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lue& whitesince 1998UNC-CH’s premiere monthly magazineJOCK LAUTERERTHEN AND NOW:AND THE SPEAKER BAN LAWinside: di-phi societies • field hockey • entrepreneurial photographersSEPTEMBER 2011 | Volume 14 | Issue 1 | www.blueandwhitemag.com | FREE

from the editorShannon Spainis a senior from Huntersville.She can be reached atsnspain@live.unc.edu.iI WAS MORTIFIED.I had to speak with the store manager?“Hi, I’m really sorry, but I brought a book—from,um, my home—to read in the—uh—grocery store, inbetween the produce and dairy sections.”His incredulous face was evidence enough that Ishould never speak of this incident again. To anyone.But, only because I know that you, dear Blue & Whitereaders, are loyal, kind and non-judgmental, will I sharethis with you—but you must promise to never repeat it...A few months ago when I strolled into Harris Teeterwith a paperback book absentmindedly tucked under myarm I picked up my favorite Pink Lady apples, a new tubof homemade salsa and a dark chocolate candy bar—youknow, the usual grocery stuff—and proceeded to thecheck out line. The cashier took my debit card—sheesh,groceries are expensive these days!—and I walked out toload my car with fresh fruits and deliciousness.It wasn’t until I saw the corner of a paperback bookcover sticking out from one of my plastic bags that a joltof intuition hit: she scanned my book? That cashier hadrun my paperback’s barcode at the register, overchargingme by $15 for something I’m dead-certain Harris Teeterhas never stocked on its shelves.So now that that’s out. Let’s say it together:I have book attachment issues.In fact, it’s been a serious problem since third grade,when I discovered I could check out more than 10 booksfrom the library at one time. (Yeah, I had an excitingchildhood.)My current symptoms include: an inability to traveltoo far from home without a book (or Blue & White) inmy purse/under my arm/in my....grocery basket? Sigh.Thankfully, Jock Lauterer encouraged me that maybeI’m not the only one with this problem. In an interviewfor The Franklin Street Stories project, Lauterer says,“The right kind of woman is going to come up to youand talk to you if you are reading a book.” Sure enough,the day Lauterer was sitting in a bar with his nose in abook, his future wife started up a conversation with him.(Although, if you check page 16, you’ll find there’s amore interesting background to this.)This issue we’ve uncovered some other uncommonobsessions: student photographers have literally made ittheir business not to leave home without a camera (page19), the Di-Phi Societies can’t step on the grass or leaveNew West on Monday night until their debate has beenresolved (page 10). And a pair of brothers couldn’t bedeterred from participating in the same football programtogether—even if they do play in different places alongthe line scrimmage (page 29).As always, happy reading!blue&whiteUNC-CH Campus Box 5210 | Chapel Hill, NC 27599-5210Editor-in-Chief SHANNON SPAINManaging Editor SHANNON COFFEYAssociate Editor of Content Planning & Development AMBER LYNCHCreative Director LIVIA NELSONArt Director EMMA GALLIVice President of Public Relations SALLIE KINGWebmaster ASHLEY RUSSELLTreasurer KRISTEN WARNQUISTCONTENT STAFFUniversity Editor JUSTIN MAYHEWArts & Entertainment Editor KIRSTEN CHANGSports Editor WILL RIMERPhotography Editor CAROLYN VAN HOUTENColumns Editor MISSY FOURNIEREditorials Editor MARGOT PIENSpecial Sections Editor NATALIE MEYERBlog Editor WENDY LUChief Copy Editor LINDSEY WHEELERWritersTYLER CONFOY, JAMIE GNAZZO, GRACE JOYAL, COURTNEYLINDSTRAND, CLAIRE MCNEIL, ANA ROCHA, SHANNONSPAIN, LANEY TIPTON, STEPHANIE WAKEFORD, VICKYWALDTHAUSEN, LINDSEY WHEELERCopy EditorsCOURTNEY TYE, MARGOT PIEN, SABRINA HUSAINColumnistsLIVIA NELSON, BLAIR RUMLEY, VICKY WALDTHAUSENBloggersSARAH BERLENBACH, KRISTEN LEE CUBERO, SYDNEYELIZABETH, COURTNEY LINDSTRAND, DUSTIN MCMANUS,EMILY MILKS, ZOE MOORE, HILLARY ROSE OWENS,MARGOT PIEN, HANSON QIN, EMILY WIGGINSDesignersEmma galli, COURTNEY LINDSTRAND, LIVIA NELSON,MARGOT PIEN, CHARLOTTE TAYLORPhotographersKRISTEN LEE CUBERO, NICOLE JOHNSON, WENDY LU,ELIZABETH MENDOZA, ERIC PAITINTERNAL RELATIONSPrinting CHAMBLEE GRAPHICS | Adviser JOCK LAUTERERBoard of Directors RENA CHERNOTSKY, LAUREN RIPPEYOUR MISSIONTo inform readers of the unique personalities, events and traditions thatdefine the University’s heritage and help shape its future, and to offer staffmembers practical and enjoyable journalism, business and managementexperience.Blue & White is produced by students at UNC-Chapel Hill and is funded atleast in part by student fees, which were appropriated and dispersed byUNC-CH’s Student Government.Contact Sallie King at shking@live.unc.edufor advertising information.—————Cover Photo by Carolyn Van Houtentable of contentsin this issue10 DI-PHI SOCIETIESThrough the years, women have changed whathas traditionally been known as a ‘boy’s club’ intoa house of equality.13 TECH FOR YOUR HEALTHThe medical field goes paperless as UNC-CH and Duke doctors make the switch to anew digital database developed by the Schoolof Information and Library Science’s newestgraduate certification program.16 Documenting Free speechJock Lauterer plans to memorialize the SpeakerBan protest the same way he participated in1963: by climbing a tree with camera in hand.19 PHOTO SHOPFour young photographers turn their favoritehobby into careers.22 UNITED ON THE FIELDWorldwide connections bring team bonding anddefensive strategies full circle for the women’sfield hockey team.19 22in every issueLiv’s List 9Livia NelsonSWEETS ‘n’ SPINACH 25Vicky WaldthausenTWO VIEWS 26Ciarra WatkinsDr. Alan NelsonNEW SOUTH, NEW BELLE 30Blair Rumleywww.blueandwhitemag.com 3

in ouropinionthat’s hotLenoirSmoothies, a sushi bar and more seating?!Hi, there! I’m a senior and I’m lookingfor extra swipes...Facebook GenerationFormer UNC system president ErskineBowles now works for Facebook. Clinton,Obama, now Facebook? Get it, Erskine!Crisis MeetingsBonding with classmates while seekingunderground shelter during tornadowarnings? Too bad there isn’t a dancefloor in the basement.#brynningHere’s to opening the season with BrynRenner’s near-perfect pass completionpercentage.Punctuation Day.We love you. We love you?WE LOVE YOU!!!!Practicing MindfulnessWhile pushing my loaded shopping cart through a crowded strip mallparking lot, I noticed a faded purple and red bumper sticker that read: “Gratitudeis the best therapy.” Reading this bumper sticker made me realize thatwisdom can be found in the most unanticipated places.When we focus our attention on the very moment we are living, we have agreater chance of learning something meaningful than when our attention isfixated elsewhere, such as when we are ruminating on the past or anxious overthe future.While certainly neither magical nor miraculous, it was mere coincidencerather than fate that led me to spot the weather-worn sticker. I asked myself:if gratitude is the best therapy, how can I start to practice thankfulness inmy daily life? Do I need to become a recluse out in the woods and renounceworldliness as some great philosophers have done in the past? Do I have totravel to an underdeveloped, remote village to truly appreciate what I maytake for granted on a daily basis?I’ve since realized the answer is no.That day the sticker reminded me that in order to be grateful, one mustbe mindful, and mindfulness can be practiced anywhere, at any time. Allmindfulness requires of us is to be present in the here and now.When I saw that bumper sticker, I thought of all the times I go about theday in a daze, on autopilot, ignoring my surroundings. I remembered thecountless times I’ve been in a hurried frenzy, impatient to reach my destination.Then, once I’m there, I look forward to leaving.When engaging in conversation, we may formulate our responses in ourmind and ignore what the speaker says, or we may cut people off to get ourpoint across. We may not keep eye contact with others or may fiddle with anelectronic device while someone is talking to us. We may sulk over the past, or“When you feel worriedand you can’t sleep,just count your blessingsinstead of sheep.”source: Bing Crosbyobsess about our future plans. We focus on oursuccesses and failures in an attempt to ‘liveour lives.’After realizing what we want, settinggoals is one of the ways we motivateourselves. But if we do not appreciatewhat we already have, we will never beable to fully appreciate our goals once weattain them.As Sheryl Crow sings, “It’s not havingwhat you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.”We need to remember to be thankful for ourbountiful possessions, such as clean water, an air-conditionedapartment and a full belly to name a few.To start practicing mindfulness, I recommend dedicating 10 quietminutes out of the day to reflect on whatever you have to be grateful for.You can choose to start a gratitude journal, or simply sit in silence listeningto the natural flow of your breath. You can count your blessings as you walkacross campus to class, while driving in the car or swimming in the pool.You can do this anywhere you find a private moment to meditate on whatyou are thankful for.Mindfulness leads to appreciation and makes the ordinary sacred.Your relationships will blossom and your satisfaction from life willincrease.It’s therapeutic.&By kristen lee cuberothat’s notHeelMailSomeone needs to tell UNC-CH thatwe just forward everything to Gmailanyway.Google+I only signed up for this because thecool kids were doing it...!Alert Carolina!We got the multiple emails, texts andsiren alerts, now tell our professors tostop lecturing during tornadoes!The (empty) BlueZoneCome on! Get your lazy buns inthose $70 million seats! You’reacting like this is a wine and cheesetasting...Spongebob DumbpantsA new study says he may be turningkids’ brains to mush, one KrabbyPatty at a time.“If I have an ordinary skirt, I try to pair it up wthan interesting shirt to make it pop. I also addbright shoes to go with it.”Alice He, sophomoremod quad“I would have to say that my style mirrors thefilm 500 Days of Summer because I wear playfulthings like bright colors and ruffles.”Caitlin Hines, juniorEvery month we sendphotographer ElizabethMendoza to find uniquefashion statements. Tosee more, visit our blog atblueandwhitemag.com/blog“I could not live without my little messengerbags and purses. They are easy to carry aroundand they look nice with everything.”Desiree Grier, freshman“My shirt was tailored for me in Ukunda, a townin Kenya when I studied abroad this summer.”Helene Kirsunke-Schwartz, junior4 September 2011 www.blueandwhitemag.com 5

