PAIGE CLAN BONDS OVER SWEET 16

On Thursday, UNC will play Wisconsin , where junior guard Marcus Paiges sister attended.
By Grace Raynor
Sports Editor

Outside of the Paige residence in Marion, Iowa the cement

basketball court on which the siblings grew up is now painted
half red, half light blue.
One section is for the Tar Heels and Marcus, the junior
guard on the North Carolina mens basketball team. The other
represents the Badgers and Morgan, Marcus Paiges older sister
who graduated from Wisconsin in May and now plays professionally in Romania. The Paige siblings are 15 months apart
and spent hours playing pickup, practicing dunks on lowered
rims and working out with each other on the court for years
before their father painted it in honor of their universities.
Now the Paige childrens two schools, UNC and Wisconsin,
will clash in the Sweet 16 on Thursday night in Los Angeles.
The fourth-seeded Tar Heels beat Harvard and Arkansas in the
second and third rounds in Jacksonville, Fla., while the topseeded Badgers in the West Region defeated Coastal Carolina
and Oregon in Omaha, Neb.
The paint is blue, Morgan joked earlier in the season about
the backyard court. I graduated, so now that my basketball
career is done I start seeing less and less red around the house.
Im like, I know, I understand, I get it. But do we just throw it

I know shes cheering for us or she better

be. Thats what she told me at least.
Marcus Paige,
junior guard on the North Carolina mens basketball team

all away? Are we just a blue family now?

Morgan was kidding, but on Thursday night when the lights
power up in The STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, Marcus
knows that, jokes aside, Morgan will be on his side. For at least
one night, shes told him she can put aside her allegiance to
Wisconsin and root for her younger brother and the Tar Heels.
I know shes cheering for us or she better be. Thats what
she told me at least, Marcus said Monday. Shell cheer for us.
Shes cheered for Wisconsin the entire tournament because
shes friends with a lot of them. But you know blood runs a
little thicker so hopefully shell have her Carolina blue on.

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Donations
pour in after
shooting
An endowment in the victims
names raised $850,000.
By Zoe Schaver
Assistant City Editor

DTH/KATIE WILLIAMS
Todd Neal, a Northside investor, property manager and real estate broker, stands in front of one of his properties in the Northside neighborhood.

Landlords: the towns new Northside initiative is futile

By Morgan Swift
Senior Writer

Town officials and advocacy organizations

are using a $3 million loan from the University
to help long-term, low-income residents find
homes in the Northside neighborhood but
some landlords say the market has already
shifted to better suit student renters.
Maria Palmer, a member of the Chapel Hill
Town Council, said she thought the town should
reverse the rental population as much as possible, but it is proving to be a difficult task.
Low-income families cant compete with a
landlord who wants to make it student rent-

als, Palmer said.

Northside is the historically black neighborhood located along the north side of Rosemary
Street and bordered by North Columbia Street
to the east and Lloyd Street to the west.
Palmer said if the town wants to preserve
Northside it has to work with nonprofits
like The Marian Cheek Jackson Center and
EmPOWERment, Inc. which help place lowincome families in affordable homes.
Landlord Mark Patmore, who owns Mercia
Residential Properties, said only a handful of
homeowners still exist in Northside. He said
there are almost 800 residences, and 100 of
those have owners living in them.

Its so far-fetched from reality to imagine

changing this back to a family neighborhood,
Patmore said.
Town council member Lee Storrow said he
would like to see more long-term, low-income
residents move back into the neighborhood,
but he doesnt know how feasible that is.
I dont think its realistic to completely
reverse the trend, he said. Northside is never
going to be 100 percent owner occupied.
Todd Neal, a Northside investor, property
manager and real estate broker, said there are
many misconceptions about the neighborhood.

SEE NORTHSIDE, PAGE 4

Muslims across America and abroad

have generated hundreds of thousands of
dollars and thousands of pounds of food to
aid those in need since the shooting deaths
of three young Muslims in Chapel Hill
rocked the Muslim community worldwide.
Initially, police said the homicide was
motivated by a parking dispute, but many
have claimed that the triple homicide of
university students Deah Barakat, Yusor
Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha, which
occurred in the Finley Forest apartment
complex in Chapel Hill on Feb. 10, was
motivated by religious hate.
These were jewels in our community,
said Yasser Khan, national group coordinator for the Feed Their Legacy food drive
campaign. We know that the way we
should respond to evil is with good.
The Chapel Hill shooting tragedy stirred
action in Muslim communities across the
country to honor the three students community service mission, Khan said. He said
the Feed Their Legacy campaign began as a
nationwide, grassroots effort to pay tribute
to Deah, Yusor and Razan.
Khan said there are at least 237 Feed Their
Legacy food drives happening in at least 30
states nationwide. He said the drives have
collected at least 65,668 cans of food thus far.
One of the things Deah talked about was
that one of his dreams was to have unity
within the Muslim communities, he said.
We thought that this was a great way
of collaborating and being able to work
together.

SEE DONATIONS, PAGE 4

Police, ACLU draft new body camera policy for Carrboro

Members of the Board
of Aldermen are worried
about residents privacy.
By Lauren Miller
Staff Writer

The interactions between

Carrboro police and residents might
soon be recorded on camera.
The Carrboro Police Department
and the American Civil Liberties
Union of North Carolina have
worked jointly to draft a policy
regarding the implementation of

body-worn cameras by law enforcement, which was presented to the

Carrboro Board of Aldermen Tuesday.
We went to the drawing board, and
I believe we have a good policy, said
Carrboro Police Chief Walter Horton.
The current draft policy provides
guidelines for the use, management,
retention and retrieval of the recordings from the body-worn cameras.
After Ferguson, body cameras
are being seen as valuable, said
Alderman Sammy Slade.
Police departments across the
country have been considering the
cameras since the nationwide protests that followed the shooting of an
unarmed teenager by a police officer

in Ferguson, Mo., in August.

The utilization of body-worn
cameras by law enforcement officers
lends to exposing injustices and
inconsistencies with police protocol,
said Chris Brook, legal director of
the ACLU of North Carolina. He
said the policy aims to reduce misconduct among citizens and reduce
excessive force among officers.
Several aldermen raised concerns
about the implications of body-worn
cameras for residents privacy.
The North Carolina one-party consent law would not require officers
to inform citizens that their interactions would be recorded. The current
body-worn camera policy draft does

not require officers to tell residents

that they are being recorded.
Brook said the ACLU recommends the finalized policy require
this procedure, with exceptions for
undercover police work.
Alderwoman Randee HavenODonnell said this requirement is
comparable to requiring police to
read Miranda rights.
There is a fine line between protection and surveillance its something that we have to monitor very
carefully, she said.
Horton said the Carrboro Police
Department hopes to purchase 41
cameras.
James Bryan, a district court

judge in Orange and Chatham counties, said only quality video documentation is valuable evidence.
My one encouragement is to consider the quality of these cameras,
he said. The cameras will be (highdefinition), the same quality as our
in-car cameras.
The aldermen will review a finalized policy in June.
Alderwoman Michelle Johnson
said the cameras will not be the end
of the conversation.
Body cameras wont address the
issues of policing and racial profiling, she said.
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The Daily Tar Heel

From staff and wire reports

veryone loves a cute, feel-good story about cows even if they

dont know it yet. A cow in Texas defied the odds of realistic
birthing and gave birth to four calves. A veterinarian said the
cows birthing situation was incredibly rare: with a one in 11.2
million chance of that happening. The situation is so rare that the mother
cow is not even physically able to accommodate nursing all four calves. The
owners of the cows are relying on neighbors for milk for the calves. DNA
testing will be done on the calves to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that
they all came from one mother cow. And the best part of the story? The
owners granddaughter named the calves: Eeny, Meeny, Miny and Moo.
Doesnt your heart feel all warm and fuzzy now? Yep, we thought so.
NOTED. It might be time to start pawing
through your poop. Research presented at
the American Chemical Society meeting
found that each year, humans flush up to
$4.2 billion worth of precious metals down
the toilet. The researcher then said they
were looking into removing the metals to
sell. One mans turd is another mans gold.

