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By Hannah SmootAssistant University Editor
In November, Karen Gil, dean of theCollege of Arts and Sciences, said she
would step down from the position inMay of this year — but as classes startTuesday, Gil is still at the helm.
Gil will stay on as dean until January, which will give a search committee timeto consider a wide range of candidates,said Ron Strauss, the chairman of thecommittee.
“It’s been a pro-cess of being open to
input and not tryingto be in any haste,”Strauss said.
Gil was not avail-able for comment onthe search.
Strauss said thecommittee broke upover the summer and
will meet Thursday tofinalize a short list ofcandidates who will
visit the campus inSeptember.
According to the Wainstein reporton academic improprieties at theUniversity, Gil, who has served asdean since 2009, wasn’t aware of thefraudulent paper classes within theformer Department of African and
Afro-American Studies before a meet-ing with former department chair-man Julius Nyang’oro and Jonathan
By Acy JacksonAssistant University Editor
College students might face the threat ofsexual assault, armed robberies, gun violenceand other crimes. Alert systems, like AlertCarolina at UNC, are designed to keep stu-dents safe.
Alert Carolina relies on different Universityoffices, including Information Technology
Services and the Department of Public Safety, working together to respond to crises. In a life-threatening emergency, DPS can activate sirensacross campus.
“Then there’s a cascading chain of com-munications that follow that, but it starts withthe siren. The timely notification starts with atext message. The informational starts with theemail,” DPS Chief Jeff McCracken said.
To send out text and email notifications, DPSmust communicate with ITS. It’s this handoffthat went wrong after the armed robberies oncampus on July 22.
That night, information distributed through
Alert Carolina left students unsure of what wasgoing on or what to do.
“There was a communication issue,” saidSusan Kellogg, the associate vice chancellor
for ITS.“These tend to be complicated situations.”But Kellogg said work is being done to fix the
problem, and ITS is not ignoring the issues inthe system.
“We sit down and have a conversation,”Kellogg said. “This is a constant refinementprocess.”
The system is constantly adapting to new ways of communication and has gone from
brightly colored flyers to text messages andsocial media.
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‘STARTS WITH THE SIREN’Slow-goingsearch seesGil agree tostay to 2016Karen Gil’s replacement hasnot yet been found, and she
will stay until January.
Karen Gil is thecurrent dean ofthe College of Artsand Sciences. Sheplanned to stepdown in May.
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On Aug. 10, the Department of Public Safety held an emergency response drill after being criticized for a slow reaction to an armed robbery over the summer.
Communication failure to blame for July’s alert problems
SEE EMERGENCY, PAGE 5
ACADEMIC SCANDAL
SEE GIL, PAGE 5
K-12 funding up in the air as budget fight continues
By Marisa BakkerSenior Writer
The battle over the N.C. budget mayresult in a few casualties.
Legislators in Raleigh have been fight-ing to resolve the 2016 budget for almost50 days past the original deadline, said LeeRoberts, director of the state’s budget office.
The state’s fiscal year began on July 1, but lawmakers have been unable to reachan agreement and have instead passed twocontinuing resolutions, authorizing spend-ing at levels consistent with last year’s bud-get. The most recent was passed on Aug. 12,extending the budget deadline to Aug. 31.
“The problem with the continuing reso-lutions — although you certainly have tocontinue authorizing expenditures — isthat it creates havoc for public schoolsacross the state,” said Sen. Dan Blue,D-Wake, the N.C. Senate Democratic lead-er. “School will be starting in another week,
and many of them have no solid idea of what kind of funding they’re going to have.”
The budget debate is less about howmuch money to spend, but where to spend it,Roberts said. North Carolina spends a gooddeal of its budget on education, $4.2 billionof which is spent on the UNC system; $900million goes to UNC-Chapel Hill.
While competing proposals are rife with
conflict, funding for teaching assistants isperhaps the most contentious issue, saidSen. Joel Ford, D-Mecklenburg. The Senateproposal slashes funding for teacher’s aides— affecting more than 8,500 — and insteaddirects the money to reducing class sizes.
Several in the Senate and House haveargued that the Senate majority has simpli-fied the trade-off between teaching assis-tants and class size; both aim to give chil-dren the most personalized education.
“It’s a question of whether we believethat we ought to invest in the education ofour children — teacher’s assistants, smallerclass sizes and all of those things go hand inglove, and it’s a false dichotomy that there’sa choice between them,” he said. “This is aploy by the Senate leadership to justify the
lack of funding to teacher’s assistants.”Martinette Horner, the director of out-
reach for the UNC School of Education, saidsmaller class sizes don’t adequately addressthe nature of classroom needs.
“You have to take into consideration what happens to teachers’ ability to reachall students, who could be all over the placein terms of learning needs,” she said.
Despite concerns about teaching assis-tants, the General Assembly has reacheda consensus on other issues, includingincreasing pay for public educators to$35,000, Roberts said.
The final budget will require compro-mise, said Rep. Phil Shepard, R-Onslow.“It’s not going to be a House budget; it’s notgoing to be a Senate budget. It’s going to bea compromise somewhere in between, andI hope it’ll be the best for everyone in thestate,” he said.
“I’d rather wait a little later to makesure we get it right than do it wrong — butI want to be out of here before the firstCarolina football game.”
Gay marriage discouraged within American Indian tribes
Assembly debates the valueand role of teacher’s assistants.
By Hayley FowlerState and National Editor
Celebrations from this summer’slandmark decision on same-sexmarriage haven’t quite reached all
corners of the 50 states — specifi-cally American Indian lands.
Federally recognized tribes ableto self-govern aren’t subject to deci-sions like the U.S. Supreme Court’s5-4 vote to legalize same-sex mar-riage — one change they aren’t likelyto mirror in their own communities.
Many have passed laws prevent-ing same-sex marriages on triballands; other tribes still under federal
jurisdiction generally discourage it.
The Eastern Band of CherokeeIndians is the only federally rec-ognized tribe in North Carolina. Itpassed a law outlawing gay marriage
just after the 4th U.S. Circuit Courtof Appeals legalized it in NorthCarolina and several other states inOctober.
Tribe officials declined to com-ment about the law, but the ordi-nance in question calls homosexualrelations an “error,” citing a Bible
verse as evidence.East of the Cherokee reservation
lies Lumbee territory, home to thelargest Native American tribe inNorth Carolina.
