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Cuts crimp UNC
HISTORIC PLANTATION OFFERS FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A chilling view of tomorrow’s waters
UNC System still losing support, money BY ALEX SAMPSON ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
enough food and information to feed a small pre-Civil War army. There was food, storytelling, wagon rides, site tours, wood carving and costumed interpreters. Each event was as colorful as the next, and groups gathered around each station to experience a huge part of American history. The event was not all love, peace and joy, however. Tour guides shared the truth about the history of the plantation and slavery.
Concern over N.C. Central University’s financial well-being turned out to be warranted when the General Assembly approved the state budget for 2013-2015. The University of North Carolina System will face a net funding reduction of more than $64 million (2.5 percent) in 2013-2014. State funding for UNC was $2,577 this academic year. It will fall to $2,493 in 2014-2015. The UNC Board of Governors assigned cuts among the 17 system schools on Aug. 9. In a statement released to the constituent universities, UNC System President Tom Ross said, “Absorbing these required reductions will be difficult and painful, but the General Assembly provided us with the flexibility to determine how many of the cuts will be implemented, enabling campus leaders to mitigate harm to the core mission of our institutions.” As a result of these cuts, NCCU’s state allocation was reduced by $3.7 million overall. While the University will receive $1.2 million from tuition increases, this year’s enrollment drop will reduce those revenues by $886,000. While NCCU faces a 4 percent net budget reduction, reductions to UNCChapel Hill and N.C. State University amount to about 1 percent. That’s because their tuition increases offset their budget reductions. Wendell Davis, NCCU vice chancellor of administration and finance, said these disparities are due to the size of and classification of these institutions.
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Chef Michael Twitty educates audience on cooking practices of slave society.
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JADE JACKSON
ECHO STAFF REPORTER
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NORMANBY ISLAND, Papua New Guinea — Katharina Fabricius plunged from a dive boat into the Pacific Ocean of tomorrow. A bleak portrait emerged: Instead of tiered jungles of branching, leafy corals, Fabricius saw mud, stubby spires and squat boulder corals. Snails and clams were mostly gone, as were worms, colorful sea squirts and ornate feather stars. Instead of a brilliant coral reef like the one living a few hundred yards away, what the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences ecologist found resembled a slimy lake bottom. The cause: carbon dioxide. In this volcanic region, pure CO2 escapes naturally through cracks in the ocean floor, altering the water’s chemistry the same way rising CO2 from cars and power plants is changing the marine world. As a result, this isolated bay offers a chilling view of the future of the seas under ocean acidification. As the burning of coal, oil and natural gas belches carbon dioxide into the air, a quarter of it gets absorbed by the seas, changing ocean chemistry faster than at any time in human history. To understand how that will alter the seas, The Seattle Times crisscrossed the Pacific Ocean from Papua New Guinea to Alaska, interviewed nearly 150 experts and people most likely to be affected, and reviewed most of the peerreviewed studies. The Times found that ocean acidification is helping push the seas toward a great unraveling that threatens to scramble marine life on a scale almost too big to fathom — and far faster than first expected. Already, it has killed billions of oysters along the Washington coast and at nearby hatcheries. It’s helped destroy mussels on some Northwest shores. It is a suspect in the softening of clam shells and in the death of some baby scallops. It already is dissolving tiny plankton, called pteropods, in Antarctica that are eaten by many ocean
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lave houses, slave wear and the smell of food all around. A peculiar combination in the 21st century unless you were at the Harvest Feast featuring culinary historian Michael Twitty, presented by the Historic Stagville Foundation Sept. 7. The event boasted over 20 lbs. of slow-roasted ribs
on a handmade grill pit, stews, fresh fruits and vegetables, and a host overflowing with enthusiasm for all of it. The Historic Stagville Foundation operates the state historic site of Durham’s Stagville Plantation, once one of the largest plantations in North Carolina, with more than 30,000 acres of land and 900 slaves. The foundation hosts plantation tours and other events, and works to educate the community about American history. Last weekend, chef Michael Twitty brought
Echo Extras Online See a video of the Stagville culinary event and read the oral narrative of an ex-slave from the Stagville Plantation online at campusecho.com.
The neighbors no one notices
Jamaican prison Students get an up-close and personal prison experience
Durham County laws increase the plight of the homeless. JAMAR NEGRON/Echo assistant editor
BY ALEX SAMPSON ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Behind the local grocery store. In city alleyways. Concealed in the underbrush of the woods. Around this time of year, the scarcity of leaves makes inconspicuousness a difficult feat for the homeless. These are the places where the prospect of being beaten, robbed, murdered or raped rises tremendously. And for all intents and purposes, these are
homes for the neighbors nobody notices — or rather, nobody wants to notice. In January, the Pointin-Time Count found that 759 adults and 118 children were homeless in Durham. Of those people, 53 were living on the streets. Whether out of shyness, past trauma or mental illness, some of the homeless are considered unfit to live in a homeless shelter.
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The Tower Street Adult Correctional Center in Kingston, Jamaica, was built to hold 700 men but now holds more than twice that number. The prison is also known as General Penitentary. PHOTO
BY JALEN DIXON ECHO STAFF REPORTER
Going to prison wouldn’t be at the top of most people’s to-do list for the summer, let alone in a foreign country. But it was for a group of
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N.C. Central University students in the study abroad program. On May 20, NCCU sent twelve students to Kingston, Jamaica, to examine the prison system. Students spent most of their trip in the dormitories
of the University of West Indies at Mona. NCCU students Devyn Shaw, Monica Burnette and Ryan Taylor now know what hard time looks like in Jamaica. “I expected work,” said
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