this semester, Groves best of it.” like sardines and football tailgates White said her family has made Tobaccowala hopes cooler said he is still optimistic about the nearly every weekend. Needless a yearly tradition out of going weather will make it easier to enjoy work he can do virtually. @chloesjoseph to say, this fall will look different, hiking and visiting North Carolina the outdoor spaces in Chapel Hill. “I’m really excited to help the [email protected]

that’s just the five percent. That’s just would surprise many, considering he something I used to be terrified of into skating down a hill at 55 mph, he was JOSH NEUMAN the highlights,” Neuman said. has gone skydiving 60 times. But something I actively seek out and thrown from his board, resulting in a FROM PAGE 1 Luterman said he is actively trying enjoy,” Neuman said. “It’s about getting visit to the emergency room two weeks coffee at every single corner of Fear to conquer that fear — since then, he comfortable with the uncomfortable.” into a six-week road trip. his room,” Ariana Luterman, one of has jumped out of hot air balloons, Neuman struggled both mentally, Neuman’s closest friends, said. Although Neuman is frequently skydived out of airplanes and Failure and pushing forward in maintaining a positive outlook, Neuman said the feeling of going doing activities that some consider longboarded down steep mountains. and physically, with the amount viral is indescribable — as some of terrifying, he said he has plenty of fears “I think Josh is just trying to live a Neuman said he used to compare of pain he was in. But he took the his videos gain thousands of views in — he just chooses to face them head-on. life where he’ll have no regrets. That’s his success to that of others, but opportunity to shift his outlook and minutes, articles come out about him Neuman has always been a in multiple aspects— adventure and recently, he’s tried to reframe his make the most of the rest of his trip. and he is able to interact online with daredevil. When he went mountain having a higher purpose to help other mindset to focus on progress rather Looking back, he said his takeaway people from almost every continent. biking with his dad as a child, he people as well,” Jake Kuick, a fellow than the end result. from the trip was ultimately greater “(Going viral) is a pretty cool and learned that if he wasn’t falling, he downhill skateboarder and Newman’s “I realized I’ve progressed more in than if he’d never gotten hurt. weird feeling, but it’s something you wasn’t pushing himself hard enough close friend, said. the past year than I could have ever As always, he persisted. can’t get too caught up in because it’s or reaching his full potential. Neuman made it a priority to imagined. If I just keep on that track “I think everything happens for a not always there,” Neuman said. “The older I’ve gotten, I’ve realized get over his fear of heights. He and keep a positive mindset about reason,” he said. “Sometimes it seems Neuman said that, like anyone just how much it applies to every would go ‘roof-topping,’ a common it, I can be there within a few years,” really weird and you don’t really get it, else, his social media accounts do not other activity I do, whether it be an activity of photographers, where the Neuman said. but I think you’re taught certain lessons tell the full story of his life. extreme sport or with my business,” photographer sits on the edge of tall Neuman has fallen hundreds of through doors closing and doors “It’s interesting. I get comments all Neuman said. buildings to grow more comfortable times while skateboarding, but it opening and just what you go through.” the time saying my life is this, my life Luterman said one of Neuman’s with being up high. wasn’t until this summer that he is that, but I always tell people that biggest fears used to be heights, which “It’s cool to see how I’ve transformed suffered his worst fall yet. While [email protected] The OC Report is a project that was launched in January, 2019. Supported by a Strowd Roses grant, we seek to 5 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.

