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Volume 122, Issue 49
 WEEKLY SUMMER ISSUE
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Stilman White returns to practice for the North Carolina men’s basketball team after two years spent in Ogden, Utah, serving his Mormon mission.
Stilman White embraces return
The UNC guard  looks to pick up  where he left off
By Danielle Herman
Senior Writer
Out of his comfort zone.It is a place just about all athletes will find themselves at some point, and it can render them stronger and more mature.But for sophomore Stilman White, out of his comfort zone went beyond a game-changing play or a new role on the team. Going outside of his com-fort zone meant leaving his home, his family and the North Carolina men’s basketball team for more than a year.He wasn’t just adjusting to something new. He was gone, out of touch. But he was also ready — and eager — to go. He had always wanted to complete his mission, and it was a huge factor in his college choice.Now White is back to what he knows, back from a Mormon mission that forced him to bear  blisteringly cold northern Utah winters, talk to strangers and hardly touch a basketball.“I was a little sad leaving Chapel Hill because I had gotten comfortable and happy,” White said. “I knew it was going to be here when I got back.”Desmond Hubert, White’s roommate, said  White has mellowed out some and is more open to talking about his religion.“The Stilman that I came in with when I was a freshman is a little bit different than the Stilman that came back from his mission,” he said. White’s two years older now, more mature men-tally and physically. He’s ready for the long road ahead to get back into shape, prove himself and  build off the early success he left behind.
An early return
 White left UNC after a whirlwind end to his freshman season. He stepped up when his team needed him, making starts in the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. At the end of his freshman year, he left for Utah State University, where he lived for more than a  year. Mormon missionaries voluntarily serve for 18 months to two years in an assigned location. White said he intended to complete his mission right after high school until he talked to Coach Roy  Williams, who encouraged him to play his fresh-man year and promised him a scholarship when
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THE NICEST KIDS IN TOWN AT PLAYMAKERS
Every year, PlayMakers Repertory  Theatre hosts students in their Summer Youth Conservatory. And this summer, the students are putting on their rendition of the Broadway musical Hairspray.
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Two men compete for sheri≠ 
By Aaron Cranford
Staff Writer
Charles Blackwood and David Caldwell Jr. have done everything they can to get people to the polls in preparation for the upcoming sher-iff runoff election. Caldwell, one candidate, said he reached out to people in various  ways, including newspaper ads, mail-home slips and church visits.“I’ve also been asked to come and speak and appear at different meet-ings,” he said.
The Orange County sheriff runoff election will be held on July 15.
David Caldwell  Jr.
is a candidate for Orange County Sheriff. He has more than 22 years of experience in Orange County law enforcement.
Charles Blackwood
is a candidate for Orange County Sheriff. He has 32 years of experience in Orange County law enforcement.
questions,” she said.Blackwood said due to the pro-gression of his work in the police department, he has always hoped of one day being sheriff of Orange County.Blackwood said he has 32 years of experience with the department,  which he said makes him stand out Caldwell said he believes in himself because of his 22 years of experience at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. “I feel very confident,” Caldwell said. “You have to be in it to win it.”Tracy Reams, director of the Orange County Board of Elections, said the board has been preparing for the runoff — doing things like getting poll books and ballots printed. “We also have our coding down for our voting machines so they are able to count efficiently,” Reams said.Reams said residents can cast their early vote between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the Board of Elections office at 208 S. Cameron St. in Hillsborough. She said on Saturday the office will only
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Changes to incentives  worry NC filmmakers
Petranka leaves for Duke
By Samantha Sabin
Senior Writer
North Carolina was where UNC senior Erin Sands could see herself starting her film-making career.It’s diverse, with both the coast and the mountains bor-dering it — but talks in the state legislature of cutting the 25 per-cent tax rebate on film projects are leaving Sands in limbo.“I need to go where the jobs are, and there might not be any options here,” she said.Sands is among a group of UNC student filmmakers who once thought of spending their postgraduate years filming in North Carolina, but are now reassessing their options.