from the bellto the wellWill Work For FoodThe Medicine of Music6 September 2011WWFF co-founderPeter Helvie stressesthat local service iscrucial to helpingchildren suffering frommalnutrition globally.Plumpy’nut, anoffshoot of the humblepeanut, may be a newbreakthrough in treatingchild malnutrition aroundthe world, and one newUNC-Chapel Hill startupis making it its missionto supply the innovativeproduct and other Readyto-Use-Foods(RUFs) tochildren in need.Plumpy’nut, a peanutbasedpaste used to treatsevere malnutrition, hasa recovery rate of up to 95 percent and can recuperate children from thedevastating effects of malnutrition.“Methods used before only had a recovery rate of 35 to 40 percent,”explains Ben Vollmer, co-founder of the organization Will Work For Food.The goal of WWFF can be summed up in its slogan: “Volunteeringlocally to help children globally.” Every dollar WWFF raises through communityservice goes directly to buying Plumpy’nut and other RUFs formalnourished children.“You are doing work here,” says Peter Helvie, co-founder of WWFF,“but mentally, you know that your service is doing even more thousands ofmiles away.”Steven Weinberg, a friend of Helvie’s from high school, started thenational Will Work For Food organization in 2007.“Steve approached me about wanting to spread out to other campuses,”Helvie says. “The whole philosophy of it is just great, so I agreed to jumpon board and then I called Ben.”It wasn’t easy, however, to make their message known.“Part of the problem is there are so many well-established organizations,so it’s hard to gain credibility,” Vollmer says.Luckily, now that the group has gained official UNC-CH recognition asof last spring, WWFF’s message can now be heard across campus.“We are really kicking it off this year,” Vollmer says. “We had a table atFall Fest, so hopefully that will attract a younger crowd.”Helvie hopes that even students who are committed to other communityservice groups will be inspired to work with WWFF. “It’s a great way todo more with what you are already doing,” he explains.As far as long-term goals, WWFF is looking to team up with otherservice organizations to foster strong relationships.“When they do something, they can come to us for help and vice versa,”Helvie says. “We are hoping to create some steady partnerships.”But what’s most important is helping the children in need.“Child malnutrition doesn’t get nearly enough attention,” Vollmer says.“Hopefully WWFF remains something that can be a part of UNC-CH foryears to come.”&By stephanie wakefordphoto by Nicole JohnsonTry mixing “Glee” with “Grey’s Anatomy” and then you mighthave an idea of what the MedUNCedoos are all about. The a cappellagroup, composed entirely of UNC-Chapel Hill medical students,enjoys relieving the pressures of medical school by rehearsing andperforming original, witty songs about their chaotic lives.“It’s a creative outlet for the students in the group,” says Perry Tsai,one of the MedUNCedoos’ co-founders. “It’s a way for us to not bestudying all the time and be able to get together and sing and havefun.”An a cappella group might not be a medical student’s first thoughtfor how he or she could interact with patients, but Tsai contendsthat “what our group seeks to do is really fill out the medical schoolexperience and really diversify the types of things that are offered (forstudents).”The group performs at several medical school functions, suchas the cadaver memorial service and the school’s “skit night.” TheMedUNCedoos also work closely with the DooR to DooR program atUNC Hospitals, a program that sets up regular musical performancesfor patients as a way to break up the monotony of their hospital stays.alumnus profile: Lee Storrow“I never imagined I’d goto Fall Fest for five years,”Storrow jokes.Although he graduatedin May 2011, Lee Storrowcan’t resist returning to thebustling atmosphere of hisalma mater on an almostweekly basis.But Storrow, a politicalscience and dramatic artsmajor from Asheville,wasn’t looking for free foodor new listservs to join atFall Fest. Instead, he usedthe opportunity to talk tostudents, hand out flyers andintroduce himself to strangers. As a declared candidate running fora four-year term on Chapel Hill’s Town Council, Storrow feels it’simportant that he has students’ attention.“We have a need to engage young people in our process,”Storrow says. “(Students) have a responsibility to make UNC-CH(their) own.”Storrow, who served as the president of UNC-CH’s YoungDemocrats last year, is no stranger to political engagement. Hespent his high school and college careers working tirelessly as anactivist, including traveling to Washington, D.C. to advocate forA 2008 studyrevealed that choralsingers have, on average, agreater satisfaction with lifethan the general public.source: health.discovery.com&The group also adds an interesting twiston campus, bringing a unique name to theplethora of a cappella groups at UNC-CH. Pronounced “ma-dunk-adoos,” theorigin of the group’s name is as uniqueand creative as the members themselves.The group took the domain name oftheir medical school email addresses (med.unc.edu), sounded it out and then added on“edoo” to the end as an a cappella pun.During the holidays, the MedUNCedoos go fromroom to room performing carols for hospital patients.Joy Javits, founder of DooR to DooR, says that during these holidayperformances “patients sit up in their beds, turn on lights when we come inthe evening and smile, welcoming the rather large group who sometimes standshoulder to shoulder all around their hospital bed, providing music that can befelt as well as heard.”By courtney lindstrandPhoto BY Kristen Cuberoa repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.Storrow continues to be involved in public policy as the managingdirector of the North Carolina Alliance for Health, an organization thatpromotes policies aimed to reduce the harmful effects of obesity andtobacco use in the state. Storrow says his new day job is the most difficultwork he’s ever done, but that it’s worth it.“I know that Chapel Hill is where I want to stay long-term,” says Storrow,whose parents met as students in UNC-CH’s School of Public Health. “And,once I saw the need for an active young person to be involved in (ChapelHill’s) Town Council, I realized that I could actually do it.”Storrow may be running as the voice of the students, but he says he is alsolooking to address larger issues, such as public transportation, town relationswith Carrboro and long-term sustainability goals.“I’m passionate about the issues,” Storrow says. “I’ve been at every (towncouncil meeting) since January.”Two of Storrow’s supporters recognize his commitment to local issues andhave pledged their support. Penny Rich, Storrow’s boss at the NC Alliancefor Health and a council member herself, led a grassroots campaign for herelection in 2001 and has encouraged Storrow to do the same. Similarly, theCarolina Review, UNC-CH’s conservative magazine, published an article expressingsupport for Storrow’s candidacy. Although this may seem an unlikelyalliance, Storrow is unsurprised.“I know I have an obligation to support all viewpoints,” Storrow says.“This is not a partisan issue—your party registration does not matter here.”&By shannon spainPhoto By WENDY LUThe MedUNCedoos perform as a way to “not be studying all thetime,” says co-founder Perry Tsai, far right. The a cappella group alsoprovides a unique opportunity for the medical students to interactwith patients.How dull is it to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were life.— Alfred LORD TENNYSONwww.blueandwhitemag.com 7

