Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 Volume 123, Issue 99 dailytarheel.com Friday, October 23, 2015 Difficult The South’s oldest rivalry president search concludes The Board of Governors will name the new system president today. By Hayley Fowler State & National Editor It only took a week to force UNC and Virginia have met out UNC-system President Tom Ross, but it has cost the Board of Governors 10 arduous months to 119 times since 1892 select his successor. Today, the 34-member board will By Pat James established a 17-4-1 lead in the series announce the Sports Editor through 1915. new president. Both schools suspended football The search The North Carolina football team’s from 1917 to 1918 because of World process has been oldest rival is one who goes unnoticed. War I. But since 1919, North Carolina heavily criticized Ask any UNC fan who is the Tar has played the Cavaliers every season. for its closed- Heels’ greatest nemesis, and they’ll From 1919 to 1950, UNC squared door nature, and likely answer either N.C. State or off against UVa. in its regular season no candidate Duke. Even when Larry Fedora finale 28 of 32 times. names have been arrived in Chapel Hill prior to the North Carolina’s victory in 1927 publicly released Margaret 2012 season, he was unaware of sparked a string of victories over the to the chagrin Spellings is the the longstanding tradition between Cavaliers, as UNC proceeded to win of conservative speculated candi- UNC and Virginia. 41 of its next 54 games against UVa. legislators and date for UNC-system Over the past 123 years, the Tar But in 1982, the Cavaliers made liberal faculty president to be Heels have met the Cavaliers on the a coaching change that shifted the gridiron 119 times. Neither program rivalry in their favor, hiring George alike. announced today. But the has played an opponent more than Welsh from Navy. UNC-system these border adversaries. “I really didn’t know much about Faculty Assembly hinted at former Saturday’s contest at Kenan the rivalry, but soon after I got here, Secretary of Education Margaret Stadium marks the 120th game a couple of our alumni said, ‘We’ve Spellings — who was spotted at an in the series dubbed the “Oldest got to start beating North Carolina,’” emergency board meeting last week Rivalry in the South,” tying it for he said. — in a statement Thursday, using the second-longest series in NCAA “It wasn’t Virginia Tech then, gender-specific pronouns despite Football Bowl Subdivision history. going back to ’82 and ’83, it was referring to an unknown individual. But despite playing each other for North Carolina. That’s the way it “The faculty will not prejudge the over a century and regularly vying was for a while.” commitment of the new president for the same recruits, the contest With Welsh at the helm, the to the well-being of the University,” between UNC and UVa. lurks in the Cavaliers went 13-5-1 against the Tar the statement reads. “But she must shadows of some of college football’s Heels during his 19-year tenure and understand that the secretive char- biggest rivalries. never dropped a home game to UNC. acter of this search, and her own In fact, it wasn’t until 2010 that indifference to consulting with staff A long tradition the Tar Heels won again at UVa., and faculty when she was an active breaking a 14-game losing streak in candidate for the position, will make The Tar Heels and the Cavaliers Charlottesville. it difficult to win the confidence and began their series with two games in North Carolina leads the all-time trust of the University community.” 1892. UVa. seized a 30-18 victory in series against Virginia 62-53-4, and Charlottesville, Virginia before drop- the long history between the two The rumored replacement ping the season finale 26-0. schools is only enhanced by their DTH FILE PHOTOS Over their next 20 meetings, the recruiting battles. (clockwise from top left) These are pictures from North Carolina football The moment Spellings’ appear- Tar Heels managed only three vic- games against Virginia from 1992, 1956 and 1936. The two teams started ance was first reported on social tories against the Cavaliers, as UVa. SEE RIVALRY, PAGE 7 playing in1892 and have met annually since 1919 in the South’s oldest rivalry. media last Friday, her ability to lead the system was put on public trial. Spellings, who is now president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, is remembered for her role Discrepancies in in the Bush Administration and in UNC digs deep with the town the disputed No Child Left Behind Act — a 2001 policy born from Pell grad rates the idea that disadvantaged K-12 Representatives broke students shouldn’t fall through the ground at the Carolina cracks of public education. The Department of Education Vanessa Jeter, spokesperson Square development. estimates are far lower than UNC’s. for the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, said the law intensi- By Kiana Cole By Grant Masini fied the focus on achievement gaps Senior Writer Staff Writer among different groups of students in North Carolina. The sky matched the In a departure from previous policy, the U.S. While the state already had yearly Carolina Blue balloons gliding Department of Education released long-awaited end-of-grade and end-of-course around the former University data on graduation rates for students who receive assessments that Spellings’ initia- Square as UNC and the town of federal Pell Grants, including UNC’s. But there is tive required, Jeter said a standard Chapel Hill saw their collabora- an issue: The data might be wrong. requesting every student be 100 tion come to life — and it was Compared to independent data collected by the percent proficient by 2013-14 pre- groundbreaking. Education Trust, an education nonprofit based in sented some difficulties for schools. “It may be one of the great- Washington, D.C., the department’s numbers are “States were fairly uncomfortable est things to ever happen to DTH/VERONICA BURKHART off by an average of 10 percentage points. with that 100 percent target,” she Franklin Street,” said Aaron An official groundbreaking ceremony was held for Carolina Square At UNC, that gap is nearly 30 percentage points, said. “It’s difficult to reach 100 per- Nelson, president and CEO on Thursday morning. Chancellor Carol Folt (center) broke ground. as the federal government reported only 57 percent cent of anything.” of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro of UNC’s Pell Grant recipients graduate in six years In 2005, The Daily Tar Heel Chamber of Commerce. come together across all kinds Health will eventually conduct versus UNC’s self-reported figure of almost 87 per- reported on comments Spellings When town, University and of differences and boundaries,” research there. cent in 2008. The federal government’s data was made regarding the creation of development representatives said Chancellor Carol Folt. “We are really excited, it’s a obtained from the National Student Loan Database similar standards for institutions of donned hard hats and grabbed The square — projected to long time coming,” said Kristen System, a transactional database that has info for all higher education. shovels, they symbolized the open in August 2017 — will Smith, vice president for advo- students who receive federal aid. “One of our biggest challenges is start of the construction phase feature residential space, office cacy and engagement with the “The database is set up to track students who a lack of compatible and compre- in their latest collaboration: space, retail, performance space Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber have to pay back loans, so students who only hensive measurements — the kind Carolina Square. and a 0.6 acre park. of Commerce. receive a Pell Grant — but not loans — will likely of information parents have come to Carolina Square is a joint Situated next to Granville “This is a place where collab- be missed,” said Sarah Butrymowicz, data editor expect from K through 12 schools,” effort between the town, Towers, UNC will occupy oration lives, where residential for the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news orga- she said during a speech to the UNC, Cousins Properties and more than 50 percent of the and commercial opportunities nization focused on education. American Council on Education. Northwood Ravin development $123 million development’s are available, but also artistic Higher education activists who sought the “Parents see a mosaic of fine higher firms. office space, as the Carolina ones, as well as more green data cited concerns that students who receive “This is an example of collab- Population Center and the SEE PRESIDENT, PAGE 7 oration where people are able to Gillings School of Public SEE DEVELOPMENT, PAGE 7 SEE PELL GRANTS, PAGE 7 Your boos are not scaring me. I know that most of you are not ghosts. 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