The plans proposed
Both the proposed state Senate and House budgets recommend changing the film incentives, with both suggest-ing the state turn the current
Legislators consider changing from tax credit to grant plan.
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By Jane Wester
Senior Writer
 As of July 1, economics lecturer Jeremy Petranka has moved from UNC to Duke — but he won’t be spending all his time in Durham. An associate professor of the practice at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, Petranka  will teach short courses to MBA students all over the world. He just returned from a trip to London, and he said the job will take him to Chile, Turkey and other international loca -tions in the next year. “It wasn’t really about the money. I mean,
The economics lecturer will teach executives seeking MBAs.
 be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Reams said she expects possibly five to seven percent of registered  voters to show up. On election day, July 15, the office will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Reams said the office opened up on the sec-ond Thursday prior to the election  because of a state statute.“We want to make sure people go to our website if they have any
PROPOSED PLAN
Changes it from a tax credit to a grant program
Productions apply for grants with no guarantee of approval
Full-length filmmakers would spend $10 million to receive a rebate that would not exceed 25 percent of their costs
Spending to qualify for grant varies by production type
 
NOTED.
Zack Danger Brown has raised more than $59,000 using the crowd fund-ing website Kickstarter in the hopes of making potato salad. Yep, that’s all.For a mere $3 donation, Brown will send you a bite. Student loans, house pay-ments, really anything would have been a  better investment. Screw you, Internet.
QUOTED.
“He was feeding him meat, and the crocodile took it before the designated (feeding) area.”— An eyewitness at Shoalhaven Zoo  who had the thrill of seeing a trainer pulled into the water by a 12-foot croco-dile. The trainer had tried to grab food out of its mouth. Was that not in the manual?
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hink your ex has a screw loose? Trust us, yours is probably not all that bad. Linda Murphy, 28, called her ex-thang a loving total of 77,639 times before she was arrested. Oh, and also sent him 647 letters, 41,229 text messages, 217 sung messages and 1,937 emails in that same one-freaking-week span. Murphy, who dated  William Ryans for all of three weeks, would have had to gone sleepless for the entire week with the help of energy drinks and amphetamines to do this. She may or may not have also used three phones simultaneously to call Ryans’ cell, home and work numbers nonstop. Something tells us this could be a classic Disney love story one day: “The Little Mental Case,” “The Loon King” or maybe a horribly ironic remake of “Sleeping Beauty.
77,640th time’s the charm
From staff and wire reports
 WEEKLY DOSE
• Someone broke into and entered a residence at 706 N. Columbia St. between 4:50 a.m. and 4:56 a.m. on Sunday, according to Chapel Hill police reports. A person woke up and saw someone standing in her bed-room, reports state.• Someone vandalized a  vehicle at 5623 Fordham Blvd. at 2:15 a.m. on Sunday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.The person used a knife to damage a tire, valued at $150, reports state.• Someone stole a vehicle from 100 Bolinwood Drive  between 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.The person stole a 2010  burgundy Ford Fusion valued at $5,000, reports state.• Someone broke into and entered a residence at 130 S. Estes Drive at 1:20 a.m. on Sunday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.• Someone stole a con-struction sign at 500 W. Rosemary St. at 1:05 a.m. on Sunday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.• Someone stole items from two unlocked vehicles at 298 Dogwood Acres Drive  between 9:13 p.m. and 10:10 p.m. on Saturday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.The person stole a purse,  wallets and cash valued at $85, reports state.• Someone broke into and entered a business and  vandalized property at 601 Brookgreen Drive between 9 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.The person caused $100 in damage to a door and a freezer, reports state.
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Curator’s Clinic:
 Want to learn more about a piece of artwork in your collection? Bring it in for consideration by one of Ackland Art Museum’s professional curators. The critique is free to members and $10 to others.
