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Volume 122, Issue 146

Thursday, February 5, 2015

IF WE WERE

WHITE
IT WOULDNT HAVE

BEEN AN ISSUE

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This special edition of The Daily Tar Heel explores issues impacting racial
and ethnic minorities in the UNC and Chapel Hill communities.

Bias behind the badge

A UNC professors research shows that black drivers are twice as
likely to be stopped as white drivers in Chapel Hill.
By Lauren Kent
Senior Writer

Its a tough fact to swallow.

According to data from the states
Department of Justice and the U.S.
Census Bureau, black drivers accounted
for 25 percent of traffic stops in Chapel
Hill in 2014 but only about 10 percent
of the population is black.
I dont know that youre ever going
to be exactly in line with the demographics of your community, said Josh
Mecimore, a spokesman for the Chapel
Hill Police Department.
Mecimore said the department does
a quarterly review of its traffic stop data,
and is aware of the numbers. While the
number of black drivers stopped does not
match Chapel Hills demographics, he
said it is close to North Carolinas overall
demographics about 21.5 percent black.
In Carrboro, 24.3 percent of traffic
stops involve black drivers while about 10
percent of the towns population is black.
The Carrboro Police Department is cur-

IMPLICIT BIAS

rently looking into this disparity, said Capt.

Chris Atack, spokesman for the department. He also said comparing the number
of traffic stops to the towns population
might not be fair because many people
stopped are not Carrboro residents.
Carrboro is not an isolated colony that
has no interaction with the rest of the
area, Atack said.
UNC professor Frank Baumgartner
analyzes data on vehicles that are searched
after the initial stop. He is in the process
of writing a report on traffic stops and
vehicle searches for every police department in the state.
Traffic stops need to be compared to
the number of drivers on the road, but we
dont actually know that, Baumgartner
said. Ive really focused my research on
searches, because in that case we know
both the numerator and the denominator.
In his reports on Chapel Hill and
Carrboro, Baumgartner said black drivers are searched at twice the rate of white
drivers during traffic stops.
The findings are very consistent

An update on research into

implicit biases.
See page 5 for story.

SUSPENSION RATES

Black students are more likely to

be suspended in Chapel Hill.
See page 4 for story.

(across the state), Baumgartner said. But

they differ to some extent in the degree of
racial disparities we observe.
Baumgartner also found that the racial
disparities hold much more strongly for
men, especially young men.
In an analysis of Durham traffic stops
from 2002 to 2013, Baumgartner found
that young black males were searched at
twice the rate of young white males and 10
times the rate of white women.
When I look at the data, Im glad Im
not a young black man, he said.
In his studies, Baumgartner controlled
for variables such as time of day, reason
for the stop, and whether or not the officer
involved had a history of high disparity,
meaning the officer searched black drivers
twice as often as white drivers.
It turns out, in most police departments, there are a few bad apples,
Baumgartner said. But we wanted to
know if you take those officers out of the
picture, would you still see bias among the
other officers. And the answer is yes.
Research shows that most people have

CAMPUS VOICES

Students discuss how people of

color are treated at UNC.
See page 3 for columns.

unwanted, unknown racial biases.

UNC psychology professor Keith Payne
said everyone is vulnerable to racial biases, but they vary from person to person
and also depend on the context of a situation, such as time and place.
We all think in terms of generalizations and categories, and racial stereotypes are just one kind of category, said
Payne, whose UNC laboratory researches
implicit bias.
Atack said the Carrboro Police
Department is looking into implicit bias
training for their officers.
All humans have biases and police officers are no different, Atack said.
The state mandates Juvenile Minority
Sensitivity Training for all police officers.
The Chapel Hill Police Department
holds two to eight hour training sessions
for all part-time and full-time officers
once a year. The topics of this training change each year ranging from
Facebook crimes to youth gang activity.

SEE POLICE BIAS, PAGE 4

GRADUATION RATES
A graphic showing black male
athletes graduation rates.
See page 5 for story.

Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder.

TONI MORRISON

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

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n 10 years, where do you picture yourself? Having a job? Maybe a

family? You probably didnt picture yourself having a child on Mars.
But thats exactly what one British woman wants to do. Maggie Lieu,
a student in astrophysics, is one of the 600 people in the running to
be part of Mars One, an organization that hopes to have a colony on Mars by
2025. She will find out next month if she gets to be one of the 40 people chosen for the Mars colony expedition. Lieu says she thinks it would be challenging to give birth in a low-gravity atmosphere. We think people who give
birth on Earth under normal conditions would agree with her prediction. Its
possible her desire to have a child there might be a bit premature. We still
havent even accomplished the living on Mars part yet. Baby steps.

NOTED. Good news for McDonalds fans,

but only in Australia. McDonalds Australia
is selling its Big Mac sauce for a limited
time for only 50 Australian cents per 25 mL
bottles. The company is also offering a 500
mL bottle on eBay to support the Ronald
McDonald House Charities. Lets hope this
makes its way to the shores of America.

DTH/KAITLIN DUREN

enior Sofi Gonzalez played wallyball with

other members of her sorority, Phi Sigma Pi, in
Fetzer Gym on Wednesday afternoon.

QUOTED. I assure you my son lacks the

magical powers necessary to threaten his
friends existence.
A man in Texas trying to ease the
situation after his son was suspended from
school for placing a replica of the ring from
The Lord of the Rings on a classmates
head and saying hed make him disappear.

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Public Health and Informatics Job & Internship Expo:

The Gillings School of Public
Health is hosting a job fair
that will feature public health
companies looking for employees. Interested students can
go to careers.unc.edu to view
the companies that will have
representatives at the fair. The
event is free and open to all
UNC students.
Time: Noon to 3 p.m.
Location: Gillings School of
Public Health, Michael Hooker
Atrium
Writers Discussion Series
Candis Watts Smith: Candis
Watts Smith, an assistant professor at Williams College, will
be reading from her book Black
Mosaic: The Politics of Black
Pan-Ethnic Diversity. The book
is about the growing variety of
opinions and viewpoints within
the African-American community in todays political sphere.

FEBRUARY
Feb 5: LOTUS**($19.50/$22) w/Kung Fu
Feb 6: Bob Marley Celebration:
Mickey Mills & Steel, Jam Rock, Plutopia, Joel Keel,
Cayenne, dj ras j ($12/$15)
2/7, 2/8: SHOVELS & ROPE w/Caroline Rose (2
shows!)
Feb 9: LIVING COLOUR** ($22/$25)
Feb 13: DAVID BROMBERG (Solo) $23/$27
Feb 14: WKNC Double-Barrel Benefit: Eternal
Summers, Elvis Depressedly, Museum Mouth, Body
Games
Feb. 16: Pop Up Chorus ($7 adults/$5 students)
Feb 18: LUCERO & RYAN BINGHAM w/Twin
Forks**($25)
Feb 19: AARON CARTER w/ Line Up Atlantic ($15/
$17)
2/25: Kim Gordon: discussing her new
memoir GIRL IN A BAND. with Jon Wurster.
Discussion and book signing.