Graphic By: Garrett Bolter And we want to hear from you. If you want to submit a Monday, September 14, 2020 The Daily Tar Heel column or story idea, contact us at [email protected]. Sonia Rao Jordan Barish Henry Haney Brittany McGee CHCCS suspends district’s driver’s education Trevor Moore This leaves the six hour behind-the- Staff Writer wheel instruction needed to achieve the learner’s permit the only portion Students in Chapel Hill-Carrboro of drivers education that requires City Schools will have to wait to receive exposure to a person outside a school-sponsored driving instruction student’s household. after suspension of the program due The same bill allows school to coronavirus concerns. districts to reopen their driver’s The program was restricted to education program. The Jordan online-only instruction before being Driving School of the Carolinas fully canceled on Aug. 19. This is usually administers the district’s the second cancellation of driver’s driver’s education program. education in CHCCS this year after a Eddie B. Jordan, owner, president statewide cancellation in March. and CEO of Jordan Driving School, The district’s Assistant said the company is seeing more Superintendent Patrick Abele said he business return. is working to reopen the program. Jordan said the driving school has “Our first priority was to restart the also been offering private instruction classes that we’re stopped in March since the North Carolina Division when the schools closed for in-person of Motor Vehicles allowed them to instruction,” Abele said. in May. He said the school has since For students like Ryland Denson, scaled back this sector of their business a freshman at Carrboro High School, due to more school systems re-opening being able to drive represents a kind their driver’s education programs. of freedom. Other private instruction “I think (driving) will definitely have companies are still servicing students a lot of benefits for me, especially when as well. One company, All Around things start to open back up,” Denson Driving School, has no classes available DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/CAROLINE BITTENBENDER said. “I have a lot of extracurriculars until late December. Due to COVID-19, high schools in Chapel Hill and Carrboro halted driver’s ed programs for the 2020-2021 school year. I’m doing through the school, and a Abele said students should expect lot of things that would require my a restart of CHCCS’ online drivers received credit for completing the sending data and protocol to be restart behind-the-wheel instruction. parents to drive me places.” courses in October. classroom instruction portion. reviewed by the North Carolina State This is subject to change as more A bill passed by North Carolina Orange County Schools restarted Neither school district has concrete Board of Education. information becomes available. General Assembly in June allows its drivers education program Sept. plans in place to restart behind-the- According to OCS’ website, students to receive their level two 14. Students enrolled in the program wheel instruction. the district is waiting until social @trevorwmoore provisional license without an exam. at the time of the March cancellation According to Abele, CHCCS is distancing is no longer necessary to [email protected] Orange County man plans to run 77 miles for non-profit

77.6-mile run on Segment 10 of North state and national parks and camp, freedom for many children and the Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail on averaging 55 miles a day. Weller said group seeks to expand that freedom to Oct. 21 to raise $5,000 for Triangle the non-profit is focused on breaking communities who may not otherwise Bikeworks. A fundraising page has down the barriers that marginalized have the chance. been set up on pledgeit.org, a sports- communities typically have with “Biking opens up a world of specific crowdfunding platform that access to travel. opportunity for lots of people,” allows pledgers to make donations for “We give them their bikes, we Hicks said. “The youth that go on every mile Toben completes. give them clothing, we give them our tours, they don’t just bike. It’s Triangle Bikeworks is a Carrboro- everything they need to get set up on self-advocacy, confidence-building, based non-profit that provides a bike,” Weller said. and they get to see places outside of underserved middle and high-school Toben said he wanted to be involved the small towns or state.” students, predominantly students in the movement for racial equality According to the organization’s of color, with biking tours across the whilst also keeping his high-risk loved website, the non-profit was founded United States that focus on physical ones safe amidst the pandemic, so he in 2010, after two years of advocating and educational growth. began speaking with various members for better outcomes for youth of color Lynn Weller, the non-profit’s of Triangle Bikeworks about how to in school. The organization found development manager, said Triangle best create a fundraiser that would the programs resulted in changed Bikeworks uses bike tours to teach the support their work. attitudes and greater self-confidence, history of people of color that many “It was a really good fit, because according to the website. PHOTO COURTESY OF NATHAN TOBEN students do not learn in the classroom their education model is largely based Hicks said he hopes the event will Nathan Toben is running to raise funds for Triangle Bikeworks, a Carrboro-based and may not have heard before. on endurance, and my event that raise more awareness for the non- non-profit that provides middle and high-school students with biking tours. She said all of the organization’s I’m doing is obviously an endurance profit in the local community. bike routes follow a particular