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for the 2014-15 fiscal year

There were 213 requests to the University for

public information in fiscal year 2009-10 such
as emails, contracts and personnel records.
After UNCs academic scandal was revealed
in 2010, the requests came flooding in.
Weve definitely seen an increase in requests
across the board, said Regina Stabile, director of
institutional records and reporting compliance.
Her office estimates the number of requests will
increase to 450 for the 2014-15 fiscal year.
They have grown in complexity what used
to be a simple request for an identified topic,
became a time period (or) not an individual
email but any email that the University has
responsive to the request, she said.
In its new website, publicrecords.unc.
edu, UNCs Public Records Office details the
requests the University handles.
Though the office grew between 2009 and 2014
from one full-time employee to about 10, the wait
times for records could be anywhere from months
to years causing many journalists to complain
that the office was shielding public information.
In response, UNC released a new public
records website in October 2014 with the intention of improving transparency but open
government advocates say the website has
a silencing effect, confusing cost estimates and lacks full transparency.
The website includes a
spreadsheet-style list of
recent public records
requests made and
when the request
was filled.
Though the
site

describes what was requested, it does

not include the record for others to see.
Journalism professor Ryan
Thornburg said UNC deserves
credit for the website. He said other than the
University of Iowa, he hasnt seen any other
public university use a similar site.
Its the best effort of transparency Ive seen
at any university, he said. Is it as good as it
should be? No, not at all.
Rick White, a spokesman for UNC, said the
University posts the requests it receives in the
interest of transparency.
The number of requests is growing exponentially, White said. We wanted to let folks
know exactly what was going on what kind of
requests, what kind of information were sharing.
Tyler Dukes, an investigative reporter for
WRAL, said the site could discourage people
from requesting information.
This to me seems like an effort to lay bare the
requests theyre getting more than it is a way to
be transparent with the public, he said. In some
ways it would discourage people from requesting
things if they dont want their requests to pop up.
Thornburg said by not providing the record
that was sent to the requester online, UNC creates
problems for itself.
It lacks the money saving efficiency that the
University could have by putting the fulfilled
requests documentation up, he said. Thats really
important. Im not clear on why they havent put
up the documentation yet it shouldnt be a
technical or cost issue. Thats where you get the
transparency issues.
Stabile said the website might not be able to
support the public records document sizes.
In our initial conversations about that, we
realized that the volume it would take to maintain is a long-term goal for us, Stabile said.
Other public agencies, though, have provided
public records online. Chapel Hill has posted the
mayor and town council members emails online
in an archive. The archive costs a yearly fee, or
$208.85 this year, said Ran Northam, a Town
of Chapel Hill spokesman.
The city of Greensboro has a database similar to UNCs which allows
users to click and access records

SEE PUBLIC RECORDS, PAGE 6

In 2015

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The public records estimates that it will receive

450 record requests

Projects and Investigations Team Leader

Thursday, March 19, 2015

UNC will spend roughly

$600,000

on public records office

staffing, Stabile said.

North Carolina dropout rates at all time low

Support programs at N.C. schools
keep the dropout rates low.
By Rachel Herzog
Senior Writer

When Principal Eileen Tully started working at East Chapel Hill High School in 2009,
she set a goal for the next five years: to reduce
the number of dropouts to zero.
Neither the school nor the district have
reached what Tully described as an audacious
goal, but theyre getting close. In
the 2013-14 school year, the high
school dropout rate for Chapel
Hill-Carrboro City Schools was 0.5
percent or 19 students.
We have not hit zero, but we have reduced
it incrementally, Tully said, explaining that
the rates have decreased by about two percent-

age points each year. Im pretty confident in

saying that all of the principals set goals with
their faculty for reduction.
The dropout rate for North Carolina public
high schools hit an all-time low of 2.28 percent or 10,404 students for the 2013-14
school year. In the 2012-13 school year, the
rate was 2.45 percent.
According to a press release, the number of
dropouts in the CHCCS district has decreased by
more than 50 percent over the past five years.
Jeffrey Reilly, CHCCS coordinator of student services, attributes the success to the
many sources of support available to students.
I think we just have a lot of people that are
in place to help, he said of the schools availability of counselors, social workers and other
support staff.
Reilly said CHCCS also contracts with
Carolina Outreach to provide students with
mental health services and has an agreement

with the juvenile court to provide a liaison

to support students under 16 who become
involved with the court system.
If youre giving kids different supports and
programs, thats going to keep them in school,
he said.
Reilly and Tully said mentoring, equity and
college-readiness programs also help keep students in school.
Sheldon Lanier directs CHCCS college readiness program, Advancement Via Individual
Determination, known as AVID. He said raising
graduation rates was one of the main reasons the
program was brought to CHCCS in 1996.
It sets them up with a support system, he
said. They have AVID teachers they can consistently come back to.
He said the program provides a bridge for
eighth graders to put them on the right track
and continues to support them through high
school. Additionally, students are in the pro-

gram with the same group of peers through

middle and high school.
Theyre in the same classes, they can check
on each other to make sure theyre doing okay,
that theyre applying to colleges and scholarships, he said. Its like a family outside of the
home, and that support is definitely needed in
terms of dropout prevention.
Reilly and Tully said there were no clear
commonalities among the 19 students who
dropped out. Through the years, reasons for
dropping out have included family circumstances, academic difficulty and incarceration.
Tully said administrators at East Chapel
Hill High School go through a list of at-risk
students one by one, then meet with counselors
and teachers to inform them of each students
situation so they can give the students the support they need in and out of the classroom.

Im gonna soak up the sun gonna tell everyone to lighten up.

