October 2015

October 2015
Volume 14, Issue 10
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Liu’s Legacy
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The Spirit
of Feng
Leaving Behind
an Empire
Still Stuck
in the ‘60s
Feng Liu, a professor
in the UNC School of
Pharmacy, was murdered
in 2014. His colleagues
wrestle with his absence.
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Hill businessman, spent
most of his life at WCHL.
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pass on to new hands.
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segregation.
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The spirit of
FENG
One year after UNC Professor Feng Liu was
murdered, his pharmacy school colleagues
still grapple with his unexpected death.
BY KAtiE rEEdEr
T
he visiting scholars from Feng Liu’s lab have finished
their research and returned to their homes abroad.
Liu’s belongings have been moved out of his old
office, and someone new occupies the space.
More than one year after the UNC Eshelman School of
Pharmacy professor’s murder, the wreath of white flowers – a
Chinese tradition for funerals – is no longer on the door. It sits
on top of a filing cabinet in the office, propped against the wall.
Leaf Huang, chairman of the pharmacy school’s molecular
pharmaceutics division and a close friend of Liu’s, still speaks of
Liu in the present tense. Liu and Huang met in the mid-1990s
in Pittsburgh when Liu worked under Huang as a postdoctoral fellow in Huang’s lab. After Huang got an offer to move to
UNC-CH 10 years ago, he negotiated a position for Liu into the
deal as well.
The two forged a 20-year friendship.
“Oh …” he sighs when asked how a
work relationship turned into a strong
bond. “He’s such a kind person,” Huang
said, clasping his hands and taking a deep
breath. Liu’s death doesn’t seem real.
Huang talks in an even tone, his face
rarely giving away much, but there is a
certain warmth in his voice.
“I miss him a lot,” he’ll often say after
telling a story about Liu.
Huang and Liu both researched
nanoparticles for cancer therapy. Because
their work was closely related, Huang
planned to hand over his lab to Liu after
he retired.
“But then he gave his laboratory to
me, so I can’t retire because I don’t know
how to handle this now,” Huang said. “I
don’t have a person to hand my laboratory
to.”
Liu had received a grant from the
National Institutes of Health, and Huang
had to learn the details of the projects Liu
was supervising and make sure the work
was done “in the spirit of the grant.”
He sat down with all the people in
Liu’s lab and gave them the choice of
whether to continue their projects.
“I told them, ‘But if you decide to stay,
I will be happy to take you because I feel
this is my obligation because Feng was
such a good friend to me,’” he said.
Huang and many others in the pharmacy school still feel Liu’s absence 14
months after his death. They feel it in the
lab meetings when there is no one there
to ask the questions most researchers
would never think of. They feel it when
something in the lab breaks. They feel it
when the Pittsburgh Steelers play.
————
On July 23, 2014, Liu took a lunchtime walk in a neighborhood near
campus. Two men – Troy Arrington Jr.
and Derick Davis II – allegedly attacked
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University Drive and Ransom Street.
“He always does that … He walks
in that neighborhood almost every day,”
Huang said.
Liu later died from his injuries, leaving
behind a community in shock.
“It kind of cracked whatever semblance of safety and security that people
had appreciated on a university campus,”
said Russell Mumper, former vice dean of
the pharmacy school.
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Because researchers use it so much, the
sonicator often malfunctioned. Liu always
ordered the new ones.
When it came time to replace the
current piece of equipment, Satterlee and
the rest of the researchers had trouble
finding the model they usually ordered.
Meanwhile, the person who had moved
into Liu’s old office had just gotten access
to the file cabinet. Inside the cabinet was
a new sonicator.
“It was kind of like a last parting gift
from Feng,” Satterlee said. “I thought it
was awesome.”
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When Leaf Huang received a job offer at UNC-CH, he negotiated a position for Liu as well.
down University Drive.
A community of researchers about half
a mile away from the murder grounds
was left grieving.
“He left so many holes in our lab,” said
Andrew Satterlee, a graduate student who
worked on nanotechnology for cancer
therapy in Liu’s lab.
In a lab full of students, Liu was the
authority figure, the “bad guy” who kept
researchers accountable and was not
afraid to reprimand them when necessary.
