Carolina arts & sciences

              E Y E S I N T H E S K Y
Stellar mentoring and an astronomical discovery
T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O R T H C A R O L I N A A T C H A P E L H I L L
I N S I D E : B a s k e t b a l l M e m o i r • S o u t h e r n L i t C e n t r a l • R a n g o o n R e n d e z v o u s • G r e e k s G i v e B a c k
S P R I N G • 2 0 0 6
a r t s & s c i e n c e s C A R O L I N A
T H E C O L L E G E O F
A R T S & S C I E N C E S
• Bernadette Gray-Little
Dean
• William Andrews ’70MA, ’73 PhD
Senior Associate Dean,
Fine Arts and Humanities
• Bruce Carney
Senior Associate Dean, Sciences
• Arne Kalleberg
Senior Associate Dean, Social Sciences
• Tammy McHale
Senior Associate Dean,
Finance and Planning
• James W. May
Senior Associate Dean,
Program Development, Executive Director,
Arts & Sciences Foundation
• Bobbi Owen
Senior Associate Dean,
Undergraduate Education
Arts & Sciences Foundation
Board of Directors
• James G. Kenan III ’68, Lexington, KY,
Chair
• Willard J. Overlock ’68, Greenwich, CT,
Vice-Chair
• Bernadette Gray-Little, Chapel Hill, NC,
President
• James W. May Jr., Chapel Hill, NC,
Secretary
• James L. Alexandre ’79, London
• Derek S. Allison ’98, Charlotte, NC
• Ivan V. Anderson Jr. ’61, Charleston, SC
• William L. Andrews, ’70MA, ’73 PhD,
Chapel Hill, NC
• Vicki U. Craver ’92, Cos Cob, CT
• Archie H. Davis ’64, Savannah, GA
• Robin Richards Donohoe ’87,
San Francisco, CA
• Gail Fearing ’66, Chapel Hill, NC
• Alan Feduccia, Chapel Hill, NC
• David G. Frey ’64, ’67 JD, Grand Rapids, MI
• Molly D. Froelich ‘83, Charlotte, NC
• William T. Hobbs II ’85, Charlotte, NC
• Lynn B. Janney ’70, Butler, MD
• Matthew G. Kupec ’80, Chapel Hill, NC
• Sallie A. McMillion ’59, Greensboro, NC
• Catherine Bryson Moore ‘90,
Santa Monica, CA
• Paula R. Newsome ’77, Charlotte, NC
• G. Kennedy Thompson ’73, Charlotte, NC
• S. Thompson Tygart ’62, Jacksonville, FL
• Thomas M. Uhlman, ’75 PhD,
Murray Hill, NJ
• Ralph Hanes Womble ’76,
Winston-Salem, NC
• Michael Zimmerman ’75, New York, NY
Reaching for the stars
Carolina is a stellar place to be these days, with
many exciting developments in the College of Arts and
Sciences.
We take you into space in this issue of Carolina Arts
& Sciences for a story on astronomy scholar and mentor
Dan Reichart and undergraduate student Josh Haislip.
Using our state-of-the-art telescope technology, Haislip,
graduate student Melissa Nysewander and Reichart
documented the oldest known explosion in the universe
— the afterglow of a gamma ray burst, 12.8 billion years
old. We also share news about the opening of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT),
the largest diameter telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, in which UNC is a partner. And
we update you on the progress of the Carolina Physical Science Complex — the biggest
construction project in the university’s history — as well as plans for our new Music Building,
both of which are being funded by a combination of N.C. bond revenues and private funds.
You’ll read more out-of-this-world news on the international front. For the third
consecutive year, Carolina sent a higher percentage of students abroad than any other public
research university, thanks in part to expanded scholarships for international studies made
possible by private funds. Carolina alum Earl N. “Phil” Phillips (BSBA ’62) has pledged $5
million to the College to create The Phillips Ambassadors Program, the largest ever gift for
study abroad scholarships. The endowment will provide support for up to 50 undergraduate
students a year to study in Asia.
In other international updates, we feature a story on the historic family ties of our new
European Study Center in Winston House in the heart of London. Political science professor
Andrew Reynolds takes us behind the scenes as he travels under the radar in Burma.
Reynolds traces the complex road to democracy around the world.
It’s been an amazing year for our English Department. Four creative writing faculty swept
the top North Carolina literary awards. We continue to build on our strengths in Southern and
African American literature with the hiring of Kenan Eminent Professor Minrose Gwin. This
completes a star-power quartet of editors of The Literature of the American South: A Norton
Anthology, now all under one roof at Carolina.
You’ll also read about the first “Greek” professorship at Carolina and quite possibly in
the country — gifted philosophy scholar C.D.C. “David” Reeve was named the Delta Kappa
Epsilon Professor. Other Greek organizations have similar campaigns under way to fund
distinguished professorships, including Phi Delta Theta and Delta Delta Delta.
We share stories of our inspiring alumni — Ph.D. grad Beth Stevens, vice president of
Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and undergraduate alum Jonathan Reckford, the new CEO of
Habitat for Humanity International. Our current students continue to amaze us as well. In
this issue you will meet our newest Marshall and Rhodes scholars and read the work of
student poets in Michael Chitwood’s class.
Finally, a special treat for “March madness”— an excerpt from English professor Fred
Hobson’s new memoir, recalling his experience as a walk-on player for Carolina’s freshman
basketball team in 1961.
These and other achievements highlighted in the magazine would not be possible
without the support of alumni and friends, for which we are thankful. They show us how to
reach for the stars.
Bernadette Gray-Little, Dean
FROM THE DEAN F R O M T H E D E A N
Carolina Arts & Sciences • Spring 2006
Photo by Will Owens
F E AT U R E S
8 • Up Late With
the Universe
Stellar mentoring pays off with
an unprecedented discovery
for astronomer Dan Reichart and
undergrad Josh Haislip
13 • Rangoon Under
the Radar
Political scientist Andy Reynolds
traces the complex road to
democracy in Burma
16 • Southern Lit Central
Four leading anthology editors
found their way to Carolina
20 • Greeks Give Back
C.D.C. “David” Reeve is
named the DKE professor,
a first for UNC
Cover photo: Professor Dan Reichart (left) and undergrad Josh Haislip gaze at the night
sky atop the physics and astronomy department’s Morehead Observatory dome.
(Photo by Steve Exum)
CONTENTS
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DE P A R T ME N T S
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FROM THE DEAN
Reaching for the stars
2 HIGH ACHIEVERS
Creative writing faculty sweep top
North Carolina literary awards,
Andy Griffith goes to Washington,
Time magazine recognizes heroes of
global health, meet our Marshall and
Rhodes scholars, and more
7 IN THE CLASSROOM
Jocelyn Neal’s class is a window into
rural American culture and history
22 HIGHLIGHTS
Earl Phillips gives the largest ever gift
to study abroad, Holocaust reparations
support Jewish studies, the new Carolina
Music Building breaks ground this year,
Michael Piller’s next generation,
and more
28 PROFILES
Jonathan Reckford ’84 is Habitat for
Humanity’s new CEO; Beth Stevens
Ph.D. ’87 manages her own wild
kingdom at Disney
30 COLLEGE BOOKSHELF
English professor Fred Hobson recalls
his days as a freshman “walk-on” for
the Tar Heels, plus notes about new
books from across the arts and sciences
32 FINAL POINT
Poems from Michael Chitwood’s
“Introduction to Poetry” class focus on
“Where I’m From”
former North Carolina poet laureate
Fred Chappell); Shapiro won in 2002;
and Michael Chitwood in 2003.
Students may not know about
the creative writing faculty’s award-winning
history, but they do notice that
their teachers are engaged and inspired
about the art and craft of writing,
Simpson said.
“Our faculty’s passionate
engagement, which comes from being
deeply involved not only in their work
but also in the affairs of the world of
that work, puts real power and depth
into classroom teaching,” he said. “And
that’s our reason for being, what we’re
all about.”
A teacher in the program since
1982, Simpson has written both fiction
and nonfiction and is a musician and
songwriter. His books include Heart of
the Country: A Novel of Southern Music,
The Great Dismal: A Carolinian’s Swamp
Memoir, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell
Cropsey: A Nonfiction Novel, Into the Sound
Country: A Carolinian’s Coastal Plain and
Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery
of the Carroll A. Deering. Since 1986, he has
been a member of the Tony Award-winning
string band, The Red Clay Ramblers.
Kenan writes both fiction and nonfiction.
His 1992 collection of stories, Let the Dead
Bury Their Dead, won a Lambda Literary
Award in 1993. The collection was nominated
for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for
Fiction, a finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award and among The New York Times
Notable Books. Walking on Water: Black
American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First
Century was nominated for the Southern
Book Award in 1999.
Shapiro’s Tantalus in Love explores life,
The state’s highest arts awards
coming to creative writing at
Carolina at the same time —
it’s truly amazing and humbling, too.
— Bland Simpson ( )
HIGH ACHIEVERS
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H I G H A C H I E V E R S
Kudos for
Creative Writing
English faculty sweep
literary honors
By Kim Weaver Spurr ’88
One might be tempted to think that
something’s in the water at Greenlaw. The
English department’s creative writing faculty
swept four top state literary honors in the
month of November alone.
Bland Simpson and Randall Kenan won
North Carolina Awards, the state’s highest
civilian honor, on Nov. 21. Just three days
earlier, Alan Shapiro and Lawrence Naumoff
received North Carolina Book Awards for
poetry and fiction.
“It’s not unusual to have someone garner
a major prize in a given year. But the state’s
highest arts awards coming to creative writing
at Carolina at the same time — it’s truly
amazing and humbling, too,” said Simpson,
who is director of the creative writing
program. “To say we’re thrilled is to engage in
rampant understatement.”
The North Carolina Awards, coordinated
by the Department of Cultural Resources,
recognize outstanding lifetime achievements
in fine arts, science, literature and public
service. Simpson received the award for fine
arts and Kenan for literature.
The North Carolina Literary and
Historical Association presented the Roanoke-
Chowan Award for Poetry to Shapiro for
Tantalus in Love and the Sir Walter Raleigh
Award for Fiction to Naumoff for A Southern
Tragedy, in Crimson and Yellow.
At the book awards dinner, novelist and
short story writer Jill McCorkle, a creative
writing alumna, also was honored with the R.
Hunt Parker Award for Literary Achievement.
Creative writing faculty have an amazing
track record when it comes to the state’s top
poetry award; they’ve landed the Roanoke-
Chowan Award five times in the last six years.
UNC’s Margaret “Peggy” Rabb won in
2000; Michael McFee in 2001 (in a tie with
jealousy, lust and romantic abandon. The
New York Times Book Review called the book
“touching and intelligent … and [an] eloquent
testimony to the power of poetry.” Shapiro
has written eight poetry collections plus works
of criticism and two memoirs. The Dead Alive
and Busy won the 2001 Kingsley Tufts Poetry
Award for emerging poets.
Naumoff’s Southern Tragedy, a novel that
sprung from the 1991 fatal chicken plant fire in
Hamlet, N.C., captures the horror and pathos
of a community tragedy and the economic
downturn and mistrust that led to it. The work
departs from the style of previous novels,
which The New York Times has called “laugh-aloud
funny.” Taller Women: A Cautionary Tale,
was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year
in 1992. His other novels are The Night of the
Weeping Women, Rootie Kazootie, Silk Hope,
NC and A Plan for Women.
“What’s amazing to me is that our faculty
are frequently out and about, reading and
performing in major venues and festivals across
the state and around the country — while
publishing top flight work right along,”
Simpson added. •
LEFT to RIGHT: Bland Simpson (front), Alan
Shapiro, Randall Kenan and Lawrence Naumoff.