Time:
 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location:
 101 S. Columbia St.
City Kitchen Music Festival:
 Don’t miss the first event in City Kitchen’s summer music festival! Dance to music by Big Fat Gap while sipping on cocktails and locally-brewed beers.
Time:
 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Location:
 201 S. Estes Drive
SATURDAY
Tomato Day at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market:
 Celebrate your favorite red fruit (or veg-etable?) at the farmers’ market. Enjoy samples of over 70 variet-ies of tomatoes, local breads and cheeses, tomato-infused beer from Steel String Brewery and live music.
Time:
 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location:
 301 W. Main St.
 
Summer Skies:
 For $5, come to Morehead Planetarium and learn about the stars, constella-tions and planets that are most visible this time of year.
Time:
 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Location:
 250 E. Franklin St.
Ballroom Dancing:
 Bring your two left feet out for a night of ballroom dancing and dancing lessons, hosted by the Triangle StarDusters Ballroom Dance Club at the Carrboro Century
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Center. It’s $7 for members and students, and $12 for others.
Time:
 Free dancing lesson at 7:30 p.m., dancing from 8:15 p.m. to 10:45 p.m.
Location:
 100 N. Greensboro St.
No Shame Theatre:
 Enjoy 15 spontaneous works of art — all acts show up an hour before showtime. Bring your own work of theatre or your sense of ad-venture to the Carrboro ArtsCen-ter. Admission is $3.
Time:
 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Location:
 300 E. Main St.
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By Zhai Yun Tan
Staff Writer
Hairspray kept hairdos up in the ‘60s, but it keeps feet tapping in this decade. As part of PlayMakers Repertory Company’s award-win-ning Summer Youth Conservatory, 30 high school students and recent graduates will bring flouncy dress-es and dancing tunes from the iconic musical “Hairspray” to the Paul Green Theatre. For five weeks, the participants in the conservatory’s Theatre Intensive program undergo train-ing every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. under the tutelage of theater professionals.TheatreTech, a workshop held concurrently, focuses on scenic, costume and lighting production. Participants become apprentices to PlayMakers’ professional staff.Both workshops culminate in a showcase from July 16 to July 20 that is open to the public.“We try to create a program that is modeled after the profes-sional process, so we don’t run rehearsals any different than we  would other professional shows that we produce,” said Jeffrey
By Emily Ruffin
Staff Writer
 When Jodi Magness began the exca- vation of a synagogue in Huqoq, Israel, she had no idea how momentous the project would become. Magness, the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, is a director for the Huqoq Excavation Project. Her team recently made a groundbreaking dis-covery: a mosaic floor significantly dif-ferent in content than that of any other excavated synagogue. Excavation at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village, began in the summer of 2011 with Magness’ team of students and staff and has continued every summer. Magness said the third mosaic, which  was uncovered this summer, is signifi-cant because the content is not drawn from the Hebrew Bible like in every other ancient synagogue.“It’s the first time that a historical scene is depicted in a synagogue mosaic instead of a religious one,” she said.The first two mosaics both depict  biblical stories involving Samson, while the story behind the third is less clear.  A UNC news release said the third mosaic features three horizontal sections. The lowest includes a bull and a dying or dead soldier, the middle is an arcade  with an old man sitting surrounded by  younger men, and the top includes two male figures meeting with elephants and soldiers surrounding them.Brad Erickson, a staff member at the excavation and a graduate student in religious studies, said the identity of the bearded man in the top section is intriguing. “There could be any number of iden-tifications associated with him, and one right now that (Magness) has is  Alexander the Great,” Erickson said.Magness suggested the unique fea -tures of the Huqoq synagogue floor may  be evidence of greater diversity in the practice of Judaism in this period.“The kinds of scenes that they chose to decorate the synagogues with prob-ably reflect differences in their practices and interpretations of biblical law,  which may point to different streams and movements in Judaism,” she said. “This ultimately may be suggestive of a diversity in Judaism that we wouldn’t have known otherwise.”Junior Austin Andrews worked in Huqoq for two years and said some of the most memorable moments happened as each mosaic was about to be revealed. “To see our conservator pull back the last few centimeters of dirt to expose the mosaic for the first time was pretty phenomenal,” he said.Magness said the program will resume during the summer of 2015, and it is unclear how much longer the excavation will take, though she esti-mated five to eight more years.
