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Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 A Volume 125, Issue 55 dailytarheel.com Monday, January 15, 2018 LEGACY CONTINUEDMartin Luther King Jr. Day Edition DTH/ALEX KORMANN A noise demonstration was held outside South Building on Wednesday afternoon. Demonstrators used drums, pots, pans and noise makers to protest the Silent Sam statue on campus. Center continues fight for civil rights Former UNC law center employees not backing down DTH/ ISABELLA BARTOLUCCI By Georgia Wieland-Stanford The Orange County School Board unveiled a monument at the for- Staff Writer mer Lincoln High School building in 2013. After their abrupt November termi- nation from the UNC Center for Civil Rights, Elizabeth Haddix and Mark Chapel Hill’s Dorosin have continued their legal work through the newly founded Julius L. Chambers Center for Civil Rights. The Chambers Center was founded segregated past in response to a September 2017 vote by the UNC Board of Governors ban- schools began to desegregate ning the UNC Center for Civil Rights People share what it in the area. OCTS then became from litigating. was like to be a black Lincoln High School, where Prior to the decision, the UNC Center Mason graduated in 1961. for Civil Rights performed advocacy- student 60 years ago. OCTS was renamed in 1951 based research, engaged in direct repre- DTH/NATHAN KLIMA as Lincoln High School, where sentation for victims of racial exclusion Mark Dorosin questioned the UNC Board of Governors at a meeting in September. By Maria Elena Vizcaino about 400 students from and trained law students in civil rights Senior Writer seventh grade to 12th grade litigation, said Haddix, co-director of Haddix said the Chambers Center, happening in communities all across attended class every day. first to the new Chambers Center. which is a nonprofit organization that the state, are where the real change is David Mason Jr. recalls fifth graders went to Northside “When Mark Dorosin and I were at can litigate, is picking up where the going to take place.” walking every morning in the Elementary in Caldwell Street. the UNC Center for Civil Rights, the mis- UNC Center left off. Dorosin, another co-director of the muddy, unpaved streets of the “The rationale was that, at sion was to support communities to dis- “The Chambers Center has taken Chambers Center, said it honors the Northside neighborhood to first OCTS emphasized not aca- mantle structural racism,” Haddix said. on all the former clients of the UNC previous mission of the UNC Center: attend class at Orange County demics but people to be trained “When the advocacy ban came down Center, and we’re doing lots of impor- community advocacy around the Training School. to be subservient to white from the Board of Governors, Mark and tant work around educational equity, South’s legacy of discrimination. Opened in 1916 on Merritt people,” Mason said. I worked very quickly and tried to get the around environmental justice, around “We wanted to ensure that the work Mill Road, the OCTS was the Lincoln High School had law school to also work with us to find a combating racial exclusion,” Dorosin only school for Black students safe place for the advocacy work to land.” said. “I think those struggles, which are SEE CCR, PAGE 5 in Chapel Hill until 1961, when SEE CHAPEL HILL, PAGE 5 A look inside the lives of 4 activists shaping UNC’s community Carter Smith Mitch Xia Mejs Hasan Sarah Wright Graduate Student Senior Graduate Student Senior Carter Smith attended the 2017 United Senior Mitch Xia has been highly active in Based on her research in climate change, Senior Sarah Wright is a co-director of Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) many of UNC’s social justice activism, serving Ph.D. candidate Mejs Hasan was asked to Nourish UNC, a campus organization that in Bonn, Germany talks as an observer to see as a proponent in anti-racist organizing serve as one of UNC’s delegates attending seeks to address social and economic justice how her research in marine science fit into the and being involved in The Real Silent Sam the 2017 United Nations Climate Change through social entrepreneurship, ventures broader climate change discussion on a global Coalition, the UNControllables and anti- Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany. and community partnerships. For five weeks, scale. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the marine House Bill 2 initiatives. Hasan initiated a series of blog posts Nourish UNC provided low-cost lunch options sciences and lives in Morehead City, North The subjects of this activism, Xia said, written by the attending students to be for those participating in the Boycott UNC Carolina at UNC’s satellite Institute of Marine often follows the news cycles, especially the published in The Daily Tar Heel. movement. Later, Nourish switched to a pay- Sciences facility. election of President Donald Trump and the But this was not the only way Hasan what-you-can model, which allowed financially “A lot of people come into science because nationwide attention given to Silent Sam over married scientific issues with the power disadvantaged students to enjoy a free lunch they want to know how something works or the past semester. of storytelling for advocacy. In a previous while allowing the donations of others to be they want to understand on a basic level why “The specific issues that are at the forefront job, her company’s services included contributed to the Center for Civil Rights. some process is happening,” Smith said. are constantly changing,” Xia said. “I do what rehabilitating and identifying dying sea While Nourish UNC’s participation of the As she seeks to tackle these issues, Smith’s I do because I feel like someone has to. If we animals. After finding a turtle’s stomach Boycott UNC movement supported an issue overarching goal is to convince consumers that don’t keep putting pressure on this University full of plastic, a belt buckle piece, and close to the hearts of some members of the making sustainable decisions can be a win-win to do better, then it’s not going to do better.” even a comb, Hasan was struck by the UNC community, the organization’s impact scenario. To relay this information to the public, Shared grievances about the University have environmental gravity of this situation. She has historically stretched even farther. Smith works extensively translating science been particular formative to their personal wished there was a way to connect with kids “We are spending this time being very to policy and advocating for the inclusion of political development over the past few years, about these issues. mindful of what matters to us as people and science into the political process. Smith has Xia said. In the future, they to work in an “If the kids get really riled up about a turtle as an organization and trying to figure out worked towards acquiring a regional permit industry that aligns with their values, such as dying because there’s too much plastic trash, how to act in alignment with that,” Wright for nature-based shorelines and has also education and socioeconomic equity. they’ll be telling their parents,” Hasan said. said. “I think that fits with a lot of what MLK presented a congressional briefing for about 100 “I don’t plan on ever not being an activist,” Using her animation skills, Hasan began exemplifies.” congressional representatives in North Carolina. Xia said. “Political activism is always going working with young students to illustrate In fact, Wright owes much of her “We need to stop seeing climate change as to happen in colleges, and it’s actually a and animate stories involving environmental momentum as an activist to the UNC this huge cost, and instead we need to look at good thing that it doesn’t have an end point. justice. community. it like an opportunity and an investment in I don’t conceive of an endpoint for student Hasan hopes that these activities will By Emily Galvin, Staff Writer our future,” Smith said. organizing.” influence the students’ choices in the future. [email protected] The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 2 Monday, January 15, 2018 News The Daily Tar Heel The Daily Tar Heel www.dailytarheel.com Aerial skills and acro-yoga at Cirque de Vol Established 1893 124 years of editorial freedom The showcase TYLER FLEMING featured local EDITOR-IN-CHIEF [email protected] student efforts. JESSICA SWANSON MANAGING EDITOR By A.J. OLeary [email protected] Staff Writer RACHEL JONES Cirque de Vol, a circus arts ONLINE MANAGING EDITOR studio located in Raleigh, [email protected] hosted a winter-wonderland COREY RISINGER themed student showcase DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE Jan. 13 and Jan. 14. [email protected] Cirque de Vol is a self- KIANA COLE dubbed “creative movement” DIRECTOR OF PROJECTS AND and advertises itself as an INVESTIGATIONS alternative gym. The group [email protected] offers many classes in silks, LEAH ASMELASH yoga, trapeze, acrobatics, UNIVERSITY EDITOR hoop dance, meditation and [email protected] contact-improvisation. REBECCA AYERS The showcase included a little bit of everything CITY EDITOR offered at the studio. Cassidy [email protected] Slabaugh, a Cirque de Vol ANA IRIZARRY instructor and student STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR showcase planner, explained [email protected] what to expect from the event. KARYN HLADIK-BROWN “We have four aerial silks ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR acts, we have two lyra acts, we [email protected] have an aerial cube act and then PHOTO COURTESY OF CASSIDY SLABAUGH CHAPEL FOWLER a partner acro-act,” she said.