historic event,” Toben said. To learn more about Triangle By Brian Rosenzweig raise funds for Triangle Bikeworks, a route, such as the Cherokee Trail of Kevin Hicks, the executive director Bikeworks and its work, visit Staff Writer Carrboro non-profit that serves local Tears or the Underground Railroad. of Triangle Bikeworks, said bikes are spokenrevolutions.org. students of color. The program allows participants important to communities of color An Orange County runner is Nathan Toben, a local endurance to go on a 700 mile tour during the because of the freedom they represent. @briandrosie attempting to run over 77 miles to coach and ultrarunner, will complete a summer, during which they visit Hicks said bikes are a first venture into [email protected] Mosaicist brings community together through mural By Maria Morava was trying to find a space to start his The project also drew some Staff Writer mosaic school,” said Katie Murray, established local artists, like director of the Orange County ceramic sculptor Tinka Jordy, who Over 150 Hillsborough community Arts Commission. “We just kind of has worked as a professional artist members turned broken pottery and connected. It’s really rare — not a lot for over 40 years. Jordy said she bottle caps into mosaics this summer of artists work in mosaic, and very few was asked by the Arts Commission as part of the #LoveHillsborough mosaic artists have actually had the to contribute a letter – the “G” in Community Art Project. training that he has.” Hillsborough – to the project. The project, a public mural The #LoveHillsborough mosaics Using her expertise as a clay artist, combining independent mosaics had only one thematic requirement: Jordy used broken clay materials to made from a variety of materials, is each piece must include a heart. craft her component of the mosaic. being prepared for display by Carlos “I think the theme of love — that’s “It’s just upbeat,” she said of the González García, a mosaicist new to what we need these days: more love project. “I think we need anything and the area. and less hate,” García said. “There’s everything that’s community-oriented, The mural will be installed on the just so many different people that where we can feel connected.” westward facing wall on the ground can express themselves with their Murray said the letters floor of the Eno River Public Parking designs. It’s like a language by itself. #LoveHillsborough will be displayed Deck in downtown Hillsborough. I want it read as like a unit, like a among the heart mosaics, and were The #LoveHillsborough universal language that everybody is largely done by elected officials, collaboration between García and part of.” longtime town and county workers PHOTO COURTESY OF CARLOS GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA the Orange County Arts Commission The symbol of a heart also proved and local artists like Jordy. Over 150 Hillsborough community members contributed to a mural with developed after COVID-19 interrupted most accessible to community While García still plans to open the theme of love as part of the #LoveHillsborough Community Art project. García’s plans to open the area’s first members, García said, explaining that his school in the coming years, professional mosaic school in Eno he wanted a community project in he hopes that his studio space in now, though, he is busy grouting hopes to complete by mid-October. Mill, called NCMOSAICS. which everyone, even people new to Eno Mill can be used for mosaic the mosaics for installation in “Carlos had just moved here and mosaic art, could participate. classes in the meantime. Right downtown Hillsborough, which he [email protected] 6 Monday, September 14, 2020 News The Daily Tar Heel First-years stay in the ‘loop’ via group chat on campus. said. “Once that call ends, that’s done. “It’s been a good way to virtually There’s no conversation after. But meet people,” said Carly Rauch, a these group chats, they’re real time, first-year who has been a member and they make these connections real. of the LoopChat since it had only They actually create a connection that 30 members. “You can’t just go out goes off the screen.” to campus or go to the library and Juneja said another unique meet people. It’s a good way for quality of LoopChat is its emphasis people to be connected, even when on user privacy. we’re everywhere.” Carly Rauch, who is living in an First-year Abi Barbu has found off-campus apartment this semester, commonalities with many of the said students have also found the chat people she met through the chat. helpful as a source of information “We jokingly argued about which about on-campus happenings. side of campus was better, talked “That’s actually how I first found about scheduling and even bonded out that kids were being sent home,” over similar interests,” she said. she said. “It was through that chat.” Kashish Juneja, a junior at the JD Hopper, a first-year student University of California at Berkeley who who lived in Craige Residence Hall helped to create the app, said LoopChat before students were sent home, has the capacity for 5,000-person said it can be hard to have personal group chats to help facilitate these conversations with so many people connections. She said the LoopChat in the chat — especially while team was motivated to expand the being bombarded with hundreds project by students’ desire to meet new of messages a day. But he said that, people — and it’s now available at 80 like Rauch, he has found it useful for colleges and universities. getting information. DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/SHANNON HODGES Juneja said the app is by and for “It’s definitely a good place to Students are turning to various online platforms to connect with other students during the COVID-19 pandemic. students, and that the LoopChat