like our style?is looking for new designers withPASSIONCREATIVITY andNEW IDEASIf you’re interested inlayout design, contactEmma Galli ategalli@live.unc.eduFor the latest updatesFOLLOW us on Twitter@bluewhitemagLike this space?YOUR ADHEREFor advertising info, contactSallie King at shking@live.unc.eduLivia Nelsonis a senior from Ridgefield, Conn.She can be reached at lcnel23@gmail.com.Liv’s ListHave you ever asked yourselfwhat you want to do before you graduate fromUNC-Chapel Hill?If you’re a freshman, that might soundoverwhelming; it’s hard enough to figure outhow to navigate and organize all of the stuffyou have to do, let alone think about what youwant to do. And if you’re a senior, the questionmight stress you out when you think abouthow quickly the past three years went by, andall the things you have to do before graduation.For reasons too complicated to botherexplaining here—let’s just say it’s because Itransferred to Carolina after my sophomoreyear from another school—I spent most oflast year not knowing whether I was going tograduate in May 2011 or not. Then, in the11th hour, I was accepted into a year-longHonors writing class, so I decided to comeback for 2011-2012.When I finally made that decision, Iwas completely overcome with relief. Think of all the things at Carolina that I’dwanted to do but never did! And now I could! (Granted, I’ve only been here fortwo years, but still.) The first thing I thought of was the Duke basketball gamelast winter that I’d gotten a ticket to, but hadn’t been able to attend because myflight for spring break was at the exact same time.That feeling of relief made me realize that since I’d been given a second chanceat senior year, I should make this one count. I should do all of the things I’dwanted to do.The Daily Tar Heel has a great Carolina bucket list, but to me, those are morelike things to check off a list than to actually experience. Most of the ones I’vedone weren’t anything out of the ordinary—eating at Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe,tripping on a brick in the Pit, and so on. Maybe it’s because I’m not from NorthCarolina—or even from the South—but I want to uncover some of the area’sbetter-kept secrets.So every month, I plan on finding something unusual and fun that UNC-CHstudents can do. I have a handful of ideas and goals up my sleeve already, but I’mbetting I’ll uncover a lot more. (Have an idea? Email me at livia@unc.edu!)I already know about some funky places on the outskirts of Chapel Hill andsome cool places on campusyou can go to at nightwithout getting in trouble(I think).If you’re a freshman,sophomore or junior, cutout my columns and savethem for a boring weekend.But if you’re a senior,maybe you’ll want to gocheck out or do whateverI did when you read mycolumn that month.Let’s make this senioryear what we always wantedit to be!&8 September 2011

THEphiDI-VERSITYby ana rocha • photos by carolyn van houtendesign by margot pienDEBATELEFT: Di-Phi President Emma Pham opens the meeting with a top hat and cane—her traditional dress for a Monday night meeting. RIGHT: Tim Longest, a firstspeaker, gives the primary affirmative, or the first argument for the resolution.Di-Phi, UNC-CH’s oldest fraternity,echoes a bygone era in its formalattire, debating style and historicaldebate chambers. However, thegroup looks to move beyond thepast, away from their predominantlywhite male majority.aA group of formally Dressed students talkamongst themselves in a grand room filled with portraits ofesteemed UNC-Chapel Hill alumni and antique woodendesks.Emma Pham walks into the room and the chatter stops.All eyes are on her. She is wearing a black top hat and holdinga cane, which she bangs three times on the floor as shecalls the meeting to order.This scene repeats itself every Monday night at 7:30, inthe Dialectic Society’s Chamber on the third floor of NewWest Hall. The group of chattering students is made up ofmembers as well as petitioning members of the Dialectic andPhilanthropic Societies, more commonly known as Di-Phi.And Pham, a senior economics major from Charlotte, is theirpresident.Ever since the Dialectic Society’s inception in 1795, theorganization has been known as a ‘boys’ club.’ Women werenot admitted into Phi until 1930, and Di until 1935.But Di-Phi is no longer just a ‘boys’ club,’ and theirfemale president is living proof.The oldest organization on campus was slow to invitewomen members but once admitted, they were treated asequals, says John O’Connor, an alumnus from the class of2011 who is now researching the society.Female members finally gained representation in the leadershiplevel of the organization in 1937, when Ruth Crowellbecame the first woman to hold an officer position. In 1940women were represented at the highest level when MarianIgo became president of the Dialectic Society.As barriers fell with time, women became more involvedin the highest levels of the societies—and the trend hascontinued into 2011. The group is currently made up ofapproximately two-thirds men, with only three of the nineofficers being females. But, Pham says, women play a moreprominent role in the organization now than they did justthree years ago when she joined. In fact, in the most recentpresidential election, Pham’s only opponent was anotherfemale candidate.“There was definitely more of a ‘boys’ club’ feel then(in 2008), but that fluctuates with who decides to join,”she says. “The dynamic really changes a lot semester tosemester depending on who’s here.”“By virtue of what we are, we tend to attract acertain type of person and very often that’s more men,”Pham says. “That’s not to say we don’t have a lot ofstrong women in our club, but that’s just the way it is.”To make up for this, the women in Di-Phi try tostick together. They often plan activities for the femalemembers: “No boys allowed,” Pham says.Amending the constitutionDespite the strides of the organization’s femalemembers, it was just two years ago that the society’sconstitution was amended to have gender-inclusivelanguage. The constitution now uses “he or she” as apronoun instead of just “he.”Pham says former President Hannah Hodson wasthe biggest advocate for those changes because she feltthat the male-oriented language in the constitutionexcluded women. But not all members agreed. As iscustomary for a debate society, polarizing opinions wereaired, with some members accusing Hodson of pushing“It’sa ‘feminist agenda’ on the group.Pham says the controversy was brought about by onlya small number of the members, and that a majority of themembers thought the changes were unnecessary.“We didn’t feel that it implied the president couldn’t be awoman,” Pham says. “But now that (the language is) in thereit will probably stay for a while, especially given that ourconstitution is hard to change.”Minorities in Di-PhiSimilarly to women, minorities have not always had astrong presence in Di-Phi. The first African-American member,James Walker Jr., was admitted in 1952, over twentyyears after the first female member was admitted. However,Di-Phi was quite progressive in comparison not only to othergroups in the South, but also to other parts of the University.O’Connor, who has been conducting research on Walker,says the Di-Phi organization was very accepting and evenprotective of the new member. A few white members of Di-Phi took Walker to a football game and stood around him sohe wouldn’t get kicked out of the student section, which wasseparate from the black section of the stadium at that time.Walker would later become an important figure in advocatingfor the desegregation of Kenan Stadium.Despite this, it wasn’t until 15 years later in 1967 thatDi-Phi had another black member, Larry Lynch. Di-Phimembers today have trouble naming a current African-American member.the only placeon campus wherethe proportionisn’t a 60/40(female-to-maleratio)”- Keri Majikes, senior10 September 2011 www.blueandwhitemag.com 11

There are minorities in Di-Phi, says O’Connor, but therehaven’t been many African-American or Latino members.“Di-Phi, like many other parts of society, has come along way and race is not an issue anymore,” he says. “Butback then, and still to a certain extent today, groups tend toself-segregate.”O’Connor explains that it is hard to attract minorities toa group that does not have many minorities to begin with.“It has a whole ‘boys’ club’ feel, and it hasn’t changed indemographics a lot since it started. There’s certainly a lack ofblack people and a lack of Hispanics (in Di-Phi).”The club is now working to change that reputation. Phamsays she would like for the society to not have the ‘boys’ club’feel or reputation. Meanwhile, O’Connor says that the organizationhas been trying to recruit more minorities.“We want more diversity. We specifically look to get a diversegroup of people, but it’s difficult because we’ll have oneblack person show up to a meeting and he’ll come to a fewmore meetings,” O’Connor says. “But in the end, that oneblack guy doesn’t want to be the ‘one black guy (in Di-Phi).’”Di-Phi in the ‘60sDi-Phi’s current faculty advisor, Bland Simpson, is aDi-Phi alumnus. Simpson was in the organization from 1967to 1969, when there were no female members. In fact, therewere only eight full-time members in total, plus two graduatestudents who came to meetings regularly but were notconsidered official members.Women would come to the chambers when the societiesSomeDi-PhiFactsWhy are UNC-CH’s school colors white and blue?The Di society color was originally blue (as a symbol of excellence)while the original Phi color was white (as a symbol of truth andvirtue). The two societies’ senators all wore their society’s colorsand stood together on football game days as a sign of unity behindthe same team.Can Di-Phi members really not walk on McCorkle Place?Yes, it’s true. All senators must avoid walking on the grass inMcCorkle Place out of respect for Joseph Caldwell, UNC-CH’sfirst president, who is buried here.were debating a particularly interesting topic or hosting aguest speaker. But, in the two years that Simpson was in Di-Phi, not a single woman petitioned to become a member.Simpson says that the organization was certainly notopposed to having women, but most students, both male andfemale, were preoccupied with protesting the Vietnam War.“The idea of getting people into a 19th century lecturehall and debating something that was not Vietnam washard,” Simpson says. “They thought what we were doing wasarcane.”He says that the group was noisy, but very friendly, civiland accepting, especially toward women.“It would’ve been more fun if there’d been women,”Simpson says.Di-Phi TODAYMore than 40 years later, it’s safe to assume many men inthe organization agree.“It’s the only place on campus where the proportion isn’ta 60/40 (female-to-male ratio),” says current member KeriMajikes, a senior Asian studies and peace, war and defensemajor from Apex.Female members have come a long way to gain respectin one of the University’s most prestigious clubs. But thatdoesn’t necessarily mean that they want to see a flood of newwomen members anytime soon.“A lot of our members date,” says Pham. “So, the womendo have that sort of advantage.”&Why do UNC-CH library books have inside covers that read “Endowedby the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies”?In 1886, the Di and Phi societies each owned over 10,000 books,which they then both donated to the library to more than doublethe University’s collection.Are all those fancy paintings real?Yes, Di-Phi has the largest privately owned portrait collection inthe southeastern U.S.Other fun facts:& The Di and Phi societies were created through dividing theoriginal Concord society into two societies in 1795.& The Di and Phi societies later merged in 1959 to become Di-Phi& Members of the societies call each other senators.& Di-Phi has had a hand in founding all of the followingorganizations, which are still in existence today: the GeneralAlumni Association, the Yackety-Yack yearbook, the HonorSystem and even (in 1922) the Daily Tar Heel.all facts taken from www.unc.edu/di_phi12 September 2011

