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It’s been a long time coming, but I know a change is gonna come SAM COOKE 126 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 VOLUME 127, ISSUE 42 Southern universities reckon with slavery SEE PEER INSTITUTIONS, PAGE 6 The lives of slaves who built UNC UNC’s wealth based in slavery By Ellie Heffernan Senior Writer In August 1619, more than 20 enslaved Africans were brought to a port near Point Comfort in the English colony of Virginia. This year marks the 400th anniversary of their arrival and the beginning of slavery in America. As institutions explore the significant contributions slaves have made to American development, communities nationwide — including UNC — grapple with their histories of racism. UNC’s first students enrolled in 1795. By 1800, Chapel Hill had 231 inhabitants, including 63 slaves. By 1860, 464 slaves and 104 freed Black residents made up 48 percent of the town’s population. Slaves and free Black people physically built the University, contributing to the construction of Old East, Person Hall, Old West and Gerrard Hall, according to Wilson Library’s “Slavery and the Making of the University” online exhibit. They worked as plasterers, brick-makers, bricklayers and carpenters. Black workers also cleared a main street for the village of Chapel Hill, according to John Chapman’s dissertation “Black Freedom and the University of North Carolina.” These slaves were likely owned SEE UNC SLAVERY, PAGE 6 SEE UNC WEALTH, PAGE 6 By Charlie McGee Director of Investigations From its inception, UNC and its stakeholders played a major role in building and preserving slavery- based wealth, according to archival sources and historian accounts. “I would say there was no figure on this campus who was not a participant in the drama of white supremacy,” said Glenn Hinson, a UNC professor currently teaching a course on 20th century lynching victims in North Carolina. “I think that is true from the beginnings of this university all the way through.” Property of the University Historians cite the University’s primary avenues of funding over the first decades of its existence as early proof of its profiting from slavery. This funding strategy included the Board of Trustees obtaining and trading slaves throughout the region. When UNC was chartered in 1789 as North Carolina’s first university, the state didn’t appropriate any funds toward its development. Instead, the Trustees would fund UNC through two revenue streams: they would be given money that was “due and owing” to North Carolina under certain parameters up to 1783, and they would acquire all property “escheated” to the state from that By Ramishah Maruf Senior Writer In the months following the 2015 Charleston shooting, Southern universities revived a long-standing debate — how to reconcile their tainted pasts. Cities across the country began removing monuments dedicated to slavery. Often times, these monuments were on college campuses, on grounds built by slaves themselves. Student activists had already been protesting for years. A month before the shooting, the Board of Trustees renamed Saunders Hall, which was named after a KKK leader, to Carolina Hall. This resulted in a 16-year ban on renaming buildings on campus and the formation of the History Task Force. But immediately after Charleston, the General Assembly passed a law banning the removal of monuments on public property. “(Charleston was) a moment where we need to take forward- looking action,” anthropology professor Glenn Hinson said. “Instead, (the General Assembly) instantly rush to protect white supremacist discourse.” The event represents the constant struggle UNC faces balancing politics and acknowledging its past, especially compared to peer institutions. “I can’t pinpoint why some other universities have gotten ahead of this issue more than UNC,” he said. “But UNC has been actively resisting it.” At Georgetown University, the reopening of Mulledy Hall, named after a former university president who sold slaves, prompted President John DeGioia to form a working group and rename two buildings. In 2016, DeGioia pledged substantial PHOTO COURTESY OF WILSON LIBRARY Silent Sam, a confederate soldier monument, was unveiled on June 2, 1913. DTH Photo Illustration/José Valle; original photos DTH file/Barron Northrup and courtesy of UNC Archives DTH FILE/ JANET AYALA Protestors gather around Silent Sam on Aug. 20, 2019 prior to his toppling.
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It’s been a long time coming, but I know a change is gonna comeSAM COOKE
126 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITYMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 VOLUME 127, ISSUE 42
Southern universities reckon with slavery
SEE PEER INSTITUTIONS, PAGE 6
The lives of slaves
who built UNC
UNC’s wealth
based in slavery
By Ellie Heffernan Senior Writer
In August 1619, more than 20 enslaved Africans were brought to a port near Point Comfort in the English colony of Virginia. This year marks the 400th anniversary of their arrival and the beginning of slavery in America.
As institutions explore the significant contributions slaves have made to American development, c o m m u n i t i e s n a t i o n w i d e — including UNC — grapple with their histories of racism.
UNC’s first students enrolled in 1795. By 1800, Chapel Hill had 231 inhabitants, including 63 slaves. By 1860, 464 slaves and 104 freed Black residents made up 48 percent of the town’s population.
Slaves and free Black people physically built the University, contributing to the construction of Old East, Person Hall, Old West and Gerrard Hall, according to Wilson Library’s “Slavery and the Making of the University” online exhibit. They worked as plasterers, brick-makers, bricklayers and carpenters.
Black workers also cleared a main street for the village of Chapel Hill, according to John Chapman’s dissertation “Black Freedom and the University of North Carolina.”
These slaves were likely owned
SEE UNC SLAVERY, PAGE 6SEE UNC WEALTH, PAGE 6
By Charlie McGeeDirector of Investigations
From its inception, UNC and its stakeholders played a major role in building and preserving slavery-based wealth, according to archival sources and historian accounts.
“I would say there was no figure on this campus who was not a participant in the drama of white supremacy,” said Glenn Hinson, a UNC professor currently teaching a course on 20th century lynching victims in North Carolina. “I think that is true from the beginnings of this university all the way through.”
Property of the University
Historians cite the University’s primary avenues of funding over the first decades of its existence as early proof of its profiting from slavery. This funding strategy included the Board of Trustees obtaining and trading slaves throughout the region.
When UNC was chartered in 1789 as North Carolina’s first university, the state didn’t appropriate any funds toward its development.
Instead, the Trustees would fund UNC through two revenue streams: they would be given money that was “due and owing” to North Carolina under certain parameters up to 1783, and they would acquire all property “escheated” to the state from that
By Ramishah MarufSenior Writer
In the months following the 2015 Charleston shooting, Southern universities revived a long-standing debate — how to reconcile their tainted pasts.
Cities across the country began removing monuments dedicated
to slavery. Often times, these monuments were on col lege campuses, on grounds built by slaves themselves. Student activists had already been protesting for years.
