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Campus a
cappella
groups are
preparing for
fall concerts
By Mary Kate Nolan
Staff Writer
If you havent heard at least one
group singing in the Pit to promote
upcoming concerts, youre either
enrolled in Kenan-Flagler Business
School or you dont go to UNC.
The a cappella tradition at UNC
dates back to 1977 when Barry
Saunders founded the UNC Clef
Hangers. Since then, the a cappella
scene has exploded in Chapel Hill.
Watching these groups perform,
they seem to have it all together. But
looking past the black dresses and
bowties, you might realize that some
of these singers were just recently
auditioning before their respec-
tive groups with butterflies in their
stomachs, hoping to stand out.
Auditioning was definitely one of
the most nerve-wracking things Ive
done here so far, said Haley Prakke
of the Loreleis.
Gayathri Raghavendra, a member
of the Tarpeggios, compared the
process to that of sorority and frater-
nity recruitment.
It kind of felt like speed-rushing
in a way, Raghavendra said. You
are exposed to like 10 different
groups at once, and youre trying to
choose what you want in a group or
who you think youll gel with, and
(From left) senior Chris Burrus, junior Jabril Rice and first-year Cole Covington prepare for the Clef Hangers fall concert.
theyre trying to do the same with
you.
Emma James, a member of the
Loreleis, said the audition process
involves singing half of a song, test-
ing vocal range, seeing how ones
voice blends with those of other
members and some vocal exercises,
such as sight reading.
Most students who audition are
first-years who are just starting
to find their way around campus.
Membership in a campus group can
provide these new Tar Heels with a
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much-needed sense of community
and belonging.
Jordon Reynolds, a new member
of the Clef Hangers, described a sort
of welcoming ritual the group per-
SEE A CAPPELLA, PAGE 5
paid
their
time
Ex-felons face barriers
in seeking higher
education opportunities.
By Ryan Smoot
Staff Writer
Directors of prison education
initiatives nationwide are find-
ing many of their formerly incar-
cerated students despite hav-
ing individual merit are being
barred entry to institutions of
higher education.
Marc Howard, director of the
Prisons and Justice Initiative and
a professor of government and
law at Georgetown University,
said he believes that colleges dis-
criminate against ex-convicts due
to a sense of liability.
Theres a lot of fear-based
thinking thats not rational,
that takes the worst nightmare
scenario and puts it forward as
though its likely to happen
making the decision to not admit
someone, he said. Which means
not giving someone a second
chance, when in theory theyve
paid their time, theyve paid their
debt, theyve been rehabilitated
and they deserve a chance.
Erin Castro, director of the Utah
Prison Education Project, said by
not admitting ex-felons, universi-
ties might be aiming to reduce risk.
The problem with that is that

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on terrorism today diverse student experiences

Experts will analyze
solutions for
transnational threats.
By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Staff Writer
Featuring a wide range of
experts, the Transnational
Terrorism Today confer-
ence on Thursday and
Friday aims to consider how
worldwide threats might be
resolved and why they exist.
According to Our World
in Data, there were 13,488
terrorism-related incidents
in 2016 a major increase
from 1,907 incidents in
2001 when former President
George W. Bush declared
the United States War on
Terror.
UNC history professor
Klaus Larres, an orga-
nizer of the Transnational
Terrorism Today conference,
said the increase in ter-
rorism in the West can be
partially explained by the
foreign policies of Western
nations.
It has perhaps something
to do with the continued
foreign policies some leading
Western countries conduct,
which seems to ignore local
problems and just focuses on
their own objectives, he said.
Of course, it is no way we
all believe to deal with these
problems in a violent way, but
some countries, some people,
believe unfortunately that only
with violence you get atten-
tion, and only with violence
Western countries will change
their policies.
Sarah Desmarais, associ-
ate professor of psychol-
ogy at North Carolina State
University and a panelist,
said she was attracted to the
conference partly because
of its multidisciplinary
approach.
I always think that
theres going to be a bet-
ter solution thats brought
together by people from
multiple disciplines try-
ing to work on it together,
Desmarais said.
Cori Dauber, a UNC
professor of communica-
tion, said holding these
conferences is important so
researchers and professors
can share work though
many follow each others
work on social platforms.
Theres still something
that is invaluable that comes
from the ability to hear one
anothers research being pre-
sented, raise questions and
look for interactions and con-
nections, Desmarais said.
Desmarais said she hopes
the research that is present-
ed during the conference
can be utilized by the intel-
ligence community and poli-
cymakers to tackle the issue
of terrorism in the United
States.
Theres a lot of public
conversation about terrorism
and what should be going
on to combat terrorism, and
they dont always reflect cur-
rent academic knowledge,
she said.
Dauber said students
wanting to know more about
terrorism and international
issues would benefit from
attending similar confer-
SEE TERRORISM, PAGE 5
The Carolina Veterans Resource Center opened in September 2017 for UNC student veterans.
An opportunity to see veterans
as they are at the University
By Marine Elia
Staff Writer
For Doug Yorty, transitioning from a
seven-year military career to student life
offered its fair share of difficulties. After
being stationed in Fort Bragg, Yorty now
pursues a double major in peace, war and
defense and political science, while holding
a position as the event coordinator for the
Carolina Veterans Organization.
Having been in the military for so long,
youre used to a certain different way of life
and a culture that is incredibly unique to the
military itself, and so not being around that
was just a big transition because, for better
or worse, your platoon is really your family in
the military. And then all of a sudden youre
just, youre stripped from all that, he said.
The Carolina Veterans Resource Center
supports military affiliated students with
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their student lives at the University. This
week, the center hosted a variety of events
leading up to Veterans Day. The center
offered students a chance to chat with vet-
erans in the Pit over coffee and play corn
hole with a veteran in the Student Union.