QUOTED. Not the right lyrics at all pssshhhh. You had one job, test people. One job.
Taylor Swift throwing some shade
at the Princeton Review and their SAT
prep after the company misquoted one of
Swifts songs in a practice problem about
bad grammar. Moral of the story: dont
mess with T. Swizzle.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR
TODAY

Education Job Fair: University Career Services will be

hosting a job fair for education students. Representatives
from city and county schools
systems who are looking to hire
teachers and other employees
will be present. To view a list of
schools that will be at the job
fair, visit: bit.ly/Educ2015. The
event is free and open to all
UNC students.
Time: 9 a.m. to Noon
Location: Student Union
Service/Non-Profit Job &
Internship Fair: The job fair will
host employers from non-profit
and service organizations who
are looking to hire full-time
employees and internships.
Interested students can view
participation organizations on

Careerolina. The event is free

and open to all UNC students.
Time: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Student Union

THURSDAY

ConGRADulations Fair: This

event is for graduating students
only. Students can order their
cap and gowns, class rings,
diploma frames and other
graduation items. Refreshments
will be provided. Students can
also get a professional photo or
cap and gown picture taken by
a professional photographer.
There will be a job and internship fair during the afternoon
with representatives from over
100 companies who are looking
to hire full-time employees and
interns. Students can view the
participating organizations at
bit.ly/2014SpringExpo. The job

and internship fair is open to all

UNC students.
Time: ConGRADulations Fair: 9
a.m. to 4 p.m., Job and Internship fair: Noon to 4 p.m.
Location: Smith Center
Guest Artist Recital: Nancy
Zeltsman, marimba: Nancy
Zeltsman, a marimbist for the
Boston Conservatory, will be
performing at a recital. The
event is free and open to the
public.
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Location: Kenan Music Building
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enior Katelyn Mitchell (right) attempts to tag

out a fellow player in a game of freeze tag held
on Polk Place. The game was held by the UNC
Urban Gaming Club, which is hosting organized
games on campus each day this week.

POLICE LOG
Someone damaged
property on the 500 block of
South Merritt Mill Road at
5:51 a.m. Monday, according
to Chapel Hill police reports.
The person punched a hole
in the door after an argument, reports state.

Someone stole a bicycle

on the 200 block of McCauley
Street at 2 p.m. Monday,
according to Chapel Hill
police reports.
The bicycle was valued at
$592.11, reports state.
Someone trespassed at
the Run In Jims convenience
store at 800 Martin Luther
King Jr. Blvd. at 2:22 p.m.
Monday, according to Chapel
Hill police reports.
The person trespassed after
a dispute over a lottery ticket,
reports state.
Someone damaged
property at the intersection
of Columbia and Stephens

Streets at 1:27 a.m. Tuesday,

according to Chapel Hill
police reports.
The person damaged a stop
sign, reports state.
Someone stole a vehicle
from a parking lot at 100
Pinegate Circle at 6:45 a.m.
Tuesday, according to Chapel
Hill police reports.
The stolen car was a
black Dodge van valued at
$30,000, reports state.
Someone stole items
from the Student Recreation
Center on campus at 11
p.m. Monday, according to
Department of Public Safety
reports.
Someone stole items from
Granville Towers East on
campus at 3 p.m. Saturday,
according to Department of
Public Safety reports.
The larceny wasnt reported until 3:47 p.m. Monday.
Officers are still investigating.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Professor
discovers
dinosaurera fossils

DONATIONS WELCOME

Appalachian States Andrew

Heckert unearthed aetosaur
specimens in the Triangle.
By Marisa Bakker
Staff Writer

DTH/JUSTIN PRYOR
UNC student Catherine White provides information to students about the UNC Student Giving Programs at the third annual Carolina Pride Day in the Pit.

Students said private donations spur activities at UNC

By Anyssa Reddix
Staff Writer

Cotton candy, popcorn, a plinko

station and a basketball hoop
brought students to the Pit to play
games while also learning about
private donations Tuesday.
The third annual Carolina
Pride Day was coordinated by the
Heelraisers Student Giving Council,
an ambassador program for the
Office of University Development.
Its a day that we get the students aware of how much the
University is impacted by private
giving and why we should be proud
to say were Tar Heels, said Kayla
Blevins, president of Heelraisers.
The Heelraisers purpose is to
raise awareness of private giving
with events like Carolina Pride Day.

Its great for students to be

aware we go to one of the best universities in the nation, Blevins said.
Blevins said most students dont
even notice how money from private
donors impacts their everyday lives.
I encourage students to pay
attention to things such as private
giving and how it affects them personally, Blevins said, adding that
she is a public relations major and
that the School of Journalism and
Mass Communication relies on private donations for its operations.
For me, thats huge because I
spend all my time at Carroll.
Jordan Farthing, director of student giving programs, was also one
of the main planners of the event.
She said she knew it would serve as
a great opportunity to let students
know what private giving really is.

We want to let them know that

thats something they can do as a
student, said Farthing. Carolina
is the University that it is in part
because of donors.
The planning of the event was
supervised and sponsored by the
Office of University Development.
Blevins said the planning process was similar to the other events
theyve planned. The council contacted Franklin Street restaurants
for donations for prizes and for the
popcorn and cotton candy.
Logistic wise, we have to
think of the best way to bring
people into the Pit and get them
involved, Blevins said.
Freshman Nadaje Paquette said
she knew nothing about private
giving prior to the activities.
I saw the advertisement and a

lot of people joining in, so I thought

I should too, Paquette said.
Although the private giving
aspect was new to Paquette, she
did know all about school spirit.
It means supporting your
school no matter what it goes
through, Paquette said.
Other students had the same
idea of what student spirit means
and why its important.
It just means loving your school
no matter what, the good and the
bad, said senior Elizabeth Key.
Blevins was excited the day
brought so many students together with Carolina pride.
We go to a great university and
we should be proud to say that,
Blevins said.
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Q&A with UNC author Andrew Reynolds

Four years and three drafts
later, UNC political science professor Andrew Reynolds is publishing
The Arab Spring: Pathways of
Repression and Reform. Reynolds
wrote the book with Jason
Brownlee of the University of Texas
at Austin and Tarek Masoud of
Harvard University. Staff writer
Jun Chou sat down with Reynolds
to talk about his book.

THE DAILY TAR HEEL: Why did you

write the book?

ANDREW REYNOLDS: Id been in the

Arab world a lot but Im not steeped
in history or the Arabic culture and
Islamic politics. Id been in Lebanon
and Jordan and Yemen before the
Arab Spring doing some democratization work. I was the first international expert into Libya there
was no airport open; we just flew in
on a little UN plane and the war was
still going on and Gaddafi was still
on the run. When I got back, I knew
I wanted to write a book about the
Arab Spring.
DTH: And what played out?

AR: In Tunisia,
there was the
case that civilians pretty much
controlled what
happened. They
wrote the new
constitution,
they relegated
Andrew Reynolds
the police and
is a political science
the army to
professor who has
a minor role
worked with the
and, ultimately,
Tunisia adopted U.N. and U.S. State
Department.
pretty good
institutions
that were inclusive and reassured
people. They had an election where
the government changed hands
and it was fine. I mean, Tunisia is
not perfect but its doing a whole
lot better than the other cases. In
Egypt, the military controlled the
transition. They chose institutions
that just gave the military power
and shut out the liberals. In Libya
and Yemen, politics just collapsed
to the rule of the gun in villages and
regions. Theres no central government in either place anymore; its

just collapsed to anarchy.