SHERYL CROW

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From staff and wire reports

hink youve had a bad flying experience? Think again. A

British Airways commercial plane had to turn around after
someone took a rather stinky dump. Just 30 minutes after
departing Heathrow Airport in London only 30 minutes!
the plane was forced to turn around and land back at the airport. The
stench was apparently so bad that there was literally nothing that could
be done except ground the plane. One passenger said the pilot came over
the loudspeaker system and told the passengers that the pungent smell
was caused by liquid fecal excrement. That phrase alone is enough to
cause us to gag a little bit. Lets hope the plane was doused in bleach and
disinfectant before it was put back in service. Fingers crossed.

NOTED. Kevin the orange tabby cat took

a bit of a road trip. The cat went missing
from South Carolina in 2013. Kevin accidentally caught a ride on a U-Haul trailer
that was being taken across the country.
Kevin was found in the trailer in Palm
Springs. He is now making the crosscountry trip again back to his owner.

QUOTED. Well continue to have Internet

Explorer, but well also have a new browser
called Project Spartan, which is codenamed
Project Spartan.
Microsofts marketing chief talking about the fact that Microsoft is finally
making an internet browser other than the
middle child that was Internet Explorer.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR
TODAY

AUTHOR EVENT: Gone in

a Heartbeat: A Physicians
Search for True Healing: Dr.
Neil Spector, an associate professor of medicine, pharmacology
and cancer biology at Duke University, will be reading from his
memoir Gone in a Heartbeat:
A Physicians Search for True
Healing. Spector had personal
experiences that led him to
search for healing. The event is
free and open to the public.
Time: 5:15 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Location: Bulls Head Bookshop

So, You Think You Want to Go

to Med School?: University
Career Services is hosting an
information session for students
who are interested in attending
medical school. Students will be
given information on prerequisites and the application
process. The event is free and
open to all UNC students.
Time: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Hanes Hall, room 239
Nowruz Program: UNC graduate
students in Persian Studies will be
presenting research from their trip

to Iran. Matt Hotham, Matt Lynch

and Candace Mixon will present at
the session with an introduction
by professor Carl Ernst of the UNC
Persian studies program.
Time: 6:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room
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Due to a reporting error, Wednesdays pg. 4 story Coopers emails targeted incorrectly identified
Attorney General Roy Coopers role in a lawsuit over a state office deleting emails. Cooper has been
criticized for defending then-Gov. Mike Easley, who allegedly asked state officials to delete emails
directly after sending them.
Due to an editing error, Wednesdays pg. 13 story Q&A with Jonathan Jones mistakenly included a photo of Attorney General Roy Cooper instead of Jonathan Jones.
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hapel Hill artist Laura Davis views Triangle

Day School eighth graders artwork at the
Chapel Hill Art Gallery at 1215 E. Franklin
St. on Wednesday afternoon. The gallery will host a
reception for the collection March 26 at 6:00 p.m.

POLICE LOG
Someone reported a vehicle driving carelessly on the
1600 block of Curtis Road at
12:20 p.m. Tuesday, according
to Chapel Hill police reports.
Someone in the vehicle
had also taken a photo of the
person who reported it, the
report states.

Someone broke into,

entered and committed larceny from a residence and
damage to property on the
200 block of Scarlett Drive
between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30
p.m. Tuesday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
The person kicked in the
glass back door to the residence and stole a television and
a firearm, the report states.
Two intoxicated people
caused a disturbance at
Carrboro High School on the
200 block of Rock Haven Road
at 1:24 p.m. Tuesday, according
to Carrboro police reports.
The two believed they were

at 1000 Smith Level Road

and could not comprehend
what officers were saying,
reports state.
Someone reported a suspicious condition at a residence
on the 100 block of N.C. 54 at
10:27 p.m. Tuesday, according
to Carrboro police reports.
The person received a voicemail claiming there was a warrant for her arrest that would
be carried out if she did not
call back by 11 a.m. Wednesday
morning, reports state.
Someone reported harassment at the UNC Public
Safety building at 12:44
p.m. Wednesday, according to reports from the UNC
Department of Public Safety.
Someone was fighting
at the Blue Horn Lounge
on Franklin Street at 3:27
a.m. Wednesday, according
to reports from the UNC
Department of Public Safety.

Nowruz

Persian New Year Celebration

Celebrating the UNC Librarys
Persian Studies collection and Nowruz
Thursday, March 19, 2015
5:30 p.m. Reception
6:15 p.m. Program
Wilson Special Collections Library
Pleasants Family Assembly Room
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Free and open to the public

Join us at either location for all

your NCAA TOURNAMENT needs:

-Big Screen TVs

-New Sound Systems

$1 Pints

W UNC graduate students Matt Hotham, Matt Lynch,

and Candace Mixon will discuss their research and
recent travels to Iran, with context provided by Prof.
Carl Ernst who leads the Persian Studies program
W Reception of Persian Nowruz cookies and tea
W Exhibit of recent Persian Studies acquisitions
Information:
Liza Terll, Friends of the Library
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SAW,
UNC still
dont see
eye to eye
After meeting with administrators
Wednesday, SAW still has concerns.
By Sara Salinas