Later this week, the Carolina Veterans
Organization will be participating in a Ruck
March for Hunger walk around Franklin
Street, which Yorty helped organize.
Student Veteran Assistance Coordinator
Amber Mathwig helps veteran students on
campus by giving them the resources they
need to succeed in their new environment.
She speaks to prospective students about
how to become a competitive applicant, and professor at the University of
helping current students adjust to UNC
and guiding students and their families to
understand their veterans affairs benefits.
Veterans week is about inviting the cam-
pus community to see veterans as they are at
the University, Mathwig said. To engage in
conversation with them, to recognize them
SEE VETERANS, PAGE 5
campus safety, she said.
The Common Application,
used by over 700 colleges,
requires applicants to state
whether they have been found
guilty or convicted of a misde-
meanor or felony.
In 2016, 61 institutions of
higher learning, such as New York
University and Boston University,
signed the Fair Chance Higher
Education Pledge. This initiative,
launched by the Barack Obama
administration, allows universities
to commit to fairly admitting stu-
dents with a criminal background.
UNC-Chapel Hill is not among
the universities listed as having
signed the pledge.
Howard said when universities
decline qualified, formerly incar-
cerated applicants, they are doing
a disservice to both the individu-
als and society. He said accessible
education is directly linked to a
reduction of re-incarceration, thus
creating a safer nation with less
violence and fewer dollars allo-
cated toward maintaining mass
incarceration. He cited a 2013
RAND Corporation study, which
found education for incarcerated
students reduced their odds of
returning to prison by 43 percent.
When (incarcerated stu-
dents) take just one post-high
school course, its like a light
switch goes off in their mind,
and it takes them down a dif-
ferent road, he said. Instead of
going back into crime, they have
more productive pursuits and
further their education and inte-
gration in society.
Rebecca Ginsburg, director
of the Education Justice Project
Illinois, said education is transfor-
mative for incarcerated people.
They have a feeling that edu-
cation has been deliberately kept
from them, she said. When
they get a taste of it, when they
get the promise of being able to
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Carrboro continues cycle of hooping
A town group is happy
and hooping beyond
Weaver Street.
By Lauren Talley
Senior Writer
Modern day hooping, an
artistic movement and dance
involving a hoop, has found
itself in many major cities
such as Los Angeles, New
York and Carrboro.
Its a meditative, impro-
visational movement form
that allows your body to be
in contact with the circle and
the shape (of the hoop), and
that shape really guides your
body, said Julia Hartsell,
owner of the Flowjo, a studio
in Carrboro which teaches
hoop dance as well as other
circus and flow arts.
Hartsell discovered hoop-
ing after attending a music
festival in 2001. Upon
returning home, she began
to make her own hoops, and
met Vivian Spiral Hancock,
another Carrboro hooper.
Around 2002 Hartsell
began taking her hoop down
to Weaver Street Market, and
Spiral joined her in 2003.
They began hooping and sell-
ing their own hoops during
the music on Sundays and
Thursdays.
Weaver Street Market
was a huge thing for building
the initial hoop movement in
Carrboro, just taking hoops
out to the music on Sundays
and Thursdays, Hartsell said.
1001 Nights opens door to Persian culture
By Ashley Cruz
Staff Writer
Traditional music and per-
formances filled the Great Hall
during 1001 Nights, a celebra-
tion of Persian culture. The
annual event was hosted by the
UNC Persian Cultural Society.
Neusha Zadeh, one of the
presidents of PCS, said the
event aims to give a little taste
of Middle Eastern culture
through dance, performances
and poetry.
Weve done this event
for many years and its basi-
cally bringing together all
the Middle Eastern organiza-
tions from UNC and also the
Triangle area, she said.
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Hartsell soon introduced
her friend Jonathan Baxter to
hooping, and he began join-
ing them on Weaver Street.
We werent that crazy
about the music, but it was a
chance to hoop, so we would
take these stacks of hoops,
drop them on the ground and
everyone would pick them
up, Baxter said. There would
be 40 or 50 people sometimes
hooping behind the music.
People then began inquir-
ing about classes, and the
movement grew from there.
Carrboro is kind of like
the perfect climate for hoop-
ing, Baxter said. Its kind of
hippie, but not too hippie
its kind of perfect.
Baxter said although they
outgrew Weaver Street, he
still misses the community.
In 2005, Hartsell joined
with drummer Scott Crews,
and together they started
Hoopdrum, a hooping and
music performance duet.
We got all kinds of gigs at
festivals, fairs, city events and
private parties, Crews said. I
provided the music, and she
danced to it.
Around that time, Hartsell
and Crew began experiment-
ing with making fire hoops.
A fire hoop company sort
of grew organically out of
that from friends wanting
a fire hoop and just word of
mouth, Crew said.
In 2010, Hartsell and Crew
merged with two other fire
hoop makers and created
Synergy FlowArts, which
makes different kinds of
events the group does per
year. She said the event is
based on the classic Arabian
story called 1001 Nights.
This event is mainly to
expose campus to Middle
Eastern cultures and get
people familiar with foods or
dances, she said.
Zadeh said the event is pri-
marily Persian performances.
We have a dance that is
more modern type dancing.
Then we have traditional
music and then we have some
modern versions of tradi-
tional music, she said. Then
we have some poetry readings
and singing.
Erfani participated in two
of the nights performances.
Im playing a piano solo at
first and its a classic Iranian
song, she said. Then the
Jonathan Baxter was introduced to hoop dancing by friend and hoop dance teacher Julia Hartsell.
hoops but their flagship about the hoop and shar-
product is their fire hoop.
As an online store, they sell
to circus performers, dancers
and others from all over the
world and within the com-
munity, Crew said. One of his
happiest moments, he said,
was when he sold hoops to a
Cirque du Soleil performer.