Photo by Steve Exum
HIGH ACHIEVERS
“HEROES OF GLOBAL HEALTH” HONORED BY TIME MAGAZINE
• It all began when one
undergraduate, Rye Barcott, traveled to
Nairobi on a Burch Fellowship to learn
firsthand about the challenges facing young
people in Kibera, the largest slum in east
Africa. He was stunned by the ethnic
violence and poverty, but after talking with
youth leaders there, saw a way for them to
help themselves.
Barcott continued to study Kibera for
an undergraduate research project, and
proposed the creation of a community-based
nonprofit organization that would
fund and develop recreational and health
programs for youth there.
Carolina for Kibera (CFK), co-founded
in 2001 by Carolina students and Kibera
youth leaders, was recognized in November
by Time magazine at a New York City
summit honoring 10 “Heroes of Global
Health.” Actress Glenn Close introduced
each honoree.
With a
budget of less than
$100,000 a year,
CFK administers
four main projects:
a youth sports
organization
sponsoring 200
soccer teams serving
5,000 boys and
girls and engaging
them in community
service; a health
clinic providing
primary, obstetric
and pediatric care;
a program where
girls address a
range of challenges
such as domestic
violence, rape,
HIV, early marriage
and inadequate
MARSHALL SCHOLAR
BOUND FOR LONDON
• Senior Jud Campbell turned
curiosity about his family tree into
published research, a law-firm job and a
genealogy consulting business.
We can’t wait to see what he will do
with his 2006 Marshall Scholarship for
graduate study in Great Britain.
The mathematics and political science
major from Blacksburg, Va., said he will
pursue two master’s degrees in international
relations and political theory at the London
School of Economics, then consider law
school and work in international law.
“Eventually, I would like to enter
politics, where I hope to make a positive
difference in the lives of people in this
country and throughout the world,”
Campbell said.
After publishing research on
his family’s genealogy, Campbell
won an undergraduate research
fellowship and an international
studies grant to research the roots
of James Cole Mountflorence, a
diplomat in Paris during the French
Revolution. Campbell traveled to
Nashville, Raleigh, Washington,
Boston, Belfast, London and Paris
for the research project.
“History is invaluable in
understanding our place in the
world, who we are today, and where
we can and ought to go tomorrow,”
Campbell said.
education; and a solid-waste and recycling
program encouraging youth to collect, sell or
re-use recyclable materials.
Each year, a group of Carolina
undergraduates and medical students
volunteer with the organization in Kibera.
“The secret to CFK’s success is
participatory development and the
understanding that residents of Kibera have
the solutions to solve their own problems,”
said Barcott, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa
in 2001 with a degree in peace, war and
defense. He is serving as a captain in the U.S.
Marine Corps in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Kim Chapman ’00, who chairs CFK’s
board of directors, accepted the honor at the
summit. On campus, CFK is based in the
University Center for International Studies.
The Burch Fellowship Program is
made possible by a gift from alumnus Lucius
Burch III.
BELOW: Youth league soccer players in Kibera.
CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • SPRING 2006 • 3
RHODES SCHOLAR OUT OF
THIS WORLD
• Kate Harris checked off a long list
of eye-popping achievements before she
graduated from Carolina in December with a
major in biology and a minor in geology.
The aspiring astronaut and scientist from
Georgetown, Ontario spent two weeks as the
youngest researcher ever at the Mars Desert
Research Station in Utah; explored Alaska,
Antarctica, Malaysia and Mongolia; ran
two marathons; bicycled across the United
States; and won a full four-year Morehead
Scholarship to UNC.
In November, she added a Rhodes
Scholarship to the list. The prestigious award
for outstanding academic merit will finance
her graduate study at Oxford University in
Great Britain.
“We have landed humans
on the moon and deployed
robots to other planets.
I hope someday to
explore those same
extraterrestrial frontiers.”
She has set her long-term sights on
another trip — to outer space.
“We have landed humans on the moon
and deployed robots to other planets,” Harris
said. “I hope someday to explore those same
extraterrestrial frontiers.”
Harris began exploring the night sky by
telescope as a child. At UNC she founded
SpaceTalk, a student group that presents
astronauts and others as lecturers, hosts
observatory sessions and gives educational
talks at secondary schools. Since sophomore
year, she worked on NASA-funded research
in the microbial ecology lab of Andreas Teske,
associate professor of marine sciences.
Last year she conducted research on the
polar ice cap in Antarctica, tested her samples
at the Byrd Polar Research Center in Ohio
and presented her findings at the Geological
Society of America’s annual meeting in Salt
Lake City.
During her sophomore year, she led a
300-mile backpacking trip in Mongolia
where she helped an environmental
group observe native wild horses,
track wolves and survey the wildlife
population in the Gobi Desert.
She was awarded an American Society
for Microbiology undergraduate research
fellowship and a NASA Alaska Space Grant
scholarship for the summer of 2004, when
she would traverse 200 miles of the Juneau
Icefield on cross-country skis, studying glaciers
along the way.
GRADUATE STUDENT
WINS FORD FOUNDATION
FELLOWSHIP
• Jennifer Taylor, a Ph.D. candidate in
biology, won a Ford Foundation Dissertation
Fellowship, one of only 35 awarded nationally,
to support her groundbreaking work on
skeletal support systems of crabs.
The fellowship is given by the National
Research Council of the National Academies.
Crabs have a rigid external skeleton
which must be shed in order to grow to a
larger size, a process called molting, Taylor
said.
“My research shows that crabs actually
alternate between the rigid skeleton and a
hydrostatic skeleton, which is common in
soft-bodied animals such as worms,” she said.
“This is the first demonstration of an animal
that switches between two different skeletons.
It opens a lot of doors to our understanding of
how skeletons function and evolve.”
Taylor also received The Sequoyah
Dissertation Fellowship and was invited for
membership into the Royster Society of
Fellows, both through the UNC Graduate
School. Membership in the society is the
highest honor awarded by the Graduate
School. Society fellows
act as ambassadors for
graduate education
both within and
beyond the university.
PUKKILA
ELECTED
FELLOW OF
NATIONAL
SCIENCE
ASSOCIATION
• Patricia Pukkila, the founding director
of undergraduate research and an associate
professor of biology, was elected a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS). Pukkila was recognized
for her work in genetics and her leadership
in promoting undergraduate education and
research.
AAAS publishes the journal, Science,
which has the largest paid circulation of any
peer-reviewed general science journal in the
world. The list of 2005 fellows appeared in the
Oct. 28 issue.
Pukkila joined the UNC faculty in 1979.
She has received both a Tanner Award and
a Bowman and Gordon Gray Associate
professorship for excellence in undergraduate
teaching. The Office of Undergraduate
Research has helped to expand opportunities
for active, mentored research experiences for
undergraduates, both inside and outside the
classroom.
Pukkila’s research focuses on the genetic
basis of chromosome behavior during meiosis
— the type of cell division by which germ cells
(eggs and sperm) are produced.
Kate Harris (above), Patricia Pukkila (right)
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HIGH ACHIEVERS
ANDY GRIFFITH GOES TO
WASHINGTON
• Aunt Bea would have been proud.
Andy Griffith, the long-revered television
star and a UNC alumnus, received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White
House ceremony in November.
“Already today I’ve met with the
Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense,
the Dalai Lama — and the Sheriff of
Mayberry,” said President George W. Bush,
drawing a laugh as he honored
the Mt. Airy native who starred
in “The Andy Griffith Show”
and “Matlock.”
“Andy Griffith first came
to the people’s attention with
his gift for storytelling,” said
the President, “and his own
life is a mighty fine story by
itself.”
Griffith graduated from
UNC in 1949 with a B.A
degree in music. He was president of the
Glee Club and a member of the Carolina
Playmakers and the music fraternity, Phi
Mu Alpha. He gave his first public theatrical
performance in Memorial Hall.
He received his first taste of national
attention as a comedian, recording
monologues such as, “What It Was
– Was Football,” a hilarious explanation
of the gridiron game. That led to a 1953
appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,”
followed by a starring role in the hit
Broadway play and subsequent film, “No
Time for Sergeants.”
“The Andy Griffith Show” ran for eight
years and continues to entertain old fans and
new ones in re-runs.
Griffith never forgot his alma mater. He
and his wife established the Andy and Cindi
Griffith Scholarship in the departments of
dramatic art and music in the College of Arts
and Sciences. He served as the honorary
chair of the committee that helped raise
more than $5 million for the renovation of
Memorial Hall.
When the historic hall re-opened in
September, Griffith received
a Carolina Performing Arts
Lifetime Achievement Award
for his contribution to the arts
and the university.
In September, Griffith announced
plans to donate his personal collection of
manuscripts, recordings, footage and other
memorabilia to the university’s Southern
Historical Collection in Wilson Library.
O’NEILL WINS BRITISH PRIZE
IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
• English professor Patrick O’Neill was
awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial
Prize by the British Academy for his valuable
contributions to medieval studies. The prize is
one of the highest honors in the field.
O’Neill was recognized for his 2001
book, King Alfred’s Old English Prose
Translation of the First Fifty Psalms. He teaches
medieval English and Celtic literature and
studies the intellectual culture — especially
Christian — of the British Isles in the period
600 to 1100 A.D. He is completing a book on
cultural relations between early Ireland and
Anglo-Saxon England.
The British Academy, established
in 1902, is the national academy for the
humanities and social sciences. The Sir Israel
Gollancz Memorial Prize was established in
1924 in memory of the first secretary of the
academy, Israel Gollancz.
COMPUTER SCIENTIST WINS
PACKARD FELLOWSHIP
• Marc Pollefeys, associate professor
of computer science, was awarded a
$625,000 Packard Fellowship in Science and
Engineering.
Funded by the David and Lucile Packard
Foundation, the fellowships are designed to
support innovative researchers early in their
careers.
Pollefeys’ work contributes to the area of
three-dimensional graphic imaging. He plans
to use the fellowship to develop algorithms
that will enable camera networks to perform a
multitude of observation tasks.
A member of the UNC faculty since
2002, Pollefeys has published more than 80
scientific papers, helped to organize major
conferences and workshops and is on the
editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence, the main
scientific journal in his area.
Pollefeys is the third UNC recipient of a
Packard Fellowship. H. Holden Thorp, Kenan
professor of chemistry and department chair,
received the award in 1991. James P. Morken,
associate professor of chemistry, received the
award in 1998.
Andy Griffith as a UNC music student (at left) and performing as Sir Walter Raleigh
(above center) in “The Lost Colony.” At Carolina, Griffith was president of the Glee Club.
Photo courtesy of The N.C. Collection
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HIGH ACHIEVERS
STEGMAN NAMED
POLICY DIRECTOR
FOR MACARTHUR
FOUNDATION
• Public Policy
expert Michael A.
Stegman has been tapped
as the lead observer of
domestic policy issues
at the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, one of
the nation’s 10 largest
private philanthropic
organizations.
Stegman is directing
the foundation’s
Program on Human and
Community Development.
He translates policy
trends and positions
program strategies around
the issues of affordable
housing, community
change, mental health,
juvenile justice and public
education.
He also continues in his UNC positions
as the Duncan MacRae ’09 and Rebecca
Kyle MacRae professor of public policy,
planning and business; chairman of the
department of public policy; and director of
the Center for Community Capitalism at the
Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.
Affordable housing is an issue for which
Stegman shares a passion and a long-term
history. From 1993 to 1997, he served
under President Bill Clinton as the assistant
secretary for policy development and
research at the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD). He was
acting chief of staff at HUD from November
1996 through April 1997. In 1997, The
National Journal named him “one of
Washington’s 100 most influential decision-makers.”
Stegman has written extensively on
housing and community development policy
and on financial services for the poor.
BERGER WINS AWARD
FOR BOOK ON WOMEN
WITH HIV/AIDS
• Michele Tracy Berger, an assistant
professor of women’s studies, won a best book
award from the American Political Science
Association (APSA) for a book she wrote on
women with HIV/AIDS.