DTH: How did you conduct your

research for this book?
AR: I was there working with
the election commission and the
constitutional drafters so I just pick
up information and evidence from
my work there by understanding
the dynamics of the elections being
played out. Both my co-authors had
been in the region and theyre very
well connected with figures on the
ground. It was important for all
three of us to be there, just to talk to
the reality of what was happening.
DTH: What makes this book
unique from the numerous other
publications about Arab Spring?
AR: Its all about trying to understand what has happened and why
it happened; its not just telling the
story about the uprisings but instead
trying to situate the Arab Spring in
this canon of knowledge about revolutions and how they succeed and
how they fail. Its kind of a political
science take on the Arab Spring
not just the journalistic narrative. Its

the first one thats taken a step back

and tries to understand how it fits
into, not just revolutions in the 20th
century, but all the way back to 1848
revolutions in Western Europe.

DTH: What do you hope people

take away from it?
AR: That democratization is
an incredibly slow process and
we should not be surprised if it
doesnt take hold in very fragile
states. I would hope people take
away from that not the pessimistic
side, but that we shouldnt give
up on Egypt or Libya or Syria
because when youre there, you
meet these incredibly courageous,
smart students and activists and
professionals who really are fabulous people.
They want to choose their
leaders like we do, want to vote
like we do, want to limit corruption like we do and want opportunities to better themselves in
their country like we do. I dont
want to give up on them but we
shouldnt expect any of these
countries to change overnight.

Andrew Heckert has a skeleton in his

closet though it might not be what
people think.
The professor, who teaches vertebrate paleontology at Appalachian
State University, is collaborating with
researchers at the North Carolina
Museum of Natural Sciences to search
for fossils stemming from around the
same time that dinosaurs walked the
Earth. Earlier this year, they made a
major discovery in the Triangle area.
Heckert and his team unearthed
two partial aetosaur specimens from
the Triassic period, an era about 200
million years ago. Aetosaur, an early
vertebrate, resembled a crocodile
and was equipped with spikes and
armored plates.
The key to vertebrate paleontology
is that what were doing is discoverydriven science the animals that were
going to study depends, in part, on
what were going to find, Heckert said.
Heckert began his paleontological research in Albuquerque at the
University of New Mexico until accepting a position at ASU and moving to
North Carolina.
Ive been interested in paleontology since I was a little kid, Heckert
said. When I came back to work in the
east, Vince invited me to work on some
projects with them they had rocks
from the right era, but the bones were
all disarticulated and jumbled and still
encased in rock.
The teams research has primarily
dealt with the Triassic basin, the geographic region stretching from Durham
to just east of Charlotte, said Vince
Schneider, curator of paleontology at
the Museum of Natural Sciences.
These are sediments that were
deposited over 230 million years
ago when North Carolina was part
of Pangea when all the continents
were together in one supercontinent
until a whole series of rift basins
opened up in eastern North America,
Schneider said.
In this rift valley is where all these
animals were living, buried and became
fossilized.
The Triangle region is rich in Triassic
fossils, with several notable discoveries
in the last 20 years.
The deposits were laid down early
in the age of dinosaurs. The most interesting finds have been protodinosaurs,
the really early specimens, said Allen
Glazner, a UNC geology professor.
Other major discoveries have included microfossils and microfauna, a premammalian jaw, and even specimens
from the Cretaceous period, including
duckbill dinosaurs and small carnivores, Schneider said.
Looking at the paleontological
record, we find out how animal species basically survive evolution
drives our life on this planet, but that
results in extinctions and new evolutions, he said.
How do we fit into an ecosystem
where extinction is part of the process
of evolving? Thats what paleontology
helps us better understand.
state@dailytarheel.com

Trustees to take up Saunders Hall renaming in meeting today

The group has spent a year on the ATTEND THE TRUSTEES MEETING
Time: 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. today, 8 a.m.
proposal to rename the hall.
Thursday
By Deborah Harris
Staff Writer

After nearly a year and over 200 conversations, the UNC Board of Trustees is developing
its answer to proposals from the Real Silent
Sam Coalition.
The University Affairs committee will meet
today at the Rizzo Conference Center to provide updates about renaming Saunders Hall,
contextualizing the Silent Sam statue and
creating mandatory education for all incoming
students about UNCs racial history.
The board invited seven guest speakers,
including UNC students Omolulu Babatunde,
spokeswoman for the coalition, and Frank Pray,
president of the UNC College Republicans.
The board also plans to launch a monthlong online forum open to the UNC community, allowing people to submit comments and
proposals. The board will convene in May to
vote on a comprehensive solution.
The Real Silent Sam Coalition protested
the name of Saunders Hall, which recognizes
former UNC trustee and Ku Klux Klan chief
organizer William Saunders.
Junior Kierra Campbell, a member of the
Real Silent Sam Coalition, said the coalition
is optimistic that the board will respond posi-

Location: Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center

Info: bot.unc.edu/agendas/

tively to the groups efforts.

The point of going to the meeting on
Wednesday is to put more pressure on the
Board of Trustees, letting them know that students are watching them, that it is not something they are going to let go, Campbell said.
Its not necessarily rewriting history, but correcting past historical actions in order to make
it a more inclusive environment for students,
Campbell said. I hope the University lets (students) know that they do care about how students feel, and their actions reflect that.
Board member Charles Duckett said the
protests around Saunders Hall date back
to the 1970s but this is the first Board of
Trustees to take action.
Weve agreed to take this up, we take it
very seriously and we are going to deal with it,
Duckett said.
Board member Alston Gardner agreed.
I think it is a timely discussion that is
being had at a lot of universities from Yale,
to Clemson, to (East Carolina University) to
Duke and UNC-(Greensboro), he said.
In 2014, Duke Universitys Board of Trustees

DTH FILE/CLAIRE COLLINS

Students gather outside of Saunders Hall on Monday, Feb. 2, demanding the name be changed.

voted to rename Aycock Residence Hall to East

Residence Hall. East Carolina University also
voted to rename its own Aycock Dormitory.
Both are named for Charles Aycock, a former
North Carolina governor and leader in the
white supremacy movement.
Gardner said the board is very open to placing a plaque at the Silent Sam statue, which
depicts a confederate solider, as well as teach-

ing UNCs racial history.

I dont think the solution is what Duke did
and to sandblast Aycock off the Aycock dormitory, Gardner said. Four years from now,
there wont be a single student who has any
idea there was any history there to begin with.
Thats a sad solution.
university@dailytarheel.com

News

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Campus police investigate

string of stolen scooters
By Kristen Chung
Senior Writer

An unexpected uptick in a
particular kind of crime has
campus police searching for a
suspect and prompted a campus-wide alert to be sent out.
Since spring break, there
have been three larcenies and
two attempted larcenies of
scooters on campus.
According to Department
of Public Safety reports, the
scooters were collectively
valued at $15,700, but some
students said their mopeds
were priceless.
Womens soccer player and
sophomore Joanna Boyles
said she worries about leaving
her scooter alone and said if
her scooter were stolen, she
would miss the time saved
from motor biking to class
and practice.
Theres no way for an athlete that has so much to do in
a day to walk from place to
place, she said. (Scooters)
are so convenient.
Department of Public Safety
spokesman Randy Young said
the damage observed on the
scooters seems to indicate that
a thief was trying to gain access

