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DTH/MORGAN PIROZZI Isabella St. Onge colors a DTH/ANGELINA KATSANIS Students protest a $2.5 million settlement Halloween costume design. given to the Sons of Confederate Veterans for the preservation of Silent Sam. Elizabeth Durham watches dancers circulating her during Company Cole Anthony (2) scores a basket against UVA. DTH/PARKER BROWN Carolina’s “Sweet Charity.” DTH/ANGELICA EDWARDS 127 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020 VOLUME 128, ISSUE 9 Your UNC Journey Starts Here Starting college is one of the greatest transitions that will occur in your young life. From adjusting to dorm living to rushing Franklin Street after Duke games, you’ve got a lot to learn about life at Carolina. Your first semester is likely going to look a lot different than students’ from years past, but the rest of campus will be figuring it out with you. From your friends at The Daily Tar Heel, Welcome to UNC. Here’s what you need to know: PAID US POSTAGE PERMIT #177 NONPROFIT ORG CHAPEL HILL, NC TO THE PARENTS OF: THE PARENTS TO CB #1893 Hill Chapel at of North University The Carolina NC 27599 Hill, Chapel 1893 Serving since the UNC Community DTH/DUSTIN DUONG The Bell Tower pictured before a football game. Yes, I’m gone to Carolina in my mind JAMES TAYLOR 2 Friday, June 26, 2020 News The Daily Tar Heel The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893 127 years of editorial freedom Chancellor: Face challenges together Dear Class of 2024, community care. Along with your race and racism continue to plague SERGIO OSNAYA-PRIETO classmates, we are asking you to our country and our University, and EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Welcome to the University of North adhere to public health guidelines to we know that we have much work [email protected] Carolina at Chapel Hill! We are so help mitigate the spread of COVID- to do. We must move forward as HANNAH LANG excited for you to join our community. 19. This will include new “community a campus with a greater sense of The fall semester will be unlike standards”: wearing face masks in urgency, purpose and action. ONLINE MANAGING EDITOR any other in Carolina’s history. While public places, practicing physical In our almost 227-year history, [email protected] many of your first experiences at distancing, frequent hand washing Carolina has endured many Carolina may not be the same as DTH/DUSTIN DUONG and following other state and local challenges, and has always emerged MAYDHA DEVARAJAN they were for other classes, you will guidelines. We are counting on you stronger. I have seen Carolina’s UNIVERSITY EDITOR undoubtedly make your mark in the Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz to accept this responsibility to help compassion on display time and next four years. You will learn from take that education and give back, to [email protected] protect the health and safety of others. time again. We will need to call on world-class faculty members, hang serve your state, the nation and the You will learn and grow from this this compassion in this moment, SUZANNAH CLAIRE PERRY out in the Pit, cheer on our athletic world. This work is truly fundamental experience and be better prepared to and I am confident that you will step CITY, STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR teams and make lifelong friends. to preparing you and your classmates lead during the next pandemic, the up in this extraordinary time. [email protected] You are joining a long line of to take on the world’s next grand next challenge, the next crisis. I look forward to meeting you and students who are part of the nation’s challenges, and that is why we are We cannot face this challenge seeing you on campus. Welcome to ZACHARY CRAIN first public university. We have a back together this fall, even in the without one another. This year, we will your new Carolina home. SPORTS EDITOR responsibility to provide the best midst of a global pandemic. focus on “Building Our Community [email protected] possible education to the citizens You have an opportunity to show Together” by prioritizing diversity, Go Heels, of the state of North Carolina and what it means to be a civic leader by equity and inclusion throughout the ANGELINA KATSANIS beyond. You have a responsibility to helping to create a new standard of University. Painful issues surrounding Kevin Guskiewicz PHOTO EDITOR [email protected] KRISTA NICHOLS Going to class during a pandemic COPY CHIEF & SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER [email protected] By Isabella Sherk The period between classes has the Carolina Together website states. Remote Only: Remote-only classes Staff Writer been extended to 30 minutes to The University has also laid out four will be taught online, asynchronously, MEREDITH RADFORD limit foot traffic on campus, which course models for the fall semester. synchronously or a mix of both. ONLINE EDITOR With an early semester start date, means classes will end later in the Face-to-Face/Hybrid: These classes In a campuswide email sent June 18, different course model options and day. Carolina Together states that are only for students who will be on Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said face [email protected] new safety guidelines, the 2020 instruction will end at 6:10 p.m. on campus, in person in the fall. Online masks are to be worn in all classrooms PAIGE MASTEN fall classroom experience will be Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and work might be included in addition to and indoor common spaces, like untraditional to say the least. 