Berger’s book, Workable Sisterhood: The
Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with
HIV/AIDS, is based on a study of the lives of 16
women – former drug users and sex workers
with HIV/AIDS – who became politically active
in Detroit. The book explores the barriers of
stigma in relation to political participation and
demonstrates how stigma can be effectively
challenged and redirected. The majority of the
women in Berger’s book are African Americans
and Latinas.
Berger’s book was recognized by the
APSA’s section on race, ethnicity and politics.
UYENO WINS BEST STUDENT
PAPER AWARD
• Ted Uyeno, a Ph.D. candidate in
biology, received the Best Student Paper
Award in his field from the Society for
Integrative and Comparative Biology. His
research on the mechanics of octopus
beaks was honored by the Division of
Invertebrate Zoology.
Uyeno focuses his research on soft
marine invertebrate organisms, ranging
from large octopuses to sandworms
commonly used during pier fishing to
flatworms so tiny they live between
grains of sand. Octopuses, and their
relatives the squid and nautilus, are
members of a class of mollusks known
as cephalopods. All cephalopods have
“beaks” that look like a parrot’s and
are used for cracking, cutting and
manipulating their food. Uyeno
discovered that the beaks do not actually
have articulating surfaces between them,
but rather the joint is formed of muscle
fibers arranged in a special way.
“It turns out that octopuses can not
only open and close their beaks, but they
can swing them from side to side and
move them forward and back,” he said.
“Their beaks have an incredible range
of motion that exceeds those of many
articulated jaws.”
Uyeno hooked up a machine that
functions like a heartbeat monitor to
measure the activity of the beak muscles
during biting. He said these “muscle
articulations” — a term he coined
— may be present in the jaws of other
“squishy” invertebrates and may one day
be of use in human-engineered robotic
manipulators.
Michael Stegman
Photo by Steve Exum
Neal, whom I consider a national
treasure, the study of country
music is being elevated in ways
that are long overdue.”
Neal teaches music theory,
analysis and popular music courses.
Her “History of Country Music”
class, which attracts undergraduates
and graduate students alike, is
designed for non-music majors
though music majors are allowed to
take it for degree credit. Its roots are
in a very real sense her roots.
In the mountains of northern New
Mexico where she grew up “fiddling and
playing piano,” the music had strong country
flavor. While at Rice University in Texas, where
she received a bachelor’s degree in music,
she taught country dance classes to earn
extra money. A chance question from one of
her students triggered deeper thought about
rhythm and meter in country music. At the
Eastman School of Music, where she earned
a Ph.D. in music theory, the basics of country
music continued to fascinate her. She chose to
focus her dissertation on structure in the songs
of country music legend Jimmie Rodgers.
For six years Neal has challenged
students to understand how country music
has influenced and been influenced by
everything from politics, race, class and gender
to Southern folk life, social movements and big
business.
She works to keep the course a fresh
reflection of “what’s happening in our
culture and world,” she said. In just one class,
a discussion of the working-class roots of
country music as celebrated in Garth Brooks’
“Friends in Low Places” moves seamlessly to
the subject of domestic abuse in the Dixie
Chicks’ “Goodbye Earl,” inverted gender roles
as extolled by Shania Twain in “Man! I Feel Like
A Woman,” and the widening of the genre’s
appeal by merging traditional country with
honky tonk, folk, pop and rock.
Neal lectures and tests, of course. She
gives assignments to attend area concerts; she
invites musicians, songwriters and industry
executives to teach for a day (Roger McGuinn
from The Byrds visited this fall); and she
collaborates with faculty from other parts of the
university.
She also takes a multimedia approach.
In class, she projects statistics and photos
on a giant screen and uses her laptop to
play portions of songs under
discussion.
Working with UNC’s
librarians, archivists and lawyers,
Neal has arranged to make
digital music from Carolina’s
various collections readily
available to her students. Now in
the process of creating a virtual version of Music
44 for the Friday Center’s distance learning
series, Neal is also preparing to write a country
music textbook.
“I want students to think of music as
something other than background noise in their
lives,” she said. “Some students will say flat out,
‘I just don’t like country music.’ That’s OK; they
don’t have to like it. What I do hope they see
at the end of the course is how this music is a
window into a certain part of American culture
and history, because that’s what this place,
Carolina, is all about. It’s about providing a
space to think and grow.” •
Photo by Dan Sears
CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • SPRING 2006 • 7
IN THE CLASSROOM I N T H E C L A S S R O O M
ABOVE: Music professor Jocelyn Neal (right) chats with a
student after her “History of Country Music” class.
Country Music 101
Course is a window into American
culture and history
By Lisa H. Towle
As Tim Carter, David G. Frey
distinguished professor of music, was
acquainting himself with Chapel Hill in 2001 he
was given a coda of sorts. Casual conversations
with student-employees of local shops and
restaurants invariably came round to the same
question: “So do you know Jocelyn Neal?”
That would be assistant professor Jocelyn
Neal, a classically trained music theorist who
had been teaching at Carolina since 1999.
Within a year, she had drawn on her research,
life experience, music industry connections
and technology skills to create a first-of-its-kind
course, the “History of Country Music.”
Music 44 spoke to her passion: increasing
understanding of the human experience as it
relates to music. It pleased Carter to no end
when he realized “a generation of students
have the course in their hearts and souls.” Now,
as chair of the music department, he’s even
happier that the content, rigor and
reach of the class make it unique.
It’s not that other schools
don’t offer popular music courses.
Certainly they do; the market for
them is huge. What differentiates
Carolina is that it has dared to
move away from what Carter
terms the “Western art music canon” and
encouraged the study of country music as its
own genre.
William Ferris, the Joel R. Williamson
eminent professor of history and senior
associate director of the Center for the Study
of the American South, concurs: “Country
music has global appeal, but I think it’s been
under studied by the academy, primarily
because historically it’s the voice of working
class, white Americans. To its credit, UNC has
always pushed the boundaries of academe. It
pioneered Southern studies, for example. And
now, thanks to the standout work of Jocelyn
“Some students will say flat out, ‘I just don’t like country music.’
That’s OK; they don’t have to like it. What I do hope they see
at the end of the course is how this music is a window
into a certain part of American culture and history,
because that’s what this place, Carolina, is all about.
— Jocelyn Neal [ ]
8 • SPRING 2006 • CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES
Up Late Professor Dan Reichart (foreground) and student Josh Haislip
in the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s Star Theater.
Photo by Steve Exum
That’s when he said, ‘Who are you?’” Soon
enough, though, he had trained the telescope
on the odd burst in the sky.
The rest has been well documented,
making both Reichart and Haislip just a little
famous. During a long night in Phillips Hall,
Haislip, the one who knew how OSIRIS
worked, made measurements from the
images forwarded from Chile and called
off the numbers. Reichart, who knew the
physics, crunched the numbers. By dawn,
they knew that either they’d made a colossal
error, or the sun whose last moments they
were watching had been around during
the universe’s infancy and was the oldest
explosion
ever seen by
humans.
After
their discovery
was checked
and refined by
graduate student Melissa Nysewander and
other students working with Reichart, and
later confirmed by another group of scientists
with more sophisticated equipment, there
were press conferences and news stories. In
an upcoming issue of the journal Nature,
Haislip and Nysewander will be listed first
and second among the authors of the paper
announcing the discovery — a 20-year-old
undergraduate in the lead scientist’s position.
Reichart let his students enjoy the
discovery, stepping away from the spotlight
as much as he could, just as his own
professors and mentors had done for him.
This, his students say, is not at all out of
character for him.
CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • SPRING 2006 • 9
continued
That weekend, Josh Haislip
remembers being asked by Dr. Reichart if
he had “infinite free time.” The question
might be an astrophysicists’ joke. It’s at
least an idiomatic expression between one
undergraduate student and his mentor, two
people for whom, ironically, the work of
documenting the enormity of time in the
universe leaves little room for their own time.
It’s a question that seemed all the more
relevant as the weekend wore on, during
which Haislip and his teacher, astrophysicist
Daniel Reichart, would document the oldest
known explosion in the universe; specifically
the afterglow of a gamma ray burst, a ghostly
red light 12.8 billion years old. It was a
discovery that would make both men — the
teacher and the student — briefly famous.
It turned out that Haislip did have
infinite free time that weekend, and
so Reichart asked him to research the
OSIRIS (Ohio State InfraRed Imaging/
Spectometer), an observing instrument
mounted on the SOAR (Southern
Observatory for Astrophysical Research)
telescope in Chile. Carolina had just been
granted access to the OSIRIS instrument,
and Reichart figured it would be a good
idea if they learned how to use it.
This was not an unusual request.
Reichart’s undergraduate researchers are
part of his team, a group he expects can
handle the rigors — intellectually and physi-cally
— of conducting new and significant
research. His is not a group for busy work
leading nowhere. (“I don’t have time for
creating make-work projects. This research
is important and
it has to be done,
and I need their
help.”) So he
keeps the cell phone
numbers of his student
researchers so he can roust them up and
over to Phillips Hall at any hour, whenever
a telescope needs tending.
On Sept. 3, Haislip received the call
at 10 p.m. A NASA satellite that scans the
sky for evidence of gamma ray bursts — a
tell-tale sign of a star’s death — had just
sent a text message to Reichart’s cell phone
with news of an unusual burst, one Reichart
initially thought they could use to test out
Haislip’s new expertise with the OSIRIS
system. “Dan asked me if I wanted to go
over to Phillips and have a video conference
with the resident astronomer at SOAR, and
I said, ‘Sure,’” Haislip says.
The trick was to convince the resident
astronomer in Chile, Eduardo Cypriano, that
the gamma ray burst was worth interrupting
the telescope’s other missions. Reichart and
Haislip flipped on the video conferencing
equipment in Phillips Hall, and down on
a very large screen in Chile, next to the
various images of the heavens SOAR had
been relaying to the control room, up
popped the image of two men peering
excitedly into the camera.
“We both said, Hola!” Haislip says. “The
astronomer looked at us and said something
like, ‘Hi?’, and we asked him to interrupt
the work of the telescope so we could use
OSIRIS to observe the gamma ray burst.
With the Universe
Stellar mentoring pays off
B Y D U N C A N M U R R E L L
By dawn, they knew that either they’d
made a colossal error, or the sun whose
last moments they were watching had been
around during the universe’s infancy and was
the oldest explosion ever seen by humans.
10 • SPRING 2006 • CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES
Reichart has not been able to entirely
escape public notice. There is the issue of his
young age — he’s 31 — and his youthful
looks, which together make him an object
of fascination. But he’s no boy wonder, no
neophyte astrophysicist. His success, which
includes being awarded a career grant by the
National Science Foundation, is the product
of steady work begun in high school, work
that is both strenuous and fun. Sitting in his
cluttered office surrounded by maps and
reference books, Reichart makes no secret
of the fact that he loves his work and that
he thinks it’s cool. (“I do rapid response
astronomy.”) Because he makes no secret of
this, and because he has the ability to express
his enthusiasm for astrophysics in small
ways — the way he swings around to his
computer to pull up a telescope image for a
visitor, for instance — students have picked
up the vibe, and that’s forever changed their
education. He’s no boy wonder among
scientists, but he may very well be a boy
wonder among mentors.
Reichart grew up in
rural Pennsylvania, the
child of a newspaper
journalist and a high-school
English teacher.
He was always good
at science and math,
but he wanted to be
a lawyer. But then came
Carl Sagan’s public television
series, “Cosmos,” and after that Reichart’s
awareness of the planetary missions to
Jupiter and Saturn, an interest stoked by
the mission photographs his father would
pull from the newspaper’s wire service
machine and bring home to his son.
And so Reichart developed an interest in
astronomy, which he calls “the gateway
drug of the sciences.”
“It was accessible,” Reichart says.
“All you needed was a telescope
and a dark sky.”
Photos and telescopes were
nice, but it was at Penn State
It often happens in science that one
can trace the peculiarities and interests
of one scientist down through a lineage
beginning with that first teacher and
continuing through teachers and post-doctoral
collaborators and senior colleagues, all of them
somehow connected to each other, an ancestry
that constantly regenerates itself.
