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Volume 123, Issue 154

I had no
idea how I
would tell a
teacher

Friday, February 19, 2016

We did a lot of good work

ConnectCarolina rosters dont

include gender pronouns.
By Jack Davis
Staff Writer

Several times a day, Finn Loendorf

faces two doors bathroom doors. Both
are labeled with simple, geometrically
shaped stick figures: a slender man on one
door and a woman in a dress on the other.
The people are black and white but for
Loendorf, gender is something much grayer.
Neither door works well for Loendorf,
who uses they/them pronouns.
Loendorf, a first-year, said they began
experimenting with they/them pronouns
their senior year of high school, but only
with close friends.
She/her didnt really describe me as
much as I feel like it should, they said. But
neither does he/him. So I felt like they/them
was a good middle ground, and Ive really
enjoyed people using they/them with me.
Loendorf said they have just recently
become comfortable correcting people who
use the wrong pronouns. But they said many
times they resist the urge to correct people.
Loendorf said because they are registered
as female in the Universitys database, but
identify as they/them, some situations can
get awkward.
One time someone put up a sign that
said, Hey, ladies, please close the doors,
the temperatures dropping, they said. It
seems harmless, but not when you consider
the fact that not everyone in the suite considers themselves a lady.
These situations extend throughout
their entire university life, Loendorf said.
Everything from classroom situations to
everyday conversation can become stressful.
I was very, very nervous my first day of
classes. I had no idea how I would tell a
teacher I use they/them, they said.
In the current version of ConnectCarolina,

SEE PRONOUNS, PAGE 5

DTH/LYDIA SHIEL
Bradley Opere, an international student from Kenya, is the student body president-elect. Operes passion for issues on campus played a role in his victory.

President-elect on race: It will be there, it will follow us

By Aaron Redus
Staff Writer

High voter turnout and a passion for student issues helped Bradley Opere win the student body presidential election.
Deborah Stroman, former chairperson of
the Carolina Black Caucus, said she thinks
race was a factor in Operes election but his
platform mattered, too.
I do believe race plays a role, Stroman said.
Lets just say that there is no doubt that ethnicity plays a role in prominent political campaigns.
She said unusually high voter turnout and a
wide margin of victory demonstrates students

awareness of issues on campus.

I think it sends a very important signal
that the University student population is looking for leadership not only in the sense of
policy and curriculum but also in engagement
and inclusion, she said.
Stroman said she thinks Opere is well-positioned to bring positive change to UNC because
of his relationship with the student body.
Im excited that Bradley is very well liked
by his peers, has lots of energy and will probably bring perspective that will help us with
this next academic year, she said.
Taffye Benson Clayton, associate vice chancellor for diversity and multicultural affairs,

said the election showed students desire to

solve problems on campus, but she said she
thinks Operes platform and perspective
hes an international student from Kenya
played a more important role than race.
I think its a reflection of the level of student engagement weve had around a variety
of issues on our campus, Clayton said. We
all come with our own experiences, our own
identities into any context. Hell bring his own
unique perspective, and that perspective is
informed by who he is, his lived experiences
and what hes been exposed to.

SEE OPERE, PAGE 5

Q&A on Einsteins
gravitational theory
The first direct detection of gravitational waves marks a major advancement
for physics and astronomy. Predicted by
physicist Albert Einstein 100 years ago,
gravitational waves were finally detected
by the highly sensitive instruments known
as Laser Interferometer GravitationalWave Observatory (LIGO).
Professor Charles Evans is a gravitational theorist in the UNC Department of
Physics and Astronomy. Staff Writer CJ
Farris spoke with Evans about the discovery.
Daily Tar Heel: What are gravitational waves?
Charles Evans: Its a traveling disturbance in
space and time. Its a local warping and
stretching and compression of space. We
put a word on it in physics, we call it strain.
DTH: So why is this the first time weve
directly detected gravitational waves?
CE: It just goes back to how incredibly
weak gravity is. The gravitational force is
really weak, the only reason why we are
stuck to the Earth is just because theres
this huge amount of mass below us So
what was required was to just reach the
technological level. The technology in this
experiment is extraordinary.
DTH: Can you talk about the origins of
these gravitational waves?
CE: So weve seen black holes, but this is
the first time where weve, in essence,
seen two black holes orbiting around each
other and catching them right at the end
when their orbit is so tight that they are
orbiting around each other 75 times a
second, and then the last bit of energy is
taken out of the orbit and the two merge
together and become one large black hole.
DTH: Was this find expected?
CE: The LIGO experiment ran in an earlier
version, called LIGO 1, for close to 10 years,
but they never detected a signal like this
The plan was always to upgrade the detector
as technology improved So the expectation was even if they didnt see something
this time in this three-month period last fall,

the expectation was that

either in the next time or
the time after that they
would.
DTH: What is significant
about this discovery?
CE: Ill say personally,
Charles Evans is a
working in this area as
professor and gravia theorist, its sometational theorist in
thing that Ive awaited
UNCs Department
for 30 years As far
of Physics and
as significance overall,
the main thing about
Astronomy.
this is that once LIGO
is operating regularly and it is joined by
other detectors, we basically have got
a new form of astronomy, gravitational
wave astronomy. This was the dawn of
the era of gravitational wave astronomy
This event is an example of something
that probably youre not going to see in
any way other than gravitational waves
So if we are looking at it with a regular
telescope or a satellite, even an x-ray or
gamma ray satellite, we dont see it, but
now we can hear it.
DTH: What can we detect now that we
understand gravitational wave astronomy?
CE: So the kinds of things that are going
to be strong gravitational wave signatures
are the most violent events that involve
the most massive objects moving close
to the speed of light. You just get to see
cosmic violence. So take for example this:
you have two black holes, each of which
weighed about 30 times the mass of the
sun, and theyre moving relative to each
other at a good fraction of the speed of
light. And these objects, they are about
200 kilometers in diameter so thats
here to Charlotte and beyond or something like that and there are two of
them, and theyre separated by about the
same amount of distance as their size, and
theyre going around each other 75 times a
second. And theyre throwing 60 times the
mass of the sun around in circles 75 times
a second its just mindboggling.
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Anti-sodomy laws still on the books in NC