Hartsell said that one of
her favorite things about
hooping has been the rela-
tionships she has created with
other hoopers.
The interesting thing
second performance Im
doing later on the night, Ill
be playing piano with Neusha
singing.
Efrani said her solo perfor-
mance song was called Gol
E Goldoon and her second
performance song was called
Soltan E Ghalba. Both are
traditional Iranian songs.
An Iranian performer at
the event, Simin Imanirad,
said Neusha contacted her
and asked her to perform, so
she chose to sing.
Im a singer and they invit-
ed me to sing a song, she said.
It will last maybe 6 minutes
and its an Iranian song.
Imanirad said she hoped
everyone would like her
performance and that she
would enjoy her first time at
the event.
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the communal structure of
ing that space with other hooping, and that this was
folks is that its a non-verbal one of the first communities
space, she said. A lot of the he was ever a part of.
time that we spend together I think the thing is, is that
may not be in conversation, its kind of silly and I dont
and that is what opens up mean that in a disparaging
and deepens the relation- way, Baxter said. People look
ship which I think is hard weird when theyre learning
for somebody who doesnt it, and they kind of develop
do that to understand this sort of communal trust
how much is built without with everybody, like, Alright,
interacting in the traditional were gonna look weird, but
conversational or direct com- this is really fun, and maybe
munication way. one day it wont look weird.
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Amir Rezvani, a professor household party that doesnt
at Duke University, said he at times, involve danc-
came to the event because its ing before or after dinner.
a beautiful cultural event. Rezvani said poetry reading
Ive been involved in cul- has a great place in Persian
tural activities in the Chapel culture. They use poetry in
Hill area since 1983, he said. discussions to help their argu-
My daughters went to school ments.
here and were involved in the First-year Gizem Cetin,
Persian Student Association. an Asian studies major, said
Rezvani said he loves to she came to the event to learn
promote Persian and other from others calligraphy artists.
worldly cultures. I do Arabic calligraphy
I would like students to myself and Im interested in
learn the cultural diversity learning Persian calligraphy
we have, he said. We have because it is very beautiful,
to know that we are coming she said.
from a diverse world and the Zadeh said she hopes all
Persian culture is one of the learned something new.
oldest cultures. It goes back I would like people of
to 6,000 years ago and it has other cultures to stumble in
a lot to offer for younger gen- and would like people to get
erations. something out of it, she said.
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Holocaust survivor speaks at UNC
Artist
Tibor Spitz
shared his
experiences
at Union
By Lorcan Farrell
Staff Writer
When he was 15 years
old, Tibor Spitz crawled out
of a hand-built shelter and
dug into the side of a hill in
Slovakia where he had spent
the previous seven months
hiding from the German
army. Seventy-three years
later, he walked into the
Student Union Auditorium
to help ensure that people do
not forget the horrors he and
other Jewish people endured
during the Holocaust.
Spitz is not only a
Holocaust survivor but also
an engineer, Ph.D. holder
and an artist. He used a
combination of anecdotes
and samples of his artwork
to tell his story to the gath-
ered audience. One of only
six members of his extended
family who avoided deporta-
tion and death, Spitz makes
sure the Holocaust is remem-
bered through his speeches
and his art. His unique style
and subject matter has led
Spitz to show his art in gal-
leries across Europe and
America.
I developed a very differ-
ent style of painting, Spitz
said. Its not pointillism or
French impressionist. Its
not Van Gogh with his lines.
Its something impression-
Silent Sam protesters discover undercover campus officer
By Preston Lennon
Staff Writer
When Maya Little heard an
explosion at McCorkle Place
on Thursday, she walked over
with a friend to see what hap-
pened.
By chance, Little, a Ph.D.
student and Silent Sam pro-
tester, found a familiar face
among the UNC campus
police officers working the
case one who had been
presented as a fellow pro-
tester.
Victor, Victor! Little and
her friend yelled, trying to
catch the officers attention.
Little said the offi-
cer, who shed known as
Victor Hernandez, an auto
mechanic from Durham, did
not initially respond to their
calls.
The man had rallied with
protesters at an around-the-
clock Silent Sam sit-in that
spanned the last week of
August, she said. During that
week in August, Little said
the man had been friendly to
protesters, seeking out con-
versation with new people.
But now, seeing him in
uniform, Little and her friend
were taken aback. The two
learned Victor was actu-
ally Hector Borges, a UNC
Department of Public Safety
officer who was undercover in
Proposed tax code could increase grad student costs
The act, proposed by
Republicans, could
also cut scholarships.
By Emma Boggess
Staff Writer
House Bill 1 the Tax
Cuts and Jobs Act pro-
posed Nov. 2 by Republicans
in the U.S. House of
Representatives includes
several provisions that could
hurt universities and their
students.
Mitch Kokai, senior
political analyst at the
conservative-leaning John
Locke Foundation, said while
the proposed act is intended
to benefit middle-income
taxpayers, higher-income
earners are more likely to
feel larger dollar-for-dollar
benefits.
Some of the key compo-
nents include collapsing the
Dr. Tibor Spitz presented his artwork and life story of surviving the Holocaust during a talk hosted by UNC Hillel in the Union Auditorium on Wednesday, Nov. 8.
ists missed and I subcon-
sciously discovered. I call it
blobism. didnt work for me. If I want
Along with their distinc-
tive blobs, Spitzs works can
be identified by the bright
colors he uses to address
dark themes and events. This
choice helped him cope with
the events of his past.
It is very easy to cry over
a sad event; it is very easy to
have a negative reaction to a
negative input; it is very easy
the protests.
Its frankly disturb-
ing and insulting that they
didnt just place someone
whos a plain-clothes officer,
but they placed an under-
cover person to infiltrate our
group and get to know us,
Little said.
