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Theyre dancing in the wind Spoken


word
activism
thrives at
UNC
Artivism takes root in
student spoken-word
groups
By Brinley Lowe
Features Editor

To a Friend Somewhere in
Chicago is a personal letter to
an old friend. But unlike most
letters, it doesnt have just one
reader or any readers at all,
really. Instead, it has an audi-
ence.
Jazlin Laboy uses spoken-
word poetry to tell her stories.
To a Friend Somewhere in
Chicago is about a friend she
felt disconnected from after
leaving the West Side of Chicago
to go to college halfway across
the country.
But as we both tried to
escape the limits of our four-
corner block, I felt you trailing
/ Sinking into the same pave-
ment that you once told me you
hated / Scared of the unknown,
scared of failing both here and
there I took that chance for the
both of us / And all I can think
of is how I left you there, are
some of the verses from Laboys
poem.
Laboy, a 2017 graduate,
was a member of the Ebony
Readers/Onyx Theatre, a
15-person spoken-word
poetry group thats based
DTH/NATHAN KLIMA within UNCs Black Student
When theyre turning and the light hits them, they just take on a different life, said Joseph Justice, leader of the whirligig restoration effort in Wilson, N.C. Movement.
Founded in the 1970s, EROT

Public investments in the arts attract businesses to N.C. gives poets like Laboy a plat-
form to talk about issues facing
people of color.
By Natalie Short unicycle to life on a farm in eastern the sculptures were falling into get low, and they just sit there and Performance is key when it
Senior Writer North Carolina. disrepair, with no one to maintain watch, he said. comes to EROT, Laboy said.
When theyre turning and the them as Simpson grew older. The arts onlookers sit at 217 Brew You can have the greatest
Wilson seems, at first, to be the light hits them, they just take on a Realizing that Simpsons farm Works, which opened in November. words, but if you cant relay your
center of a typical Southern small different life, Joseph Justice, an art- had become a tourist site in the Its on a block facing the park among message in performance and
town its streets lined with old, ist working to restore the sculptures county without advertising, a plan three buildings also owned by the emotion, it just falls flat.
red, brick buildings, formerly tobac- for the park, said. With the reflec- to restore the pieces and create the brewerys owner, Tom Curran, and Wesley Simmons, a senior
co warehouses until you drive up tors, theyre absolutely gorgeous. Its park was developed in 2010. his wife, Barbara Conklin. They exercise and sports science and
to the unusual spectacle of the Vollis like theyre dancing in the wind. A coalition of public and pri- wanted to invest in the area around member of EROT, said that art
Simpson Whirligig Park. Justice knew Vollis Simpson, the vate organizations including the park to draw in locals and visi- can bridge the communication
The light from the late afternoon artist and World War II veteran the non-profit Wilson Downtown tors. gap between groups that dont
sun bounces off brightly colored who built the whirligigs on his farm Development Corporation, the Since the start of the project, really understand each other.
reflectors detailing the 30-foot about 15 minutes from downtown National Endowment for the Arts about $25 million in private and I feel like art that doesnt
sculptures, as pieces made from Wilson. Today, Simpsons whirligigs and the N.C. Arts Council formed public development has sprung up have that purpose is almost
scrap metal and traffic signs spin in appear in museums around the to pay for the project. Private fami- within a two block radius of the wasting its potential at a certain
the slight breeze blowing across the world. For the past six years, Justice lies, companies and organizations park. Curran said Hi-Dollar, an old point,Simmons said. Like,
field that covers a downtown block. has worked as part of the restoration also donated. tobacco warehouse next to the park, its cool to make songs about
By November 2017, the park plans team. Justice said hes developed an is being renovated into about 90 turning up. Its cool to make
to have 30 restored whirligigs, The whirligigs were named the intimate relationship with the sculp- apartments, four retail shops and a frivolous things, but at the same
interconnected moving sculptures official folk art of the state by the tures over the years an apprecia- restaurant. The project costs about time, theres a bigger purpose
made of odd parts. They resemble General Assembly in June 2013, less tion reflected in the community. $12 million, and the building will be and point and a poignant
anything from World War II-style than a month after Simpsons death. A lot of people will drink beer point that you can use art for. I
fighter planes to a man riding a However, only three years before, down there and wait for the sun to SEE ARTS CUTS, PAGE 4
SEE ARTIVISM, PAGE 4

Q&A with Melissa Claire Egan, soap actress and UNC alum
Melissa Claire Egan,
famous for playing Annie
I love that pace. Theres no downtime. You
on All My Children and have to be on your A-game all the time.
Chelsea on The Young and
the Restless, graduated from
Melissa Claire Egan
UNC with a degree in dra- Soap opera actress
matic art in 2003. Features
acting classes in New York youre also doing your acting
Editor Brinley Lowe asked
with more of a conservatory classes all year long too.
Egan about her career and
kind of feel, and thats why I
time at UNC. DTH: How does that differ
knew I did not want to go to
from your work now as a soap
The Daily Tar Heel: When a conservatory for college. I
opera actress?
did you get you get your start wanted an all-around educa-
in TV? tion. I knew I wanted to be in MCE: I always say its the
classes with other people who closest thing to doing a play
Melissa Claire Egan: I because theres so much to do
started auditioning as a kid at werent actors.
Ive always said the best and we dont have any reruns.
about 10-years-old for fun as
acting class is living your life. Every day, you essentially get
a hobby (in New York City).
one take unless somebody
I always knew I wanted to DTH: How were you drops their line. Youve got
go to college. I was going to involved on campus?
to get your blocking in the
do this later in life. I knew
I wanted to enjoy my child-
MCE: I did three shows a moment. All the cameras are
year, so that took up most of on at once. And then the next
hood and do the school plays
my extracurricular time. I day, you do a new play. Its not
and play lacrosse and be on
would rehearse four hours a like you get four days to do a
the swim team and do those
night. scene. I love that pace. Theres
real life things but I loved
It was a great feeling of no down time. You have to be
acting since I was very young.
being a team and working on your A-game all the time.
But my parents were like,
on the show for months at a
Youre going to college, and I
time, and then presenting it PHOTO COURTESY OF MELISSA EGAN
was like, I know. I had taken
was just so thrilling. And then SEE MELISSA, PAGE 4 Melissa Egan (middle) graduated from UNC as a dramatic art major in 2003.