Mary Ann Jacobs, chair of American Indian studies at thehistorically Native American UNC-Pembroke, said the majority of theLumbee are Baptist or Methodist.
“For most gay people in this com-munity, it’s pretty much a negative
experience,” she said.Jacobs, who is a member of the
Lumbee tribe, said tribes inter-nalized the harsh way Native
Americans were assimilated intoChristianity when European settlersfirst arrived. She said they’ve pro-
jected some of that oppression overtime in their interpretation of thereligion.
Christian beliefs reshapedold Native American viewson homosexuality, gender.
SEE NATIVE AMERICANS, PAGE 5
SOURCE: OFFICE OF STATE BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT
How do the proposed Senate and House
fiscal year budgets compare for 2015-16?
DTH/JOSE VALLE, MARISA BAKKER
Senate’s budget
$21.3 billionproposed general fund
$12 billionproposed for education
$251.3 millionfor UNC’s academic affairs
Education:
56.3 percent of
total budget
House’s budget
$22.3 billionproposed general fund
$12.1 billionproposed for education
$252.6 millionfor UNC’s academic affairs
Education:
54.3 percent of
total budget
Every year, the state budget starts with a governor's proposal. The House and Senate
both introduce their own versions — if they disagree, they go to conference.
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NC legislation: What you missed over the summerBy Corey Risinger
Assistant State & National Editor
Policy in the N.C. General Assembly likely s pent a b itmore time in the hospitalsthan you did over your sum-mer vacation.
In a summer session that was larg ely dedica ted todiscussions about redefiningthe state’s medical system to
better provide fo r patie ntsand to help avoid heftyfinancial burdens of theMedicaid program, two spe-
cific N.C. House bills standapart in their significance.
House Bill 465 stolesummer headlines with its
early potential for barringUNC-Chapel Hill and EastCarolina University healthcare facilities from conduct-ing abortions.
But Courtney Mitchell, aspokeswoman for the UNC
Women’s Options Clinic — which provides abortion careand services — said in anemail this is no longer a fea-ture included in the bill.
She asserts that the clinic will continue to functionunder all N.C. laws andregulations.
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By Lindsey BrunsonSenior Writer
The N.C. General Assemblypassed a law in June allowing mag-istrates to opt out of performingcivil marriages that require themto go against their religious beliefs— but law experts say it could beirrelevant.
Retired N.C. Supreme CourtJustice Robert Orr, who now
teaches law at UNC, said that statestatutes don’t actually require mag-istrates to perform marriages aspart of their duties.
“Frankly, I just think it’s thepolitical battle between those whohave supported gay marriage versusthose who have resisted it and sup-ported traditional marriage as theonly viable solution,” he said. “It’snot good law, it’s just politics.”
Orr said a more effective com-promise would be to allow allnotary publics — who are state-appointed impartial witnesses —toperform marriage ceremonies ifthey want to, allowing more peopleto officiate weddings.
As the law currently stands, gaycouples in rural areas where thereare fewer magistrates are at risk of
waiting an inordinate amount oftime for a judge to do it instead, saidUNC law school professor BarbaraFedders in an email.
The (Raleigh) News & Observerreported last month that 14 ofthe 672 magistrates in the statehave used the law, opting out of
performing any marriages for sixmonths.Supporters maintain the pur-
pose of the law is to protect theirFirst Amendment right to religiousexpression.
“I don’t think really any law cantrump the First Amendment andin the First Amendment a person isfree to express their religious beliefs,and that includes all parts of their
lives,” said Frank Pray, chairman ofthe UNC College Republicans.
But the law strikes a chord withcivil rights advocates who say itlegalizes discrimination — suchas Reverend Terence Leathers ofMount Vernon Christian Church inClayton.
“I always tell (my congregation)— and I tell everybody — that I amon a journey as it relates to under-standing the LGBTQ community,”he said. “I may not agree with every-thing, but I’m further along nowthan I was a few years ago because Iunderstand that you may have dis-agreements about the lifestyle, butultimately they are citizens.”
The N.C. American Civil LibertiesUnion has been at the forefront ofthe campaign against the magistraterecusal law. ACLU spokesman MikeMeno said they are willing to mounta case to overturn the law if couples
who have been denied a marriagelicense because of the law come for-
ward. None have as of yet.But Orr said the most effective
way to challenge the law might not
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By Ashlen RennerSenior Writer
As students begin the newsemester, they might see adivide among their profes-sors. Laptop policies in theclassroom vary.
Some professors ban theuse of laptops to eliminatestudents’ urges to check theirFacebook feed.
“In recent years, I’ve askedstudents not to use theirlaptops among other things
because of all the distrac-
tions associated with it,” saidKenneth Andrews, a sociol-ogy professor. “I’ve observedother faculty members’ class-es, and if you sit in the back ofthe class and see what’s on thescreens, you’ll see that not allare taking notes.”
Andrews said he has gone back and forth betweenallowing laptops and ban-ning them, now allowing hisupper-level sociology classesto use their laptops during
group work — but ultimatelyon rare occasions.
Though studies haveshown that handwriting notes
helps students retain moreinformation than typing,some professors have difficul-ty measuring whether gradeshave improved.
John McGowan, anEnglish professor, told stu-dents to shut down theirlaptops and other devices two
years ago and hasn’t looked back. He said his policy mightnot have necessarily improvedstudents’ grades, but itimproved their discussions.
“I’ve seen an improvementin conversation in class becauseeveryone is paying attention,”he said. “There’s no reason I
should go back … It changesthe dynamic of the classroom— there’s not that barrier of thescreens, so there’s much moreinterchange.”
Freshman Alexia Lucasplans to go into her first weekof classes with pencil andpaper in hand.
“I’m more of a paper-and-pencil type person,” she said.“I think laptops and technol-ogy is important now, but inclass, I prefer paper.”
Some professors allow stu-dents to use online programsduring class to enhance theirlearning. Statistics professor
Ed Carlstein started using WebAssign during the spr ingsemester in his introductoryclasses.
He posts two quizzes – oneat the beginning of class andone at the end — to keep stu-dents engaged. The WebAssignquizzes are worth 50 percent ofstudents’ final grades.