ask questions if you’re not clear team had common student concerns about something,” Hopper said. “I By Hannah Rosenberger friends in unconventional ways. LoopChat has nearly 850 members in mind when they created it. remember, right before housing Stafff Writer LoopChat, a messaging app that and has been active since the “When you’re on Zoom or when came out, I was asking questions allows as many as 5,000 people per beginning of the summer. For you’re on Skype or WebEx or any about all the details about that. It With their classmates scattered group chat, is one way the class of many first-year students, the chat other virtual platform, or you’re was just helpful.” across the country this semester, first- 2024 has been able to stay connected. allows them to get to know their doing school or an internship, you year students at UNC are making The UNC-CH Class of 2024 peers despite not physically being just see people on a screen,” Juneja [email protected] BOG discuss in-person and remote course tuition By Anthony Howard managing costs.” “An important part of the work that Staff Writer The members present at the this task force is going to talk about is meeting considered the cost of tuition that in today’s time, does it make sense The UNC System Board of and fees for in-person credits versus to continue to have this differentiation Governors task force on pricing, distanced education, undergraduate for instruction that counts as credit flexibility and affordability met in-state and out-of-state tuition and towards a degree whether you’re Thursday to address tuition and fees the impact of tuition and fees on taking it online, or face to face?” among UNC System universities, such state appropriations. Pruitt said. “It’s further complicated as the cost of distanced education. “Tuition supports the general in distance education because we The task force was primarily provision of education on a campus,” don’t consistently charge student fees focused on creating a comprehensive Jonathan Pruitt, the UNC System’s the same way across the system for model for tuition and fees and to talk chief operating officer, said. “Tuition distance education students.” through how these prices impact revenues can be used for faculty The term “distanced learning” is students, their families and the and certain staff salaries, academic an issue Pruitt said needs clarity, as entire state of North Carolina. support, students’ services, libraries those living on campus but doing A member of the task force said the and other critical needs. As you classes remotely fall in-between. goals of the group include affordability, think about the uses of tuition, it’s Pruitt said those living on campus efficiency and student success. important to understand that tuition taking face-to-face classes will be DTH/ANTHONY HOWARD “I believe this task force can and state appropriation work hand charged student fees. But those Members of the Board of Governors met over Zoom on Sept. 10, 2020 to discuss give our campus leaders more in glove to finance the teaching learning remotely off campus only tuition and fees and address pricing and affordability for the fall 2020 semester. flexibility to budget and plan,” mission of the university.” pay education and technology, UNC-System President Peter Hans Pruitt explained the present campus security and association of the group has important choices look forward to working with Chair said. “Give students and parents model for tuition adjustments for student government fees. to make. Hans said these choices Mitchell and the rest of this group to more transparency about costs distanced education. The newly Pruitt also said the group should should meet the needs of students. ensure our approach to tuition and and more options for how they distanced learning credit hour rate consider the relationship between “Our responsibility is to make sure fees meets the needs of students and want to participate in campus life is created by dividing the full-time tuition increases and the number of those choices are driven by a real strengthens our institutions.” and give lawmakers and taxpayers credit hour rate that an on-campus out-of-state students. sense of mission, a realistic ordering more clarity about how we are student pays by 29.6. Hans said due to the pandemic, of priorities,” Peter Hans said. “I [email protected] Faculty members join national protest, strike for racial justice of cases of missing and murdered for me. Personally, I face racism and supremacy and upholding white Indigenous women and girls that injustice on a daily basis. These things supremacy than it is the safety and have gone unsolved. Frey said he are happening. Just because it’s Chapel well-being of its students,” she said. hopes the strike will create more Hill doesn’t mean we’re in this bubble.” During the TA strike in protest of conversations about student safety, Another faculty member of the Silent Sam two years ago, she said as well as spaces that provide for the School of Education, professor Alison that she and other faculty members on mental and emotional well-being of LaGarry-Cahoon, joined the Scholar strike faced threats of retaliation from both students and faculty. Strike and used the class time to the University administration around “As a campus community, we can discuss the origins and importance of job safety. somehow hold space for the grief and the strike with her students. UNC Media Relations said in an hurt that comes up for students and LaGarry-Cahoon asked her email that UNC embraces free speech for faculty as well,” he said. “Frankly, students to research the movement on under the First Amendment of the having a day to rest was beneficial Twitter for the first few minutes of class U.S. Constitution and protects this for me, too, because of the political before hosting an