Chancellor Carol Folt
confirmed the DPS usage of
plain-clothes officers, but she
said the University leaves the
specifics of peace-keeping
strategy to the police.
I look to the officers
to our police force to ers who interacted with
determine the best way to
keep people safe, Folt said
in an interview with The
Daily Tar Heel about the
fire in McCorkle Place and
campus safety. And I think
they always have a range of
approaches to it.
In the interview, Folt said
these approaches can include
officers being in plain cloth-
ing.
According to protester
accounts, Victor was a vet-
eran with PTSD. He said he
had lingering anxiety from
his years of service. Each day
at the August protests, he
was present, dressed in street
clothes and vocal in his dis-
taste for Silent Sam.
He would tell other people
he had to help his family, who
were stuck in the hurricane in
number of individual income
tax brackets from seven to
four, increasing the minimum
income levels for each brack-
et, reducing the corporate tax
rate to 20 percent and limit-
ing deductions and exemp-
tions, he said.
People who were in the
middle range of tax earnings
are going to end up seeing a
proportionally higher benefit
than high-income earners,
even though high-income
earners are going to get larger
dollar-figure savings, Kokai
said.
Kokai said critics fear
some of these provisions will
increase taxes for universi-
ties and students, as well
as discourage donations to
universities. He said the
proposal would limit the
amount of donations that
would be tax-deductible,
disincentivizing donors and
reducing resources for uni-
versities.
News
to be unhappy about unhap-
piness, Spitz said. That logic
from when the Holocaust
to overcome a reason for
unhappiness, I have to fight
it with happiness. If I want to
overcome negative forces, I
have to approach it positively.
UNC Hillel, the organiza-
tion that held the event, takes
Holocaust remembrance seri-
ously, said Liron Benjamin,
the organizations Holocaust
Education Chair.
Florida, Little said.
Little said he asked person-
al questions and approached
students often, and she
remembers spending an hour
with him talking about her
graduate research.
He would kind of ingrati-
ate himself with me or other
students and just ask per-
sonal details about our lives,
Little said. Knowing now,
that he was gathering infor-
mation on us, it seems a bit
more sinister.
Little said many protest-
Officer Borges are now
suspicious that the DPS
compiled information about
them.
If campus police is will-
ing to put an undercover
(officer) in a peaceful pro-
test, what other campus
organizations or student
groups are they gathering
this information on? Little
said.
Randy Young, media
relations manager for UNC
Public Safety, said in a state-
ment that the purpose of
assigning officers, whether in
uniform or not, to the area is
to ensure safety.
While protesters are
enraged by what they see as a
breach of ethics, constitution-
al law validates the actions of
Officer Borges and any other
Those who are support-
ing the proposal are trying
to eliminate some of the
complexity of the tax code,
Kokai said. But I think this
is one area in which theyll
probably end up deferring
to the status quo rather than
moving forward with a fight
over donations to University
groups.
Kathleen Thomas, a UNC
law professor, said certain
provisions of the bill could
increase the costs of going
to college. One of these pro-
visions is an excise tax on
endowments received by pri-
vate institutions, she said.
Universities use these
endowments to give scholar-
ships, Thomas said. So if
we tax them there will be less
money to be put toward stu-
dent education.
Thomas said its highly
unlikely the bill will pass in
its current state, but the ques-
tion of which provisions will
We want to make sure that
as time moves further away
became friends with Spitz,
occurred that people still
know and acknowledge what
happened, Benjamin said.
We felt that by bringing a
survivor to speak we could
give students an experience
that they could hold onto and
would stick in their mind.
Benjamin chose to bring
Spitz to talk because he has a
personal connection to him.
Police form a barricade around Hyde Hall after detaining an individual during a protest in August.
officers that could be serving
other undercover roles on
campus.
Joseph Kennedy, a profes-
sor in the UNC School of
Law, said the use of under-
cover officers is common
stay and which will go still
stands.
Katie Stember, a UNC
Ph.D. student and chief
of external relations and
advocacy at The Graduate
and Professional Student
Federation, said the fed-
erations main concern is the
repeal of section 117(d)
which would tax tuition waiv-
ers for graduate students who
are teaching and research
assistants and the removal
of write-offs on student loans.
A lot of students are
already struggling to live
on the stipends that we get,
based on the large student
fees were required to pay out,
the cost of living in this area
and the fact that a lot of grad-
uate and professional stu-
dents have families, Stember
said. We already know that
there are a ton of students
struggling at this University
and this will make it even
harder for those people to
Friday, November 10, 2017
When Benjamins parents
immigrated to New York, they
Guttenberg to the talk.
who Benjamin has known
since birth. When UNC Hillel
was looking for a speaker,
Benjamin immediately
thought of Spitz.
I knew he had an experi-
ence that was worth sharing,
he said. And I felt that his
position as both an artist and
a Holocaust survivor would
be interesting to students.
nationwide, even on campus-
es. He said we all assume the
risk that anyone we interact
with might be a police infor-
mant.
The Supreme Court has
held that a police informant
get by.
Madelyn Percy, a UNC
Ph.D. student and president
of the GPSF, said interna-
tional students are at an even
bigger disadvantage. If inter-
national graduate and profes-
sional students are here on an
F-1 visa, they arent allowed
to supplement their stipends
with income from extra jobs,
she said.
Because the Senate will
also propose a new tax bill,
Percy said it is unlikely the
House bill will pass in its
current form. After the fail-
ure of the American Health
Care Act of 2017, House
Republicans are determined
to get something done, but
the Senate will most likely
move slower and be more
deliberate with the process,
she said.