Dan Reichart and Josh Haislip examine photos
of the gamma ray burst in the Morehead Observatory lab.
Photo by Steve Exum
CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • SPRING 2006 • 11
that Reichart found what he needed to
transform his boyhood fascination into
a field of scholarly study, and
finally into a career: a professor
who took an interest in his
education.
Peter Mészáros, an
astrophysicist with expertise
in theoretical high-energy
astrophysics, saw potential in
Reichart as an undergraduate
and invited him to help chase
gamma ray bursts — never as a
gofer, but as a young man with an intellect
and ability suited to real work. “It was really
exciting to know that you were working
on a real project,” Reichart says now.
It often happens in science that one
can trace the peculiarities and interests
of one scientist down through a lineage
beginning with that first teacher and
continuing through teachers and post-doctoral
collaborators and senior colleagues,
all of them somehow connected to
each other, an ancestry that constantly
regenerates itself. And so it is that Reichart
is now the professor chasing gamma
ray bursts, and Haislip is the young
undergraduate from a small rural town
(Bear Grass, N.C.) making his stellar
observations and already planning to study
astrophysics in graduate school.
Reichart sees nothing particularly
difficult about juggling roles as a teacher,
mentor, fundraiser, networker and
researcher. These are natural parts of
an astronomer’s job, or at least any job
Reichart would want to have. (One is
reminded of Carl Sagan, the wonder-struck
professor describing the grand
scope of the universe for all the young
Dan Reicharts, a first teacher for millions.)
Reichart’s research has won awards and
attention, including having one of his
early discoveries — that the most ancient
gamma ray bursts could be detected on
Earth, yielding information about the early
composition of the universe — named
one of the 10 “Breakthroughs of the Year”
by Science magazine in 1999. And that was
before documenting the oldest gamma ray
burst known.
Reichart has always enjoyed sharing
his love for astronomy with students of
all ages. He has won university teaching
Super star gazing
in Southern
Hemisphere
heavens
Students and faculty will be able to
detect distant stars, galaxies and quasars
a billion times too faint to be seen with
the unaided eye, thanks to Carolina’s
partnership in a major new telescope in
South Africa. The Southern African Large
Telescope (SALT), the biggest diameter
telescope in the Southern Hemisphere,
was officially dedicated in Sutherland,
South Africa, in November.
The new facility complements two
other telescopes in which Carolina is a
major partner and user. The Southern
Observatory for Astrophysical Research
(SOAR) in Cerro Pachon, Chile, began
operations in late 2004. UNC plays a
large role as one of four partners in the
$32 million SOAR project.
In addition, UNC received two
National Science Foundation grants
in 2004 to build the six Panchromatic
Robotic Optical Monitoring and
Polarimetry Telescopes (PROMPT) at the
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory,
also in the Chilean Andes. Carolina is the
lead partner on PROMPT, with multiple
research collaborators.
“Our partnerships with SALT in
South Africa, as well as with other major
telescopes in Chile, give UNC faculty,
graduate students and undergraduates
better access to the skies over the
Southern Hemisphere than any other
academic institution in the United
States,” said Bruce Carney, senior
associate dean for the sciences and
Samuel Baron professor of astronomy.
The construction and operation
of SALT was made possible by the
participation of 11 partners from South
Africa, Poland, the United States,
Germany, New Zealand and the United
Kingdom. UNC contributed about
$1 million to the project, through a
combination of public and private funds.
The entire project cost about $32 million.
Reichart sees nothing particularly difficult
about juggling roles as a teacher,
mentor, fundraiser, networker and
researcher. These are natural
parts of an astronomer’s job,
or at least any job Reichart
would want to have.
awards and has been
leading groups of young,
would-be astronomers to the
National Radio Astronomy
Observatory in West Virginia for
weeklong observations and research since
he was an 18-year-old freshman at Penn
State. Now he’s working to link up a
network of North Carolina universities
and public schools with telescopes that
he and his students are building in the
Southern Hemisphere.
The National Science Foundation
recently awarded Reichart a prestigious
early career development grant of
$490,000. This and the NSF’s $912,000
grant to help UNC build six robotic
telescopes in the Chilean Andes mountains
for the study of gamma ray bursts is
allowing the University to offer research
time on these telescopes to students at
universities and colleges across the state.
The project will also involve North
Carolina public school students through
the educational program of the Morehead
Planetarium and Science Center.
As a result, high school students will
soon be able to put themselves where Josh
Haislip was on Sept. 3, peering at images of
the new universe, making measurements,
feeling part of something big.
Haislip, who works at Morehead
Planetarium helping to guide elementary
school classes, has helped to create a user’s
manual for the young students who will
use the telescopes. As one might expect,
Haislip has learned from his mentor that
this is the sort of thing astronomers should
do.
“Dan once told me he doesn’t mind
at all being asked to do things beyond
the call of duty, like talking to crowds at
the planetarium about the space shuttle,”
Haislip says. “Dan likes outreach, and I
kind of see myself doing the same thing
someday.”
And on it goes. •
12 • SPRING 2006 • CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES
Science
Complex
Construction
Caudill, Cumbie make
$1 million challenge for
new science facilities
Chemistry alumni W.
Lowry Caudill ’79 and Stephen
Cumbie ’70 each have made a
contingent pledge of $500,000
to challenge alumni and friends
to contribute an additional $5.5
million for the new Carolina
Physical Science Complex. It is
the largest construction project
in the university’s history.
With $10.5 million in gifts
and pledges in hand, the $5.5
million needed to complete
the $16 million goal for Phase
I of the project must be raised
by August 2006. Caudill and
Cumbie will match the first $1
million in gifts dollar for dollar.
“The design of this new complex
promotes collaboration, which is becoming
more and more important in science,” said
Caudill, executive chairman of Liquidia
Technologies Inc. and retired president and
co-founder of Magellan Laboratories Inc. in
Research Triangle Park, N.C. “
Caudill and his wife Suzi ’80 honored
long-time chemistry professor Royce
Murray with a $3 million gift in 2004 to
name the Royce Murray Quandrangle, the
largest of the green spaces planned in heart
of the complex. That gift also named the W.
Lowry and Susan S. Caudill Laboratories.
The state-of-the-art complex will blend
in with UNC’s historic architecture, said
Cumbie, president of NV Commercial Inc.
in McLean, Va.
The complex, which will house the
departments of chemistry, computer
science, mathematics, marine sciences,
and physics and astronomy, will include the
following:
• Modern shared facilities — a
collection of new buildings — each with
special purposes and capabilities;
• New chemistry plaza joining the W.
Lowry and Susan S. Caudill Laboratories and
Kenan Laboratories;
• Rooftop observatory deck for
astronomy students and faculty;
• Laboratories with vibration-free
space for electron microscopes, laser labs,
teleconference rooms and special shielding
to avoid electronic interference;
• A new Institute for Advanced
Materials, Nanoscience and Technology;
• State-of-the-art lecture halls.
“Phase I will bring us desperately
needed, environmentally controlled
space for our cutting-edge scientific
instrumentation,” said Laurie E. McNeil,
professor and chair of physics and
astronomy.
Patrick Eberlein, professor and chair
of mathematics, said the math department
will benefit in the short run with a new
4,500-square-foot fluids laboratory, shared
with marine sciences. In the long run, the
department will gain additional office space.
“The fluids lab will do research on
fluid behavior at all scales, from tidal
waves, hurricanes and storm surges to fluid
transport in the lungs, with applications
to cystic fibrosis,” he said. “Additional
office space in Phillips Hall will promote
interdisciplinary contacts with other science
departments at UNC.”
Holden Thorp, faculty director of the
fundraising campaign, said the Caudill/
Cumbie gift will help steer Phase I toward its
completion date of fall 2006.
“The synergy of public and private
funds is critical to achieving these world-class
facilities,” said Thorp, who also is a
Kenan professor and chair of chemistry.
The entire project, comprising Phase I
and II, will rely on $22 million in private gifts
and $84 million from a higher education
bond referendum approved by N.C. citizens
in 2000. Phase II is slated for completion in
2009. •
To learn more about making a gift to the
Carolina Physical Science Complex, contact
Ramsey R. White, ramsey.white@unc.edu,
(919) 843-4885.
— By Kim Weaver Spurr ’88
The Carolina Physical Science
Complex is the largest
construction project in the
university’s history.
Photo by Katie Schwing ’06
CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • SPRING 2006 • 13
The streets of Rangoon have an
aura of disturbing beauty. There is nothing
obviously amiss, but it is too quiet, evoking
the calm before the storm. Pedestrians offer
furtive glances that seem to say, “Don’t even
think about trying to talk to
me.”
Here in Burma — or
rather Myanmar — associating
with a foreigner is dangerous.
Telling an outsider about your
dislike of the military junta or
your support of Aung San Suu
Kyi [pronounced Ahn Sun
Soo Chee], the Nobel Prize-winning
democratic activist,
could land you in a cockroach-infested
cell for seven years.
I am a political scientist
interested in tracing the
complex road to democracy
around the world. But here I
feel like a character created by
Graham Greene or George
Orwell.
The current regime
is in no mood to issue an official visa to
enable my meetings and workshops with
democratic advocates and ethnic minorities,
so I am here “under the radar,” traveling
incognito as a “tourist.” Sometimes when
I catch the eye of a Burmese man, I am
suspicious he is a government spy assigned
to track me for the duration of my stay.
The cloak-and-dagger routine is
draining. I begin each secret appointment
by asking if we can speak freely. The stock
answer is, “Presume we may be overheard,
and proceed with suitable caution.”
During phone conversations, names
and places are alluded to, but never spelled
out. My chief contact uses an e-mail nom de
plume, transforming him from a Burmese
Buddhist to a Californian surfer. I am told
to encode outgoing e-mails on sensitive
subjects. My meetings with opposition
leaders are described as meals prepared by
top chefs or their students; government spies
are “mosquitoes.”
— was assassinated in 1947. Fragile civilian
administrations stumbled along for the next
15 years. Following a 1962 coup d’etat, the
Army chief, General Ne Win, led the coun-try
with an iron fist for the next 26 years.
The pressure cooker
blew in July 1988, with Ne
Win’s sudden resignation
and handover to his top
military henchmen. By early
August, student activists were
leading mass non-violent
demonstrations in the streets of
Rangoon. The state responded
viciously. Thousands were killed
across the country, with tens of
thousands arrested and tortured.
As the charismatic
daughter of the icon of
nationhood, Suu Kyi was a
perfect public face for the
pro-democracy movement.
Despite standing 5 feet 4 inches
and weighing 100 pounds, at
most, she had a commanding
presence. Two weeks after the
1988 massacres, she addressed a half million
people at the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Less than
a year later, she was placed under house arrest
for the first time.
Legislative elections finally took
place in 1990, with the National League
for Democracy winning a remarkable 80
percent of the seats. But the military junta
ignored the results and unleashed a new
reign of terror against opposition activists.
Suu Kyi’s first incarceration lasted
six years, until 1995. As the opposition
movement slowly rebuilt itself, the military
regime returned Suu Kyi to house arrest in
2000. Once restrictions on her were eased
in 2002, she again traversed the country,
inspiring adoring crowds. But in May
2003, government agents attacked Suu
Kyi’s convoy as it traveled through remote
northern Burma. More than 70 people were
killed, and the bloodied activist was sent
back to house arrest. She remains confined
to this day.
Every hotel dealing with foreigners
has its share of staff who are state informers.
Revealing too much to the friendly clerk
can lead to deportation.
Despite these obstacles, I manage to
roam freely. My only real fright comes as I
sit in the window of a tea shop, sipping the
ultra sweet, condensed milk tea and eating
deep-fried samosas. As I scrawl in my black
moleskin notebook, a well-built middle-aged
man watches intently. He beckons to
the manager and they talk animatedly while
glancing over at me. The manager retreats to
the back of the café and picks up the phone,
continuing to look my way. I quickly pay
the bill and scurry away.