Dr. Javed Mostafa, director of the Carolina Health Informatics Program,demonstrates the extensive searching and tracking capabilitiesof a new database program developed for UNC Hospitals.‘CHIP’ ping inby grace joyalphotos by elizabeth mendozadesign by charlotte taylorHospitals teeming withfiling cabinets and loosepapers will soon be relicsof the past as UNC-CH’sSchool of Information andLibrary Science unveils anew graduate certificateprogram in healthinformatics.According to a U.S. Department of Labor report, the averageAmerican will change jobs 11 times between the ages of 18 and 44.More than three-fifths of these jobs are held from ages 18 to 27, and most arewithin a similar career field.Emily Pfaff can relate to the former—after a few years of post-college work inthe publishing business in the Northeast, Pfaff needed a change of scenery.But as for staying within the same field? Not so much.Pfaff moved down south to explore a career in the UNC-Chapel Hill psychologydepartment where she discovered a new field unrelated to her undergraduatedegree in Russian and eastern European studies: health informatics.www.blueandwhitemag.com 13

Emily’s journeyBefore leaving for Chapel Hill, Pfaff considered the ideaof entering the medical field, but quickly realized she wasn’tcut out for healing the sick.“I got a job with the psychiatric department doing databasedesign with them and I realized that I never wanted tobe a doctor because I’m squeamish,” she says.It was then, in 2009, that Pfaff chose to enroll in themaster’s program in information science at UNC-CH.Halfway through her master’s program, Pfaff again decidedto change directions, though not as drastically as she hadbefore. Pfaff turned to health informatics after finding outabout the Carolina Health Informatics Program, or CHIP,which was just getting started.Simply put, health informatics is the applied use of informationtechnology for serving and improving health care,says Dr. Javed Mostafa, a professor in the School of Informationand Library Science and director of CHIP. Students inhealth informatics study a mixture of information science,computer science and health science to optimize the acquisition,storage, retrieval and use of information in health andbiomedicine.Health informatics has emerged out of the need to becomemore efficient in collecting data in hospitals.CHIP was born as a reaction to the growing use of healthinformatics in hospitals, a technology that UNC Hospitalsnow uses throughout the system. The program is part of ajoint effort between UNC-CH and Duke University.With it, Mostafa says, medical researchers can trackgroups and populations of people, which is becomingespecially valuable with the ever-changing demographicsin America. The increasing number of aging baby boomersis a specific cause for concern, as doctors expect substantialincreases in the number of cases using outdated, paper-basedsystems of filing data.Professionals have noticed this problem and are lookingto develop programs and systems of filing and retrieving datato handle the upcoming influx of cases.Government officials have also recognized the need for anexpansion of this field, and have put their checkbooks behindimproving the nation’s health care system.“Going back to the Bush era, there was a real recognitionthat this area requires federal support,” Mostafa says. “In theearly Obama era, there was a very significant investment.”That was an investment worth $44 billion, set aside specificallyfor health information technology, says Rich Medlin,a graduate of the certificate program and employee in theDepartment of Emergency Medicine at UNC Hospitals.Along with Duke, UNC-CH applied for a federal grantand received $3 million to start the graduate certificateprogram in August 2010, Medlin says.After becoming the first CHIP graduate in August,Pfaff is now a product of this influx of funding, working forNorth Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute(NC TraCS) with the Carolina Data Warehouse for Health(CDW-H) as a research analyst. And she doesn’t regretchanging to such a growing and in-demand field.“I probably would be unemployed right now if I hadn’tdone the program,” she says.CHIP TechnologyUNC Hospitals has found use for health informatics bycompletely removing paper from their records system, andinstead plugging records into computers.“Hospital information systems were initially designed forlogistics, billing, appointments. Records were still on paperlong after, so hospitals sort of realized it would be great tolook at these records in more than one place,” Mostafa says.Bringing all of the patient records out of UNC Hospitalsand into one place is what CDW-H strives to do.CDW-H has over two million hospital records in itssystem so far, dating from 2004 to the present, with newupdates occurring every 24 to 48 hours.“The ability now for different medical institutions toshare their data is going to allow large scale studies of conditionsand treatments to really make huge changes at a muchgreater pace,” Pfaff says.The warehouse was created in early 2009, in collaborationwith International Business Machines (IBM).CDW-H serves as a research portal to allow UNC-CHresearchers to search and identify cohorts with relevant criteria,so that they may study groups of people with the samediseases and understand them more comprehensively.When a researcher has a data request for the warehouse,it’s Pfaff’s job to query the data warehouse and come up witha list of results.“They come to me with requests for data like, ‘I need alist of all patients who have this disease and they need to bethis race,’” she says.Over 100 data requests have been processed in the warehouse’stwo-and-a-half years in operation, Pfaff says.This resource is crucial for researchers looking for answerson how to improve patient care—the main goal of healthinformatics as a comprehensive operating system.“Clinics can share records to learn more about commondiseases,” Mostafa says. “New data about some diseases cancome through the system and provide new insight for thepatient.”Problems with TechnologyAs with any form of technology, health informatics is notwithout its share of problems.Medlin, who was the first physician to enroll in thecertificate program, says some aspects of new data storagetechnology are impractical.He says he enrolled in the program because he wanted tobe able to better understand the health information systemshe was using at work, but the new technology has turned outto be a source of frustration at times.“A lot of places just bolted on these electronic doctorsystems and the last thing that they considered was their usabilityby clinicians,” Medlin says.The technology is in its infancy, and thus Medlin saysthere are a lot of roadblocks in the system that have yet tobe fixed and expedited. In his hospital work, spanning morethan a decade, Medlin says he’s often found himself inputtingirrelevant information into the system.“It’s just so incredibly complicated,” he says. “So basicallymy frustration with that and the products on the market waswhy I applied to the program—so I could work on the userinterfaces.”There is also a lot of red tape around the process of accessinginformation in the data warehouses. The process for gettingpatient information follows rigid guidelines. Researchershave to go through the Internal Review Board before theycontact patients and can’t start their projects without IRBapproval.Sometimes approval only takes weeks. Other times, Pfaffsays, the convoluted, bureaucratic approval system can stallresearch projects for years.But what’s more of an issue is that some researchers don’teven get to file a request for data. The technology is new andexpensive, making it difficult for small practitioners to affordthe software that comprises a health informatics system.What’s NextWith UNC Hospitals’ millions of dollars in grant money,access to data warehouses is a nonissue. And with billionsof dollars being invested in health informatics, expansion isMostafa’s first priority.Next up for CHIP is expanding to include a public healthinformatics graduate certificate. Mostafa says it will focuson how one may detect bioterrorism in a community usinginformation technology, such as preventing major disastersbefore they happen, like food poisoning.Mostafa says he hopes CHIP can be a part of solvingthese real-world problems—and live up to UNC-CH’srenown as a leader in the health field.“Essentially, we want to create an effort which is worthyof UNC-CH’s status and reputation,” he says. “It’s the best ofboth worlds—you have a big heart and want to help people,but you’re also somewhat nerdy.”&photo by Pablo Viojo“You have a big heart and want to help people, butyou’re also somewhat nerdy.” -Dr. Javed Mostafa14 September 2011 www.blueandwhitemag.com 15

