PYO Students Walk in Tar Heel Shoes for a Day Partners for Youth Opportunity Group Visits Campus During Spring Break College Tour
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The Durham VOICE Story edited by Lily Stephens Spring 2018 PYO students walk in Tar Heel shoes for a day Partners for Youth Opportunity group visits campus during spring break college tour By Maddie Marshall Durham VOICE It was late morning, and the sun was peeking from behind the clouds as the students and leaders of Partners for Youth Opportunity arrived at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But the slightly overcast day did not stop them from a having an adventure. The PYO students and staff members were visiting UNC-CH as a part of their college tour while on spring break. They had already traveled to various locations in North Carolina, including the Universi- ty of North Carolina at Greensboro and a local nature reserve. There has been a connection between PYO students, Professor Jock Lauterer and UNC-CH students pose in front of the PYO and UNC-CH for many years. PYO Unsung Founders Memorial. The memorial was one of many thought-provoking stops students work on the Durham Voice with on the students’ tour of campus. Staff photo by Tenley Garrett UNC-CH media and journalism students. Jock Lauterer, UNC-CH professor, said, rial, the students moved on to the most iment inside the James F. Goodmon Elec- “They send to the Durham VOICE four to prominent symbol at UNC-CH, the Old tronic Communication Studio and News- six young people to work with us on The Well. They took turns striking posing for room. The students operated the cameras Durham VOICE, which gives us a youth pictures in front of the shining symbol. and practiced using the teleprompter. The voice on The VOICE. We have worked Stomachs were beginning to growl as Goodmon Studio and Newsroom is a state with PYO for three or four years now. It is lunchtime approached. After lunch in the -of -the-art studio where student shows a really great partnership.” bottom of Lenoir Dining Hall, they got to such as Carolina Now and Sports Extra are The day at UNC-CH started at the experience the heart of UNC’s Campus, shot. Morehead Planetarium. PYO students the Pit. This actual pit in the middle of Before the students attended a lecture by were dropped off and ready for a day of campus is where students congregate. Be- Professor Lauterer in his MEJO 459 class, exploring the histor- cause of the warm which focuses on community journal- ic campus. weather, UNC-CH ism, the students went to explore more On the edge “Whenever PYO or the students were out of campus. They took pictures at Kenan of campus, the and about repre- Football Stadium and saw a special exhibit students gathered VOICE come over to senting clubs and at the Sonja Hanes Stone Center for Black around to listen to UNC-CH, we feel like we enjoying time with Culture and History. Professor Lauterer belong.” their friends. The PYO students had a day filled with tell anecdotes of his The PYO students adventure in the Southern Part of Heaven, but unfortunately, the day had to come to experiences during — Carlton Koonce got to see that col- the Speaker Ban. lege is about more an end. He told the story than papers and Carlton Koonce, the workforce devel- of how in 1966, he deadlines. Many opment director of PYO, said, “Whenever sat in a tree on Franklin Street to catch the went up to the numerous clubs pubbing PYO or the VOICE youth come over to action on his camera. and fundraising to find out the passion of UNC-CH, we feel like we belong. The As the students progressed into campus, Carolina students. Some sat on the inner J-School students take us under their they passed the controversial Silent Sam steps of the Pit and people-watched. wings and show us around campus in a Statue. The statue’s position has been a hot Lazayrea Smith, a PYO student, de- way that’s so much more intimate than the topic on the UNC-CH campus for the last scribed her experience observing in the typical college tour.” Koonce continued, “I few months. The PYO students and UNC- Pit: “We saw a lot of groups come by us. think it comes from this Durham connec- CH students had an active discussion Some people were against the groups. tion we’ve all had over the years, and it about how the monument has mobilized Some people went up to talk to them.” shows that the dream that Jock, Lisa, DP students and staff. After lunch, the PYO students got to ex- and all the professors involved conceived After spending several contemplative plore the School of Media and Journalism. years ago coming to fruition.” moments at the Unsung Founders Memo- The students had the opportunity to exper-.