Though unenforced,
legislators have not
removed the statute.
By Kent McDonald
Staff Writer

Anal sex is still legally prohibited in North Carolina and

15 other states.
The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled against these anti-sodomy
laws in 2003 for violating the
due process clause and individual rights but they remain
on the books.
Court rulings can prevent
enforcement of a statue, but it
doesnt wipe the statute off the
books, said Maxine Eichner,
a UNC law professor. For
this statute to be wiped off the
books, it has to be repealed by
the legislature, and they sometimes repeal outdated laws, but
certainly not always.
She said these types of forgot-

ten statutes can create uncertainty over their legal effect.

This uncertainty has recently
surfaced in Michigan, where the
state senate passed a bill including an existing provision that
criminalizes sodomy.
If you look at whats happening in Michigan, I think its
absolutely shameful that people
are still pushing this type of
discriminatory and unconstitutional discrimination in 2016,
said Mike Meno, spokesperson
for American Civil Liberties
Union of North Carolina.
The legalization of same-sex
marriage in all 50 states has
caused a backlash to LGBT
equality, he said.
I think its clear that the
freedom to marry is here to stay
across the country, and opponents of equality have looked
at ways to carve out exceptions
to laws that give equal rights to
LGBT Americans, Meno said.
Chris Sgro, executive director of Equality NC an LGBT

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

Its absolutely shameful that people are still

pushing this type of
unconstitutional discrimination in 2016.
Mike Meno
Spokesperson for the ACLU of N.C.

advocacy organization in North

Carolina said he would
be surprised if the Michigan
Senate bill becomes law.
I understand that it was
originally intended to prevent
bestiality but went way beyond
that and prohibited oral and
anal sex between consenting
adults, straight or gay, he said.
Sgro said he does not believe
other states have a similar appetite for adopting anti-sodomy
laws.
We have our own challenges

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reads like one too.
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Love, released Big Magic
last year as a motivational
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regard creativity as a religion

at times, the Big Magic was
both beautiful and inspiring
on the inside and out.
The book is geared toward
typically creative types, especially writers, but has lessons
applicable to any college student. Heres what stuck with
me most:
Make space for healthy fear:
You do not need fear in the
realm of creative expression,
Gilbert writes. It will always be
there, she adds, but it should
not be in the drivers seat.

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The death of Supreme

Court Justice Antonin Scalia
became the campaign
seasons biggest surprise this
week, with the focus of the
primaries suddenly shifted
to the appointment of a new
justice to the SCOTUS.
Republicans insist the
lame-duck President
Barack Obama has no right
to appoint a new justice.
Meanwhile, Obama is
reminding everyone that
yes, he, in fact, literally has
that Constitutional right.
To read more, head to
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TODAY

Throw Me on the Burnpile and

Light Me Up: Oscar-nominated
Lucy Alibar will read from her
latest work, Throw Me on the
Burnpile and Light Me Up. Stu-

dent tickets are $10, and general

admission starts at $25.
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Memorial Hall

SATURDAY

Kappa Deltas Annual Shamrock N Run 5K: This year marks

the UNC chapters 23rd annual
run. Proceeds will go to the Durham Center for Child and Family
Health and Prevent Child Abuse
America. Tickets are $25. Participants will receive a T-shirt.
Time: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Location: 219 E. Franklin St.
UNC Mens Basketball vs.
Miami: The Tar Heels will take
on Miami at home at the Smith
Center. Tipoff is at 1 p.m.

Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Location: Smith Center
Community Forum on Racial
Equity in Our Schools: The
Campaign for Racial Equity in
CHCCS will share its report and
discuss feedback with community members. This event is free
and open to the public.
Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: 1321 Martin Luther
King Jr. Blvd.
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Staff writer Callie

Williams offers consolation
for the heartbreak of Tar
Heels everywhere.
Weve got to face the
fact: The basketball game
last night SUCKED. It hurt
my soul on a physical level,
and Im fully confident that
every UNC fan feels the
same. There was no end
to the anguish, except the
escape of sleep.
For one blissful, perfect
moment this morning, I
thought that the game
had all been a dream and
that we had yet to play the
devils spawn.
To read the full story,
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staff reports

CITY BRIEF
Corey Root has been
chosen as the new homeless program coordinator
for Orange County, and she
will begin March 21. This
position coordinates the
development of an approach
to ending homelessness in
Orange County. Root joined
the North Carolina Coalition
to End Homelessness in
April 2013.
staff reports

POLICE LOG

COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Author Event: How to Avoid
the Superwoman Complex:
Author Nicole Swiner will discuss her book How to Avoid the
Superwoman Complex: 12 Ways
to Balance Mind, Body & Spirit.
It aims to fight the notion that
you need to be superhuman for
your life to matter. Copies of the
book will be sold for $12.95. This
event is free and open to the
public.
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Bulls Head Bookshop

CONSOLATION

Ph.D. student Gary Lewis

Cantor was arrested Jan. 29
for manufacturing Xanax as
well as intent to distribute.
His case was heard at the
Durham County Courthouse
on Thursday. The case will
be continued April 20.
According to the court calendar, Cantor has six pending
charges.

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Someone drove while

impaired at the intersection
of 1650 E. Franklin St. and
North Elliot Road at 1:45
a.m. Wednesday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.

impaired at the intersection of Martin Luther King

Jr. Boulevard and Stateside
Drive at 1:44 a.m. Thursday,
according to Chapel Hill
police reports.

Someone committed
credit card fraud at the State
Employees Credit Union at
828 Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd. at 8:44 a.m. Wednesday,
according to Chapel Hill
police reports.