“I think not just the useof laptops but the use of
WebAssign is an aspect oftechnology that is helpful,”
he said. “Instead of assigninghomework and grading it andgetting it back a week later, youget feedback instantaneously.”
Carlstein said his new sys-tem has improved performancein class because students knowto prepare for the openingquizzes and listen in class toprepare for the exit quiz.
“Without technology, there would be no way to imple-ment that structure,” hesaid. “I would have so muchquizzes to write and grade; it
would be impossible.”
Laptop use required in certain classes, forbidden in othersA study published in
April said handwriting
notes helps learning.
Marquise Williams remains hungry
By Pat JamesSports Editor
Marquise Williams says he has never lackedconfidence.
And a year removed from setting 18 schoolrecords as a junior, the quarterback’s assur-ance in himself as well as his teammates might
be at an all-time high.“He’s a lot more confident than normal,”
said senior receiver Damien Washington about Williams, a fifth-year senior. “He’s trying tolead and be more positive this year.”
Before reaching this stage in his career, Williams’ conviction was tested. Once a highlytouted recruit, he waited his turn to see thefield. And after withdrawing from school
in the spring of 2013 for academic reasons,another obstacle stood in his path.But his steadfast confidence in the face
of such adversity allowed him to attain theleadership role he now holds as the Tar Heelsprepare for the 2015 season.
After redshirting in 2011, Williams saw lim-ited action in 2012, playing in nine games asa backup. But before spring practices in 2013,he left UNC and returned to his Charlottehome after underperforming in the classroom.
“When I was kicked out of school, I had tothink about how much football really meansto me,” he said. “Being away from those guys,getting up at 5 o’clock in the morning, and I’mstill sitting there like, ‘Man, I’m not with myteam.’ That kind of put a hurt to my heart.”
When he returned to the team in fall 2013, Williams reclaimed his backup role. But afterquarterback Bryn Renner suffered a season-
ending injury, Williams became the starter.He led UNC to four wins in six starts,including a win over Cincinnati in the BelkBowl. Despite his performance, he entered thespring of 2014 competing for the starting job.
Williams ultimately edged Mitch Trubiskyand finished the season second in the ACC
with 3,856 total yards of offense.He says he has learned to be a team player,
which is evident in the praise he has heaped
DTH/TYLER VAHAN
“I still have that mindset of going out and competing,” said quarterback Marquise Williams, right. “You can never be satisfied just knowing you’re the one.”
Fifth-year QBcontinues to show
signs of maturation
on his offensive line and running backsthrough training camp thus far. And he onlycontinues to grow.
“He makes mistakes just like everybodyelse,” Coach Larry Fedora said. “But how hedeals with them has changed, and that comesthrough maturity, the way he leads this foot-
ball team, everything.“(Williams) has been extremely positive in
everything we’ve done every single day.”
Williams is also focusing on not trying todo too much, as he admits he did a seasonago when he unabashedly threw his 6-foot-2,225-pound frame around the field en route torushing for a team-best 788 yards.
Although he is entrenched as UNC’s starterand says he is healthier now than he has beensince his sophomore year of high school,
Williams keeps his confidence in check.“I still have that mindset of going out and
competing,” he said. “You can never be satisfied just knowing you’re the one. So I come out everyday hungry like I was two years ago and last year.
“It’s fun when you’re competing. It’s not fun when something is handed to you.”
Senior writer Mohammed Hedadjicontributed reporting.
By Stephanie LammAssistant City Editor
After backlash for the name“Crepe Culture,” co-owners Sree
Valluru and Suvidha Kovuri changedthe name of their Franklin Streetrestaurant to “Crepe Traditions.”
“It was brought to our attentionthat the name caused concern forcertain groups,” Valluru said.
“Comments on social media madeus think that a name change would
be a good idea.” Valluru said the original name,
“Crepe Culture,” was chosen to
emphasize how crepes can becomepart of a regional culture.
Valluru, who has lived in manyFrench-dominated cultures, saidhe has seen how crepes are a staplefood in French cuisine. In choosingthe new name, Valluru and Kovuri
wanted to keep this same spirit.“Crepes are an important food,
culturally, and we wanted to keep inmind the history of the crepe in thename,” Valluru said.
The name change has delayed therestaurant’s opening date. The 140
W. Franklin St. location, formerlyGigi’s Cupcakes, was supposed to
open at the beginning of July, butthe owners say they now expect toopen toward the end of August or
early September once health inspec-tions are completed.
Crepe Traditions will servesweet and savory crepes,Intelligentsia brand coffee, beer,
wine and soda. Most cre pes willcost between $8 and $10. Therestaurant will be open from 11a.m. until 10 p.m. Monday throughSaturday and from 11 a.m. until 6p.m. on Sunday.
“It will be a simple menu withgreat taste, and the restaurant’s loca -tion has many sophisticated designaspects,” Valluru said.
Valluru said the open-kitche n
restaurant will be high-end butlaid back enough for students tofrequent.
“It will look like a cool hangoutspace for students to have crepesand coffee with their friends,”Kovuri said.
Junior Kendall Medford saidshe didn’t find the original nameoffensive.
“I think changing the nameis a bit too politically correct,”Mudford said. “The initial name
was catc hier, but I guess pe ople onsocial media can see the offense inanything.”
Taylor Aliano, a junior, hasnever had a crepe but said she
would be open to try ing the food at
Crepe Traditions.“Crepe Culture is a good name
because of the alliteration,” Aliano
said. “I don’t think they had tochange it.”
The restaurant will not deliver, but Crepe Traditions will caterevents by making fresh crepes onsite using portable crepe grills.Though the restaurant missedmove-in business, they plan to reachout to student organizations andcater campus events.
The Chapel Hill restaurant isCrepe Traditions’ first location,
but the b usiness is availa ble forfranchise.
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Crepe Culture rebrands as Crepe Traditions
Validity of opt-out marriage license law debatedProponents invoke officials’First Amendment rights.
Critics cite discrimination.
The restaurant ’s initial July grand opening date
was pushed to September.
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Anti-gay marriage advocates speak at Charlotte Pride 2015. Current legislation
allows magistrates to cite religious beliefs to refuse same-sex marriage licenses.
be taking it directly to court.“I’d say spend your money
expanding and modifying the lawas to who performs marriage cer-emonies,” he said. “That’s whereI would focus my efforts, not on
spending a lot of money on attorneyfees challenging a law that franklydidn’t seem to me that even neededto be passed.”
