WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2021 128 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 129, ISSUE 9 HUBERT DAVIS | LIFE & LEGACY | WHAT’S NEXT Davis is a Hubert, hired. Keeping true born the head and bred coach in the family Davis was announced Chapel Hill has always on Monday as the next been home for the new men’s basketball coach leader of men’s basketball By Brian Keyes By Noah Monroe Senior Writer Staff Writer [email protected] [email protected]

Was it ever going to be anyone else? Roy Williams said he wasn’t the Hubert Davis might not be the “right man” for the job anymore after prodigal son returning home that stepping down as head coach for the Roy Williams was 18 years ago, men’s basketball but he’s as close as anyone alive, team on April 1. bar Michael Jordan, could be. For Four days later, director of a program that loves to keep things athletics Bubba Cunningham found in the family, there was no other who he said was the “right coach” choice — after all, in his parting to helm the blue-blooded program. message, Williams named him “the And who better than the man who finest young man I have ever known Williams asked to come onto his staff in my life.” nine years ago: Hubert Davis? A former player under In a press conference on Tuesday and 12-year NBA veteran before DTH/IRA WILDER in the Dean E. Smith Center, Davis spending nine years on Williams’ Hubert Davis, the new head coach of UNC men’s basketball, speaks at a press conference on April 6, 2021. “North Carolina was announced as the 20th coach in coaching staff, UNC announced on the storied history of the program is the standard. There’s ... nobody that’s an example of togetherness and family than here at North Carolina,“ said Davis. Monday that Davis would be the next — and the first Black man to walk head coach of the North Carolina the Smith Center’s men’s basketball team, following sidelines as head coach. Williams’ retirement on April 1. Williams won 903 games as a He’s the first Black head coach in head coach, both at Kansas and program history. UNC, and won three national In his 33-year Hall of Fame championship during his 18 years career — the last 18 of which came leading the Tar Heels. Naturally, the at UNC — Williams won 903 person following in those footsteps games, the third-most in Division would feel an intense weight on their I men’s basketball history. He also shoulders — not Davis, though. won three national championships “Coach Williams is the greatest. in 2005, 2009 and 2017, all of which I’m Hubert,” he said. “As I said came at UNC. before, the only thing I need to do “I’ve learned more in the last is to do this job with my personality four days about the strength and and in my shoes.” bond and relationships and loyalty Davis brings with him a diverse and commitment of the Carolina resume. He played in the NBA for 12 family ... than I have in the last years, taking to the hardwood under 10 years,” director of athletics coaches like Pat Riley, Don Nelson Bubba Cunningham said at Davis’ and fellow UNC alumnus Larry introductory press conference on Brown, while competing against Tuesday. DTH ARCHIVE legendary players like Patrick Ewing, “I’ve talked to more than 20 Davis’ portrait as a player at UNC. The DTH/ABE LOVEN Dirk Nowitzki and UNC basketball’s incoming coach played under Dean UNC men’s basketball new head coach Hubert Davis greets people ahead SEE FORMER, PAGE 2 Smith for four seasons as a Tar Heel. of his appointment press conference at the Smith Center on April 6, 2021. SEE THE NEW, PAGE 3

COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES | SEEKING SUPPORT Students petition for representation in CAPS CAPS doesn’t employ any AAPI- In mid-March, eight people were killed in three spa shootings in the Atlanta area. Six of the victims were identifying counselors. These Asian women. students hope to change that. Asian Americans across North Carolina have organized events to honor the victims of the Atlanta By Praveena Somasundaram shootings and support one another. But as Yang, Ikoma Audience Engagement Editor and Parker — along with fellow UNC medical school [email protected] students Colin Godwin and Rebecca Rubinstein and School of Social Work student Su Cho — searched for After hearing news of the recent Atlanta shootings, places of support specifically at UNC, they realized there UNC School of Medicine students Jennie Yang, Michelle were no AAPI-identifying counselors at the University’s Ikoma and Bao-Tran “BT” Parker, who all identify as Counseling and Psychological Services. Asian American, felt lost and alone. “I wanted to do something and then come to find They wanted community and support to debrief, out there aren’t any AAPI CAPS counselors,” Yang said. grieve and process what had happened, but they weren’t “That just made me feel like ‘Well, that’s something we sure where to find it. can change.’” Violence against Asian Americans has increased On March 23, the six students started a petition over the past year, particularly as a result of political calling for CAPS to expand its representation of AAPI- rhetoric surrounding COVID-19. For example, former identifying counselor staff. President Donald Trump used the term “Chinese “We strongly believe that this motion will protect virus” to describe coronavirus. AAPI students not only from suboptimal therapeutic DTH/SAURYA ACHARYA Stop AAPI Hate, an initiative that tracks and responds relationships but also the potential financial harm of to anti-Asian incidents, counted nearly 3,800 hate Fourth-year medical and public health student Bao-Tran “BT” Parker was one of incidents between March 2020 and February 2021. SEE CALLS, PAGE 12 the six students to start a petition to increase in AAPI representation at CAPS. Coach Williams is the greatest. I’m Hubert. HUBERT DAVIS 2 Wednesday, April 7, 2021 News The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893 Former player Davis rises to head coach 128 years of editorial freedom Continued from Page 1 ANNA POGARCIC EDITOR!IN!CHIEF basketball players, former players, EDITOR"DAILYTARHEEL.COM coaches, and to a person they are selfless. Their value base, they have BRANDON STANDLEY a level of integrity, and a level of EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR selflessness that I’ve never seen. I MANAGING.EDITOR"DAILYTARHEEL.COM talked to many that were interested WILL MELFI in being the head coach. And at the DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR end of the conversation each and DIGITAL"DAILYTARHEEL.COM every one of them said, ‘I’d love to MAEVE SHEEHEY be the head coach, but if it’s not me, DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE I know you’ll do the right thing, and ENTERPRISE"DAILYTARHEEL.COM all I want is for Carolina to get the MADDIE ELLIS right coach.’ And we have found the UNIVERSITY EDITOR right coach.” UNIVERSITY"DAILYTARHEEL.COM With no prior head coaching experience, Davis follows in a SONIA RAO long tradition of the Tar Heels’ CITY & STATE EDITOR leader coming from the previous CITY"DAILYTARHEEL.COM head coach’s bench, either in a suit NATHAN WESLEY or in shorts. This dates back to ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR 1961, when Smith was promoted ARTS"DAILYTARHEEL.COM from assistant coach off of Frank ZACHARY CRAIN McGuire’s staff. SPORTS EDITOR “I wanted this job. 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And I’m so excited and humbled time at UNC, the Tar Heels won College GameDay broadcast. engine behind UNC’s recruiting, his MORGAN PIROZZI and thankful and appreciative and two ACC Tournaments in 1989 and connections with former NBA players PHOTO EDITOR excited to be able to do with my 1991 and played in the 1991 Final … Always a Tar Heel helped him land five-star recruits like PHOTO"DAILYTARHEEL.COM own personality and in my own Four. By the time he graduated, Cole Anthony. Now taking over for KRISTA NICHOLS shoes. And I’m just very thankful for Davis was the school’s all-time Despite the cushy TV job, Davis Williams, Davis’ first job will be to COPY CHIEF everyone and I’m ready to go.” leader in 3- shooting, with wanted to break into coaching. start working the recruiting trail to COPY"DAILYTARHEEL.COM a career mark of 43.5 percent, a When Jerod Haase left Williams’ keep the few incoming recruits the PRAVEENA SOMASUNDARAM Once a Tar Heel… record he still holds. staff to become the head coach at Tar Heels have for the 2021-2022 AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT EDITOR After being taken with the 20th UAB in 2012, a spot on the bench season — and make North Carolina ONLINE"DAILYTARHEEL.COM A native of Winston-Salem, pick in the 1992 NBA Draft by opened up for Davis to rejoin the a desirable location for the massive Davis came to UNC by way of Lake the , he spent Tar Heels. influx of players in the transfer portal Braddock High School in Burke, 12 years in the NBA as a 3-point “For the last four or five years, this summer. 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Franklin St. Suite 210 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 3 Sports Wednesday, April 7, 2021 dailytarheel.com The new face of UNC men’s basketball Continued from Page 1 this is where I got better, this is where I went to school and graduated with a most famous alumnus, Michael Jordan. criminal justice degree, this is where After playing in the NBA, Davis I met the best friends of my life here, worked on ESPN as an analyst for this is where I became a Christian, seven years, working on programs this is where I fell in love with my like College GameDay, where he got wife, this is where I bought my first a front row seat to watch the top house, this is where my wife and I got teams in the college game. married,” Davis said. “He’s achieved at every level, taken Davis said Williams was a calming every challenge and beaten the odds presence when he walked into the and has established himself as a winner basketball offices for the first time as every step of the way,” Chancellor Kevin an assistant for North Carolina in 2012. Guskiewicz said. “I’m proud to have “I just felt settled because Coach Davis as the face of Carolina everything was going to be okay Basketball for years to come.” because Coach Williams was there,” Davis’ hire wasn’t a given, though. Davis said. “He’s the greatest coach “I had eight members of my staff that I’ve ever been around.” that also interviewed candidates along As a part of being head coach, the way and many of the Carolina folks Davis could get Williams’ old office. also looked around the country to help But he doesn’t want it. me identify additional candidates,” “I told him (Williams), ‘Leave all Cunningham said. “Other people that the pictures up, this is your office,’ and were also interested in the job, and I told him this for two reasons,” Davis allowed us to have a broad view of who said. “This is his office, this is his home, would be the right person to lead us and I want Coach Williams, I want Mrs. right now. And again, we came back to Williams, I want all of his children and Coach Hubert Davis.” I want his grandchildren, when they For Davis, Chapel Hill has always come to games, I want them to go into been his home. His uncle, Walter his office. I want them to go home.” Davis, was an All-American at UNC The second reason is a so-called under Dean Smith from 1973 to 1977, selfish one for Davis: “That’ll make and Davis himself played under Smith me think he’s still here.” from 1988-1992. DTH/IRA WILDER “This is where I played basketball, Twitter: @noahmnroe “There’s ...nobody that’s an example of togetherness and family than here at North Carolina,“ said Coach Hubert Davis. Miltenberg aims to put UNC UNC field hockey distance running on the map unbeaten at home By Joshua Dolgoff By Kaitlyn Schmidt back Cassie Sumfest took the initiative Staff Writer Staff Writer and rocketed the ball in off a penalty [email protected] [email protected] corner to tie the score. UNC then regained the lead with a goal sunk by When head coach Chris The No. 1 North Carolina field sophomore midfielder Paityn Wirth. Miltenberg took over the North hockey team hosted No. 15 Duke for Just a minute later, Duke Carolina track and field and cross- Senior Day on Friday in a challenging responded to tie up the score, 3-3, country programs in 2019, he had a double overtime matchup, notching heading into the fourth. mission: build one of the best teams a 4-3 win the “Carolina way.” The final period of regulation saw in the country. Although the stats might have stellar defense on both sides of the But in order to put UNC on the map, pointed to a clear winner before field. UNC got nine shots on goal in he had to start from the ground up — the game’s starting passback, the the period, all of which were blocked which is exactly what he has done. rivalry brought that by Duke’s goalie, Piper Hampsch, When Miltenberg stepped into extra competitive edge, as both who had an outstanding 19 saves in the role of head coach in Chapel teams fought through two overtimes the game. Keeping the ball in Tar Hill, he knew that before his team to determine a winner. Heel possession, not one Blue Devil could produce any quality results, After two October matchups against had a shot on goal the entire quarter. the first step would be to create a the Blue Devils, the Tar Heels knew “We were just focused on championship culture. Without exactly who they were up against. communication, not giving them this, there wouldn’t be a foundation PHOTO COURTESY OF UNC ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS “They always say you throw out another opportunity, and keeping to build on. UNC Track and Field head coach Chris Miltenberg has had to work hard the record books when Duke plays them out of our 25 even before they got “We can’t come in and say to rebuild the program, the team, and its culture from the ground up. Carolina, and that was absolutely to our circle,” graduate back Courtnie we wanna have all these great the case today,” head coach Karen Williamson said. “I think we all knew goals,” Miltenberg said. “I’m first team-centric attitude has rubbed broke the four-minute mark in Shelton said. “Across-town rivals, it we needed to step it up, get loud, get in understanding who we’re working off on his athletes, driving them to the mile at the ACC Indoor Track was everything you could ask for.” front and intercept those balls before with and the environment we are perform at their best. Championships — placing first and On the chilly Friday afternoon, they could get to them.” working in.” “He tries to control his attitude second, respectively — helping the 225 fans attended the game to cheer The clock ticked down to end With that mindset, Miltenberg and make it positive, and he gives you men’s team finish second overall. UNC on — the biggest crowd the team regulation at a gridlocked score, emphasized getting to know his all his effort whenever you are with UNC hadn’t had anyone break four has seen all season. With home-field sending the rivals into overtime. athletes on a personal level and him, so that translates to the athlete,” minutes indoors since 1974, which advantage, the Tar Heels played their After a stalemated first extra learning about UNC as a whole so Tubby said. “If Coach Miltenberg is Miltenberg described as a huge standard offensively-driven first period, period, the teams went into their that he could surround the program doing something, you just know it’s turning point for the program. with junior Erin Matson scoring North second overtime, the most minutes with the right people. gonna get done the right way, and The head coach pushed to instill Carolina’s first goal on a free possession. either has seen this season. In the “The time that he’s dedicated as an athlete, you want to have that confidence in his team, to prove they At that point, Matson had been 77th minute of play, senior forward to me and my teammates goes far same type of reputation.” can compete with the best, and his the only Tar Heel to score a goal in Bryn Boylan got fouled in the circle, outside of the track,” said graduate Before a single race was run, athletes have bought in. the spring season. Then came the and was given a penalty stroke. distance runner Brandon Tubby. Miltenberg made sure that a culture “He kind of has convinced our team, second quarter. And on Senior Night, the senior “We’ve worked on mindset, worked of hard work was established. To and convinced me personally, that we Duke commanded the tempo of the fired the game-winning shot past on mental health, like all of these his athletes, that’s what makes him can compete on the national level and game as Blue Devil Libby Thompson Hampsch to finish the game with a things, they get better as you go different: he devoted his time early that we can achieve the goals that we’ve shot from the perimeter of the circle North Carolina victory, 4-3. through the program with him.” on towards building the foundation always had for ourselves,” Hofstad said. to net the ball — the first goal allowed “Coach always says ‘play the Carolina By getting to know his athletes as that would garner future results. “He just instills that in the team every by the Tar Heels all spring. Duke got way: hard, smart, together,’” Boylan people, Miltenberg aimed to build On the women’s side, the young day, especially in us distance runners two penalty corners later in the period, said. “And I think we really did that and trust with them. He could then focus cross-country team finished fifth at who he coaches directly.” capitalizing on the second to the that’s why we came out on top.” on sending the right messages to his the ACC Championship this past Miltenberg has his foundation lead, going up 2-1 at the half. Completing a perfect 10-0 record team to create a greater sense of fall, only 17 points out from second in place, his athletes in the right Shelton knew she had to change at home for the season with a win unity and cohesion. place. They then went to the NCAA mindset to compete at the highest the narrative of the game after versus their rivals, the Tar Heels “He really focuses on instilling in Championship in March and finished level, and, most importantly, his Duke’s two unanswered goals. honored their departing seniors in all of us that we are running for the 14th. To Miltenberg, that raised the team ascending at the right time. “I told them I was disappointed the best way possible. team and that he really cares about bar for what his teams can do. But anyone that knows Miltenberg in the way we were playing,” Shelton “That’s a classic Carolina move to each athlete,” fifth-year distance “We showed up at that meet knows that he won’t stop there. said. “I thought that Duke was out- just keep playing two overtimes — I’m runner Paige Hofstad said. “Our and we ran like we belong here,” “This man is orchestrating playing us with passion, hard work so proud of everyone, they absolutely team has just gotten better because Miltenberg said. “We weren’t just something way bigger,” Tubby and intensity.” worked their butts off,” Williamson of it because he tells us to compete happy to be there.” said. “It’s gonna be massive.” Going into the third, the Tar Heels said. “That’s the Carolina way.” for each other.” For the men, Tubby and graduate realized they needed more than just This intense-yet-personable and transfer Thomas Ratcliffe both Twitter: @dthsports Matson’s shots to win. Redshirt junior Twitter: @dthsports 4 Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Sports The Daily Tar Heel UNC baseball shut out by Women’s lacrosse No. 18 State remains undefeated No. 1 UNC beat No. Tar Heels going into halftime. By Asheebo Rojas Growney shot three of the team’s Staff Writer 2 Syracuse, 17-6, on 13 shots in the first half, and her [email protected] Saturday teammates helped her to keep UNC competitive — then dominant — It’s been a rough two weeks for the By Lindsey Ware against the Orange. North Carolina baseball team. Staff Writer “Once we got our momentum, we The Tar Heels have lost six out of [email protected] figured out their defense,” Ortega said. their last seven games, including getting In the second half, Growney swept by in-state rival N.C. State and The No. 1 UNC women’s lacrosse sustained an injury when she was losing to No. 8 East Carolina, before team faced off against No. 2 Syracuse fouled by a Syracuse stick hitting her dropping two games in this weekend’s in Chapel Hill on Saturday, with the in the face. This didn’t slow Growney series against No. 18 Florida State. Tar Heels dominating the match to down, however, as she scored on her The series was expected to be tough claim a 17-6 victory. free position shot to increase the Tar for UNC because of how well the Within four minutes of the game Heel lead to 11-4. Growney scored Seminoles have played this season. beginning, it was tied 1-1. Syracuse UNC’s first goal of the half in both Florida State came into the series scored the first goal, but it was quickly halves of Saturday’s game. winning eight of its last 10. The Tar followed by a UNC response from “A lot of it has to do with the Heels were able to steal a win in game senior attacker Scottie Rose Growney. confidence the coaches have instilled one after hitting a walk-off single in Growney has been a driving force in me,” Growney said. “They have so the 9th inning. The second game was DTH FILE/IRA WILDER in North Carolina’s success so far much trust in me.” another tightly contested battle, but Shortstop Danny Serretti offers at a pitch during a 1-6 loss to N.C. State. The this season. She has already scored Redshirt sophomore midfielder the Tar Heels fell just short. Diamond Heels dropped another ACC series to Florida State this weekend. 31 goals in this campaign, up from Elizabeth Hillman then scored to In game three on Easter Sunday, the 22 total goals in the shortened bring the North Carolina lead to Tar Heels suffered their most lopsided steadily produce. Sophomores Justice Roberts said. “We just have to stick to 2020 season and 21 goals in 2019. 10. Hoeg scored the game’s final defeat of the season, losing 8-0. Thompson and Caleb Roberts, as our approach, and just try to barrel the Growney tied her season-high goal with less than a minute left, Lackluster batting was the theme well as redshirt sophomores Danny ball up and good things will happen. We of four goals on Saturday. She making the final score 17-6. this weekend, but it was at its worst Serretti and Angel Zarate, have all gotta do a better job at that.” first reached the mark in a Feb. 28 In a matchup of the two top in the third game when the Tar been big sources of offense. But all Even though the Tar Heels are in showdown against Vanderbilt. teams in the country, North Heels had a total of four hits and 12 have had their share of struggles a slump, there are some positives to “Scottie was unable to have a Carolina’s dominant performance strikeouts in 30 at-bats. during the past six ACC games. take away from their performance breakout season last year because showed the Tar Heels to be clear “I was extremely disappointed in “We’re playing some of the young over the weekend. They fought of COVID,” head coach Jenny Levy national title favorites. our hitters after (Florida State) hit guys, I think our older guys just have hard against a Florida State team said. “She’s a really talented player. Growney’s offensive dominance the home run,” Forbes said. “I thought to be flat out better,” Forbes said. “You sitting third in the Atlantic Division She digests the game.” was a large part of Saturday’s for the first time all year, except for a can’t expect so many young guys to give standings. All weekend, the Seminoles After Growney’s goal, the game Tar Heel win, but so was senior couple, they didn’t compete in the box, you that production — they’re going to simply outplayed the Tar Heels, and it took a turn for the worse for North goalkeeper Taylor Moreno’s which is a big standard of ours.” feed off some of the older guys.” showed the most in the series finale. Carolina. The 1-1 score quickly impressive shot-stopping. Moreno Competing at the plate is a key for the Roberts said consistency comes All that’s left for North Carolina is became 4-1, in favor of the Orange, tied her season-high of 11 saves Tar Heels, considering how many times with taking the game at-bat by at-bat. to find a way to bounce back. but a goal from junior attacker Tayler against Syracuse. She reiterated they have shown their ability to have an He also said Forbes told his team to Forbes and the veterans players Warehime put the Tar Heels back Growney’s sentiment that the explosive offensive showing. However, be aggressive going into game three, have the mindset to get it done. in the game. This goal was quickly team’s success is the product of with the exceptional performances especially with the talent on the “We know that we can play with followed by another from senior collective trust. come some disappointing ones as well mound the Tar Heels faced. anyone in the country, and that’s a midfielder Ally Mastroianni to make “They had all the confidence in — creating a problem of consistency at “The (pitcher) today we knew threw good sign,” Roberts said. the score 4-3. me,” Moreno said. the plate for the Tar Heels. a lot of off-speed pitches, so I think we But a flurry of UNC goals made The veteran North Carolina players might’ve tried to do a little bit too much,” Twitter: @dthsports the score 10-4 in favor of the Twitter: @lindseyashe_ must step up in order for the offense to MAYMESTER 2021 Have it all Earn 3 credit hours in three weeks, then Or, all of the above! Same classes. Fewer weeks. More information at summer.unc.edu. @UNCSummerSchool. 5 University Wednesday, April 7, 2021 dailytarheel.com COVID!19 | VACCINATIONS UNC opens on-campus vaccination clinic Students can now the School of Nursing, said she’s Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz excited to work hands-on to stop expressed his thanks to clinic receive the vaccine at the the pandemic — especially after volunteers for their contribution to Student Union learning remotely for so long. putting an end to the pandemic. “It’s really rewarding to be here,” “Getting students vaccinated is By Kelly Kendall she said. “It’s nice to feel like I’m going to be the next step toward Staff Writer doing something useful.” stopping the spread of this virus,” [email protected] After receiving the vaccine, Guskiewicz said at the opening. students are directed to a waiting Provost Bob Blouin also appeared Just over a year after the area where they stay for 15 minutes to at the opening. He said the clinic will University shut down in-person ensure they do not have a reaction to be integral to the University’s return operations when COVID-19 hit, the vaccine. In the case of a reaction, to normalcy. students saw a flicker of the light at there is also an administration station “Today is the first day that we the end of the tunnel. set up to help students. can probably really say that we At the former Wendy’s restaurant With the vaccine clinic up and see the end of the tunnel,” Blouin in the bottom of the Student Union, running, the University hopes to said. “We all have big plans for UNC opened its first on-campus continue receiving enough doses next fall. In order to really bring vaccine clinic on March 31 from 9 from the state to vaccinate a large this campus back together, to do a.m. to 7 p.m. number of students. what it really aspires to do and Students across campus were This initial shipment of vaccines fully pursue the mission of this eager to get their one-shot dose of the included 2,000 doses of the Johnson University, days like today have Johnson & Johnson vaccine on the & Johnson vaccine. to be successful.” first day the clinic was open, making Ken Pittman, the executive Though there is still uncertainty them the first students to receive the director of Campus Health, said the ahead regarding the course of the vaccine through the University. University expressed a preference pandemic, Pittman said the opening One such student was Cutter Wyatt, for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine of an on-campus clinic is exciting, a first-year graduate student in the to the state because of its one-dose especially considering the state of Gillings School of Global Public Health. DTH FILE/ABE LOVEN administration. However, the brand the pandemic just a year ago. He said after he got an email about A pharmacist prepares a dose of the vaccine in the Student Union on March 31. of vaccine could vary weekly. “It’s thrilling after a year of scheduling his appointment, he was “While we have expressed to the COVID care for our students and signed up just five minutes later. Now that he’s been able to get the appointments, students are directed state that it is our preference to COVID testing, and isolation “I feel like I was probably one shot, Long said it feels like a step to one of six vaccination stations, have Johnson & Johnson, there’s and quarantine,” Pittman said. “I of the first people to sign up for it,” toward normalcy. where Campus Health employees no guarantee,” he said. “We are think this is the hope for so many Wyatt said. “It feels great to have this filling out documentation are certainly equipped in our vaccine of our college students who have Junior Alex Long said he was opportunity, and I really feel like paired with student volunteers clinic to provide both Pfizer and been waiting their turn to get the initially nervous about the side effects I’m getting a piece of my life back administering the vaccine. Moderna to students if that became vaccine, of a return to some sense he might experience after his shot. But by doing this,” he said. These student volunteers come our allocation.” of normalcy both for their summer he felt much more comfortable after from a variety of health sciences and for our return to campus in those working at the vaccine clinic How it works programs at UNC, including nursing A step in the right direction the fall.” made sure he was educated about and Emergency Medical Services. receiving the vaccine. After checking in for Volunteer Lea Yorke, a junior in Prior to the clinic’s opening, Twitter: @kelly2cats_ 600 UNC students eligible for UNC Health provides Moderna vaccine study excess doses to residents By Isabella Reilly infectious diseases physician, with the Prevent COVID U study groups, with one group receiving the Staff Writer idea of using social media. Moderna vaccine group immediately [email protected] Boone Williams, a first-year at UNC, tracks transmission of and the other group receiving it in said although he believes social media virus after innoculation four months time. All adults in North Carolina will is an effective platform, he had to book The main trials that the vaccines be eligible for a vaccine beginning on his appointment another way because By Natalie Johnson were designed — and approved — on April 7. But for Chapel Hill residents, he isn’t active on Twitter. were looking at whether the vaccine the wait for a COVID-19 vaccine may Williams said he thinks an email or Staff Writer be coming to an end even sooner. [email protected] prevented the disease, but there has text list would also be an efficient way not been much data yet on the rate UNC Health is providing surplus of notifying the community. A new study launched by the of COVID-19 transmission with doses to residents living within 20 Ramsey said the clinic is working National Institute of Allergy and vaccinated individuals — which is minutes of the Friday Conference on making use of other forms of Infectious Diseases’ COVID-19 what this study is trying to answer, Center, located at 100 Friday Center communication, such as radio Prevention Network at the U.S. Pettifor said. COVID-19 Vaccine Drive in Chapel Hill, to ensure that announcements. This would provide no vaccines are wasted. National Institutes of Health will be Pettifor said that eligible students backgrounds and have a multitude those without access to social media Elizabeth Ramsey, director of offering the Moderna vaccine to over would be between 18 and 26 years of opinions on vaccines and on the or online technology the necessary clinical business operations for UNC 12,000 college students nationwide old, have not yet been vaccinated and pandemic,” Charles said. information about available doses. Health, said those seeking to obtain — including at UNC. ideally would not have had COVID- This involves actively recruiting To ensure equitable distribution, these vaccines must be at least 18 The trial, Prevent COVID U, 19 before. UNC students for the study from the clinic has collaborated with years old. hopes to test the transmission rate Students enrolled in the trial all backgrounds of different races, community partners to prioritize The vaccination site uses an of COVID-19 among vaccinated would have to swab their noses every ethnicities and genders, Charles said. marginalized and vulnerable independent Twitter account to notify individuals with the Moderna day and drop their swabs off twice a Sophomore Jinia Chakraborty populations, Ramsey said. the community of excess doses. vaccine. Over 600 UNC students will week at UNC testing centers around said that it is exciting to see UNC Divers said she views this service From Twitter, residents are be enrolled in the study, which will campus, Pettifor said. being proactive and doing its own as a step in the right direction and instructed to call the surplus line, take place over four months. Pettifor said students will also be research to study transmission. encourages Chapel Hill residents to a dedicated phone number used for Dr. Sylvia Becker-Dreps, asked to invite their close contacts “I think it’s great that the University take advantage of the phone line. gathering patient names. Ramsey co-principal investigator and to participate in the trial, so they is doing this so we can be a little bit Chapel Hill resident Tyrel Souza said the phone line operates on a professor of epidemiology at UNC can help answer the question of safer and understand how best to said he is grateful that UNC Health first-come, first-serve basis, and Gillings School of Global Public transmission among vaccinated and open up school again in the fall since is offering doses to students and callers who get through are placed Health, said the study is being funded non-vaccinated individuals. administration is hoping for in-person other community members. on the vaccine list. by the National Institutes of Health Emile Charles, a first-year classes,” Chakraborty said. Souza called the surplus phone “There is a small chance they won’t and is being administered centrally student and a Youth Advisory Board First-year Charlotte Moore said she line, but he said he was unable to get receive a dose that day,” Ramsey said. through the Fred Hutchinson Cancer representative for the trial, said that hopes that all students who qualify to on the vaccine list. “But they will be scheduled within Research Center in Seattle. his role in the study is to make sure receive the vaccine will do so, so classes Ramsey said she believes this typically about a week at the clinic The Fred Hutchinson Cancer it is being performed in a socially can be in person again in the near service is essential due to the to receive an actual appointment.” Research Institute then made the responsible and equitable way. future. While Moore is not a participant shortage of vaccines in North The site offers all approved study available to universities across Charles said that all of the in the study, she said she has already Carolina and thinks UNC has done vaccines. Ramsey said that depending the country that already has large recruitment materials for the study go received the Moderna vaccine. a good job of not allowing for any on the day, all three might not be research infrastructure in place, through him, and he is able to make “I think the trial is very interesting,” wasted doses. available. Patients cannot choose Becker-Dreps said. sure the materials around recruitment Moore said. “Hopefully they will be able “If we have extra doses, then between manufacturers, she said. There are 27 study sites at are community-centered to ensure the to track the students and transmission those can go into people’s arms Clinical Operations Manager universities across the nation, trial is diverse and representative of the rate pretty well so students can be back and save lives,” she said. “Our staff Kelsey Divers said UNC Health began Becker-Dreps said. student population. on campus in the fall.” operates as if this is another person offering the extra doses to guarantee Audrey Pettifor, epidemiology “One thing to keep in mind while To learn more about the clinical that then has the opportunity to get none would go to waste. professor at the Gillings School and we are doing this is to make sure trial, go to Prevent COVID U or email the vaccine that otherwise wouldn’t As of Friday, 25 people have used co-principal investigator of the trial, that we have a good diversity of [email protected]. have got vaccinated. And that’s said that students enrolled in the participants and that means folks the service. Ramsey credits Dr. Daniel really meaningful.” Park, pediatric emergency medicine trial would be randomized into two who come from a multitude of Twitter: @dailytarheel physician, and Dr. David Wohl, Twitter: @dailytarheel 6 Wednesday, April 7, 2021 University The Daily Tar Heel