For most of Burma’s 60 years of
independence, the contours of politics have
been blurry to locals and indecipherable to
outsiders. General Aung Sang — Suu Kyi’s
father and the founder of modern Burma
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Spies record all activity within
and outside of the Rangoon headquarters
of the National League for Democracy,
so we must meet in a secret location.
Since its heyday in 1990, the NLD has
endured a blitzkrieg of arrests,
physical attacks and state
ridicule. Today it is more a
faith than a political party.
The leadership vacuum is
evident. When I ask about
their views on controversial
issues of engagement with
the government, I am greeted
with total silence. It soon
becomes clear that there are
disagreements about how
to affect democratic change
within the context of the
current regime. The military
rulers have a “roadmap” to
democracy, which involves
a referendum on a new
constitution and multi-party
elections sometime in the
next couple of years, but their
manipulation of the process is shameless.
Current NLD officials are torn
between having nothing to do with a
rigged electoral process or laying low until
elections can be held and then participating
in whatever way they can. The most senior
leaders repeat Suu Kyi’s adage that “the
stance of the NLD is that any matter is
negotiable.”
The colors are vivid and luminous
in Burma — green fields, bold blue murals,
monks’ robes of burgundy and tangerine
— but the human landscape remains
muted. Daily life has a beautiful veneer, but
it rests on a much less attractive foundation
— much like the intricate and bright
lacquered gifts that tourists buy to grace
their sideboards. When you scratch the
shiny surface, you quickly discover cheap
bamboo.
Just as in Winston Smith’s Oceania
Orwell’s Winston Smith is desperate
to be free of the Thought Police. My
“Winston” works the night shift at my
hotel and often serves me breakfast. He
studied hotel management abroad, where
free access to the media
gave him a shocking picture
of what was happening
in his country. His family
supports Suu Kyi strongly
and bemoans the wretched
economy that makes each day
a struggle to put food on the
table.
Winston points at my
Let’s Go travel guide and
says, “Ah, do you know ‘the
lady’ is in there?” I signal
that I, too, admire Suu Kyi
and dislike the regime. In a
conspiratorial whisper, he tells
me that it was once possible
to drive discretely past the
front of the house in which
she has been imprisoned for
10 of the last 16 years. But
the army has blocked off the stretch of
University Avenue leading to her mansion.
My new ally informs me, though, that from
the Sedona Hotel across the lake, one can
glimpse the back of her house.
I take a taxi to the Sedona and smile
at the soldiers milling around the entrance.
As I stride across the lobby, I walk past a
well-dressed Indonesian man encircled
by reporters: It is Kofi Annan’s special
representative, Ali Alatas — the most senior
UN official to visit in years. He stands just
500 yards from Suu Kyi’s house. If she looks
out her window when he leaves the hotel,
she will see him. But of course they are not
permitted to meet, and it is unlikely she
even knows he is here.
I take the elevator to the top floor of
the hotel and wander down the corridor
to look for a window facing the lake. I
dart into an open room, only to startle two
young Indian maids. I smile, gesturing that I
only want to look at the view.
in 1984, uncensored news is high
contraband in Burma. The New Light
of Myanmar and The Myanmar Times are
sanitized tabloids. Some satellite TV is
available, but it focuses on sports and
on issues unrelated to Burma. Yahoo,
Hotmail and AOL are all blocked, though
the technologically-savvy manage to
circumvent some Internet restrictions.
Official pamphlets are published by
the “Committee for Propaganda and
Agitation to Intensify Patriotism.”
While we are stuck in traffic, I am
shocked to see a teen pull out a copy of
Time magazine emblazoned with Suu
Kyi’s face and the headline, “Will She
Rule?” But then I notice that, while the
copy looks new, the date on the cover
is 1990. It is a 15-year-old time capsule
of hope, belonging to a boy who wasn’t
even born when Suu Kyi and the NLD
received the largest popular mandate of
any movement in Burma’s history.
The cloak-and-dagger routine is draining.
I begin each secret appointment by asking
if we can speak freely. The stock answer is,
“Presume we may be overheard,
and proceed with suitable caution.”
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Suu Kyi lives about 15 minutes
from downtown Rangoon, on the
southeastern shore of Inya Lake. The
neighborhood hosts some of the most
luxurious government and diplomatic
residences in Burma. To the
northeast of the house is the
lakeside promenade in front
of the hotel. A sentry sits in his
box along the Kaba Aye Paya
Road, just out of view of the
promenade.
As I scan the scene,
ominous black storm clouds
dump thick sheets of rain
on lovers who scurry under
large tin umbrellas along the
promenade. I hurriedly snap
photos of the house. Suddenly,
the floor manager strides
through the open door, takes
one look at me and my camera,
and aggressively inquires,
“What are you doing? What is
your name?”
Sounding like a Monty
Python character, I hurry past him,
muttering, “Beautiful lake… lovely
pagoda…what a view!” I bustle toward the
elevator, hoping he has not called down
to the soldiers at the gate, who are kind
enough to summon me a taxi as I scurry
from the hotel.
Aung San Suu Kyi hasn’t seen her two
sons for a decade and her husband died in
1999; she lives with two helpers, her cousin
and aunt. The only person who visits is
her doctor, a former political prisoner
who is allowed to come monthly as long
as he avoids talking about politics. Those
who know report that Suu Kyi’s long days
are spent meditating, reading and tending
a rose garden. She has no television, but
listens four hours a day to the radio. She
has sold off much of the furniture in her
house to pay for basic needs. Suu Kyi has
purposely left the paint to peel and the
repairs to wait. This is one place in Burma
where the veneer matches the reality.
The immediate chances of
dramatic political change in Burma do
not look promising. Democratic activists
are searching desperately for any chink in
the government’s road-map plans which
might begin a transition to something more
palatable. The two most crucial aspects of
the new constitution, they say, will be the
procedures provided for transition and
for amendments. One could imagine, for
example, a majority in parliament, built
over time among democrats and reform-minded
soldiers.
Another glimmer of hope is
generational change among Burmese
military leaders. Some international
observers believe the next military
generation has slightly more education and
international exposure than current leaders.
The new generation is keen to get rich
quick and realize they can go only so far
without engaging the global economy.
Real change rests with the NLD
and its allies winning a significant share
of parliamentary seats in elections. Quiet
speculation about the short-term political
future is the game of choice in Rangoon’s
tea shops. Some expect the
regime to wrap up the national
convention in short order,
hold a referendum in spring of
2006, and then release Aung
San Suu Kyi just before the
general election that follows.
Others doubt whether she
would be released before an
election.
Buddhist students of
Burmese martial arts are taught
to wait until they are struck
three times before responding.
If the junta’s first strike against
the pro-democracy movement
was the massacre of 1988, and
the second was the attack on
Suu Kyi’s convoy in 2003, will
the next clenched fist elicit an
uprising far greater than that
in 1988? Or do the demoralized democrats
have scant appetite for seeing the blood of
their remaining friends and relatives on the
streets again?
Despite its economic isolation, Burma
dominates the world production of teak. The
dark wood is beautiful and strong, providing
the economic backbone of this frail nation.
Millions of Burmese see democracy in a
similar light, but hope that it will come more
quickly than the 80 years it takes for a teak
tree to mature to the point of usefulness. •
Andrew Reynolds is an associate professor
of political science who teaches, researches and
writes about democratization around the world.
He has served as a consultant on electoral and
constitutional issues for Afghanistan, Angola,
Burma, Fiji, Guyana, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan,
Kenya, Liberia, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles,
Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
Yemen and Zimbabwe. These excerpts are from a
longer article about his visit to Burma last summer.
The colors are vivid and luminous
in Burma — green fields, bold blue
murals, monks’ robes of burgundy
and tangerine — but the human
landscape remains muted.
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William Andrews was at a most
un-Southern place when publisher W.W.
Norton approached him in 1994 about
editing its first anthology of Southern
literature. The setting: a Jamaican restaurant
in Palo Alto, Calif. Andrews, then an English
professor at the University of Kansas, was
enjoying a fellowship at Stanford University.
“I’m sure various Southernists would
have turned over in their graves,” Andrews
said of the unholy West Coast beginning
that led to the birth in 1998 of The
Literature of the American South: A Norton
Anthology.
Not to worry. Norton had picked a
general editor with deep Southern roots
and credentials: A native of Richmond,
Memphis and Atlanta, with a master’s and
Ph.D. in English from Carolina, Andrews
was already a heavyweight in the Southern
lit field and the leading specialist in the
country on slave narratives.
He happily agreed to lead the effort to
assemble the first chronological anthology
of Southern literature in 30 years, and set
about selecting his co-editors — carefully.
He wanted the compendium to be distinct
from its predecessors. It should be primarily
focused on writers of the 20th century, he
thought, and it should reflect the diversity
of the South — across lines of color, gender
and class, embracing both urban and
agrarian cultures.
Andrews turned to Carolina for one
of his three co-editors — Fred Hobson
— and found Trudier Harris at Emory
University and Minrose Gwin at the
University of New Mexico. All were
well known scholars of Southern and
African American literature with unique
strengths and perspectives to bring to the
task at hand. Unlike the editorial boards
of previous Southern anthologies, this one
would include men and women, black
and white. And, like Andrews, they were all
Southerners.
By the time the book was published,
Andrews and Harris had joined Hobson
at Carolina, creating a critical mass of
Southern specialists in Chapel Hill. Already
there were: Joseph Flora, co-editor of The
Companion to Southern Literature; Laurence
Avery, whose work focuses on African
American drama and the playwright
Paul Green; William Harmon, a poet and
editor of multiple editions of A Handbook
to Literature; Julius Raper, a specialist on
Ellen Glasgow and 20th century Southern
literature; James Coleman and Lee Greene,
specialists in African American drama and
fiction; and Linda Wagner-Martin, a scholar
of 20th century literature, including William
Faulkner. Louis Rubin, the legendary
Southern literary scholar and teacher, had
retired from UNC in 1989, but remained
in Chapel Hill at Algonquin Books, where
he was discovering and publishing new
Southern writers.
Seven years after the anthology came
off the press, Gwin completed the Norton
circle at Chapel Hill this fall by joining
the UNC faculty as the Kenan Eminent
professor of Southern literature.
“Minrose Gwin’s appointment is
further proof, if any more is needed, that
— with our special collections in Wilson
Library, and the Center for the Study of
the American South — Chapel Hill is
the most important center in the country
for the study of Southern literature,” said
James Thompson, professor and chair of the
department of English.
William Ferris, the Joel R. Williamson
eminent professor of history and a leading
voice on Southern music and culture, calls
the four anthology editors “icons in the field
of Southern studies.”
“To have all four of these Southern
literature giants teaching in the classroom,
speaking in public and publishing their work
within one department in one university
is unheard of,” said Ferris, senior associate
director of the Center for the Study of the
American South. “You cannot be in the field
of Southern studies and not admire and use
their work, because they essentially are the
field.”
A brisk November morning
draws the Norton co-editors together for
a magazine photo shoot outside the Rare
Book Collection in Wilson Library. It’s
apparent that they are congenial colleagues, as
the photographer instructs them to take on
poses both stately and casual. Harris has been
charged with holding the anthology, with its
striking red cover featuring a 1946 painting
by Nell Choate Jones called “Georgia Red
Clay.” There is laughter and joking, and a
“crick” in Harris’ right foot.
Carolina’s Norton quartet readily agrees
that working on the anthology was a good
experience. Together they combed through
400 years of Southern literary history, from
the early 1600s to contemporary times,
bringing together the works of nearly 90
diverse American writers, such as Thomas
Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain,
Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison and
William Faulkner.