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“The technologies availableto us today are different thanthe technologies that wereavailable to us seven or eight
years ag o, and th ey’re di f-ferent than the technologiesthat will be available to us ina decade,” said DPS spokes-man Randy Young.
Even with moderniza-tions, the system sometimesfails.
DPS is looking to makecommunication smootherand reduce human error inthe alert system.
“Quite frankly, the fewerhuman interactions thatare required in the systemreduce potential errors,”McCracken said.
Young and McCrackenexplained that throughoutthe year, DPS runs various
types of emergency drills,including tabletop exercisesand real-life drills, and holdsmeetings with ITS to ensurethat they are constantlyupdating and streamliningcommunication.
Winston Crisp, vice cha n-cellor for student affairs,said he understands AlertCarolina is still a work inprogress and continues to beupdated.
“There’s no system that isperfect,” Crisp said.
“That’s why you’re con-stantly testing. That’s why
you consta ntly lea rn fromthings that happen, andeven when you have a sys-
tem that’s in place, some-times stuff doesn’t work.People are human and makemistakes; sometimes what
you think an outcom e isgoing to be isn’t the outcome
you get.”Crisp said the traumatic
toll that emergency situ-ations take on students iscomplex but not impossibleto deal with.
He explained that thereis no easy way to fix every
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problem, but the University’sresponse focuses on havingpeople in place and payingattention to what studentsneed.
“It’s not rocket science;it’s not like there’s a button
that you can push to sort offix everything. We just haveto make sure that we’re pay-ing attention, that all theresources that we have avail-able that we make sure thatpeople know they’re there,”Crisp said.
“We have to encourageeverybody — from the RAsto the staff of the residencehall to faculty members andeverybody else — to be pay-ing attention and listeningto students and providingtime for students.”
Crisp and the DPS offi-cials said constantly improv-ing Alert Carolina is essen-tial to keep students safe
and informed.“The real key is you have
to figure out what happened,and then you have to fix itso that it doesn’t happenagain,” Crisp said.
Hartlyn, senior associate deanfor social sciences and globalprograms, in 2011.
Upon learning of theirregularities, Gil conducted areview of the department andcalled for Nyang’oro’s resigna-tion, the report said.
Strauss said candidates areaware of the academic-athlet-ic scandal, but it hasn’t been amain issue of the search.
“Though they are aware ofthe challenges we’ve faced,they seem to be drawn to ourstrengths and to creating asituation in which they canposition us for the future,and that’s of course what we
want,” he said.The committee is working
with the search firm RussellReynolds Associates.
Strauss said the University
is paying the firm one-thirdof the new dean’s first yeartotal compensations, includ-ing projected bonuses, at aminimum of $60,000 plusexpenses, including travel.
Contracts with the firmobtained through a publicrecord request, however, statethe retainer with the searchfirm is $95,000 with an addi-tional multipurpose expenseaccount of up to $7,500.
Jett Pihakis, head of thesearch for Russell Reynolds,
said the firm’s key role is togo out and recruit candi-dates, as well as help withlogistics, reference checksand verifying candidates’
backgrou nds.“Occasionally you do get a
very strong candidate apply-ing from an advertisement,
but the strength of the poolis much, much greater when
you have someone actively
recruiting for the role,”Pihakis said.
Current Student BodyPresident Houston Summers,also a member of the searchcommittee, said he thinksaffordability is a priority forundergraduate students andhopes this will be on the m indof Gil’s eventual replacement.
“When our univer-sity becomes unaffordable, it
becomes a very homogenousplace,” Summers said.
Strauss, echoing other
members of the committee, isoptimistic about the search.
“I have great confidencethat the process — the wayit’s been constructed — willfind us an outstanding deanfor the College of Arts andSciences, and that we willhave choices, and that’s agreat thing,” Strauss said.
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Summer reading book spurs conversation
By Trevor LenzmeierStaff Writer
Incoming freshmen usheredin the new school year yester-day afternoon as they met withfellow students, faculty andstaff to discuss this year’s sum-mer reading selection, “JustMercy” by Bryan Stevenson,
who visited UNC’s campus todiscuss his book with studentsat Memorial Hall.
The memoir chroniclesStevenson’s work as a capitaldefender for his own legalnonprofit, Equal JusticeInitiative, in Alabama. Headvocated on behalf of impov-erished, disadvantaged andmistreated clients facing an
oft-prejudiced justice system.Stevenson’s powerful,
personal account of his workdetails cases in which he foughtto provide a voice for accused
persons who often wereassumed guilty the momentthey came to trial. Withoutmeans to defend themselves,many of Stevenson’s clients
were powerless.For Frank Baumgartner,
head of the book selectioncommittee, Stevenson’s empa -thy transcends the specificcircumstances of those whomhe represented.
“It’s definitely not some-thing I expect an incomingstudent would have anypersonal knowledge of, butcompassion for those who arepowerless and the recognitionof their humanity is very pow-erful,” Baumgartner said.
Incoming students weretasked with taking on thechallenging read and articu-lating their own reactions toit in private discussions acrosscampus Monday afternoon.
In one discussion room,
Chancellor Carol Folt andStudent Body PresidentHouston Summers joined stu-dents as they interacted withand challenged one another’s
ideas of justice, compassionand recovery.
“The discussion has been very honest,” Folt said.
“It’s why I love being atChapel Hill, but also why Ilove being in higher educa-
tion. You see people learnthings. You see it on theirfaces, and you can hear thatgrowth of thought.”
Stevenson, who made TimeMagazine’s “The 100 MostInfluential People” of 2015,addressed his audience withhumor and charm, despitethe grave subject matter hecombats.
Stevenson relayed storiesof unrepresented prisonersand the profound influencetheir pain has had on him,and he urged his audience tochange “the narrative of racialdifference” he believes hasdefined American society forcenturies.
Stevenson, who is black,said that his parents werehumiliated every day of theirlives, and he told a recentanecdote about a judge order-
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Summer reading books over the yearsRecent books assigned for the Carolina Summer Reading Program have included the works of Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Nicholas
Carr and Jonathan Safran Foer. The 2015 assignment, “Just Mercy,”was picked by a panel of faculty, staff and students.
