WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2020 127 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 128, ISSUE 12 ‘You don’t walk towards a red flag’ Amid COVID-19, students the status of her on-campus job at the library was uncertain. The third debate returning to UNC’s reason was more personal. campus. “My dad works in the ER, so why would I risk taking it back to By Hunter Haskett campus?” Wommack said. “There’s Senior Writer a lot of safety reasons on top of convenience and financial reasons.” “What will Chapel Hill look like Students have been given the with an empty Kenan Stadium or opportunity to rearrange their classes Dean Dome?” after seeing whether they will be “What if I get COVID-19 while offered as completely remote, hybrid attending UNC?” or face-to-face on Connect Carolina. “Will professors have an alternate Even with the option to go remote, syllabus for this situation?” some students, like sophomore Jolie These are just some of the many Koonce, are choosing to come back questions UNC students had to ask to Chapel Hill in the fall. themselves as they debated their return to campus this fall during the “Just being in the area makes COVID-19 pandemic. me feel much more like it’s With Black student leaders calling for an all-remote semester and the actually school you know?” recent announcement by Granville Jodie Koonce Towers that students living in East UNC Sophomore Tower will be unable to move in until at least Aug. 29, many factors went After learning there was a chance into the decision. refunds would not be given for housing, Koonce signed a lease for DTH/ANGELINA KATSANIS Breaking down the decision an off-campus apartment. Sophomore Tamsin Engel brings a suitcase into Kenan Residence Hall for move-in on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. With most of her friends living in Sophomore Madison Wommack the Triangle area, Koonce felt that didn’t want there to be the possibility off-campus, but remaining in primarily is that they secured recently made the decision to stay remaining in Chapel Hill would make that I had to go back home, because I Chapel Hill to have some sort of on-campus jobs and so they want home and complete her classes the semester feel as normal as possible. live fairly far away from Chapel Hill. normalcy — and a few are choosing to make that money and in order remotely after weighing out all “Just being in the area makes me And everyone else lives in the Triangle to live on campus. to do that, they feel like it would be aspects of returning to Chapel Hill. feel much more like it’s actually school, that are my friends.” “I do have a couple friends who best if they lived on campus.” One reason was that her classes you know?” Koonce said. “And being Sophomore Clay Morris also are living on campus,” Morris said. were all remote. Another was that around my friends and everything, I said most of his friends are living “The reason that they went back SEE CAMPUS RETURN, PAGE 2 Students create Local restaurants coping with businesses to earn uncertain football season The uncertainty surrounding pandemic. To non-athlete students, beverage industry has already been alumni and fans, it could mean a hit hard by COVID-19. Because in pandemic fall sports leaves restaurants lack of opportunities to watch the of the virus causing an especially in uncharted territory Tar Heels play in person. financially slow summer, restaurants But for the restaurants and bars like LOTSA Stone Fired Pizza, Peño By PJ Morales that line Franklin Street — which Mediterranean Grill and Lula’s have Senior Writer rely heavily on profits coming from been forced to close their doors. foot traffic and fans coming to eat and Bawcom said there are likely more For over 10 years, Kristian drink on game days — the uncertainty establishments that have already Bawcom has owned Franklin Street’s of COVID-19 brings with it fear. closed their doors, and that the Four Corners, one of the many “I use this word (fear) right now number will only increase. restaurants where Tar Heel fans can more than I think I ever did,” Bawcom “It’s tough, that’s all I can keep go to celebrate or mourn everything said. “Because there are so many saying,” Bawcom said. “All you from a huge victory in the Smith different variables that are based can ask for is for the people to Center to a tough loss in Kenan around fear. As a restaurant owner, understand that the majority of Memorial Stadium. or as anybody else in the world, the places on Franklin Street right now However, with the COVID-19 last thing you want is for somebody to are trying to stay open. We try to be pandemic bringing society to a come into your place and they get sick. as safe as we can for the patrons who screeching halt, Bawcom and his staff “So when