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By Lindsay Carbonell
Senior Writer
 About 700 people have filed claims to receive compensation for being forcibly sterilized by the state — but hundreds of potential living victims could have missed last Monday’s deadline.Both the N.C. NAACP, a state advocacy organization, and the UNC Law’s Center for Civil Rights have requested for the legislature to extend the June 30 deadline, but so far the deadline has stood. The University’s civil rights center has continued to find more claimants after the deadline, said Elizabeth Haddix, senior staff attor-ney for the UNC School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights. According to the research of Lutz Kaelber, a sociology professor at the University of Vermont and a eugen-ics expert, about 1,500 victims of sterilization in North Carolina are estimated to still be alive.“I think (the deadline) is almost unethical,” he said.The state’s history of forced
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SPORTS BRIEF
Former UNC player PJ Hairston faces assault, battery charge
Former North Carolina basketball guard P.J. Hairston was charged with assault and battery on Monday after he punched rising Northern High School senior Kentrell Barkley during a pickup game at a Durham YMCA Sunday. The incident occurred 10 days after Hairston was selected by the Charlotte Hornets via trade with the No. 26 over-all pick in the NBA draft.
— From staff and wire reports
in
BRIEF
Deadline passes for eugenics claims
Some organizations believe an extension will help increase filed claims.
sterilizations dates to at least the 1920s. The Eugenics Board of North Carolina was established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1933 to review all cases of sterilization. The board  was formally abolished in 1977.In June 2012, the General  Assembly passed a measure to compensate victims, allocating $10 million to be split among the victims that came forward. This program is unique to North Carolina, Kaelber said, because to date no eugenics victim in the U.S. has been compensated. But he said the compensation — about $14,000 per victim if all current claims are approved — still seems low.“In similar cases, where somebody is still alive and will suffer from that injury, it is not uncommon to have a structured settlement that is paid over time,” Kaelber said.No funding for outreach was provided to the N.C. Department of  Administration, which was in charge of promoting the compensation forms, Haddix said. “We’ve been working since November to reach out to victims,” said Chris Mears, a spokesman for the N.C. Department of Administration. Compensation for verified victims  will be sent out in June 2015.Haddix said since victims will not be paid until 2015, the deadline for filing a claim should have been extended at least six months.Kaelber said there are still many  victims left to be compensated.The law does not compensate the families of eugenics victims who died  before June 30, 2013, and victims  would only be eligible for compen-sation if they were sterilized by the state eugenics board.“This is a very good start, but one  would hope that this program would continue and not be curtailed by some seemingly arbitrary deadlines,Kaelber said.
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COMIC STORE TURNS PAGE
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Andrew Neal, the current owner of Chapel Hill Comics on Franklin Street, is selling the store to Ryan Kulikowski after 20 years of working there.
Professor makes historic discovery
Professor Jodi Magness and her team discovered three mosaics in Huqoq, Israel.