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UNC senior and Lumbeetribe member HarleyLocklear, who also belongsto Carolina Indian Circleand Phi Sigma Nu, said theLumbee practice “old-school”Christianity.
“That’s all due to colonial-ism,” he said. “It’s pretty muchtaught from a young age thathomosexuality is a sinfulthing.”
But Jacobs said that nega-tive perception within tribes
hasn’t been a fixture of theirhistory.
She said American Indianliterature across the UnitedStates points to a sense ofacceptance; native commu-nities recognized up to sixgenders prior to Europeancontact.
“I can’t say for sure thatpeople conceptualized homo-sexuality the same way we donow,” she said. “We’re talkingabout different cultures, andsexuality is influenced by cul-ture a lot.”
Much of the historical
documentation availabletoday stems from tribes inthe Midwest, Jacobs said, asmany eastern tribes weren’tdocumented during early,often violent, encounters withEuropeans.
Documents point to theconcept of “two-spirited”people, which refers toandrogynous or potentiallytransgender people who wereoften given special roles intheir tribes, she said.
“It doesn’t really speak tosexual orientation, althoughthat’s what we’ve come to
know it as now,” she said.Locklear said tribes from
the western United Statesheld on to those ideas longerthan others.
“We kind of took a stepaway from that due to theimposition of Christianity andcolonialism,” he said. “It’s sortof making a comeback withinthe native community.”
Kerry Bird, a 1986 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate who
worked with the University, was born to a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate father anda Lumbee mother. Though
registered as a member of hisfather’s tribe, he grew up inthe Lumbee community.
As a gay Native American,Bird, 53, said the two tribeshave different relationships
with religion and differentapproaches to homosexuality.
Bird said his father’s SouthDakota tribe has explic-itly recognized two-spiritedpeople, making acceptancesomewhat easier.
“That type of acknowl-edgement that they have… I would find a lot harderto imagine in the Lumbee
community here in NorthCarolina,” he said.
But Bird said he’s had somerecognition from his mother’stribe; the pastor at herfuneral mentioned she waspreceded in death by her son-in-law, Bird’s late partner.
Both sides of Bird’s familyhave been accepting, he said.They treat his current partnerlike a member of the family.
“My nieces and nephews,they call him Uncle Ken,”Bird said.
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ing him out of the courtroom
until his lawyer arrived.Stevenson’s message was
still hopeful. “I don’t think we can change the world if we’re too far away from the
problems we want to solve.
We have to be the peoplegoing toward the problems,not running away from them,”he said.
“We change the world not
just by the ideas in our mind,
but when the ideas in ourmind are fueled by a desire inour hearts.”
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Q&A with Confederate history scholar Fitzhugh Brundage is a
UNC history professor who focuses on American historysince the Civil War. His mostrecent research focuses onwhite and black historicalmemory in the South since the
conflict. Daily Tar Heel staffwriter Audrey Wells spoke with Brundage on Confederate mon-uments in North Carolina.
The Daily Tar Heel: What aresome of the more notableCivil War and Confederatemonuments in your opinion?
Fitzhugh Brudange: There aretwo confederate memorialson the state capitol grounds,so that’s a very conspicuousspot. Silent Sam is obviouslyone of the most conspicuous inthe state, both because it is sofamous but also because of itslocation on the campus. Theflagship university makes it
very prominent. This is a state with almost no Civil War battlesites, unlike a state like Virginiaor Tennessee, so we don’t have
very many spaces in the statethat are dense with monu-ments from the Civil War.
DTH: Are these monumentsmore historically crucial thanthe Confederate flag, espe-cially with the debate aroundthe Confederate flag in SouthCarolina?
FB: If the Confederate battleflag is taken down, it’s a very
important political statement,a very important develop-ment, but, in terms of what I’llcall historical preservation, itdoesn’t make any difference atall. Monuments, on the otherhand, are artifacts which I
have no issue with a major-ity of people in a community
wanting to move a monumentor remove a monument or toerect more monuments. Butof course, I hope they will pre-serve the monument itself insome way because (it is) a his-torical artifact. It’s interesting
who erected it, how they raisedthe money for it and what theyerected it for. I would rathersee it preserved than destroyed,
but that’s separate and apartfrom removing it.
DTH: Do these monumentshave any effect on the hate
versus heritage debate?
FB: I think the monumentshave become convenienttouchstones for a much largerargument. The landscape ofNorth Carolina is dotted withConfederate memorials andmemorials to Confederateleaders. There is a dearthof monuments to women,
African-Americans, Native Americans, to any of the sig-nificant minorities in this state.So I think the monuments
become a very convenient sym- bol of the kind of exclusionaryhistory that the creators ofthe monuments intentionally
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Workers clean the Silent Sam memorial on campus after it was vandalized in July. The memorial was painted with “black lives matter.”
tried to create. If, somehow,some sort of racial utopia hademerged after the destructionof Jim Crow, I don’t think we
would be having this debate atall. But in a society that is still
ridden with race, these monu-ments are a symbol of someof those divides. We would bedebating the same issues withdifferent targets were there anabsence of these monuments.I should add though, afterthe Charleston shootings, thesymbols of the Confederacy
have taken on a new, taintedheritage.
DTH: What is your opinion
on the proposal in the N.C.House of Representatives to
ban the removal of all histori-cal monuments?
FB: I think it is a badlyconceived effort that is a curi-ous, dramatic, unprecedentedexpansion of state authority.
The state legislature has shown virtually no interest in publicart in this state ever. The statelegislature didn’t fund these
monuments, with few excep-tions. Silent Sam was notfunded by the state. It’s on stateproperty, but it was donated.The state legislature has never
been interested whether monu-ments have been moved in thepast. So it’s a curious exampleof a conservative legislature
exerting authority to controlcommunity decisions.
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The $15 million renova-tions to Hill Hall’s audito-rium have altered the dailyroutine for music studentsand faculty alike.
“A lot of activities thatpeople are used to seeing anddoing have to be moved fora year for construction,” saidTonu Kalam, music directorand conductor of the UNCSymphony Orchestra.
The plans for the renova -tions were put forth due tothe old age of the building,among other reasons.