UNC FACULTY After 36 years, Genna Rae McNeil retires from the history department She was the department’s at the University of Chicago and her first years teaching at UNC. first Black tenure-track Despite being asked by a student faculty member in her class at UNC if she had a degree, she expanded the African By Sophie Seoyoung Cho American History course from one Staff Writer semester to two. [email protected] McNeil resigned from her faculty position in 1979 after returning from Genna Rae McNeil — the first a leave of absence. During her leave, Black tenure-track faculty member she was a visiting professor at the in UNC’s history department — will Howard University School of Law retire this semester after working at and worked on amici curiae briefs UNC for 36 years. for the landmark case of Regents of McNeil, a professor specializing the University of California v. Bakke. in African American History She returned to UNC in July with an emphasis on race, law 1990. She has since chaired UNC’s and social movements, joined the Faculty Hearings Committee, served history department in 1974. She on the Pogue Scholarship selection joined the department under the committee, the Advisory Committee recommendation of American for the Institute of African American scholar John Hope Franklin; she was Research and currently, the his doctoral student at the University department’s Working Group on of Chicago. Equity and Inclusion. McNeil said that her parents Professor Miguel La Serna, the — Jesse Jai and Pearl Lee Walker director of diversity, equity and McNeil, who both earned doctorate inclusion for the history department degrees — instilled a fire in her and one of McNeil’s mentees, said that one should take advantage of that conversations with professor opportunities to be the first. McNeil led to the creation of the She said this pushed her to be the working group this past semester. first African American to take the “After the killing of George entrance exam for the Westridge Floyd this past summer, it was PHOTO COURTESY OF JON GARDINER School for Girls in Pasadena, Professor McNeil who initiated the California, and led to her being the conversation that needed to happen Professor Genna Rae McNeil accompanies Colin Palmer to receive the Award for Scholarly Distinction at UNC in 2018. first African American to graduate in our department about coming to “She’s the one that can tell you how moment for her two classes, the University, or even with respect from the school in 1965. terms with our own complicity in to make things better. She’s the one American Constitutional History to the minutia departmental day- “God has placed this power systems of white supremacy at UNC,” that can help make sense of what’s and Race, Racism and Law, to-day dealings, we’re going to within us to do more than we can La Serna said. on the page. She’s the one that can discussing the implications of that think, ‘Well if Genna Rae McNeil even imagine, so we should not be With the support of the history tell you why this particular political event through a constitutional were here right now, what would stymied in our struggles and in our department and the Center for movement was not as successful as history and critical race theory lens. she do?’” challenges,” McNeil said. the Study of the American South another. She’s that kind of mentor.” During her retirement, McNeil At the close of each semester, Growing up, McNeil excelled in with professors Harry Watson and McNeil’s mentorship extends will finish writing her book on McNeil has a practice of celebrating many areas. She became associate William Ferris, McNeil also founded beyond her colleagues into the the “‘Free Joan Little’ Movement.” graduating seniors by giving each one editor of her high school newspaper, the University’s African American classroom. She calls her students She will also continue to make a page of quotations from African a singer covering songs by Aretha History Month Lecture — an annual “student-scholars,” and aims to create recommendations for alumni American figures and proverbs. She Franklin in her college band and lecture series that recognizes the a non-hostile learning environment for awards and honorary degrees for also reads a quotation from Howard a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of importance of African American each one. She tells them they should people of color and women. Thurman, Audre Lorde or a proverb Kalamazoo College. history through leading scholars understand themselves as history- “I’ve already told her that for her entire class. She sought justice and truth and scholar-activists. McNeil said makers who can apply what they I’m going to continue to be in “My favorite words to share come through her one-person protest in she had help from the Sonja Haynes have learned from the classroom into conversation with her and look to from a proverb, the origin of which high school of the 1964 California Stone Center Director Joseph transforming the world around them. her guidance and wisdom on issues is many cultures: African, Chinese, Proposition 14 — which permitted Jordan, former diversity officer G. For example, McNeil turned that we can find,” La Serna said. Greek and Irish,” McNeil said. “It discrimination on racial and ethnic Rumay Alexander, as well as history the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. “Anytime that there are important speaks to the individual’s role in grounds when selling housing. department accountant Joyce Loftin. Capitol into a broader teaching issues happening in the world or at transformation of any society toward She was also involved with the “She’s a constant,” Jordan said. that which is good and just for all. It Black Student Organization at speaks to what has motivated me as Kalamazoo College, which included “God has placed this power within us to do more than we can even imagine, so a professor: ‘A civilization flourishes demonstrations for hiring Black when people plant trees under the professors and fair treatment of we should not be stymied in our struggles and in our challenges.” shade of which they do not expect Black students in work-study. to sit.” McNeil said this carried her Genna Rae McNeil through her graduate education Retiring UNC history professor Twitter: @dailytarheel

BRIEFS UNC group supports education, UNC Computer Science admissions process by putting limits on the number of seats in two core classes Department suspends required to complete the major. women’s rights changes in India admissions plan Cynthia Dong

AID has been supporting UNC AID’s president, Iniya said. “The goal, I would say, is to The UNC Computer Science Suspect arrested in Muthukumaren, said the doctors bring together project partners and Department announced Monday its development in India discussed the logistics of providing connect nonprofit organizations January Campus Y vandalism since June 2020 health care to impoverished with donors.” plan to move towards an admissions- communities, and why the issue is Bani Bajaj, one of UNC AID’s based system starting in fall 2021, The suspect in the Jan. 24 By Kelly Kendall important to both UNC AID and JSS. co-vice presidents, said the work which would have been the first vandalism of the Campus Y was Staff Writer “At our speaker event, there were that JSS does is especially relevant to department to do so within the arrested and charged with both [email protected] three doctors who have worked the chapter’s mission because health College of Arts and Sciences. vandalism, which is a misdemeanor, with this kind of low-cost effective care is often inaccessible for these But less than 24 hours after By connecting donors health care,” she said. “They spoke poor communities. and breaking and entering, which is with charities that support about the challenges that people “There’s a lot of barriers for announcing its plans, the Computer a felony, Media Relations Manager underprivileged communities living in these rural areas face and communities in terms of access to Science Department issued an email for UNC Police Kate Maroney said in in India, UNC’s chapter of the how health care technology had health care, whether it be that there’s to all computer science majors and an email to the DTH Tuesday. Association for India’s Development to be adapted to be affordable, not a hospital nearby or that people the Dean of the College of Arts and The damage to the Campus Y hopes to raise awareness for key but also effective, for the specific don’t have adequate funds to go or Sciences, Terry Rhodes, stating that the included white T-shirts emblazoned issues like health care, education problems faced by these villages.” stay in hospitals,” Bajaj said. admissions plans have been suspended. access and women’s rights. Ultimately, the event drew in Moving forward, the members of with a Confederate flag crossed out Since its establishment in June over 75 participants ranging from UNC AID will continue to educate Department Chairperson Kevin with a red X draped over a banister, 2020, UNC AID has worked students, community members and themselves and others on methods Jeffay confirmed in an email to The the removal of photographs of Black to impact issues facing Indian donors. UNC AID was able to raise of promoting development in India. Daily Tar Heel that the department people lining the walls and a cardboard communities through projects — $4,300 to fund JSS in its mission to Muthukumaren said she hopes to will not be moving forward with the tombstone painted with “Tar Heel Born, like its recent speaker event with Jan bring health care to marginalized continue supporting JSS and gain admissions process at this time. He now Tar Heel Dead” sitting next to a Swasthya Sahyog. communities. a broader understanding of health declined to provide details on why canvas covered with dozens of names in JSS is a Central India-based Muthukumaren said the chapter care disparities in India. organization that aims to provide also focuses on education access and “Education is a really big the department reversed its plans. the shape of a Confederate flag. health care services in rural and women’s rights. component of our chapter,” she said. The goal of the plan was to Meantime baristas also tribal regions of Central India. It “Our main goal is to provide “We don’t ever want to make it seem eventually cut the number of discovered that 35 W-2 tax forms specializes in community health sustainable and equitable like we completely understand all of undergraduate computer science had been stolen, which contain programs like pediatric care, development to rural India, and these complex issues. We just want to majors by half. valuable personal information, emergency services and medicine. the main way we do that is by get as close to them as possible and It was initially decided by a hotly- including employees’ addresses and The event on March 7 hosted supporting local charitable projects,” make a continued effort.” doctors working with JSS to speak Sneha Jaikumar, one of UNC AID’s debated faculty vote on Friday that the Social Security numbers. about their work over Zoom. co-directors of donor relations, Twitter: @dailytarheel department will transition toward an Praveena Somasundaram The Daily Tar Heel University Wednesday, April 7, 2021 7 University selects new chief financial officer UNC announced Nate the University budget. Schools and departments face a 1.5 percent cut Knuffman as incoming to personnel funds and 7.5 percent CFO on March 22 cut to operations funds for fiscal years 2021 and 2022. Individual By Max Hazerjian department budgets submitted in Staff Writer response to this proposal have been [email protected] approved by the University. Knuffman stressed the value of UNC’s budget shortfall presents a implementing the plan now. serious problem. But Nate Knuffman, “Collectively, this really reflects our the new chief financial officer and vice commitment to fiscal responsibility,” chancellor for finance and operations, Knuffman said at the meeting. “We hopes to bring solutions and has are on track to balance our budget received support from the University’s by fiscal year 2022, and for the faculty members. foreseeable future. Many have asked: The University is facing a roughly ‘Why tackle this now?’ We believe it billion-dollar deficit from three sources is prudent and fiscally responsible. — a $100 million structural deficit; Inaction is not sustainable. Moreover, $200 million in losses stemming from our governing bodies are demanding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic; and more fiscal responsibility.” $850 million in deferred maintenance. Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz After extensive negotiations with expressed confidence in Knuffman’s faculty committees, Knuffman helped handling of the budget situation in the University develop a solution to a statement to The Daily Tar Heel. address the financial challenges while “Over the past several months, Nate he was the interim vice chancellor for has been instrumental in helping the finance and operations. University develop a comprehensive PHOTO COURTESY OF JON GARDINER/UNC!CHAPEL HILL Knuffman took on this interim plan to address our financial Nathan Knuffman was named chief financial officer and vice chancellor for finance and operations amid budget concerns. role after Jonathan Pruitt left UNC- challenges and create a new budget Chapel Hill to work for the UNC model during unprecedented times. System last fall. He has become a familiar face to many, noted Knuffman’s attentiveness really difficult time for this University,” University for years to come. After a competitive, national as he has presented to numerous and responsiveness to the requests Aikat said. “So we really need his “I think his shoulders must be search, the University announced groups about how we will address our of faculty. leadership to move us forward. He heavy pulling this off,” Aikat said. Knuffman as the new chief financial budget challenges and implement a “There’s been more conversation has been engaged in extensive budget “If he can pull this off, he would not officer in a campus message on new budget model for the future,” and transparency between the discussions and they already decided only save Carolina, but the spirit of March 12. Knuffman officially Guskiewicz said in the statement. administration and Faculty Council on what to cut.” higher education in the great state started in this role on March 22. about budget planning than there’s Aikat said UNC needs someone of North Carolina.” Faculty support ever been,” she said. who deals with finances in a Knuffman’s plan Deb Aikat, a professor at the strategic and compassionate way in University desk reporter Grace Mimi Chapman, chairperson of Hussman School of Journalism and the role of chief financial officer to Battle Thompson contributed In the March 19 meeting of the the faculty, said she has noticed Media, also praised Knuffman and handle the growing budget crisis. reporting. Faculty Council and general faculty, an improvement in how the his approach thus far. But Aikat believes that Knuffman Knuffman laid out the plan to balance University handles the budget. She “Nate Knuffman is coming in at a has the potential to benefit the Twitter: @dailytarheel UNC-affiliated startup develops gene therapy years ago on what would become The product has a Pre-IND, only can impact you physically, but the startup’s first product after or pre-investigational new drug, also has substantial impacts on one’s connecting with Dr. Joanne status with the Food and Drug mental health, so I believe RainBio Kurtzberg at , who Administration, which means the will drastically change people’s lives treated MPS I patients with stem cell FDA has not yet permitted a Phase and give them not only their sight but transplantation. Despite improving I clinical trial, Hirsch said. a newfound sense of independence mobility and neurological processes, Martin said, while no human and confidence,” Pete said. Kurtzberg found her patients still patients have received the RainBio RainBio received financial went blind due to corneal clouding. gene therapy product, the company support from the department of She proposed this type of gene has completed three cohorts of ophthalmology at UNC in the early therapy, adeno-associated virus animal testing. stages of its research. Innovate gene therapy, to correct vision loss. The startup conducted animal Carolina provided guidance in RainBio’s product works by injecting testing on dogs with corneal forming the company and transferring the virus into the eye, which is clouding due to MPS I and found licensing materials, Hirsch said. harmless to patients. The virus acts the gene therapy to reverse the Innovate Carolina’s Kelly Parsons, as a delivery vehicle for a sequence disease and prevent progression. associate director of technology that produces protein that the Additionally, the group conducted commercialization in the UNC Office patients lack, Hirsch said. studies on rabbits without MPS I, of Technology Commercialization, “What we are using is just a which demonstrated tolerability and said in a statement to The Daily Tar DTH/AUSTIN WANG protein capsid,” Hirsch said. “Inside safety, Hirsch said. Heel that Innovate Carolina helps Ophthalmology Associate Professor and RainBio co-founder Matthew Hirsch is just the single stranded piece of The company hopes to get their companies that have UNC-licensed poses for a portrait outside of the Neuroscience Research Building on March 31. DNA, and in that DNA the only product on the market in 2026, but technology to attract investments thing that encodes protein is the there are many steps to complete before and resources, and protect their By Emma Lindsey MPS I is caused by mutations in a sequence that we engineer inside of this is possible. RainBio must complete intellectual property. Staff Writer gene, which leads to the absence of it. Then it makes the protein that the several rounds of meetings with the Hirsch hopes the company’s work [email protected] the corresponding enzyme. Without patients are deficient for.” FDA before it can begin clinical trials will open the door for future corneal this enzyme, different organs and Fran Martin, president of RainBio, or manufacturing the treatment. gene therapy innovations. A UNC-affiliated startup is tissues of the body enlarge, resulting said these therapies promise patients Charlotte Pete, president and “This is kind of like a gateway drug advancing gene therapy to help in debilitating conditions, including only have to complete the therapy founder of Students for Rare, a club and, if we can get it into just a few patients suffering from a rare disease corneal clouding, which creates one time. at UNC that seeks to raise awareness patients, if it helps then collectively, that can lead to vision loss. vision impairment. But RainBio “You just get the gene in your for uncommon diseases, said she with our colleagues we will have The company, known as RainBio, aims to treat this. system — the corrected gene in your hopes RainBio inspires others to a bigger impact in just improving is developing a particular type of gene RainBio Co-Founder Matthew system — one time and your body put in the hard work to develop more vision in general,” Hirsch said. therapy to combat blindness in patients Hirsch, an associate professor and your cells are able to have the rare disease therapies. with Mucopolysaccharidosis type I. at UNC, said he began work six corrected genetic code,” Martin said. “Living with a rare disease not Twitter: @dailytarheel