Andrews edited the first and last
sections of the book, “Beginnings to 1880”
and “Vernacular Traditions.” Hobson took on
“The New South, 1880-1940,” and Harris
and Gwin tackled the largest section of the
book, “The Contemporary South.” The
anthology closes with “The Foundations of
the Earth,” a short story by award-winning
writer, Randall Kenan, who also ended up at
Carolina, as an associate professor of creative
writing in Greenlaw (See page 2).
Norton Anthology editors now teach under one roof
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Rubin — the Algonquin publisher,
English professor emeritus and editor of an
earlier anthology, The Literary South (1979)
— praised the Norton anthology for the
“breadth of its approach and the vigor and
incisiveness of its commentary.”
Andrews is particularly proud of the
anthology’s first-of-a-kind audio companion,
a CD containing 26 examples of spirituals,
gospel, blues, ballads, sermons and stories.
One of his favorite pieces on the CD is a
song that UNC folklorist Dan Patterson told
him about called “Factory Girl.” The ballad,
recorded in 1962, tells the story of a mill
worker who fantasizes about marrying her
boss as a way out of factory life.
“It’s absolutely haunting,” Andrews
said. “It represents a powerfully moving
side of the Southern experience, of white
women working in the cotton mills from
the time they were children.”
“I always say that I didn’t choose
African American literature, it chose
me,” said Andrews, who is now the E.
Maynard Adams professor of literature and
senior associate dean for the fine arts and
humanities. “I think it was partly because of
being brought up in the segregated South.
My access to African American life, to
black people in general, was very limited.
There was a lingering curiosity and interest
and concern about, what was that world
of black experience that I knew so little
about?
“When I got to graduate school
and began to have a chance to read black
writers, it was the ones from the South
who interested me most,” he said.
He has since written or edited about
40 books. His first, The Literary Career
of Charles W. Chesnutt (1980), deals with
a seminal figure in the development of
African American and Southern fiction.
Andrews’ newest book, The North
Carolina Roots of African American Literature
(2006), showcases some of the best work of
eight influential black writers from North
Carolina during the 19th and early 20th
centuries.
He has served as general editor of
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
(University of Wisconsin Press),
which includes some 40 studies of the
autobiographical writings of slaves, refugees,
immigrants and others.
Andrews’ most innovative project is an
online library of some 280 North American
slave narratives — the largest such collection
of stories and illustrations — now available
free to the public through a partnership with
UNC’s Academic Affairs Library and the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
(http://docsouth.unc.edu/)
One of the most widely read narratives,
Harriet Jacobs’ 1861 autobiography,
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,”
tells how she lived in a crawl space in her
grandmother’s house for seven years before
escaping north to freedom.
“Our online versions of these rare
original texts are the next best thing to
holding the books in your hand,” Andrews
said.
Trudier Harris grew up as the sixth
of nine children born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to
Terrell and Unareed Harris. She received
her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio
State University and taught at the College
of William and Mary for six years, before
joining the UNC faculty in 1979. She left
Carolina for Emory University for a brief
period in 1993, before returning in 1996.
She is one of the most widely read
scholars of African American literature,
focusing primarily on 20th century African
American writers and on folklore.
Now the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of
English, she is the author or editor/co-editor
of 22 books, including From Mammies to
Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature
(1982), Black Women in the Fiction of James
Baldwin (which received the 1987 College
Language Association’s Creative Scholarship
Award), Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of
Toni Morrison (1991) and Saints, Sinners,
Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American
Literature (2001).
Harris and Andrews partnered together
on another collection, The Oxford Companion
to African American Literature (which won
an Editor’s Choice Award from Booklist
magazine in 1997). She calls 1996-1998 “my
big fat book years.”
Harris also has been recognized
repeatedly as an outstanding teacher, most
recently with the 2005 Board of Governors’
Award for Teaching Excellence — the top
teaching prize given at UNC.
“She is the most spellbinding lecturer
I have ever seen among American literature
scholars,” says Hobson, one of the Norton
editors.
What’s her secret?
“You make a commitment to never
bore your students or yourself,” said Harris,
who also serves as English department
associate chair. “So you sing when you can’t
sing; I recite poetry. You try to create an
environment where students say, ‘I can’t wait
to go to her class again.’ You make sure that
you get across that you’re excited about the
information.”
Harris tells her own story in the 2003
memoir, Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black
Daughter of the South.
“It has taken me a long time to arrive
at a basic fact of my existence: I am a
Southerner. For a black person to claim the
South … is about as rare as snow falling in
Tuscaloosa during dog days,” she writes in
the book’s title essay.
Her new book is entitled, The Scary
Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and
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the South (under contract to LSU Press.)
“African American writers, no matter
where they are born in the United States, do
not truly consider themselves writers until
they have written about the South,” Harris
said. “There’s a stamp of certification on the
mountain of the South that these writers can’t
go over. They have to tunnel through it.”
Louis Rubin has high praise for Fred
Hobson, his former student, whom he calls
“a first-rate literary critic.”
“Fred writes fluently and gracefully,”
said Rubin. “He has a sense of the literary
imagination and how it functions, which is
all too rare among scholars.”
Hobson is an expert in Southern
literature and intellectual history,
autobiography and 20th century American
fiction. He grew up in Yadkin County,
N.C. As an undergraduate at UNC, he was
drawn to writers like H.L. Mencken; as a
scholar, he has written extensively about
Mencken.
“I came across a couple of essays by
Mencken as a student; one of them in
particular: ‘The Sahara of the Bozart,’” said
Hobson, who received his undergraduate
and Ph.D. degrees from Carolina. “It was a
vicious attack on the South, and I thought,
with some reason. I was something of a
Southern iconoclast myself, and my interest
in Mencken was in him exposing the flaws
of Southern life.”
Now Lineberger Professor in the
Humanities at Carolina, Hobson has
been co-editing The Southern Literary
Journal (co-founded by Rubin and Hugh
Holman) for the past 15 years. The author
of seven books (including three award-winning
volumes) and editor or general
editor of dozens of others, Hobson has a
recent collection of essays that feature some
autobiographical works.
In The Silencing of Emily Mullen and
Other Essays (2005), a story about Hobson’s
great-grandmother inspired the book’s title
essay. At a family reunion 20 years ago, a
great aunt asked him if he knew that his
maternal great-grandmother, Emily Mullen
Gregory, had committed suicide about 1880
by jumping down a well. Hobson decided to
track down the story, poring through census
records, family letters, academic records and
old newspapers on microfilm.
“I finally confirmed that she indeed
had committed suicide, but ‘Why?’ was the
big question,” he said. “I got into the area of
the male medical establishment’s complete
lack of understanding of women’s health in
the 19th century.”
Hobson’s new memoir, Off the Rim:
Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina
Childhood (spring 2006), is an account of his
life-long affair with basketball, particularly
the Tar Heels. (See page 30). He played on
UNC’s freshmen team in 1961-62.
“The book is about a lot of other
things, too — politics, race and the changing
South through the ’60s and ’70s,” he said.
Gwin was recruited to Carolina from
Purdue University, where she had been
teaching since 2002. Born in Mississippi
with a Ph.D. from the University of
Tennessee, she had taught for much of her
career outside of the South.
Her research and teaching focus on
Southern literature, women’s literature and
theories of space and gender, trauma studies,
African American literature, autobiography
and creative writing. She is the author or
editor/co-editor of eight books, including
her most recent scholarly work, The
Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space
and Reading (2002). Her 1990 book, The
Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond)
Sexual Differences, was the first book-length
reading of Faulkner to employ feminist
theory. Black and White Women of the Old
South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American
Literature (1985) was a Choice Outstanding
Academic Book. She edited A Woman’s
Civil War, the diary of Cornelia McDonald
(1992), and it was selected as one of the best
100 books on the Civil War.
When Gwin made her first
presentation to faculty and students in
UNC’s English department, Andrews said
she illustrated not only her abilities as a
scholar, but her flair for teaching, too.
“I don’t know which was better, the
lecture itself or the discussion afterward,”
he said.
Gwin’s 2004 memoir, Wishing for
Snow, is a portrait and a tribute to her
mother, Erin Clayton Pitner, a brilliant
poet who suffered from mental illness.
She weaves the story of her relationship
with her mother, and her mother’s mental
deterioration and eventual death from
ovarian cancer, by sifting through her
mother’s poetry, letters, recipes, traffic
tickets, newspaper clippings, medical reports
and childhood diary.
“I managed to gain access to her diary
when she was 9 years old. In the diary, she
was always wishing for snow,” she said. “The
term also comes to apply to me as the
daughter-writer who also wishes for snow,
and the plenitude of a mother who wasn’t
there in some ways — and was there in
some ways.”
Gwin is excited about working with
Hobson as co-editor of The Southern
Literary Journal. “It puts me in touch with
a deeper base of scholarship going on in
Southern studies,” she said.
The Literature of the American South: A
Norton Anthology may have been conceived
on foreign soil, but general editor Andrews
is delighted to have the Norton quartet
now at home at Carolina, where they
belong.
“I had the best in the business working
with me on the anthology,” he said. •
Carolina’s Norton quartet
readily agrees that working
on the anthology was a good
experience. Together they
combed through 400 years
of Southern literary history,
from the early 1600s to
contemporary times,
bringing together the
works of nearly 90 diverse
American writers, such as
Thomas Jefferson, Frederick
Douglass, Mark Twain, Zora
Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison
and William Faulkner.
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20 • SPRING 2006 • CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES
Greeks Give Back
Philosophy scholar named DKE professor, a first for UNC
B y A l a n B r e z n i c k • P h o t o s B y S t e v e E x u m
C.D.C. “David” Reeve, Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor
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Call them alpha professors.
Not to mention beta, gamma and delta
professors as well.
In a first for Carolina and quite possibly
the entire collegiate world, two fraternities
have raised enough money to endow
distinguished professorships in the College of
Arts and Sciences. The Chapel Hill chapters
of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Delta Theta
each have collected more than the $666,000
needed to qualify for matching state grants
of $334,000 and fund two $1 million faculty
professorships. One of the professorships
has already been filled while the recipient of
the other professorship will be named by July.
A sorority also has now joined in
the growing Greek fundraising drive to
help Carolina lure and retain outstanding
faculty. Following the example set by the
two fraternities, the Delta Delta Delta
sorority kicked off
its professorship
campaign last
spring.
Edward “Tee”
Baur, a 1968 UNC
graduate and DKE
alumnus, got the ball
rolling six years ago
when he proposed
that fraternities
and sororities
start funding
professorships.
Serving on the UNC
Board of Visitors,
he was seeking a
way to show that
fraternities and
sororities care about academics.
“I believe that there is a lot to be
learned from the Greek system,” said Baur,
a retired businessman and former executive
at Duke-Weeks Realty in St. Louis. “I kept
struggling with how to create a very palpable
linkage between the Greek system and the
administration.”
Hitting on the idea of the professorships,
Baur launched the Delta Kappa Epsilon
professorship campaign in May 2000 and
contributed the first $100,000 to the fund.
Over the next five years, the pioneering
fundraising drive raised about $825,000 in
gifts and pledges from 71 donors, including
another $100,000 donation by Baur.
Last summer Carolina named
philosophy scholar C.D.C. “David” Reeve
as the inaugural Delta Kappa Epsilon
Distinguished Professor. Reeve, a gifted
scholar who joined the UNC philosophy
department in 2001, focuses on ancient
Greek philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, moral
psychology, history of philosophy and the
philosophy of sex and love. Earning raves
from students as “an elegant and engaging”
teacher, he regularly packs lecture halls
with enthused students, including many
DKE’s. He won the 2006 Tanner Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, one of
the highest teaching honors awarded by the
university.
Born and raised in Ireland, the 57-
year-old Reeve has also gained international
recognition as one of the most distinguished
and original scholars in ancient philosophy.