By Luman Ouyang
Staff Writer

The Student Action with Workers group didnt

get the change it was hoping for at a meeting
attended by Chancellor Carol Folt on Wednesday.
Although UNC representatives said the meeting was not between SAW and the
chancellor, Folt was present alongside
four other administrators to discuss
the licensing of UNC-logoed apparel.
We reiterated the Universitys decision
to require licensees that make UNC-logoed
apparel in Bangladesh to sign the Accord,
Matt Fajack, the vice chancellor for finance and
administration, said in a statement.
The University announced on Feb. 5 that it
would require all licensees that produce UNC
apparel to sign the Accord on Fire and Building
Safety in Bangladesh.
For several months, SAW has been asking UNC
to cut ties with the VF Corporation, which has not
signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in
Bangladesh, but instead formed the Alliance for
Bangladesh Worker Safety and moved its manufacture of UNC apparel outside of Bangladesh.
Fajack said the University is reconstituting and
recharging the Licensing Labor Code Advisory
Committee to help instruct how UNC monitors
and works with licensees moving forward.
But SAW member Richard Lindayen said
the group worked through the committee for
approximately six months at the beginning of
fall 2013, and the experience wasnt positive.
This is something weve already worked
through, Lindayen said. Theyre putting forward to the committee what appears to be the
same sort of question the question of Accord
versus Alliance, cut VF versus dont cut VF.
Lindayen said the Alliance was more a method
of avoidance than a step toward safer conditions.
He said 16 universities have cut ties with VF Corp.
At the Wednesday meeting, SAW called for
UNC to follow suit.
We went in there wanting (Folt) to cut VF,
said Ebony Watkins, a member of SAW. I dont
think their initial response was as sympathetic
as I had hoped.
Both Watkins and Lindayen said while they
were happy to meet with Folt, the meeting
didnt take SAW where the group wanted to go.
At the end of the day, there are too many
unknowns to be satisfied with the meeting,
Lindayen said.
He said while the issue of worker safety is
urgent, Folt has slowed the process, taking months
to respond to SAWs request for a meeting.
Lindayen said at Wednesdays meeting, Folt
promised to meet with the student group again
in four to five weeks.
Were really worried that she is just trying to
bog this down in bureaucracy, Lindayen said.
Theres reason enough to cut VF. And she wants
more, but I dont think shes going to find more.
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A historical marker unveiled

near Morehead Planetarium
Wednesday memorializes
the planetariums important
contribution to the space race
decades ago.
Morehead Planetarium
provided a celestial navigation
training program for NASA
astronauts between 1959 and
1975. The program brought 62
astronauts to the planetarium,
and the knowledge gained was
used in the Mercury, Gemini,
Skylab and Apollo missions.
Because of this program,
UNC-Chapel Hill is the only
university in the world that
can claim 62 astronauts as
alumni, said Todd Boyette, the
current director of Morehead
Planetarium, borrowing the
quote from Tony Jenzano,
the director of Morehead
Planetarium at that time.
(Jenzano) outlined the
training program, flew to
Washington D.C. and convinced
NASA that this would happen.
The program imitated the scenario in which the astronauts had
to use their naked eyes to navigate, given the limited view of the
small windows on space shuttles,
Boyette said, explaining that the
main technologies consisted of a
star projector and barbers chairs.
The star projector displayed
all the stars visible to naked eyes
to the dome of the planetarium.
Staff at the planetarium moved
the chair around with the astronauts in it to disorient them and
used a device to reproduce the
limited view that an astronaut
can look through.
The astronaut did this over
and over again to make sure
they understood where they
were in space so they could navigate and re-enter the Earths
atmosphere safely, Boyette said.
Nothing in the mission experiences of the astronauts illustrate
the importance of this capability
better than the closing moment
of former astronaut Gordon
Coopers flight of the Mercury
mission in the spring of 1961, said
Gabi Tesoro, the granddaughter
of Richard Knapp, a former educator at Morehead Planetarium.

DTH/SAMANTHA TAYLOR
Jarrod Jenzano and Gabi Tesoro unveil N.C. Highway Historical Marker G-132 on Wednesday afternoon.

Before the launch, Cooper

made a careful sketch, based on
his Morehead training, of exactly
how the stars should look in his
tiny pilot window, Tesoro said.
He later transferred that sketch
to the window of his shuttle.
In the final hour of the mission, the heat shield came loose
and a short circuit of the automatic attitude control system
occurred. Cooper had to take
manual control and adjusted the
spacecrafts attitude until the

Minor creators leave legacy

The authors said they hope
UNC students continue
their tradition of comedy.

real stars outside his window

lined up with the corresponding
pencils marks on his glass.
His splashdown came into
the Pacific Ocean with the most
accurate of the entire Mercury
program. It was a great testimony to the value of training
provided by the Morehead
Planetarium, Tesoro said.
The training program ceased
in 1975 because of improved
computer technology.
This is one of the very few

By Erin Wygant

By Olivia Bane
Staff Writer

DTH/CHRIS GRIFFIN
From left: Jacob Rosenberg, John Cruickshank, Fedor Kossakovski, Ross Slaughter
and Griffin Unger, writers of The Minor, decided to retire the satirical publication.

I was trying to take a nap, and

these guys were having an inconsiderate meeting just feet from my bed, he
said. So I aroused myself from slumber and said, Hey guys, this sounds
awesome, can I help out?
With Cruickshank and Rosenberg
as the primary editors, the early days
of The Minor saw two published
articles per day with four writers.
Rosenberg said it consumed his life.
We were all writing constantly. It
just consumed our lives in a lot of ways.
In the spring of 2014, Unger and
fellow sophomore Erik Schoning were
hired as cabin boys and teamed up to
write one story per week. Coordinating
their busy schedules led to some
unconventional writing spaces.
I would dip out of my desk job at the
Hillel center, and wed go write raunchy
things things no one has any business
talking about at a Hillel, but we were
crying with laughter, Unger said.
Unger said there were two parts to
learning to write for The Minor.

The first important thing is to be

on the right side of the issue call
someone out without seeming malicious. And the second thing to know
was how to hammer down a single
joke, he said. Every step of the way
you need to know what the joke is.
Rosenberg said many of the articles
were about the group members.
We got known for zinging people, but
most of the time we were brutally making fun of ourselves. Like the McAlisters
date not being a date? Thats so us.
Rosenberg said the The Minor went
through phases.
It followed our trends. The Minor
cared about what we cared about. Weve
been very silly, sometimes very political.
Weve had phases where we spit fire, too.
Slaughter said one of the best things
about the publication was its anonymity.
Its not about who is the best
writer, Slaughter said. It wasnt one
persons thing.
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signs about the history thats

this recent, said Michael Hill,
a research branch supervisor
at the North Carolina Office of
Archives and History, said in
reference to the new plaque.
Hill saw a feature about the
training program and thought a
sign would be a great memorial.
Its a remarkable part of
Moreheads already remarkable
history, Boyette said.
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Illuminating event
looks at black divide
Participants said
people with dark skin
are all seen the same.