DONATIONS

FROM PAGE 1

But Khan said many nonMuslim faith communities

and nonprofit organizations
have pitched in as well.
We dont want it to be just
about the Muslim community we want our Christian
and Jewish and Buddhist and
other friends to also participate, he said.
This is what all religions
teach, to worship God and
take care of your neighbors.
Laurie Reinhardt-Plotnik,
associate vice chancellor
for development at North
Carolina State University,
said the schools Our Three
Winners scholarship fund
in honor of Deah, Yusor and
Razan has raised more than
$102,000 in gifts from more

to the mechanics. He said the

Alert Carolina message was
sent out Tuesday in order to
alert students to secure their
motor vehicles.
Basically, these (scooters)
are considered motorized
vehicles so they fall under the
Clery Law, he said. They fall
under the same category as
cars, so when there is a series
of thefts in motorized vehicles,
we are required to report it.
There are currently 80
scooters registered with
UNCs Transportation and
Parking department, and
Young said he encourages
scooter drivers to secure their
scooters with U-locks.
Boyles, however, said the
lock can be time-consuming.
I have a lock, but it takes
a long time to lock, and its a
nuisance, she said.
Young said the number of
scooters on campus has risen
in the past few years, but this
is the first string of scooter
thefts he can remember.
I never lock mine, and Ive
never had any problem with
it, freshman rower Maggie
Berra said.
The Department of Public
Safety is searching for a perthan 500 individual donors in
30 states and six countries.
She said many contributions
have come from faculty, staff
and students at N.C. State.
This tragedy cuts across
all walks of life, she said. A
lot of people contribute to this
fund who have never given to
the university before who
have no prior affiliation with
N.C. State.
And its not only the scholarship generating money.
Oussama Mezoui, vice
president of programs for
United Muslim Relief,
said the official Our Three
Winners endowment has
raised more than $850,000
for education and service
projects to aid those in need.
He said the funds have not
yet been distributed but that
the trusts fund management

DTH ONLINE:

Dailytarheel.com has
tips on how to keep
your scooter safe.

son of interest, described in

the Alert Carolina message.
The department has not ruled
out the possibility that all the
thefts are related.
Its a call for awareness,
Young said. If anyone sees
suspicious activity then they
should go ahead and call 911.
Sophomore Ethan Smith
said he is unconcerned about
the safety of his scooter in
light of the recent larcenies.
I think its mostly a
concern for on-campus residents, said Smith, who is a
pole vaulter for the track and
field team.
Artis Swann, a housekeeper at the Kenan Center, said
he has been riding his scooter
to work from his house in
Carrboro for four years.
He said he is upset someone is stealing scooters and
wants to see something done
to ensure scooter safety.
I mean, this is my baby,
he said. I love my scooter.

The Daily Tar Heel

NORTHSIDE

FROM PAGE 1

He said investors and landlords in Northside have made

the neighborhood a better,
safer place to live.
Theres no slumlords on the
Northside, Neal said. It used
to be a treacherous place.
Neal also expressed some
concerns about the Self-Help
Community Development
Corporation, a Durham-based
group that wants to buy homes
in the area and sell them back
to long-term residents.
The University recently
invested $3 million into the
project. The Self-Help Credit
Union, the Jackson Center,
the town and the University
will work together to manage
the money, which was given

MARCUS PAIGE

FROM PAGE 1

university@dailytarheel.com

During her four years

with the Badgers, Morgan,
who also wore jersey No. 5,
cemented herself in 18th place
in program history in points
scored with 1,230. She was
third in history in free throw
percentage and tied for 10th in
3-pointers made. There was a
period when Marcus considered joining her in Wisconsin,
where he was recruited for
a few years. But the Badgers
never offered a scholarship, waiting to see where

committee will decide yearly

which causes and programs
will receive funding.
The families want to keep
it broad and non-specific, he
said.
Whether it is a student
struggling to fund their studies, an American citizen who
faces illness without healthcare coverage or international
refugees facing an array of
challenges, the endowment
hopes to provide a source of
assistance and comfort.
Khadiga Konsouh, community service chairwoman
for the Muslim Students
Association at UNC, said the
association has been busy in
the weeks since the three students were killed.
She said members participate in monthly food
drives for homeless Durham

residents and most recently

donated more than 500
pounds of food to Urban
Ministries of Durham.
Konsouh said the MSA
helped plan the vigil for the
three students, collaborated
with Duke Universitys MSA
on service projects, created an
Islamophobia teaching series
and helped MSA members
get in touch with psychological services on campus since
the tragedy.
A lot of my friends were
really close friends with
Razan, Yusor and Deah, so
they got impacted in a big
way, she said.
Once it happened, I tried
to focus on getting the things
we had to get done.
Khan said a big part of the
success of activism across the
country has been the partici-

in the form of a loan.

Neal said Self-Help will
have trouble finding cheap
properties to buy because the
neighborhood has been greatly
revitalized in the past ten
years, so homes there are more
expensive than they used to be.
Theres nothing left; its
played out, Neal said. We
are well into the three and
four hundred thousands now.
But Hudson Vaughan, director of programs at the Jackson
Center, said there is a lot of
work to be done besides helping residents buy new homes.
With the aid of Self-Help,
the center has connected
15 long-term Northside
residents with critical home
repairs this year, Vaughan
said in an email.
Landlords like Patmore

feel that advocacy groups

and the town are collaborating on new policies for
the neighborhood without
including them.
If we dont know about it,
we cant protest it until it is
too late, he said. The only
time we find out about this
stuff is when it goes before
the town council for a vote.
Vaughan said there are
monthly community outreach
meetings at the Hargraves
Community Center that investors are welcome to attend.
We have continued to consult an array of over 45 partner agencies and hundreds of
residents and landlords in the
ongoing community work,
Vaughan said.

Wisconsin native J.P. Tokoto

would commit.
Thats kind of weird how
that played out, Paige said.
Were both here, and Im
pretty sure were both happy
about it.
Marcus and Morgans
mother, Sherryl, said earlier
in February that some of her
fondest memories of her two
children growing up involved
the court that is now painted.
It seemed for a while there
that both Morgan and I could
beat Marcus, she said. But
then it got to the point where
Morgan and I could no longer

beat Marcus anymore and

so we kept raising the rim
because he was shorter. He
didnt mind that because he
was such a competitor.
Those are good memories.
Now the siblings will
match up again, except this
time, it wont really be a competition at all.
Its gonna be a great
week! Morgan tweeted at her
brother Tuesday.
Attached, there was a picture of the duo from a year
ago both in Carolina Blue.

pation of the three students

families.
Theyve been very supportive in encouraging some
of the local food drive leaders, he said.
Theyve handled this tragedy with such grace. Theyre
grieving, but theyve really
helped the national Muslim
community with our grief.
Khan said he hopes the Feed
Their Legacy campaign, which
ends Saturday, will become a
yearly project to carry on the
legacy of the three students.
The beauty of it is that
local communities are benefiting, he said.
Its nice to be able to participate in something that
takes something bad and
turns it into something good.

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The Daily Tar Heel

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

2 vie for editor-in-chief position

Bradley Saacks

DTH INSIDE:

To read more about

the candidates
platforms, see page 8.

Paige Ladisic

Saacks wants to
encourage diversity
of content and staff.

Ladisic aims to make

the paper and its
staff more versatile.