you start throwing that come in and we try to make them feel have had to endure a difficult summer. type of stress on top of everyday comfortable, but at the end of the He doesn’t think the struggle is going operating stress and just trying to day, you understand why they don’t.” to end any time soon. make ends meet right now, it’s a lot.” When it comes to the fall sports Franklin Street’s food and SEE RESTAURANTS, PAGE 3 season — one of the staples of student life at UNC, and a major PHOTO COURTESY OF TAMIYA TROY revenue point for local businesses Anaía Brewster, a rising senior and hair stylist, started a business cutting hair — uncertainty remains just weeks amid the COVID-19 pandemic while many local barbershops were closed. before competition is slated to begin. The ACC confirmed on July 29 Students use their talents boxes, jewelry trays and coasters. She that football and other fall sports runs the business through Etsy and would have a season beginning the to get extra cash her Instagram page. week of Sept. 7-12, but made no during a pandemic “I really began to think about how ruling as to whether fans would be I wanted to emerge officially to the allowed in the stands. Even with By Emma Gerden world as a businesswoman,” Woldu the ACC’s announcement, things Staff Writer said. “I had more time to think about are still subject to change, with what I wanted to do, so I thought it ACC Commissioner John Swofford While COVID-19 caused many would be great to start my business.” reiterating the conference’s flexibility summer internship and job She learned from Carolina and willingness to adjust its cancellations, UNC students found Women in Business and the UNC protocols depending on continuing other ways to make money and start Marketing Club, though she has public health trends surrounding the their own businesses. always been interested in business. COVID-19 pandemic. Aiyana Woldu, a sophomore and She believes she has always had an For athletes, this could mean intended business major, created a entrepreneurial spirit inside her. a mix of emotions ranging from business during quarantine called “I used to charge my family an excitement to play to wariness DTH/ANGELINA KATSANIS Tsanai Tingz. Woldu makes resin- of the health risks associated A customer receives his order from Four Corners on Franklin St. on Thursday, based products including trinket SEE STUDENT BUSINESSES, PAGE 2 with competing in the midst of a Aug. 6, 2020. Game day restaurants have seen less traffic due to COVID-19. With great power… comes great need to take a nap. RICK RIORDAN 2 Wednesday, August 12, 2020 News The Daily Tar Heel The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893 UNC moves classes 3 miles off campus 127 years of editorial freedom ANNA POGARCIC By Sara Raja EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Staff Writer [email protected] BRANDON STANDLEY Some classes that were going to be MANAGING EDITOR offered on campus have been assigned [email protected] to locations off of main campus, just WILL MELFI days leading up to the first day of class. DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR Many students and faculty [email protected] members have raised concerns on MAEVE SHEEHEY social media about how students DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE will find transportation to classes [email protected] held off campus. Paul Delamater, an assistant MADDIE ELLIS professor of geography, said he found UNIVERSITY EDITOR out last week that one of his classes [email protected] would be held at the Friday Center for SONIA RAO Continuing Education, located about CITY & STATE EDITOR 3 miles away from campus. [email protected] UNC Media Relations said in an RAMISHAH MARUF email that some courses are being held ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR at the Friday Center to “de-densify the [email protected] central campus, maximize flexibility BRIAN KEYES and promote physical distancing.” SPORTS EDITOR Delamater said he is teaching DTH/YATES MCCONNELL a HyFlex course, so some of his [email protected] Alberto Rivera, set-up coordinator for the Friday Center, exits the building on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. PAIGE MASTEN students have already opted for OPINION EDITOR a remote version. He said he has justification I had for living on campus received an email that said she could Abby Boettcher, a senior majoring [email protected] postponed any in-person meetings and I was already pretty nervous about either take the bus or get a parking in economics and public policy, said of his course until next week and is COVID-19 and everything with moving permit to drive to her class located in her economics class was first going JEFFREY SHUTTER waiting for more information.