Assistant Arts & Culture Editor

After a campus-wide outcry over the

reveal of the six anonymous authors and
the end of The Minor, the creators of the
satirical site say they hope someone will
pick up where they left off.
Just because we are six
gorgeous dudes, no ones
going to be like I cant do
what they did, said sophomore Griffin Unger.
With two graduating, the group
decided to disband, announcing the
decision on its website Monday.
Junior Jacob Rosenberg said
although they could continue publishing, The Minor just wouldnt be the
same without the original members.
The Minor began during spring
2013 in John Cruickshanks dorm.
For a few months we spitballed
headlines and just kind of joked
around with ideas and came up with
the name. Its been pleasantly ambiguous, he said. Ive always liked the
idea of mining for the truth or the idea
of striking a minor chord.
The group said it is happy to step
back and pass along the torch to other
students. For now, they plan to keep
meeting each Friday, as theyve done
as friends and co-writers for two years.
I laugh a lot more because of The
Minor, Unger said.
Rosenberg said he hopes the group
helped fellow UNC students as much
at it helped them.
We hope that comedy is thriving
more at UNC because of what we created, he said.
A self-described reserved person, cocontributor Ross Slaughter said joining
the group gave him a voice.

Morehead astronaut
training memorialized
The Morehead
Planetarium
trained space
race astronauts

Senior Writer

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Students from the Black

Student Movement and
Organization for African
Students Interests and Solidarity
came together Wednesday night
to address an issue not often discussed on a national level.
Our divide in America is
between white and black, but
theres a divide between African
and African-American that
white people may not see, said
ShyKiya Lee, a nursing major
and member of BSM.
Participants talked about how
people tend to lump
everyone with dark
skin into the category
of the black other,
forgetting or ignoring that not
all black people are the same.
Lee said there is a clear split
between African and AfricanAmerican UNC students.
Its funny how the black
people say we know all of the
other black people at UNC,
but we dont include all of the
Africans here. When we say
black UNC we dont include
the Africans, and they should
be included, Lee said.
Although they see the need
for unity between the two
groups, the participants agreed
they feel more comfortable with
people who are similar to them.
Even though Ive been in
America for so long, I was never
really accepted by African-

Americans in middle and high

school, so I naturally became
friends with other Africans
when I got to college, said Bolu
Aluko, a junior who moved
from Nigeria to the U.S.
Students who are seen as
African-American said they do
not necessarily identify themselves the way the rest of the
world sees them.
Its hard if my environment tries to put labels on
me that I may not want to
embrace. Whats close to my
heart is Jamaica and I identify
as Caribbean-American, even
though I was born in America,
said Jason Reid, a sophomore
whose parents are from Jamaica.
Several participants said they
feel black people cannot embrace
their natural hair if they wish to
be seen as professional.
If Im going to a job interview in America, I wouldnt feel
comfortable going with my natural hair. Id feel like I needed
braids or a weave. Id wonder if
my hair would be a distraction,
Aluko said.
Several students lamented
that traditionally black hairstyles, such as dreadlocks, are
not viewed as acceptable in the
workplace. But Reid pointed out
that these standards apply to
people of all races.
Businesses breed conformity. We all wear blue or black
suits, Reid said.
Its not just us everyone
has to conform to these standards. Business people have to
find someone to fill a certain
role, and if you cant, theyll find
someone who can.
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Sports

Thursday, March 19, 2015

The Daily Tar Heel

Marcus Paige prepared for familiar foe

By Aaron Dodson
Senior Writer

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
Marcus Paige and Siyani
Chambers diverging paths
have crossed quite a bit over
the years.
Both hail from the Upper
Midwest Paige from Marion,
Iowa, and Chambers from

Golden Valley, Minn. So, starting in sixth grade, the two

could always count on seeing
each other on the AAU circuit.
We pretty much played
each other at least once every
summer, Paige said.
Hes a great point guard.
Ive been playing against
him for a long time, said
Chambers of his counterpart.

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After high school, their

paths veered in opposite
directions: Paige went
to North Carolina and
Chambers to Harvard.
But on Thursday, Paige and
Chambers will meet again, this
time on the court at Veterans
Memorial Arena for a secondround matchup in the NCAA
Tournaments West Region.
And true to history, theyll be
marked by difference, representing two contrasting teams:
No. 4 seed UNC and 13thseeded Harvard.
Good news that were actually in and heres our moment,
said Harvard coach Tommy
Amaker. The bad news is, boy,
this is who we have to play.
UNC has 110 all-time victories in the NCAA Tournament.
Harvard has just two one in
2013 and one in 2014.
This season, four UNC players average double figures, led
by Paige with 13.9 points a
game. Only one Crimson player
averages in double digits, senior
swingman Wesley Saunders
with 16.3 points a game.
But one of the most apparent differences between the two
squads is the polarity in their
styles of play. Harvard plays
slow and deliberate basketball. UNC kicks it up a notch,
always looking to run and gun.
Thats just the way were

please!