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2 Wednesday, May 31, 2017 News The Daily Tar Heel

Shufords give to entrepreneurs


LEAH ASMELASH
The Daily Tar Heel DIGITAL EDITOR
JENNI CIESIELSKI
www.dailytarheel.com OPINION EDITOR
OPINION@DAILYTARHEEL.COM
RACHEL JONES BROOKLYNN COOPER Their donation is Preparing these people for the future it Folt said the programs
expansion would help foster
SUMMER EDITOR
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DESIGN EDITOR
DESIGN@DAILYTARHEEL.COM the largest in the just seemed like the logical thing to do. the innovative thinkers of
the future by becoming part
BRINLEY LOWE
FEATURES EDITOR
GABI PALACIO
PHOTO EDITOR
colleges history. Jim Shuford
CEO of STM industries
of the UNC experience as
PHOTO@DAILYTARHEEL.COM
a whole, as most students
REBECCA AYERS By Lidia Davis spend their first two years in
BREAKING EDITOR KAREN STAHL Staff Writer at the presentation of the get the legislature to catch up, the college and more than 75
COPY CHIEF donation. we could go further, Hodding percent of undergraduates
COPY@DAILYTARHEEL.COM
The Shuford family from The donation will help Carter, former UNC profes- graduate from the College
Charlotte, North Carolina create a program with up to sor of leadership and public of Arts and Sciences. The
made an $18 million dona- four faculty fellows, three affairs, said. expanded entrepreneurship

chinese
tion to the College of Arts additional entrepreneurs- The Shuford family runs program will also collaborate
and Sciences Tuesday to more in-residence, 70 student the fifth-generation North with over 30 different majors.
than double the size of UNCs internship opportunities and Carolina company Shurtape It doubles the size of this
undergraduate entrepreneur- a lecture series on innovation Technologies, LLC of Hickory. program, and as you heard
ship program. and entrepreneurship. The The donors Jim Shuford, from Kevin, there are a lot of

music
The donation is the larg- name of the entrepreneurship CEO of Stm Industries, students that are unable to do
est single one-time gift from minor was formally changed Stephen Shuford, CEO of it that are just thirsty for this
a living family or individual to the Shuford Program in Shurtape Technologies and opportunity that is really
to the college. At a presen- Entrepreneurship. Dorothy Shuford Lanier of exciting to us, Folt said.
tation unveiling the dona- The college will pro- Bedford, New York are Jim Shuford said the dona-
tion on Tuesday afternoon, vide additional support for siblings and fifth-generation tion went to the College of Arts

CONCERT
Chancellor Carol L. Folt said three more full-time faculty UNC graduates. Their and Sciences rather than the
there are goals for the money members, entrepreneur-in- grandfather, Abel Alexander Kenan-Flagler Business School
to be anchored to a $35 mil- residence and an administra- Shuford Jr., graduated from because of the potential for a
lion fundraising campaign to tive staff position. Guskiewicz UNC in 1900. broader reach, as these entre-
further innovation and entre- said UNC Entrepreneur-in- The graduates of 1900 preneurial skills can prepare all
preneurship at UNC. Residence Bernard Bell will could not imagine this world, students for their futures, not
Theyre helping us greatly serve as the first Shuford I dont think. And we cant just business majors.
Come hear a Chinese expand the footprint of one of
our fastest growing programs
executive director in the pro-
gram.
imagine the one that 30 years
from now the students that
Preparing these people for
the future it just seemed
and minors in the College of Im a big believer in are benefiting from this pro- like the logical thing to do,
instrumental ensemble play Arts and Sciences, said Kevin donating large amounts gram will be creating, Folt Shuford said.
Guskiewicz, dean of UNCs of private money to the said at Tuesdays presenta-
traditional Chinese music! College of Arts and Sciences, University now, if we could tion. university@dailytarheel.com

Thursday, June 8 How are you involved with arts at UNC? Compiled by staff writer Grace
Carney
Photos taken by Grace Carney
7 p.m. Students participate in and support arts
Hanes Art Auditorium
I love the Kenan Theater Im in the Tarpeggios
performances. I went to four a cappella group... I

FREE different plays last year. I


loved the UNC production of
dance every day and I
make money drawing
and open My Fair Lady. portraits.
Thomas Andrews Hailey Brown
to the public Junior economics major and Hispanic linguistics Sophomore economics and statistics
minor majors

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The Daily Tar Heel News Wednesday, May 31, 2017 3

