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Questions Surround Silent Sam's $2.5 Million Fate MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2019 126 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 127, ISSUE 69 Inside Questions surround Silent Sam’s $2.5 million fate the grad After a secretive decision, UNC is giving the monument to the student Sons of Confederate Veterans. By Preston Lennon labor fight Senior Writer Last week, a Board of Governors UNC’s labor union recently committee met via conference call in helped end graduate worker a closed-door meeting. Hours later, a short press release was sent out from fees, but its fight continues. the chancellor’s office that finally By Elizabeth Moore ended Silent Sam’s 15-month limbo. Senior Writer As courts prepared to close for the holidays, a judge signed a judgement UNC can’t operate through in a lawsuit filed against UNC and the administration alone. Students, faculty UNC System by the N.C. Division Sons and staff also work for the University of Confederate Veterans. Although in a variety of ways, and many have the lawsuit contains a comprehensive raised questions about whether or not set of terms that appear to be pre- they are fairly compensated. negotiated, a civil records database In March, one group of workers indicates that the lawsuit was filed on celebrated a victory after years of Nov. 27, the same day it was settled. effort: the rescinding of fees tacked “The timing part is very curious DTH FILE/BEREN SOUTH on to their tuition packages. to me — that they coordinated a Silent Sam blindfolded by a Confederate flag in 2015. The statue was recently given to Sons of Confederate Veterans. Those workers are graduate statement ahead of time,” said T. students, who are often employed by Greg Doucette, a Raleigh attorney. removed in January. There are still specifics that need to be Monument Trust” will seek tax- the University as teaching assistants, Activists toppled the statue in an In May, the System sindefinitely clarified, he said, but the courts closed exempt status and be used “only for research assistants, fellowships and August 2018 protest, and have fought delayed an announcement on the for the holiday until Monday. the preservation and benefit of the trainees. But many are paid less than to keep it off campus. Responsibility statue’s future, leaving the UNC According to the court documents Confederate Monument as provided the Orange County living wage. for the statue’s future has since shifted community without news until this posted on Twitter by WRAL reporter in a Monument Trust Agreement.” One of the forces behind the up a rung from the University to the past Thanksgiving break. Sarah Krueger and signed by Judge “The safety and security concerns recent change in fee policy is the the UNC System, and then hit a climax Doucette said he searched online Allen Baddour, a UNC graduate, expressed by students, faculty, and when former Chancellor Folt resigned for information on the lawsuit after the University and the system will SEE GRADUATE WORKERS, PAGE 6 and had the statue’s lingering base being confused by the lack of details. establish a $2.5 million fund. “The SEE SILENT SAM, PAGE 7 ‘We took their pride’: UNC football knocks o≠ N.C. State The Tar Heels got their first He was the one that had helped First-year quarterback Sam Howell them get to this point — to learn how had been sacked three times, win over the Wolfpack since to have fun playing football again, intercepted once and held to no 2015 in a 41-10 rout. to not lose hope in games, to set an touchdowns. The Wolfpack came example for those that will come out with an energy the Tar Heels By Parth Upadhyaya after them. didn’t seem capable of matching Senior Writer On this night, it was Brown who early on. helped them beat rival N.C. State, The Tar Heels didn’t hang their RALEIGH — At the end of this 41-10, for the first time since 2015 heads, though. They’ve been a one, they danced. Again. and clinch bowl eligibility for the second-half team all year, and it All that could be heard several feet first time since 2016. was much of the same on Saturday, away from the visiting locker room at “I actually forgot to sing the fight especially early after halftime. Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday song first, because I was so excited “I think we just had a plan that night was Waka Flocka Flame’s about the win,” Brown said of the we were gonna fight to the finish “Grove St. Party.” postgame celebration. “I always get and see if they were gonna fight with And there were the screams of nervous about the dance.” us,” senior defensive back Myles jubilation, of course. In typical fashion for this year’s Dorn said. Inside was Mack Brown, Tar Heels, it wasn’t a forgone And, boy, did they ever fight. surrounded by his North Carolina conclusion right out of the gate. UNC scored four touchdowns football team. The players helped It didn’t matter how much they in the third quarter alone, three their head coach through yet outmatched the injury-depleted of which came after N.C. State DTH/MAYA CARTER another dance routine. Wolfpack on paper. turnovers. After first-year defensive North Carolina State junior linebacker Calvin Hart Jr. (15) attempts to tackle It’s the least they could do for the At the end of the first half, UNC sophomore running back Javonte Williams (25). UNC defeated N.C. State 41-10. 