“It was never designedacoustically to be a perfor-mance space,” professor
Louise Toppin, chairwomanof the Department of Music,said in an email. “And itlacks air conditioning, whichrendered it useless in warm
weather.”The auditorium opened
in 1907 as Carnegie Library before it was converted into a
performance space.Construction will complete-
ly redesign the auditoriumacoustically and update heat-ing and cooling capacities.
“All of our students, facultyand guests will have a state-of-the-art concert space, andthe areas surrounding it will
be what one expects whenthey attend an event on theUNC campus,” Jeffrey Fuchs,director of University bands,said in an email.
In addition to the state-of-the-art auditorium, the
building’s classrooms w illalso be modernized.
“The classrooms will get an
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Hill Hall, which first opened in 1907 as a library, is undergoing
a $15 million renovation to its rotunda and auditorium.
ter spaces to examine, inspireand produce creative work.
The people most affected will be those already involved with UNC’s music program,Kalam said.
“The incoming students
won’t know what it used to be like,” Kalam said. “I don’tthink they’ll be disoriented
because they won’t have anypoint of reference.”
Monthslong work will
add air conditioning
and update acoustics.
“This renovation supports the excellence ofthe music program faculty and students …” Louise Toppin,professor and chairwoman of the music department
upgrade and get more up-to-date technology,” Kalam said.
“I think (the renova -tions) will help our faculty
who teach the music th eoryclasses because they will havemore equipment.”
The renovations, whichstarted at the beginning ofsummer and are scheduledto finish in September 2016,mean that offices, classesand lessons have moved toKenan Music Building andPerson Hall.
“We have also relocated allof our inventory to a storagefacility off campus,” Fuchssaid. “It will require us to planahead a little more, and weknow that we will need 30
minutes to make a trip to thestorage facility if necessary.”
Part of the building is stillusable during construction, butthe closing of the back entrancehas limited access to Hill Hall.
Faculty are confident the benefits of the renovation willoutweigh the construction’sinconveniences.
“This renovation sup-ports the excellence of themusic program faculty andstudents and will allow usto provide even better pro-gramming and classes forthe University community,”Toppin said.
Toppin said the renovatedauditorium will provide themusic department with bet-
UNC spends $15M on Hill Hall renovations
Local startups get a little help taking off SWAP Socks
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The reason people wearmismatched socks could be moreimportant than it appears thanksto SWAP Socks, a company that
purposefully mismatches its socksto encourage discussion aboutvisual impairment.
“Our socks function as a wearable statement to showsupport for sight,”founder Roger Nahum said.
Nahum said the company’s partnership with the SevaFoundation, an organization that delivers eye care servicesto people in developing countries, allows the firm to pro-vide eye care to those most in need.
From Piedmont vegetablesto southeastern North Carolinablueberries, farmers across theestate offer a wide variety ofproduce, and Seal the Seasons isproviding them year-round.
“We worked with these farmsto freeze, market and distribute their food to allow NorthCarolinians to eat their food all year round and, in turn, sup-port these small family farms all year round,”Mateer said.
Customers can find Seal the Seasons’frozen producenow at Weaver Street Market. Mateer said the company isworking to get its product into more locations.
Every car wash generates 45gallons of wasted water, but agroup of UNC undergraduates ischanging the game with theirnew car-washing system.
Using a specially designedchemical solution, Waterless
Buddy’s provides drivers with an eco-friendly solution.“We have eliminated the water, the bucket and hose.
Everything is all in one,”co-founder Austin Helms said.Helms, a business major, said the company’s product
could provide a vital solution for people in areas prone todroughts who still want to keep their cars clean.
BlipMe offers users the chanceto share their real-time locationsso that a busy night out doesn’tturn into a lost night out.
“BlipMe is all about makingthe going-out experience simpler,safer and also just a lot more fun,”
founder Ricky McMahon said.“The app is built around that and offers features that
will improve your social experience.”A Kenan-Flagler Business School MBA candidate,
McMahon said the app is currently available on iOS and willbe available on Android within the next few months.
After taking a year off fromUNC to build data analyticssoftware, Simon Jung and hisco-founder Akash Ganapathi areeager to launch their startup.
“Basically, we mine a lot ofunstructured news sources like
The New York Times, StockTwits and Twitter about financialsecurities — in this case stocks — as well as quarterly fil-ings that the companies submit to the SEC,”Jung said.
Designed to help asset managers, the app compiles,analyzes and outputs data for the financial professionals tobetter look after their money.
Designed to help sales orga-nizations improve what they do,Tribal Intel works backwards, tak-ing customer engagements and
feedback to figure out the key toa company’s success.But company CEO and Kenan-
Flagler alumnus Scott King said Tribal Intel offers some-thing new to customers: efficiency.
“There’s no one really in the marketplace that does whatwe do, because in one fell swoop, we are combining thesales process, sales training, marketing content as well assales content in one location,”King said.
After founding TextileSolutions in the summer of 2014,Kenan-Flagler MBA candidateDaniel Almirall is ready to give ithis full attention.
Textile Solutions works withmanufacturing companies within
the plastics and textile industries to help them recycle theirwaste either internally or externally in order to increasetheir efficiency and sustainability.
“It’s been pretty low-touch, but now that I’ve made thecommitment to Launch, I’m hoping to invest a lot more intoit,”Almirall said.
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Earlier this month, seven startups joinedaccelerator program Launch Chapel Hill tohelp get their businesses off the ground.
The 22-week program is designed to givethe budding firms structure and guidance asthey work to turn their ideas into sustainable
businesses.“Starting a business is a lot of work,” said
Patrick Mateer, UNC alumnus and CEO of par-ticipating company Seal the Seasons. “They arehelping us grow in a sustainable, healthy way.”
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By Colleen MoirSenior Writer
For UNC students, UNC-themed emojis were some-
what limited, with the blueheart and two little rams asthe only options for fans toshow their digital school spir-it in text messages and socialmedia — until now.
The Department of Athletic s has dev elopedeight UNC-themed emojistickers available for down-load on iOS and Androiddevices. In order to use the
emojis, users must downloadthe images to the cameraroll, after which they caninsert them as images intotext fields.
Lynnea Phillips, social
media coordinator for theathletic department, said shecame up with the idea forthe stickers, and the depart-ment’s design intern, seniorKeely McKenzie, spent anafternoon designing them.Phillips said about 20 min-utes were spent designingeach sticker.