Marching band finds balance UNC


The Marching responds
Tar Heels
band together
to NCAAs
on and off the third
field.
By Alexandra Blazevich
Senior Writer
notice
By Rebecca Ayers, Rachel Jones
Four hours before every game, the and James Tatter
Marching Tar Heels warm up while Senior Writers
the rest of us sleep late. Three hours
before every game, they play as the UNC has released its
team makes its way through Tar response to the NCAAs third
Heel Town. Two hours before every Notice of Allegations on its
game, they play in the Pit to get Carolina Commitment website
students hyped up. One hour before after a review to protect privacy
every game, they march to the sta- rights. The 102-page response
dium in time for kick-off. begins with a paragraph stating
And thats just for football season. that the narrative popularized
Its a full day, band alum Maitlyn by media accounts is wrong
Betts said. And theres no sitting and contradicted by the facts in
unless someone gets injured. the record.
The marching band is a huge time The introduction ends by stat-
commitment and the students in ing the NCAA faces challenges
it still manage to get good grades to make a decision on the
and have social lives, but for them, record and to avoid influence
its worth it. from the media and other sourc-
The experiences you get with es, including Mark Emmert, the
band I think are irreplaceable and President of the NCAA.
you cant find them anywhere else, Within the response, UNC
said Bryce Lapping, an alto saxo- argues that the courses under
phone player. review were an academic
issue, not an NCAA violation.
They support this claim by
The members stating that student-athletes
Betts spent all four of her under- were treated the same way as
grad years in the marching band other students enrolled in the
before graduating in 2014 with a courses.
degree in exercise science and a UNCs response states that
minor in music. When she picked up student-athletes made up
DTH/CHICHI ZHU
the alto saxophone in eighth grade, 29.4 percent of enrollment in
Bryce Lapping, senior political science and journalism major, plays the alto saxophone with the Marching Tar Heels. the courses, compared to the
she never put it down.
47.6 percent reported by the
Lapping, a senior, started taking Leadership to do more. ple, Weybright said.
Wainstein report. The discrep-
piano lessons in elementary school. Its not in addition to everything
This fall, he will be a section captain Each section of the band has two ancy is due to the Wainstein
else, Fuchs said. You do band Relationships report and UNCs response
for the saxophone players. captains. Although band members instead of other things.
Molly Weybright and Adelyn can apply and recommend their This one time, at band camp Though the storms of life assail working off of different defini-
Luke, seniors and trumpet players, peers for the roles, Fuchs has the Every spring, the band adds 10 us, still our hearts beat true. Naught tions of a student-athlete.
met at band camp before their first final say. to 12 new songs to their basketball- can break the friendships formed at The distinction is between
year. They have been close friends Luke was a section captain at her season repertoire, which they also dear old NCU. some of the statistics used in a
ever since. high school for the high brass sec- play for football in the fall. Hark the Sound said it best previous report by an outside
tion. She will be the trumpet section Fuchs said one of the challenges of marching band friendships are just agency and one that the institu-
captain this fall, where she will lead tion determined as we looked at
Moving with a purpose his job is to make the program diverse that close.
the data ourselves, said Bubba
about 35 trumpet players. enough for people of all ages and The band fulfills multiple needs,
Jeffrey Fuchs, director of In high school, as much time as I backgrounds to enjoy, but he usually Fuchs said. I think most of the kids Cunningham, UNC athletic
University bands, began as a tuba put into academics, I (also put) into chooses pop, rock and country songs use band as an activity time, they director.
player at Truman State University practicing trumpet, Luke said. That that are climbing the charts. use it as a musical time, they use it The Wainstein and
in Kirksville, Mo. During his time was great practice for me then, and Before classes start in the fall, as a social time so its checking off Cadwalader, Wickersham and
there, he realized his love of work- just going into college, it was just a band members attend a mandatory, more than one box. Taft report both counted stu-
ing with college band students. In natural transition in balancing band week-long band camp, where they The band members said the dents who had participated in
1995, after a few years of working time and academic time. learn and rehearse the songs we friends you make in band are their athletics at any point prior to or
with the marching bands at Truman All four band members said that hear at every game. closest friends throughout college. during the time they took the
State and The University of Kansas, time management is key. For Weybright, band camp holds You really connect to each other, courses; UNCs response only
he came to UNC to fill his current Band is a class through the some of her fondest memories. Betts said. I got to school a week includes students who were
position. University that members must On the last day of band camp, early and I already had a little bit of participating in athletics while
Twenty-two years later, his favor- add to their schedule. Six hours of members perform for their parents a group started before jumping in taking a course. However, the
ite part of the job is working with rehearsal in the fall and two hours in on the football field. After saying and having the overwhelming (start) former athletes may have still
students. the spring add up to one credit hour goodbye to their families, the first- of college by yourself. had an impact on NCAA post-
His popular phrase, Move with each semester. years are led to a dark room. Then By the end of this summer, Fuchs season eligibility, according to
a purpose, applies whether the 265 They often miss class time to the rest of the band starts playing will have gone to nine weddings of some academic metrics.
band members march on the foot- travel with these teams, but Lapping its songs and waving glow sticks, former band members. When a student athlete grad-
ball field or get off the bus at a rest said that as long as he works with officially welcoming their new band- We get to see the kids come back uates, when a student graduate
stop. his professors and budgets his time, mates. and they bring their own children leaves the University, that has
Fuchs said last year, 8.6 percent he is able to get everything done. This August will be Weybrights back, Fuchs said. We get to know an impact on an academic rate,
of members got degrees in music- Instead of staying out with friends fourth and final year of band camp the students rather than a biology Cunningham said.
-but one in three band members is after a potluck dinner, Betts went at UNC. class where you have them once and UNC also states that these
involved with music after college, back to her dorm to study. Instead Despite the fact that we get an never see them again. Its a family courses originated within the
whether in a church worship group of sleeping in after a late night of insane amount of really cool perks, atmosphere. Department of African and
or local rock band. homework, Lapping woke up early the best part has got to be the peo- arts@dailytarheel.com African-American Studies, and
that they were established by
Julius Nyangoro and Deborah
Crowder, who served as the