A month before the shooting, the Board of Trustees renamed Saunders Hall, which was named after a KKK leader, to Carolina Hall. This resulted in a 16-year ban on renaming buildings
on campus and the formation of the History Task Force.
But immediately after Charleston, the General Assembly passed a law banning the removal of monuments on public property.
“(Charleston was) a moment where we need to take forward-looking action,” anthropology professor Glenn Hinson said.
“Instead, (the General Assembly) instantly rush to protect white supremacist discourse.”
The event represents the constant struggle UNC faces balancing politics and acknowledging its past, especially compared to peer institutions.
“I can’t pinpoint why some other universities have gotten ahead of this issue more than UNC,” he said. “But
UNC has been actively resisting it.”At Georgetown University, the
reopening of Mulledy Hall, named after a former university president who sold slaves, prompted President John DeGioia to form a working group and rename two buildings. In 2016, DeGioia pledged substantial
PHOTO COURTESY OF WILSON LIBRARYSilent Sam, a confederate soldier monument, was unveiled on June 2, 1913.
DTH Photo Illustration/José Valle; original photos DTH file/Barron Northrup and courtesy of UNC Archives
DTH FILE/ JANET AYALAProtestors gather around Silent Sam on Aug. 20, 2019 prior to his toppling.
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Chapel Hill Library launches podcast By Anna PogarcicCity & State Editor
The Chapel Hill Public Library has launched its first-ever podcast series in an effort to tell stories Chapel Hill residents may not hear otherwise.
Called Re/Collecting Chapel Hill, each episode in the first season will explain the history behind different public spaces, starting with the Peace and Justice Plaza and going through topics like Silent Sam and the Chapel Hill Nine.
Molly Luby, the podcast’s co-host and special projects coordinator for the library, said the library has always wanted to do a project like this. She said the podcast was meant to answer the questions people have about Chapel Hill’s markers, and what they say about who we are.
“The reason for that is because we were thinking about, what is the conversation happening right now in Chapel Hill,” she said. “And when we were thinking about this, this is, you know, just a few months after Silent Sam had been torn down, and there were definitely still a lot of protest activity around Silent Sam.”
She said she hopes this podcast makes local history meaningful and accessible for people.
“There are a lot of people whose stories have not been told or don’t see themselves reflected in that local history and the local history
collection,” she said.Danita Mason-Hogans, the other
host of the podcast, also said she hopes this project allows listeners to explore the relationship between the town and the University over time.
“I think some of the things the community and the University share are local places, like students at UNC often go to the Peace and Justice Plaza. Silent Sam, of course, has been a big issue on UNC’s campus, but it has also been an issue for the local people of Chapel Hill,” she said.
M a s o n - H o g a n s i s a l s o a seventh-generation Chapel Hill resident and daughter of one of the Chapel Hill Nine.
“If you view that through a historical lens, that would mean we were here when the University was built, Black folk were here during Jim Crow, Black folk were here during the ‘70s, during the ‘80s,” she said. “So what was the social justice footprint that was left by the University?”
The podcast was funded through a grant administered by the state library system, and Luby said the money allowed them to hire three podcast assistants, one of which was Klaus Mayr, a UNC junior.
“Once I spent nearly six hours interviewing someone as we walked around Chapel Hill talking about memories that stay with him and the changes that he’s seen since he was growing up here in the ‘50s,” he
said in an email.He was the only student involved in
producing the podcast, and he said he was aware of it at all times.
“On the one hand, students have caused many of the unfortunate changes to the community — gentrification, inequality, about 100 too many pizza joints,” he said. “But on the other hand, students also have such beautiful potential here to put our energy, curiosity and skills to good use.”
He said working with people like Mason-Hogans has changed the
way he views Chapel Hill.“You can’t listen to all of those
stories about how the University and the broader community came to be and then just forget about them,” he said.
The first season of Re/Collecting Chapel Hill is about 14 episodes long, Luby said. The first of these was released earlier this month, and the remaining episodes will be released every two weeks.
PHOTO COURTESY 0F MOLLY LUBY Co-hosts Danita Mason-Hogans (left) and Molly Luby (right) record the Chapel Hill Public Library’s new local history podcast.
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EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS 10 ways to channel
your creativity
Now that we’re more than one month into the semester, everything feels
like it’s picking up. This is typically when my creative outlets are pushed to the back-burner as I prioritize school, work, the post-grad job search, etc.
So, I’ve decided to spend 15 minutes each day this week to devote to ~something~ creative. If you care to join me on this challenge, here are 10 simple ways to integrate creativity into your day:
1. Play one of the pianos in the basement of Hill Hall, or scattered across the dorms.
2. Make a sketch. Draw what you see, or doodle straight from your imagination.
3. Journal what you dreamed about the night before. I’m not a huge believer in dreams having some sort of prophetic nature, but this can be a cool way to be introspective.
4. Chef up a recipe from a cuisine you’ve been wanting to try. (Also, send me your recipes!)
5. Utilize the Makerspace and 3D print your own design, or try out the laser cutter. You’ll need to complete the orientation and tool-specific trainings, but it’s worth it.
6.Dance to a song that gets you in the feels – in your room, in the shower, on the second floor of the SRC or in public if you feel so inclined.
7.Experiment with a fun, new makeup look or hairstyle, just because.
8. Make a craft or wall art to liven up your home. There’s lots of inspiration on Pinterest and Buzzfeed.
9. Write a poem or song, stream-of-consciousness style. Put pen to paper on whatever comes to mind, without editing until the end of the 15 minutes.
10. Take advantage of the free Adobe Creative Cloud subscription we get as students and mess around on Photoshop, Illustrator, Fresco, etc. There are lots of online tutorials and UNC workshops if you’re a newbie.
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During the Chapel Hill Climate Strike Friday, activists biked 33 miles
from Chapel Hill to Raleigh to prompt local and state lawmakers to address climate change. Their ride, while a little long for a daily commute, proved that biking is a feasible mode of transport in the Triangle.
For students at UNC, the personal and environmental benefits of biking are well worth it. Biking is a low-carbon form of transport that saves money, provides regular exercise and gives riders greater control over their schedules.
Compared to driving to campus,
biking is incredibly affordable. The cost of a full-year, on-campus parking permit ranges from around $200 to $800 for students, while bikes can be built for free at the ReCYCLEry off of Franklin Street or purchased for cheap at the UNC’s annual bike auction. If students are wary about owning about a bike, the University’s Tar Heel Bikes bikeshare program allows students to ride throughout Chapel Hill’s campus for up to an hour for free every day.