Someone trespassed
at Top of the Hill at 100 E.
Franklin St. at 2:21 a.m.
Thursday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.

Someone committed larceny at 179 E. Franklin St. at 3:44

p.m. Wednesday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
The person stole $50 in
cash, reports state.
Someone urinated publicly and littered at the intersection of Fordham Boulevard
and South Estes Drive at 5:28
p.m. Wednesday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
Someone drove while

Someone trespassed at the

Hargraves Community Center
at 216 N. Roberson St. at 6:51
a.m. Thursday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
Someone reported a loud
party on the 100 block of
Glosson Circle at 11:07 p.m.
Wednesday, according to
Carrboro police reports.
Someone trespassed
at the 100 block of West
Main Street at 12:52 a.m.
Wednesday, according to
Carrboro police reports.

COURTESY OF CAMPFIRES AND CONSTELLATIONS

UNC graduates create

outlaw cosmic music
By Trevor Lenzmeier
Staff Writer

LU XC H A P E L H I L L . C O M

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Chapel Hills outlaw country outfit, Campfires and

Constellations, doesnt want
fans fixating on their name in
hope of finding a higher symbolic or sentimental meaning.
They want listeners to sit
back and have a great time
with their music.
Founded in 2010 in
Dunn by Charlie Smith and
Corey Bax, Campfires and
Constellations expanded
and evolved over Smith
and Baxs first couple of
years at UNC. The group
added Ernest Thompson,
Daniel Perry and Stephen
Mooneyhan all members
of the class of 2014 and
have been writing and performing as a quintet for
more than three years.
Though the name originally belonged to one of Baxs
side projects, the band decided to adopt the title permanently when they started to
forge a name for themselves
in Chapel Hill.
Smith, Mooneyhan and
company are taking their
outlaw country family to
Local 506 tonight with new
music in tow. Campfires and
Constellations teamed up
with Carrboros Silver Dollar
Switchblade on a split

7-inch vinyl that the groups

are debuting tonight with
help from Charlotte band,
Amigo.
Smith said his band is
always excited to perform
their music locally.
Chapel Hill has a great
music scene in general,
Smith said.
We have a whole lot of
places to play. Chapel Hill
has about the most vibrant
music scene in the state, I
would imagine.
Crediting country music
innovator Gram Parsons
for the expression, Smith
described Campfires and
Constellations as cosmic
American music and said
his bands sound shirks the
constraints of traditionally
defined and commercially
popular country music.
Mooneyhan, the bands
drummer, said their diverse
musical influences contribute to their eclectic sound.
Mooneyhan, who is also the
talent buyer and general
manager at Local 506, plays
in a metal band with Bax
and has been involved in
numerous musical projects
in his career.
He said though Campfires
and Constellations was conceived as a couple of guitarists, the group has become
much more musically and

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Time: Today, 9 p.m.
Location: Local 506
Info: www.local506.com

personally.
What makes this special is
its so fun, Mooneyhan said.
Weve been doing it for years
we all stuck around after
college. I dont know if any of
us used our degrees.
Silver Dollar Switchblades
own Charlie Mewshaw doubles as the owner and founder
of Old Grey Cat Records,
where both bands are signed.
Though he hasnt known
the musicians in Campfires
and Constellations long, he
was quickly attracted to both
the groups artistic prowess
and their personalities.
Really, what I look for
when I want to approach
somebody about putting
something out is good,
original music and whether
they are decent people,
Mewshaw said.
Theyre easygoing guys,
fun to talk to or have a beer
with. They play great music
and appreciate a lot of different stuff individually, and
I think that contributes to
their sound.
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Friday, February 19, 2016

Zac Gallen aims to make his mark

UNCs ace looks
to lead the team
back to Omaha
By Jeremy Vernon
Assistant Sports Editor

It is sundown in Gibbsboro, N.J. Zac Gallen

is just getting warmed up.
Accompanied by his father, Jim, Zac now
a junior pitcher on the North Carolina baseball team is working on his command at the
field across from his home.
He is only five years old, but as the field
lights shut off and the dim street lights flicker
on, his motor is still churning.
They are playing a game called 3-0. Start a
count with three balls and no strikes and see if
you can strike out the batter.
Zac would get the count to 3-2. If he threw
a ball, they would start over again. Once he
struck out a batter, he would call for the ball
and go after it again. And again.
Come on youve gotta go in, Jim would
plead. You gotta take a bath. You gotta finish
up your homework.
Zac would ask for one more. One turned
into five. Five turned into 10. 10 to 20.
Its OK, though. Hes preparing for something.
Whether it was on the field across the street or
eventually under the bright lights at Boshamer
Stadium, Zac never wanted to leave the field. He
has and always will have work to do.
Leave a mark. Do something people will
remember.

The greatest third-round pick

Zacs older brother, Jay, was making a mark
on the little league scene when Zac was born.
Jim believed it just ran in the blood.
Zacs father had coached the local minor
league youth team ever since Jay passed
through the system. When Zac turned five,
Jim asked the league president if he could give
his youngest son a spot on the team. Just for
the uniform, he would argue.
But the league did not concede. Just like
Jim, it thought baseball was in the Gallen gene
pool. Zac entered the youth draft, and Jim
ultimately chose him in the third round.
To this day hes still like, Oh thats the
greatest third-round pick I ever had, Zac said.
From there Zac made quick work of his
opponents, most of which were two or three
years older. While other kids picked grass, he
worked on his pitching motion in right field.
When Zac turned nine, the league made
another exception. They were sending him to the
majors to play with 10-, 11- and 12-year-olds.
In his first season, Zac led his team to the
championship game, where he faced off against

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Junior pitcher Zac Gallen is one of two captains for the UNC baseball team. Gallen played in 14 games and started 12 of them his sophomore year.

the best 12-year-old pitcher in the league.