Rothwell said the skills he used Chapel Hill is not healthy and faculty to make connections as a former economic developer in vibrant, it impacts the ability of through research and studies,” UNC, Town aim for Detroit, Michigan, have helped him Carolina to attract talented students Hemminger said. to co-lead the economic development and faculty.” Hemminger said she and plan as a University representative. Rothwell said there are colleagues hope to work together economic progress “I was very grateful for someone teams in place to make the on a master plan to grow business at his level and experience to come community, especially downtown and commerce in the downtown By Caroline Yaffa by Doug Rothwell, executive-in- in and work with the chancellor Chapel Hill, more vibrant. The area. She said the community to identify this opportunity,” said economic strategy includes a should expect the initiative to make Staff Writer residence for economic development [email protected] in Innovate Carolina, and Chapel Gordon Merklein, associate vice variety of plans that the Town progress regarding its cleanup phase Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger. chancellor of University real estate and University hope to complete as early as spring graduation. A new initiative by the University The COVID-19 pandemic has operations and a member of the throughout their development of She also said the community and Town of Chapel Hill seeks pushed the economic development executive team of the Carolina the downtown area. should expect more planning and to revitalize downtown and spur plan into full force, Rothwell and Economic Development Strategy. Hemminger said the Carolina possible construction, including real economic development in the Chapel Hemminger said. The plan includes Rothwell said he and Chancellor Economic Development Strategy estate leasing, over the summer. Hill community. cleaning up the downtown area and Kevin Guskiewicz agreed that their has four parts. “We are taking steps to be ready The initiative, announced in tending to some maintenance issues. biggest goal is to help Chapel Hill “A separate council has been for all of this as we are moving late March, is called the Carolina It also lists creating an innovation and its community. formed made up of University forward together,” Hemminger said. Economic Development Strategy. hub and a parking garage in a “Chapel Hill and Carolina are leaders to recruit and set up The executive committee is co-led centralized location. intertwined,” Rothwell said. “If opportunities for students and Twitter: @dailytarheel 8 Wednesday, April 7, 2021 City dailytarheel.com WOMEN LEAD Meet the women in charge of Orange County’s public safety systems By Britney Nguyen Staff Writer [email protected]

On the heels of Women’s History Month, The Daily Tar Heel is spotlighting six women in Orange County’s public safety system who have helped each of their departments reform the old and create new protocols to aid the community. This is the first section of a two-part series. These three women focus on documenting and maintaining the portions of Orange County’s public safety system dealing with community involvement and mental health.

Alicia Stemper, director of public information and special services for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office

Alicia Stemper is the director of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Public Information and Special Services, a job that she said she has repurposed with her various skills in law enforcement, photography and writing. DTH/CYNTHIA LIU DTH/CYNTHIA LIU During her early years in Current Orange County Director of Housing and Community Development Megan Johnson, the Chapel Hill Police Department’s Police Crisis Unit Chapel Hill, Stemper worked as a Emilia Sutton poses for a portrait in Durham on Sunday, Apr. 4, 2021. Supervisor and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, poses for a portrait. crisis counselor, then later in the magistrate’s office in Orange County. Community Relations division of Resource Department. three years, the team of six responders focus on mental health issues at Before that, she worked for 13 years as Orange County to highlight the Some of her work involves has been led by Megan Johnson. the surface. a mitigation officer, traveling across lives of residents in nearly 100 operating the Local Reentry The team follows the same safety Johnson said she noticed many the state for death penalty cases. essays and various photo galleries. Council, which helps formerly protocols as law enforcement, other factors contribute to a mental Ten years ago, Stemper was focusing incarcerated individuals reenter responding to calls and following health crisis. They may be suicidal, on her career in law enforcement and Caitlin Fenhagen, director of the into the community, as well as the the same radio channel to see if but it might be because of instances practicing photography on the side. Orange County Criminal Justice co-organization of the SOHRAD they’re needed on the scene. of substance abuse, domestic Now, the self-taught skill has become Resource Department program. Fenhagen is one of the few Johnson said they will complete violence or past trauma. a crucial part of her job. women running programs like this an assessment if it’s a mental health “We prevent some of those mental “So when Sheriff Blackwood was Orange County Criminal Justice in Orange County. crisis and if it’s sexual assualt or health crises from even occurring looking for someone who kind of Resource Department Director “I hope traditional notions of what domestic violence, they will listen because we address some of the spoke law enforcement, for me it Caitlin Fenhagen said she grew up public safety means can be broadened to the identified person tell their issues that contribute to them,” was almost like turning the light wanting to be a public defender. so women will feel much more perspective and connect them to the Johnson said. backwards and going ‘oh now I see “I went through high school, encouraged to be part of the process services they need. With the recent national notice where I was headed,’” Stemper said. undergrad and law school knowing for making sure our communities are As a certified mental health law enforcement protocols have Along with her work as the public that that’s what I wanted to do, but I safe,” Fenhagen said. counselor, Johnson applied seen, the co-responder model information officer for roughly did not see shifting to the work that and moved to the Triangle from — also used by the Chapel Hill two years, Stemper has adopted I’m doing now,” said Fenhagen. Megan Johnson, supervisor of the Virginia for this job – she’s the Crisis Unit — is receiving positive other working outlets, like project After spending some time in Chapel Hill Crisis Unit third person to hold this position attention within the public safety Vitamin O. This is a currently Philadelphia and a few years in in the fifty years of the program’s communities across the country. dormant joint venture she began the Bronx, Fenhagen became the The Chapel Hill Crisis Unit has activation. Johnson said most in 2015 with the Government and director of the Criminal Justice been active since 1973. For the past poor responder models often Twitter: @Emmy.Trivette Carrboro resident wins $22,001 on two-day Jeopardy! run about,” Peters said. that on. I’m really glad that I did have said wrong or mispronounced. it now.” “The adrenaline takes over, and you A champion of trivia and democracy go down and you play,” Peters said. “To What the experience was like be honest, because it’s moving so fast, Peters played on a quiz bowl it’s easy not to be very aware of where team at her high school in Peters started the process of the dollar amounts are.” central Missouri and in college trying out for the show in January Peters posted on social media at Vanderbilt University. She 2020. She took a test online that that she would be on the show and continued to participate in was 50 questions long, with 30 said she received a lot of messages and staff quiz tournaments for seconds for each question. She of support from family and friends. college competitions. didn’t hear back until September Her sister, Pam Eaton, watched Now, she is a civic technologist of the same year. The second test from Vermont with her son Harley. by practice and came to UNC was another 50 questions, with less “He was very excited for her this past July to work as the time to answer and in the presence and watching the people hit the executive director for the Center of producers over Zoom. buzzers,” Eaton said. “It was a really for Information, Technology and Peters was scheduled to do a fun experience to not only watch my Public Life. third test in November, but it was sister, but to see how excited he was For the last 10 years, Peters postponed due to the death of the to cheer on his aunt on television.” has been running a nonprofit show’s long-time host Alex Trebek. Kelsi Herberer-Davis, a friend DTH/CALLI WESTRA she created called Democracy Once she took the third test, she was from high school, also watched Carrboro resident and UNC Research Director Kathryn Peters won on the Works that helps more people invited to do the show and headed out Peters compete after seeing her post March 22 episode of Jeopardy. Her one-day cash winnings totaled $20,001. vote through building technology to California to film at Sony Pictures on Facebook. tools and data sets to explain how Studios. She had to take COVID-19 “It was always the kind of a, ‘guess By Britney Nguyen finished in second place. elections work. tests before boarding the plane and who would be the person who would Staff Writer Peters’ combined winnings Peters has always considered once she arrived at the studio. actually end up on the show’ and I’m [email protected] from both games was $22,001, herself a perfectionist. When “During the taping day they had us glad it was Katy,” Herberer-Davis some of which she pledged to two thinking about trying out for the in masks and spaced from one another said. “Katy’s a good representative of Carrboro resident Kathryn Peters, organizations that work to ensure show, she always felt excitement the entire time,” Peters said. “The only our nerd group.” a lifelong trivia fan who grew up people can vote easily. She pledged about the possibility and deep fear point where we weren’t in a mask was With the rest of her winnings, watching “Jeopardy!”, recently got five percent of her winnings, $1,100, about getting something wrong on when you were standing at the podium Peters said she would like to save it the chance to compete on the show to the Center for Civic Design, and national television. Ultimately, that next to your other competitors, right as for a big trip after the pandemic to and left a champion. another five percent to Vot-ER, a fear came true, but not before she they were about to begin taping.” the one populated continent that she Peters won first place on a new initiative through which doctors won a game. Peters said taping an episode feels hasn’t visited — South America. “Jeopardy!” episode that aired on and other healthcare professionals “I’ve gotten to be a bit less of like watching it as it happens. During “When something that lucky March 22. She returned as the help to register voters. a perfectionist and a little more commercial breaks, contestants can comes in, I’m thinking of doing reigning champ on an episode that “I wanted to take 10 percent of comfortable with being human, I pause for a drink of water, answers something very fun with it,” she said. aired March 23, where she misread it and put it forward to something suppose,” Peters said. “It was finally can be challenged by contestants and the Final Jeopardy! question and that was good and that I cared the right time to go try out and take the host can re-tape anything they may Twitter: @BritneyCath 9 Wednesday, April 7, 2021 State dailytarheel.com

