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TO THE EDITOR: After 10 years at Carolina, I will teach my last class at UNC on Thursday. There is much to love about this place, but what I will miss above all are Carolina students. The richness of life experiences and backgrounds you bring to this campus creates a vibrant intellectual community, and year after year, you impressed me with your intellect, your curiosity, your openness to new ideas, your passion and your engagement in the world beyond UNC. In short, Carolina students are a very special bunch, and the opportunity to learn from you and with you has been an immensely humbling and fulfilling experience. Thank you!
TO THE EDITOR: If you went to Dartmouth, you wouldn’t have class today. On Tuesday evening, students received an email informing them that classes will “be replaced by alternative programming designed to bring students, faculty, and staff together to discuss Dartmouth’s commitment to fostering debate that promotes respect for individuals, civil and engaged discourse, and the value of diverse opinions.” The cancellation was called in response to an act of protest, which happened this past Friday night. More than a dozen student activists interrupted a show for accepted Dartmouth students, declaring, “Dartmouth has a problem.” While no two struggles are identical, UNC has that same problem: the inappropriate handling of sexual assault and sexism on campus. The first name on the signature line of the email sent out to Dartmouth students is our very own future chancellor, Carol Folt. I commend Folt for her audacity to sign off on today’s cancellation. Students at Dartmouth made their voices heard and, under Folt’s direction, the school’s leadership took a strong first step of action. Students here at UNC haven’t hesitated to be vocal either, demanding a safer, more inclusive and democratic community. I implore Folt to continue to foster a strong sense of community and make bold moves when she joins us in the South. Nobody wants to ruin CTOPS.
TO THE EDITOR: We delivered a letter last winter to Chancellor Holden Thorp, asking him to break the loud tradition of silence at UNC in regards to its history and continued legacy of racism. In this letter, we asked Thorp to help us tell the truth. We asked for a plaque on the Confederate Monument, otherwise known as Silent Sam. At our most recent meeting, Thorp recommended that instead of a plaque on Silent Sam, we place one on the Unsung Founders Monument, located directly across from Silent Sam on McCorkle Place. Since its creation, the Unsung Founders Monument has been met with criticism for perpetuating the namelessness of former enslaved people who built this University. While the idea of placing a plaque by the Unsung Founders Monument opens up possibilities of how we can celebrate the enslaved people who built this University, it fails to address the larger issue at hand: Silent Sam. Nearly 100 years ago, Julian Carr’s speech during Silent Sam’s unveiling ceremony on our campus in 1913 demonstrated the motivation behind the statue. He stated the importance of “preserving the Anglo-Saxon race” and celebrated the violent abuse and intimidation of a black woman on Franklin Street. As we approach the centennial anniversary of the Confederate Monument on June 2, the necessity of a plaque on or adjacent to Silent Sam continues. Such a plaque must bring to light the white supremacist context in which the monument was conceived and erected. Before you leave our university, Chancellor Thorp, we ask you to take a stand and break the loud tradition of silence. This letter was written on behalf of the Real Silent Sam Committee.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this letter attributed the author to Kathy Bryant. The letter was submitted by Brenda Richardson Malone, Vice Chancellor of Human Resources. The letter was has been changed to reflect this.
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