Leave it on the field. Show them something
they have never seen before.
Zacs team won 10-1.
I kind of knew right then that there was
something there, Jim said.

Its not a given

It is a warm July day in Chapel Hill. Zac
still has work to do.
He is playing for a summer league team
after his junior year of high school. He still has
not received an offer from UNC his dream
school. As his squad readied to play at Boshamer
Stadium, he prepared to take the mound.
I got out of the car and my mom was like,
Just go out there and make the best of it, Zac
said. You never know if its the last time youre
going to play on this field.
Make them remember you.
Zac isnt sure how he pitched that day. All of
his outings seem to blur together after a while.
It doesnt matter, though.
A month later, UNC expresses its interest.
In October, Zac signs with his dream school.
He grew up watching North Carolina base-

ball. The Tar Heels were always on TV.

As UNC went to the College World Series
from 2006-09, Zac watched and dreamed of
going himself someday. When he enrolled, he
figured hed have a shot every year.
When you get here you quickly realize that
its not a given, he said. Its not as easy as they
made it seem.
During Zacs first year at UNC, the Tar
Heels were knocked out in the NCAA
Regionals. In 2015, the team failed to make
the tournament for the first time since 2001.
Along the way, Zac started 29 games, but his
record stands at 9-7, marred by 13 no-decisions.
The mark, accompanied by scant leadership
in the locker room, left Zac sickened.
He would beg coaches to let him go the
distance most nights. He even offered to fill in
when starting shortstop Wood Myers got hurt.
Its not because he didnt trust his teammates,
but because he believed it was his responsibility to make things right again.
Get back on top. This wont be our legacy.

The way it needs to be

Its the day before spring classes, and Zac is

sitting in Coach Mike Foxs office. The junior

still has work to do.
Zac was one of two players along with
junior Adam Pate that Fox named a team
captain for this season. Fox has never had captains in 17 seasons as UNCs coach, but with
leadership issues plaguing the team the past
two years, he knew the team needed a change.
Zac was a clear choice. He leads by example.
Hes not afraid to hold people accountable.
He doesnt like teammates who dont carry
their weight, and hell let them know it, Fox
said. I think those kind of kids are very hard
to find in this day and time.
Entering tonights season opener at UCLA
as UNCs ace, Zac is now in a position to rally
teammates around a unified cause. Hell teach
them the way hes played his entire life
determined to make a mark, to do something
memorable. Thats the way it needs to be.
A lot of people (last year) thought they
were leaders, just didnt lead by example, Zac
said. I think thats the first thing. What people see, theyre going to remember that more
than what you say.
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Q&A with US Rep.

on redistricting
The 4th Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled the voting districts
in North Carolina unconstitutional for packing African-American
voters within lines that snake
unfettered across the state. The
N.C. legislature has until today
to redraw the lines for the 1st and
12th congressional districts.
U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield,
D-N.C., who represents the states
1st Congressional District, spoke
with staff writer Rachel Kompare
about the implications of the federal courts decision.
The Daily Tar Heel: How did the gerrymandering happen?

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Students vote during the 2012 election at the Center for Dramatic Arts. Students must register today to vote in the primaries.

Voters must register by today

Students say they
havent seen much voter
registration on campus.
By Brinley Lowe
Staff Writer

Today is the last day to register to

vote in the March 15 North Carolina
presidential primary, but students
have noticed few voter registration
drives on campus as the deadline
approaches.
Graduate student Teague Henry
called the deadline ridiculous.
It seems overly restrictive to me,
he said. Im a fan of on-site voter
registration. A lot of states do that, so
why not here?
Henry said he thinks the deadline
is going to prevent students and
especially low-income people from
voting.
Because it takes time (to register to vote), and 25 days before the
election, youre not really thinking of
the election. You have to be kind of on
board with that, he said.
Henry said it was a shame no one
was registering students to vote in the
Pit so soon before the deadline.

The North Carolina voter board

or the Board of Elections is fully up
for doing voter registration drives,
Henry said.
They provide the resources. They
provide the forms. They provide all
of that. And Im a bit concerned that
theres no student groups trying to get
people registered to vote on campus.
First-year Kate Aberman said she
is in the process of registering to vote
online in time for the March primary.
There was somebody a couple
weeks back that was getting people
to register like near the Pit, and I
just didnt have time, but I never
saw him again, so I didnt do that,
Aberman said.
A lot of people my age dont know
how to (register) at all, which is why
Im getting my parents help.
First-year Sarah Albrecht said she
registered to vote in front of Lenoir
Dining Hall earlier this school year.
If it werent for the voter registration
drive, Albrecht says she might have
forgotten to register to vote before
the deadline.
She said voting is important for
young adults.
With everything thats going on
in America right now, I think its
really important for young students

to participate, especially since I think

a lot of older voters tend to kind of
gravitate toward the same sort of candidate, Albrecht said.
And since its the young peoples
future, I think its more important
that we vote than they vote. Obviously
their vote matters too.
Though the primary is during
spring break when many students
will be off campus, early voting at
Chapel of the Cross on Franklin
Street begins March 3. Students with
proof of residence can register to vote
at early voting.
Senior Shaquille Price said he
isnt registered because he doesnt
know who is running and doesnt get
involved with politics.
Joseph Fraser is a sophomore
exchange student from London. He
said he thinks students would still
register to vote if there werent voter
drives around campus.
Politics is a big thing. Its very
popular here, he said.
Even though Fraser can only vote in
England, he said he follows American
politics too.
(American politics is) a bit like a
game show, I find, sometimes.
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G.K. Butterfield: (Voting districts)

need to be continuous, which
means they have to adjoin each
other, and because of the Voting
Rights Act, minority populations
have got to be protected When
the district lines were drawn in
2011, the Republicans took it to
the extreme. They came to the
conclusion that the Voting Rights
Act required them not only to
keep African- American communities pretty close together, but to
find as many African-American
communities as they possibly
could and pack those communities into these minority districts.
DTH: Was the line drawing for the
1st and 12th districts backed by
racial or political motives?
GKB: Political motives for sure and
racial motives for sure because
the Republicans understand
that African Americans are
likely to vote Democratic. If you
just round up all the AfricanAmerican voters and just pack
them into one or two districts,
then that means the other districts will be more Republican
and more non-black.
DTH: Has the redistricting issue
been this bad since you took
office in 2004?
GKB: Its always been bad, yes.
Every time we redistrict, its
always a battle. But it seems to be
getting worse. The Republicans
have a playbook thats unfolding
that does not guarantee the right
to vote. (Republicans) would

U.S. Rep. G.K.