President Trump has
stated that he wants to give
Americans a big, beautiful
Christmas present of a tax
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That unique position was
what attracted first-year Ali
It was a Holocaust survi-
vor talking about his art, so I
figured it would be powerful,
Guttenberg said. Ive heard
Holocaust survivors before,
but this was different because
it had the art aspect. It
showed his emotions and also
his outlook, how he stayed
very positive.
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does not constitute a search,
Kennedy said. A police infor-
mant could record conversa-
tions with another party and
that also would not constitute
a search.
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break, so the executive branch
of the government wants this
done by Dec. 25, Percy said.
I think that with the rec-
onciliation process with the
Senate proposal, this deadline
is very unlikely.
In general, Stember and
Percy are set on spreading the
word about the bill and edu-
cating their peers graduate,
professional and undergradu-
ate students alike about its
negative provisions.
UNC is pretty unique in
that we have a lot of gradu-
ate and professional students
that are truly engaged in how
state and federal policy will
affect them, Percy said. The
GPSF is able to take a leader-
ship role to try and make sure
that all of our graduate and
professional students across
the country are aware of how
these changes might affect
them.
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Chapel Hill, Carrboro rank high in LGBTQ+ equality
Both were evaluated
higher than the
national average.
By Grant Allen
Staff Writer
The Human Rights
Campaign recently released
their annual Municipality
Equality Index, which mea-
sures how inclusive a towns
laws, services and policies are
of LGBTQ+ populations. This
year, both Chapel Hill and
Carrboro scored above the
national average.
Carrboro scored 71 out of
100 while Chapel Hill scored
66 out of 100. The national
average is 57.
Over 500 different munici-
palities were selected for the
study, including the 200 larg-
est cities in the United States,
the cities home to the states
two largest public universities
and over 70 cities that have
high proportions of same-sex
couples.
Significant overlap
between these criteria brings
the total number of cities
rated to 506, Xavier Persad,
author of the report, said in
an email.
The selected cities were
ranked based off of five core
criteria: non-discrimination
laws, municipality as employ-
er, municipal services, law
enforcement and relationship
with the LGBTQ+ commu-
nity.
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Carrboro mayor Lydia
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pleased and unsurprised
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Carrboro are above the
national average.
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UNC settles anti-trust lawsuit
By Olivia Slagle
Senior Writer
A partial settlement of
a lawsuit against UNC and
Duke University filed in 2015
was granted initial approval
by a federal judge in October.
The lawsuit, filed by former
Duke professor Dr. Danielle
Seaman, alleges that Duke and
UNCs medical schools and
health systems entered into
an agreement not to hire each
others faculty. Dean Harvey,
attorney for Seaman and the
proposed litigation class, said
this agreement resulted in the
suppression of faculty pay.
Seaman filed the lawsuit
after not receiving a radiolo-
gist faculty position at UNC
School of Medicine. Seaman
alleged the chief of cardiotho-
racic imaging at UNC said he
was prohibited from hiring
her because of the agreement
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work with and how we treat
Chapel Hill town council our employees, Anderson
member Jessica Anderson said.
said Chapel Hill has worked It makes sense that Chapel
hard to achieve the score Hill and Carrboro would have commitment to LGBTQ+
it did but that there is still a higher ranking, considering
much more to be done. that college towns were prior-
Weve pushed back itized in the study, Anderson
against a lot of regressive said.
policies like HB2, and weve With some exceptions, I
made sure that our town think college towns across
ordinances are as LGBTQ the nation tend to be more
friendly as they can be in open, Anderson said. The
terms of contractors that we university community pushes
fit for the position.
The proposed litigation
class includes anyone who
was either a faculty member
or a skilled medical employee
of the defendants between
2012 and 2016, Harvey said.
The lawsuit says the defen-
dants violated the Sherman
Anti-Trust Act by entering into
this agreement without the
knowledge of their employees.
Because Duke/DUHS and
UNC/UNC Health are the
two largest academic medical
systems in North Carolina,
and indeed two of the larg-
est employers in the state,
their no-hire agreement has
reduced competition for med-
ical facility faculty and certain
staff, thereby suppressing fac-
ulty and staff pay, the lawsuit
reads.
Harvey said the litigation
class has been notified of the
proposed settlement now that
the court has granted prelimi-
nary approval. The next step
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the town to be a place that
welcomes people from all
over.
Lavelle said Carrboros
policy shows in this study.
Over the years, weve
shown very unanimous sup-
port by way of resolution of
policy for our LGBT com-
munity, and weve established
a reputation as such in our
state, she said.
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is for the group to request es available for deposition
final settlement approval or interviews, searching and
from the court. providing documents and
Duke has not entered into
a settlement with the litiga-
electronically stored informa-
tion from 23 agreed-upon
tion class, Harvey said. UNC custodians, and produc-
Duke opposed (the settle- ing employee data, the settle-
ment) and now we are prepar- ment says.
ing our reply, which will be the
last stage in terms of briefing
Harvey said the case
against Duke and the settle-
the court, Harvey said. After ment should be concluded by
that, the court will consider the the beginning of 2018.
evidence and make a decision. The court has scheduled
The settlement pre-
vents UNC from entering
a hearing about this where
they can hear arguments on
into agreements like the Jan. 4, he said. Once this
aforementioned agreement takes place the court will
between the universities in decide.
the future and requires all Following the settlement,
UNC parties to terminate any the plaintiff will drop litiga-
potential violations that could tion against UNC. Harvey
arise. said the lawsuit against the
The lawsuit also requires schools is the only case of
UNC to provide discovery this nature he is aware of.
when necessary in the ongo- After working on this
ing suit against the Duke
defendants.
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A CAPPELLA
FROM PAGE 1
formed for new members.
We have a little desti-
nation under the Kenan
Laboratories where they go
and sing, he said. So we go
there, and they sing a song to
us and it really brings you
into the family, you know, and
it really makes you feel like as
though youve taken part in
something special.