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2/27: WXYC 90s Dance

2/28: LIGHTS w/Ex Ambassadors ($15/$18)

MARCH
MARCH 2015:
1 SU: LOGIC (Sold out)
2 MO: AESOP ROCK WITH ROB SONIC, Homeboy
Sandman($20)
5 TH: CURSIVE** ($15) w/Beach Slang
6 FR: of Montreal w/Yonatan Gat**($17)
MARCH 15: THE CHURCH**($25/$28)
March 20: CARBON LEAF**($15/$17)
3/21: BOMBADIL Record Release Party w/Sinners
& Saints ($12/$15)
March 24: LA DISPUTE & TITLE FIGHT
w/ The Hotelier**($20/23)
March 27: SWANS ($18/$20) Presented in

association with Kings

March 28: TWIN SHADOW**($16/$18)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5
LOTUS

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9
LIVING COLOUR

APRIL

April 3: NEW FOUND GLORY

w/Turnstile, This Wild Life, Turnover**($18.50/
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April 7: THE MOUNTAIN GOATS**($20)
April 9: Talib Kweli & Immortal Technique (
$22/$25)
4/26: THE ANTLERS**($17; on sale 2/6)
April 30: HOUNDMOUTH**($15)

FRIDAY

Black and Blue/Priceless Gem

Tour: Cecelia Moore, a UNC
historian, will be leading a tour
of the historic landmarks on
campus with specific emphasis
on the campus racial history.

The tour begins at the UNC

Visitors Center. The center is
also showcasing a series of
photographs in honor of Black
History Month. You can register
for the tour at bit.ly/1DzcFf5.
The event is free and open to
the public.
Time: 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: UNC Visitors Center
Clefchella: The UNC Clef Hangers are presenting a concert,
featuring appearances by The
Virginia Silhooettes and the Loreleis. Tickets can be purchased
at memorialhall.unc.edu. The
event is open to the public.
Time: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Location: Playmakers Theater
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POLICE LOG
Someone reported receiving suspicious phone calls
on the 500 block of Edwards
Street at 4:07 p.m. Tuesday,
according to Chapel Hill
police reports.

Two people were cited

for having open containers
of malt beverages in front of
Weaver Street Market at the
100 block of East Weaver
Street at 10:20 a.m. Tuesday,
according to Carrboro police
reports.
The two people were argumentative and belligerent
with officers, reports state.

SHOW AT LOCAL 506 (CH):

March 26: The Districts**($10/$12)

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Someone was charged

with possession of marijuana
and paraphernalia on the
400 block of N.C. 54 at 3:15
p.m. Tuesday, according to
Carrboro police reports.

SHOWS AT HAW RIVER BALLROOM:

FEb 5, 2015: COLD WAR KIDS w/Elliot Moss ( Sold
Out)
Feb 15: THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS w/
Operators **$30
April 17: HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER ($15)
May 4: JENNY LEWIS ($25/$27)

SHOW AT LINCOLN THEATRE (Raleigh):

March 4: The Gaslight Anthem w/Northcote and
The Scandals

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22
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FRONT PAGE NEWS EDITOR

Someone stole money

from an unsecured vehicle
in a parking lot at 212
Pritchard Ave. between
12:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Monday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
The person stole $5 in
cash, reports state.

SHOWS AT MOTORCO (Durham):

March 24: SWERVEDRIVER**($15/$17) w/
Gateway Drugs

JUNE 17 (We): CLEAN BANDIT ($20/$22)

Serving

Salary Negotiations for

Business Students: University
Career Services is hosting a
session for business to students to provide information
about how to show employers
your worth and to negotiate
an appealing salary. The event
is free and open to all UNC
students.
Time: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Location: McColl Building,
Room 3050

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SHOW AT KINGS (Raleigh):

Feb 27: River Whyless w/This Mountain

MAY
May 1: PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT ( A Joy Division
Celebration)
May 9: Kaiser Chiefs
May 12: TORO Y MOI w/Keath Mead**($18/
$20)
May 15: Mae ( The Everglow 10th
Anniversary Tour)**20/$23)

SHOWS AT CATS CRADLE BACK ROOM:

2/5/15: White Arrows w/Chappo, Heads On Sticks
2/6: NCAAF All-Star Standup Showcase
2/7: Sibannac, No Brainer, Heavyweights ($7)
2/8: Jack The Radio, Debonzo Bros, JKutchma ($7)
2/11: JANTSEN + DIRT MONKEY w/Ray Volpe
2/12: Campfires and Constellations
2/13: Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands w/ Curtis
Eller ($7)
2/14: MIck Jenkins and Kirk Knight ($12/$14)
2/17: Jonas Sees In Color, Hissy Fits, Dollar Signs, A
Bottle Volcanic ($5)
2/18: RETOX w/Whores, Static Is a City **($10/
$12)
2/19: Black Cadillacs w/ SOLCAT ($10)
2/20: Archbishops of Blount Street w/Rock-It Pops,
O-Whales ($7)
2/21: Sean Watkins w/Jill Andrews**($12/$15)
2/26: The Deslondes w/ Banditos ($10)
2/28: MARSHALL CRENSHAW**($20)
3/4: Elel w/Avers ($8/$10)
3/6: Jon Shain Trio w/ Lynn Blakey ($10)
3/7: CHADWICK STOKES (of Dispatch/State Radio)
$15
3/11: River CIty Extension w/Air Traffic Controller*
*($12/$14)
3/13: Liz Longley w/ Anthony DAmato ($8/$10)
3/14: The Mastersons w/Aaron Lee Tasjan
3/17: Jessica Hernandez and The Deltas ($10/$12)
3/18: Horse Feathers ($10)
3/24: Somekindawonderful ($10/$12)
4/8: Bright Light Social Hour
4/11: WAXAHATCHEE w/ The Goodbye Party**
($13/$15)
4/16: Tim Barry w//Sam Russo ($10/$12)
4/23:: JEFF ROSENSTOCK w/Chumped ($10/$120
4/24: Joe Pug ($13/$15)
4/25: TYRONE WELLS w/Dominic Balli and Emily
Hearn
5/4: TWO GALLANTS w/Blank Range ($15)

The event is being hosted by

the Stone Center for Black Culture and History. The event is
free and open to the public.
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Bulls Head Bookshop

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SHOW AT THE RITZ (Raleigh):

APRIL 22: SLEATER-KINNEY**($25 + fees)
MAY 9: DELTA RAE**($25)
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Someone shoplifted
from UNC Davis Library at
4:42 p.m. Monday, according to reports from the UNC
Department of Public Safety.

SHOW AT CARRBORO TOWN COMMONS:

APRIL 3: SYLVAN ESSO w/ Flock Of Dimes and
Ivan Howard ($10)
SHOW AT MEMORIAL HALL (Chapel Hill):
March 30: WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE w/musical
guest Dessa (presented in association with AEG
Live)

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Campus Commentary
Meredith Shutt
Court of Culture
Senior English major from
Fayetteville.
Email: mshutt@live.unc.edu

What
is a
Grammy
worth?