DTH/HALLE SINNOTT
Marcus Paige will help the Tar Heels take on the Harvard Crimson in Jacksonville, Fla., at 7:20 p.m.

supposed to be playing, said

junior forward Brice Johnson.
Thats the way coach has
been emphasizing the way we
need to play the entire year.
According to data compiled
by college basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy, UNCs average offensive possession length
is 16 seconds. Harvards is 20.5.
Harvard will run, but
they run when they have the
opportunity, Paige said. We
want to run every time even if

we dont get a quick shot, just

to run and get pressure and
get the tempo to our liking.
But among the differences
is one similarity: In three years
of college basketball, Paige
and Chambers have the same
amount of NCAA Tournament
wins. Since 2013, UNC and
Harvard have each won
just twice. Neither team has
advanced to the third round.
I do think theres value
in being here, Coach Roy

Williams said. Harvards won

the last two years.
So as different as UNC
and Harvard might be, dont
expect the Tar Heels to take
the Crimson too lightly come
7:20 p.m. Thursday night.
Theres no cupcakes in
the tournament, said junior
swingman J.P. Tokoto on
Tuesday. Were not looking
past them at all.
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shot and speed, but Chambers averages 9.8 points per game and
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J.P. Tokoto vs. Wesley Saunders

Saunders is Harvards only player to average double digits in scoring
and makes up 40 percent of Harvards offense. His 6-foot-5 frame
makes him hard to guard, but Tokoto is used to such assignments,
often matching up with the best opposing player. EDGE: Push
Brice Johnson vs. Steve Moundou-Missi
Both Johnson and Moundou-Missi average about the same number of rebounds per game, but Johnson has a leg up in scoring
with 3.5 more points per game. Johnson is also two inches taller
than Moundou-Missi and is playing well as of late. EDGE: Johnson
Kennedy Meeks vs. Zena Edosomwan
Meeks numbers are far superior to Edosomwans, and even though
Meeks has seen limited play as of late due to illness, hes been looking healthier. Edosomwan averages four points and 3.2 rebounds
per game, while Meeks are 11.7 and 7.5, respectively. EDGE: Meeks

The Bottom Line North Carolina 70, Harvard 58

COMPILED BY GRACE RAYNOR

inFocus

The Daily Tar Heel

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Students say Board of

Governors out of touch
A demographic analysis of both groups showed
slight differences between the two factions, which
have often been at odds this year.
Data compiled by Langston Taylor, Bradley Saacks and Sarah Brown
Designed by Gabe Hubbard, Charlotte Moore and Tyler Vahan

Demographics of the Board of Governors

32

Given that the UNCsystem Board of Governors is

the policy-making body for a
diverse system of 17 campuses
and 220,000 students, many
members of the higher education community expect the
boards makeup to reflect that
diversity. But students and
faculty have often questioned
that diversity during the
past year.
The board, made up
of 32 voting members, is elected
by the state legislature. Since
2010, the state

7% Black
93% White

voting
members
Race

87% Republican
13% Unaffiliated

has been under Republican

control and the current
board largely reflects that
political background, with 29
registered Republicans and
no Democrats serving.
More than 90 percent of
current board members are
white a statistic that has
faced some backlash in a state
university system where six
campuses are historically
minority institutions.
Still, when lawmakers
named new nominees who
could serve on the board
starting this summer, more
than half a dozen were black.

81% Male
19% Female

Gender

Political Party

Attended
UNC-CH
undergrad?

43% Yes
57% No

Demographics of the undergraduate student body

This academic year,
members of the UNC BOG
Democracy Coalition have
said the Board of Governors is
out of touch with its constituents after the board made
several unpopular decisions.
In August, the Board of
Governors approved a measure that limits the percentage
of tuition any UNC school can
use toward need-based aid to
15 percent of tuition money.
UNC-Chapel Hill uses the
largest percentage of tuition
for need-based aid out of any
UNC-system school. N.C.
State University and four of

the systems historically black

colleges or universities also
meet or exceed the cap on
need-based aid.
In February, the board
unanimously voted to close
UNCs Center on Poverty,
Work and Opportunity; N.C.
Central Universitys Institute
for Civic Engagement and
Social Change; and East
Carolina Universitys
Center for
Biodiversity a
move many
said was
politically
motivated.

81% In state
19% Out of state

18,350

8% Black
27% Other
65% White

population

Race
In-State or
Out-of-State?

58%Female
42% Male

Gender

Graduation
Rate

SOURCE: NORTH CAROLINA VOTER REGISTRATION,

UNC OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT

19% Did not receive degree

81% Graduated

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Thursday, March 19, 2015

PUBLIC RECORDS

FROM PAGE 1

people asked for.

We needed a way for
requesters to view the status of
their request what we really
wanted was full transparency,
said Sarah Healy, the public
records manager for the city.
Greensboros website was
created in-house, at no additional cost in July, she said.
Since its launch, more than
500 fulfilled requests have
been stored on the website.
Healy said if a file is too big,
the city will provide the record
to anyone who requests it.
The section of UNCs public
records website which details
cost is confusing, said Jonathan
Jones, director of the N.C.
Open Government Coalition.
Some numbers seem arbitrary,
he said, and identical requests

can yield the same costs.

You see news outlets make
the same request, he said.
Theyll say it takes more than
50 hours, and the next thing
its the exact thing. There
shouldnt be any additional
cost for the same request.
In January, multiple media
outlets, including The Daily
Tar Heel, requested UNCs
report to its accrediting agency.
The response was more than
200 pages long and detailed
the Universitys compliance
with multiple standards.
UNCs public records website states that the approximate cost to the University
was $7,930 for each media
request that was filed.
To assess cost, UNC calculates the total time spent by
University personnel to gather
the records and the amount of
time that Public Records Office

staff processes the requests.