“We’re really taking a cuefrom the professional sportsteams,” Phillips said. “It’s
becomin g a trend. I thi nk we’ll definitel y see more not just scho ols but o rganiza-tions making (the stickers).
Right now it’s mainly foot- ball and basebal l that hav ereally embraced it besidescolleges.”
Phillips said so far theUniversity of Nebraska and
Mississippi State Universityhave released similar emojistickers available for download.
“We wanted to jump onthat trend and give back toour fans,” Phillips said. “Weknow the things we do ondigital and social media arereally important, and we
wanted to do something newand interesting and cool.”
Freshman Morgan Holder was impressed by the newstickers, but she said shemight not use them untilthey’re easier to access.
“Downloading them
sounds like a lot of effort, but if they were more conve-nient, I’d definitely use them,”Holder said.
Phillips said the emojisare offered as downloadable
images instead of a keyboardlike the one traditionalemojis are offered on to savemoney.
“We were able to make theseon the cheap,” Phillips said.
Phillips said it would have been mo re expe nsive t o offerthe emojis through an appli-cation, but offering themas images on the athleticdepartment website was afree option.
Senior Will Jarvis said hethought the stickers were acool idea, but he probably
wouldn’t use them.“It’s probably too much
time to actually go in the browser and download the
emojis,” Jarvis said.Phillips said another setof the emojis will be com-ing out soon after her officereceives feedback on thefirst set.
“We’ve had people respondand ask why certain things
weren’t included, and wetook suggestions,” Phillipssaid. “We had a few ask aboutsome of the more popularemoji faces, like sassy girl andthe heart eyes. It was great tohear feedback and build offof that.”
Junior Nick Bui liked thestickers but said he also proba-
bly wouldn’t use them himself.
The emojis must bedownloaded to the
camera roll first.
UNC emojis get lukewarm reaction
“I don’t use emojis veryoften, so it’s not for me,” Buisaid. “But I could see somepeople using them.”
Phillips said she’s excitedfor the opportunities the stick-ers will offer UNC athletics.
“We think this is a cool wayto increase our brand andgive the fans a new way toshare our new look and feel,”Phillips said.
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UNC rolls out eight new emoji-based stickersThe Department of Athletics based some of the characters on commonly used emojis
revamped with UNC-themed colors, while the department designed others off
UNC-specific themes like Stuart Scott’s well-known exclamation “boo-yah.”
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Charlton Warren is the UNC football team’s new defensive backs coach. Warren spent several years coaching at the Air Force Academy.
By C Jackson CowartAssistant Sports Editor
Charlton Warren respectedNorth Carolina head coachLarry Fedora from themoment he met him.
That was in 1997 — when Warren was a 20-yea r-old defensive back at the
Air Force Academy a ndFedora was the Falcons’passing game coordinator.Fedora spent just two yearsin Colorado Springs, but
Warren admired th e coach’sfocused and fiery demeanorlong after he left.
So when Fedora came call-ing 18 years later, offering
Warren the opportunity to become the Tar Heels’ newdefensive backs coach, the38-year-old couldn’t resist
joining forces once again.“He’s a coach you want to
be around,” Warren said.
“Whatever he’s asking hisassistants to be doing, tooutwork him is going to behard. And that’s the thing
you love about h im. It’sgoing to be hard to outwork
your hea d coach .”If anybody can, it’s Warren.The new UNC assistant
coach has been hailed for hisrelentless work ethic, and theproof is on the field.
In Warren’s lone season with Nebraska in 2014, theHuskers’ defense placedfourth in the nation in passefficiency defense. And in hisprevious nine years coachingthe secondary at Air Force— including six seasons as
the Falcons’ defensive coor-
we were making a ch ange,”Fedora said. “There was justa sense of change and a senseof excitement.”
This season, Warren will be tasked with improving adefensive unit that ranked101st in passing yards allowedand 115th in passing efficien-cy defense in 2014.
But for a secondary stacked
with capable young talent,
(are) consequences to thoseactions,” Warren said. “Youdon’t get playing time until
we do it the way we want it to be done.
“It’s good to try hard, butat some point you’ve got to
produce.” Warren is no stranger to
production. Under his watch,the Falcons went to six bowlgames during his nine-yearcoaching tenure.
In addition to his coach-ing success, the Air Forcealumnus guided his almamatter to two straight10-win seasons and theironly outright conferencetitle in 1998, when his team-mates bestowed upon himthe Mr. Intensity Award.
As a coach, Warren stillhasn’t lost his fire.
“The whole defensive staffis bringing the energy,” said
junior safety Dominquie
Green. “We’re just receivingthe energy off of them, andit’s pushing us.”
It’s the same energy thatfueled another defensive
back nea rly two decades a go, when Fedora was the disci-plinarian and Warren wasthe disciple.
“He leads these guys theright way,” said Warren of hisformer coach. “He makes surethey toe the line and do whathe asks them to do.
“(Fedora) sets a standardfor the coaches and the play-ers,” he said.
It’s a standard that Warrenis fit to maintain.
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dinator — his squad finishedin the top six in the nationin pass defense three times,including second in 2010.
With such a pedigree ofsuccess, it’s no surprise thatFedora turned to his one-time player to change theculture of a struggling lastline of defense.
“It started back when the
announcement was made that
Tar Heels secondary gets new top commander
the difference between victoryand defeat could come downto some old-fashioned, milita-ristic discipline.
“He’s a great technician,”said junior cornerback Brian
Walker of his new leader.“We all have talent, but we allknow it takes more than thatto be successful at this level.
“He’s hard on us, and that’s
what we all needed.”
Warren knew when heaccepted the UNC job thathis new secondary was indesperate need of focus andaccountability.
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first quarter of each calen-dar (year) for both footballand basketball, so we’re
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Player jerseys could be o≠ shelves soonBy Cole del Charco
Staff Writer
Marcus Paige’s No. 5Carolina Blue basketball jer-seys have flown off retailers’shelves the last two years, butnext year, jersey selection may
be limited.Several Division I univer-
sities, including Ohio StateUniversity, the University ofNebraska and the Universityof Miami adopted new jerseysale policies this summer.This comes a year after a
California district judgeruled that NCAA athleteshave a right to earn moneyfrom the use of their like-nesses and names in televi-sion and video games.