NEXT

he Grammys encourage
impressive collaborative
performances, eccentric
fashion and plenty of thinkpiece discourse about the
music industrys direction.
In 2014, I encouraged readers to ignore all the awards
and instead focus on credible
artistry. Its easy to critique
the ceremony the idea of
ranking and awarding art
is inherently moronic. The
larger truth, though, is that the
Grammy Awards are entertaining and indicative of our
cultures musical tastes.
I will continue my long
tradition of ignoring the rock
categories, especially considering the Recording Academys
recognition of U2s Songs of
Innocence (aka 2014s most
widespread computer virus)
for Best Rock Album. The
categories, arbitrary at best,
contradict themselves.
Coldplay, a previous winner
in the rock and alternative categories, has been nominated
for Best Pop Vocal Album
along with Katy Perry and
Ariana Grande. Though the
bands 2014 album, Ghost
Stories, is pop-influenced, its
in no way sonically congruent
to its contenders. The electronic or alternative categories
seem much better suited.
The categories dont delineate alternative (which can
include alt rock, alt country,
alt electronica and a myriad
of other disparate genres) or
urban contemporary. The
designations seem sloppy and
unnecessary in a musical climate where genres are less and
less distinguishable.
Despite my qualms with
its system, the Recording
Academy has the potential
to bring immense attention
to largely unknown artists.
Within 10 days of its Album
of the Year win in 2011,
Arcade Fires album sales
increased 238 percent.
Four of the five Record
of the Yearnominees are
songs performed by women
(Iggy Azaleas Fancy, Sias
Chandelier, Taylor Swifts
Shake it Off and Meghan
Trainors All About That Bass.)
The question of whether
I like these songs or artists
is generally irrelevant; their
success is not dependent
upon my opinion. The real
subject of import is these
artists presence as arguably
dominant women in positions
of cultural influence.
Whether you love or hate
her, Iggy Azalea stands as an
anomaly in the Grammy tradition. Unsurprisingly, Best Rap
Album has long been passed
among men. Lauryn Hill won
the award as a member of
the Fugees in 1996 and is, 18
years later, the only woman
to ever win the award. With
the rich history of women in
rap including Queen Latifah,
Missy Elliott and Lil Kim, this
systematic exclusion seems an
egregious error.
I doubt Iggy will win the
Grammy on Sunday, but I was
prepared to cut off my own
limbs in surety of Kendrick
Lamars win last year.
#Macklegate aside, I enjoyed
the show after shirking my
musicological obligations.
Lets agree to grant the
Grammys an artistic pardon
and enjoy them for what they
are: a commercialized spectacle to be taken with a few
grains of salt.
DROPPING THE THE
Matt Leming breaks down the
value of the SBP office.

The Daily Tar Heels editorial board posed the following question to several
campus leaders who are also students of color: Does UNC adequately support students of color? If not, how can it facilitate their success? Below are the
responses of four of those students, edited for length and clarity.

do not have an answer to this question. I do not have an answer because

there is no single answer. I do not have
an answer because, as a student of color, I
should not be and will not be responsible for
bandaging the wounds cut by historical racial
inequities under the heels of white privilege.
It was at Carolina
that I found the safety
to rescue the pieces of
my identity Id forced
into shadows to rot for
two decades. It was my
sophomore year when I
attended a guest lecture
by Stephen Lowe, a forKaori Sueyoshi mer teaching assistant, on
Asian-American identiSenior from
ties. Here, I first learned
Chapel Hill
of the Model Minority
Myth that resonated so strongly with my
story. Though it took place in Saunders Hall,
this lecture was the first step in my reconciling years of internalized racism.
This is one tale of triumph in a journey
to accepting and growing in my identity, a
journey paved with bricks formed by my
UNC education. But, like the bricks we find
ourselves tripping over on campus, there
are pieces of this education that might hurt
me like the fact that I am JapaneseAmerican, not a dichotomous ghost that
floats between those two titles, but a whole
person tied together by the hyphen. We have
an Asia Center, but no Asian-American center. A great many of us on this campus live
with this hyphen between nationalities. Let
us recognize and celebrate this.
I am not your textbook readings on samurai and sushi. I am a biscuit and sweet tea
fiend, too. I look forward to a Carolina that
can one day embody this.

eing a student of color at UNC means

finding yourself in spaces that dont
value you, that question your worth
and abilities and that sometimes dont see
you at all. Whether its flat-out discrimination or micro-aggressions, students of color
can face a hostile environment at UNC.
What makes this
university great is the
students, but when some
refuse to try to relate to
the experience of students
of color, UNC becomes an
ugly, unwelcoming place.
Ive heard that I should
go back to where I came
Cecilia Polanco from, and that I was given
admittance to this univerJunior from
sity because Im Latina.
Los Angeles
But I say: Yes, I did get to
where I am today partly because Im Latina.
Being Latina meant growing up in the U.S.
with opportunities that arent available in El
Salvador, with parents that instilled in me
the value of hard work and education. Being
Latina sparked in me an interest to learn
about the new and different. Being Latina, I
was taught to honor and respect others, and
to value family above all else.
Does this sound familiar? Im sure we
were all taught to respect others, work
hard, to value our education, to set goals
and achieve them. So why must the value,
opinions and desires of people of color be
constantly questioned and challenged?
The best way to build a community of
understanding is through open dialogue,
with open minds and hearts. Once you begin
to understand someone elses experience, difference is not so scary, the other not so foreign and their identity very much human.

here do we go from here? UNC

has a lot to accomplish with
regard to creating a sustainable
environment for students of color. Various
groups have already succeeded in creating
this environment, but these efforts have
largely been compartmentalized to specific
portions of the campus
community. There is
little accompanying, centralized effort from the
administration.
One particular discussion that has been
missing from on-campus
discussions is the creMarty Davidson ation of a space for
women of color. UNC
Junior from
has made minimal effort
Fanwood, N.J.
to promote the stature of
women of color on this campus. There have
been gatherings to discuss issues that affect
women of color, such as the Unique Heels
symposium that took place last year. But
symbolic gatherings do little to bolster the
presence of women of color in underrepresented areas, like the natural and physical
sciences and distinguished faculty positions.
UNC has vigorously pursued raising
minority male retention and graduation
rates. Their presence on this campus is crucial. But we are concerned that this intense
focus on one portion of the student body
will ignore issues related to other campus
demographics. Instead of waiting for critical reports to appear and then acting upon
the data, UNC needs to take a proactive
approach. UNC should not use progress in
one community as a shield to prevent progress from taking root in another.
Junior June Beshea contributed.

am a mixed-blood Korean Cherokee

Mvskoke. I am a student of color at
UNC. I do not feel like I have been
given space to be my full self in this school.
One of my first semesters at UNC, I
walked into an American Indian Studies
class. I was eager to spend time learning
more about my own
peoples history. I left that
class furious. Halfway
through the lecture, the
professor, a white woman,
encouraged the students
to voice stereotypes about
Native folks. She went
on to say that she was
Dylan Su-Chun going to debunk them
throughout the semester.
Mott
But I had to sit there with
Senior from Ga.
my ears and eyes burning, glaring around as people yelled the most
tired stereotypes about my people.
I never returned to that lecture. It felt too
painful to learn my history in a class with
people who dont respect me. This was not
an isolated incident. Why are there not more
teachers of color providing mentorship to
people like me?
UNC is styled as a kind of post-racial utopia, but our curriculum is centered around
the study of Western (colonial) culture. Why
is this so valued? I am tired of not feeling
supported, or even able to learn the history
that led to our present conditions. I am tired
of feeling like Im here to provide diversity.
There arent simple solutions for these
things, which are connected to racial issues
in our society at large, but as long as the
University continues to resist making changes, I will continue to question why I am even
here if not to fight for those changes.

QuickHits
Houston Bummer

Missed Elliott

FREEEEEEDOM

At the Young Democrats

debate this week, SBP candidate Houston
Summers said
he voted Republican in the
latest election.
According to the
N.C. Voter Registry, he didnt
vote at all. Were absolutely
looking forward to the
beautiful irony of his own
imminent get out the vote
campaign days.

The best moment of the

Super Bowl this weekend
was the moment
Missy Elliott took
the stage at halftime to remind
us a) shes alive
and b) she is one of the
most electrifying artists of
the last 20 years. We cant
explain why Missy wasnt
headlining, but it didnt
matter. She and left shark
stole the damn show.

You know what, maybe its

better after all that Houston
Summers didnt
vote for Thom
Tillis (or at all).
To demonstrate
his belief in the
power of the market, Tillis
suggested doing away with
one of the least controversial rules youll find
anywhere: the requirement
that food service employees
wash their hands.

A Minor victory

Wide world of suck

Keep it real

We dont want to undercut the coverage this fine

publication will
produce on the
student elections, but The
Minor is killing it
yet again with its coverage
of lesser-known candidates
like 2,500-year-old body
preserved in an Irish bog
and uncomfortably sensual
candidate profiles. Gotta
give credit where its due.