He’s written numerous acclaimed articles
and major books, including the most recent
Love’s Confusions (Harvard University Press,
2005). One scholar called Reeve’s book,
Philosopher-Kings, “the best book there is on
Plato’s Republic.” Another work, Substantial
Knowledge, is considered required reading for
the understanding of Aristotle’s metaphysics.
But the award of the distinguished
professorship still took him by surprise.
“It’s a great honor,” said Reeve.
“Having an endowed chair, particularly at
a major university, is a rare accolade.
I’m very gratified by the university’s
recognition of my work.”
Inspired by Delta Kappa Epsilon’s
success, Phi Delta Theta embarked on its
professorship campaign in 2001. Under
the leadership of Shoffner “Shoff” Allison, a
1998 Carolina graduate, the Phi Delts have
raised $722,000 in gifts and pledges from
231 donors, including a lead gift of $100,000
from Garnett Smith of Naples, Fla. Named
in honor of the late Matthew Mason, an
honorary Phi Delt “brother,” the new faculty
chair will be known as the Phi Delta Theta/
Matthew Mason Distinguished Professorship.
“Matthew Mason was the glue and
the bond that tied Phi Delt together for the
last 60 years,” said Allison, president of
Hawthorne Capital in Charlotte. “The idea
of supporting Carolina faculty at the highest
level and recognizing Matthew Mason was an
easy sell.”
Delta Delta
Delta then followed
suit last year,
becoming the first
sorority to start its
own professorship
campaign. Led
by Becky Cobey,
a 1975 Carolina
graduate who lives
in Greenwich,
Conn., the Tri Delts
have privately raised
$160,000 in gifts
and pledges from
eight donors so
far and aim to “go
public” with the
campaign this year.
“I think all the Greek professorships are
a good idea, and I feel confident that the Tri
Delts will wholeheartedly support this effort,”
said Cobey, a member of the UNC Board of
Visitors and the Women’s Leadership Council.
In addition, three other fraternities and
sororities are weighing similar academic
fundraising efforts for Carolina. Greek alumni
eventually hope to sign up as many as 10
or 12 of the university’s more than two
dozen fraternities and sororities for Greek
professorship campaigns.
“I’d like to get six in the near term,”
said Baur, who’s still heavily involved. “I will
continue to beat the drum.” •
CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • SPRING 2006 • 21
“It’s a great honor. Having an endowed chair, particularly at a major university,
is a rare accolade. I’m very gratified by the university’s recognition of my work.”
HIGHLIGHTS H I G H L I G H T S
22 • SPRING 2006 • CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES
Distinguished Professorship
to honor beloved teacher
and scholar
Teacher, scholar, mentor, friend,
anchor, and leader — these are the words
former students use to describe Richard
“Dick” Richardson, political science
professor emeritus and former UNC
provost.
The Richard J.
Richardson Distinguished
Professorship in Political
Science has been
established to recognize
the beloved professor
and administrator’s four
decades of service to
Carolina.
When fully funded,
the professorship in the
College of Arts and
Sciences will be used
to recruit or retain an
outstanding teacher/
scholar in American
politics. Faculty support is the top funding
priority for the College in the university’s
Carolina First fundraising campaign.
Tom Uhlman (M.S. ’71, Ph.D. ’75) was
one of Richardson’s first doctoral students
and has made a lead gift of $120,000 to the
professorship.
Uhlman recalled that during difficult
times as a graduate student, Richardson’s
door was always open.
“My most trying circumstance was
discovering that the dissertation topic I had
been pursuing for nearly a year was already
being written by another student at Johns
Hopkins,” said Uhlman, managing partner
of New Venture Partners LLC in Murray
Hill, N.J. “I was shattered
and turned to Dick
for advice and counsel.
The ultimate result
was a dissertation that
won the prize as the best U.S.
doctoral thesis in the field of
law — ironically the same
prize that Dick had won for
his thesis.”
Former student Darlene
Walker Redman (Ph.D. ’73)
said Richardson is fond of
saying that the best job in
the university is teaching, even after having
been political science department chair and
provost.
“With his great sense of fun, quick
wit and wonderful storytelling ability, he
delighted students in the classroom,” said
Redman of N. Darlene Walker & Associates
ABOVE: Dick Richardson mentoring students.
LEFT: The former political science professor at home
in the classroom. BELOW: Richardson with his
granddaughter, Ava Leigh Loeffler, a future Tar Heel.
LLP in Houston,
Texas. “He was
the quintessential
professor and his
subject was life.”
Richardson
joined the Carolina
faculty in 1969
and won a number
of top teaching
awards. He served as
provost from 1995
to 2000.
In November
2005, the UNC
Board of Trustees
presented
Richardson with
the prestigious
William R. Davie Award, recognizing his
extraordinary service to the university. It is the
highest honor bestowed by the trustees. •
To support the Richardson professorship,
contact Kim Goodstein in the Arts and Sciences
Foundation at (919)843-3919, mail to:
kim.goodstein@unc.edu.
The Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professorship in Political Science
has been established to recognize the beloved professor and administrator’s
four decades of service to Carolina. [ ]
CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • WINTER 2006 • 29
$5 million gift creates
Phillips Ambassador scholarships
By Claire Cusick
HIGHLIGHTS
CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • SPRING 23
Earl N. “Phil” Phillips, Jr. (BSBA ’62)
has pledged $5 million to create the Phillips
Ambassadors Program in the College of
Arts and Sciences. This pledge represents the
largest gift to the university earmarked for
study abroad programs.
The endowment fund aims to provide
scholarships for up to 50 undergraduates
per year to participate in College-approved
summer or full semester study abroad
programs in Asia, with preference given
to China and India. A quarter of the
scholarships will be reserved for qualified
undergraduate business majors and minors.
Recipients, named Phillips Ambassadors,
will be selected by a committee chaired by
the director of study abroad and including
representatives from the College of Arts and
Sciences and UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business
School.
This program augments Carolina’s
long-standing leadership in providing
international experiences for its
undergraduates. Almost 37 percent of
Chapel Hill students study abroad before
receiving their degrees, a higher percentage
than any other major public research
university in the United States, according
to the latest report by the Institute of
International Education.
“We are grateful to Phil Phillips for this
gift, which will significantly expand study
abroad opportunities for our students and
for his long-time leadership and support
of international studies at Carolina,” said
Bernadette Gray-Little, dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences. “Private funds for
scholarships are critical so that all UNC
students have the opportunity to have
meaningful international experiences as
preparation for leadership in a global society.”
The gift is only the latest contribution
to international studies by Phillips, former
United States Ambassador to the Eastern
Caribbean and successful High Point
businessman. In 1992, he established the Earl
N. Phillips, Jr. Professorship in International
Studies to help attract outstanding
undergraduate teachers. He served as
International Executive in Residence at
the Kenan-Flagler Business School in
2003-2004. He received Kenan-Flagler’s
Global Leadership Award in 2001 and the
university’s William R. Davie Award in 1995.
Phillips has more than 35 years of
international business experience. He retired
in 2000 as chairman and CEO of GE Capital
First Factors Corporation, a High Point
asset-based lending company he co-founded
in 1972. Phillips also served as head of Phillips
Interests, Inc. and Showplace, real estate and
home furnishings showroom management
companies, both key components of the
International Home Furnishings Market
headquartered in High Point.
Phillips said he hopes his gift will allow
UNC undergraduate students to explore
other countries. “International travel is one
of life’s great educational experiences,” he
said. He credits his parents with providing
him with this opportunity when they
traveled the world when he was a teenager.
“That opened my eyes to the world, and I
have been traveling and exploring ever since,”
he said. “I want Carolina undergraduates to
experience that same thing.”
Phillips’ family has embraced his
international interests. His daughter,
Courtney Phillips Hyder ’96, spent a semester
at sea while a Carolina undergraduate, and his
son, Jordan Phillips ’04 participated in a study
abroad program in Spain and now works for
a venture firm in Hong Kong.
Phillips also credits Kenan Institute
Director John D. Kasarda, who encouraged
Phillips — while a member of UNC’s Board
of Trustees — to visit Asia. As a businessman,
Phillips said he immediately saw a booming
market for goods and services as well as
investment opportunities based on the
region’s position as a low-cost supplier to the
rest of the world. “The 21st century belongs
to Asia,” Phillips said. “Hopefully, this gift will
stimulate students to spend their study abroad
experiences focused on the future — Asia.”
Phillips served two terms as chairman
of UNC’s Board of Trustees and served as a
member of the UNC Endowment Board
for 16 years. The North Carolina General
Assembly appointed him to a four-year
term on the Board of Governors overseeing
the 16 campuses of the UNC system. In
1999-2000, Phillips chaired the North
Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry
and was co-chair of North Carolinians for
Educational Opportunity 2000, which led
and promoted the successful $3.2 billion
referendum for capital improvements
at UNC system schools and the state’s
community colleges. •
ABOVE: Alumnus Phil Phillips
This pledge represents
the largest gift to the
university earmarked for
study [ abroad programs. ]
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Sonja’s Story:
Holocaust reparation funds support
Jewish studies professorship
By Dee Reid
Sonja van der Horst was still a teen
when the Nazis invaded Poland, executed
her father and sister, sent her mother to
die at a concentration camp, and began the
systematic elimination of 18,000 Jews in her
hometown. She survived the Holocaust by
assuming false identities and working under
Nazi watch in German labor camps.
After the war, Sonja and her husband,
Johannes (Hans) van der Horst, immigrated
to the United States and spent their lives
supporting organizations that promote
public education, civil rights, religious
freedom and Jewish culture. Hans, a
chemical engineer who was fluent in seven
languages, died in 1978.
Last fall, Sonja, nearly 82, learned
that she had a brain tumor. It was time to
decide what more she could do with the
Holocaust reparation funds she had collected
and invested since the early
1960s. She wanted to establish
a distinguished professorship
at Carolina to be filled by an
expert in Jewish history and
culture, enhancing knowledge
of the culture that Hitler had
tried to destroy.
In January, as Sonja’s illness
was advancing, her grown children acted
quickly to fulfill her wish. Charles van der
Horst, a professor of medicine at Carolina;
Roger van der Horst, an education editor at
The News and Observer in Raleigh; alumna
Jacqueline van der Horst Sergent ’82 MPH,
a health promotion coordinator at the
Granville Vance District Health Department
in Oxford, N.C.; and Tatjana Schwendinger,
chief administrative judge with the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission in
St. Louis, established the JMA and Sonja van
der Horst Distinguished Professorship in
Jewish Studies in honor of their parents. The
family’s gift qualifies for
matching funds from
the state endowment
trust funds. UNC’s
College of Arts and
Sciences will conduct
a search to fill the
position with a scholar whose teaching and
research will contribute to the work of the
Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.
“My parents were always interested in
public education and religious and racial
tolerance,” said Charles van der Horst.
“It is fitting to honor them through this
distinguished professorship at the Carolina
Center for Jewish Studies, where the
teaching and study of Jewish history and
culture is flourishing at a leading public
university committed to providing a first-rate
education to a diverse student body.”
“We’re deeply moved that the family
has chosen to honor Hans and Sonja van
der Horst in this manner,” said Jonathan
Hess, director of the Carolina Center for
Jewish Studies, established in 2003. “Close
to 1,000 undergraduates enroll in Jewish
studies courses at Carolina each year, and
student interest in Jewish history and
culture is clearly on the rise. The Van der
Horst Professorship will enable us to recruit
another leader in the field to teach at UNC,
bringing us closer to our goal of creating
a Jewish studies program with national
prominence.”
Sonja van der Horst was born Chaya
Eichenbaum Teichholz on Dec. 16, 1923
in Tarnopol, Poland. The Nazis entered the
town on July 2, 1941 and killed 5,000 Jews
in one week alone. After her family was
destroyed, Chaya hid under a series of false
identities, the last being Sonja Tarasowa. She
eventually boarded a train carrying non-
Jewish workers to labor sites in Germany,
where she worked at a coal mine, a lumber
yard and a farm. At the end of the war, she
served as a translator for the English forces.