Butterfield,
D-N.C., represents the 1st
Congressional
District. This districts lines must
be redrawn.
say the same thing happened
when Democrats were in charge,
that Democrats tried to pack
districts in order to maximize
our political strength. But when
Democrats were in the majority,
you didnt have a large number
of Republicans in the state. This
was a Democratic state. But
now North Carolina is evenly
divided between Democrats and
Republicans, which means that
our congressmen need to be evenly divided But right now they
have drawn the lines in such a way
that they have 10 Republicans and
three Democrats.
DTH: What do you hope is the
ultimate solution to this issue, if
there is one?
GKB: I hope that the legislature
will draw districts in which
Democrats have an opportunity to elect in six districts,
Republicans in seven districts,
and that we can have at least two
African-American districts where
the black vote can determine the
outcome of the election.
DTH: How can North Carolina voters get involved?
GKB: Theres a move now to create
a redistricting commission; in
other words, to take the redrawing of the lines out of the hands
of the legislature and to put it
into a commission, a nonpartisan commission if the public
demands it, it will happen.
Ive heard complaints for years
about the legislature having the
power to draw districts because
theyre going to draw districts in
a way that favors their political
party, whether its Democratic or
Republican. But if you have an
Independent commission, then
the commission will not draw
lines in respect of party.
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Friday, February 19, 2016

The Daily Tar Heel

CHCCS organizes Diplomacy, art and hip-hop meet

rst Dance Marathon
By Krupa Kaneria
Staff Writer

DANCE MARATHON

By Rebecca Ayers
Staff Writer

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro

City Schools are collaborating
this year to hold their first
Dance Marathon.
The three high schools
East Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
and Carrboro will raise
money for Carolina for the
Kids at East Chapel Hill High
School on Saturday from 6
p.m. to midnight.
The high schools are joining more than 450 schools
nationwide that hold dance
marathons to raise money for
a cause.
The inspiration for working with Carolina for the Kids
originated in October from
a high school outreach committee chairperson, Gabrielle
Nguyen.
Nguyen coordinated CFTK
to send representatives to
share their story with Chapel
Hill High Schools student
government.
Once the representatives shared their story with
Chapel Hill High, the students were intrigued in finding a way to help their cause.
Davida Halev, Joyce Yao
and Leah Abrams are the
student body presidents of
East Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
and Carrboro high schools,
respectively.
The three high schools and
respective student govern-

Time: Saturday, 6 p.m. to

midnight
Location: East Chapel Hill
High School
Info: chccsdm.weebly.com

ments decided to collaborate

by organizing their own
Dance Marathon.
Yao said at first, the idea
seemed too big to tackle.
A couple of weeks later, the
three student body presidents
revisited the idea and decided
to go for it. They chose to
donate the money raised to
the $5 million goal for a new
UNC Pediatric Primary Care.
Halev, Yao and Abrams
also happen to be good
friends from middle school.
Yao said this made the organizing process easier.
(It made) the event planning a lot smoother, because
there werent as many boundaries. It was just really fun
and easy to bounce ideas off
of each other, and basically
just keeping each other hyped
up throughout the process,
Yao said.
The Dance Marathon has
currently raised more than
$600 from a combination of
ticket sales, businesses and
non-affiliates.
Halev said she hopes the
marathon will become an
annual event and a multi-

It was just really

fun and easy to
bounce ideas off of
each other.
Joyce Yao
CHHS Student Body President

school tradition.
In addition to dancing,
there will also be local and
corporate businesses offering
food throughout the night.
To help reach out to these
businesses, Meagan Barger,
Carolina for the Kids executive director, and Elizabeth
Brown, community outreach
leader, helped the three student governments in coordinating the event.
Carolina FTK has been
so helpful with organizing
things. They have several of
their administration teams
that are all coming, Halev
said.
Barger said she enjoys
helping the high schools plan,
but the students are the ones
doing most of the work.
Its a really big and exciting event, Barger said.
Theyve really taken the ball
and rolled with it. Theyve
done a lot of the work themselves, we help guide them
with their ideas in event, but
they ultimately execute it.
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Diplomacy and the Arts,

Then and Now, brought
focus to the importance of
government-sponsored tours
by performers in international relations on Thursday.
The seminar was sponsored by the Department
of Romance Studies and
the program in Medieval
and Early Modern Studies
Dorothy Ford Wiley fund.
Organized by UNC French
professor Ellen Welch, the
seminar featured a mix of diplomats, artists and researchers
who talked about their domestic and international experiences in music and art dealing
with cultural diplomacy.
First to speak was Shirlette
Ammons, a Durham-based
poet, musician and former
artist in the Next Level hiphop diplomacy program.
No matter where youre
from, (hip-hop) is the music
that expresses the reality of
who you are and where youre
from, she said.
Ammons said she has traveled to Belgrade and many
German-speaking countries
to collaborate with artists.
I felt more aligned with
the stuff that the people in
Belgrade were producing,
Ammons said.
Speaker Andr Barden,
who is known as DJ A-Minor,
said he had traveled to
Dhaka, Bangladesh, where
he met with aspiring musicians. Barden said the musicians originally tried to rap in

DTH/ALEX KORMANN
(From left) Robert Pearson, Andr Barden and Shirlette Ammons
speak on a panel at Hyde Hall on Thursday afternoon.