What a terrible weekend

in the world of sport. First,
UNC lost to
Louisville, then
Duke upset UVA,
then Pete Carroll
ruined what
promised to be a fantastic
Marshawn Lynch press conference and, finally, UNC got
demolished at home by Virginia. If this keeps up, were
going to have no reason to
keep a cable subscription.

On the one hand, its great

that all three SBP candidates are coming
out in support of
the Kick Out the
KKK movement.
Whats a little
more uncomfortable is how
none of these candidates
would participate in or help
organize the movement
but are still perfectly happy
to capitalize on the work of
those who did.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

They said they had a call that a few people
were skipping. The security guard said if we
were white, it wouldnt have been an issue.
Simon Lee, a Chapel Hill High School student

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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Conservative voices
already hold sway
TO THE EDITOR:
In response to Mr. Peter
McClellands letter published Wednesday, I offer
two observations.
First, gerrymandering
and unfair, over-weighted
representation are not
rights on campus and in
student government in
UNC. Thus, you are not in
a position, even morally, to
demand the same level of
participation for your selfadmittedly small-in-numbers organization versus
larger-populated organizations at any UNC function,
including, but far from limited to, a Chancellors byinvitation-only function.
Further, I am confident
that many fair and balanced
students, faculty, employees
and state residents would
concur that your conservative governor and legislature
have already made clever
enough use of gerrymandering to the point where
they have perhaps undue
influence over the Board
of Governors. Would not
you even agree that the
conservative-leaning BOG
has already done enough to
affect life at UNC?
James Creal Waters, 76
Chapel Hill

Attending UNC can

be a revolutionary act
TO THE EDITOR:
Last Friday I attended
the play in Memorial Hall,
the first time Ive been
there since moving back to
the area. There on the wall
was a plaque for William
Saunders, one of the dozens
that commemorate alumni
or staff from the 1800s.
Many were Confederate
officers or politicians from
before, during and after the
Civil War men of means
who probably owned slaves.
A few were listed simply as
successful planters.
Whatever one thinks
of the effort to change the
name of Saunders Hall, its
clear that purging the campus of memorials to white
supremacists will be a long,
long process. In the meantime, I urge students of color
to bring a new perspective to
their encounters with these
remnants of the past.
Dont forget the suffering
of those injured, but focus
on the fact that your very
presence at this University
refutes and rebukes the
ideas of racial superiority.
Beyond that, every time you
succeed on a test or paper,
or shine in a class discussion, old KKK members are
spinning in their graves. By
disproving the lies of prejudice, you triumph over their
beliefs. Revel in it.
Joe Swain Jr., 77
Carrboro

Saunders legacy is
unquestionably racist
TO THE EDITOR:
This letter is written in
response to comments in
various listservs and news

media arguing against

changing the name of
Saunders Hall, and two
specific recurring themes:
First, that Saunders
should not be defined by his
role in the KKK.
Saunders KKK leadership
role in North Carolina was
not a hidden secret. He was
openly a prominent organizer, and his status as head of
the KKK was quoted in documents approving the naming of Saunders Hall. His life
and its commemoration in
Saunders Hall are inseparable from the Klan, its goals
of preserving the Aryan
race, and its use of terror
and murder to further those
goals. Further, the naming of
Saunders Hall in 1922 took
place during a resurgence of
white supremacist activity in
the U.S.; it thus represents
two distinct instances of
racial hatred.
Second, that it is unfair
to judge Saunders by
todays standards.
The violence of the KKK
was widely accepted by
many (whites) as normal.
But this is an intellectually
and morally irresponsible
argument. Saunders was far
more than a product of his
time; he actively produced
history through his role in
the entrenchment of white
supremacy. It is precisely
the normalized acceptance
of the Klans terrorism
that requires us to reject it
now. Fridays rally to Kick
Out The KKK made clear
that the issue of renaming
Saunders Hall is not about
William Saunders.
It is a minimal first step
toward a public recognition
of the worth of black bodies and black voices on this
campus.
Benjamin Rubin
Graduate Student
Geography

Cheering is a choice,
not an obligation
TO THE EDITOR:
I will proudly defend the
wine and cheese crowd.
Were ALL wine and cheese
about the rest of our forms
of entertainment. Why
should sports entertainment
be different? Forgive me if
I dont vomit disingenuous
exuberance at a product on
the court that hasnt been
the least bit electric in three
years. If you want a raucous
student section, then it needs
something that kindles that
kind of excitement. Zero
final fours in the last five
seasons kind of inspires the
opposite over time.
And before anybody
spews the clichs about
privilege, loyalty and
pride, nobody is defending the football team and
chastising students for
not (filling) the stands at
CenturyLink Field. We all
know the expectation with
the football is disappointment, but basketball gets a
pass because of its history?
Until the basketball team
provides such stimulation,
will the cheer police kindly
hang up its cape and remove
the S off its chest? Roy and
his boys dont need to hold
out for a hero.
Andrew Elliot
Class of 2010

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The Race Issue

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Suspended.
Black students are suspended at ve times the rate of
white students in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

The Daily Tar Heel

Keith Payne runs

a research lab at
UNC that looks at
racial bias when
it comes to the
misidentification of
weapons.

By Lauren Kent
Senior Writer

As police bias becomes better documented by the U.S.

Department of Justice and other
agencies, experts and activists are
developing research projects and
providing resources that better
address the faults of the justice
system. The following is a roundup of some of that work.

Lab studies assumptions

At UNC, psychology professor
Keith Payne is researching racial
bias when it comes to the misidentification of weapons.
His laboratory performs tests
in which people are asked to
identify an object on a computer
screen as a weapon or a harmless
object.
Each object is preceded by the
picture of a random face.
There is a tendency to mistake
harmless objects for weapons
when they are primed or preceded
by a black face, Payne said.

His research has been made

particularly relevant by several
high-profile instances of police
killing young, unarmed black men
sometimes under the assumption that the black man had a gun.
In Cleveland in November, a
police officer shot a 12-year-old
black boy, Tamir Rice, who was
holding a toy gun. A caller to
the 911 operator said the toy was
probably fake, according to The
New York Times.
A released video depicts officers driving to the scene and
shooting Rice within seconds.
Paynes research includes a version of the test in which participants respond at their own pace.
In the other version, they had
to respond within half a second

on each trial. In the self-paced

condition, accuracy was very
high regardless of race, the study
states. However, participants
detected guns faster in the presence of a black face.
Payne said people almost
never make errors when they are
responding very slowly.
But if you require people to
respond faster, so theyre making split-second decisions, thats
when you see the bias come in,
he said.

from 1999 to 2001.

Now, it also lends itself to the
name of the smartphone application that was slated for release in
December.
The term is common in black
culture, said Mariann Hyland, a
creator of the smartphone application. Hyland is also director of
the Diversity and Inclusion comAn app provides resources
mittee for the Oregon State Bar.
The phrase
She also said it
Driving While
is common pracBlack is hardly new
tice for black par but it is becoming
ents to have the
more relevant.
talk with their
UNC political
children about
science professor
how to stay safe
Frank Baumgartner,
when interacting
who studies racial
with law enforcebias in police
ment.
Keith Payne,
departments, has
Having the
UNC researcher, studying racial bias
studied the phetalk is something
nomenon specifithats very prevacally in Durham, as well as Chapel lent in the African-American comHill and Carrboro.
munity, Hyland said.
He found the phrase appeared
So we have information for
in The New York Times in 19 arti- parents in the app.
cles from 1960 to 1998. But the
phrase was used in 528 articles
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The test then determines the

test-takers level of bias.
Project Implicit also offers tests
to determine biases based on gender, religion and other factors.
To take an Implicit Association
Test, visit: implicit.harvard.edu/
implicit/

Project Implicit tests bias

The tests administered by
Project Implicit work in a similar
manner.
Project Implicit, a nonprofit
collaboration between a variety of
universities, allows people to test
their thoughts and consciousness
including bias.
The racial bias test asks participants to make associations
between positive or negative
adjectives and black or white
faces as quickly as possible.