By Samantha Sabin

By Christine Bang

Senior Writer

Staff Writer

The Daily Tar Heel staffers closest to junior Bradley

Saacks know him for not only
his snark and humor, but also
his visions for the paper. Now,
Saacks is ready to implement
those visions if chosen to be the
papers 2015-16 editor-in-chief.
I love this paper, said
Saacks, The Daily Tar Heels
university desk editor. But in
my time as a desk editor here,
and just in my time leading
our main coverage area, I just
noticed some places where we
can do better and expand.
Saacks started working
for The Daily Tar Heel in his
sophomore year, and he dove
in as quickly as he could.
Saacks served as the summer
university desk editor in 2014.
Its definitely not the traditional love it as a staff writer, apply to be assistant, was
the outstanding assistant who
applied to be desk editor, he
said. It was more like decent
staff writer who had fun as
the summer desk editor and
then decided to do it for a
year and just dove all the way
into it. It was a much more
accelerated learning curve.
As university editor, Saacks
covered the findings of the
Wainstein report, which was
released in October, and oversaw months of continuous
coverage on the report.
Saacks, a journalism major
and Hispanic studies minor,
wants to see The Daily Tar
Heel become a news outlet that
not only attracts print reporters
but also broadcast journalists,
multimedia journalists and
non-journalism majors.
Saacks platform calls for
more newsroom diversity.
His plan is modeled after the
National Football Leagues

As the online editor for The

Daily Tar Heel, Paige Ladisic
focuses on the digital every day.
She hopes to continue to do so
and aims to expand the newspapers reach next year if she is
named editor-in-chief.
Entering college, Ladisic, a
junior journalism and political science major, said she
knew she wanted to write
for The Daily Tar Heel and
applied in her first year.
Ladisic started as a staff
writer for the city desk and
then became assistant city editor her sophomore year. The
following semester, she served
as online managing editor and
took on the role of summer
editor-in-chief in 2014.
Through the past three
years, Ive made it a point to
try and learn whats going on
in each desk, Ladisic said. Ive
learned how to design a page,
and Ive tried to learn how to
shoot photography Im not
very good, but Ive tried and
Ive worked on the copy desk a
lot and then as summer editor.
Ladisic said this wellrounded knowledge has
taught her the necessary skills
to produce a paper.
Over the past three years,
Ive been working really hard
to make sure I know what Im
doing and make sure I know
how to do the work that I
expect other people to do for
me, she said.
Ladisic said professional
newsrooms dont just need a
reporter anymore. They need a
reporter, photographer, graphic
designer, copy editor, videographer and an online editor all
packaged into one person
and she wants to make sure all
staffers have those skills.
People say that it is a

DTH/CHRIS GRIFFIN
Bradley Saacks believes diversity is the key to growth for the DTH.

head coach hiring process:

Every time there is a job opening, employers must interview
at least one minority candidate.
Similarly, Saacks would
require all editors to interview
at least one minority candidate.
Its keeping (minority students) here and making them
realize that its a paper that
not only wants their opinions,
but needs it, he said.
Senior Amanda Albright, the
papers projects and investigations leader, hired Saacks when
she was university editor. She
said Saacks has been willing to
learn about his subject and the
paper from day one.
You just notice people
like that from the get-go, she
said. By the end of the school
year, I felt like I could assign
him anything, and I could
trust him to do that.
Journalism lecturer John
Robinson has known Saacks
since fall 2013, when Saacks
enrolled in Robinsons newswriting course.

And when Robinson, former

editor of The News & Record
in Greensboro, thinks of the
qualities a daily newspaper
editor should have, he thinks
of someone who is aggressive,
who knows how to chase a
story and treat people well.
But Robinson also thinks
of someone who is funny.
His sense of humor seems
similar to my sense of humor
in that its kind of snarky and
a little bit self-deprecating, he
said. You need to have a sense
of humor to be a decent editor
or else reporters and copy editors will drive you nuts.
Sophomore Sara Salinas,
a university reporter, was
hired in the same semester
as Saacks, but she says she
sometimes forgets that fact.
Its been honestly kind of
rapid pace with Bradley, she
said. I swear I just blinked,
and hes doing these incredible
things.
arts@dailytarheel.com

DTH/CHRIS GRIFFIN
Paige Ladisic wants the DTH staff to focus on the digital product.

digital-first world, and I think

were still in a print-first newsroom, and I think its really time
that we dive in and stop talking
about it and do it, Ladisic said.
She said the first step in digitizing is starting a newsletter,
like theSkimm, through which
people can get news emailed to
their inbox.
Andy Bechtel, associate
professor in the UNC School
of Journalism and Mass
Communication, said Ladisic
has been a high performing
student in both of the classes
she has taken with him.
One thing I like about Paige
is that she has a very digital
focus shes very much seeing
that transition happening from
print to digital media, Bechtel
said. And I think shes thinking
about how the DTH can fit into
that change.
Bechtel said Ladisics passion
for journalism and proficiency
in editing skills make her a great
candidate for editor-in-chief.
I see her as someone who

could be a leader down the

line for our field for years to
come, Bechtel said.
Kelsey Weekman, assistant
online editor, said Ladisics
passion will drive the paper.
She really cares a lot about
this paper its really her
pride and joy, so I think shed
be incredible, Weekman said.
Weekman and sophomore
Stephanie Lamm, assistant
university desk editor, said
Ladisic is competent, organized and qualified for the
editor-in-chief position.
When Lamm transferred
from Elon University and
began working at The Daily Tar
Heel during the summer, she
said Ladisic helped to facilitate
the process of becoming a part
of the newspaper.
Paige is great shes one
of those people thats always
there for you, Lamm said. If
you need anything at all shed
be happy to help you.
arts@dailytarheel.com

Black Student Movement

considers 2 for president
By Mona Bazzaz
Staff Writer

Two candidates are running

for the presidency of the Black
Student Movement for the
2015-16 school year: Ishmael
Bishop and Jeremy Mckellar.
Current President Trey
Mangum says he hopes the
new leader will be able to
carry the momentum the
BSM has gained this year into
the next year.
Its good to make sure that
there is a strong, capable and
effective leader that is leading
the organization, Mangum
said. Without the role of
president making key decisions and key connections,
a lot of the things we do at
BSM would not be possible.
Mangum said he thinks fostering more campus collaborations will improve the BSM in
the future. He said this year
they have already been collaborating with black faculty
and he hopes the new leader
will continue on that front.
Having organizations like
the BSM provides an outlet for not only students of
this race but for all students
across campus to be able to
examine and discuss what
is going on in the world,
Mangum said.
Bishop said his platform
looks inward, encouraging
students to help one another at
the BSM. Bishop is also a columnist for The Daily Tar Heel.
I am running because students of color, especially black
students, have faced a lot of
turmoil and have faced a lot
of imagery that would otherwise say that black lives do
not matter and what I want
to do is to have a centering
conversation for black students to come and talk about
themselves and talk about
their place at the University,
Bishop said.
Bishop said he also hopes
to work with the executive
branch of student government as much as possible in
order to advocate for students
and make sure their voices
are heard.
The most important part
of my platform for me is cre-

Ishmael
Bishop wants
to create more
opportunities
for diverse
conversations
to take place
on campus.
ating spaces where students
of color can be around other
students of color and where
conversations can happen,
Bishop said.
Mckellar said his platform
focuses on bringing communities closer together.
I am running for president of BSM because I value
our black community and
our African-American culture, Mckellar said. My
slogan is Forward Together
and that forward thinking
is having everyone on one
accord and one page and
having everyone trying to
better one another as a collective and as a community.

Jeremy
Mckellar
aims to focus
on the value
within the
Black Student
Movement
community.
Mckellar said his platform
includes three pillars. He
wants the BSM leaders to
work on themselves first, value
the BSM members and branch
out to other cultural organizations on campus to make sure
they support one another in
their events instead of competing for members.
We have to look at ourselves and make sure the
Black Student Movement is
strong and that we value one
another, and we want to see
each other succeed and that
starts by building that familial
environment, Mckellar said.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The Daily Tar Heel

Congress conrms new student leaders

Houston Summers
appointed another
cabinet member.
By Sarah Kaylan Butler
Staff Writer

The Student Congress

Rules and Judiciary
Committee confirmed the
director of state and external
affairs position Tuesday night,
helping to fill the cabinet of
Student Body President-elect
Houston Summers.
Diana Dayal was appointed
director of state and external
affairs later than the rest of
the cabinet because she was
absent to lobby Congress for
the third annual ACC student

advocacy trip in Washington,

D.C. last week.
Dayals responsibilities will
include advocating for students at the town, state and
national levels, she said.
At UNC-Chapel Hill, we
go and we represent the student body and we say, Hey,
these are things we want
changed in the budget, these
are policies we want implemented, Dayal said.
She said she wants to
strengthen the relationship
with the closest external body
the town of Chapel Hill.
She said she wants to ensure
the executive branch has students sitting on town committees, engaging with issues that
affect both students and the
community.