open conversation. right for its students, faculty and staff. climate and the general feeling of “Students were very eager to talk But Mock Muñoz de Luna said danger that sort of permeates our about this, particularly students of color previous threats did not stop her country at the moment.” in my classes,” she said. from participating in the Scholar DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/ABIGAIL PITTMAN Dana Griffin, a professor in the Lucía I. Mock Muñoz de Luna is Strike this year. Some professors have opted to use have students learn about anti-racism School of Education, participated a doctoral candidate in the School of With more racially and ethnically movements in other formats, such as by watching the documentary “13th.” in the Scholar Strike in her Tuesday Education and a graduate teaching representative leadership, discussions classes by showing Ava DuVernay’s assistant for LaGarry-Cahoon’s on white supremacy in the University By Cameron Myers Milne discussions about the purpose of the documentary “13th” and hosting a course. For Mock Muñoz de Luna, and active work to dismantle Staff Writer Scholar Strike. brief discussion afterward. this strike was a necessary contrast oppressive systems, Mock Muñoz de Ben Frey, a professor in the She said her goal for the strike to the actions the University has Luna said she has hope for an equitable UNC faculty joined the national Department of American Studies, said was to stand with those fighting for taken on police violence. and just future for the University. Scholar Strike last week in support he participated in the Scholar Strike by racial justice, and raise awareness to Mock Muñoz de Luna said the “We can rebuild the University of the racial justice movement as a canceling his Wednesday classes and students and faculty of the everyday University’s resistance to systemic in a way that is actually just and call to action against police violence. providing his students with resources racial injustices Black and brown change for racial equity and justice is promotes the well-being and safety Several UNC faculty members on the Scholar Strike and racial equity. people face in the United States. rooted in its ties to white supremacy. of all of our students — not just our across disciplines canceled their As a member of the Eastern Band “I am a Black woman,” she said. “UNC has shown over the past white students,” she said. classes, created a space for dialogue of Cherokee Indians, Frey said he “I’m married to a Black man. I’m few years and throughout its history on race and racism and facilitated is deeply concerned with the rate raising Black children. It’s personal that it is more invested in white [email protected] The Daily Tar Heel News Monday, September 14, 2020 7 Former Tar Heel quarterback Junior Edge dies at age 79 By PJ Morales be missed and we send our condolences to describe him was solid, very calm, “He was extremely involved, Senior Writer to his family and friends.” not excitable, and that’s what you not just in athletics, but any Edge, at 6 feet tall and over 200 want in a quarterback.” way he could help kids and the On Aug. 29, over half a century pounds, was a standout athlete at Though Edge did have some community,” Trey said. “He was after the season that saw him win first- Massey Hill High School, excelling stints with professional teams in the very, very proud of where he team All-ACC honors, former UNC at football, basketball and baseball, Canadian Football League and the came from. His siblings lived football quarterback Junior Edge died where he won back-to-back state now-defunct Continental Football (in Fayetteville) for a long time in his hometown of Fayetteville, North titles as a pitcher in 1958 and 1959. League, he ended up returning and his parents were still here, Carolina. He was 79. As a football player at UNC under to Fayetteville, starting a family so he came back home and loved In 1963, the then-senior Edge took then-head coach James Hickey, he and becoming a deeply involved calling this place home. He was

command of the offense and brought played both quarterback and safety. member of the Cumberland County absolutely community-minded and SHARPE JEREMY OF COURTESY PHOTO the Tar Heels unprecedented glory It was as quarterback that he community. Throughout the years, led in a lot of different ways.” by leading them to their first ACC left his mark on the Tar Heels in he served on the Cumberland County Edge remained involved with Championship, as well as a 35-0 that unforgettable 1963 campaign. Board of Education, was an active his college alma mater, with his victory over Air Force in the 1963 Former teammate and four-time Pro member of the local Kiwanis Club, son saying that he, “lived, ate and Gator Bowl. With Edge’s death, the Bowl running back Ken Willard said worked as a radio commentator for breathed Carolina Athletics.” Tar Heels have lost a legend. one word described Edge more than local high school football teams and Junior Edge is survived by his “Junior is a really important part of anything: “solid.” even operated a popular bowling alley. wife, Sandra, his kids, Trey and Karly, Carolina football’s history,” head coach “There certainly wasn’t anything His son Trey, who played football five grandchildren, five siblings and Mack Brown said in a statement. “He flashy about him,” Willard said. “He at UNC under Brown in 1989, said a large extended family. was an excellent player and a wonderful gave the appearance and would that his father’s community spirit person. I really enjoyed having the make you think that he had things was one of the things that made him @pjdaman12 Former quarterback Junior Edge chance to coach his son Trey. Junior will under control. The word I would use so fondly remembered. [email protected] played for UNC in the early 1960s.