The universities’ newpolicies are meant to prohibit
jerseys with prominent play -ers’ numbers from being sold.Instead, jerseys with genericnumbers — typically thenumber one and the last twodigits of the year — will besold to fans.
This year, UNC featuredthe numbers 1 and 15 on
billboa rds and in jerseymodeling, but UNC StudentStores and Franklin Streetshops still sell jerseys withpopular athletes’ numbersprinted on them. That maychange next year as UNCfollows other universities’responses to court rulings,
Brad Ives, associate vicechancellor for campusenterprise, said.
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UNC might enact a policy that prohibits jerseys with prominent players’ numbers from being sold.
already locked in for whatthose numbers are going to
be,” he said. “We’ll h ave adifferent policy in place fornext year.”
But the specifics of that pol-icy are still under discussion.
“We are currently discuss-ing with (the office of trade-marks and licensing) whatour policies and procedures
will be moving forward,” RickSteinbacher, senior associateathletic director for externalcommunications, said. “We’vetalked about it for a numberof years.”
Steinbacher said he doesnot know whether genericnumbers would change jerseysales, but he said he thought
jerseys would continue to sell
well because of the school’sathletic tradition. Steinbacherplayed football at UNC andsaid he would have beenthrilled to see fans wearinghis number.
But jersey numbers soldin UNC Student Stores arechosen by the manufacturer,not by the school. Becausethe jerseys sell throughStudent Stores, any residualfunds from these sales go tonon-athletic need- and merit-
based scholarships.“Nike always decides what
the numbers are,” DawnColclough, a clothing receiverand stocker at UNC Student
Stores, said.Basketball jerseys cur-
rently being sold online inStudent Stores include jerseyNos. 2 and 5, while a No. 3football jersey is also avail-able. The jerseys correspond
with the numbers o f JoelBerry II, Paige and RyanSwitzer, respectively.
Colclough said players havea sense of pride when theysee their numbers for sale ona jersey.
“In the past I’ve seen theplayers themselves come by,and I can tell that they likeseeing their jerseys beingsold,” she said.
Steve Kirschner, seniorassociate athlete director forcommunications, said he did
not know if UNC would fol-low its peer institutions andchange its jersey policy in thenear future.
UNC fans will get at leastanother year to wear thesame number on their backsas their favorite players,
but tighter regulations willcontinue to change the land-scape of player representa-tion in retailers.
Ives declined to commentabout whether the Universityprofits directly from studentathletes by selling jerseys withtheir numbers.
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By Rebecca BricknerSenior Writer
The beginnings and endsof semesters are marked bymany things: stress, a flurryof hasty packing and oftenpiles of furniture and Wal-Mart rugs being thrown away.
Sensing a need for aCraigslist-like marketplace,two Duke alumni have cre-ated The Campus Market, amore sustainable way for stu-dents to discard their items.
“At the end of each school year as an undergrad, Inoticed that there were gentlyused items left at the curb-side, and I wouldn’t really getthe full-dollar amount of useout of things like textbooks,”said co-founder Brad Stinson.
“Essentially, tons and tonsof furniture and items are dis-carded by university students,so we’re going to universitiesand reaching out to sustain-ability departments to estab-lish ourselves as a service for
students to use.”Launched earlier this year,
the startup has already seengrowth with 22 college cam-puses on the east coast. Morethan 18,000 students havesigned up for the free service.
The burgeoning businesshas a growing presence oneight campuses in NorthCarolina: UNC-Chapel Hill,
Wake Forest University, DukeUniversity, UNC-Wilmington,East Carolina University,
Appalachian State University, Western Carolina Universityand N.C. State University.
Unlike Craigslist, an openmarket with no safety checks,Stinson’s market requires anemail address ending in “.edu”and subsequent verification.
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And users have noticed theextra safety measures.
“Craigslist can be a littlesketchy when you don’t know
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Second chance for end-of-semester stuff
MFA grad crowdfunds to spend month in Iceland
By Christine Bang
Staff Writer
Nowadays it costs mostartists more money to pur-chase supplies for their workthan they can earn from it.
Sydney Steen, a 2015 gradu-ate of UNC’s studio art master’sprogram, turned to crowd-funding to pay for her artistresidency program in Iceland,
which she completed in June.For every donation — and
so far she’s raised nearly$2,300 — she’s sending aone-of-a-kind drawing toher donors.
Steen said she felt inspiredand connected to her environ-ment in Iceland.
“I’m interested in seeinghow the landscape reflects alot of our internal thoughtsand experiences,” she said.
She and three other art-ists hiked to a mountainpeak in Gullkistan, Iceland,for the summer solstice, anIcelandic tradition.
“The top was a field ofice and freezing. It was acompletely different world,”Steen said.
A testament to her growthas an artist, she created draw-ings of fictional landscapesinspired by Iceland ratherthan painting exactly whatshe saw.
“As the glacier is reced-ing, the lagoon gets bigger,and iceberg chunks comeoff,” said Steen. “It was really
beautiful, but then you real-ize it’s so beautiful becausethe glaciers are receding,
which is really bittersw eet.”The director of graduate
studies of studio practice,elin o’Hara slavick (whoprefers her name spelledlowercase), got to know Steen
well through the master’sprogram.
“She’s a thoughtful, ethical
and a generous, good person,”slavick said. “She was inter-ested in other people’s workas with her own.”
Slavick said that in her 21 years of teaching, Steen wasone of her most hardworkingstudents, referencing Steen’sdrive to push herself and cre-ate something new by experi-menting with different mediaand materials.
“We were really fortunateto be in this program thathad a lot of really amaz-ing artists and people,” said
Allison Tierne y, another 2015program graduate.
“Everyone was there tosupport one another.”
Eleven people were inSteen and Tierney’s graduat-ing class; both said it was atight-knit, supportive com-munity of artists.
Steen hadn’t alwaysplanned on pursuing art asa career.
But that changed in herearly college years withencouragement from profes-
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Sydney Steen’s residency professor nominated her “Most Likely to
Kiss an Iceberg.” She spent one month in Iceland this year.
Sydney Steen wasinspired by country ’s
‘different world.’
“As the glacieris receding, thelagoon gets bigger,and ic