Its really important for

us to have
student
voice on it,
rather than
us always
being reactive, Dayal Will Almquist,
who served on
said. My
Honor Court for two
hope is to
years, was appointhave those
ed student Honor
delegates
held much Court chairman.
more
accountable. In years past,
we havent really done a good
job as student government in
terms of holding those people
accountable and getting that
information broadcasted out.
Dayal said she considers

her most
important
duty to be
establishing a strong
relationship
with state
legislature.
Its a
Diana Dayal will
really big
be director of state
deal when
and external affairs
people in
for Student Body
the state
legislature President-elect
recognize
Houston Summers.
us as student government, she said.
The committee also confirmed two judiciary appointments: student Honor Court
chairman and student attorney general.
Will Almquist was

appointed
the student
Honor
Court
chairman
after serving on the
court for
two years.
Almquist Ina Kosova was
appointed student
said its
attorney general
been a big
by Student Body
year for
President Andrew
the Honor
Court
Powell.
because
of the Wainstein report and
the recent changes to the
Instrument of Student Judicial
Governance.
He said he thinks the Honor
Courts relationship with the
rest of student government is

communication-oriented.
So, ultimately, the Honor
Court has a pretty welldefined set of responsibilities that doesnt necessarily
require the direct involvement of student government,
but it directs interests that
affect student government
and, consequently, the whole
campus, he said.
Ina Kosova was appointed
the student attorney general
by Student Body President
Andrew Powell, who did not
attend Tuesdays meeting.
I started on staff my freshman year and so this has sort
of defined my college experience, being part of the honor
system, Kosova said.
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Finance committee denies 2 funding appeals

By Emily Lowe
Staff Writer

The UNControllables and

the UNC Eshelman School of
Pharmacys Peer Mentoring
Program voiced their funding complaints at the Student
Congress finance committee
meeting Tuesday night.
Despite the students concerns, the finance committee had only $180,000 this
semester to pay for $423,000
in requests from 72 student
groups. Neither groups allotment was changed.

Madeleine Scanlon of the

UNControllables, an anarchist student group, entered
the meeting hoping to receive
enough funding to put on
a conference modeled after
the National Conference on
Organized Resistance.
The group requested
$8,000 to cover travel costs
for speakers.
We are not going to do
what we wanted to do without a minimum of $8,000,
Scanlon said.
After being met with little
flexibility from the committee,

Scanlon expressed concern for

the future of the organization.
We might need to rethink
what the nature of what this
conference is going to be,
she said.
Eric Shen, a representative
for the pharmacy schools peer
mentoring program, tried to
appeal the committees initial
decision to not give his group
any money.
The peer mentors are
graduate students who mentor
undergraduate students and
help prepare them for pharmacy school. Shen said he felt his

organizations cause was worthy of at least some support.

He requested funding for
social events such as trips to
the bowling alley, which he said
are important to break down
the student-mentor barrier.
Several finance committee members defended their
original decision by reminding Shen that although his
organization has a fantastic
goal, many of its events
could be categorized as providing personal gain, which
the committee is not allowed
to pay for.

Shen was disappointed but

later admitted his organization is not dependent on student government funds.
If we dont get funding,
we will be fine. We hold fundraisers, and we have other
means to fund this program,
Shen said. We just thought
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The Daily Tar Heel

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Tim Scott impresses at UNC Pro Day

By Pat James
Assistant Sports Editor

Tamika Jeter hadnt seen

her son in months.
For the past three months,
Jeters son former North
Carolina football player
Tim Scott has been in
Mississippi training, anxiously waiting to wow NFL
scouts at UNCs Pro Day and
improve his chances of being
selected in the NFL draft.
His idea of making it to
the NFL was that he always
felt like he was the man of the
family, and he just felt like, I
have to do this for my family,
Jeter said.
But I told him hes got
to do it for him. He has to
enjoy each step and do it for
himself.
And, on Tuesday, that
opportunity finally came.
Scott came one step closer to
achieving the dream hes had

since he started playing Pop

Warner.
Coaches, reporters, family members and current
and former teammates
dotted the Navy Field sidelines Tuesday morning and
watched as Scott and nine
other Tar Heels tried to
impress the 30-plus NFL
scouts in attendance during
a variety of workouts.
It was pretty much a job
interview. This is what my life
plan on being on, said defensive tackle Ethan Farmer. I
want to try to finish my career
out in football. I want to go
to the next level, and today I
think I proved it.
The morning started at
the Kenan Football Center,
where each players height
and weight were measured
before completing bench
press reps at 225 pounds,
the broad jump and the vertical jump.

Scott, who recorded a

team-high 78 tackles during
the 2014-15 season, separated
himself from the rest of the
group with a 9-foot-8 broad
jump and vertical jump of
33.5 inches.
Im not going to lie, when
we first started, I felt like
I was going to throw up I
was so nervous because
this is a once in a lifetime
opportunity, said Scott, who
was a four-year starter at
cornerback and safety. But
I felt like I definitely showed
up for it.
The players then moved
outside for the 40-yard dash,
shuffle drills and positional
drills. Current and former
UNC football players
including 2014 first-round
draft pick Eric Ebron and
Baltimore Ravens offensive
tackle James Hurst motivated the participants during
their drills.

In his second and final

40-yard dash, some of Scotts
teammates timed his sprint
with their iPhones and could
be heard saying, Thats
crazy, as he clocked in with
an unofficial time of 4.55
seconds which tied former
wide receiver Roy Smith for
the days best.
Scott, as well as many of
the other players, recalled
standing on the sidelines the
past three years watching Pro
Day fueling their desire
to one day take the field and
prove themselves.
I always told myself when
I had this chance, I was going
to make sure I did great at it,
Scott said.
I promised a lot of people
Ill make sure Ill live up to
their expectations.
And with his mother in the
stands, he did just that.
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Former UNC football player Tim Scott rests during Tuesdays Pro
Day. He tied with Roy Smith for the best 40-yard dash time.

Prescription boxes installed to curb drug abuse

By Mengqi Jiang
Staff Writer

To further its effort to curb

prescription drug abuse,
Orange County is opening two more drop boxes
for prescription drugs in
Hillsborough Wednesday.
In 2011 the countys Mental
Health and Substance Abuse
Committee conducted a community health assessment
and found that prescription
drug abuse and misuse has
contributed to the countys
increased suicide rate. The

committee has made its primary focus the reduction of

drug abuse and misuse.
One box will be located in
the lobby of the Orange County
Sheriffs Office and the other
will be in the lobby of the
Orange County Courthouse,
said Orange County Sheriff
Charles Blackwood.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony
at 10 a.m. today at the sheriff s office will accompany the
opening of the drop boxes.
Blackwood said installing
the boxes was important to
allow residents to conve-

niently discard their unwanted and unused medication in

safe locations in the county.
Some people go to the
police department and others
are able to come to the sheriff s office, he said.
Ashley Mercer, coordinator of Healthy Carolinians of
Orange County, said there is
a drop box installed in every
police department in Orange
County. She said Healthy
Carolinians helped implement
the installation of prescription drop boxes in the countys
law enforcement buildings to