Q&A with Katie Zigler, Ackland director


department chairperson and the
departments student services
manager and secretary, respec-
tively, to appropriately assist
students with a wide variety of
The Ackland Art Museum thing that is American or European
up to 1950 except prints. The
challenges and interests.
Crowder and Nyangoro were
will add a new full curator curator can be someone who is
either more of a specialist or more
mentioned in the first and sec-
position to its staff. of a generalist in either European or
ond Notice of Allegations, but
were directly implicated in the
American art up to 1950. Its a very third notice as the people who
The Ackland Art Museum broad position. had administered the courses.
received its largest donation to date
DTH: What is the collection going Crowder released an affidavit in
from Massachusetts couple Sheldon March stating that the accusa-
to consist of?
and Leena Peck in January 2017. tions against her are untrue. She
The gift, valued at $25 million, KZ: It can be anything. So it can was interviewed for more than
includes approximately $17 million be ceramics, paintings, sculptures. five hours on May 10, according
in donated artwork and $8 million Anything but prints. It was the to the response. UNC does not
in cash. Staff writer Tiffani Gibbs preference of the donor. I think he comment on Crowders coopera-
asked Katie Ziglar, museum direc- probably feels that we have so many tion with the investigation in
tor, about what the museum will do prints in our collection already. I light of this submission, but does
with the money. cant tell you exactly but we have agree that Nyangoro failed to
13,000 works of art on paper.
The Daily Tar Heel: Can you explain cooperate with the investigation.
the Sheldon Peck Endowment that DTH: Has this position existed UNC also states that some
the museum received in January? before at the Ackland Museum? of the allegations against Jan
DTH/GABRIELLE PALACIO Boxill, who served as an aca-
Katie Ziglar: So the Pecks gave a KZ: No. This is going to be a brand I think we are in a period of growth, said Musem Director Katie Zigler. demic adviser for the womens
collection of art, and then they also new position and the reason we will
basketball team, were valid, but
gave $8 million in total. $7.5 mil- have it is because of the additional Collection. We have been invited to DTH: Is there anything else you others were not. UNC contends
lion of that is going to be used for money that has come through the participate in a couple of shows that would like to say? that the valid allegation occured
an endowment, and $500,000 is Pecks generosity that has allowed us the organizers would have probably
spendable. The ($500,000) is going to have it. Its exciting to have a new not been in contact with us before KZ: I think we are in a period of before the four-year statute of
growth. The Peck Gift is certainly a limitations was up and therefore
to be used for various things to get curatorial position. At the moment the Peck Gift came. It has made a
good start, its a fantastic start. We is time-barred. Boxills scope in
the collection up and running, and we have one assistant curator, one very big difference in our profile.
have gotten other gifts that have the investigation widened in the
we are going to create a major exhi- associate curator and one full cura-
tor. We will probably have two full
DTH: What other new positions, if come as a result of the Peck Gift. second and third notice of alle-
bition of the whole collection and a gations, jumping from six to 18
any, is the museum developing? Donors have mentioned the Peck
big catalog to go with it with lots of curators and then continue with an
gift as something that has inspired examples of wrongdoing on her
scholarly articles in it and a tour for associate curator and an assistant KZ: Many people dont realize part, including writing parts of
(the collection) for several domestic curator. that our first Asian curator, who them to give a gift of their own,
museums and maybe this tour to go is Bradley Bailey, was hired in whether in art or financial support papers for student-athletes.
DTH: What do you hope people will for the museum. We are already The response was submit-
abroad. We dont know yet. November of 2015. Bradley has been
gain from the presence of the new reaching over 10,000 Carolina
(Of ) the $7.5 million, $5 million of here for about a year and a half. He ted to the NCAA on UNCs
curator position and the collection? students a year who have classes
it is for a curator. The earnings from has been tremendously productive. deadline of May 16. Hearings
that $5 million will pay for the sal- KZ: A lot of people have heard Thats the first new curator we have here. We would like to have every are expected to take place on
ary and benefits for the curator, and about the gift because it was so had in a long time and the first ever Carolina student visitor at least once Aug. 16 and 17, according to
research, travel and things like that. well-publicized. It has already on the subject of Asian art. Now we a year. We also would like to deepen Greg Sankey, chairperson of the
The rest of the money will be for enhanced our reputation in the field will have the Peck curator that will our relationship with the commu- NCAA Office of the Committees
endowment for the purchase for the of Northern European drawings, and be coming on. After that, I think our nity. I think thats an area with a lot on Infractions.
other works of art. It will generate as a result of this, more people are next move will be in the contempo- of room for improvement. university@dailytarheel.com
income that we can use to buy any- visiting and asking to see the Peck rary field. university@dailytarheel.com
4 Wednesday, May 31, 2017 News The Daily Tar Heel