education policy at Equality NC, said they don’t think this bill belongs Bill would ban athletes in the state legislature, partially because North Carolina High School Athletic Association already has a policy on gender identity. from joining gender- The Gender Policy of the NCHSAA authorizes athletes to participate on the athletic team of their aligned gender identity. The identifying teams NCHSAA passed the policy in 2019, in which they outline a step-by-step By Kathryn Goodwin and collegiate athletes onto teams by process to provide all students with Staff Writer their sex assigned at birth. Most of an equal opportunity to play high [email protected] the bills focus on women’s athletics. school sports. North Carolina’s bill attempts to “We’ve already had students that A new bill in the state legislature address an “issue that’s coming our have been participating, without any could require middle, high school way,” Brody said. issue, on teams aligned with their and collegiate athletes to compete “It makes a policy statement that gender identity,” Kern said. on the team correlating with their men are not allowed to participate But HB 358 states that athletic sex assigned at birth. in women’s sports, that is the sex- associations or organizations would House Bill 358, introduced on segregated sports,” Brody said. not be allowed to investigate claims March 22 in the North Carolina Local and regional groups of discrimination based on gender House of Representatives as the have already begun fighting the identity should a school choose to “Save Women’s Sports Act,” is bill. Allison Scott, a transgender maintain athletic teams segregated DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/CHASE COFIELD part of a wave of bills introduced woman and the director of impact by sex. N.C. state legislators have introduced HB 358, which intends to ban transgender across the country to segregate and innovation at the Campaign “If someone were to ask us, ‘do women and girls from playing women’s sports in high school and college. teams in this way. for Southern Equality, said HB you believe that your policy when North Carolina’s bill cites 358 is a reflection of multiple bills you all passed it back in 2019 – was in North Carolina faced a form chances of leaving school. “inherent differences” between from a number of states. it the right thing to do for people?’” of mistreatment, like verbal “It’s hard to be a teenager, no males and females as the main “It is seemingly a coordinated NCHSAA Commissioner Que Tucker harassment or prohibition from matter who you are – and it’s justification for segregating the attack on trans and non-binary said. “The answer to that is yes, and wearing clothes aligned with measurably harder to have your sexes in athletics, rather than people – name it for what it is we could give all the reasons why we their gender identity, between institutions discriminating against allowing individuals to compete – specifically attacks on trans- believe it was the right thing to do kindergarten and the 12th grade, you,” they said. “(This legislation) on the team correlating to their feminine, trans girls in high then and why it still is the right thing according to the North Carolina can keep trans-youth from being gender identity. school,” Scott said. to do now.” State Report from the U.S. able to attain higher education Four Republican N.C. House Approximately 11,000 individuals, On Jan. 20, President Joe Biden Transgender Survey in 2015. and scholarships that would make representatives drafted and ages 13 to 24, identify as transgender signed an Executive Order explicitly The same report cited that 21 higher education possible, which sponsored this bill: Rep. Mark Brody in the state of North Carolina, prohibiting discrimination based percent of trans-identifying persons then impacts their entire lives.” (R–Anson, Union), Rep. Pat McElraft according to a January 2017 study at on gender identity and sexual in North Carolina faced such severe Kern agreed. (R–Carteret, Jones), Rep. Diane the Williams Institute at the UCLA orientation based on Title VII from mistreatment that they stopped “If this bill is signed, it could Wheatley (R–Cumberland) and Rep. School of Law. North Carolina has a the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Brody attending their K-12 school. continue some really harmful Jimmy Dixon (R–Duplin, Onslow). population of about 10.5 million. said HB 358, along with similar bills Carrboro resident Tiz Giordano outcomes that we’ve already been In addition to North Carolina, “I think most of these bills are across the country, is in response to said they categorize HB358 as policy seeing not only in our state, but as over 30 other states are in the trying to fix a problem that frankly this order. violence that will only legitimize a nation,” Kern said. process of or have already passed doesn’t exist,” Scott said. Seventy-five percent of harassment at school and at home, laws segregating middle, high school Rebby Kern, the director of trans-identifying individuals thus increasing a trans youth’s Twitter: @KatGoodwin613 Coalition demands sound education for all students By Bethany Lee we’re positioning advocates to the Leandro decision, the state revealed his budget proposal for equity policy that aimed to reduce the Staff Writer strengthen the work they’re already continued to rank one as of the 2021-2023, which includes $585.6 achievement gap between white and [email protected] doing in their communities.” lowest in the country in terms of million for the fiscal year 2021-22 non-white students. In 2018, CHCCS Every Child NC began organizing school funding and equity. In fact, and $1 billion for the fiscal year launched a strategic plan to repair A community-led coalition in 2019 after the release of “Sound after 2009, funding for state schools 2022-2023 to address the needs inequities and supply every student is demanding legislators fulfill Basic Education for All: An Action decreased. North Carolina would determined in the Leandro plan. with a successful school experience. their promise to ensure equitable Plan for North Carolina,” a court- have to increase its spending by $3.6 Rev. Paul Ford, president of the But Montgomery said the work of education for all students in North ordered analysis by an outside billion in order to reach the average Board of Directors for Action4Equity Every Child NC doesn’t end with policy Carolina, based on a court-ordered consulting group, WestEd. spending level in the country. — one of Every Child NC’s partners and budget proposals. She said meeting action plan from 2019. The WestEd report identified eight Low funding disproportionately — said the WestEd report served as the action steps outlined in the Leandro Communities for the Education critical needs that must be met for affects students from high-risk a catalyst for bringing attention to plan represents the bare minimum of Every Child NC is comprised the state to fulfill its constitutional backgrounds: students with education inequity across the state. North Carolina could do for its students. of multiple organizations that obligation. It was ordered based on disabilities, students of color, rural School funding varies greatly by Montgomery and Ford see specialize in various education and North Carolina’s failure to comply with and low-income students, English district. North Carolina faces huge Every Child NC as a radical way to equity-related issues across the state. constitutional standards to provide all learners and early childhood funding disparities between counties approach the state’s education issues. Sarah Montgomery is the senior students with a “sound basic education” students. Every Child NC identifies with high taxable resources, like Ford said their community-based policy advocate with the Education — a precedent determined in the 1994 these vulnerable populations as a Orange County, and poorer counties. approach prevents “siloism” between and Law Project of the North Carolina N.C. Supreme Court Case Leandro main focus of their work. Montgomery said Every Child NC is organizations that work separately to Justice Center, which is one of Every v. State of North Carolina, where five On March 15, the state submitted working to close the gaps between school address the same issues. Child NC’s five coordinating committee school districts sued the N.C. Education The Leandro Comprehensive districts and the gaps between high and “If we can set aside the silo mentality members. Montgomery said the System for inadequate funding. Remedial Plan to the North Carolina low-risk students in all districts. and begin to come together and work coalition aims to unite organizations The court ruled in 1997 — and again Supreme Court outlining the action Orange County Schools and Chapel together,” Ford said, “we have so many that work to improve educational equity. in 2004 — that North Carolina Schools steps North Carolina will take to Hill-Carrboro City Schools have more resources that we can leverage to “We set out not to create a whole are required to provide students with provide a sound, basic education to developed their own plans to address fully amplify our voice.” new body of work,” Montgomery an equitable education. every student by 2030. inequity. In January 2019, the OCS said. “But to really make sure that But in the years following The next week, Gov. Roy Cooper Board of Education passed a racial Twitter: @bethanyyllee

currently has the lowest in the nation. importance of keeping these children justice system who are under age 10 enforcement has been quicker to send With bipartisan support, Senate out of the courts. will meet with a court counselor to children to the courts, Mohammed N.C. Senate Bill 207 is aimed to keep young Deputy Secretary for Juvenile assess the appropriate resources for said, which has increased this need children out of the criminal justice Justice William Lassiter said it’s that individual. for change within the system. system in order to minimize early important to keep children below Lassiter said this alternative process After the death of George votes to raise trauma and help struggling kids and the age of 10 out of the court system. will allow children to obtain the Floyd, Mohammed said there families get the help that they need. Lassiter said these children mental health assistance they need in has been increased scrutiny into State Sen. Mujtaba Mohammed cannot comprehend the decisions order to prevent further encounters the justice system, including the age for juvenile (D–Mecklenburg), one of three that lawyers are making on their with the criminal justice system. juvenile justice process, which has primary sponsors on the bill, said behalf, and such early experiences Ann Webb, senior policy counsel accelerated the interest in Senate since children below the age of 10 are with the justice system will only for the ACLU of North Carolina, said Bill 207 over the past year. delinquency unable to understand the American cause further trauma for these kids. these children should be receiving “Both Republicans and Democrats court process, they should not be tried “There are better ways to provide guidance from the justice system, are excited about doing the right By Kelli Rainer as juveniles by the justice system. services and to hold kids accountable at as opposed to being punished for thing,” he said. Staff Writer “A lot of these kids don’t have that age,” Lassiter said. “We should be crimes they do not understand. Mohammed said since the Senate [email protected] the capacity to understand what’s focusing on working with kids that have “We also know that children under passed the bill, the legislation now happening in our court system mental health illnesses at those ages and 10 almost always need help rather than will be sent to the House for further The North Carolina State Senate or what they’ve been accused of,” trying to figure out what’s causing this punishment,” Webb said. “We support consideration before going to the unanimously voted on March 25 to Mohammed said. behavior to occur in a kid this young.” the efforts of all the legislators who are governor’s desk for final approval. If the pass a new bill that would raise the Mohammed said he represented To address these causal factors, working to find solutions to supporting bill is passed by all necessary officials, it minimum age for juvenile delinquency young children while working as an Senate Bill 207 sets up a child those kids rather than placing them in will go into effect on Dec. 1. from 6 to 10. Of states with a specified attorney at the Council for Children’s consultation process. This clause a stressful adult environment.” minimum age, North Carolina Rights in Charlotte and realized the enforces that kids referred to the Over the past few decades, law Twitter: @Kelli_Rainer 10 Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Opinion dailytarheel.com The Daily Tar Heel COLUMN Established 1893 128 years of editorial freedom Stuck in the middle ANNA POGARCIC EDITOR!IN!CHIEF PAIGE MASTEN Chapel Hill needs more housing choices OPINION EDITOR

RAJEE GANESAN By Ben Rappaport Hill, lacks enough diverse housing homes with four separate apartment lead to more housing. That is why ASSISTANT OPINION EDITOR Editorial Board Member options to support local retail units — and Accessory Dwelling solving the mystery of the middle and public transit. Strong middle Units, also known as granny flats. in North Carolina needs progressive EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS hen you are a student housing options include duplexes, The support for middle housing in legislation now. ABBAS HASAN deciding on where cottages or courtyard buildings — this bill is also a progressive move Some in the Triangle are resistant Wto live next year, the housing options between single- toward connectivity and walkability to a bill like SB 349 because they ADITI KHAROD choices can feel binary. You either family detached homes and high-rise because there are no parking argue it will disempower local ANNIE GRACE PLOTT cough up a hefty check to live in a apartment buildings. requirements or conditional use governments and enrich developers. ‘luxury apartment’ or you pay a more Luckily, there may be a state permits needed. But is that even a bad thing? BEN RAPPAPORT reasonable price to live in a house, legislative solution on the way, and Middle housing legislation of By and large, it isn’t. When we CAITLYN YAEDE which is often further from campus. it’s co-sponsored by Chapel Hill’s similar scale and scope was passed leave housing up to local control, as Chapel Hill lacks a solid middle own state senator, Valerie Foushee. in California in 2017, and housing CALLIE XU we have been doing for decades, it housing option for students, and Senate Bill 349, titled “Increase development has skyrocketed does not result in the best outcomes ELISA KADACKAL it is hurting the rest of the town Housing Opportunities,” aims to throughout the state. Homeowners for our community. This is especially JACOBSON LESER as a result. We are in need of create middle-income housing built over 12,000 ADUs in 2019 true over the past 10 years, where the housing options that offer density, throughout the state and has gotten alone, and that number is expected growth in housing units has been JOSEPH KARGBO affordability and accessibility. bipartisan support among legislators to keep growing. That figure just 0.6 percent. That is well below JOSIAH TOWNSEND This phenomenon is known as from urban and rural districts. represents a ten-fold increase since both state and national averages for Missing Middle Housing, and it is The exciting piece of SB 349 is the state passed its housing law. growth over that time. LAYLA PEYKAMIAN common in cities across the United the deregulation and potential for And the potential for housing When considering any piece of LIAM BENDEZU States. It means a town, like Chapel growth of fourplexes — multi-family growth is even greater in North housing legislation, it should always MICHAEL BEAUREGARD Carolina. Labor, land and start with the idea that more housing materials are all cheaper here than is good. SB 349 aims to create more RAYMOND PANG in California. Normally, North housing. While the methods for VANCE STILES Carolinian homeowners see this as achieving those outcomes are laissez- a reason to buy bigger homes with faire, housing is controlled by the bigger backyards. However, if we are market and we need to rely on it to trying to increase the housing supply fill in this missing middle gap. to improve our communities, then we Chapel Hill demands housing need to be utilizing these large single- choice. Legislation like SB 349 is family lots for things like ADUs. how we get it. SPEAK OUT You may be thinking of an ADU This cannot be a town of Boomers as something like a guest house for on the outskirts and college students Interested in writing a letter your in-laws, but recent reports in luxury apartments — we need to the editor or submitting an from California show that over half diversity of age, class and status op-ed? are being used as income-generating to thrive. That means exchanging • Students: Include your year, rental units. ADUs were also shown spaced-out backyards for mixed-use major and phone number. to increase low-cost rentals in low- neighborhoods and building homes • Faculty/staff: Include your density neighborhoods. across the affordability spectrum. department and phone number. Deregulatory laws on ADUs • Edit: The DTH edits for space, DTH FILE/CYNTHIA LIU and other middle-income options Twitter: @b_rappaport clarity, accuracy and vulgarity. Limit submissions to 500 words.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily represent the opinions of The Daily Tar Heel or its staff. From social media to mutual aid Editorials reflect the opinions of The Daily Tar Heel editorial board, which comprises 15 board members, the By Caitlyn Yaede It’s far easier to click the retweet button than from a local seller. opinion assistant editor and editor Editorial Board Member dedicate time and effort towards volunteering and the editor-in-chief. or donating. And by reposting or retweeting, • The LGBT Center of Raleigh provides n the age of social media, the internet has we demonstrate we care about a cause and want resources such as mental health support and HIV proven to be a powerful tool for social and civic others to as well. testing to LGBTQ+ individuals in the Triangle Iengagement. With the ability to disseminate Unfortunately, this virtue signaling is where area and is a great place to contribute. information quickly, websites such as Instagram most people stop. and Twitter have been the foundation for many We are trapped in this idea that posting online • Carolina Cupboard is a food pantry on people’s activism. is a substitute for advocacy when it is really the campus for students. You can sign up to volunteer Through hashtags, Instagram stories and Twitter opposite — it’s a supplement. or donate food items through their website. posts, we can see people rallying behind important At best, limiting your advocacy to social media and relevant causes — the Black Lives Matter posts and shares will at least bring awareness • Support Food Not Bombs 919, an autonomous movement, sexual violence against women and about issues that many people would lack collective of volunteers who provide free vegan most recently violence against Asian Americans. otherwise. At worst, these so-called displays of food for everyone. At the same time, despite its incredible power, activism are performative attempts to gain clout social media can cause us to oversimplify complex from serious and complex issues. These organizations are just the tip of the issues. More importantly, it can cause users to But while recognizing how useful social media mutual aid iceberg — there is an abundance of become complacent, believing their posts have can be in informing people, the issues we choose opportunities both on and off campus to give back done enough when their benefits are debatable. to speak about online are often complex. A 280 to the community and support marginalized groups. I love digital features like Instagram stories character limit often doesn’t do these issues justice. This isn’t a call to stop posting on social media. as much as the next person. They are easy to How do we compensate for this? Action. Instead, treat social media as a starting place and The Daily Tar Heel use and give a platform to issues I support. As Here are some opportunities on and off campus as a supplement to the hands-on work you are able well-intended and thoughtful as this is, however, to bring your digital advocacy to life: to do within your community. Established 1893 these posts are merely a drop in the bucket, and 128 years of editorial freedom often fail to bring substantive change to the • The Campus Y and its 31 committees are Twitter: @caitlyn_yaede communities that need it. the hub for social justice work on campus. 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COLUMN UNC leads the charge in pandemic research