Beyond the financial benefits, biking helps to reduce the risk of diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease and depression. A group of researchers from the United States and Europe found that biking leads to “higher levels of satisfaction, lower stress, higher relaxation and a heightened sense of freedom compared with car drivers.”
For most students, biking to campus saves time and provides
greater flexibility in their schedules. The trip from Downtown Carrboro to the Old Well takes less than 10 minutes on a bike. The same route takes nearly half an hour by foot, approximately 15 minutes by bus and about the same amount of time by car when factoring in time to park.
The time savings of biking are most apparent on Sundays and late at night when Chapel Hill bus service is severely reduced. Biking allows off-campus students who do not own cars to quickly get to campus for club meetings, evening study sessions and University events. The ease of travel better integrates them into the University community and makes it easier to stay involved on campus.
Perhaps the most important reason to bike is its impact on climate change. The United Nations Environment Programme reported that switching from a car to a bicycle saves 240 grams of carbon
dioxide per mile. The organizers of Friday’s bike ride said biking is, “a great way to show that we care about sustainable transit, a major part of curbing emissions.”
Cameron Avenue and Rosemary Street constitute the main bike thoroughfares in Chapel Hill. Bike lanes on West Main Street and the Libba Cotten Bikeway shepherd cyclists in Carrboro. While Chapel Hill and Carrboro have better biking infrastructure than many towns of their size, cycling could certainly be safer in both locations. The League of American Bicyclists rates Carrboro as a safer community for biking than Chapel Hill, but both towns are actively working to improve bike safety.
So for your next commute, consider traveling by bike. The choice will yield dividends not only for your physical and mental health but also for the environment.
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Fair Pay To Play will level the playing field
If the NCAA truly values anything, it’s the association’s absolute dominance over
the hundreds of universities and thousands of student-athletes that it governs, as well as its business model built on the foundation of collegiate amateurism.
With unanimous approval from the California state legislature, Senate Bill 206 — dubbed the Fair Pay to Play Act — is looking to rightfully upend the NCAA’s exploitative ways of managing its athletes. The bill proposes radical changes to the college landscape that would enable student-athletes to both hire agents and profit from their name, image and likeness, all without negative repercussions such as ineligibility.
The bill would formally go into effect beginning on Jan. 1, 2023 if California Gov. Gavin Newsom
signs the bill into law.NCAA President Mark Emmert
and 21 other members of the organization’s board of governors are, as expected, quite unhappy with such a proposal. In a letter sent to Governor Newsom on Wednesday, the board argued that such a bill was unconstitutional, harmful, and would unilaterally shatter “a level playing field for all student-athletes.”
It would be one thing if the NCAA were solely worried about the logistics of one state thrusting thousands of its student-athletes into a new collegiate sports model full of agents and dollar signs. It would be another thing if the NCAA were merely waiting for its working group to deliver its opinion on athlete compensation in October before suggesting immediate change.
But that’s not the case here. That’s not what the NCAA is worried about.
Rather, the NCAA is worried about the mere idea of athletes earning some form of compensation, along with the threat that its member schools are fighting against its well-established decrees.
That ’s why the association is brandishing the threat of disqualification over California’s schools: Its working group isn’t seriously considering monetary compensation for athletes, and Mark Emmert surely won’t allow one state to jump in and try to force his hand. Dissension results in punishment. In this instance, the NCAA is willing to prohibit 58 California universities from part ic ipat ing in NCAA competition if the bill turns into law, effectively disowning 24,000 student-athletes.
This is all because the NCAA believes the bill would, “remove that essential element of fairness and equal treatment that forms the bedrock of college sports.”
If fairness is what the NCAA wishes to protect, then why does it regularly turn a blind eye to its high-profile programs whenever scandals arise? Why do college coaches ink multi-million-dollar contracts while their players get nothing but hours of classwork and unfulfilling meal plans? Why do other students get to work toward an income while student-athletes are forced to choose between eligibility and making a
living? Can there even be fairness without fair compensation?
And, if the NCAA is worried that a select group of prestigious schools (and their boosters) would disrupt competitive balance, then what does it make of the current college landscape? Football powerhouse Alabama has more recruiting resources than Alcorn State. The same goes for the likes of Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, whose basketball players routinely get access to NBA mentors and exclusive products from Nike and Jordan Brand.
That’s why the NCAA is lashing out — because it knows that it stands on faulty ground. Neither fairness nor amateurism truly exist in a highly-contentious market that generates this much TV and marketing revenue.
The NCAA knows that , no matter how hard it pretends, its student-athletes aren’t employees and that other dissenters will arise. California won’t be the first state to push back against the amateurism sham. South Carolina is already following suit and other states will surely jump on the bandwagon.
As they should.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will celebrate its eleventh-annual First Amendment Day on Tuesday, Sept. 24. This campus-wide, daylong event is designed to both celebrate the First Amendment and explore its role in the lives of Carolina students. Students and other members of the university community will read from banned books and discuss the public university’s special role as a marketplace of ideas and the need to be tolerant when others exercise their rights. As always, First Amendment Day is observed during National Banned Books Week.
First Amendment dAy Tuesday, Sept. 24
Silence and Sam: The State of Campus Free Expression at UNC Freedom Forum Conference Center,
Carroll Hall 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Banned Book Reading Davis Library Courtyard
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
The Worth of a Tar Heel: Student-Athlete Equity and Efforts to Recognize Student Athlete
Rights of Publicity Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
The Art of Resistance: An Exhibition Featuring the Work of
Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé FedEx Global Education Center
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
First Amendment Trivia Contest
Linda’s Bar and Grill203 E Franklin St.
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Modern Problems Facing Student Journalism
Room 4085, UNC School of Law 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Maddie EllisAssistant Arts & Entertainment Editor
As a researcher and as an artist, Fahamu Pecou’s work is centered on representations of the Black male identity. In his dissertation, the multimedia exhibit “DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance” on display at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Pecou combines the academic with the artistic to ask: “What kind of life could you live if you weren’t afraid to die?”
This multimedia exhibit combines paintings, drawings, videos and sculpture, and fuses hip hop culture with traditional West African spiritual practices. Pecou said this project addresses the spectacle of Black death and the history of violence against Black existence.