ARTS CUTS the N.C. Arts Council, said


that the NEA funds about
succeed, Martin said. Or in
downtown revitalization, to
up Mayers claims. A report
on the NEAs website says
funding, if you looked at it
as an investment, its a no-
funded by the NEA that sup-
port veterans might not exist
FROM PAGE 1 10 percent of the N.C. Arts assist communities in becom- each dollar the federal gov- brainer, Martin said. without public funds.
called the Whirligig Station. Councils budget, while the ing places that people want ernment spends directly It results in assistance for
If that park were not here, state funds 80 percent and to live and work, and in eco- through the NEA results in Arts for everyone wounded warriors who are
we would not be here, Curran private donations fund 10 nomic development, which is up to $9 in private and public coming back with traumatic
said. If that park were not percent. He said that elimi- about attracting businesses funds. Advocates for the NEA head injuries and PTSD, and
here, I dont know that other nating the NEA would have and people to North Carolina Martin pointed to North point to the agencys dedica- the arts are helping them
developments in downtown an impact on how the arts are because they want to live Carolinas flourishing tourism tion to supporting the arts heal, he said. The private
would be happening as quick- funded. here. industry as another way that throughout the country, not sector is not going to do that.
ly as they are now. It would require a whole Daniel Mayer, director of the arts attract business and just in urban or affluent areas. Martin also said that the
rethinking of the model on The Arts Center of Carrboro, investment to the state. Funding for the arts N.C. Arts Council gives fund-
Quantifiable economic which this is based, Martin said he agreed that the arts We really have forged the through government sources ing for projects in all 100
returns said. When the endowment are good for a local economy. way as far as taking North is important because it counties in the state.
was created and all the state If you spend money on the Carolinas oldest arts tradi- enables a more level playing When were working with
The Trump administration art agencies were created, the arts center, people come here, tions and organizing those and field for everyone to be able downtowns in small towns
has proposed cutting fund- non-profit model was used as people buy meals, people buy combining them in ways that to experience the arts, Mayer to help revitalize their down-
ing for the NEA entirely in the way that resources would gas, people spend the night attract people to the state that said. town and rebrand them-
its proposed 2018 budget. be distributed to create devel- at a hotel, people go to a bar result in millions of dollars The NEAs website says selves, they dont have the
Founded in 1965, the NEA is opment in the arts. after the show, Mayer said. in economic impact, Martin that 40 percent of NEA- resources to hire a big firm
a federal agency that funds Martin said that besides And if you spend money in said. supported activities take to come in and do that, he
the arts in all 50 states. the personal significance that the schools, test scores are The NEA was allotted place in high-poverty neigh- said. We help them because
The NEA gave grants total- art brings to individuals, it higher, dropout rates are 0.004 percent of the federal borhoods, and 36 percent of thats our mission and we
ing $1,712,800 to projects also has an economic impact. lower there are all kinds budget in 2016. NEA grants go to organiza- have public funds to do that.
and organizations in North On what I call a public of ways in which the arts are Given the very tiny tions that use the arts to help Otherwise, how are you
Carolina in 2016. value level, there are all the a multiplier for economic amounts of funding that are populations such as people going to help Wilson get a
Wayne Martin, director of ways that the arts are used in development and prosperity. put in, and then the results with disabilities and veterans. Whirligig Park?
education, to help students Data from the NEA backs from that tiny amount of Martin said arts programs state@dailytarheel.com

ARTIVISM her favorite original piece,


Hands Up.
Its really about all those
items that have been mis-
basically martyrs within the
black community.
ments and protests.
A lot of times when you
tion.
Im going to do that for
FROM PAGE 1 The chorus says, Ive taken for weapons and how Bonds said art is more do a protest, there are chants the rest of my life, he said.
think its important for art- got my hands up. Its not a black people are currently influential than people and that goes to a rhythm I couldnt picture my life
ists to have an agenda. gun, its a toy truck. Officer, trying to live in a system think. and that itself can be consid- without creating. I feel like
Mistyre Bonds, a member I cant breathe. Im already that isnt for them, and how Art puts into words those ered art, she said. creation is the most impor-
of the UNC Wordsmiths, dead. Why are you on top of normal things that are just things that maybe somebody Simmons, who has writ- tant thing you can do as a
said that artivism art me? Please dont shoot me in normal, everyday things to doesnt understand with the ten poetry since elementary human being. You can bring
that makes a point on social front of my son. I hope they other people, such as Skittles political jargon, she said. school, said that he plans to something into the world that
justice is part of most of have Skittles in heaven, she or a hoodie or a toy truck, She said art is already continue with spoken-word didnt exist before you.
her poetry and rap, including said. have come to be emblems of embedded in black move- and rapping after gradua- art@dailytarheel.com

MELISSA no teleprompter. Going into


it 10 years ago, I was like, Oh
ended up being a Super Bowl
commercial. I didnt know so
it, and then Id drive two and
a half hours back. There are
and the Restless. Its hard
because theyre both such fun
MCE: I still joke that Im
jealous of any students at
FROM PAGE 1 my gosh, this is crazy! but I was just watching the Super so many people who want this characters and theyre the UNC because I loved it so
DTH: Was it a big adjust- you get used to it. Your brain Bowl and I happened to be career, and you have to really ones Ive played for such long much. I learned so much as
ment to have to memorize is a muscle. You get used to on. No one bothered to let me pay for it and work extra periods of time. I always say, a person. I get such nostalgia
lines that quickly? learning lines very quickly. know. hard. you want the opposite of what watching a Carolina basket-
When I was in college, I you want in real life on these ball game or anything. I met
MCE: That is one big dif- DTH: After college, what DTH: What is your favorite
got an agent in Greensboro shows. You want divorce, you so many incredible people,
ference. Obviously if youre was the first role that you character that youve played?
so I could audition in want someone cheating on incredible friends that Im still
doing a play, youre doing the played?
Wilmington. There were a MCE: Thats like picking a you, because its just a fun best friends with. The four
same play every day. People MCE: I moved to LA a lot of early mornings of me child. It would be obviously thing to play. years they go by so fast, but
think there are cue cards month after I graduated. I did driving to Wilmington in the between Annie on All My
DTH: How has your time at they just change your life.
and theres none of that. a lot of commercials. I did a dark two and a half hours Children and who I play
UNC impacted you? arts@dailytarheel.com
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UNCs student filmmakers struggle to find a home