A PRESSFOR FREEDOMThe story behind Jock Lauterer’s iconicphotograph of the Speaker Ban protests in 1963 isjust as extraordinary as the student body’s landmarkfight for their freedom of speech.by laney tiptonphotos by carolyn van houtendesign by courtney lindstranddDuring the 1960s, UNC-Chapel Hill students hadLauterer himself captured an iconic photograph documentingthis time of discord at UNC-CH. On June 26,bigger problems than belligerent pit preachers or studentbody president controversies. Students found themselves inthe center of unsettled national conflicts over civil rights,women’s rights and the Vietnam War.“It was a time of great unrest and social upheaval,” saysJock Lauterer, senior lecturer in the School of Journalism andMass Communication. “And a fabulous time to be a photojournalist,because there was always something going on.”1963, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Actto Regulate Visiting Speakers, better known as the SpeakerBan Law. The law made it illegal for anyone who was aknown member of the Communist Party, or who was aknown advocate of overthrowing the Constitution, to speakon the campus of a state university.To challenge the law, then-Student Body PresidentPaul Dickson invited Frank Wilkinson, a well-known FirstAmendment rights activist, to speak on campus. Lauterercaptured the two protesters, standing side by side whileWilkinson addressed the crowd, in what has become themost widely recognized photo from that day.“Jock’s photos really tell the story,” says Robert Dickson,Paul Dickson’s younger brother.When University officials wouldn’t allow Wilkinsonon University property, the demonstration, as shown inLauterer’s photographs, was moved to the edge of campuson Franklin Street. The speakers stood off-campus on thesidewalk as approximately 12,000 students sat in McCorklePlace behind a wall separating the boundaries with a signthat read “Dan Moore’s Chapel Hill Wall,” a nod to thegovernor of North Carolina at the time.Lauterer says the symbolic wall resonated deeply withthe students at the time because of the conflict surroundingthe Berlin Wall. He says it was emblematic of the separationbetween a free state and one that wasn’t.“We’re over here incarcerated mentally, if you will,” Lauterersays, looking back at the wall dividing campus from therest of Chapel Hill. “We can’t have certain speakers come tocampus? Come on, we’re about free speech and the educationof the emerging civic mind. How can you disallow a voice?It’s just counter to what a great university is all about.”The Speaker Ban Law was passed in Lauterer’s junioryear. He was a veteran photographer with the Daily Tar Heeland at the time, he lived in an apartment on HendersonStreet.The best part about his location, according to Lauterer,was that he had a perfect view of Franklin Street and, on thatday, a perfect view of the demonstration.Lauterer says this demonstration was different because ithad a locus—an absolute focal point. It didn’t move aroundlike other demonstrations he had covered.“I took a picture from my apartment window, but itwas far away,” Lauterer says. “It just kind of didn’t get it. Icouldn’t really figure out how to get the scale of the thing.”He went to Franklin Street hoping for a better angle just asthe demonstration was starting. He looked up and saw a tree,which is still there today, and decided to climb it.“I just said, you know, I used to climb trees as a kid, so Iclambered up there with my clunky old camera.”That day, Lauterer was shooting with a 2 ¼ Rolleicordcamera, which he describes as “one of those funky old thingsyou look down into. It’s got two lenses on the front. It’s astrange-looking beast, but it has a big negative, which is whythose images are so crystal clear.”He realized that nobody else from the media had his view.“I was in the catbird’s seat,” he says. “It don’t get no betterthan that.”Lauterer says that when you capture a photograph thatbecomes iconic, you don’t realize it when you take it.“You know, it’s not that great a photograph,” Lauterer says.“I would say that from the very outset. But, it just happened tocatch a very important, decisive moment in the history of thisUniversity intellectually—and certainly when it comes to freespeech.”Be that as it may, this photo became an emblem for freespeech activism. Part of the reason, Lauterer says, is because ofthe presence of Paul Dickson, who he describes as a ‘sparkplug’in getting the law repealed.Dickson worked with UNC-CH’s Students for a DemocraticSociety to get speakers Wilkinson and Herbert Apthekerto come to campus and hold the demonstration. This eventwas the basis of what eventually turned into a lawsuit, led byDickson, against Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson. The lawsuitspent two years under consideration at the Federal DistrictCourt in Greensboro before being decided in Dickson’sfavor: The Speaker Ban Law of 1963 and policy were deemedunconstitutional.Dickson died in an automobile accident in 1972, but hismemory and an appreciation for what he did for the campushave not been lost. His brother, Robert, and sister, Anne DicksonFogelman, are making sure it won’t be for a long time.In January 2010, the siblings approached William Friday,Jock Lauterer demonstrates how to use his Rolleicordcamera, the exact camera he used to take the photoof the Speaker Ban protests in 1963.The original, and now iconic, SpeakerBan photo that Lauterer took fromhis position in a nearby tree.photo credit: Jock Lauterer16 September 2011 www.blueandwhitemag.com 17

“My goal is to be inthe same place in thesame tree with thesame camera and doit over again—whateverthe scene is.”— Jock Lauterer18 September 2011Lauterer straddles the edge ofcampus on the wall dividingMcCorkle Place from FranklinStreet—the same wall across whichFrank Wilkinson spoke to studentsin 1963.who was president of UNC-CH at the time and known forhis support of the student body in the matter, about placing amonument to the overthrown Speaker Ban on campus.In March 2011, they met with Chancellor Holden Thorp,who was also excited about the prospect of such a monument.“Their reaction was one of, ‘Why didn’t we think of thisbefore?’” Dickson says. “It was good to have their support.”The Dickson siblings are providing the monument, whichthey will unveil and dedicate on University Day—Oct. 12,2011.Dickson says the monument will go up on the stone wallseparating McCorkle Place from Franklin Street, in the spotwhere his brother stood with Wilkinson on that day. Thestone monument will bear the names of all of the studentslisted on the lawsuit, along with the organizations they wererepresenting. Dickson says they felt this was the best way torecognize the broad base of student support for the effort.“It’s really a memorial for the students’ efforts, because itwas a student effort,” Dickson says. “It’s not just my brother.That’s sort of our part in it, but it was a lot bigger than him.”At the ceremony, Lauterer says he plans to climb thattree and take a photo with the same camera he used for theoriginal iconic image.“I’m going to have to get a ladder. I’m going to have tohave help this time,” Lauterer says. “My goal is to be in thesame place in the same tree with the same camera and do itover again—whatever the scene is.”Besides the photo being an icon for a major moment inUniversity history, Lauterer says he holds it near and dear forother reasons.That notable photograph contains Lynne Vernon-Feagans,the woman who would later become his wife.Twenty-seven years after the photograph was taken,Lauterer was working as a professor at The Pennsylvania StateUniversity. He met a woman there who remembered himfrom that day as the photographer in the tree. She had beenat the demonstration and can be seen in an expanded versionof the photo among the crowd of students.“On one of our first dates, I figured out that I had photographedher 27 years prior in a crowd,” Lauterer says, “andnow she’s the love of my life.” &

y tyler confoyphotos by elizabeth mendozadesign by livia nelsonLauren Vied uses her beloved Nikonfor her photography business.Lensbeyond theMany people may notrealize that photographyis much more than “pointingand shooting.” In fact,for four young entrepreneurialphotographers,the hardest work extendsbeyond the camera lens.www.blueandwhitemag.com 19