Scientists at UNC are at Spreading COVID-19 after Clinic. It’s a location where patients can get research primarily focuses on developing vaccination help for ongoing symptoms while doctors of virus models, studying virus mechanisms the forefront of some major nearly every specialty utilize telemedicine and identifying potential antivirals and COVID-19 discoveries. One of the major questions as vaccination and in-person appointments to assess vaccine formulas. opens up for all adults in North Carolina is individuals and simultaneously gather data Baric’s current research involves many other By Rajee Ganesan whether or not vaccinated individuals can still on the virus. academic professionals across UNC. Some Assistant Opinion Editor spread the virus. The collaborative effort has developed a of his projects include using immunology This is exactly what Audrey Pettifor, significantly large database for understanding to develop assays for specific detection hen COVID-19 was discovered, professor at the Gillings School of Global the long-term effects of COVID-19, and will of antibodies in infected individuals, or science had a lot of catching up to Public Health, hopes to research as be used in further research to improve health developing a new antiviral drug (EIDD-2801) Wdo. co-principal investigator of the Prevent outcomes for these patients. that could potentially be used to prevent the From identifying the virus, deciphering COVID U study. virus altogether. its genomic sequence and figuring out its The study, sponsored by the National Antiviral drugs and understanding Although clinical trials still have yet to origins, scientists have had their hands full, Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases vaccine responses be completed, the idea of having multiple as numerous biomedical laboratories quickly and discussed in White House COVID-19 preventative options to combat COVID- pivoted to contribute to pandemic research. response press briefings, is a clinical study that Likely the largest name in COVID-19 19 could make getting “vaccinated” more In 2020, more than 100,000 articles were tests whether a person can become infected research, Dr. Ralph Baric has been studying accessible globally, ending the pandemic published on topics relating to COVID-19 and transmit COVID-19 post-vaccination. coronaviruses for nearly four decades. His sooner than we think. (almost four percent of all articles published While it is currently enrolling college lab was one of the first to receive samples of that year). students as study subjects, results from the COVID-19 when it was discovered, and his Twitter: @rajeeganesan Initially, these articles discussed the trial will likely be utilized in governmental spread of the disease, patient outcomes and decision-making on mask policies and social diagnostic testing. distancing later this year. However, research eventually expanded to include topics such as how the virus can affect Studying long-term effects of COVID- individuals with certain health conditions, or its impact on mental health. 19 Scientists and investigators worked One of the more devastating effects of the collaboratively on an international scale to virus is the resulting symptoms an individual learn as much about the virus as possible. can experience for weeks, or even months, after UNC, home to one of the nation’s leading being infected. public health programs, has played an integral Studies have shown that 10 to 30 percent role in the research that is being used by of infected patients (up to 8.4 million people governmental organizations to issue guidelines in the U.S. alone) experience continued health and make science-based decisions throughout issues, such as an extended loss of taste or the pandemic. smell, respiratory problems or fatigue. Here are just a few of the on-campus labs Dr. John M. Baratta, assistant professor that have been leading the charge, and what of physical medicine and rehabilitation, to keep an eye out for in their current and hoped to study the phenomenon when he future research: helped start the UNC COVID Recovery DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/ANGELINA KATSANIS

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COLUMN Do you believe in the power of music? During tough times, people need a melody.

By Brooke Dougherty If you’ve read a few of my articles, changed through the past year, from and lyrics.” can finally see him perform live in Columnist you know that music has been discovering new music, finding One thing I’ve noticed is that a the fall). monumental in helping me get comfort in old favorites, occasionally lot of people’s passion for music “I miss sharing moments and usic has the power to through the past year. not being able to listen to music at all was dimmed at some points conversations with those strangers, bring people together. It’s I’ve written about how the and the excitement for live music to throughout the past year when knowing we have at least one Msomething that can be resurgence of Fleetwood Mac begin again. things got especially tough. common interest,” Hassell said. shared even when two people are brightened a few of my quarantine Brielle Hassell was introduced Giangrosso said his relationship “I miss the way that my favorite miles away. days, and how Pink Floyd helped to French pop, Dylan Stickland with music changed over the songs sound live — something (Just in case you couldn’t tell, me cope with the recent passing of started listening to a psychedelic course of the pandemic — it felt recorded versions just can’t ever my love language is making and my grandfather. punk band, Spirit of the Beehive, repetitive after months and months quite capture.” receiving playlists.) I recently spoke with a few and Matthew Giangrosso of lockdown. The culmination of music’s Music has the therapeutic ability people about their love of music and discovered the classic rock treasure, “During the early fall, the only ability to connect is at its peak at to help people cope with hard times. how their relationship with music The Grateful Dead. music I could occasionally stomach a concert. Stickland, a singer, noted that were lo-fi beats that mostly acted as There’s nothing quite like finding new music really helped keep background music,” Giangrosso said. when the people next to you are things interesting. “Listening to music lost its sheen complete strangers — and yet you “It was music discovery after it was often the only thing I are inexplicably bound by a love of that really pushed me through was doing to distract myself from similar music. the past year,” Stickland said. everything going on.” Ultimately, music has played a “In general, though, jazzier, Hassell, a singer/songwriter, significant role in helping all of us jammier, expressive music took couldn’t listen to music for almost survive the past 12 months. the spotlight, with some more two months. Each person’s relationship with hardcore rock and punk thrown “I found myself driving in the car music may have fluctuated during in for extra uplifting of the spirit.” with complete silence,” Hassell said. the monotony of isolation, but Giangrosso, a UNC law student “I think it may have had something ultimately, it helped them cope with and musician, went back and forth to do with how discouraged I was at their personal struggles. between new music and old tunes that time.” And once it’s finally safe to do so, that he loved. One thing we’ve all missed during I think we’ll all be more than ecstatic “Discovering new music, whether the pandemic is live music. to make new memories and feel that recorded or live, is like discovering Many concerts have been sense of community that has been a new adventure,” Giangrosso said. postponed or canceled in the past so sorely missed — hopefully to the “I love that it can take me on a year — including the Harry Styles sound of a rad playlist. journey and allow me to live in the concert I was supposed to attend DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/THORNE WILLIFORD world it creates through its moods last summer (but fingers crossed I Twitter: @BrookeD97 12 Wednesday, April 7, 2021 News The Daily Tar Heel LAW | HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION State legislators file Hate Crimes Prevention Act The introduced bills The history of the bill would increase the scale, This is not the first time Chaudhuri scope of punishments has introduced the Hate Crimes Prevention Act to the senate. He first By Susie Webb filed the bill in 2018 in response to the Staff Writer 2017 death of a South Asian American [email protected] engineer in Olathe, Kansas, and then filed it again in 2019. In response to the increase No version of the bill has made in hate crimes across the state, it to a hearing on the Senate floor Democratic legislators filed the yet, though. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in The Hate Crimes Prevention Acts both the N.C. Senate and House introduced in this session of the of Representatives. Senate and House both add a section The mirrored bills would expand on restorative justice. N.C. Rep. Verla the definition of a hate crime and Insko (D–Orange), was a primary increase the scope and scale of sponsor of the bill in the House. punishments for hate crimes. “We aren’t born racist, our “In North Carolina — and across the culture trains us,” Insko said. “So, country — responding to hate crimes the goal would be not just to punish needs to be a priority because they somebody who commits a hate impact all of us,” N.C. Sen. Mujtaba crime, but to cure them of it.” Mohammed (D–Mecklenburg), a The victim of the offense can primary sponsor of the Senate bill, request a restorative justice session said. “They have an impact on where for the guilty party that will be paid they don’t just significantly impact or for by the defendant. harm one individual, but they terrorize Insko said that Kalkidan Miller, a an entire community.” student at Guilford College, is part The class of protected people of the reason she got involved with would expand to include race, the legislation. Miller worked with ethnicity, color, religion, nationality, Insko and the other bill drafters on DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/MADDEE BURT country of origin, gender, gender the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Legislators in North Carolina introduced the Hate Crimes Prevent Act to expand the definition of and identity, gender expression, disability Miller spoke at a March 31 press punishments for hate crimes in both the N.C. Senate and the N.C. House of Representatives. and sexual orientation. conference on the Hate Crimes “Whether you live in a rural Prevention Act. She said she was a Pursuing hate crime charges Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu- attacks on Asian Americans have been county or an urban county, I victim of a hate crime in July 2020 Salha and Razan Mohammad on the rise. think at the end of the day what when a white man verbally and The act would require law Abu-Salha were shot and “State legislators should the hate crimes legislation signals physically assaulted her at a Black enforcement to report hate killed in their own home. In its understand that hate crimes do to communities is that each and Lives Matter vigil. crimes to the State Bureau investigation, Chapel Hill Police not happen in silos,” Ricky Leung, every one of us will have some “Even before that — me as a Black of Investigation who would said the crime was motivated by senior director of programs for North kind of protection no matter how woman — I am always cautious of collect, analyze and disseminate a parking dispute. Carolina Asian Americans Together, you look, how you love or how you being attacked or being seen as a information on the offenses. Without a state statute in place, said in an email. pray,” N.C. Sen. Jay Chaudhuri (D– threat,” Miller said. “And when it Right now, there are no state the department was unable to In the Chapel Hill community, Wake), a sponsor for the senate occurs, it is one of the most terrifying, mandates requiring law enforcement pursue any charges related to hate Blue said the Chapel Hill Police bill, said. traumatizing experiences.” agencies to report hate crimes. crimes or Islamophobia. Department had no reports “It’s grossly underreported,” Chapel “Our ability to pursue a state of anti-Asian harassment or Hill Police Chief Chris Blue said. “Our hate crime charge, I believe, would intimidation since the start of tools to enforce them (hate crimes) have brought some reassurance and the pandemic — but, he believes are limited, and the tools that we do comfort to the families of Barakat that’s untrue. have are very, very weak.” and the Abu-Salhas, no question “I don’t think for a minute Currently, North Carolina does about that,” Blue said. that some of those things haven’t have an ethnic intimidation charge Durham County commissioner happened in our community this that states it’s a Class 1 misdemeanor Nida Allam spoke on behalf of past year, I just said they haven’t to assault someone, damage their the families at the March 31 press been reported to us,” Blue said. property or threaten them on conference. “And, because we don’t have a hate the basis of race, color, religion, “Communities are hurting,” crimes statute in North Carolina, nationality or country of origin. Allam said. “Communities are living they’re oftentimes not recorded as “It’s pretty weak,” Blue said, adding in fear, and that’s not okay. It’s past a hate crime.” that it’s difficult for a crime to meet time for North Carolina to pass hate For now, legislators are hoping the elements needed for this charge. crimes prevention legislation.” to get more support behind the act The introduced Hate Crimes so that it can get out of committee Prevention Acts would also require Impact on Asian American unlike it’s previous failed versions. law enforcement training on how to community “There’s been a lot more attention identify and respond to a hate crime. and focus on conversations around Blue said this act would have This version of the Hate Crimes the bill,” Chaudhuri said. “So I impacted his department’s Prevention Act comes after the March remain somewhat optimistic that DTH FILE/CALLI WESTRA investigation of the 2015 murders 16 Atlanta-area shootings that shook the bill may get a hearing.” The Chinese American Friendship Association and N.C. Asian Americans of three Muslim students. the Asian American community. Since Together groups honor the victims of the Atlanta shootings on March 21, 2021. Six years ago, Deah Shaddy the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Twitter: @skwebb73 Calls for mental health support for AAPI students