Classes for film have Nic Beery, owner of Beery
Media and director of the
tive literature department,
the communications depart-
that foster the creative mind.
Films, he said, can speak
A professor of mine
he sat me down and said,
funding to future NC film-
makers.
bounced between Carrboro Film Festival, said a
good film makes people think.
ment may not be getting the
recognition it deserves in
directly to the soul. Prakash, youre very smart
and very talented, but you
For up-and-coming film-
makers, Beery said its best to
A lot of creative types
departments. He said the journey of film- film. Lanning said combin- they get screwed over by the need to go to (Los Angeles) go for what you want and tell
making itself is eye-opening ing the School of Media and business side, and a lot of where the moneys at, Kadiri the story in your heart.
By Lidia Davis and takes the filmmaker Journalism with the commu- business types they dont said. At the end of the day, peo-
Staff Writer down unexpected paths. nications department might appreciate the creative peo- But even after making ple will forgive bad camera
Im working on a film help film students gain more ple, Kadiri said. it to LA, Kadiri said its all work (and even bad sound)
Cameran Bellamy knew by right now I just shot, and connections. Kadiri said his ultimate about learning and getting if they have a good story and
her sophomore year of high I dont even know how its UNC did, in fact, combine goal is to have the same funding for the next project. good acting and thats what
school that she wanted to be going to end up looking these forces until the early artistic freedom as Stanley Through CFA, he thinks he you can do for free, Beery
an actress. That was the year and thats what I love about 1990s with a television, film Kubrick or Christopher can help create a demand said.
she beat all of the male actors editing, Beery said. It and radio major. American Nolan. in the state to bring more university@dailytarheel.com
in an audition for the role of changes the mood completely. television and film direc-
Charlie in Charlie and the Every one of those little tor Peyton Reed graduated
Chocolate Factory. changes you make to make from this program in 1987
But her love for film didnt the film different. and spoke at the School of
INDOOR POOL
spark until coming to UNC. Senior Sarah Lanning is Media and Journalism in
She joined the Carolina Film secretary for CFA and a com- 2015. Lanning said that the
Association in 2015. Although munications major with a successes of students in the
shes a double major in dra- media and technology con- communications department
matic art and English, most centration. arent recognized by these
of her work outside school is (The connections Ive alumni.
behind the camera. made in the communications Theyre coming back to FITNESS CENTER
The biggest reward, for department) really opened UNC and acknowledging
me, is hitting people emotion- my eyes to what you could do the work of the journalism
ally and changing them in with film and how you could school but not acknowledging
some way after theyve seen a basically create culture with the work of the students in
performance, she said. Film it, Lanning said. the production department,
is a great way to reach out Lanning said CFA lets stu- which is disappointing,

The Crest
and communicate and get dents make short films that Lanning said.
ideas across because if any- they wouldnt be able to do For students like Prakash
thing, it opens peoples minds otherwise. She said although Kadiri, a 2017 graduate who
in a way that might have not there is a global cinemas founded CFA, its important
been opened before. minor within the compara- to give students opportunities

Call for current leasing specials


Student bands cover issues, emotion BLACK APPLIANCES ON-SITE LAUNDRY
By Rebecca Ayers of that song comes from. er after college because of the
Breaking Editor Klein said she and her different directions all of the
bandmates love perform- band members plan on tak-
UNC student bands play ing and practicing together ing. However, he said hes not
types of music that arent in because its an emotionally willing to give up the unique
the Billboard Top 100, like cathartic experience. energy Hostile Merger has.
meaty southern folk, feminist But I love playing our song Dissimilar South, another
punk rock or experimental No Signal because in the band of UNC students, has
jazz noise. middle of it, we just dissolve an unconventional southern BUSINESS CENTER BILLIARDS ROOM
Julia Klein, a junior com- into literally banging on our folk sound, and their venues
munications major, said instruments and trying to be have ranged from the Student
Crystal Tit, her all-girl pro- as loud as we can, she said. Union to a wine bar in
gressive punk band, formed Klein said she doesnt Beaufort, North Carolina.
in December because they know what the future of the The band started off as
were frustrated with UNCs band is after college ends, but a group of friends that just
male-dominated music scene that practicing and perform- goofed around with instru-
and wanted to talk about ing is one of the highlights of ments their first year, and
womens issues through her week. gradually became Dissimilar
music.
Thats kind of where our
Junior Christian Cail is in a South. Senior Rebecca
jazz-influenced noise experi- Chaisson, a geography major
200 N Carolina Highway 54 West
Carrboro, NC 27510 855.330.0730
sense of empowerment comes mental band, Hostile Merger. and member of Dissimilar