Theyre making
split-second decisions, thats when
you see the bias
come in.

Graduation rates of student body vs. black male athletes

DTH/HALLE SINNOTT
Simon Lee, a senior at Chapel Hill High School, advocates for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools to change its disciplinary policies. Black students are five times more likely to get suspended from school.

By Claire Williams

Chapel Hill Police Department enforcement data shows the results of traffic stops based on race, sex and ethnicity. The data is based on department data from December 2009 to
October 2014. The population data is based off data from the U.S. Census Bureau in 2010. About a fourth of traffic stops by the police department targeted black drivers.

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Chapel Hill Total Population

17.5
percent

Total Traffic Stops

percent

13.4
percent

42.2
percent

percent

percent

44.4

67.8

percent

SOURCE: CHAPEL HILL POLICE DEPARTMENT

25.2

72.8

Black
White
Other

percent

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POLICE BIAS

FROM PAGE 1

We try to do training that

helps officers identify their
biases and ignore them and
do their job, Mecimore said.
They have a job, and their
responsibility is to be fair and
impartial, and not allow those
things to influence their decision making.
Other training regarding youth and minorities is
covered in the 16 hours of
required continuing education that officers participate
in annually.
Bias is also covered in
Basic Law Enforcement
Training, which all officers
undergo before being sworn
to duty.
But training to overcome
racial bias is largely untested,
and researchers dont know

how training in a lab translates to split-second decisions

made in the field, Payne said.
I would not be optimistic
that purely informational
training is going to have a big
impact, Payne said.
For training to work well, it
has to be experiential, he said.
(People) have to go
through making decisions in
which being unbiased leads
to good outcomes, as opposed
to just telling them about the
bias, Payne said.
When people are making decisions in a bias way,
its usually not because they
dont have information.

More than traffic stops

Racial bias is an issue for
more than just traffic stops.
In many places across
North Carolina, and the

SOURCE: HTTP://WWW.GSE.UPENN.EDU

nation as a whole, people of

color are disproportionately
targeted for marijuana arrests
and for S.W.A.T. raids, said
Mike Meno, spokesperson for
the American Civil Liberties
Union of North Carolina.
The ACLU is a nonprofit
that advocates policy change
and offers free legal help for
people who feel their constitutional rights have been
violated.
When you have certain
parts of the community being
targeted more than others,
Meno said. Youre going to
lose that trust between law
enforcement and the community that is so essential to
keeping everybody safe.
Baumgartner said the
racial disparities in the data
speak to why white people are
much more likely to trust the
police than black people.

As more data on racial

disparities emerges, police
stations across the state are
taking steps to improve documentation and combat bias.
Carrboro is adding video
cameras to their police car
fleet in order to document
traffic stops and provide a
more objective record of police
interactions for court cases.
On Oct. 1, following the
release of Baumgartners
report on Durham, the
Durham police department
created a policy that requires
officer to obtain written permission to search a car without probable cause.
Fayetteville has also adopted
a similar policy.
In most other cities, police
are only required to ask permission before searching.
Most people are so intimidated they will say yes,

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Notre Dame

Wake Forest

Virginia

56

Boston College

special.projects@dailytarheel.com

70 68 73

66

Miami (FL)

Blaisdell works with Chapel HillCarrboro City Schools district to improve

racial disparity. He said since the board
started looking at the issue, the number
of out-of-school suspensions across the
board and among minority students has
dropped. But that is also to be expected,
since the number of black students in
the district has decreased by 12 percent,
according to the report.
The district is trying to do something
positive, he said. On some issues they are
moving a little too slowly.

34

39

45

61

Syracuse

Ratio of black students to white

students with office discipline referrals

43

North Carolina

3:1

44

Virginia Tech

Ratio of black students to white

students with in-school suspensions

50 53 51

Pittsburgh

5:1

Georgia Tech

Ratio of black students to white

students with out-of-school suspensions

Clemson

5:1

NC State

SUSPENSIONS IN THE DISTRICT

Florida State

him to change classrooms for minority

students. He has plans to study social justice in college next year and wants to be an
advocate for minorities.
Lee is involved in the Multicultural
Student Achievement Network, which
helps tutor younger minority students and
hosts talks with Teach For America participants about diversity in classrooms. He has
also been vocal about disparity in discipline
between minority and white students.
He is not the only one in the district trying to make changes.
Kelley, the chairman of the board, said
the district is trying to move away from
punishment and toward improving student behavior.
The goal of our institutions is to educate kids, not punish them, he said.
Meyer said the district is taking steps to
improve equity in discipline. He said the
report that highlights disparity between
black and white students shows that the
district is trying to tackle the problem.
Id argue that CHCCSs willingness to
focus on this challenge puts it ahead of
many districts, he said.
Meyer is now looking at the problem
on a statewide level. He said he wants to
improve the way the state collects and
shares data about student discipline, and
start school report cards that measure if
schools are reducing disproportionalities.

Graduation rate of
all undergraduates

DTH/HALLE SINNOTT
Black students are three times more likely to be sent to the office, a Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools report found. Simon Lee (center) advocates for fairer disciplinary policies in the system.

Police citations and traffic stops compared to Chapel Hills population

percent

89 91

96

47

Louisville

We saw some
pretty frightening
numbers in terms of
disparity. Some patterns that, frankly,
were kind of silly.

A University of Pennsylvania study compared total graduation rates with

graduation rates of black male student-athletes. The studys authors
concluded faculty interaction and coach involvement in athletics
were key to student-athlete success. The authors
93
called for the NCAA to create a working group on racial
82 78
equity. A UNC working group led by
85
Provost Jim Dean is dedicated to
79
involving faculty, students
77
79
and athletics personnel
in improving
71 78
athletes
academic
71
success.