That is multiplied by an hourly
rate of $22, or the average salary of Public Records Office
staff other than Stabile.
Were not charging here,
and we havent, White said.
The idea is to give a relative
general idea of the time that
goes into various parts of the
process.
In the case of the accreditation response, it took 350
hours to obtain, process and
review the records and redact
them, White said in an email.
Dukes said the high time
and cost figures hint that UNC
personnel need to approach
public records differently.
Theyre not approaching the generation of these
records with the idea that
theyre public, he said. If it
takes you more than 50 hours
or one to 10 hours to pull

The Daily Tar Heel

some of this info out, that

is a fundamental problem.
By highlighting cost,
Thornburg said the public
records office frames transparency as a cost-benefit debate.
Democracy is inefficient
and expensive, he said.
Its certainly more efficient
than a closed system where
people arent informed and
cant participate.
In 2015, UNC will spend
about $600,000 on public records office staffing,
Stabile said.
Stabile said the office is
discussing whether to use its
ability to charge for records
more often. People are rarely
asked to pay a fee for records,
she said. UNC is allowed to
charge for searching, gathering and copying documents.
It costs requesters who ask
for hard copies 10 cents for

black and white pages after

the first 50 pages, according
to the public records website.
For requests involving
extensive technological
resources or clerical work,
UNC can charge $18 an hour.
We are prohibited by statute from assessing fees for time
spent reviewing records, she
said. The conversations we
have had (about what to charge
requesters) are about the fees
the statute permits fees for
actual costs and for extensive
use of information technology
resources or extensive clerical
or supervisory assistance.
Dukes said more and more
agencies are beginning to
charge special service charges.
You absolutely create a
chilling effect when you talk
about a request costing hundreds of dollars, he said.
Dan Kane, an investigative

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Rather than spend hundreds
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aftermath of the scandal, UNC
could have focused on fulfilling
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To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Today is a 6 -- Repay a debt to someone
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Review basics. Lay low and watch the
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Enjoy memories, but dont get stuck in the
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Sign contracts, file papers and open new
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Another player draws you into a spell.
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The Daily Tar Heel

Thursday, March 19, 2015

FRANK Gallery honors

cancer patients with art

CAMPUS BRIEF
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Time: Tuesday through

Sunday until March 22

The UNC Eshelman School

of Pharmacy, the Monash
University in Melbourne,
Australia and the University
College London in England

have created an alliance,

which will provide access to
the three schools resources as
well as working in unison on
big projects insurmountable
for just one school.
Each school will contribute
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staff reports

Location: FRANK Gallery,

Franklin Street

By Morgan Vickers

Info: www.frankisart.com

Staff Writer

For women and men who

lose their hair due to cancer
treatments, a scarf can be a
way to maintain hope and a
sense of vitality.
In producing scarves decorated with the words and stories of those impacted by cancer, local artist Peg Gignoux
and poet Grey Brown said
they attempted to reclaim the
identity of cancer patients
through their collaborative
project, Wrap Your Head
Around It, which premiered
at the FRANK Gallery on
March 10.
A scarf is a billboard for
women that lose their hair
sometimes their identity, said
Gignoux, who is a member
artist at FRANK who specializes in textile art.
I saw this project as a
mechanism to engage people
to give back to the cancer
community and engage the
cancer community in a meaningful, joyous way.
Both Brown and Gignoux
said the project was a culmination of their many years
of work within the field of
community-based art.
(In college) I assisted
teaching patients in residential care, and I saw how it
empowered patients to write,
Brown said.
It gave them a reason to
get up in the morning, and
they came together as a writing group, and they trusted
one another, and they supported one another, and they
found their voice.
Over several months,
Brown and Gignoux held
a Kickstarter campaign to
fund the project and worked
with community members
from all over North Carolina

inBRIEF

SEE THE SHOW

The exhibit celebrates

life for cancer patients
and survivors.

DTH/KYLE HODGES
A collection of scarves is at FRANK Gallery on East Franklin Street
until Sunday. The lead artists are Peg Gignoux and Grey Brown.

for 10 weeks between

October and December.
Gignoux and Brown
decided to bring the exhibit
to FRANK because they said
the local, community gallery
it coincides with their project
mission.
This work took place
in Raleigh, Durham,
Chapel Hill, Carrboro and
Greensboro, Gignoux said.
The FRANK Gallery is
dedicated to bringing outreach projects to their gallery,
and it was an obvious choice
for me because its part of
their mission to communicate
community work.
Torey Mishoe, FRANK
gallery manager, said the
project has strong ties to
Chapel Hill.
This evening, Brown
and Gignoux will present
the exhibition of their art
scarves, show a film and
answer questions at the
reception at FRANK.
Some of the women who
inspired multiple scarves
will attend the event to tell
their stories.
Mishoe said the potential
community impact is one
of the reasons why FRANK
chose to exhibit this project.
Were really happy this
project supports patients
and survivors by providing a
beautiful piece of artwork and

a collaboration, Mishoe said.

I think its important in
any community to be able to
foster any people who need it.
Both Gignoux and Brown

hope the community will be

inspired to create art that
creates positive changes
within communities.
I think (viewers) will
see the joy and the creativity and the beauty of many
hands and many hearts
at work and how expressive folks are with cloth,
Gignoux said.
When you bring a lot of
people together, you can do
something monumental.
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The Minor quits

The writers for The
Minor, which closed this
week, reminisce about their
satire. See pg. 3 for story.

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Solution to
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Tournament begins
The Tar Heels play
Harvard in the first round
of the NCAA tournament
today. See pg. 4 for story.