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together, being able to make a with performing to express content tends to be political,
lot of noise and being women, himself. because most of the band
is how we can make a state- Im just kind of a misan- members are not male and
ment with our music. thropic person in general and identify as LGBTQ.
Crystal Tits music covers in a lot of ways this music The majority of our life
a range of socially relevant is sort of a very primal call experiences tend to be politi-

find a job buy a couch sell your car


topics, such as LGBTQ issues. to being authentic and mad cized, and so content-wise,
One of the groups songs, and kind of primal, Cail were writing about our lives
Girls, is about a woman who said. And ugly. Its a genuine and our experiences but it
realizes she is gay. attempt to be ugly, I think. tends to have a kind of edge
Another of Crystal Tits Hostile Merger typically to it, Chaisson said.
songs, F*ck Frat Court, plays at house shows. Cail said Chaisson said three of the
Standing up early
expresses its frustration with the performances are high members are seniors, and A 13-year-old girl is
fighting to have her voice
fraternities.
We tend to talk about fra-
ternities and their problems
energy, intense and can slip
into pure anarchic madness.
Dissimilar South might stay
together after graduation next
I think were able to main- Spring.
games heard about climate
change. See pg. 3 for story.
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front of Student Stores on
kind of frustration with frat Cail said. Im always think- us to play and just the level Complete the grid Monday to protest privati-
culture into music and be ing, I really dont know how of support weve received has so each row, column
zation. See pg. 3 for story.
able to scream about it and be anybody enjoyed that. been really pleasantly surpris- and 3-by-3 box (in
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EDITORIAL CARTOON By Mark Viser, mviser@email.unc.edu


QUOTE OF THE DAY
Art puts into words those things that maybe
somebody doesnt understand with the polit-
ical jargon or somebody,
Savannah Faircloth
Mistyre Bonds, on the importance of the arts
Sophomore global studies major
from Charlotte.
Email: sfrclth@live.unc.edu FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT
So why were people fired if nothing wrong
To the happened? And who forged the grade
change signatures?
self- relO627, on UNCs response to the NCAAs Notice of Allegations

claimed LETTERS TO THE EDITOR


non-artist Silent Sam is not
about Southern pride
see the forest through the
trees, so to speak. We, who

T
pay attention to the reli-
he art world can seem TO THE EDITOR: able news outlets like the
very exclusive and As the cities of New Post, NY Times and other
impervious.
Those who dont believe they
EDITORIAL Orleans and Charlottesville historical reliable sources

A Confederate narrative
distant themselves from and base our opinions
possess natural artistic talent racist pasts by removing on the facts and not Fox
often discard any prospect of their Confederate memori- News (the media version
creative expression. When doing als, shouldnt UNC recon- of the National Enquirer).
so, they cut out a large chunk of sider removing its own You label us Liberals like
the human experience without
even realizing it. You dont have Being critical of his- worse, Confederate soldiers
worked to maintain one of
in 1860. For the southern
slave owner, keeping peo-
symbol of hate, Silent Sam?
Sam, like any other
that is an insult. I gladly
embrace the label if it
to be extraordinarily talented
to create something of mean-
tory isnt the same as the greatest blemishes on ple in bondage was both symbol, represents dif- refers to the truth that we
American history. The Civil an economic and white ferent things to different Liberals believe in equal-
ing. Were conditioned to think trying to change it. War sparked the prolif- supremacy issue. people. How would you ity, compassion, helping

N
that art is for the prodigal, the 1 feel, if you were a descen-
arratives matter. eration of white terrorism Everyone has their the needy, in regulations
percent elite of artists. But the dant of a holocaust sur-
Fundamentally, against African-American flaws, and those should that stop people, corpora-
truth is just the opposite art is vivor, and saw statue of a tions and the elite from
democracy. studying history is people, which continues on be taught, but supporting
Nazi soldier standing in raping our citizens and
In a world where everyone looking at various sources to this day. slavery isnt a mere flaw. the middle of your school our lands. In addition, we
created art, we would experi- to determine a narrative The insistence on main- Everything from the Bible campus? Could you fault know Comey also ethi-
ence heightened communica- thats as close to truth as taining Confederate sympa- to the writings of Frederick an African-American stu- cally did the wrong thing
tion and understanding. Art possible. In the United thies as a part of the white Douglass and William dent for feeling the same when releasing pumped
is built upon the exchange of States, the battle of which southern identity greatly Lloyd Garrison were avail- rage whenever she/he sees up false statements about
ideas and is interpersonal in narrative should be pri- reduces and can even able to a Southern person Silent Sam looking down Hillary based on emails
nature. Information or opin-
oritized in our collective negate many of the ben- questioning the moral- over the UNC campus? that already had been
ions displayed in an artistic When I was a student at
memories, towns and text efits of living in the South: ity of slavery in 1860. reviewed by the commit-
form have the potential to UNC many years ago, as a
books has always been a music, hospitality and food. Southerners who support- tee and found to be not an
reach people and spark con- non-Caucasian, I always
divisive political battle. Unless you think slavery ed slavery knew better, but issue. And unless you live
versation in unconventional felt like a second-class citi-
Even worse, this political and treason are okay, you chose to be complicit in in a bubble, we know the
ways. The possibilities for sub- zen whenever I passed by
battle has made it so that GOP and Trump ran with
ject matter and intent are end- should fully disavow what their amoral way of life.
Silent Sam. To me, the mes- this false report to hurt
less; art provides a platform to being critical of our nation- the Confederate project The removal of statues sage Silent Sam proclaimed her campaign, which was
discuss every single aspect of al story is considered a sign aimed to accomplish. doesnt erase history. We was loud and clear - that ethically wrong. We know
humanity, from politics to cul- of ignorance or disrespect. Naysayers love to claim highly doubt the Civil is, the University of North Comey now has proof that
tural heritage to teen angst. Of course, we are speak- that history books say the War will be taken out of Carolina at Chapel Hill is, Trump asked him to lay off
If youre one of the self- ing mostly to the American war was about money. New Orleans textbooks first and foremost, an insti- the Flynn investigation,
proclaimed non-artists out Civil War and the legacy of But history is about just because a few monu- tution of the Caucasians, by which is obstruction of jus-
there, here are ways you can the Caucasians, and for the
those who fought in it being critical regurgi- ments have been removed. tice. We are now wondering
integrate art into your life: Caucasians, and everyone if you are going to continue
Pick up a pencil and just especially the pro-slavery, tating tired sayings in a But doing so does stop
anti-United States mem- book without furthering Confederate glorification. else better know his/her to defend your GOP friends
start drawing. Drawing skills place in the pecking order. and Trump while watching
do not come immediately, bers of the Confederate an argument isnt being Until we as a society stop
It has been over 150 Trump and friends lie like
rather it takes hours and hours States of America. critical. And even if the glorifying white suprema-
years since the Civil War crazy trying to evade this
of practice. A viral Ted Talk by Having Confederate war was driven by money, cist traitors, this board has ended. It is long overdue snafu. When will you and
Graham Shaw demonstrates ancestry is nothing to be then we would encour- no choice but to continue for the UNC to bury its rac- your Conservatives buddies
several simple cartoons that proud of it ruined North age people to look at how to write in opposition to ist past. One cannot claim side with the Constitution,
anyone can recreate and dis- Carolina and the South for pervasive and economi- leaving Confederate monu- to embrace diversity while with America, the truth,
cusses how drawing helped many generations. Even cally lucrative slavery was ments intact. glorifying white supremacy doing the ethical thing, and
stroke-sufferers. at the same time. Eliminate demand release of all the
Go play a piano in the base- this remnant of racism evidence to a bi-partisan
ment of Hill Hall. Inside are from the campus. committee and an inde-
dozens of completely private
practice rooms with uprights
EDITORIAL pendent prosecutor? When
SR Cho