lLauren Vied remembers wanting a Barbie camera when she wasfour young people are finding ways to make money off of their hobbies.young—the one with the extra long film.This might seem like a telltale sign of a future in photography, but Vied, asenior photojournalism major, says she didn’t think about the craft seriouslyuntil she got to college. And now, with a real camera in hand, she’s gettingpaid to do what she loves.“It’s finally getting to the point where I’m realizing there’s a future (for mein photography),” Vied says.Vied is not the only one. There is a whole crop of student photographerswho have jump-started their careers by branding themselves early on as artisticentrepreneurs. From senior portraits to weddings to fashion photography,But being behind a camera wasn’t always so profitable.Humble BeginningsSenior Anderson Shore remembers the first weddings he helped photograph,where his payment was often just a free meal.“Being a college student and all, it was a great experience because I wasgetting a great dinner,” Shore says. “Wedding food is pretty good.”Shore, a sports administration major, has since ventured into the morelucrative side of photography, shooting a few senior portraits and working as asecond shooter, or an assistant photographer, at a wedding this past May.Student photographers have had to approach the business side of photographyslowly, getting started by shooting portraits for friends and family.“I started out doing cool and funky pictures for my brother, which endedup going online,” Vied says. “People found my stuff through his pictures.”Vied, who started a photography blog in 2009, says that having an onlinepresence, from branding to skill preservation, is an important part of entrepreneurialphotography.“I wanted something to keep me motivated to keep shooting,” Vied says.“I knew that if I had a blog—even if it wasn’t anybody but my grandparents,my dad and friends who were keeping me accountable—they were still keepingme accountable for something.”Word of mouth is largely responsible for the early successes of youngphotographers. Many initial jobs can lead to further gigs, such as when anengagement shoot turns into a wedding job. Building a clientele like this isessential, Vied says, because there are few staff jobs for photographers at newsorganizations.Another senior photographer, Emily Nycum, used Craigslist and scoreda paying job shooting a wedding within two hours of posting her advertisement.Nycum says setting her price low during these initial stages of businessdevelopment is crucial, a philosophy that other student photographers share.“People aren’t going to pay you what photographers with five-plus yearsof experience have because they (know) you’re still a student, so the fact thatyou’re getting any money is good,” Vied says.Aside from lowering their rates and using social media, young photographersmust learn how to ‘brand’ themselves, making decisions like how to bestpresent themselves as both a creative individual and a successful business.THE BUSINESS SIDEPhotographing professionally can’t be done on a whim. Nycum, a journalismmajor, met with a lawyer once she decided to start her photography business.She says she is seeking status as a limited liability company, which wouldestablish her business as a financially separate institution from herself.Nycum is still working to acquire a zoning permit for her house as well asa Chapel Hill business license, both of which will cost money. But Nycumsays it’ll all be worth it.“If your work flow isn’t clean and you’re not taking care of your money,then you don’t have the resources, and people won’t trust you,” Nycum says.“Whether it’s running a sandwich shop or taking pictures, you have tohave a solid business,” Nycum adds. “If you don’t have that foundation, it willjust falter. It will have nothing to stand on.”Vied has also encountered some unexpected aspects of the business side ofart, like signing a letter of consent for her clients if they want to use a companyto print her photos.“Companies aren’t allowed to print photographs that are copyrightedunless there’s a letter saying I’ve given these digital rights for (the clients) toprint,” Vied says. “That one I learned.”LEARNING CURVETurning a hobby into a business involves an inherent learning curve, aneed to sometimes stray away from what you know in order to further yourcraft. Perhaps no one knows this better than former UNC-Chapel Hill studentJoseph Gray, a 20-year-old photographer who spent his freshman year atUNC-CH before moving to New York City in November 2010.Gray now works as an assistant to Mariano Vivanco, a fashion photographer,and does freelance work on the side.“I think my photographic style and my business savvy have definitelyincreased by an exponential amount,” Gray says of shadowing his boss. Hesays he has learned how to better connect with clients, models and agents, andhow to save the most money.Gray’s move to New York may seem drastic, but he says the photographybusiness differs from other crafts in a certain way: “In the art field, it’s moreappreciated if you’re self-taught.”An established career without the monotony of classes sounds like anycollege student’s dream come true, but Gray says that increased freedom is notnecessarily the point.“I definitely miss school,” he says. “But I talked with a whole bunch ofdifferent people about it before I made up my mind, and the common consensuswas that I don’t necessarily need a photography degree to make it as aphotographer.”BALANCING ACTAlthough Gray is the exception, most young photographers do have to facea sometimes hectic balance: photography and education. It’s no easy task, saysVied, who tries to schedule nonlocal jobs on the weekends so she has moretime to focus on them.“I really wonder how I do it at times,” Vied says. “It entails a lot of coffee, alot of late nights and a lot of coordination.”“No matter what type of photography you’re in—whether it’s documentary,photojournalistic, portraits—the ratio of shooting-to-not shooting workis 20 percent shooting to 80 percent editing, imaging (and) business.”Likewise, Shore points out that most of the more experienced photographershe’s spoken with have agreed on one thing: Photography is work.“The photography part of it is the fun part,” Shore says. “But then most ofwhat a photography business is, is business. It’s trying to find clients; it’s beingable to give an appropriate price that’s going to benefit you as well as benefitthem.”But when it gets tough, it’s easy for these photographers to remember whythey’re doing it.“I’m sure to some people it could be (difficult), but it’s what I love to do, soit’s just another daily aspect of my life,” Vied says.Dreams to remember“I’ve found my problems usually work themselves out because I’m so passionateabout making this work and following photography,” Gray says.Gray emphasizes that, especially in a city like New York, confidence is key.The other photographers agree.“As an artist, you do it because you love it, but you’re always afraid you’regoing to get judged,” Vied says. “A lot of it is having the confidence, knowingthat it’s going to be good and knowing that these people hired you for areason—because they already like what you do.”For Nycum, photography is her clever solution for doing what she loves allthe time.“I want to do my job 24/7,” Nycum says. “I don’t want to be stuck in anoffice. I want my hobby to be my career.”Like anyone in a business, however, photographers have to make somecompromises for financial purposes.“I’m hoping that making enough money from just doing studio work andweddings will allow me to start a project, which I can then pitch to magazinesor news organizations, which will then fund the rest of the project,” Vied says.As for Gray, he wants to make his parents proud and publish a photographybook.“Within five to ten years, I want to become agency-represented,” Graysays. “I want to have shot covers of magazines. I’d like to have a gallery show.”These goals may sound idealistic, but these young people are driven by acraft they cherish, and they understand the hard work they’ll need to put in toget to where they want to be.“If you’re starting a business, you have to start from the ground up,”Nycum says. “You’re not just going to pop into being super successful in a few20 September 2011 www.blueandwhitemag.com 21photo by Amelia Wardphoto by Graham MorrisonLeft: Emily Nycumpractices her photographytechnique. “I thinkit’s really important tobe recognized as a legalentity, and not justsome person sketchilytaking pictures.”Right: Joseph Graysnaps a photo with hisNikon. Of finding successas a photographer,Gray says, “I think itbasically comes downto who you know andwho you choose toshow your work to.”Left: Lauren Viedtakes a break fromtaking pictureswith her Nikon.Vien has internedfor The Herald-Sunin Durham andwas a former photographyeditor forthe Daily Tar Heel.Right: AndersonShore photographsZach Dickinsonand Lauren Alewine,both seniors.Despite having asuccessful photographybusiness,Shore is a sportsadministrationmajor. “I hope tocombine the two,”he says.months.”&

FROM LEFT: Rachel Magerman, Katie Plyler and Sassi Ammer sing the almamater with fans and teammates following a victory over Syracuse this year.tThe players on the field at Francis E. Henry stadium arepart of a legacy, a dynasty that boasts six NCAA championship victoriessince 1989. The stadium is home to one of the most successfulIn stark contrast to its athletic success lies the relative anonymitysports teams at UNC-Chapel Hill, but ask students around campuswhat team dominates that field and maybe a handful would know theanswer.of the UNC-CH women’s field hockey team. Not only has the teamwon an impressive number of NCAA titles, but it also claims ownershipto 16 ACC championships. Yet, as unique as its record makes it,the women’s team has another unusual claim to fame: its diversity.Five girls playing for Carolina hail from countries other than theUnited States, girls who have traveled thousands of miles, and evenacross oceans, to play a sport they love.Redshirt freshman Samantha Travers, sophomore SineadLoughran and junior Katie Ardrey each chose to enroll at Carolina toenjoy an international college experience and, of course, to play fieldhockey. Two true freshman, Sassi Ammer and Sophie Rudolph callGermany home. Not only do these girls juggle the intense pressure ofcollegiate athletics with university education, but they’ve also adjustedto a new lifestyle and culture associated with living abroad.“Coming from a Third World country to (America) is very different,”says Travers, a native of Zimbabwe. “I’ve been here for a year anda half, and it still affects me how different our culture is compared toAmerican culture.”Travers’ childhood could be described as nothing short of anadventure. “I live on a ranch, and we breed black rhinos, so as you canimagine I have a lot of interesting experiences,” she says. Extraordinarypets were par for the course. Travers has owned a rhino, awarthog and even a hyena.Kids play field hockey from a young age in Zimbabwe and Traverswas no exception. Her skill on the field led the Carolina coachingstaff to offer her a position on the team. Once in Chapel Hill, Traverssaid that balancing school work and field hockey practice was difficult,but the resources available to student athletes have eased theburden.Even membership on one of Carolina’s most successful teamsdoesn’t bring her any closer to home. “There’s a lot of homesicknessand the time difference is so large that it’s hard to keep in contactwith my family,” Travers says.Sophomore Sinead Loughran is slightly closer to her home countryof Ireland. “I’m fortunate enough that my family is able to fly outhere and see me every once in a while, but my friends can’t,” she says.For Loughran, it’s the time apart from friends that makes the transitiondifficult. “Facebook and Skype are great for keeping in contact,but it’s hard not to feel like you’re missing out or being forgotten.”However, Loughran doesn’t regret one second of her internationalexperience. She says coming to the United States for college has beenone of the best choices of her life. It has given her “a chance to see theworld and meet new people outside (my) own fishbowl.”Coming to UNC-CH, Loughran found that the American collegelifestyle is far different from what one could expect in Ireland.While most Irish students live with their parents throughout theirUNITEDonbythejamie gnazzo • photos by eric pait • designfieldby emma galliThe women’s field hockey players, some ofwhom hail from as far away as Zimbabwe,serve as each others’ surrogate families asthey work toward the program’s 7th NCAAchampionship.22 September 2011 www.blueandwhitemag.com 23

LEFT: Forward Elizabeth Stephens (left) makes a move toward the goal, pursued by Syracuse’s LizMcInerney. RIGHT: Forward/midfielder Abby Frey takes a shot at the goal. FAR RIGHT: Midfielder KelseyKolojejchick goes up against an opponent to take a shot at the goal.university careers in a dynamic that Loughran calls “monotonous,”she says that attending school in the United States ismore symbolic of one’s independence.“It’s very liberal and I like that. It gives you a chance tofind your own feet,” the sophomore says.A “late bloomer” compared to other girls playing fieldhockey, Loughran didn’t start playing competitively until shewas 14 years old. After hearing about Carolina through anemployee of her father’s and attending a field hockey camp atUNC-CH during her junior year of high school, she couldn’timagine enrolling anywhere else.Loughran’s experience on the field hockey team sincethen has been a positive push toward excellence.“It’s an honor to feel not only part of a team and a legacy,but part of a family,” says Loughran. “Every day we trainhard and encourage each other to get better. It’s like anunspoken bond we all have.”For teammate Katie Ardrey, who grew up in London, thecultural gap wasn’t nearly as large. The biggest adjustmentfor her was simply playing even more field hockey, which shebegan at a young age.“My mum played (field hockey) growing up and stillplays now,” Ardrey says. “She dragged me to training sessionsand I developed a talent for it.”Similar to her fellow international teammates, Ardreynotes the difficulty of maintaining family contact from sucha removed distance. “I miss my family. It’s hard when we goto the Final Four and ACC’s because everyone’s parents arethere,” Ardrey says. “But Carolina field hockey is such a bigfamily and everyone is so comforting that I’m not sad for toolong.”Head Coach Karen Shelton notes that diversity is nothingnew for the field hockey team.“Most times it requires a full scholarship for the studentand it’s a difficult process getting them admitted, but we’vebeen mostly successful,” Shelton says. “Having them on theteam provides a great learning experience for everyone.”Shelton, who is in her 31st season of coaching at Carolina,began her own field hockey career at West Chester Universityin Pennsylvania where she studied health and physical education.The women’s team won three national championshipswhile Shelton played for the school, after which she went onto play for both the 1980 and 1984 U.S. Olympic teams. TheCarolina coach even won a bronze medal at the ’84 Olympicsin Los Angeles.Shelton brings this impressive background to the tablewhen preparing the team for practices and games. Before everypractice the team gathers in a state of the art media roomto discuss the day’s strategies and goals. The coaching staffalso videotapes every game, isolating footage of each player tobe discussed individually later; something Shelton says is “agreat teaching tool.”Although the team has a winning tradition, Sheltonstresses that they can’t lose focus. “‘Talent is never enough,’”she says, quoting a mantra from a book of the same title byJohn Maxwell that the entire team read before the start ofthe season.“You can’t look ahead, you can’t look back and you justhave to live in the moment,” Shelton says.Shelton outlined several goals for the upcoming season, inwhich she expects Old Dominion University and the Universityof Maryland to present the greatest challenges.“Defense needs to be more of a priority; we’re too casualabout it sometimes,” Shelton says. “I have always believedthat defense wins championships.”Looking to capture its seventh NCAA championshipand 17th ACC title this year, the women’s field hockey teamplans to utilize its family-like bond and mental toughness formotivation. And, with a roster as diverse as the strategies inits playbook, the team seems well on its way to this goal.However, Shelton expresses a joy that has nothing to dowith winning championships.“I love working with these girls all four years of school. Ican watch them grow from wide-eyed freshmen to matureyoung women. I have a remarkable career.”&24 September 2011