Graduation rate of black

male student athletes

the cultural differences, she said. The same

behavior by a white student they explain to
themselves differently and respond differSimon Lee was relaxing on a bench outently.
side Chapel Hill High Schools library. He
Palmer said the school district needs to
says he wasnt doing anything out of the
hire more minority teachers and focus on
ordinary he was gossiping, joking with
minority students who might be struggling
friends before his free period. Nothing he
in the classroom.
should have been disciplined for.
We can push the school system to do
A teacher approached the bench, and Lee
more, she said.
said the group told her they would spend
Ben Blaisdell, a professor at East Carolina
the period studying.
University who studies race and racism in
A few minutes later a few security guards schools, said teachers and administrators
came over, and they said they had a call
can act on implicit bias. He said well-intentioned teachers dont realize they call out
that a few people were skipping, Lee said.
minority students for behaviors that would
The security guard said if we were white, it
be ignored or dismissed in white students.
wouldnt have been an issue.
It comes from a society that has taught
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has
people to see people who are not white
grappled with how to deal with inequity in
student discipline by race for years, said dis- as problematic, he said. In any district
trict spokesman Jeff Nash.
that has a certain amount of privilege, and
The largest disparity in discipline
CHCCS certainly does, people want to probetween white and black students is in the
tect that privilege.
categories that are hardest to define: defiThe effects of implicit bias on minority
ance, disruption and disrespect.
students can be severe, Blaisdell said. Out-ofThere are countless examples of how the
school suspensions increase the likelihood of
code of conduct is pitted against students of
a student dropping out and can tank grades.
color, Lee said.
Some students can shut down in that
Mike Kelley, chairman of the districts
situation and become very quiet, he said.
Board of Education, said the board started
Others become hyper-visible. They feel like
to focus on the issue last year.
they are being silenced and cannot be free,
Roughly half of the districts students are
open and vocal in the classroom.
white. Black students make up only about
Rep. Graig Meyer, D-Orange, worked
11 percent of the districts population but
as a teacher in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
are five times more likely
Schools and served as
than white students to get
director of student equity
out-of-school and in-school
for the district. He also
suspension.
directed the districts Blue
Black students are also
Ribbon Mentor-Advocate
three times more likely
program, which pairs
to be sent to the office,
young minority students
according to a report by
with an older student who
the district that looks at
acts as a mentor and tutor.
discipline records from the
Meyer said teachers are
last two years.
only part of the societyWe saw some pretty
wide problem.
frightening numbers in
Teachers want disMike Kelley,
ciplinary problems out
terms of disparity, Kelley
Chairman of the board of education
of their class so they can
said. Some patterns that,
focus on teaching and
frankly, were kind of silly.
helping students who want to learn. We
really have to engage teachers to solve this
Defiance, disruption and disrespect
problem, he said. We dont need to blame
Maria Palmer, a member of the Chapel
anyone. We need to collaborate.
Hill Town Council, said the disproportionate
numbers are troubling. She said the concepts
Making changes
of defiance, disruption and disrespect are
Lees experiences, on a bench outside the
subjective adding that the terms are vague
library and throughout his time in Chapel
and minority students tend to be targeted.
White teachers dont understand some of Hilll-Carrboro City Schools, have roused
Senior Writer

Research, apps address police bias

Duke

DTH/ZACH WALKER, GENTRY SANDERS

said Baumgartner. Even

though, constitutionally
speaking, you dont have to
give permission.
A team of lawyers in
Oregon created a smartphone application called
Driving While Black,
which aims to educate black
drivers especially youth
on how to safely deal with
traffic stops and report any
unfair instances.
Ive talked to so many
black people who talk about
their experiences with traffic
stops, said Mariann Hyland,
director of the diversity and
inclusion department for the
Oregon State bar, who helped
create the app.
What it seems to me is
there are kind of two sets of
experiences, Hyland said.
What the dominant
(racial) group experiences,

and then what black people

experience.
Baumgartner encourages
police stations to improve
upon data analysis and collection in order to be more
aware of bias.
The database he used for
his research included many
typos. Most traffic stop
reports are handwritten by
police officers, and are occasionally copied into the computer system incorrectly.
In other cases, the mistakes in data seem to be
more deliberate, according to
Baumgartner. Individual officers can be tracked through
ID numbers, but some data
entries had fake names such
as Batman or Babyface in
place of the officer ID.
Baumgartner said that
police departments should
utilize the data available on

individual officers to improve

law enforcement.
Police departments now
are quite accustomed to data
analysis, Baumgartner said.
They should incorporate this
officer by officer data to see
who is too easy or too harsh,
or bias against whites or
biased against blacks.
The Chapel Hill Justice in
Action Committee, whose mission is to ensure that the town
remains committed to social
justice, has been collecting testimonials of citizens who feel
they have been racially profiled while driving in order to
bring awareness to the issue.
We dont think theres any
single bullet thats the key
to progress, said committee
chairman Will Hendrick. We
need awareness of the issue,
accountability of those responsible, action and response.

In part, Hyland launched

the Driving While Black
application to give those affected by unfair traffic stops the
opportunity for action. The app
allows drivers to record a traffic stop and helps drivers find
legal representation.
What were seeing right
now in America is that in general, people are wary and have
lost confidence in our justice
system, Hyland said. In part,
that extends to the police.
The numbers showing a
racial disparity in the drivers
stopped and searched for traffic violations might be adding
to that lack of confidence.
The first step is recognizing the problem, and recognizing that this is not something thats going to fix itself,
Hendrick said.
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News

Thursday, February 5, 2015

The Daily Tar Heel

McCrory emphasizes education plan

The governor gave
his 2015 State of the
State on Wednesday.

Pat McCrory
is the governor of North
Carolina.
He gave the
State of the
State address
Wednesday.

By Kate Grise
Senior Writer

Gov. Pat McCrory touted a

sweeping agenda including education proposals, job
creation, revamping dirty
buildings and protecting puppies during his State of the
State on Wednesday.
My vision is to have the
best of everything, McCrory
said from the Statehouse in
Raleigh. We must have both
big city opportunities and
small-town quality life choices
from the mountains to the
coast. We have the best of both
Mayberry and metropolis.
He spoke for 90 minutes,
about twice as long as his
State of the State in 2013.

Education was a centerpiece

of his remarks as McCrory
emphasized North Carolinas
world-class universities and
the need to tap into them for
economic benefit. Through
his Innovation to Jobs initiative, which he presented
to the UNC-system Board of
Governors at its January meeting, he said he wants to commercialize university research
into products and jobs.
McCrory said he hopes to
turn North Carolina into the
third vertex of a National
Innovation Triangle that connects the state with Silicon
Valley and Boston as bases for

technology and research.

Its designed to convert
more of our research dollars
into products and services that
are patented and introduced
into the marketplace, he said.
We cant have these reports
and studies up on a shelf. Weve
got to convert them into jobs.
Making public higher
education more affordable
especially community college
was another key point of
McCrorys education agenda.
We must look at our community college and university
balance sheets to make sure
were making investments in
the programs that will prepare
our students for the global
economy and close North
Carolinas skills gap, he said.
McCrory also hammered
home the importance of skillsbased education and supporting K-12 teachers financially
and in the classroom.
In 2014, the governors

administration promised
to raise teacher base pay to
$35,000 a year a promise
reaffirmed on Wednesday.
McCrory emphasized the
importance of giving teachers
more time to teach by reducing the time and resources
spent on testing students. In
conjunction with statewide
officials, district superintendents and teachers, he said his
administration will work to
eliminate unneeded standardized testing by next year.
The system of testing that
has been created in our schools
is a failure. Giving teachers
more autonomy over their
classrooms to actually teach is
a step in the right direction,
said Alex Johnson, president
of the UNC chapter of Young
Americans for Liberty.
In the Democratic response
to McCrorys speech, House
Minority Leader Larry Hall,
D-Durham, said McCrory is