Although the Italian term a
cappella references singing in
church, the musical style has
since drifted towards a more
modern and pop influence.
When asked about the dif-
ference between choir and a
cappella, Noah Tobias of the
EX-FELON
FROM PAGE 1
work towards a degree, its no
little thing.
Ginsburg said students in
her program are engaged and
attended underfunded, inner-
city Chicago schools with few
opportunities for success.
For a lot of our students,
they are coming into the real-
ization that theyre actually
not stupid, and in fact they are
smart, Ginsburg said. Thats
VETERANS
FROM PAGE 1
as having been in the military,
as having served.
Senior Briana Carter was
inspired to join the Carolina
Veterans Resource Center
from her experience with her
father being a Marine.
We try to support the mis-
sion of the Carolina Veterans
Resource Center which tries to
bring in the veteran students,
but on top of that any military
affiliated student and try to
help them cope with some of
TERRORISM
FROM PAGE 1
ences to hear presentations
of new projects.
What you tend to get at
conferences, in fact what you
always get at conferences, is
the newest, the most recent
work, and typically you get it
while its still in a formative
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Tarpeggios noted how formal
choir was in comparison.
A cappella is just like,
youre having fun, grooving
with your buds, he said.
But James said college a
cappella is more structured
than her high school all-
female a cappella group.
It is definitely much more
structured, and it is more
business-like, she said. We
make money through gigs and
stuff and are sponsored by the
(General Alumni Association)
whereas in high school we
just performed at chorus con-
certs and stuff.
No matter students musi-
cal background, there is
always a learning curve for
joining a new group.
a powerful thing to recently
learn about yourself, and you
want to prove it to yourself and
to others and flex these new
muscles you now see you have.
To reduce barriers to higher
education, he said universities
must eliminate the criminal
background question on the
Common Application and teach
admissions offices that people
with criminal backgrounds are
not necessarily bad.
People often behave in very
rational ways based on the
the things that non-traditional
students experience during
their undergraduate career at
Carolina, Carter said.
The specific experience
of military life can lead to it
being misconstrued by others,
both Yorty and Carter said.
(Because) were in a com-
bat job and deployed and
seeing combat in some way
or manner that youre broken
mentally, or the high rate of
suicide with veterans also
brings a certain (stigma) and
the awareness of PTSD and
traumatic rage, Yorty said.
stage, she said. People will
bring material to confer-
ences even before they send
it off to journals, so youre
getting it in its most recent
form, and you get to really
see the process at work.
Larres said he encour-
ages any students interested
in the topic of terrorism
to attend the round-table
From Page One
Choral music is about
emphasizing tall vowels
and sounding like a church,
Raghavendra said.
But a cappella is more like
you try to show off your indi-
vidual voice but also blending
in with everyone else when
youre not trying to be a solo-
ist, Raghavendra, whose
background is in classical
Indian and choral music, said.
She said a cappella
depends on collaboration.
Instead of sitting down
and learning the music, were
sitting down as a collabora-
tive effort where I try to help
someone else and someone
else tries to help me in a way
thats not selfish, she said.
First-year Bram Raets,
environment which they find
themselves, and if you change
that environment, theyll make
different choices, she said.
Castro said we dont always
consider those who spent time
in prison as improvements to
campuses.
We need to shift the way
were thinking and stop let-
ting our prejudices about
what we think people can be,
get in the way of what we do.
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I think sometimes that just
clouds the view of veterans
and thats far from the case.
Its also far from the case that
all veterans have gone over-
seas and seen some difficult
things. I think thats also a
common misconception.
Mathwig said veterans
week is a time for students to
showcase themselves.
It is also an opportunity
for the school to embrace the
diversity that veterans and
other military affiliated stu-
dents bring to campus.
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discussion that will end the
conference on Friday in the
FedEx Global Education
Center on UNCs campus.
I can only encourage people
to come and listen, and ask
questions. Its not just a listen-
ing exercise, Larres said. They
have the opportunity to engage
with our scholars as well.
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a new member of the Clef
Hangers, said he enjoys the
cation of his fellow singers.
Its so much more satisfy-
in the next two weeks, which
will provide new members
way new members are immedi- ing and gratifying because the opportunity to officially
ately welcomed as a part of the any amount of effort you debut within their respective
creative process. He was even put into the group just gets groups. The performances are
able to beat box and do vocal returned ten-fold, he said. sure to start these new vocal-
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14 That is to say ... Charon Mexican state, 50 Cathedral areas
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many games 69 Lacking, and what 28 Small deer hand-sewn
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22 Chicken __ king Down 35 Edinburgh native 61 Bad spell
23 Prefix with pass or 1 Zest 36 Agree (with) 62 Game console
plus 2 Melville novel set on 38 Eastern spiritual letters
24 Cultural funding Tahiti path
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26 MGM motto word 5 Mario who won 41 Director De Sica
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enables good different decades 46 Start to fall?
phrasing 6 Sussex stable area 47 Soccer penalty card
32 Get an __: ace 7 Ankas __ Beso
33 Casino gratuity 8 Common sports
34 Overseer injury
37 Harbor protectors 9 Short sock
39 Vitruvian Man 10 Rep. group
artist 11 Tony-winning
42 Pacific Rim actress for Miss
continent Saigon
43 Mozarts __ fan 12 Run up, as debts
tutte 13 Afrikaans speakers
44 Jupiter or
Mars
45 *Number
after a circled
c
50 EPA pollution
std.
52 Wetland plant
53 Capri suffix
54 Bit of
wordplay
55 Aviation stat.
56 Flags of Our
Fathers setting
60
*Unobstructed
view
63 Inn postings
64 Cosmopolitan
rival
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FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT
If someone doesnt completely agree with
the protestors, they are called racists, white
Cameron Jernigan supremacists or Klan members. Childish.