Firing squad law criticized

as stepping back in time
By Grant Masini
Staff Writer

Public opinion nationwide

has shifted against the death
penalty in the last 20 years
but Utah leaders on Monday
voted to resurrect a capital
punishment they outlawed a
decade ago: execution by firing squad.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert
signed a bill into law allowing
the use of firing squads for
executions if lethal injection
drugs cant be obtained.
Those who voiced opposition to this bill are primarily
arguing against capital punishment in general and that decision has already been made in
our state, said Herbert spokesman Marty Carpenter.
But opposition to the new
law remains vocal.
Other conservative states
are considering repeal, and
with this bill Utah is stepping
back in time, said Marina
Lowe, a spokeswoman for the
Utah chapter of the American
Civil Liberties Union.
Utah is now one of two
states that allows execution
by firing squad, and it is the
only state to have used the
method since executions
resumed in the U.S. in 1977.
Oklahoma is the other state,
but it hasnt performed one
since executions were reestablished while Utah has
used the method three times.
States are in a strange bind
as far as execution methods
go, said Frank Baumgartner,
a professor of political science
at UNC. Regulations in place
require them to use certain
drugs in a certain order during lethal injections, and the
supply of these drugs simply
doesnt meet demand.
The primary argument
for using lethal injections
has been that executions
should be performed in the
most humane way possible.
Given the shortage of the
drugs, states are faced with the
question of how to humanely
execute death row inmates.
Still, Baumgartner and
Lowe both said the new law
and the larger issue of the
death penalty are more symbols than anything else.
The sponsors of the bill sold
it to the legislature based on the
idea that this is an urgent issue
that needs to be addressed as
soon as possible, but that sense
of urgency really isnt present in
the state, said Lowe.
When you consider how
many homicides there are in a
given year in the U.S., and that
weve never executed more
than 100 people in a year, its
clear the death penalty is a

The passage of the bill sends a bad message about Utah. Its an embarrassment.

lower prescription drug abuse.

Lt. Josh Mecimore, spokesman for the Chapel Hill Police
Department, said having the
drop boxes available protects
the Chapel Hill and Orange
County communities from the
risks of medication misuse.
We installed that drop box
to provide a consistent and
constant location for people
to drop off prescription medication, to keep them out of
the water supply, out of landfills and out of the hands of
people who might abuse them
or accidentally overdose or

misuse them, Mecimore said.

Mercer said Healthy
Carolinians advertises the
boxes and educates residents
about what should be dropped
in the box and what should not.
She said the first drop box
was installed at the Chapel
Hill Police Department in
the summer of 2013 and was
followed that same summer
by drop boxes in the police
departments of Carrboro and
Hillsborough.
Mercer said the boxes
are monitored to keep them
secure.

We have accomplished our

goal, she said. We have all of
our law enforcement engaged
into the process.
Mecimore said Chapel Hill
Police Department employees
clean out the drop box weekly
and dispose of the medication
to leave room for drop-offs.
Disposing these properly
is important not only to
people, but to the environment, Mecimore said. We
have an obligation to try to
help with that process.
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Marina Lowe,
spokeswoman for the Utah chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union

statement, said Baumgartner.

While the Utah ACLU has
no constitutional concerns
about the legality of firing
squads, Lowe said they will
continue to express their concerns about the death penalty
as a whole and how justice is
dispensed in the U.S.
There are ways to mete
out justice that are far more
constitutionally and fiscally
sound, said Lowe. The fact
remains that it is not possible
to humanely take a human life.

A statement from Utahns

for Alternatives to the Death
Penalty argued that the use
of firing squads would create
media frenzy and damage
Utahs reputation of moral
leadership, bringing condemnation from the national and
international media.
The passage of the bill
sends a bad message about
Utah, Lowe said. Its an
embarrassment.

Carolina Pride Day

Heelraisers hosted an
event to tell students about
the importance of private
giving. See pg. 3 for story.

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Scooter stealing
A string of scooter larcenies has the Department of
Public Safety on alert. See
pg. 4 for story.

Presidential elections
The Black Student
Movement will elect its new
president this week. See pg. 5
for story.

Baseball beats ASU

The Diamond Heels beat
Appalachian State 9-0 on
Tuesday. See dailytarheel.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

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Uncle
Sam says
zinc is
food

NEXT

hether to promote
longevity or prevent
nuisances like colds
or allergies, dietary supplements are widely used in this
country. More than half of
American adults use at least
one dietary supplement, supporting a $32 billion industry
thats still growing.
Their popularity, however,
depends on their existence in a
legal gray area, allowing them
to avoid the rigorous testing
required of other drugs while
still making medical claims.
Consumers should be wary of
supplements and seek information to guard themselves against
harmful or ineffective products.
In a case of cynical semantics, the Dietary Supplement
Health and Education Act of
1994 (DSHEA) classifies these
products as foods rather than
drugs. Rather than make manufacturers demonstrate the safety and efficacy of their products,
the burden of proof falls on the
Food and Drug Administration
to prove a product is unsafe.
Combined with the FDAs limited resources, this creates ideal
conditions for shady supplements to flood the market.
In the place of clinical trials,
the DSHEA merely requires
that manufacturers self-regulate by not marketing unsafe
products or making dishonest
claims. Supplements are also
required to contain the following disclaimer next to their
intended purpose: This statement has not been evaluated
by the FDA. This product is
not intended to diagnose, treat,
cure, or prevent any disease.
Such a flaccid warning ignores
the truth about dietary supplements manufacturers are
making medical claims, and
consumers take supplements
expecting health benefits not
because theyre hungry for zinc.
On the contrary, some
supplements are even harmful they could interact with
other medicines or have toxic
side effects. Between 2004 and
2012, just over half of all Class
I drug recalls were dietary
supplements. In the current
reactive model, the FDA can
only pull a harmful supplement from the market after
enough patients have fallen ill
and reported it. The customer
is the lab rat.
Other supplements might
simply be ineffective. Profits
motivate companies to stretch
the truth just enough so as not
to incur the wrath of Uncle
Sam. This often takes the form
of descriptors like natural and
herbal that evoke feelings of
well-being without providing
substance. This deception has
consequences beyond petty
larceny: Patients taking ineffective supplements might eschew
genuine medical care, resulting
in further illness or even death.
To be sure, many dietary supplements are safe and effective.
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2015-2016
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
PLATFORMS

Clark Cunningham
From Atoms to Zebrafish
Senior biology and chemistry major
from Chapel Hill.
Email: chcunnin@live.unc.edu

BAILEY BARGER

The Daily Tar Heel

Bradley Saacks and Paige Ladisic are the candidates for the 2015-2016 Editor-in-Chief. A selection committee will convene on Saturday to select The Daily Tar Heels next editor. See more coverage on page 5.

Its time for us to

think digitally
Every year, our print edition gets
a little smaller, and we have fewer
pages dedicated to our content. But
as our paper gets thinner, I have
grown our social media reach and
engagement, and I have worked to
make our website more user friendly.
The words digital first are present in every newsroom, college and Paige Ladisic, a
professional, around the country.
junior journalism
Weve heard them at The Daily Tar major and online
Heel, but obstacles always stand in editor, wants to
the way. It is time for us to be digi- adopt a digital-first
tal first, no more hesitating. My
strategy.
ultimate goal is for the DTH to be
constantly relevant, no matter what our readers need.
I believe that means we must push harder on the
digital level.

Consider digital
The digital product will not be an afterthought, saved
until 12:30 a.m., or a responsibility given to only a select
few. When our staff meets to plan the paper, we will also
weigh in on the layout of the website for the following
day. Stories will no longer be held until the paper is sent
to print; once a story has been read through two copy editors, it will be pushed to the website and social media.
An Online Managing Editor position will be recreated in order to give a voice to the digital product. This
editor will be vital in continuing dailytarheel.coms
award-winning excellence, focusing on maximizing
reader engagement and usability.
The Visual Managing Editor position will be brought
back also not only to ensure that our paper is consistently visually appealing and our long-term projects
are managed, but also to interact closely with the online
position to ensure that photographers and designers are
working not only for print, but also for online.
The online staff will work closely with desk editors
and reporters to ensure that every story maxes out its
digital potential, and during the day after a story is
published, online staff will continue to monitor analytics and trends to respond to our readers needs and
story performance. We must extend the shelf life of our
stories past the day of publication in order to continue
to act as a constant reference for readers.