Dropout rates low

The dropout rate in North
Carolina is at an all-time low
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Opinion

Thursday, March 19, 2015

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By Daniel Pinelli, pinelli@email.unc.edu

Beyond the Quad

Ryan Thornburg, on public records in North Carolina

FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Racism
on and
off the
bus
COLUMN

Hiding from the light

UNCs public records service has been inexplicably poor.

ts appalling that the

University spends
$600,000 staffing its
public records office each
year, yet Jonathan Jones,
director of the N.C. Open
Government Coalition,
named it one of the worst
entities to request public
records from.
The original idea behind
publicrecords.unc.edu
which catalogs every
public record request made
to UNC was probably
worthwhile. But the website
has largely amounted to
nothing more than a platform for the University to
bully reporters out of filing
public records requests by
giving unsubstantiated time
frames and prices for the
records return.
For instance, earlier this
academic year, the public records website said it
would cost the University
more than $7,000 each
time it wanted to release the
response to its accrediting
agency to a media outlet.
Never mind that the
University was required to
compile this response in the
first place in order to maintain its accreditation from
the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools
Commission on Colleges.
The document was eventually published online
for the public to review
meaning it ultimately cost
the University nothing to
release the document to
news outlets.
Its instances like
these that make it seem
as though the University
hopes to shame and deter
journalists from making
the public records requests
that allow them to hold
power to the light.
Journalists and members
of the public have a right
to know more about the

Jenny Surane
Editor-in-Chief
Senior business journalism from
Cornelius.
Email: editor@dailytarheel.com

operations of their statesponsored university.

This newspaper has also
spent many years going
back and forth with the
University about releasing
the names of students convicted of sexual assault by
the Honor Court.
The University claims
these names are protected
by the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act. In
reality, the act doesnt protect names of perpetrators of
violent crimes. The public is
allowed to know the names
of the people convicted of
rape on campus.
But the University says it
isnt required to release the
names, and therefore it wont.
FERPA is a familiar place
universities go to hide from
public records requests.
If universities violate the
act, they risk losing their
federal funding. So it might
seem reasonable for universities to tread carefully
when it comes to releasing
information.
But in reality, no university
has ever been charged for
improperly releasing FERPAprotected information. Open
government advocates will
tell you FERPA is not the
danger universities will lead
you to believe it is.
Its appalling that
the University spends
$600,000 staffing its public
records office each year yet

was still named one of the

worst entities to request
public records from.
But its something that
can be fixed. With that kind
of staffing, this office can
likely achieve so much more
than it currently does.
This week, weve included
sunshine logos with each
of the stories weve printed
where we used public records.
For some stories, it just
meant we had access to
the Universitys directory,
which is actually information provided to us under
the North Carolina public
records law.
In other cases, like with
our daily police logs, we
rely on incident reports
from the Chapel Hill Police
Department.
Weve printed these logos
in an effort to show our
readers how crucial public
records are to the production
of this newspaper. We love
transparency, and we hope
our readers do too.
In honor of Sunshine
Week, the University should
make a real commitment to
improving its processes for
fulfilling public records.
For duplicate requests, the
University should make those
records available online.
And it should remember
the states open records
law which urges entities
to provide the public with
records at a free or minimal
cost before it proceeds
further with discussions
about charging people for
access to records.
Finally, the University
should stop waiting on laws
and lawsuits to tell them
to release information.
Instead, it should follow the
spirit of the North Carolina
public records law and
remember that these documents are already the property of the people.

QuickHits
War on trees

Lets go, Bob!

Were doing fine

The town of Chapel Hill

has decided that what
Franklin Street
needs, for some
reason, is fewer
trees. Students
returned from
break to find the small
garden plots and trees near
the Franklin Street CVS
had disappeared. The most
distressing thing is that the
mural in Cosmic Cantina is
now no longer accurate.

This is the best thing about

March Madness: Another
year, another
opportunity for
Duke to lose to
a double-digit
seed. Robert
Morris won its play-in game,
which means we have the
unique opportunity to
watch Duke get beaten by
what history will assume to
have been just some dude
named Robert Morris.

In an email sent out earlier

this week, we learned that
UNCs administration will
graciously be
providing us
with more ways
to talk about things with
one another. Apparently
we werent doing a good
enough job of that on our
own. Were still waiting to
hear what the administration thinks about anything.

Relaxing, and yours?

A Minor tragedy

Dark days indeed

People will hate on the

repetitive How was your
spring break?
variety of small
talk, but we see
it as a blessing. Run into
an acquaintance you feel
obligated to chat with but
with whom you otherwise
have nothing to discuss?
Spring break saves the day,
at least for the next week or
so. Good luck out there.

We understand The Minor

wanting to leave on its own
terms and ride
into the sunset
in a blaze of
glory, but that
doesnt mean
we cant be sad about it.
And we are. It leaves behind
a void UNC didnt know
needed filling until about
a year and a half ago. The
kvetches had better be
damn funny from now on.

Carrboro residents were

heartbroken to find that
Wendys, the
fast food joint
secretly beloved
for being the
only quinoa-free
zone in town, had shuttered
over spring break. The good
news, though, is that its
just closed for renovations,
meaning it will one day
arise more beautiful and
more greasy than before.

Privilege must be
actively recognized

TO THE EDITOR:
Your recent feature article
suggesting possible benefits
of firearms on campus might
have mentioned the inherent dangers involved, and it
could even have touched on
the question of why America
has a problem with weapons proliferation. Instead,
the narrative just makes
firearms cool and sexy, and
it naively suggests that they
might be a way to combat
sexual assaults on campuses.
I identify with the good
intentions of senior Thomas
Rees because I, too, was a bit
taken with guns when I was
a senior at UNC, and I might
well have imagined that
they could combat violence.
Observation of events, however, has convinced me that
the causes of violence are
irrational and that neither
firearms nor anything else
will deter offenders.
In fact, brutality gives
criminals the same rush that
it gives to firearm aficionados on both sides of the law.
In other words, guns, even
when legal, are inherently
not nice, and as Wild West
instruments, they fascinate
us. So yes, it is OK to be cool
and sexy, but dont think
that a ballistic gimmick like
this will alleviate the problem of crime.
Rather, we must reduce
opportunities for crime
and deal with its motives.
Meanwhile, guns remain
a public health problem
in America which we now
need to abate, not feed.