Lens of Onyx
Dishman, on coverage of the undercover officer at Silen Sam protests
A senior communication major
from Ahoskie.
Email: cameronj@live.unc.edu
LETTERS TO otherwise. If you have read
or made assumptions to the

Is an THE EDITOR
Statement on Silent
contrary about our campus,
they are not true.
We must always be con-

open Sam police activity

TO THE EDITOR:
cerned about public safety
risks, and our officers have
spent hours in training to

campus
Chancellor Folt has ensure our campus commu-
asked us to clarify the role nity remains safe.
of campus police officers at Over recent years cam-

safe?
the Confederate Monument
on our campus in light of
misinformation that has
been in circulation.
pus police have worked
tirelessly to ensure that
peaceful demonstrations
and freedom of speech are

A
s most of us know, Theres nothing more preserved and protected.
Thursday, Nov. 2, some- important to our University Our officers are an
one set fire to Davie
Poplar, the 300-year-old tulip
EDITORIAL and our police force than
the safety and wellbeing of
important part of our com-
munity and feel as much a

Dont report for reward

poplar tree that has stood for
the entirety of UNCs existence.
A pipe bomb at the base
of the tree exploded when
Dan Reichart, a physics and
astronomy professor at UNC,
attempted to stamp out the
fire.
After hearing the news of
UNC journalism is awarding-giving bodies.
As of late, we have
about more than noticed increased atten-
tion in the School of
just awards. Media and Journalism
pus community.
town journalists who often
go unnoticed.
Our own backyard of
North Carolina has so
many stories that remain
every member of our cam- part of this campus as all of
us. If you have questions,
We care deeply about our please contact one of us.
students and our commu-
nitys rights to free speech.
Our officers do their best
Derek Kemp
Associate Vice Chancellor
to protect the safety and
freedoms of everyone in our
for Campus Safety and Risk
Management
community.

this, and finding out that the
alleged offender of the arson
was not a current student or
staff member at UNC, I began
to ponder on the fact our cam-
pus is open to the public.
Is the fact we have an open
campus truly a good idea? Is it
truly safe?
In one sense, as the public
flagship institution of the
state, and an essential part of
the Chapel Hill community,
we have a certain obligation
to an open door policy to the
community.
If not, can we truly say we
are the University of the peo-
ple and committed to commu-
nity service and community
outreach?
During my time at UNC, I
have had amazing experiences
interacting with people from
the community that come to
campus.
From giving random lost
prospective students direc-
tions, to seeing parents give
their children tours around
campus, it has made me
happy to be a student here.
Moments like that renew
my, at times, very shaky faith
in our institution. It reminds
A
s a student paper,
we fully support
giving students as
many journalistic oppor-
tunities possible. But we
fundamentally believe a
focus on awards in student
journalism is harmful and
misrepresents what a good
journalism education is.
Awards in journalism
are fun to win, but any
good journalist knows,
good stories dont always
garner the attention they
deserve. Especially in
community journalism,
some of the most impor-
tant stories may go com-
pletely unnoticed by larger
Was no one else free?
Gorka sets a low
standard for
University speakers.
toward proudly promot-
ing the awards won, which
isnt inherently bad, but
winning award should not
be the reason we teach
students.
Teaching students that
awards are a good bench-
mark for determining if a
journalists story is good
can have harmful implica-
tions.
If we believe that sto-
ries that won awards are
uniquely better than those
that dont, we discredit
a large body of journal-
istic work that has a real
impact and does not
give credit to many small
EDITORIAL
However, what Gorka
says must be taken with a
grain of salt.
Our own Dr. Andrew
Reynolds in the political
untold, many of which
may never be noticed by
award givers or by larger
media organizations. As
a bonus, through aggres-
sively covering local issues,
we show an increased
benefit to the people of
the state especially the
voters who are skeptical to
why UNC needs a school
of journalism.
Local stories are
incredibly important
and impactful. Through
journalists covering what
matters, regardless of how
likely it is to gain national
attention, trust in the
media will grow.
his lack of expertise are
Gorkas extremist opinions
and connections to the
alt-right. He has expressed
blatant anti-Islamic views
The safety of our campus
is always our highest prior-
ity, and out of necessity,
UNC Police have main-
tained a heightened pres-
ence around the monument
to ensure that members
of our community are safe
and able to protest peace-
fully and have their free
speech rights protected.
By nature, public college
campuses present unique
challenges for campus
police because members
of our campus community
and outside groups often
come together to protest
or to participate in other
activities.
Specifically, we have
been and remain concerned
about our students get-
ting caught in the middle
of violent conflict similar
to that experienced in
Charlottesville, especially in
the presence of the monu-
ment.
To protect the safety
of people on our campus,
police response sometimes
involves the use of plain-
clothes or undercover
officers.
Jeff McCracken
Chief of UNC Police
Kvetching board
kvetch:
v.1 (Yiddish) to complain
Wow I thought the YDs
were bad with Go Vote but
now the Dance Marathon-
ers have taken it to a whole
new level.
To the girl blasting Its
Beginning to Look a Lot
Like Christmas while
walking though the Pit: no.
Just. No.
Dear Roy, if the students
had seats, youd have
more vocal fans. If the
money-paying boosters
would stand and cheer oc-
casionally, youd see more
support. If the employees
ever got raises they could
afford those tickets that
were not purchased for
last weeks game. Quit
whining about how the
constituents dont sup-
port basketball. It doesnt
become you.
I always forget to renew

me that UNC is an extension
of the Chapel Hill community,
and not an ivory tower.
In another sense, the fact
our campus is open to the
public can be a scary thing.