Continued from Page 1 Following the Atlanta petition aims to address. campus leader, but also about successful, ignoring the diversity shootings, Song called her Asian As of Saturday, the petition had how to be a better parent to my and challenges of the community. seeking mental health care outside of American friends to talk through garnered over 1,100 signatures, daughter,” he said during a Faculty While she was an undergraduate at CAPS,” the petition reads. what she was feeling, looking to which could be publicly or Council meeting. UNC, Ikoma said she wishes she’d had speak with people who she could privately displayed. CAPS currently has resources mentors with a similar background Seeking support relate to — before realizing she “It shows how desperate of a for students of color such as the to her — mentors who could better might need to take a different need this is,” Parker said. “I think Multicultural Health Program, understand her experiences. When sophomore Victoria Song approach. it’s something that hasn’t been part which offers counseling services, “I think I would’ve been able first arrived at UNC, she said she “I don’t want to, quite frankly, of the conversation and it absolutely particularly for Black, indigenous to thrive more as a human being,” wasn’t expecting to be involved burden my friends,” she said. “It’s needs to be.” and students of color at UNC. she said. with her Asian identity, because not their job to have the right thing Parker and her classmates “Diversifying our support services A lack of support from the she hadn’t been while she was in to say.” submitted the petition to Chancellor remains a top priority for all of us at University isn’t just an issue in the high school. But when she went to the CAPS Kevin Guskiewicz and CAPS Director CAPS,” O’Barr said in a statement. aftermath of tragedies like the Atlanta But during her first year, she website looking for an AAPI staff Dr. Allen O’Barr on March 30. shootings. That support, Ikoma said, started taking one of UNC’s “heritage member to speak with, she couldn’t Guskiewicz has previously ‘I would’ve been able to thrive more has been missing for years. track” Chinese classes. The class had find anyone. She then signed the spoken about the efforts of UNC’s as a human being’ “I didn’t feel like I had the support to about 20 students, who all identified petition for AAPI-identifying Asian American Center, under the explore my racial identity and explore as Asian American. counselors at CAPS. leadership of associate professor For Ikoma, her work with the who I was as it related to so many of “It made the classroom Heidi Kim, to support students. petition has brought back memories these experiences that are unique to experience so safe and, honestly, Gaining signatures The day after the Atlanta shootings, of her undergraduate years at UNC. being Asian American,” she said. magical,” Song said. March 17, the AAC partnered with She came to UNC as a student Ikoma hopes that the work she She joined UNC’s Chinese AAPI community members have North Carolina Asian Americans who’d made good grades and and her colleagues are doing now Undergraduate Students Association the lowest help-seeking rate of any Together to co-host a virtual vigil. was committed to performing will create a lasting impact for and attended celebrations for racial or ethnic group, according “I expressed to Heidi on well academically. But, Ikoma AAPI students at UNC. Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn to the National Alliance on Mental Wednesday after that vigil that as realized, she never broke free of the “One of the ways to change the Festival. All of those things, Song Illness. Studies over the past 20 the father of an Asian American model minority myth during her story of the people behind me is to said, opened a door to learn more years have shown the importance daughter, I am learning from her undergraduate years. share my own,” she said. about her identity as an Asian of cultural competence in mental and others at the Center about how The model minority myth American woman. health services — something the to be a more informed and better stereotypes Asian Americans as Twitter: @praveenavsoma Wednesday, April 7, 2021 13 Arts & Culture dailytarheel.com Holi Moli takes annual celebration to Zoom By Lucy Smithwick who weren’t South Asians still felt Staff Writer like they were able to celebrate Holi [email protected] Moli in a different kind of way.” For first-year biology and In normal years, vibrant colors neuroscience student Mansi Gupta, cover students on Hooker Fields this is her first year working with after a full day of celebrations for Holi Moli, and she said COVID- Holi. But this year, the colors were 19’s influence on the holiday made confined to backyards and patios it a weird first experience. While after a week of activities and a live she hopes for a normal experience celebration over Zoom. in future years, she said she UNC Holi Moli is a student-run appreciates how the group still organization that hosts a campus- found a way to celebrate. wide celebration of the Hindu festival “It was definitely a very different of Holi, which takes place at the start transition from going from all these of every spring. Over 2,000 students friends and family that I have where gather every year and throw colorful I live back home to here,” Gupta powder to celebrate the beginning of said. “I think it’s just gonna get spring and the triumph of good over better as it goes throughout the four evil. The event serves as a chance for years that I’m here, but there’s just a the community to come together and different transition.” learn more about the significance of Sophomore biology major Jasmine the holiday. Jahad is not only new to Holi Moli, This year, Holi took place on but this year was her first-ever Holi March 28 and 29, and leading up to celebration. She said she was invited the holiday, the executive board of over to a friend’s apartment and they Holi Moli hosted a week of virtual celebrated by throwing the colored events starting on March 22. The powder and listening to Desi music. events included an improv comedy “Ever since I’ve gotten to college DTH/NISHTHA MUKHERJI show with the Chapel Hill Players, a I’ve made a lot of Indian friends First year computer science major Alisha Kelkar celebrates a late Holi with friends on Thursday, April 1, 2021. live yoga class, a live Indian cooking and they’ve introduced me to a lot class, a session telling the history of different cultural celebrations would not really talk to anyone else,” through the proceeds of the T-shirts full celebration in the future, they of Holi and finally the live Zoom and their food and their music and Patel said. “But this year, when we and color packet sales. Shah was expressed their gratitude for finding celebration on March 26. so many fun things,” Jahad said. had our comedy events, people were proud they were able to address the the positives in the circumstances. Holi Moli also sold color packets “I’m Iranian, so spring is something talking to each other in the chat. problems that are going on in the “We learned how to be adaptable, and T-shirts for students to use that’s really important in my culture, Before events started, everyone was Asian American community. and we learned how to still keep the during the live Zoom celebration. and it’s interesting to see how that just in a Zoom call together, so you’d “NCAAT spoke a little bit about spirit of Holi alive,” Shah said. “Even UNC junior and co-director of transcends in different Indo- have small talk then, and I think that what they do in the community and in the darkest of times, Holi is all Holi Moli Shivam Bhargava said European countries.” made it feel a little bit more homey why it’s so important to advocate for about happiness and excitement, even though people could not gather Krupa Patel, a UNC junior on than usual.” Asian Americans, considering the and it’s really difficult to get that as a group, the virtual events made Holi Moli’s executive board, typically Stuti Shah, a sophomore and hate crimes that have been on the rise happiness and excitement in the it seem like a big celebration for celebrates Holi with her family, member of the Holi Moli executive recently,” Shah said. “Being a South world we live in today. But the fact everyone to get involved. and said while she would have also board, said this event was an Asian interest organization, we that we were able to cultivate that “A lot of South Asian students were preferred an in-person celebration, opportunity for Holi Moli to raise believe that we have a responsibility and we were able to get people able to celebrate, especially those she found that the virtual activities funds and awareness for North to speak about what’s impacting interested and see their excitement who may not be at home to celebrate worked surprisingly well. Carolina Asian Americans Together our AAPI (Asian American Pacific is just really great because, despite with their family,” Bhargava said. “I “Normally if you were to have (NCAAT), a nonprofit organization Islander) peers and just make the everything, there is still light at the think a lot of students still felt that the event in person, you’d come that aims to uplift Asian Americans world a safer place for everyone.” end of the tunnel.” sense of community with our week of with your friends, you’d talk to your in North Carolina. She said the Though everyone involved with virtual events, and even the students friends and you would leave, you group raised $1200 for NCAAT Holi Moli is looking forward to a Twitter: @lucysmithwich CPA finalizes spring semester event schedule Office DJ: A goodbye

By Ellis Riggsbee Michelle Dorrance, who is also a local. satisfying too. If I can just help someone gift to my DTH family Staff Writer I think that the conversation is going to feel a little better, or make their day a [email protected] to be really rich, exciting and warm. little better, I feel very happy.” Tift is a wonderful interviewer, and Yang said she and Diehl met at After 13 years, this is my last Carolina Performing Arts recently she really brings those things out in a CPA performance in the past. In week at The Daily Tar Heel, and released its spring season finale the people that she interviews.” the June event, they will each play I’m feeling it. My job at the DTH rundown, including a variety of Chris Pendergrass, the artistic solo music as well as a collaborative is frequently difficult, but there’s events from an interview series to planning manager at CPA, is excited piece: George Gershwin’s “Cuban also something comfortable about dance performances. for CPA’s final events of the semester to Overture,” transcribed by Gregory doing work I love in a place I know With dates scattered from April bring artistic performances back to the Stone for two pianos. better than anyone. through June, the virtual spring community in a digital environment. “Aaron Diehl is a really incredible The songs on this list all trigger season finale events will feature He said every featured artist has jazz pianist,” Yang said. “Our some memory for me, of a particular artists with fruitful performance their own unique experiences and upcoming collaboration is sort of a student, a particular moment or a histories with CPA, some of whom challenges with performing virtually. crossed genre collaboration because particular era of the last 13 years. are UNC graduates. Clara Yang, a professional classical I’m not a jazz pianist. The Gershwin It’s not all of them. The years I Christina Rodriguez, CPA’s pianist and associate professor of piece we’re playing is not really Erica Perel worked nights are overrepresented, associate director of marketing and music at the University, is scheduled jazz, but it has many jazz elements is leaving the Daily Tar Heel after 13 years and I make no claim to the inherent communications, said there is a wide to perform alongside jazz pianist in there. And Aaron himself also of service to the newsroom as its general quality or safe-for-work nature of variety of artists and performance Aaron Diehl on June 4. had classical training when he was manager and newsroom adviser. any of these songs. Though to be types in store, all of which strongly Yang and CPA have done a few young, so there’s a lot that we can sure, some of them slap. reflect the nature of CPA’s events major projects together in the learn from each other.” By Erica Perel I was never lying when I said that throughout the semester. past. Most notably in 2016, CPA Despite the all-virtual spring General Manager I have three kids at home, and 200 “Each segment of events has commissioned a piano concerto finale, the team at CPA is excited to [email protected] more at the DTH. This Office DJ become a sort of microcosm of written by world-renowned be able to connect the Chapel Hill playlist is a goodbye gift for my DTH what a typical season at CPA Chinese composer Chen Yi for community with a wide range of To be a college media adviser is a family. I love you. might look like,” Rodriguez said. Yang to perform with the China performances and shows. unique privilege. “And by that, I mean there’s a Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing — “2021 has without a doubt been I often meet a student as a first- Twitter: @EricaPerel diversity of disciplines and artists. the number one orchestra in China. an extraordinarily challenging year year, sometimes even in high school, There is work that I would say is Even with all her musical for our community and for artists and I work with them for years as Listen to Erica’s playlist Here: grounded in the roots of Carolina accomplishments, Yang’s upcoming across the board,” Pendergrass said. they do hard things and learn about Performing Arts and what it has collaboration with Diehl is her first “The season finale is significant themselves and grow up. Then I have presented over time.” ever virtual performance with CPA. for us in that it gives us a way to a front-row seat when they fly off to In the event lineup, Tift Merritt, She said it will be a challenging reconnect around arts experiences do amazing things in the world. a musician and graduate of the process to collaborate remotely and artists that have had a I know the lingo. This year, it’s University, will be hosting a live compared to in-person, but that she significant local impact in Chapel been “manifest” as a verb and “I streamed interview series called “The looks forward to it. Hill in a time when that has been, hate it here” as an adjective. (To my Spark with Tift Merritt.” CPA launched “Because of the pandemic, I think in many ways, not possible.” fellow Gen Xers, they don’t actually a revival of this preexisting series this music and the arts are so helpful in The first event of the finale, “The hate it HERE, they just hate it here. past September and is continuing the everyone’s lives,” Yang said. “Even Spark with Tift Merritt: Michelle I think.) project for the spring finale. though this is the first time we ever did Dorrance,” will be on April 8 at 7:30 p.m. I know the skinny on the “Tift has interviewed artists from virtual, I’ve done quite a few remote Anyone interested can sign up at professors: which ones are tough all walks of life and from all different projects with different artists since last carolinaperformingarts.org. but fair, which ones make their final disciplines,” Rodriguez said. “In March. I’ve found them to be really projects due on LDOC. And then April, she will be interviewing dancer meaningful and difficult to do, but very Twitter: @leriggsb there’s the music. 14 Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Arts & Culture The Daily Tar Heel Morrison Art Studio creates virtual, collaborative mural

“I wanted to be able to do a project associate at the University, is where people still could make art contributing artwork to the mural. together and create while respecting Medder wanted to participate to social distancing and all the new help document what it was like to measures we need to be aware of live during the pandemic. nowadays,” Logan said. “Contributing to the various The theme of Arts Everywhere projects that help us document Day this year is reflections, so the what we were doing, what we mural is intended to be a reflection were thinking during this time of the community’s experiences over will help those people in 50 to 100 the past year. years realize what was going on,” “If you could say something that Medder said. was important or that happened to Medder submitted a selfie you in a picture or in a canvas or wearing a mask she decorated with in an art piece, what would it be?” lace and a photo of a lace doily that Logan said. “That is the mural.” looks like the coronavirus. Senior Morgan Pestyk, the Junior Savannah Midgette digital marketing assistant for Arts is also participating in the Everywhere, said the project aims to mural project. She contributed bring together the arts community a painting of a flower she made on campus. during the pandemic. “We don’t get a chance to show Midgette said the mural off our art all the time, we don’t project will highlight local get a chance this year to get on art and show how community campus and see everybody for members have been creating to Arts Everywhere Day, so we might express themselves. PHOTO COURTESY OF HALEY FRANCE as well put it somewhere that’s “Having this big mural with many The Morrison Art Studio is unveiling a virtual mural titled “Leave Your Mark” later this week for Arts Everywhere day. pretty accessible,” Pestyk said. “It’s different works and a range of people really nice to have that out there and media and whatnot, I think it The collaborative project creating a virtual mural where takes place on April 9, the final mural and have a place where you can just really makes the members of the UNC community members can will be revealed to the public and put your art safely.” community shine,” Midgette said. “It is part of this year’s Arts share their artwork for this year’s shared through social media sites and On April 7 at 6:30 p.m., there gives people a highlight and brings Everywhere Day Arts Everywhere Day, an annual on the Arts Everywhere website. will be a Mural Creation Jam Sesh some joy to the community in a time celebration of campus art. Morrison Art Studio’s student on Zoom where participants can that is kind of dark sometimes.” By Sara Raja Participants can upload their coordinator, Madison Logan, ask questions, hang out and work You can learn more about the Staff Writer contributions, like a meaningful came up with the idea for a digital on their art together while listening project or contribute to the digital [email protected] selfie or a photo of a piece of artwork, mural because COVID-19 made to music. mural here. to a digital collage. an in-person celebration for Arts Arlene Medder, an auxiliary The Morrison Art Studio is On Arts Everywhere Day, which Everywhere impossible this year. services administrative support Twitter: @sararaja_ Your guide to outdoor activities in Chapel Hill