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Sports news delivered to your SPORTSMONDAY inbox every Friday. UNC football shakes off first-game rust By Ryan Wilcox Stadium, or both, but you’d be hard- lucky to take a 7-3 lead into the Senior Writer pressed to make the case that the locker room. first three quarters of the Tar Heels’ “We weren’t playing like ourselves North Carolina’s first drive of the win were “normal.” in the first half,” Howell said. “We game made it all seem so normal. “When you’re looking up, it’s like just had to adjust a little bit at We knew this was coming. a scrimmage,” Brown said. There’s halftime and come out ready to go Quarterback Sam Howell would find just nothing (in the stands). The in the second half.” one of UNC’s myriad weapons — OK, young people have to create their Except things didn’t get much maybe we didn’t think senior tight end own energy.” better until late in the third Garrett Walston would be the first to That energy — and a necessary quarter. Howell, who had just seven find the end zone, but still — and the focus — was missing early. After a interceptions all of last year, threw his No. 18 Tar Heels would roll. pandemic-shortened offseason, UNC second pick of the day. The lead was They tried to make it all seem started the game with more miscues 10-6 when UNC rolled up its sleeves so normal, too. The crowd noise than a first-time pool player. and proved that it’s still, like last pumped in throughout the game. There was a tipped Howell pass season, a fourth-quarter team, with The cardboard cutouts of UNC that resulted in an interception in junior running back Javonte Williams fans that filled the stands. Yes, even the first quarter. A Dazz Newsome ripping off three scores against a the ceremonial playing of “Jump muffed punt that led to an Orange tired Orange defense in the final 15 Around” before the game began. field goal. A roughing the kicker minutes to cover a 23-point spread. College football was back, and why penalty, on a 4th-and-16, that gave “We just had to get back in our DTH/MORGAN PIROZZI wouldn’t it be? Syracuse life late in the second rhythm,” Williams said. “We ain’t UNC graduate place kicker Grayson Atkins (17) makes a field goal attempt in an Crowd. Music. People. Sports. quarter. (The Orange missed a chip- really played and gotten tackled since empty Kenan Memorial Stadium during a game against Syracuse on Sept. 12. Normal. Right? shot field goal attempt to end that December, so we had a lot of time off.” Not quite. And don’t let the final drive, pretty much summing up UNC’s vaunted offense showed of the uninspired three that preceded learn from those mistakes to reach score — UNC 31, Syracuse 6 — fool the game to that point.) And then, up late, which is better than not it. They know that some amount of their potential. you. Call it early-season rust or the somehow, a snap infraction while showing up at all. After the game rust, especially this season, is to be unpredictable effects of a crowdless, trying to take a knee to end the first Brown and company mostly chose expected early. The question going @ryantwilcox COVID-19-wary Kenan Memorial half. The Tar Heels were more than to focus on that final quarter instead forward is how the Tar Heels can [email protected] Chapel Hill High School athletes adjust to schedule

of its seasons on a condensed schedule. found effective. and are already in a rhythm once This meant no summer practices, For the boys’ soccer team, the school starts.” no Aug. 1 tryouts and no Friday night Google Hangout calls have been Without the back-to-school lights to bring in the school year. a way to get to know the younger transition period of summer sports, For athletes at Chapel Hill High players on the team. some coaches said players can feel School, the delay of the fall sports “We had 65 players register for disconnected from not just their season hit especially hard. After tryouts, so the Google Hangout calls team, but also their school. Fields restarting their varsity football have been a great way to get to know said this can be especially hard for program last year, the Tigers were the younger players,” Davis Boyle, the incoming first-year students. going to continue to rebuild their assistant boys’ soccer coach, said. “For a lot of our freshmen it is a program with just their second The older players on the team really big thing, they get a bond of season back playing games. The have made an effort to get to know new friends before they even have volleyball team was looking to win a their younger teammates remotely their first classes,” Fields said. second straight state championship, while they can’t practice in person. With the situation around and the boys’ soccer team was hungry “On these calls, we’ve just tried COVID-19 changing every day, to claim its third state championship to make the younger players feel athletes and coaches said they are in four years. comfortable and to let them know if holding onto hope that competition While the NCHSAA rulings they need anything, the seniors are will take place. Hoping that it is in prohibit in-person practices and there for them,” Bryant Davis Jr., a November but knowing it may be PHOTO COURTESY OF BRYANT DAVIS