Sweets ‘nVicky Waldthausenis a senior from Charlotte.She can be reached at avwaldt@live.unc.edu.SpinachThis summer I had an epiphany.It was a hot, humid morning in earlyJune, shortly after my arrival in New YorkCity. As I strolled through the crowdedstreets, wishing for the shady, green trees ofCentral Park, I stumbled upon a differenttype of green: Greenmarket, also known asthe city’s largest farmers’ market.I’ve been to farmers’ markets before,often tagging along with my mom, admiringstacks of heirloom tomatoes and freshlypicked spinach (which, you may havealready guessed, I absolutely love). But thisdiscovery was special.In the middle of this dirty, hot citysofar away from the green countryside ofNorth Carolina-farmers still grow and selllocal produce.My run-in with the Greenmarket happened right around the time I was readingthe book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. In her book, Kingsolvertells the story of how her family lived on completely homegrown and local food forone year, and that packaged foods, like Pop-tarts and M&M’s, aren’t a necessarypart of life.Together, these two discoveries prompted me to make a new lifestyle decision:Whenever possible, I will buy my fruits and veggies locally.Not only is there nothing nicer than spending a Saturday morning with thesmell of fresh produce and blushing summer peaches, but supporting local farmersis an added bonus. And, unlike the produce sold in grocery stores, everything at afarmers’ market is in season, something I’d never really considered before. But, itmakes sense to buy a tomato in the late summer months rather than in the middleof winter, when the only available tomatoes are shipped from hundreds of milesaway and treated with chemicals so they remain “fresh.”I’ll be honest. I, like every normal tomato-lover, will most likely crave a tomatoin the middle of winter, and will most likely succumb to buying an out-of-seasongrocery store tomato. But, I want to be more respectful toward the fruits and veggiesthat are actually in season before reaching for those that are not.There’s often the misconception that shopping at a farmers’ market meansspending more money than we as college students have. However, because of theshort distance the produce travels from being picked to your mouth, your favoriteveggies are usually the same price (or sometimes cheaper) than at a grocery store.My favorite farmers’ market is the Carrboro Farmers’ Market, only a short walkfrom Weaver Street Market. Whether I’m going to get kale, spring onions, peaches,free-range eggs, squash or a bouquet of beautiful flowers for a friend’s birthday, Iwalk through the stands and I’m in paradise.But shopping at farmers’ markets isn’t the only way to support local farmersin our area. In Carrboro, restaurants like the Spotted Dog and Neal’s Deli servemany of their dishes using local and organic food, as do Elaine’s and SandWhich onFranklin Street. Elaine’s even lists all of the farms they partner with on their website.And because I never leave out dessert: I urge every one of you to go to theMaple View Farm Country Store in Hillsborough. Whether you want some freshmilk or you just want to enjoy the last few summer nights watching the sun setbehind the picturesque fields of a dairy farm, eating ice cream on a rocking chairmakes it the perfect location to relax and feel far away from campus and homework.And, you’ll support a local farm in the process!Eating locally can be hard. You have to depend on what’s in season and adjustyour meals accordingly. But there is also something truly rewarding about knowingthat you are eating food that only traveled a few miles to get to you.&

one issue,two viewsI was a full-blown three-year-old vegetarian.My parents thought it was just a phase... I’m21 years old now and I still don’t eat meat.—ciarra watkinsCiarra Watkins is a senior from Baltimore, MD.She can be reached atciarrajw@email.unc.edu.VEGGIE TALESI tell the story of how I became a vegetarian all the time, because it’s one ofthose stories you might not believe.It all started one day in preschool when I realized that the chicken on the dinner table and the chickenson Old MacDonald’s farm were the same thing. On this particular day, my classmates and I werereading a book about animals and the sounds they make.The book went something like: “The cow says ‘moo moo,’ the pig squeals ‘oink, oink,’ the chicken says‘bawk, bawk.’”When my mom picked me up and took me home for dinner that night, something happened.Chicken was on my plate. Yes, the same chicken that went ‘bawk, bawk’ just an hour before at preschool.I did what any sensible three-year-old would and refused to eat. So while most kids my age were refusingto eat their fruits and veggies, I was refusing to eat my chicken fingers and cheeseburgers.At such a young age, I didn’t know what ‘being a vegetarian’ meant, but I knew what pigs and cowswere, and I knew I was not going to eat them. In the months that followed, I was a full-blown threeyear-oldvegetarian. My parents thought this was just a phase—something I’d quickly grow out of—sothey put up with me.I’m 21 years old now and I still don’t eat meat. I guess it wasn’t just a temporary phase. Either that orI’m just stubborn.Obviously, for me, vegetarianism was an ethical decision. When I was young, I simply couldn’t standthe idea of eating an animal that mooed or oinked. Eighteen years later, I still feel the same way.Let me make it clear: I do not think people who eat meat are bad people. I do, however, think thatthey should consider where their meat came from, how the animals are raised and how they are killed,before eating any animal. Yes, I think killing animals for mass produced food is wrong, but what I reallythink is wrong is torturing the animals before killing them. You might be surprised to learn how manyrestaurants contribute to this type of unnecessary torture (Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer is agreat place to start).People always ask me if I crave meat or if I ever want to try it. But the truth is I never crave meat, becauseI don’t remember what it tastes like. In fact, the smell of meat is the opposite of appetizing to me.At this point, being a vegetarian is not something I regularly think about, it’s just a part of who I am.&A vegetarian and a vegan share their reasons forsaying goodbye to meat.Each month Two Views writers take differing views on a new topic.The process of becoming vegan has taken almost my entire life. When I wasa young child, probably 4 years old, I became concerned about the food my parents were feeding me.Like most children, I had come to love animals through both instruction and natural inclination. Thediscovery that my food was animals disconcerted me. My parents assured me that eating meat was necessaryfor human survival, so my concern dissipated for many years.When I was an undergraduate in the ‘70s, I came across a small group discussing Peter Singer’s bookAnimal Liberation. Singer wrote that most animals raised to become food suffer a great deal and thatthis needs to be taken into consideration in our treatment of them. I majored in philosophy, so Singer’sphilosophical arguments were important to me. But the really important thing was the facts.Back then, I think most people had no idea whatsoever that most food animals led lives of miseryand torture in factory farms instead of frolicking on small family farms. And most people would probablyalso have agreed with my parents that consuming meat, certainly every day and preferably atevery meal, was necessary for minimally good health. Equipped with the new knowledge that I couldbe healthier without meat, I came to the personal decision that any additional increment of pleasure Imight get from eating meat was not worth the suffering of the animals whose meat it was.Today, the facts about how food is produced are much easier to find because of the Internet. I fullyappreciate, however, how easy it is to overlook them. After my experience in college, I was very comfortablewith a meatless diet for more than 30 years. It was then made clear to me (mostly by my wife,Linda) that I had been overlooking some further important facts for all those years.Virtually all commercially available dairy products and chicken eggs are also factory farmed in conditionsthat are often just as shockingly cruel as those faced by animals that are eaten. To get this information,one need not visit websites of anti-cruelty organizations like PETA (though it is there). With justa little digging, the facts can be found in publications sponsored by the corporations that own factoryfarms.Once I had finally taken this additional information into account, it was easy for me to forgo anyadditional pleasure I derived from cows’ milk and chickens’ eggs. Factory farming is environmentallyunsound and it is an inefficient system for delivering good nutrition to our country and the rest of theworld. These are things that I care about, but my own decision to become vegan was not shaped bythem. I hope that my story helps a few others to begin thinking about this subject.&...most people had no idea whatsoeverthat most food animals led lives of miseryand torture in factory farms insteadof frolicking on small family farms.—Dr. alan nelsonDr. Alan Nelson is a professor in philosophyat UNC-CH who focuses on early modernphilosophy. He can be reached atanelson@unc.edu.WHATWASTHEBESTPARTOFYOURSUMMER?Olivia Mahony, junior“I taught psychology to youth, and it was coolusing stuff I’d been learning for something otherthan class.”Brandon Rafalson, sophomore“Traveling to Seattle and getting to explore thecity… the culture is fantastic, and there is so muchvariety there.”Amberly Nadro, sophomore“I had an internship with Best BuddiesInternational, which provides friendships and jobopportunities for people with developmental andintellectual disabilities.”Michael Lau, junior“Participating in Breakthrough Collaborative—settinghigh expectations for my students and seeingthem rise to the occasion.”