“This idea that these narratives around Black existence are so
intertwined and bound up in these specters of death is something that I wanted to use my research and my work to combat,” Pecou said.
Pecou said that he wants to reframe understandings of Black existence, turning away from violence, pain and destruction and towards survival, resilience and beauty.
“ W h e n y o u ’ r e c o n s t a n t l y bombarded with images of trauma, your own sense of self begins to be shaped and defined by that trauma,” Pecou said. “I wanted to do something that would help us to move beyond that trauma.”
For Pecou, art is a powerful medium for these themes because it transcends language itself.
“Art operates at a level of language that goes beyond words,” Pecou said. “It is a form of communication that doesn’t speak any particular
language or dialect. It is something that is innately human.”
This exhibit is a part of the Stone Center’s larger project “The 1619 Collective Memory(ies).” 1619 marks the year when enslaved Africans were first brought to the Jamestown settlement, which many consider to be the beginning of slavery in the US. “The 1619 Collective Memory(ies)” examines the beginning of slavery from the points of view of all affected — not only Africans, but also Native Americans and Europeans, said Stephanie Cobert, the Stone Center’s public communications officer.
Through Pecou’s exhibit, this project brings art to the forefront of how to recontexualize history.
“The fact that these traditions survived despite the very violent, forceful attempts to strip away any sense of identity from these people
is a powerful testament to who they were and who we continue to be,” Pecou said.
This exhibit gives attendees the resources to transform their thinking. Joseph Jordan, director of the Stone Center, said their job is to offer the seed material conducive to forming connections with the work, both visually and thematically.
“We try to create those conditions for people to connect , both aesthetically and on a deeper level intellectually, with the work that we present,” Jordan said.
Pecou hopes that his exhibit above all sparks dialogue.
“This is how we affect change, by opening up our world to perspectives that go beyond the experiences we’ve already had but that can introduce us to new ones,” Pecou said.
UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences
is also exploring how to contextualize history with the “Reckoning: Race, Memory and Reimagining the Public University” project. Cobert said the two projects coincide thematically but differ in scale.
“With the Reckoning project, while that focuses on remembrance at the university level, our focus will be memory and memorial on the national level, and even international,” Cobert said.
Jordan said this exhibit represents UNC’s participation in a broader movement commemorating 1619.
“These commemorations have been going on all across the country, all year, and many of them are picking up right now in a lot of places,” Jordan said. “This is us. This is our set of events.”
Cedar Ridge High leadership changes after school threats
Stone Center exhibit aims to reframe Black existence
By Alice BennettSenior Writer
After a rocky start to the semester, Cedar Ridge High School has a new interim principal.
Mitchell Stensland, the 14-year principal of Chatham Central High School, will take the role of interim principal. Meanwhile, the former principal of Cedar Ridge, Intisar Hamidullah, was transferred to Gravelly Hill Middle School to serve as assistant principal. Randy Bridges, interim superintendent for Orange County Schools, said the change in leadership was necessary.
“I believed different leadership was needed to continue moving the school forward,” Bridges said in email.
He noted parental concerns
played a role in his decision to change the administration. Parents were outraged last month after students received error-filled schedules at the start of the school year, and some blamed the former principal’s mishandling of the school’s master schedule for the problems.
“I’m glad that there’s change, and I’m hopeful that it’ll be for the better,” parent Lisa Dumain said.
Dumain said she bel ieves Stensland will be open to input from Cedar Ridge parents and faculty as he settles into his new position.
Cedar Ridge parents took to Facebook to air their grievances with the former administration. Some said their students’ scheduling issues were still not resolved two weeks into the school year. Bridges said the county is
working to keep that from happening. “We have examined what occurred,
and how we don’t allow them to occur in the future,” Bridges said. “We are currently closely examining student schedules for second semester to ensure we don’t have this issue again.”
Hamidullah also faced criticism alongside Cedar Ridge school resource officers earlier this year when parents accused them of failing to report multiple school shooting threats that were found written on a bathroom stall.
“We trained our staff to understand the protocols and procedures around safety, but it is clear that our expectations were not met this time,” former Superintendent Todd Wirt said in a joint statement from the Orange County Sheriff ’s Office and
OCS obtained by INDY. In the same statement, Orange
County Sheriff Charles Blackwood said they take pride in their training and safety protocols.
“This failure on our part is unconscionable,” he said.
After the shooting threats and scheduling problems, some parents called for Hamidullah’s removal.
“The parents had just had enough. Kids were going to school on the first day of school with wrong schedules and just sitting in the auditorium, no classes to go to and that sort of thing,” said parent Dorothy O’Neill.
Regardless of the changes to the administration, parents said their faith in the school has been shaken.
“Initially, it was making sure that my children were in a safe school,
that they would be able to not be stressed about the threats that go dismissed,” parent Monica Vaughan said. “Then it turned into the fact that they cannot keep a schedule on time for the children and that they’re continuing to change schedules.”
Bridges said the county has already begun the search process for a new full-time principal at Cedar Ridge.
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DTH FILE/DUSTIN DUONGQieara Lesesne (left), stands firm as Alex Robinson (right), recites a poem during a protest against a proposal for Silent Sam’s relocation Monday, Dec. 3, 2018.
By Elizabeth MooreSenior Writer
UNC has a long history of Black activism. The first Black law students sued UNC for admission in 1951, students in the early 1970s protested the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa, and today’s campus activism fights police and government surveillance.
Though students have rallied around different causes each generation, they have all shared a central demand: that UNC do more to ensure educational equality.
Unmet demands
In 1968, UNC’s Black Student Movement made a l ist of 23 demands to then-Chancellor Carlyle Sitterson that included issues like the overly selective admissions process, the lack of Black people in University administration, and working conditions for Black non-academic staff.
“Past negotiations between Black student groups and the administration for the purpose of instituting positive change have resulted in token, symbolic acts which do not meet the educational needs of currently enrolled or systematically rejected minority group members,” the handwritten demands stated.
In response to the above point, Sitterson wrote, “It should be clear that the University cannot, in policy or practice, provide unique treatment for any single race, color or creed. To do so would be a step backward, and the University should set its sights upon a better future.”
In 2015, activist group The Real Silent Sam referenced the 1968
BSM demands in their own set of 50 demands.
“There is no institutional will to enact a shift away from white supremacist, patriarchal capitalism. There is no institutional will to recognize the anti-Blackness that stains the very roots of this University,” the introduction read.