TO THE EDITOR:
I recently stumbled
across your feature Campus
Commentary: Does UNC
adequately support students
of color? from Feb. 5. I really respect what The Daily
Tar Heel is doing by fostering these conversations. I
would like to say that I was
surprised by the online comments this story received,
but I am not.
I am a white Ph.D. student at UNC, and I think the
biggest threat to students of
color on campus is that people (namely white people)
are unwilling to validate the
feelings, emotions and experiences of students of color.
When people speak their
own truth, especially when
people of color speak their
own truth, it should not
threaten the white student
community. That seems to
be a huge alienating force
on our campus and one that
prevents anyone from supporting students of color
we do not allow space
for their voices, we silence
or invalidate anything they
say, and we question their
desire to have spaces and
communities of their own.
We especially question
campus organizations and
spaces for and by students of
color, ones that we cannot be
a part of, despite the fact that
the majority of spaces and
communities on campus are
built and maintained by and
for white people. We cannot imagine that any group
would want a space of their
own, because we cannot
imagine a space that is not
our own one in which we
are not represented.
The word privilege is
shunned, but until people
admit they have privileges,
they cannot want the same
privileges for others. We as
white people need to experience being uncomfortable,
and when this discomfort
occurs, we need to acknowledge those feelings, look
deep within ourselves and
talk to members of our own
white community rather
than lash out at Black students, force them to explain
themselves, or ask for their
forgiveness (thereby placing
the burden on them).
Privilege does not require
our intent or desire as white
people. We have it whether
we like it or not, whether
we are poor or a member of
another marginalized group.
We have a privilege, and
we need to sit with that. Just
as we want our experiences
and emotions to be validated at all times as white
people, we need to admit
that we need to allow others
to be validated, too.
It is imperative that we
as white people do not go
through life ignorant of our
own identities and the privilege wrapped up in those
identities I dont want to
be ashamed of being white,
but the actions and expressions of many members of
the white community on
issues related to students of
color on campus are putting
me to shame.

Hubert W. Hawkins
Class of 64
Charlottesville, Va.

Vanessa Volpe
Graduate Student
Psychology

Concealed carry on
campus too risky

NEXT

(Democracy) is certainly more efficient

than a closed system where people arent
informed and cant participate.

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Matt Leming argues that Yik
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QUOTE OF THE DAY

You would be surprised at those who still

wont accept or confirm UNC was involved
in any wrongdoing, so yes it bears repeating.

Nikhil Umesh

n March 8, a video
surfaced showing
members of the Sigma
Alpha Epsilon chapter at the
University of Oklahoma singing
a racist chant. The university
swiftly cut ties with the chapter,
Waka Flocka Flame canceled
his show on campus and news
media were salivating over the
series of events.
But the response is symptomatic of a racism denial problem
we have a feigned moral high
ground that sensationalizes singular incidents through ritualistic public shaming.
Incidents such as this construct a good versus bad
person dichotomy and frame
racism as being merely interpersonal and housed within discrete, singular acts. Surely, we
cant be racist if we werent on
that bus of SAE members, right?
The exhaustive talk surrounding the SAE chant shows
that people consider such racism to be unusual. Historically
white fraternities are one of
the cogs that keeps the racism
machinery moving, but if we are
to affirm that Black lives matter,
greater attention needs to be
paid to material and structural
injustices facing Black people.
Black people are incarcerated
at nearly six times the rate of
whites. The wealth gap between
white households and Black
households is the largest it has
been since 1989. And Black
people have an infant mortality
rate over twice that of whites.
The killing of Michael
Brown in broad daylight this
past summer in Ferguson,
Mo., has pinned the country
into broaching the topic of its
racial antagonism toward Black
people. But at what point will
it stop being confined to the
space and time of yesterday or
elsewhere, but acknowledged
as foundational to the present?
The Justice Department in
its scathing report of Fergusons
police department finds that
it routinely violates the rights
of its Black residents. And last
week it was discovered that
computers of the New York
Police Department were used
to edit the Wikipedia pages of
Black people who members of
the department had slain, such
as Eric Garner and Sean Bell.
The department had also edited the entry for stop-and-frisk
and sections that described its
own police misconduct.
If an SAE-esque fiasco were
to occur at UNC and the perpetrators were expelled, we would
not be dealing with the roots of
anti-Black racism, only its spectacular iterations explicit
verbal language caught on tape.
The Board of Trustees have
been tasked with providing
an update on the renaming
of Saunders Hall next week. I
hope they havent perched atop
this notion that racialized terror is geographically and morally exterior to our so-called
Southern Part of Heaven.
White folks and nonBlack people of color should
not seek exoneration from
their complicity in antiBlackness through narratives
of other peoples racism and
start to examine their own collusion, along with that of the
institutions in which we reside.
How much more harmful is
white fraternity men chanting
the n-word and celebrating the
lynching of Black people than
your university honoring and
upholding a Grand Dragon of
the N.C. Ku Klux Klan?

The Daily Tar Heel

TO THE EDITOR:
To the proponents of concealed carry guns on campus (featured in yesterdays
article Trigger Warning):
its ridiculous to equate the
danger of guns to the danger posed by cars or knives.
Motor transport is essential
for our economy, our education and our way of life.
As for knives, Im a little
less perturbed about the
possibility that they end
up on campus because an
assailant armed with a
knife will never produce
the body count that weve
seen at countless school
shootings. One final point
I dont trust the ability of lawful civilian gun
owners. Even if they have
good intentions when they
bring lawful guns onto
campus, what will prevent
them from hitting innocent
bystanders if they take aim
at a violent perpetrator?
Even if someone has
obtained a concealed carry
permit, that permit does not
mandate their ongoing training in marksmanship and
crisis evaluation. Civilian
cops make for bad cops.
Jackson Bloom
Senior
Dramatic art, political
science

Firearm dangers
should be addressed

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