JR. games for all sports until Nov. senior boys’ soccer player, said. longer, Davis Jr. said he will be The Chapel Hill High School boy’s soccer team celebrates during a game. The 4, players and coaches alike are Volleyball coach Ross Fields ready to take the field when the team has recently been holding weekly meetings on Google Hangout. working hard to make sure teams pointed out that missing out on time comes. are staying connected. Both playing sports in the fall is a big social “We all have this urge of ‘We’re By Freddy Stanley announced drastic changes to its the boys’ soccer team and the disruption for athletes across sports. ready to play,’” Davis Jr. said. Staff Writer 2020-21 sports calendar on Aug. 12. volleyball team have been holding “It’s how they start a school year,” “Everyone’s been working so hard, In response to the ongoing COVID-19 weekly meetings via Google Fields said. “They’re in the gym we’re about to go off this season.” The North Carolina High School pandemic, the NCHSAA elected to Hangout, something both the about a month before school starts, Athletic Association (NCHSAA) delay the start of fall sports and play all players and coaches said they have therefore they become acclimated [email protected] 15 questions Roy Williams has (maybe) never been asked By Ryan Wilcox there, and when we left (our second Williams: I’ve always said that probably Senior Writer house) and moved to Kansas, we left 80 percent of the things we do, I a stove there. The funny part was got directly from Coach Smith. But Roy Williams has been a head in the second one, the realtor said during my more formative years, the coach for 32 years, which means he’s “Is that a Fisher stove?” And I said, other three big influences were Bob been answering reporters’ questions “No, that’s a Jordan.” But Mr. Jordan Knight, John Thompson and Jerry for 32 years. and the whole Jordan family was just Tarkanian. I talked to those guys and The DTH asked Williams 15 sensational to me. went to watch all of them at practice questions he has (hopefully) never during my first two or three years at been asked before. This interview has DTH: What do you think a Coach Kansas. They treated me great and been edited for brevity and clarity. Smith program would look like in are all guys that I considered mentors. the era of one and done? How do you DTH: Have you ever mentioned to think it would’ve been different than, DTH: You and Coach K get stuck in an Michael Jordan that you helped say, 1990? elevator for five hours. What are you coach the only team that ever beat guys talking about? the Dream Team (a college all-star Williams: It’s interesting, because he team that won a scrimmage against was one of the first coaches to really Williams: Well it wouldn’t take five hours, the pros)? encourage guys to leave early, as early because I’d get us out of the elevator. DTH FILE/ZAYRHA RODRIGUEZ as Bob McAdoo in 1972. But I think it I worked elevator construction one UNC men’s basketball head coach Roy Williams speaks to the press after Roy Williams: *laughs* we had that would be different. Coach Smith, with summer when I was in college, so the game against Virginia in the Smith Center on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. discussion many years ago, yes. He all of his beliefs — the game today I think I can get out of about every just told me what the score was the would be almost 180 degrees away elevator. But if that didn’t work — we Williams: I have no idea. I don’t Williams: I really don’t know. I’ve next day, when they beat us by 58 in from what he believed in. But also, he can’t talk about golf, because Mike know a lot about the shoes. I think always said that if I weren’t a a 30-minute scrimmage. was very intelligent, and would change doesn’t play golf. We’d talk a while, and I just get them because Michael basketball coach, I would probably with the times. It would still be North we’re both old enough that I’d have told them to do it. But I have a be mowing greens on a golf course, DTH: What happened to the wood Carolina basketball, and they would one corner and he’d have the other lot of them. My players always or working as a ranger on a golf stove that James Jordan (Michael still have a chance to beat everybody, corner and we’d take a nap for a while. ask me, “Do you know what you’re course, so I can get free golf. Jordan’s father) built you? I imagine because Coach would make sure that So after talking about basketball and wearing?” And I say, “Yeah, shoes.” it’s not very common for a parent to would happen. changing the world and those kind of They say, no, no, you’re wearing @ryantwilcox do something like that. things, we’re both old enough that we this number. But I don’t know [email protected] DTH: Who are your biggest coaching could get comfortable. what that means. Williams: Well, in fact, his dad built us influences outside of people you’ve DTH ONLINE: Read the entire two stoves. When we left (our first worked with? When you’re watching DTH: How many pairs of Air Jordans DTH: If you weren’t a basketball Q&A with Roy Williams on house in Chapel Hill), we left a stove film, who do you steal from the most? do you own? coach, what would you be doing? dailytarheel.com today.