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. the in-person element. bathrooms and hallways, by faculty, OPINION EDITOR In an effort to reduce the impacts First-years will register for classes HyFlex: These classes meet in staff members, visitors and students. [email protected] of a potential second wave of COVID- based on their orientation sessions. person, though some students join He also said UNC will provide 19, the fall semester will begin Aug. According to Student Affairs, remotely. In-person students may and pay for masks for those who Mail and Office: 109 E. Franklin St. 10, which is eight days earlier than orientation sessions 2 through 5 will rotate by the day of the week to allow cannot procure their own. Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Sergio Osnaya-Prieto, editor-in-chief, 962-4086 previously planned. Final exams will register July 8-9, sessions 6 through other students to be in the classroom. Social distancing will occur in the Advertising & Business, 962-1163 end Nov. 24, after which students 9 will register July 15-16, sessions 10 Remote & Recitation: These classroom, according to Carolina News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 will not return to campus until the through 13 will register July 20-21 and courses are remote with a required Together. Instructors will have to be at One copy per person; spring semester. sessions 14 and 15 will do so July 27-28. synchronous recitation. There will least 6 feet apart from the first row of additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. In a memo to UNC System Both on- and off-campus instruction be a mix of remote or face-to-face students, and individuals are required Please report suspicious activity at our chancellors, interim President Bill will be provided due to some students’ instruction for courses with multiple to maintain a minimum distance of 3 distribution racks by emailing [email protected] Roper said universities can choose inability to come to campus in the fall. recitation sections. For courses with feet “mask to mask” in classrooms. © 2012 DTH Media Corp. to begin the spring semester as late “All courses, with few exceptions, one recitation section, the class will All rights reserved as Feb. 15, 2021. will have a remote learning option,” be HyFlex. [email protected] ARTS EXPERIENCE Ackland Art Museum • Carolina ARTS Performing Arts • Carolina Public LEARNING Humanities • Carolina Student Union Gallery • Center for the Study of the American Studies • Creative Writing American South • FedEx Global Program • Department of Art & Art Education Center • John and June History • Department of Allcott Galleries • Kenan Theatre Communication • Department of Company • PlayMakers Repertory Dramatic Art • Department of English & Company • Process Series • Public Art Comparative Literature • Department • SAMPLE Gallery • Stone Center for of Music • Hussman School of Black Culture & History Journalism & Media • PLUS various ARTS minors and internships across the arts ENGAGEMENT Art Lab • Arts Leadership Collaborative • BeAM Spaces • Beat Making Lab • Hanes Art Center • Morrison Art Studio • Student Art Making Grants • Student Arts Ambassadors • UNC Student Arts Orgs For a more creative @ArtsEverywhere and curious Carolina [email protected] @ArtsEverywhereUNC The Daily Tar Heel News Friday, June 26, 2020 3 How Chapel Hill will be affected by students returning Chapel Hill and UNC officials integrated into the broader Chapel their favorite businesses to help us Hill community,” Parker said. all get through this really difficult discuss how they will address “Chapel Hill Transit is unlikely to time.” students’ return in August. have our peak-hour capacity that Going forward, Rich said she we would normally have and so it’s thinks the most important step is to By Hannah McClellan important that the University and have the vice chancellor for student Senior Writer we work together to think about affairs communicating with the how we can change class and work county and then back to campus. Editor’s Note: This article was schedules if necessary.” “We couldn’t wait until we did originally published on June Matt Gladdek is the executive with congregate living facilities in 3, 2020.