Johannes Martinus Arnold van der
Horst was born Sept. 22,
1918 in the Netherlands.
He fought the Nazis in the
Dutch Army and served as
a scout with the U.S. armed
forces invasion of southern
France in 1944. At the end
of the war, he worked for the
United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Administration and met Sonja
when he took Russian lessons from her.
In the summer of 1945, the Soviets
began the forced repatriation of displaced
persons to their countries of origin. English
friends agreed to hide Sonja. When she told
Hans her story, he asked her to marry him.
Sonja and Hans were wed in the Netherlands
that year and left for the United States in 1952,
eventually settling in Olean, N.Y. •
To learn more about Sonja and Hans van
der Horst and the Carolina Center for Jewish
Studies, see www.sonjavanderhorst.org and
ccjs.unc.edu.
ABOVE: Sonja and Hans van der Horst at their wedding, Oct. 11, 1945.
“Close to 1,000 undergraduates enroll in Jewish studies courses at
Carolina each year, and student interest in Jewish history and culture is
clearly on the rise. The Van der Horst Professorship will enable us to recruit
another leader in the field to teach at UNC, bringing us closer to our goal
of creating a Jewish studies program with national prominence.”
[ — Jonathan Hess ]
Music Building breaks ground this year
Herbert
Hoover was
in the White
House and
Frank Porter
Graham
presided over
the university
when the music department moved to its
current home in Hill Hall in 1930. The
student population has increased nine-fold
since then. Music majors have tripled in the
last decade, and the public now flocks to
more than 100 performances a year in Hill
Hall.
With demand for teaching, learning
and performance space greater than ever,
it is past time for a new music facility.
University trustees have approved plans for
the Carolina Music Building, with an official
groundbreaking set for later this year.
The new, 100,000 square-foot building
will be constructed in two phases, with
the first part funded by $19.8 million in
revenues from state higher-education bonds
and $4 million in private gifts to be raised
through the College of Arts & Sciences.
The building is designed by Michael
Dennis and Associates of Boston, whose
portfolio includes major facilities at the
University of California at Santa Barbara,
Syracuse University and Carnegie Mellon
University, and the new performing-arts
complex at Emory University.
Plans for the new Music Building
call for a three-story traditional red brick
structure to anchor the new Arts Common
at the northwest entrance to campus,
replacing Abernethy Hall and the Swain
parking lot. Phase 1a will create a U-shaped
building surrounding a courtyard and will
provide studios, classrooms and a rehearsal
room large enough for an orchestra and
The Marching Tar Heels. Phase 1b will
add a concert hall, classrooms and small
rehearsal
rooms.
Unlike
existing
facilities in
Memorial
Hall, Gerrard
Hall and the
historical PlayMakers Theatre, the new
Music Building will include a 650-seat
concert hall with adjustable acoustical
treatment, appropriate for a range of
performances from solo recitals to a full
symphony orchestra. The structure will
also include a new recital organ, replacing
the one that was installed in Hill Hall in
the 1930s.
Hill Hall was originally constructed in
1907 as the campus library. When Wilson
Library was completed in 1929, the music
department moved into the old library
space. A combination of state funds and
a major gift from John Sprunt Hill, class
of 1889, supported the addition of an
auditorium and organ.
By 1956, Hill Hall had become so
crowded that the university erected barrack-type
structures south of the building, which
was expanded again in 1963.
Carolina’s music library, the most
extensive collection in the South, was
housed in the basement of Hill Hall until
2003, when concerns about moisture
resulted in a move to Wilson Library. Once
the new Music Building is complete, the
next phase will involve demolishing the
1960s addition to Hill Hall, restoring the
original structure and extending it for a
new library of music and fine arts. At that
point, one of the nation’s finest music
collections will be returned to its newly
renovated historic home in Hill Hall. •
To learn more about making a gift to the
Carolina Music Building, contact Emily Stevens,
emily.stevens@unc.edu, (919) 843-5285.
HIGHLIGHTS
$3.9 million awarded for
“nano” cancer research
The National Cancer Institute has
awarded UNC $3.9 million to establish
an interdisciplinary center to harness
developments in nanotechnology, a
process using microscopic particles to
improve cancer diagnostics, imaging and
therapy, and to create new jobs in North
Carolina.
The Carolina Center of Cancer
Nanotechnology Excellence, based in the
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center,
will involve a range of medical and science
faculty, including three in the College of
Arts and Sciences:
• Joseph DeSimone, William
R. Kenan Jr. distinguished professor of
chemistry and chemical engineering
at UNC and N.C. State University, is
developing “smart” nanoparticles designed
to deliver drugs to targeted cell types in the
body.
• Otto Zhou, Lyle Jones distinguished
professor of physics and materials science,
is developing a medical X-ray imaging
methodology based on pulsed nanofibers,
designed to provide earlier detection of
tumors.
• J. Michael Ramsey, Minnie N.
Goldby distinguished professor of chemistry,
is working on “nanofluidics” devices,
perhaps more easily understood as “labs on
a chip.” Using this technology, a machine
the size of a playing card would be able to
analyze one drop of blood and have almost
instantaneous results on a vast array of
blood measurements.
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Undergraduates interested in
exploring Christian traditions and their varied
influences on culture and society throughout
history can choose a new interdisciplinary
academic minor in the College.
The minor in Christianity and Culture is
thought to be the first of its kind at a public
university.
Michael Piller’s next generation
Hollywood lost an artistic force and
Carolina an alumnus and friend with the
death in November of writer/producer
Michael Piller. He was best known for
creating more than 500 hours of compelling
stories for “Star Trek,” the most successful
franchise in television history.
Piller ended a battle with cancer at age
57, but his legacy carries on through UNC’s
writing for the screen and stage program,
which he helped to launch with a $500,000
gift. The College has established the Michael
Piller Distinguished Professorship Fund in
his memory to attract outstanding mentors
for future generations.
“Michael had
more integrity than
just about anyone
I have ever met,”
said Rick Berman,
executive producer
of the Star Trek
series. “His passion
for writing and his
ability to recognize
and nurture talent in others never faltered.”
Piller was born in Port Chester, N.Y.,
and graduated from Carolina in 1970 with
a bachelor’s degree in radio, television and
motion pictures.
“I saw the world change around me
through the most creative environment
you could ever ask for,” he said of his
undergraduate days
in Chapel Hill. “I
had the experience
of being introduced
to an extraordinarily
wide section of
people, many of
whom have shown
up in my work in
alien disguises.
He started
out as a broadcast
journalist and won two Emmy Awards for
his work at CBS affiliate, WBBM-TV in
Chicago. Unhappy in the news business,
he moved to
Los Angeles and
began writing
and producing
for television
including,
“Cagney and
Lacey,” “Simon
and Simon” and
“Miami Vice.”
In 1989 he boarded the Starship
Enterprise early in the third season of “Star
Trek: The Next Generation,” eventually be-coming
head writer and executive producer
of the series, which aired until 1994.
Piller co-created, produced and
syndicated “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”
from 1992 to 1995, and “Star Trek Voyager”
from 1994 to 1996. He also wrote the
1998 film, “Star Trek: Insurrection,” the
ninth movie in the Star Trek series.
In 1999, he and his son Shawn
formed a production company, Piller2,
responsible for the TV show, “The Dead
Zone,” (based on the Stephen King novel),
which debuted in 2002 and remains on
the air.
“Because Michael gave a start to,
and mentored, many of today’s top TV
writers, it is only fitting that we create this
professorship in his name so that those of
us here can continue his legacy,” said David
Sontag, the Wesley Wallace distinguished
professor and director of the writing for the
screen and stage program. •
Donations may be made to the Michael
Piller Distinguished Professorship through the
Arts and Sciences Foundation, 134 E. Franklin
St., Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514.
“Our curriculum is designed not to
influence or change students’ religious faith
or practice, but to enhance their knowledge
of the role of Christianity over time,” said
Christian Smith, co-director of the minor
and Stuart Chapin distinguished professor of
sociology.
To complete requirements for the minor,
students must choose five courses from more
than 40 offerings, including an introductory
survey course; a course in ancient, medieval
or early modern Christianity; and a course
on Christianity in the modern world. Classes
must be taken from at least two different
departments, and students may receive
permission to count other relevant classes,
A new minor in Christianity and Culture
ABOVE: Michael Piller, wearing his Carolina cap on a Hollywood set.
“I saw the world change around me
through the most creative environment
you could ever ask for. I had the experience
of being introduced to an extraordinarily
wide section of people, many of whom have
shown up in my work in alien disguises.”
[ — Michael Piller ]
HIGHLIGHTS
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London center has historic ties
The College’s new international hub
in London has historic ties to Great Britain
and Carolina. Purchased in September, the
European Study Center in Winston House
is the first academic facility owned by UNC
abroad.
The $5 million center is being financed
with private funds, including a $1 million
lead gift from alumnus James H. Winston
’55 and his wife Mary, of Jacksonville, Fla., to
name the building in honor of the Winston
family and their deep connections to
Carolina and England.
The European Study Center in
Winston House will serve the Honors
Program in London and be open to
students, faculty, programs and alumni from
all parts of the university.
The 4,400 square-foot building is
located at Bedford Square — the oldest
remaining complete Georgian garden square
in the city — in historic Bloomsbury, a
neighborhood that has long been associated
with literature, art and learning.
Beginning with Patrick Henry Winston
in 1844, six generations of the family
have been Carolina students and leaders.
Robert Watson Winston, class of 1879, was
an attorney, judge, historian and author
who wrote extensively on national and
international affairs. His son, Robert Watson
Winston, Jr. (Jim Winston’s father) was
captain of the football team and a track star
at Carolina. He graduated in 1912, studied at
the Sorbonne and served in France during
World War I; the family
established a distinguished
professorship in his honor at
Carolina in 1986.
George Tayloe Winston
served as university president
from 1891 to 1895, an
important period of growth
when the faculty doubled
in size and the student body
nearly tripled.
James Horner Winston,
class of 1904, was the first
Carolina student to win
the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to
study at Oxford University in Great Britain.
And of course it is his namesake whose
gift launched the purchase of the London
building, which will now serve future
generations of Tar Heels.
“The Winston Family has been
involved for many generations with our
great university, and we are pleased to play
a small part in its future global expansion
beginning with the European Study Center,”
Jim Winston ’55 said.
The family continues to be engaged in
university affairs. Jim Winston has served on
the Board of Visitors, the General Alumni
Association and the Arts and Sciences
Foundation Board. His son, James Winston,
Jr., a psychologist practicing in Miami,
graduated from Carolina with a B.A. in
1981 and a Ph.D. in 1991. He also received a
master’s degree from Oxford University.
ABOVE: Robert Watson Winston (class of 1879), second from right, and his
children, from left: James Horner Winston (class of 1904), Amy Winston Carr,
Robert Watson Winston, Jr. (class of 1912) and Gertrude Winston Webb.
Charles Winston ’53 (Jim’s brother)
has served as a member of the university’s
Board of Visitors and as chair of the
General Alumni Association and the N.C.
Educational Foundation. He and his wife,
Flo, have also served on the Arts and Sciences
Foundation Board. In 2004, the university
awarded him the William Richardson Davie
Award for extraordinary service. His son,
Robert Watson Winston III, class of 1984,
serves on the university’s Board of Trustees.
The European Study Center in
Winston House is in the heart of London,
convenient to the British Museum and
Library and to King’s College London,
where UNC recently launched a multi-level
exchange program for undergraduates,
graduate students and faculty.
About $3.2 million has been raised for
the center so far, as part of the Carolina First
fundraising campaign. •
independent study and study abroad.
A Distinguished Speaker Series will bring
renowned scholars to campus each year to
speak on topics related to the influences
of Christianity on society and society on
Christianity.
The curriculum draws on the strengths
of UNC faculty in many disciplines, including:
art history, classics, philosophy, political
science, religious studies and sociology.
Smith