Spring has sprung, and series, said art and music are vital to the Village Green and require Downtown Chapel Hill’s core culture. participants to reserve pods to here are some ways to “For the town to be so heavily attend, either through the Southern enjoy the warm weather known for being a music and an art Village website or the Lumina community from the past, it bodes very Theater. There will be up to 40 pods By Cloris Huan well to make right by trying to save the available, each limited to 5 people. Staff Writer sentiment, or the energy, of what makes People are welcome to bring chairs [email protected] Chapel Hill cool to come to,” Thomas and blankets and get food and said. “Our music scene and music beverages at the local businesses. Spring is here, and the weather in culture is a huge part of that.” Chapel Hill is becoming warmer. Each week, the Chapel Hill Spring Haven Farm Although restrictions in the Downtown Partnerships releases a state are lifting, there are still many lineup for the performers and where Spring Haven Farm in Chapel outdoor, COVID-19-safe activities in they will be performing. Hill has a Baby Goat Festival, where the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area. We’ve people can meet and hang out with compiled a list including music, Southern Village music and movies the farm animals while enjoying movies, baby goat yoga and more. refreshments and music. Southern Village is bringing Spring Haven Farm offers a range Save the Music back its Sundays at Sundown series. of events from Paint & Sip with Goats, DTH/MALAK HANNOSH From April 11 through September, Baby Goat Yoga and more. A local A family enjoys spring weather in on UNC’s campus, April Southern Village will host live music. artist runs a crafts station with various Save the Music, a street 4, 2021. Chapel Hill has many options for places to get outside this season. performance series, is bringing live A list of the upcoming performances arts and crafts available for sale, such music from local artists to Franklin can be found on its website. as birdhouses. Visitors must register until May 25, the North Carolina In addition to yoga, the botanical Street. On Saturdays from 6 p.m. to Movies by Starlight will also return their arrival time between 10 a.m. and Botanical Garden hosts an Outdoor garden offers guided nature walks 8 p.m., visitors can stroll down the April 15 through Oct. 31, hosted by 4 p.m. on the website and can stay Yoga in the Garden session led by on the Piedmont Nature Trails street listening to live music and the Lumina Theater and the Market until 6 p.m. when the farm closes. Sam Sather, a certified therapeutic such as the Spring Silent Walk supporting local businesses. Street Association. Movies will play yoga teacher. The event is held in and Spring Nature walk, led by the Kevin “Kaze” Thomas, the Arts and on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and North Carolina Botanical Garden the Perennial Circle, displaying a Garden Guides. Culture Director for the Chapel Hill Saturday nights, starting at sunset. different variety of wildflowers and Downtown Partnership who hosts the Both events will be hosted on Every Tuesday from March 2 greenery each month. Twitter: @dailytarheel Undergrads give virtual tours through Ackland program Participants create and plus archival research and plenty of and not think about the formalities in-person public tours during her Their newly-created Instagram, practice tours, all pulled together and correct answers and history,” two years with the guides. @acklandstudentguides, is execute tours based on by each volunteer according to Barta said. “Part of the reason I Two weeks ago, Nielsen and currently holding a “March the museum’s collection his or her individual interests. In titled my tour “The Good, the Bad, another guide hopped on Zoom and Madness” tournament for works addition to time, past tours have and the Ugly,” is so people felt like gave a tour built around the themes of art. Winners are based on the By Sophia Ramirez gotten into topics from devotion they could have whatever response of portraiture and expression. In votes of followers; “Peaches” is in Staff Writer and contemplation to intimacy in they wanted to.” the absence of physical art, they the final four. [email protected] the everyday. More recently, Harris and his used pictures. Engaging audiences with art and “You can make a tour off of cohort have been working to “It’s obviously constraining. You building communication skills is one With a piece of sarcophagus, the color blue, and it’ll be just as keep the spirit of the program don’t have the physicality or the of the most rewarding parts of the a pocket watch and a portrait of rigorous and exciting as something alive through a modified training materiality of the object, you can’t program for some guides. an unidentified sex worker called more abstract,” Brett Harris, the process and virtual tours. walk around something to get “For a lot of people, that sort of “Peaches,” a student tour guide at head guide in his third year with “I definitely miss being able to multiple perspectives,” Harris said, public meaning-making is really the can create the Ackland Student Guides walk around and look at all the art “but we have found that the Zoom powerful,” Harris said. “I think it’s a conversation about telling time program, said. and chat with everybody before platform, surprisingly, can really rewarding to the guides because we’re through art. In September 2019, Christina and afterward, but the essence has open up different pieces of work.” able to give the public the tools to look Ackland Student Guides is Barta built their tour “The Good, definitely remained,” Madeline The ability to zoom in — literally, at something that fundamentally may a program that teaches UNC the Bad, and the Ugly” around Nielsen, a sophomore student guide as in on an image — has allowed be different from them or inaccessible.” undergraduates to create and execute modern pieces like “The Squeeze” studying classics said. participants to see more texture, The next virtual tour by an tours based around the museum’s — an art piece that is sometimes Since her first year was spent brushwork, etc. depending on the Ackland Student Guide is on April collection. Currently, teams of two seen as less accessible. training, researching and designing object, Harris said. 7th. Barta will be giving a tour on are giving 30-minute virtual tours “I didn’t want people to be afraid a tour, and her second year in-person The guides have also been able April 14th. Participants can register on select Wednesdays. to hate on modern art … It’s all guided tours were canceled due to bring in different forms of media for free on the Ackland website. Each tour is its own event; they about trying to get people to look to COVID-19 restrictions, Nielsen to elevate discussions and engage are the product of a year of training closely and embrace what they see hasn’t given any individual or an undergraduate audience. Twitter: @ramirezsophia99 The Daily Tar Heel Classi!eds Wednesday, April 7, 2021 15

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Brittany McGee Praveena Somasundaram Heidi Pérez-Moreno Mingxuan Shen For non-English speaking families, the pandemic amplifies barriers to equitable education By Heidi Perez-Moreno said this creates problems for Co-Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer refugees that speak languages other [email protected] than Spanish. “It can be even harder for them to Editor’s note: Some of the understand what is going on,” Wei said. interviews in this article were translated to English from Spanish. Switch to in-person instruction A month after the pandemic began, Beatriz Vazquez’s 8-year-old daughter Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill Anna stopped turning her video on March 11 that requires schools camera on during her online classes. provide an in-person learning Her teacher skipped her turn option for students. to speak in class after she couldn’t All Triangle counties quickly made figure out how to unmute herself plans to offer in-person instruction, during class. Soon, her grades, with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City participation in class and overall Schools beginning in-person confidence began to dwindle. learning this week. Orange County The family was forced to grow Schools started hybrid in-person accustomed to technology after instruction for elementary schools in remote classes in Orange County January, and brought back the rest of Schools began last year. It left Vazquez the students in March. scrambling to learn how to send an Clark said that among the roughly email to Anna’s teachers asking for 130 families that World Relief Durham someone to help her daughter or works with, many families with older even getting used to class-related web children have opted to remain remote, applications like ClassDojo or Canva. while younger children have preferred There were barely any resources in-person instruction. in Spanish offered online that could DTH/YATES MCCONNELL Sofia Rangel, part of the Black help her learn these tools. Carrboro High School sophomores Fabiola Perdomo and Sofia Rangel sit for a portrait at the Carrboro High football field. and Brown Student Coalition at “You feel frustrated and stressed,” Carrboro High School, said one of Vazquez said. and interpretation services are There are three full-time take on translating and interpreting the challenges of remote instruction First-generation and immigrant offered to English learners in translators and seven interpreters services in Spanish. was helping her dad, who is from families have historically faced Triangle communities greatly assigned for Spanish speakers at Blefko, family outreach Mexico, understand the process. challenges in getting adjusted to the depends on infrastructure the Multilingual Resource Center, coordinator at Orange County Although her school gives weekly U.S. school system due to difficulties and available resources across Friedmann said. Schools, said there wasn’t calls in Spanish to families, there are accessing technological resources individual counties. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City information available in Spanish or certain topics that he will ask Rangel and language barriers, among other Pablo Friedmann, director Schools has a team of six translators other languages when the pandemic for further clarification on. things. The COVID-19 pandemic has of the Durham Public Schools and interpreters that speak Spanish, hit to help non-English speaking Although Rangel speaks only amplified those issues. Multilingual Resource Center, Karen, Burmese, Chin, Thai and families transition. Spanish, she was born in the U.S. “When you make things remote, said specific translation and Mandarin. The district also has “Our families were afraid, and it and doesn’t have the same fluency and families that don’t have interpretation needs among families a team of service providers that was hard for them to find resources,” as a native speaker, like her dad. So computers can’t read in the languages vary, but many often need help with interpret and translate in other Blefko said. clarifying specific topics in Spanish that the resources or instructions configuring internet services or languages like Arabic, Rohingya, Even more problems arise can be challenging. are coming to them from the public interpreting school forms. Some will Portugese, Korean, etc., according when allocating resources for “Simple things become really school system, it just goes to show simply have general questions about to Helen Atkins, director of English non-English languages outside difficult to try and explain,” Rangel said. how they’re left in the dark,” Adam online learning or the switch to daily Learner and Dual Language of Spanish, such as Karen With all of this year’s challenges, Clark, office director of non-profit in-person classes. Programming at Chapel Hill- or Burmese languages. All many of these students are patiently immigrant advocacy organization For Spanish speakers, several Carrboro City Schools. three counties outsource their waiting to hopefully return to the World Relief Durham, said. countries employ bilingual translators Sandra Blefko was the only translation and interpretation classroom when the pandemic is over. to interpret documents, such as school English as a Second Language services when they cannot directly “I would prefer to wait until then Scarcity of resources for English forms, letters sent out to families and representative working at a district offer those services themselves. to go back to classes in person,” learners even field trip permission forms, and level at the start of the pandemic. Paw Paw Wei, a Karen refugee Rangel said. also hire interpreters to assist with Last August, the district hired an and volunteer coordinator for The degree to which translation oral translations. additional five family liaisons to Refugee Community Partnership, Twitter: @heidi_perez02 UNC to study alcohol culture’s impact on students of color By Cameron Myers Milne and Malak Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership’s gender identity and sexual identity Dridi Campus and Community Coalition in its assessment. Staff Writers — a group focused on reducing Freeman said they want to see in [email protected] alcohol-related harms — to partner the data the connection with alcohol with UNC in creating a similar study use and second-hand harms that A study on the impacts of alcohol in Chapel Hill through a capstone underrepresented students may culture on students of color at the course at the Gillings School of experience. Such harms include University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Public Health. mental health issues, academic could help shift the conversation “If we were able to do this study struggles, harassment and more. around alcohol and belonging and if we had similar findings, “If we start to recognize how these on college campuses around the that data could really be used to things are connected, then we can country, including at UNC. support the success of students of make culture shifts on total well- Conducted in 2017 by researchers at color and LGBTQ folks at UNC,” being and on all of these topics at UW-Madison, the Color of Drinking Elinor Landess, the coalition’s one time,” Freeman said. study was born out of increasing rates director, said. UNC currently requires all of racially motivated hate incidents There are a lot of similarities in incoming first-year students to on the Madison campus, Reonda the demographics of UNC-Chapel complete a series of EVERFI Washington, leading study researcher, Hill and UW-Madison, Landess modules on drinking culture and said in a video presentation. said. In 2019, UW’s total student safety on college campuses. In the presentation, titled “The population was 65.7 percent white, “A lot of my peers didn’t take it too DTH/KIARA ALVARADO Color of Drinking: Alcohol as a and UNC’s student population in the seriously,” Rashika Rahman, a first- Rashika Rahman, a freshman at UNC, poses for a portrait in her dorm room. Social Justice Issue,” Washington same year was 59.5 percent white, year majoring in public health, said Rahman discussed the drinking culture on campus as a minority student. said the study intended to elevate according to each school’s race and about the modules. the narrative of people of color in ethnicity demographic statistics. Rahman said she does not drink “I’ve been trying to find more have been used by the UW-Madison exploring the connection between However, like Color of Drinking, for religious reasons, and this has Muslim friends or people of similar administration to structure alcohol and racial harm. UNC’s study would oversample caused her to feel left out from certain backgrounds or similar mindsets connectedness and belonging activities Among many findings, the study students of color in order to aspects of student life at UNC. so I’m not always in that situation,” and to inform communication about showed that alcohol use is tied to how center the perspective of students “It would be way more of a Rahman said. alcohol to students. students at UW-Madison connect from marginalized communities. question as to why you don’t drink Rahman’s experiences align with If students at Gillings decide to and belong, and that the safety of According to Alicia Freeman, who or why are you here if you don’t the findings of the UW-Madison select the study as their capstone students of color — both mental and is the coordinator for alcohol and drink, like that’s the only thing Color of Drinking study — and could project, the study could start on physical — in alcohol culture is more drug prevention and mental health that you would do at those parties,” inform a range of concerns related to UNC’s campus as early as this fall. disproportionately impacted than awareness at UNC and proposed the Rahman said, referencing what she UNC’s campus. that of white students. study along with Landess, this study would expect to hear at a function Washington said in her presentation Twitters: @cameronmilnee, These findings have prompted the would also go further to include held by a Greek life organization. that the results of Color of Drinking @malakdridii