We cant have these reports and studies up

on a shelf.
Pat McCrory,
Governor of North Carolina

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News

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CHispA, BSM wont

endorse an SBP
By Anyssa Reddix
Staff Writer

Minority communities are

still on the fence about which
candidate for student body
president has their best interests in mind.
Our student body presidents tend to follow the
same trend. They tend to
tell the same narrative. Its
almost always a white person, more often than not,
a white
male, said
Cecilia
Polanco,
2015 president of
the Carolina Hispanic
Association.
This years candidates
Houston Summers, David
Marsh and Kathryn Walker
are all white.
Trey Mangum, president of
the Black Student Movement,
acknowledged that none of
the candidates come from
diverse backgrounds, but he
said he hopes theyll be able
to listen to the needs of those
who do.
So far, though, Mangum
said he is not impressed with
the candidates. Neither BSM
nor CHispA will endorse a
candidate.
I felt like Kathryn was the
only one who knew remotely
about what minority students
are facing. Some of the comments the other candidates
said were off-putting, said
Mangum, referring to the
debate BSM and CHispA cohosted at the Campus Y.
With racially charged talking points like the Silent Sam
monument and the movement to rename Saunders
Hall causing tension and
unrest on campus, candidates are facing a lot of questions about race.
Summers attended the
Saunders Hall rally on Jan. 30,
and Marsh and Walker said
they attended the Feb. 2 rally.
It was really powerful to
me, Summers said.
Polanco and Mangum said
they feel like its time for student government to speak up.
We want to see our student body president make
a statement, Polanco said.
I think our current representatives are a little apprehensive, I dont want to say
scared, but a little apprehensive to speak out about
matters.
Polanco said she is not
surprised that those in power
arent speaking up about the
protests on campus, considering the controversy surrounding Tom Ross departure.
It scares the people who
have a little more political
power from speaking out,
Polanco said.
Polanco said she wants to
trust that the next student
body president can make a
change, but she still has her
doubts.
I do want to believe that
whoever is our student body
president is going to care, but
then again I want to challenge them all to do it, to
follow through, to not be that
person who says Im going
to do XYZ and not do it,
Polanco said.
While diversity is needed in
student government, Polanco
referenced senior Emilio
Vicentes 2014 campaign for
student body president as she
explained how students of
color havent always felt welcomed. Vicente is an undocumented student.
It would be nice to see
someone who looks like us in
power, Polanco said. When
we think about what went
down with Emilios campaign,
its scary. It very much dissuades people from trying.
Polanco said Summers
seems to have a genuine
interest in learning the needs
of minority communities,
since he reached out to her
about the Hispanic populations issues.
Hes not claiming to know
everything, Polanco said.
But hes asking and thats a
start. I appreciate the effort.
Summers is the only
candidate who supports
the installation of plots for
the National Pan-Hellenic
Councils organizations in
his platform. Summers has
spoken to both former and
current NPHC presidents
Alyssa Townsend and Michael
Morrison about the project.
To this day, we dont have
any space on this campus we
can call our own. We dont

student
elections

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Gene Chizik aims for championship

By Pat James
Assistant Sports Editor

Students of color
are not represented
in student
government.
Trey Mangum,
Black Student Movement president

have a room, we dont have

a house, we dont have any
space period, Townsend said.
The plots would be placed
in SASB plaza according to
Summers plan.
SASB has been an area
on campus that AfricanAmericans have historically identified with, said
Summers, referencing stories
he heard from the 1970s,
when Chase Dining Hall sat
on what is now SASB plaza.
From the remaining three,
Mangum said he believes
Marsh is just echoing what he
has heard.
Out of all the candidates,
I feel like he brought up the
Saunders Hall thing the most
but it didnt drive anything,
Mangum said. It didnt
appear that he was more concerned about the issues he
was just reiterating other
candidates.
Either way, Polanco and
Mangum said the new student body president will
have a lot of work to do
when it comes to creating a
place for minorities in student government.
Students of color are not
represented in student government, Mangum said.
No matter what candidate
is elected, both minority
groups are ready for a change.
Were tired of being let
down, Polanco said. Were
tired of people who are supposed to be representing us
and dont.
university@dailytarheel.com

Gene Chizik stands at

the podium on Wednesday,
addressing the media for the
first time since being named
North Carolinas new defensive coordinator.
To his right, outside the
transparent glass wall on
the fifth floor of the Kenan
Football Center, nearly all that
remains of the stadiums turf
are the hedges that normally
surround the field of play.
The rest of the field is a
colossal crater formed by
the claws of the construction
vehicles roaming the terrain,
making it appear as if a bomb
went off on the 50-yard line.
Shortly after Chizik starts
fielding questions, he issues
a statement similar in magnitude to the gaping hole on
the field.
I wanted to be at a place
where we could potentially win
a championship, he said, slapping his hands on the podium
for extra emphasis. Because
Im not coming out of retirement, if you will, without having a chance to win one.
This offseason, the UNC
football program completely
detonated its defensive coaching staff, provoking Chizik
who won a national title in
2011 as head coach at Auburn
to leave his jobs at ESPN
and SiriusXM Radio to come
to Chapel Hill and begin building the defense from the bottom up much like the field
hell be standing on next fall.
Wednesdays National
Signing Day showed the
program has begun to lay the
foundation, as the Tar Heels
ended the day with 19 commits and eight players on the
defensive side of the ball.
You bring in Gene, and
Genes pedigree speaks for
itself, Coach Larry Fedora
said. These kids know who
he is, they know what hes
accomplished. So, you get
instant credibility with him
coming on our staff.

Assisting the championship-winning coach is John

Papuchis, who also made his
first appearance since being
officially hired as a defensive
assistant coach on Monday.
Papuchis comes from
Nebraska, where he served as
the Huskers defensive coordinator for the last three years.
When Papuchis joined

Nebraska in 2008, the

Huskers were coming off a
season in which the defense
surrendered 37.9 points per
game. In 2009, Nebraska
yielded 11.2 points per game.
UNC allowed the most points
in school history in 2014.
I have a little background
in going in and trying to build
something and fix some-

thing in that same scenario,

Papuchis said. And by 2009,
we were (No. 2) in defense, so
it took two years to turn it.
I think we have a lot of the
pieces in place here to be able
to turn it quickly.
Now, its just about putting
them all together.
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State of the State

Gov. Pat McCrory gave
his 2015 State of the State
address on Wednesday. See
pg. 6 for story.

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Researchers have developed innovative ways to

investigate police bias. See
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Suspension rates
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The Race Issue

Thursday, February 5, 2015

The Daily Tar Heel

The time a mostly white

Creating better spaces for
conversations about race newspaper tackled a race issue

he label of AsianAmerican fails to

encapsulate the diversity of the groups it is supposed to represent. As a result,
we have been represented as
a monolithic group of quiet,
hardworking people, which
serves to keep us wedged
somewhere between other
groups of color.
Within the Asian-American
community exist legitimate
problems that are obvious
because of the media: stereotyping, discrimination, the
model minority myth, the
fetishization of Asian women
and the emasculation of Asian
men.
And then there are the more
complex problems that we
might experience internally:
the development of diasporic
identities, the confusion that
might come with being a firstor second-generation immigrant, divisions between immigrants and later generations,
internalized racism and the
range of socio-economic positions that arent visible when
were all pushed under the
umbrella of model minority.
Asian-American issues do

Kim Hoang
Junior psychology major

not exist in isolation. Thinking

about problems with race on
campus as sets of problems
assigned to different racial
groups is overly simplistic.
That was a trap I fell into
when I first started thinking about race. I could easily
emphasize that Im not your
exotic, math-loving, submissive stereotypical Asian girl.
But does that even address
the root cause of racism, or
does that just make me the
exception to the rule? I
failed to realize that racism
toward me comes from the
same racism that affects other
people of color.
We have to recognize that
racism among different racial
groups is intrinsically linked.
Lets think back to the lawsuit that the Project on Fair
Representation filed against
UNC and Harvard University

in November. The idea that

Asians are unfairly discriminated against in admissions
practices compared to black
and Latino students creates a
false idea of Asian privilege.
This narrative is intentional
and useful in dividing communities of color as it denies that
racism exists in the first place.
I cant offer any concrete
solutions to this problem. But
to be silent is to be complicit
in this system. Taking the
path of least resistance and
tip-toeing around deeper discussions of race is convenient.
We need to talk about race
beyond the topic of diversity,
because racial diversity on its
own will not automatically
solve any problems.
People of color on campus
need to have these conversations in safe spaces. These
spaces will probably not be
provided for us, so we have
to make and claim them for
ourselves. Lets talk about our
experiences, interracial solidarity and build some coalitions. These conversations
will not always be comfortable, but talking about race
isnt supposed to be.