Owner of Chapel Hill Comics passes his business along
By Joey DeVito
Staff Writer
 After 20 years with the store, owner Andrew Neal has decided to sell Chapel Hill Comics and see what else life has in store for him.The comics store, owned by Neal for 11  years, is a regular fixture at 316 W. Franklin St.“I’m excited for the store - that it’s going to have somebody come in who hasn’t been doing this for 20 years,” Neal said.“I think I could keep it going just like it is for a long time, but I think I’ve probably pushed it uphill as far as I can.”He said he still enjoys the materials he sells,  but the grind of retail has worn him down.“He’s a fantastic boss,” store manager Jason  Adams said. “He’s really knowledgeable and really approachable.Neal was a regular customer when he was hired in 1994. He worked at the store for nine  years before buying it.“It wasn’t a lifelong desire to own a comic  book shop, although there was a lifelong inter-est in comics,” Neal said. “Because I got a job at the shop, I found out I was pretty good at selling them.” When previous owner Dan Breen decided to retire, he approached Neal about purchasing the store. “I was 28, not knowing what to do with myself, when the opportunity to buy the store showed up,” Neal said.“I grew up basically as I figured out how to run the business. I’ve gotten to the point now  where the business is a mature business, and I’m an actual honest-to-goodness grown man, as opposed to just a technically grown man.” When it opened, the store was called Foundation Bookstore, named after a tril-ogy of science fiction books by Isaac Asimov. Neal said after he took over, the reference was less well-known, so he decided to change it to something simpler — Chapel Hill Comics.Neal said he was proud to sell a profitable store and is unsure what the future holds.“I’m kind of excited, honestly, to not know  what I’m doing because I’ve know exactly what I was doing for so many years at this point,” he said.Neal decided to sell the store to Ryan Kulikowski, who will be its fourth owner.“I follow my gut a lot,” Neal said. “This is the first guy who’s ever approached me who my gut told me, ‘Hey this might be real.’”Kulikowski is a native of the Chicago sub-urbs and worked as a teacher for the past 11  years. He said he and his wife have wanted to move to North Carolina for a few years now.“It was always a someday kind of thing, like someday I should buy a comic store, someday  we should move to North Carolina,” he said. “It  just so happened that it all worked out.Kulikowski worked retail at a music store  when he was younger — an experience that led him to want a comic book store.“I enjoyed talking to customers and talking about music stuff,” he said. “As I grew older I got really into comics and kind of geeky things, and I thought I would be cool to have a comic  book store and be able to do the same type of thing with that stuff.”Kulikowski said once he takes over, he does not want to change the store too much.“I think I can only add to what they already do,” he said. “I think (Neal) has done a great  job building a great store that people really like. I want to keep what he started.”
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Hairspray dances its way into PlayMakers
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 The cast of Hairspray rehearses for its first performance on July 16. The pro-duction is a part of PlayMakers’ annual Summer Youth Conservatory.
EVENT NAME
Time:
 7:30 p.m., July 16 through July 19; 2 p.m., July 20
Location:
Center for Dramatic Art
Tickets:
$10 to $15
The Summer Youth Conservatory will put on the musical next week.
Meanza, associate artistic director of PlayMakers.“All of us treat this production  with the same level of professional respect and importance.”Desdemona Chiang, a director  based in Seattle and San Francisco, and Matthew Steffens, a choreog-rapher based in New York, were  brought in to guide the Theatre Intensive program. “The whole idea is that you drop these students who’ve mostly done work in school settings into this crazy eight-hour day that  we professionals do all the time,Chiang said. “We’re not cutting any corners just because they’re young performers.”Fortunately, the students have not failed the high standards.Steffens, who is currently  working on an off-Broadway play, said he gave the students the same choreography he gave to the dancers in New York during the audition.“I chose not to dumb it down to see if they can pick it up, and they did,” he said. “That was a testi-mony to their talent.But the musical is not merely about dancing and singing.Chiang and Steffens said “Hairspray” has a meaningful mes-sage that needs to be conveyed. A civil rights activist from the ‘60s even visited a rehearsal to talk to the performers about equality, a prominent theme in the musical.“You can’t get around that this is a musical full of joy and hap-piness, but in the end we want them to walk away like, ‘Yes, we can change,’” Chiang said. “There’s potential for activism.”James Scalise, a recent high school graduate, plays the lead male role. He will be a freshman at UNC this fall. He said he applied for the PlayMakers program because he  was impressed by the quality of the shows produced by previous participants.“It’s a really good education into how professional theater is really done,” Scalise said. “I hope the audience will come out of this show shocked that this was  brought to life by people of high school age.”
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