Its not just about pianos


will you and your buddies
and electric pianos. Hinton Urbana , Illinois demand Trump show ten
James, Eringhaus, Cobb and
years of tax returns to
Ruffin are just a few of the
residence halls that have pianos Do not act like Comey prove he has no financial
was Trumps enemy ties to Russia and no con-
available to play (at no cost). If
you need sheet music, websites Supporting the arts sort of artistic endeavor.
But at the same time,
more than just hearing
slightly off-tempo cov- TO THE EDITOR:
flicts of interest and has
not evaded taxes? When
such as 8notes.com have an
endless supply for all levels. shouldnt be one we need to acknowledge ers of Christmas songs In his letter about the
firing of James Comey,
will you admit that collud-
ing with Russia, and the
Attend events on campus
at the Ackland Art Museum
for all, all for one that theres a difference
between drawing as a
in between classes. The
instruments expressed
David Council is insulting whole sequence of Trumps

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to us. To the ones who can uninformed decisions the
(which has free admission), ast spring, Carol hobby and pursuing art, that while may be known last two weeks is very suspi-
Memorial Hall or Forest brought Heart and music or theatre as a for business and basket- cious? You have some nerve
Theatre for inspiration. Visit Soul to this cam- career. The University ball, the arts are an impor-
carolinaperformingarts.org and pus literally. should be supporting tant part of this campus. SPEAK OUT hitting us for asking for the
right thing to be done.
use your onyen to redeem dis- Pianos filled the campus STEM majors who want But the true way to make WRITING GUIDELINES
counted tickets for upcoming for the Arts Everywhere Please type: Handwritten let-
to take a fifteen-minute the arts thrive on this Kathy D. Morgan
performances. For a change of ters will not be accepted.
initiative as students of all music break, but they campus is through pas- UNC Friday Center
scenery, attend events off cam- Sign and date: No more than
pus at places like Carrboros majors suddenly remem- should be supporting the sionate students. two people should sign
Cats Cradle or the Arts Center. bered the Level 1 songs students who dedicate 15 Go to one Kamikazi or letters.
Take an art class. All UNC from the keyboard lessons hours a week to their artis- Carolina Bluegrass Band Students: Include your year,
students are required to take their moms made them tic craft just as much, if not performance and youll see major and phone number. The Daily Tar Heel
a VP credit. Use this to your take in first grade. more. campus is full of talented Faculty/staff: Include your
department and phone
advantage and take a cool class Were glad to see that In the April 21 edition of and underappreciated art- number. Established 1893,
that interests you! In the spring, Chancellor Folt and the DTH, professors in arts ists. Giving students like Edit: The DTH edits for space, 120 years
I took a great class called Rock Special Assistant to the departments questioned them the recognition and clarity, accuracy and vul- of editorial freedom
Lab (MUSC 158) where I was Chancellor for the Arts why the money was going resources they need goes garity. Limit letters to 250
placed into a band of other words. RACHEL JONES
Emil Kang seem to really towards initiatives like beyond pianos.
student musicians and practice SUBMISSION SUMMER EDITOR
care about increasing the makerspaces and pianos Investing in these MANAGING.EDITOR@DAILYTAR-
with them several times a week. Drop-off or mail to our office
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be a good introduction to the sibility at UNC. In a world ments were still short on long run the more well- Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514 JENNI CIESIELSKI
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