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From UNC to Peaceful Tomorrows
By Andrew McGlaughon | February 22People come to UNC for many reasons. For 46-year-old David Potorti, it was a love of people and their stories that propelled him to Chapel Hill. It was this same love that led him away. Potorti arrived at UNC in 1999 to study folklore as a master's student. He was preparing to write a thesis on occupational folklore, focusing on the story of the UNC janitorial staff. But he now finds his life focused on a different story, using lessons learned from his brother's death during the Sept. 11 attacks to help other people carve peaceful tomorrows out of today's violent climate.