Nearly 50 years passed between the sets of parallel demands, but activism for the rights of people of color on campus persisted between that time.
A lineage of Black activism
Charmaine McKissick-Melton was a junior when David Duke came to UNC in 1975. She said that her protests with BSM stemmed from that incident.
McKissick-Melton is now an associate professor at North Carolina Central University, which was formerly known as the N.C. College for Negroes.
Her siblings and she became the first African Americans to integrate Durham public schools, she said, and her father, Floyd McKissick, was among the first African-American students at the UNC School of Law after suing the school in 1951.
McKissick-Melton said the greatest challenge that Black students faced during her time was the lack of people of color in the faculty and in tenure.
“The faculty piece has always been there,” she said. “The numbers, they got better, but it’s not significantly better than the numbers when I was there.”
McKissick-Melton graduated a couple years after Will Mebane, who was BSM’s chairman — analogous to today’s president — during his junior year of 1973-1974. He said there was no shortage of causes to rally around
during his time at UNC, including Silent Sam, apartheid, the Vietnam War and the disenfranchisement of Palenstinian people.
Mebane, who is now rector at an Epispocal church in Massachusetts, said he reached a point in his activism at UNC where former Chancellor Ferebee Taylor invited him to a standing weekly appointment for tea, during which he would present the concerns of Black students. Mebane also said he developed a relationship with Dean Smith, at one point convincing him to diversify his coaching staff.
Despite the increase of Black faculty and administrators today, Mebane said not much has changed.
“Until you’re able to touch the hearts and minds of those with power and privilege, not much is going to change,” he said. “So it doesn’t surprise me that the list from 2015 is not much different from the list in 1968.”
More to be done
In 1968, BSM called for the establishment of a department for “African and Afro-American studies” with courses such as “Black Consciousness and the International Community” and “Sociology of Blackness.”
This semester, UNC began offering courses that cover these topics in the new shared learning initiative “Reckoning: Race, Memory and Reimagining the Public University.”
Kathleen Fitzgerald, assistant teaching professor, teaches “Race and Ethnic Relations,” which was added as part of the Reckoning curriculum. She put the 1968 BSM demands into context, saying students were making demands nationwide.
Black student activism connected by time
“I always think that’s important to know from a student perspective,” she said. “That it’s not the administrators that come up with the great ideas, that students are often pushing the University in the right direction.”
C u r r e n t B S M P r e s i d e n t Chris Suggs said he believes the organization has made some progress within the University, especially within admissions of Black males, though there is still much more to be done.
“So definitely, looking through the demands that were issued in (1968), they were very large, and obviously things progress over time, and it’s kind of unfortunate delving into 2019, over 50 years later, we’re still dealing with so many of those issues,” he said.
An issue he referenced that has
yet to be addressed since 1968 is the University’s impact on housing in the surrounding community. Suggs said UNC is one of the biggest contributors to housing inequality, economic disparity and gentrification.
One of the goals of BSM today, Suggs said, is to engage in dialogue between Black students and decision-makers. He said he had not heard of the Reckoning program, though he has taken two courses it now includes in the curriculum.
Suggs said he believes UNC should work to engage more Black students and ensure “that there’s fun and engaging programs that support us as students — academically, socially, in all aspects of our lives — so that we actually want to be at this university.”
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amends for UNC participating in the 1838 sale of 272 slaves.
Adam Rothman, a Georgetown history professor and the main curator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive, said besides Georgetown being a private Jesuit University, the schools face different political contexts.
“The conversations at Georgetown have been rooted in the language of Catholicism,” he said. “This is also a school in the middle of Washington D.C., compared to a school in the middle of North Carolina.”
Other public flagships began reconciliation efforts in the early 2000s. The University of Alabama formal ly apolog ized for the university’s past ties to slavery in
2004, becoming one of the first in the nation to do so. Former Chancellor Carol Folt apologized in 2018, two months after protestors toppled Silent Sam.
“What UNC is now is what UA was in 2004,” Hilary Green, UNC alumna and associate professor of history at Alabama, said. “We didn’t have people walking on campus, but we had harsh media attention.”
As a student, Green remembers taking alternate routes through campus to avoid walking past Silent Sam. She hasn’t donated to her alma mater because of the politics surrounding the monument.
“There was a failure of leadership in Raleigh and a failure of leadership in Chapel Hill,” Green said. “They are giving space to people who don’t have the heart of the institution
and who don’t care about the most valuable stakeholders.”
The University of Virginia is wrapping up its President’s Commiss ion on Slaver y and the University. Since 2013, the commiss ion re leased a final report, began plans for a memorial and expanded the association, Universities Studying Slavery. UNC joined the group in 2016.
Kirt von Daacke, the co-chairperson of the commission, said they have had full support from the university’s president and the University of Virginia Board of Visitors for initiatives over the past six years.
“Because of current events, the protests and just watching this unfold, you’d find many people in Charlottesville, when we watched Silent Sam get torn down, be in full
support of that,” von Daacke said. In August, interim Chancellor
Kevin Guskiewicz announced the formation of the Commission on History, Race and Reckoning. It comes the same year as the Reckoning: Race, Memory and Reimagining the Public University initiative, designed to facilitate discussions about UNC’s racial history through a series of 18 classes.
Guskiewicz said the commission will be larger than the History Task Force, which was composed of a few members. He said it will be composed of faculty studying southern history, staff members, students and possibly alumni.
“I think it’s meaningful with the campus community and look towards the future, that we’re doing it based on what we can learn through
this commission, just as some other places have done,” Guskiewicz said.
Green said UNC professors are leaders in reckoning initiatives throughout the South. However, Hinson said optics played a large role in the recent moves to reckon with UNC’s past. The protests surrounding Silent Sam have affected the University’s reputation.
In the end, Hinson said it’s the political considerations of the boards and the legislature that will affect the future of these programs.
“I think just as we had a long history where (the BOG’s interventionist role) wasn’t as overt, it may well be that in other states, they’re still enjoying a moment,” Hinson said. “In our state, we’re not.”
PEER INSTITUTIONSFROM PAGE 1
by slaveholders affiliated with the University or hired from local citizens in Orange and Chatham counties. It was common for slaveholders to “hire out” their slaves to perform services for others, and Chapel Hill townspeople boarded some slaves while they worked on the campus.