Bring investigations into the day-to-day

The projects and investigations team will become
an even more important part of our newsroom, as the
team leader will be part of the day-to-day and added to
my management team. He or she will work more regularly with desk editors and staff writers, organizing the
special issues as well as daily enterprise projects.
This team will not be a separate entity from the
newsroom as it is now; the writers and photographers
will function on their respective desks as normal senior
writers and will be expected to write for the regular
print editions as well as special sections.

A better path for staffers

During orientation, our newly hired staffers are
learning the basics of reporting and writing, but I
believe it is important to prepare our staff members for
being journalists in a digital world that includes the
basics of social media, smartphone photography and
videography and writing for digital media.
We currently require all new staffers to attend
four enrichment sessions in order to graduate to a
second-semester staff member. I would like to extend
the enrichment requirements and expect all staffers
beyond their first semester to attend two sessions each
semester. The learning should not stop in the first
semester, and we can continue the learning process
with advanced workshops that refine a staffers skills.

Analyze online reader trends

We must balance what is newsworthy with what our
readers want to read. The number of stories that fewer
than 30 people read on our website is too high, while a
good story often reaches a few thousand readers. Our
trends in pickup and in web traffic show that some stories are more popular than others, and thats common
sense. The Online Managing Editor will be instrumental
in analyzing our reader trends online and working with
desk editors before a story is pitched for the paper.

Connect with the community

Our editorial board often works in a vacuum, meeting in the conference room a few times a week to talk
over ideas. But reporting in the community adds voices
to our argument and reinforces what we have to say.
As editor-in-chief, I will host monthly public forums
with the opinion editor and editorial board during the
semester, welcoming all of those interested be it a
student, a leader in the community or an entire organization to speak their minds and address the opinion
pieces weve written to that point and what we should
consider in the coming months.

Diversity needed
for DTH growth
My ideas for advancing The Daily
Tar Heel next year center around
one theme that the Daily Tar
Heel must diversify.

Diversity in newsroom, sourcing

Amid all its strengths, the paper
still lacks a diverse set of perspectives
Bradley Saacks,
within the newsroom. This extends
a junior journalism
beyond race and sexual orientation,
major and univerof course. The Daily Tar Heel also
sity desk editor,
needs more first-generation college
aims to improve the
students, transfers and non-tradipapers diversity.
tional students in its newsroom.
The breakdown of editors from
this academic year at The Daily Tar Heel is heavily
skewed toward those majoring in journalism. The journalism school provides us with a great base of talent,
but as the paper for the entire campus, our staff needs
to contain editors involved in other programs at UNC.
The inability to recruit and retain non-journalism
majors has led to a lack of diversity at the top. For recruiting, I will orient the message around letting people know
that The Daily Tar Heel hires more than reporters
there are spots at our organization for any skill set.
Retaining these individuals is the second part of
the process of diversifying our newsroom. To implement this, I am going to reserve spots on the editorial
board for minority journalists. Furthermore, all desk
editors will be required to consider a minority candidate for any assistant editor opening on their desks.
The only way for The Daily Tar Heel to work through
this culture where minority journalists do not climb the
ladder at the same rate as their white male counterparts
is by enforcing and believing in serious measures. I also
do not believe our writing, design, opinion, photo or
editing quality will diminish in the slightest.
I will also challenge our reporters and editors to
start developing better source relationships with a
better variety of sources. There are diverse sources for
every story; we just have to find them.

Expanding the brand

Next year, I want The Daily Tar Heel to capitalize on
the wealth of talent it has in its own backyard.
The University has an excellent journalism school
graduating capable broadcast journalists that often start
at The Daily Tar Heel. Many of these students leave
because their passion isnt reporting stories for print.
The Daily Tar Heel is much more than just a print
product. The name that appears on our social media
accounts is DTH Media for a reason.
This idea could start with basic requirements like
taping important interviews and later publishing that
video online. I think its a shame when we get individual access to someone like Carol Folt or Marcus Paige
and only use six of their quotes because that is all that
will fit in the paper.
And this multimedia idea could be so much more.
The Daily Tar Heel has been nationally recognized
for its coverage of the ongoing athletic-academic
scandal at the University and should capitalize on this
knowledge by producing a weekly podcast on ongoing
issues in college athletics.
The podcast would feature The Daily Tar Heels top
editors and several of its beat reporters, as well as guests.
Another way we can expand our brand beyond print
is through online-only content.
The online desk has also been underutilized at The
Daily Tar Heel. The online desk keeps our social media on
point and manages our award-winning website, but has
not been given the resources to create its own content.
I want to invest in the online desk, restructuring it
with another assistant and staffers who specialize in
data journalism and interactive graphics.

Redesign of the paper

The days of 12-page papers are over. The Daily Tar
Heel now has the opportunity to move into the next
stage in its print design.
Talking with our design editor Tyler Vahan, our current
design is not sustainable for the amount of content created each day. There needs to be a tightening of the pages
and the elimination of space-eating extras and flags.
As Tyler told me, it is a struggle everyday to fit our
amazing content with our current design format.
I plan on tasking the design team to have a redesign
ready for the first issue of next year. The redesign will
implement more promo rails above the fold to draw
the reader in, as well as diversify our headline fonts.
I believe this change allows us to also highlight our
special issues and important front pages more. With
less white space, the difference between a powerful
front, like our Dean Smith commemorative issue, and
the standard issue will be stark, drawing even more
attention to the paper.
The Daily Tar Heel is an incredible organization, but
we can grow. I have identified the areas where, while
continuing our excellent print product, The Daily Tar
Heel can excel. And if selected as editor, these will be
the areas where you will see growth.

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Make gun rules at
the campus level
TO THE EDITOR:
I was disappointed by
the broad generalizations
that were made by The
Daily Tar Heel Editorial
Board on March 23
regarding the effects that
campus carry laws would
have on campus. The
statistical data we have
on gun ownership and
concealed carry laws are
nuanced, and restricted
to 250 words, I dont
have the space to delve
into it in depth either.
Generally speaking,
we do not know from the
data how campus carry
would directly affect
sexual assault (due to
the crimes unique circumstances), but we do
have reason to believe
that violent crime overall
would drop. Please do
not take my word for it
alone; several studies are
readily available online.
Now certainly with different crime levels, each
university would have a
different level of need and
comfort with concealed
carry on their campuses.
Therefore, I think that
the correct and responsible course of action
would not be to have a
knee-jerk reaction for or
against concealed carry
by applying the same
rules to all of the systems
universities. Rather, it
seems more appropriate
that this decision should
be left to each individual
campus.
Like tuition, financial
aid and several other
critical issues that the
DTH and others have
argued should be decided at the university level,
policies regarding what
weapons may be used for
self-defense on campus
should be tailored to the
individual needs of each
campus.
Peter McClelland
Senior
Political Science,
History

Gun access linked

to suicide risk
TO THE EDITOR:
The Wednesday,
March 18 edition of The
Daily Tar Heel carried an
article about efforts to
allow guns on campus.
The justification
seems to be for selfprotection.
But remember that
suicide accounts for 61
percent of gun deaths.
Often college students are
in a fragile state of mind
and suicide is common
in that age group. Easy
access to a gun could
increase the number of
suicides on campus.
Guns on campus are
not necessary and could
lead to tragedies.
Ellie Kinnaird
Chapel Hill

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