English to accommodate him.

But Barden wanted to hear
their music Bangla rap.
People who are put in a systemic disadvantage find refuge
in hip-hop, said Barden.
Retired foreign service officer Robert Pearson, a former
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey,
spoke on the concept of cultural diplomacy.
The core of what we are
trying to do overseas is to
convey to other cultures that
every person is equal, he said.
Pearson helped organize film festivals in China
where he showed Star Wars
Episode V: The Empire
Strikes Back.
Pearson said the film was
received poorly by the Chinese
people because they were
unable to connect with it.
They wound up connecting

with Coal Miners Daughter,

a different American film
Pearson said they could personally relate to because of
their shared struggles.
Rebekah Ahrendt, an
assistant music professor at
Yale University, said music
and diplomacy are naturally
related.
Music and diplomacy have
gone together for a really long
time, she said.
Graduate student
Miranda Elston said she
enjoyed how the discussion
incorporated historical and
modern elements.
I thought that they were
very revealing in that they all
intersected, even though they
were from different backgrounds.
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OPERE

PRONOUNS

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Operes confidence in his

perspective helped separate
him from other candidates
and solidify his position as an
innovator, Clayton said.
Nagwa Nukuna, co-president of the Organization for
African Students Interests
and Solidarity, said Operes
platform resonated with students.
I do think, just realistically, race played a factor.
It definitely got more black
students on campus to vote.
There was definitely a push
for that, she said. But I also
think he had a really good
platform comparatively to the
other people running.
Opere said he thinks several factors besides race contributed to his victory.
I would be slow to necessarily point that out as one of
the main reasons, just because
we have had previous elections
where minorities have run at
UNC, he said. Its not really
the first time a black candidate or person of color is running. There was a (Graduate
and Professional Student
Federation) issue that drove
students to the polls as well.
Opere said his teams
response to issues on campus
ultimately decided the election.
Part of the reason minority
candidates dont win is because
its almost an unwritten rule
you have to work twice as hard
to stand a chance, he said. I
think people on my team took
up that challenge. I think we
did a lot of good work, and that
definitely gets credit.
While Opere said factors
beyond race also influenced
the election, he did acknowledge the significance of race
for his campaign and the role
race will play in the future.
I believe my ability to win
this election is because of the
different work that has been
going on by different groups
on this campus, already going
on before I started running.
he said. I definitely think
(race) will affect my work.
It would be a major flaw if I
actually didnt think it would
affect my work. It will be
there, it will follow us, it will
follow the people that work
with me.

students pronouns are not

included on teachers rosters.
Maribel Carrion,
Information Technology
Services director of business
applications, said there are
certain implications to building pronouns into the system.
It would take a request,
time, effort and someone has
to pay for it, she said.
She said there has been
no request to include gender
pronouns in the system yet.
Loendorf said being called
by the wrong pronoun is jarring. The teachers arent
doing it on purpose. They just
dont know, Loendorf said.
I think it would be really
cool to put your preferred pronoun so it shows up on the roster. It would make a lot of students more comfortable, they
said. I feel like a lot of anxiety
about the first day of classes
would be gone if the school put
pronouns in the roster.
Terri Phoenix, director
of the UNC LGBTQ Center,
worked with the University
to establish a preferred name
and preferred pronoun option.
Students can now change their
legal name to their preferred
name in ConnectCarolina
but Phoenix said preferred
pronouns remain an issue.
When teachers get a roster, there is no corresponding
pronoun associated with it.
So faculty members have to
make a decision about how
they are going about asking
students, Phoenix said.
Phoenix said the students
legal sex provided by the
student via the Common
Application during the
admissions process populates
many systems on campus.
Since students must provide official documents noting their legal sex, it would
be impossible for students to
contradict those documents
and put a separate preferred
pronoun, Phoenix said.
I think it would be really
helpful if there was a way that
people could identify what
their pronouns were and
then that information was
automatically uploaded into
the system so people would
have that information and use
peoples pronouns correctly.

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here, but leaning to that particular piece of legislation,

Michigan and their legislature have gone ahead and
jumped off the deep end, he
said.
But North Carolina can
still improve its protections
for the LGBT community
which do not currently
include statewide nondiscrimination policies Sgro
said.
The fight didnt end with
marriage equality, he said.
We still lack protections
against discrimination in
employment and housing
and access to public accommodations those are all
measures a majority of North
Carolinians and a majority
of Americans agree should
already be in place, and
unfortunately, they are not.
Amira Hasenbush, a Jim
Kepner Law and Policy
Fellow at the Williams
Institute a research center that focuses on sexual
orientation and gender identity law and policy said
nondiscrimination laws that
include the LGBT community tend to be less available
in the South.
Generally speaking, you
do find that there is less legal
protection for LGBT people
in the South, Midwest and
the mountain states, she said.
And you see that also reflected in these sodomy laws still
being on the books in these
similar states.
Many North Carolinians
falsely assume protections are
in place for the LGBT community, Sgro said.
Its pretty common sense
to people that you shouldnt
be able to fire somebody just
because theyre gay, he said.
You shouldnt be able to
refuse somebody housing just
because theyre gay.
More legal action is
required for complete equality in the state, Sgro said.
This particular General
Assembly needs to focus
more on those protections
theyre the right thing to
do, he said. I think we can
see more from this General
Assembly to pass those protections.
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state@dailytarheel.com

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Friday, February 19, 2016

Three high schools in the

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Friday, February 19, 2016

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They are young men with hearts filled with

love and loss from a lifetime before UNC.
#GoHeels

Wandering Womanist

Laurie Carpenito, on the lives of UNC basketball players off the court

Junior geography and linguistics

major from Baltimore, Md.
Email: jalynnh524@gmail.com

Kvetching board

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

On
Black
Herstory
Month

kvetch:

Students need to be
louder at the games

NEXT

I feel like a lot of anxiety about the first day

of classes would be gone if the school put
pronouns in the roster.

FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT

Jalynn Harris

Brown Noise
Jaslina Paintal writes about
issues of race and gender.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Finn Loendorf, on the importance of recognizing preferred pronouns

EDITORIAL CARTOON By Jamal Rogers, jmlrgs@gmail.com

olonial construction of
the Black female body
has been bent on her
reduction. On the plantation,
she is reduced to the utility
of her biological sex organs.
In the house, she is reduced
to the labor of her hands. But
this supposed reduction produced a distinct dynamism of
self-performance too nuanced
to be pigeon-holed into whitenormed ideas of binary gender.
Let me begin again. African
women built and birthed the
Americas. In her building, she
worked like and was whipped
with men. In her birthing,
she was violated in rape, and
policed in caretaking. Despite
all this, she remained the key
in leading revolution.
Angela Davis Reflections on
the Black Womans Role in the
Community of Slaves, details
various ways antebellum Black
women incited insurgency be
it by burning down plantations,
poisoning planters food, ruining
crops or passing on knowledge
to her children hers was the
twice-bruised body that fought
on the front lines. Often these
rebellions were championed by
maroons autonomous groups
of escaped or freed Blacks.
Maroons presence was continuous and widespread throughout
the antebellum South.
To say slavery was dehumanizing is an understatement, but
this dehumanization is the crux
of the fundamental difference
between contemporary white
feminism and Black womanism. Meaning, for Black women
the struggle is not being seen
as human, whereas white
feminism already supposes
humanity in its opposition to
patriarchy. Of this Davis writes,
Although he would not pet her
and deck her out in frills, the
white master could endeavor to
reestablish her femaleness by
reducing her to the level of her
biological being. Aspiring with
his sexual assaults to establish
her as a female animal, he
would be striving to destroy her
proclivities towards resistance.
But what the master did
not imagine is that the Black
woman has never conceded to
her reduction. Take General
Harriet Tubman for example,
head of the Intelligent Service,
renowned orator, militant
combat leader, remembered
only as an old Black woman
who led Blacks through the
underground railroad.
It is for the fact that the
complexity of her racial and
gendered situation leads her to
a non-traditional understanding of womanhood a double
consciousness of racial and
gendered emasculation. But also
one that survives off constantly
imagining freedom, rebellion
and the fashioning tools of
intergenerational knowledge.
Today, Black women in the
States arent chained to one
another by the ankles, but the
condition of her slavery is a
mental hold on her ability to
imagine freedom which is a
paradox in itself because hers
is the mind from which all
revolution is birthed.
Somewhere along the way,
templates for Black liberation
were erased from American creation myths, confused by multiculturalism, forgotten by postracialism. Yet, the ancestors still
speak through us in our struggle
to reclaim our imaginations. We
must draw strength from our
mothers so we can know the
truth of our collective power.

The Daily Tar Heel

EDITORIAL

NC must act on NSA

N.C. should fight to
protect the Fourth
Amendment.

dward Snowdens
revelations about
the U.S. governments unconstitutional
spying on American citizens shocked the world.
As national efforts to reign
in the out-of-control surveillance state have stalled
after some paltry, weak
reforms, North Carolinas
state government should
take concrete action to
strike back at federal overreach into our private lives
and signal hostility to spying on Americans.
A brief overview:
Despite the distortions
of NSA representatives
otherwise, the FBI has
established that dragnet
NSA spying (which taxpayers funded on the order
of billions) had not been
instrumental in stopping
one single imminent terror plot. However, the
NSA, the same agency that
harangued and harassed
Dr. Martin Luther King
in the 1960s, has used
metadata records to create
dossiers on critical journalists, help law enforcement
manufacture probable
cause in criminal investigations, collect the communications of United States
Representatives and view
the nude pictures unfortu-

nate young women caught

in the NSAs crosshairs had
stored on their cell phones.
National discussion on
the matter has seemingly
slowed after the passage
of the misnamed and
milquetoast USA Freedom
Act, which merely added
one small inconvenience
to the machinations of
federal spies.
In the absence of serious national reform, North
Carolinas current government should be true to
its self-proclaimed constitutionalist and limited
government bona fides
and take concrete action
against government snooping. Even a resolution
condemning the practice,
as has been introduced
and passed in several other
states, would gain traction
and attention for the cause
of the constitutional right
to privacy.
The state could also
prohibit state resources
being used to further
NSA spying, which North
Carolina is well within its
rights to do. Any future
federal spying facility that sets up shop in
North Carolina should
not have the convenience
of using water, electrical
or other utilities funded
by N.C. taxpayers.
The General Assembly
should further signal
that NSA spying is unacceptable by penalizing

universities that form partnerships with the rogue

agency, which N.C. State
has unfortunately done.
Every dollar accepted from
the NSA should be met
with a matching cut in
state resources, to discourage the proliferation of the
rogue, extraconstitutional
agency and to handicap it
sucking up young North
Carolina talent for its own
ends. University administrations should refuse such
partnerships on principle.
The Obama administration, originally elected
promising transparency
and reform, has been
hostile to whistleblowers
and privacy advocates.
If the next president is
some wannabe tyrant or
a career crook, the potential for even more serious
abuse of the surveillance
apparatus is immense,
and North Carolina
should take steps to prevent such misconduct.
That blanket government
spying on law-abiding
Americans is unacceptable should be common
sense to anyone with a
modicum of respect for
civil liberties.
If our federal representatives lack the courage
and conviction to reform
the tentacular surveillance state, the states
should take strong action
to preserve our constitutional republic.