Employees, trustees and presidents of the University also provided their enslaved workers as hired labor in currently unknown capacities. Professors, the majority of the first Board of Trustees, the University’s first president and the University’s first two stewards owned slaves.
Caroline Newhall , a Ph.D. candidate at UNC, helped compile and expand existing research about slaves’ contributions to the University. She specifically helped find the names
of over 100 enslaved people who worked on UNC buildings.
Newhall said people do not know many specifics about the lives of slaves at UNC because historical records tend to bury them as individuals.
B e y o n d c o n s t r u c t i n g t h e University, slaves played crucial roles in everyday life on campus. They shined students’ shoes, made their beds, kindled fires in bedrooms and cleaned the dormitories and recitation halls. Slaves were also responsible for emptying the “slop buckets” used in lieu of toilets.
Students were charged a yearly fee for “servant hire,” and those who were wealthy often brought personal slaves to college until an 1845 ordinance from the Board of Trustees forbade this. It was also common for students to make additional payments to the University financial administrator and hire slaves to perform service
outside of regular duties. History professor James Leloudis,
who teaches one of the “Reckoning: Race, Memory and Reimagining the Public University” courses, said the vast majority of people know little about the role of slavery on campus due to their lack of research.
The initiative includes 18 courses across disciplines and encourages the discussion of heritage, race, post-conflict legacies, remembrance and reconciliation within the context of U.S. and global histories. he said this is a good beginning, but there is more work to be done.
“I think we have to be careful not to rush the reconciliation piece without the truth-telling. There’s an awful lot of truth yet to be told,” Leloudis said.
A large part of this truth is acknowledging that the University directly profited from the sale of slaves.
When the North Carolina General Assembly chartered the University in 1789, it gave the Board of Trustees rights over property escheated to the state. If someone died without legal heirs, University attorneys could sell their property and turn profits over to the Board of Trustees. This property often included people.
Ellison Commodore, a current sophomore, did not know the University sold slaves. Although he was not surprised by this information, he said it made him feel weird.
He said UNC should be doing more to educate students about the University’s history.
UNC’s past echoes the history of other places in the South, especially regarding the control and abuse of Black bodies. Nevertheless, slaves ran away from trustees and professors, defied their owners during whippings and resisted their
bondage in other ways. George Moses Horton, a local
slave who taught himself to read and write, sold poems to college students to give to their sweethearts. In 1829, he published “Liberty and Slavery,” the first known poem of a slave protesting his status, and later wrote the first book published in the South by a Black person. Horton Residence Hall is named after him.
In the eyes of some students and professors, such memorials are a good place to start, but not enough on their own.
“It’s not quite enough to say ‘OK sorry,’ tick that box and move on,” Leloudis said. “But there is a much deeper and more profound and far more challenging and lengthy conversation we need to have as a community.”
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point forward.Escheated property was property
that belonged to an owner who died without an heir or whose citizenship status didn’t permit them to own it.
In those cases, ownership of the property would be transferred to UNC. Often, the University obtained legal title to ownership of enslaved people and sold them for cash.
The Trustees appointed attorneys “to sue for, recover, and take into possession” all property that could potentially be escheated to UNC, according to Blackwell Robinson’s “The History of Escheats.”
While numerous cases of the University pursuing and selling enslaved people are documented in various archives, the full extent of the UNC’s activity in this area is unknown.
In one case, which former UNC President Kemp Battle wrote about in the early 1900s, a free Black man had a daughter who was “the slave of another” until he bought the rights to ownership of her. Sometime after that, the daughter had her own son.
But when her father died without a rightful heir, “His child and grandchild, being his personal property, became the property of
the University.” The Trustees then ordered the two to be sold, a decision that Battle said they seemed to experience no difficulty in deciding.
“It must be remembered that slaves were considered to be as a rule in a better condition than free negroes,” Battle wrote.
Between 1790 and 1840, UNC received an estimated $4 million in current-day value through escheated properties, which was 25.7 percent of its total revenue over that period and more money than it received through tuition fees. Those numbers were reported to the legislature by former Gov. Edward Dudley, according to Robinson’s “Escheats,” though Dudley admitted that i t was “impossible ... to ascertain and designate, at present, the various kinds of property received by the Trustees since 1789.”
For the sons of the elite
While the labor and trading of enslaved people was central to establishing and growing UNC, it was also a primary source of wealth for generations of students at the University who would become North Carolina’s future leaders.
UNC was built as an institution for the sons of the elite, said William Sturkey, a UNC historian who specializes in the history of
race in the U.S. South. “There was no G.I. Bill or (federal
student aid) in 1860,” Sturkey said. “Those were predominantly students who came from slave-owning families.”
The median student in UNC’s senior class of 1860 came from a household that owned 19 slaves, according to data compiled from U.S. Census records and other primary sources. The median s t u d e n t ’s h o u s e h o l d o w n e d personal property worth nearly $930,000 in current-day value.
That personal property figure excludes real estate holdings. It does, however, include the value of any enslaved people that they claimed ownership of. Multiple historians said slave-based riches likely comprised the majority of these families’ holdings, and students from the most wealthy families dwarfed the median numbers.
Sturkey noted that these numbers alone may not paint a full picture, as additional slave holdings of the students’ families may exist in
Census records from other regions.Nearly all UNC students in the
class of 1860 came from from a household that reported ownership of at least one enslaved person.
Adam Domby, professor of history at the College of Charleston, said these numbers contradict pro-Confederate arguments that Silent Sam is a monument to non-slaveholding members of the Confederate army.
“The majority of soldiers who came from UNC were slaveholders, and were wealthy,” Domby said. “That’s the thing that’s kind of ironic, is that they’ve chosen this monument to make that point, which is the one monument where that point has the least legitimacy.”
A familiar name
Sophomore De’Ivyion Drew was looking through the slaveholding and wealth data for the 1860 class when a familiar name caught her eye.
James B. McCallum, an 1860
student, is reported as coming from the household of John McCallum in Robeson County, which owned 17 slaves with a current-day personal property value of over $862,000.
That student also shared a last name with her maternal grandfather, William McCallum, who is also from Robeson County. After a bit of digging, Drew learned that the family line her grandfather descended from most likely has its roots in a man from the McCallum family impregnating one of their female slaves.
Drew said for her, the experience of female slaves in particular is what most disturbs her.