Because it is easy for any-
one to get on our campus,
it is also potentially easy for
someone to harm students,
staff or faculty.
With the rise of domestic
terrorist attacks, especially
in churches and schools, the
idea of someone attempting
to attack our campus doesnt
seem too far fetched or impos-
sible, given how open our
campus is.
I may be a bit less likely to
think that an attack on cam-
pus is possible if not for a few
reasons.
First, Chapel Hill is known
T
his com-
ing Monday,
UNCs chapters
of Christians United
for Israel and College
Republicans are hosting
Sebastian Gorka, a former
Trump advisor. Gorkas
talk will be able to pro-
vide some insight into the
current administration
with foreign policy in the
Middle East and Israel.
Gorka was deputy
assistant to President
Donald Trump who,
depending on who you
ask, either resigned or
was fired from his posi-
tion in August.
science department pro-
vided a rather damning
look at Gorkas dubious
credentials. Two of the
three referees for Gorkas
dissertation lacked a
Ph.D. of their own, and
the one doctor among
them is a far-right mem-
ber of the Hungarian par-
liament.
Even Stephen Sloan,
one of Gorkas academic
advisors, said, I would
not call him an expert on
terrorism, further noting
that he was not qualified
to hold such a high gov-
ernmental position.
More frightening than
in the past, and before
working for Trump, he
served as a national secu-
rity editor for the alt-right-
affiliated Breitbart News.
Gorkas shaky creden-
tials and his repulsive
history of xenophobia
are clear, but the First
Amendment allows him
an audience on this cam-
pus.
At what point should
these characteristics
prohibit someone from
receiving an invitation to
speak at UNC?
Lets hold our speakers
to the same standard as
our University.
Although deploying
undercover officers on our
campus is rare, it is a stan-
dard policing practice that
has been used on other uni-
versity campuses (i.e., when
threats associated with
public spaces are credible,
crowds have formed, ten-
sions are high or unknown
individuals with question-
able intent are on campus).
While we understand
that people would like
information about specific
instances, we simply cannot
share every detail with the
public that would compro-
mise the work of our police.
The recent use of an
undercover officer on our
campus was limited in
both time and scope and
was necessary because of
my eduroam certificate
until its too late. Also my
ONYEN password. Why
cant things just be the
same always.
Guy at bar: How do you like
your eggs in the morning?
Me: Unfertilized, thanks.
UNC DPS, biting the hands
that feed them for, oh I
dont know, EVER.
I could diet, or calmly ac-
cept my weight will just
go up with the holiday
season and go buy loose
sweatpants in bulk. #scre-
whealth.
Ah, November, where
good weather goes to die.
Climate change is messing
with sweater weather
shackers who leave behind

both regionally and nation-
ally as a liberal enclave. Its
not hard to imagine someone
picking UNC as the location
of an attack.
Secondly, any time there is
a threat on campus, we usu-
ally dont know until much
later, which is the fault of
Alert Carolina. Because of
that, the chances of more
people being hurt if an attack
were to occur is a real pos-
sibility.
Third, our campus police
force has been too busy
focused on undercover opera-
tions and infiltrating Silent
Sam protesters instead of pri-
oritizing the safety of students
and staff.
Id be lying if I said I have
clear cut answers to these
questions, but I do think that
we should be able to accom-
plish keeping people safe
without becoming fear mon-
gers and gatekeepers.
I think its a balancing act
we must continue to work
through every day.
NEXT
No roll-over
Students with meal plans
dont get to keep their
leftover swipes
from one
semester to the
next. Is UNC
Dining Services
really comfortable with all
those swipes just... vanish-
ing? There should be an
exchange system for extra
swipes and hungry people
who could use the food.
~Thank you~
I dont know how it is in
other bus systems, but the
fact that Caro-
lina students
thank the bus
driver every time
they ride the bus
is very heartwarming! Even
when its packed, cold, hot
or when theres terrible traf-
QuickHits
Womens soccer!
The womens soccer team
won the ACC champion-
ship! The UNC
legacy of great
womens soccer
lives on! (The
last time they
won the ACC, they went
on to win nationals!) Also,
we beat out Duke for No. 1!
Tailgate for UNCs actually
successful football teams,
especially womens football!
RIP Dick Clark
Hey, Department of Public
Safety: Spying on the peo-
ple paying your
ass, not cool.
And if you think
what worked in
the 60s will work
on us now, we read, you
know, history and stuff. If
you want to understand the
Pathogens
EVERYONE IS SICK. WASH
YOUR HANDS. COVER YOUR
MOUTH (WITH
YOUR ELBOW)
WHEN YOU
COUGH. GET FLU
SHOTS. DONT
SPREAD DISEASE. DONT
COME TO CLASS IF YOURE
CONTAGIOUS. DONT KISS
PEOPLE IF YOURE CONTA-
GIOUS. DONT COME NEAR
ME IF YOURE CONTAGIOUS.
Daylight savings
Some of us are feeling luke-
warm on daylight savings.
Yeah, theres an
extra hour in the
morning, but
having a sunset
at 5:30 p.m. robs
us of the evening. Is DST
even necessary anymore?
Also, we havent adjusted
extraordinary circumstanc-
literal trash in your room
es that included the very
need to go!!!!!
real potential for a violent
outbreak at any time. Seasonal affective disorder
Our officers do not is REAL.
monitor the content of any Class registration has been
protest beyond the public real real real real bad.
safety implications nor do Those blue squares are
they create reports about triggering omg.
students or their law-abid-
Hey, wash your faces. You
ing activities.
know who you are... nasty.
Police officers are there
to protect participants
Send your one-to-two
safety and listen to their
sentence entries to
concerns. It was never our
opinion@dailytarheel.com,
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