ometimes, I wish our

readers could be in the
office when were making our decisions.
I dont want you here for
the yelling and bickering and
teasing. (There is a lot of that.)
I want you here for all of
the magic.
I want you here when
Tyler Vahan, the design and
graphics editor, suggests
using a quote for the main
headline on front.
That way, he says, it wont
be a bunch of white collegeaged editors dictating the
tone of todays issue. Its the
students of color we spoke to.
Youd love to meet Aaron
Dodson, one of our copy editors. For him, this issue will be
a success if his friends are talking about it in a good way.
I wish you could watch
Katie Williams careful eye
when we begin to weigh the
ethics of using a photo from
the die-ins in the Pit.
These photos are obviously
visually arresting. And she
took extreme care not to let
their meaning get distorted.
I wish you all could hear
Katie Reilly, our managing
editor, as she talks about our

Jenny Surane
Editor-in-Chief

efforts to recruit, maintain

and promote minority staffers.
Shes painfully aware that we
struggled to get opinions from
journalists of color during the
creation of this edition, and
thats because we dont have
many in our office.
We know its a problem,
and we are actively trying to
address it, as are most traditional newspapers in America.
And of course, I wish you
could listen to the inimitable
Amanda Albright and Mary
Burke, the leaders of The
Daily Tar Heels Projects and
Investigations Team, who
spent their winter breaks
coming up with thoughtful,
compelling content.
They know we didnt cover
every race or problem facing
minorities in this issue. Weve
only examined parts of these
incredibly complex topics.
But this issue isnt meant

to be all-encompassing.
It never could be. For our
investigations team leaders,
it was just supposed to start
a conversation.
This column is about why
a newspaper run by a predominantly white staff would
want to tackle an entire issue
on race.
There are many reasons
people could call us out for
this effort some of them
could be valid.
But for better or for worse,
were responsible for documenting this year accurately
and fairly. And this year, we
have watched as hundreds
of black students have filled
campus spaces, demanding
more from their university.
So this is our response
to the pain weve heard in
the Pit during die-ins. The
tears weve seen in front of
Saunders Hall. The protests
weve documented in professional schools across campus.
Obviously, we hope you
like this issue, but we completely understand if you
dont. As always, Im happy
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Jose, a student at UNC, is an undocumented resident of North Carolina. Because of a private scholarship and protective immigration laws, Jose is able to attend UNC and hopes to become a teacher.

Its a lot to put on young people

Undocumented students face burdens when paying for school

By Caroline Leland
Senior Writer

So far, Jose has defied the odds.

My case is a rare case, he said. Before my
senior year ended, I knew I was going to college.
Jose, who requested that his last name not be
used for security reasons, is an undocumented
resident of North Carolina. He has lived in the
state since leaving Mexico at age 5, but he is
considered an out-of-state student at UNC.
For Jose, earning a higher education involves
overcoming challenges many people never have
to consider.
I remember going through freshman year (in
high school) so many Hispanic males dropped
out, said Jose, the first in his family to graduate
high school.
The main reason I think is the disconnection between the education system and parents.
Because they never actually went through the
education process, they dont know what else to
do besides motivating (their kids).
In 2013 the year Jose graduated from high
school the N.C. high school graduation rate
was 82.5 percent. Only 75.2 percent of Hispanic
students graduated from high school that year.
With odds like that, plus parents who spoke
little to no English, Jose was largely on his
own in his endeavors to succeed in school.

Cost-prohibitive education
Even if an undocumented student graduates high school, college is usually cost-prohibitive, said journalism professor Paul Cuadros,
who is the executive director of Scholars
Latino Initiative, a student organization for
mentoring Latino youth. Under federal law,
illegal immigrants can not be granted in-state
university tuition or federal aid.
They essentially have no avenue to pay for
their college education except out of pocket.
Ron Woodard, director of the immigration
reform organization N.C. Listen, said undocumented immigrants who attend college dis-

place legal citizens.

Where is the concern for the American citizen in all of this? All I hear about is concern
for the so-called dreamers. American citizens
have dreams too, he said.
Larry Shaheen, Jr., a Republican political
consultant based in Charlotte, said the state
constitution guarantees citizens the right to
a college education as free as is practical. He
said any tax-paying resident who has lived in
the state for more than a year should be considered a citizen.
The United States was built on immigration, he said. The Republican party needs
to do a better job at some point of dealing
with reality.

National and state policies

Jose said UNC was his dream school. It
was the only public university he applied to
because he knew private scholarships were his
only chance at affording college.
Were a working class family, he said. It
was really up to me to find resources.
Jose was lucky enough to be awarded a fullride merit scholarship through a national program called Golden Doors. Now a sophomore,
Jose is involved in the dance group Chalkaa
and is a mentor for the Scholars Latino
Initiative.
(UNC) is definitely as great as I expected,
he said.
But he still has more odds to beat.
Of the first-generation students who
entered UNC in 2008, just 72 percent graduated in four years, compared to 83 percent
of students with at least one parent with a
college degree.
For U.S. citizens who entered UNC in 2011, 91
percent returned for a fourth fall semester, while
about 80 percent of undocumented students
in the same class returned for their fourth fall
semester.
Cuadros said undocumented students
carry an added burden of staying up-to-date

on immigration laws.
For many of the students, keeping track of
whats happening with federal policy is always
on their minds, Cuadros said.
Jose said he worried about changing laws
and his immigration status a lot during his
first year. Now hes more comfortable with
his place at UNC, especially because of the
2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program. DACA allows people whose parents
brought them into the country illegally to be
temporarily protected from deportation.
For those not protected by DACA, deportation is a threat that causes worry for themselves
and for the sake of their family members.
That creates incredible strain, said UNC
law school professor Deborah Weissman, an
immigration expert. Its a lot to put on young
people who are here in most instances through
no choice of their own.
Weissman said she hopes for the N.C. legislature to pass laws in favor of tuition equity but
doesnt expect it to happen in the near future.
If youd asked me a year ago if I thought
there would be holistic immigration reform,
Id have said yes, she said.
But the grassroots efforts, such as the One
State, One Rate campaign led by immigration activist and UNC student Emilio Vicente,
seem to have lost their momentum.
People get caught up in whats happening
on a national level, Weissman said. Its possible that local campaigns are having to take in
whats happening nationally and regroup.
Shaheen said the legislature wont act on
immigration because its in Republican control.
They just dont feel its a pressing issue, he
said. At this point immigration is viewed as a
federal issue.

Trend toward tuition equality

Ashley Memory, senior assistant director of
admissions at UNC, said in an email that state
law prohibits UNC from requiring a Social
Security number on applications. Students

without a social security number must be considered an out-of-state applicant, she said.
Financial aid complicates things.
The Morehead-Cain Scholarship Program,
which offers a full ride, does not grant scholarships to undocumented students.
Allen Chan, executive director of the
Robertson Scholars Leadership Program a
collaborative full-ride scholarship program
between UNC and Duke University said in
an email the Robertson does not have a policy
for undocumented students.
We cannot award the Robertson unless
they are admitted to either Duke or UNC, he
said. This is subject to the administrations and
admissions groups at both universities.
But undocumented students might see
some financial relief in the future.
The national trend is in favor of allowing
in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
who attended high school in their respective
state, said Tanya Broder, senior attorney at the
National Immigration Law Center.
We see this in blue states and red states
and purple states, across the political spectrum, she said.
She said DACA helps undocumented students succeed in school by helping them get
better jobs to pay for college. And the more
immigrants who are allowed to attend college,
the more legislators will see positive benefits for
communities, she said.
Cuadros said because Latino students are
one of the fastest-growing demographics in
North Carolinas population, the state and its
universities should be prepared to help Latino
students attend and graduate college.
Weve invested a lot of time and effort
and money into educating these young people, he said. When we deny young people
the chance to achieve bigger and better
things through higher education, were really
not getting a return on our investment. And
we could.
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