player profiles: heather o’reilly sportsshorts“It was the perfectproposal,”HeatherO’Reilly says.When the formerTar Heel soccer standoutentered Fetzer Field tojog a few laps around thetrack with her boyfriend,Dave Werry, he got downon one knee. Werry, aformer lacrosse playerat UNC-Chapel Hill,directed her attention tothe scoreboard. It read:“Heather, will you marryme?”“It was prettyawesome,” O’Reilly says.The proposal adds toa long list of memoriesO’Reilly has at FetzerField, where both thesoccer and lacrosse teams play. She led the Tar Heels to two nationalchampionships in 2003 and 2006.O’Reilly made soccer memories before she ever arrived in ChapelHill. Her senior year of high school, she debuted for the women’snational team against Sweden, becoming the youngest player ever toplay for the national team.“I was shocked and excited,” O’Reilly says. “It was an incrediblehonor.”After recovering from a broken leg, O’Reilly made the teamagain in 2004. This time her travels took her to Athens, Greece forthe Olympics. Only 19 years old at the time, O’Reilly’s goal in thesemifinals against Germany led the United States to win the goldmedal. The talented young player showed off her skills again in 2008during the Olympics in Beijing. She scored a goal only 40 secondsinto a match, the fastest goal in women’s soccer Olympic history. TheUnited States again won the gold medal.“It was the most exciting moment of my professional soccercareer,” O’Reilly says about the Beijing Olympics.Despite her extensive travels and experiences, O’Reilly also lovesreminiscing about her time at UNC-CH. The second most excitingmoment of her soccer career, O’Reilly says, was winning UNC-CHwomen’s soccer its 18 th national championship as a senior at Carolina.“I have so many incredible memories,” O’Reilly says. “Winningnational championships, Halloweens and Thanksgivings as a teamwere so special.”Upon her graduation in 2006, O’Reilly’s number 20 jersey wasretired. Her jersey joins Mia Hamm’s number 19 and the jerseys of 17other greats of the women’s soccer program.“What a great day,” O’Reilly says. “And I had my family andfriends to share it with.” & By Lindsey wheelerPHOTO COURTESY OF Tar heel BlueNelson Hurst at the game against Virginia Tech in 2010..I want to get better each week.That’s all I care about.—Everett withers, interim Headfootball coachBLUEBy Vicky WaldthausenPHOTOs COURTESY OF Tar heel BlueBROTHERSThe only thingsseemingly separatingNelson and James Hurstare a couple of years andwhere they stand on theline of scrimmage.The brothers both playfootball for UNC-ChapelHill, major in exerciseJames HurstNelson Hurst and sports science andenjoy the same off-fieldactivities. They even have similar personalities.“We are both kind of goofy,” James says. “We like to have a good time.”“We’re both good at a lot of the same things,” Nelson adds. “He’s betterthan me at video games, but I’m better at golf by two strokes.”The brothers discovered their greatest shared talent in elementaryschool when they stepped onto a football field for the first time. Thattalent was in their genes. Their father, Tim Hurst, played at the Universityof Alabama in the 1970s.Although there were three football players under one roof, the Hurstbrothers rarely showed any aggression toward each other.“You always hear about brothers growing up getting in fights andhitting each other, but we never really got in fights,” Nelson says. “I don’tknow why, maybe because we are both big guys and the damage we couldhave done to each other would have been detrimental.”That doesn’t mean the brothers never disagree, Nelson says. “If we wantto call each other out we do that, but we’ve just always been cool witheach other.”This season will be thesecond year the brothershave lined up on the gridirontogether at UNC-CH. Nelson,a redshirted junior tight end,transferred from MississippiState in 2009 and was able toplay with James, a sophomoreoffensive tackle, last season.“It’s cool just to know there are not many people in this world whoget the opportunity to do something (they) love with (their) best friend,”James says. “I think we take advantage of it and have a great time doing it.”Each brother says the other has had the biggest impact on his life. ForJames, Nelson is a role model who has blazed a victorious trail ahead ofhim, especially on the football field and in the classroom.“I’ve been following in his footsteps, doing things the way he’s beendoing them because it has obviously worked for him, and he’s beensuccessful as a student and as an athlete,” James says.Nelson, who now wears the number 86 because it is the reverse ofhis brother’s jersey number, says James motivates him to always give hisbest effort. “Being the bigger brother you never want to get outdone by ayounger brother,” he says.Both have pushed each other on the field and shared the satisfaction ofvictory at one of the highest levels of the game. One of their best footballmemories was the Music City Bowl in 2010.“The bowl game last year mattered a lot after everything we’ve beenthrough,” Nelson says.The team faced its share of adversity last year. Fourteen players missedat least one game because of NCAA investigations, and seven missed theentire season. This year the team has to battle new hurdles after formerHead Coach Butch Davis was dismissed from UNC-CH in July.No matter what the team experiences this season, one thing is clear:The Hurst brothers will have each other’s backs.&James Hurst (#68, center) at the Homecoming game in 2010 against William & Mary.28 April 2011 www.blueandwhitemag.com 29

STOP!New South,New BelleBlair Rumleyis a senior from Guilford.She can be reached at bmrumley@live.unc.edu.They’re timeless, yet evolving.They’re graceful, yet approachable. They’remannerly, yet outspoken. They’re the reasonmen travel below the Mason-Dixon Line.They’re the crown jewel of the South (evenranking above sweet tea). They’re Southernbelles.Now, this is not to say women from the restof the country do not possesses such attributes,as we’ve all heard the songs paying homageto our California counterparts. But Southernwomen are a distinct breed. And when one’sborn with Southern roots, there are certainexpectations.However, these expectations have evolved.Gone are the days of hoopskirts and plantations;those were the women of the Old South.We Southern belles are ushering in a new age: the New South. As times change, so do we.Time is always of the essence. We no longer have the opportunities to sit on theporch swing every day sipping on mint juleps and nibbling on pralines, though we oftendo every chance we find. We Southern belles are working women. Between our jobsand schoolwork, friends and family, rarely do we have time to relax, nor do we need to.Southern belles are the women who stay up past midnight to bake four dozen homemadecookies for the local school’s fundraiser and love every minute of it.Yes, we still cook, but our cooking has changed. As well-trained Southern belles, weall know the secret to a perfect plate of fried chicken (or anything else fried, for thatmatter). But only on rare occasions will you find us battering and frying everything insight. We Southern belles are finding ways to make our favorite dishes more figure flattering,rather than only using recipes from the butter-loving queen of Southern cuisine,Paula Deen. Don’t get me wrong, my skim milk biscuits are not quite as good as theirbuttermilk counterparts, but they surely get the job done. That said, unsweetened icedtea is still a sin in my book.And to aid our healthier lifestyles, Southern belles have become famous for growingthe finest vegetables in the South. Our love language is food, and in true Southern fashion,we Southern belles share the bounty from our gardens with our neighbors, eithervia a meal or a bushel. A true Southern woman works her own garden; it is her prideand joy, in addition to her family, of course. The outdoors is no longer a man’s domain.Southern women are not the frail, fainting type; we are hardy. The threat of a glisteningforehead doesn’t deter our motivation. We simply wipe our brow and keep moving.A hardy Southern belle—it sounds like an oxymoron to some, but for modernwomen of the South, it’s a way of life. Now, don’t misunderstand, we still exude femininityat all costs, but do so in a respectable manner. We are not vain, but we do takecare of ourselves. We try to never leave the house with wet hair, but we do realize that itmust happen on occasion (a fire, perhaps?). We have also been known to do our makeupin the car, because it has to be done. And those of us that have attended cotillion, weknow putting your makeup on in the car is frowned upon by past generations. But let’sbe serious, we Southern women do everything at a slower pace, so we often find ourselvesrunning a bit late, and that’s okay. After all, we’re first and foremost, women.There are, however, things that haven’t changed; we still know the value of manners.A displaced Southern belle using “ma’am” or “sir” will stop people from the North deadin their tracks, often followed by the question, “You’re not from around here, are you?”We still send handwritten thank you cards and know how to make a funeral casserole—and remember why it’s necessary. And if we encounter someone with manners that areregrettably subpar, our eyes say it all. We are only confrontational when necessary, and ifyou knock our football team, it’s completely necessary.From Scarlett O’Hara to Reese Witherspoon, the Southern belle remains a figurebound to history, still charming her way into our hearts.&For the latest updatesFOLLOW us on Twitter@bluewhitemagBefore turningthat last page,CONSIDERmaking this ad space yours!For advertising info, contactSallie King at shking@live.unc.edulike our style?is looking for new designers withPASSIONCREATIVITYandNEW IDEASIf you’re interested inlayout design, emailegalli@live.unc.edu30 April 2011www.blueandwhitemag.com 31