In her research, she has found little to no records of female slaves. Drew said the lack of value assigned to them in comparison to their male counterparts, and the treatment they received because of it, are of particular concern to her.
“There’s a narrative of a sort o f consensual and romant ic relat ionship between a s lave and a slave owner which, as a Black woman myself, I don’ t necessarily subscribe to,” Drew said. “Especially because there is a structural component to the relationship that is inherently immoral and oppressive.”
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Janet AlsasStaff Writer
On Sept. 26, Carolina Public Humanities will present “Life & Death in the Jim Crow South” at the Chapel Hill Public Library. This event is free and open to the public.
UNC professors will hold a discussion that will explore what it was like living in the Jim Crow era. Seth Kotch and William Sturkey
will lead the discussion together, and Lyneise Williams will moderate.
Sturkey said that the topics that are going to be discussed relate to historical memory and the legacies of race that students and staff are currently dealing with at UNC.
“Carolina Public Humanities has two main goals: We use humanistic perspectives to expand public conversations about important public issues and we connect UNC’s faculty with people outside the University,” Lloyd Kramer, the director of CPH, said. “The presentations on the legacy of the Jim Crow system by two outstanding professors at a public library will
exemplify both of these CPH goals.”Kotch said when he reached out
to Chapel Hill Public Library about putting on the event, they were very responsive and accommodating.
“With Dr. Kotch and Dr. Sturkey having two books published around the same time, and which focus on such important subjects that are so relevant to our community today, we reached out to the library about hosting an evening conversation with these insightful authors around these critical issues,” Kramer said.
Sturkey will be educating people on the key characters who worked to sustain Jim Crow laws and those who fought to tear down the unjust
system, which he talks about in his book “Hattiesburg: An American City in Black & White.”
Kotch is the author of “Lethal State,” a history of the death penalty in North Carolina. “Lethal State” discusses legal cases during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina. At this discussion, Kotch will be diving into Jim Crow’s relationship to the death penalty in North Carolina.
Jim Crow laws have only matured and are now the crime and punishments laws that are enforced in the South today, Kotch said. He said students who the attend the discussion can learn about the legacies of enslavement and how those legacies
continue to operate in the South in the 20th century and beyond.
Students, as well as middle and high school teachers, have been encouraged to attend this event, Kramer said.
This event is held in collaboration with UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, Carolina K-12 and Flyleaf Books.
“We can never understand the ideas and social structures in our own society without analyzing the historical conflicts and events from which they have evolved,” Kramer said.
UNC professors discuss legacy of Jim Crow lawsUNC professors will hold a
discussion on how Jim Crow affects the laws of the South.
“That’s the thing that’s kind of ironic, is that they’ve chosen (the Silent Sam monument) to make that point, which is the one monument where that point has the least legitimacy.”
Adam DombyHistory professor at the College of Charleston
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SCORESFootball: App State 34, UNC 31Field Hockey: UNC 4, Louisville 1Men’s Soccer: UNC 2, Notre Dame 0Women’s Soccer: UNC 3, Louisville 0
Monday, September 23, 2019
UNC lacks identity in loss to App State
By Mollie BrewsterStaff Writer
For its 29th consecutive victory and first ACC win of the season, the No. 1 North Carolina field hockey team defeated No. 7 Louisville 4-1 on Friday. The win tied a program record for consecutive wins.
“It is amazing to be a part of this program, literally a dream come true,” sophomore Erin Matson said. “We don’t really think about the 29-0, we take it one game at a time which is why I think we have gotten this far.”
The Tar Heels (6-0, 1-0 ACC) have dominated both offensively and defensively this season, outscoring their opponents 18-1 in their last three games. With Friday’s win, they gave Louisville its first loss of the season.
“I was very proud of this team,” head coach Karen Shelton said. “We expected a tough battle, and we got one. I feel as if the scoreboard doesn’t tell the whole story of the game.”
The Tar Heels went up 1-0 after sophomore Riley Fulmer came off the bench to score in the first quarter. They were able to maintain the lead for the rest of the game, as Matson added two more goals for North Carolina before the half.
“I build a lot off of my teammates energy,” Matson said. “When I’m feeling good and getting connections with everybody, then I feel like I can just go out there and play and not really second guess myself.”
Matson has scored in six of North Carolina’s seven games this season. She won the NFHCA National Offensive Player of the Week award and the ACC Offensive Player of the Week award in the same week earlier this season. A huge contributor to the offense’s success, Matson also leads North Carolina in goals this year.
At halftime, both the Cardinals and the Tar Heels had seven shots and four penalty corners. By the end of the game, Louisville had outshot North Carolina, 16-12, but UNC was able to capitalize on its chances. Junior Eva Smolenaars was able to score one more for UNC before the Cardinals put their first score on the board in the final three minutes of the game.
“It feels good to win another game in Karen Shelton Stadium and also get the first ACC one out of the way,” Matson said.
On the opposite end of the field, the Tar Heels have only allowed seven goals this season after Friday’s win. With a completely new defensive line this year, North Carolina has not been phased.
“We rely on our defense a lot, this year is one where we are building a lot on our defense and learning a lot each game,” Matson said.
Junior goalkeeper Amanda Hendry and senior goalkeeper Alex Halpin have already combined for two shutouts this season, and were minutes away from a third today.
“My defense is helping me out a bunch. They’re doing a great job on the corners, I’m just doing what I should be doing with the saves,” Hendry said after the game. “Honestly, I’m not getting that much action, which is awesome.”
Shelton continued to emphasize that despite the program’s historic winning streak, UNC is still giving each opponent the respect they deserve and not getting too far ahead of itself.
“ There were some amazing moments in that game, some that we scored on, some that we didn’t score on,” Shelton said. “I feel good about our group — as long as we stay humble and hardworking, we keep getting better. We take it game by game. We always want to win the next game, so if we can keep that going I’ll be thrilled.”
UNC field hockey ties program record for consecutive wins
The 29th consecutive victory came against Louisville on
Friday, 4-1.
By Brian KeyesAssistant Sports Editor
What is the North Carolina football team?
It’s Sam Howell, for sure. Javonte Williams too. It’s senior leaders on the defense, like Aaron Crawford and Myles Dorn.
But in the wake of their 34-31 loss to Appalachian State on Saturday — another up-and-down game that required yet another fourth quarter comeback that fell flat — the Tar Heels might need to ask themselves again. Who are they?