EDITORIAL

Hiding behind laws

UNC should not
hinder or deflect
investigators.

cientific testing is
one of the many
things this university excels at. We are currently ranked among the
top research universities
in the world, and overall,
the efforts of our researchers are deserving of the
highest praise.
But we should always
make the institutions we
admire accountable to outside criticisms and investigations. The Universitys
decision to hide behind a
horrendous law designed
to curtail investigations to
protect research facilities
from investigation is disappointing.
Chancellor Carol Folt has
been named in a lawsuit for
using the law, which prohibits the use of recordings
in businesses like day cares,
nursing homes or agricultural and farm venues,
to block investigations of
animal treatment in UNC
research facilities.
The University should

allow any investigators full

access to research facilities
in the interest of transparency, not take advantage
of a bad law meant to curtail the work of investigators and journalists.
It is ironic for a university with such a proud
School of Media and
Journalism to use this new
law to threaten journalists
or other investigators who
investigate the possibility
of wrongdoing at this very
institution. It is basically
saying the University supports teaching students
how to investigate an organization, but then refuses
to allow investigators to do
it when it could potentially
hurt the University.
We cannot abdicate
our responsibility to do
this research ethically
animals used for testing
should be treated with
respect and within the
guidelines laid out by the
University and by the law.
We have no evidence of
wrongdoing in animal
treatment, and we should
not assume that our
researchers have done anything wrong. Nonetheless,

we need to make sure

mechanisms are in place
to allow external investigators posing as employees
and real employees within
the University to call out
the University when it does
not live up to its standards.
Sadly, due to HB 405
this outside investigation
could be punishable in
court.
The University should
open itself up to external
review by animal rights
organizations and journalists, not stand behind
a bill designed to curtail
transparency. This editorial is not calling for the end
of animal testing nor necessarily aligning itself with
all of the positions taken
by animal rights organizations animal testing can
be incredibly useful we
ask instead for openness
and accountability.
This university is coming off of years of secrecy
and rule breaking, and
publicly announcing a
commitment to transparency would be an easy step
to reassure people that
this university has moved
past previous mistakes.

TO THE EDITOR:
I attended Wednesdays
game against dook university. For a little backstory, I
am a senior who has not won
a single lottery this year until
I received a glorious phase
three ticket to the game.
Growing up, I dreamed of
attending the University of
North Carolina (it was the
only university I applied to)
and watching my Tar Heels
dominate the Blue Devils.
Now I have come to
expect this type of behavior
from the wine and cheese
crowd that fills the lower
sections, but to have those
who willingly entered a lottery for this game show up
and not make any effort to
cheer on our team is unacceptable. What I dont think
these people understand
is as students and fans at
UNC, a program with one
of the greatest basketball
programs in history, it is
a privilege to get a ticket
to watch our team play. By
entering the lottery, you are
making a promise to uphold
the tradition of Carolina
basketball and not let that
ticket go to waste, especially
at the Duke game.
We can look try to point
to finger at someone on the
court for this loss, but until
the fans decide to invest
themselves in these games
as well, our Tar Heels will
be at a disadvantage.
Kaley Vead
Senior
Journalism

Do not be so hard on
the UNC players
TO THE EDITOR:
No one wanted to win
the Duke-UNC game more
than this girl.
Sadly, the outcome was
heartbreaking; however, it
was not Allens traveling that
made my blood boil it was
the reaction of the fans.
ROY SHOULD BE
FIRED! NOBODY BUT
JOHNSON DID THEIR
JOB! and other angry outbursts were liked all over
social media.
I think we all need to
remember that we are
watching young men
some who are still teenagers on that court. They
practice for hours on end
while going to class. On top
of that, they deal with the
media constantly watching
them and people dissecting
their every move on and
off the court. Even good
ol Roy is human. You may
not agree with his stance
on timeouts, but he has
countless victories that, in
my opinion, outweigh a few
disappointing games.
As fans, we have to
remember that they are
under pressure. This should
not be an excuse for a poor
performance, but it should
be a reason for the fans to
show empathy and to cheer
harder the next time around.
Carly Wooten
Senior
Studio art and psychology

v.1 (Yiddish) to complain

Some anonymous dorm
Post-it notes truly take the
passive out of passiveaggressive. Glad Im not
you, hall mate who left her
alarm on too long.
The kvetches suck.
The drop button calls, a
siren song so sweet, filling me with an urge I can
barely defeat / And yet,
alas! cruel fate I need
this class to graduate.
Wouldnt it be nice if we
were older barely paying off our college loans
while trying to retire
and we could be together.
Beach Boys for the modern
student.
Im about as decisive
about my life decisions as
North Carolina is about
weather in February.
How does UNC expect me
to keep deadlines when
they cant even announce
if were having class on
time?
To the person that stole
my friends Dook ticket
and used it before we got
to the gate, Coach K will
see you in hell.
F*ck Duke. F*ck private
schools. F*ck that game.
I need to find out where
Grayson Allen takes his
acting lessons; its my only
shot at an Oscar.
Dear sports commentators, saying Austin Rivers
at the d00k game is like
saying Macbeth in a theater. Just dont do it.
Can we please learn to use
our dadgum timeouts?
Why is planning for my
summers more stressful
than anything during the
school year? I thought
college applications were
going to be the last time I
would have to go through
unapologetic rejection like
this.
To the hammered guy
behind me in the Phase 5
line who took a dump in
the Natatorium bushes,
thanks for predicting a
crappy game.
Chase Rice. Really?
The customer service at
UNC has been great so far!
- Student FN-2187.
To the Bernie fan in my
class, I know he inspires
you, but it doesnt mean
you have to be just like
him and never shower or
change clothes.
Champagne! In victory
one deserves it; in defeat
one needs it. Napoleon
Bonaparte literally verified
my life strategy with this
one quote. I cannot afford
champagne but drinking
Aristocrat alone in my
bedroom is close enough
for me.
Our student section sucks.
We need to be near the
court, not a mile away
from the action.
Weather in North Carolina
is s(n)o(w) flaky.
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