68-year-old Hall of Famer. trailed N.C. State by four points. SEE N.C. STATE, PAGE 7 DTH/MORGAN PIROZZI DTH/MAYA CARTER Players celebrate sophomore defensive back Trey Morrison’s (4) interception UNC’s Storm Duck (29) and Myles Dorn (1) celebrate an incomplete pass to N.C. State wide receiver Emeka Emezie (3). during a game against N.C. State University on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019. No! Try not! Do or do not, there is no try. YODA 2 Monday, December 2, 2019 News The Daily Tar Heel The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893 Wilson Library exhibits 400 years of African-American migration history 126 years of editorial freedom By Emma Craig from African Americans, or in our MADDY ARROWOOD Staff Writer voices,” Powell said. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Presenting people in their own [email protected] This year marks the 400th year words provides a much stronger MARCO QUIROZ-GUTIERREZ since the first enslaved Africans connection for the visitor because MANAGING EDITOR were brought to North America slavery and segregation happened to [email protected] in 1619. Wilson Library’s “On the real people, Reynolds said. EMILY SIEGMUND Move: Stories of African American The exhibit examines six different ONLINE MANAGING EDITOR Migration and Mobility” examines modes of transportation, such as [email protected] various personal stories of African buses, trains, cars and airplanes and MYAH WARD Americans through history and their relevance to African Americans DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE their experience with social and in the past 400 years. [email protected] physical mobility. The exhibit is “In 1947, a group of biracial social open until Jan. 15, 2020. activists wanted to see if they could CHARLIE MCGEE “We’re thinking about ‘How did travel across state lines in the front DIRECTOR OF INVESTIGATIONS we get here and what has happened of the bus. There was a federal law [email protected] since (1619)?’,” said Chaitra Powell, that said you could so would it work MAEVE SHEEHEY African American collections in practice?” Powell said. UNIVERSITY EDITOR and outreach archivist at UNC When they got to Chapel Hill, [email protected] University Libraries. the cab drivers at the bus station ANNA POGARCIC Talking openly about racial boarded the bus and hit the CITY, STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR issues of the past is a social justice protestors in the head — and the [email protected] issue, said Rachel Reynolds, protestors were the ones that ended JESSICA HARDISON exhibition coordinator for Wilson up getting arrested, Powell said. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Special Collections Library. They made their bail and got out A segregated Durham bus station in 1940. Wilson Library’s exhibit about [email protected] “Because by opening our eyes to of town in the dark of night with African-American mobility will be open until Jan. 15. Photo by Jack Delano. RYAN WILCOX the reality of some of our past, we can the help of a preacher. The exhibit SPORTS EDITOR look around us now at society and showcases a letter written by this “Until you are aware of the serious on a topic that many people know [email protected] understand inequalities and inequities preacher discussing the events of injustices in our history, you can’t preliminary knowledge about, but that exist,” Reynolds said. that night, Powell said. make amends and understand how that the nature of an exhibit allows AUDREY BURKE Powell said she chose to focus on “This disrupts the illusion of much needs to be done to make things people to find out specific information DESIGN & GRAPHICS EDITOR many personal stories rather than Chapel Hill being this liberal right,” Reynolds said. for themselves. [email protected] more general stories to highlight the bastion. Crazy things happen here Adreonna Bennett is a former “The past and the present are ANGELICA EDWARDS & MAYA CARTER humanity within the stories. too,” Powell said. curatorial assistant at Wilson always intertwined, no matter how CO-PHOTO EDITORS “One of my other challenges was, Many of these stories have not Library and current community much we try to separate them,” [email protected] how do I tell stories with an African been told sufficiently in our history, engagement librarian and archivist Bennett said.
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