As of right now, all the Tar Heels can really say about themselves is that they’re inconsistent.
“We’re continuing to try and find an identity,” head coach Mack Brown said after the game. “Our identity so far has been we start slow, we dig ourselves in a huge hole, we come back and fight.”
North Carolina actually started the game on a roll — a 75 yard kick return and one slant pass from Howell to Dazz Newsome was all it took to get UNC its first touchdown of the game. It took just 17 seconds.
It looked like the Tar Heels were taking this first half thing seriously, a week after admitting to not getting up against Wake Forest. But the Mountaineers carved through UNC on their first drive, only staying out of the end zone after a sack by Dominique Ross and settling for a field goal.
Then, a three-and-out for UNC, and another field goal for Appalachian State. After that, Howell got sacked, fumbled, and defensive lineman Demetrius Taylor scooped the ball up and ran it back from a score.
“I think their defense played a good game,” Howell said. “We just got into a hole early, and we can’t do that against good teams like this.”
Players and coaches mentioned how the mood around the team had changed during the game. The team started out ready to play, but 13 straight points from the opposition sapped UNC’s energy.
“I said (to the team), ‘It seems like when bad things happen, you
DTH/DUSTIN DUONGUNC freshman quarterback Sam Howell (7) rushes past Appalachian State senior defensive back Josh Thomas (7) on Saturday, Sept 21, 2019.
do this,’” Brown said, slumping his shoulders. “And you get down. And that doesn’t work. It doesn’t work in life and it doesn’t work in football.”
It didn’ t help that Howell threw his first career interception in the second quarter, and the Mountaineers scored again four plays later. At halftime, the Tar Heels trailed 27-17.
Linebacker Tomon Fox noticed the lack of energy: “We knew something bad was about to happen, so we tried to fix it then and there.”
It didn’t happen until after halftime, when the Tar Heels showed signs of life and rallied behind impressive plays from their young quarterback. The true first-year threw three touchdowns on Saturday, the first UNC player to do that since Nathan Elliot in 2017.
Howell also lead his third 95-plus yard touchdown drive this season, this time in the third quarter to cut the Mountaineer lead to just three.
“Everybody on the team has faith in Sam,” junior wide receiver Beau Corrales said. “We all know that he can do it, we all know the player he is … In last-minute situations, he’s got ice in his veins.”
Still, Howell can’t do it alone.“At the end of the day, he’s a true
freshman quarterback,” Corrales said. “We can’t put everything on
him and expect him to do everything for everyone.”
Howell, like the rest of the team, was inconsistent. If not for his two early turnovers, it’s likely his team walks away with a win. There was also an opportunity to move the chains earlier in the fourth quarter on a third-and-9 pass to Dyami Brown that Howell threw incomplete.
“I just gotta clean up the mistakes I made,” Howell said. “I turned the ball over, it ended up costing us this game, so I just gotta go back and learn from my mistakes.”
His inconsistencies mirror those of the team. So it goes when so much is asked of a player with only four games to his name.
Through those four games, it still isn’t clear what this UNC team is. It has too many highs and lows in any one game for anyone to know for sure. The Tar Heels live and breathe through their young quarterback, but for Brown, that isn’t enough.
"(The team needs to) play consistently well, instead of having great plays and bad plays,” Brown said. “We’ve got to just get to a point where we are who we are. It doesn’t matter who we play, we play the same way every play.”
Key mistakes and injuries cost UNC defense
DTH/MAYA CARTERAppalachian State wide receiver Malik Williams (14) is taken down by UNC players in Kenan Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019.
By Matt ChilsonSenior Writer
In a 34-31 loss to Appalachian State in Chapel Hill on Saturday, the North Carolina football team had its worst defensive performance of the season. It all came down to a few key injuries, as well as some critical mistakes in big moments.
UNC had already lost starting cornerback Patrice Rene, who tore his ACL against Miami, and were without key starters Jason Strowbridge and Myles Wolfolk at times during Saturday’s game due to injury.
The injuries became apparent when the defense couldn’t seem to stop the Appalachian State offense. The Mountaineers piled up 161 rushing yards and 224 passing yards, with a lot of them coming in big chunks through the air and on the ground.
“You’re always going to be frustrated when a big play happens,
but you can’t let that affect the next play,” senior defensive tackle Aaron Crawford said. “I feel like we might’ve rode a rollercoaster on defense, where we have sacks, and then they convert on the next play.”
UNC just couldn’t seem to get off the field in big moments. Time and time again, App State quarterback Zac Thomas escaped the arms of a North Carolina defender and broke big runs, particularly on third downs. Thomas rushed for 57 yards on six attempts.
“He’s really good,” head coach Mack Brown said. “He’s quick. The (50-yard run) was a killer. It’s third down and seven and we don’t contain ...That’s a coaching mistake.”
It happened again on a key play toward the end of the game, when the Mountaineers had a third-and-five on their own 30 yard line. A stop would have given UNC time to run a two-minute drill to win or tie the game.
Instead, Thomas escaped the North Carolina defense and rushed 12 yards to the App State 42-yard line. When the Tar Heels finally got the ball back, they only had 30 seconds to mount a final drive.
“At the end of the game, his legs made a play,” safety Myles Dorn said.
The Mountaineers were 7-15 on third down, and many of their conversions were during crucial points in the game.
“Third down is money down,” Dorn said. “You’ve got to get off the field. I think our percentage was terrible, it wasn’t good. Any time they convert on third down, that’s more momentum on their side.”
The Tar Heels struggled, but they were also undermanned. Wolfolk snagged his third interception of the year in the second quarter, but would later leave the game with an injury.
“You’ve got to play good to win,” Brown said. “And nobody cares about injuries. You take care of those kids and play somebody else, that’s just what you do.”
It wasn’t just injuries, though. Linebacker Jeremiah Gemmel was ejected for targeting in the second quarter, and a first-half mistake from Dorn hurt, too.
“I dropped a pick today,” Dorn said. “That could’ve very well changed the whole game.”
After two straight losses, UNC won’t get a break in its schedule. The Tar Heels have a date with No. 1 Clemson in Chapel Hill on Saturday. Although it may be a daunting task, Brown says it could be a good thing.
“We are probably lucky that we
are playing the best team in the country, because that will pick our kids up,” Brown said.
“They’ll know the challenge.”
A few crucial moments and missing players hurt the Tar
Heels vs. App State.