Yet everyone still liked him. Huang
spoke of a past student who had once
been disciplined by Liu for making a
mess in the lab one day. This student flew
from Los Angeles for Liu’s memorial
service.
Liu also had a knack for negotiating.
Whether it was the students in his own
lab who needed something or the students in his colleague Huang’s adjacent
lab, Liu was the one they would go to
when something in the lab broke.
“We buy lots of expensive equipment,
and he would really get the best deal no
matter what. No matter if it was Domino’s pizza or a very expensive piece of
lab equipment,” Satterlee said. “He just
wouldn’t give in. He would just keep
arguing with you … It was probably more
fatigue on the other people’s part like,
‘Fine, you win.’ He was very good at not
budging.”
Liu always ordered the pizza for the
lab meetings. He would call Domino’s
and tell it that since he ordered from it
every week, he should get a good deal.
But he did it in good taste, so that the
pizza chain liked him.
————
Soon after Liu passed away, flowers
were delivered to the pharmacy school.
They were from the manager of Domino’s.
Now, Satterlee orders the pizza.
“I said, ‘Andrew, you need to follow
the spirit of Feng,’” Huang said. “He said,
‘No, I don’t know how to do that.’”
Satterlee and the rest of the graduate
students in Liu’s lab have tried to take
over the roles he once filled, but it hasn’t
been an easy task.
“He’s not someone you can just
replace,” Satterlee said. “You can’t just hire
somebody to replace him, and you can’t
choose somebody to replace him.”
In late August, the graduate students
had the task of finding a new piece of
equipment called a sonicator, which is
used in the production of nanoparticles.
————
Born and raised in China, Liu had a
special connection with the Chinese visiting students. He made sure to reach out
to them, and he even helped them find
apartments and told them where they
could get the best deals on their groceries.
(Aldi was good for chocolate).
Sometimes he would be the one to
meet them at the airport, and he often
took these students out to dinner.
When Lei Miao, a Chinese graduate
student, first got a car, Liu frequently
reminded her not to be in a hurry and
called her to make sure she got home
safely.
Miao had a friend who also knew
Liu. The friend wanted to go to medical
school but didn’t have much support. Liu
encouraged her and even recruited his
own daughter, who was a doctor, to guide
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Perhaps Liu’s absence is felt so strongly because he was always there.
He attended seminars, student
presentations, Ph.D. defenses, “all of
them,” Mumper said, describing Liu as
“ever-present.”
Liu sat in the same seat — the back
right of the auditorium in Kerr Hall
— and always asked one of the first
questions. He frequently attended lab
meetings with Huang’s students, asking
them questions and making comments.
“I always remember seeing him
around,” said Michael Lin, an undergraduate researcher in Huang’s lab.
In a sense, he still is.
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And since March, shoppers have also had
the option of going to the Durham Coop Market.
The market — located on West Chapel Hill Street — is about a five-minute
drive from its competitors, Whole Foods
and Food Lion.
Some customers sit at outside tables
on a spacious patio. Others sit inside,
where they can later peruse packaged groceries, a hot bar (with pancakes, seasoned
potatoes and eggs for brunch) and made-
to-order sandwich bar, a cafe and pastry
case, and household and pet items.
The co-op specializes in local and
organic groceries and is the only co-op
market in Durham. Laura Pyatt, the coop’s marketing manager, said when the
market first opened, managers made an
effort to recruit employees from surrounding underserved neighborhoods.
“We didn’t want to bring business to
the neighborhood without bringing jobs
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her son went to the Durham Co-op Market almost every day this past summer.
“This is kind of like our corner store,”
Bump said. “It’s kind of like a coffee shop
— it’s a cafe and a grocery store in one.”
Bump didn’t have access to a car, and
the co-op is within walking distance of
her home.
“There’s nothing else like it around
here,” she said.
Those who work at the co-op want
this to be how people think of the business, Pyatt said. They want customers to
feel like they have a hangout area in their
neighborhood.
“Our tag line is ‘everyone welcome,”
Pyatt said.
and local food products is a helpful
resource for the recipes she develops for a
healthy food website.
The co-op works with over 100 local
vendors, including Chapel Hill Creamery, Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery, Loaf
and Mediterranean Deli to try to stock
as many local products as possible — its
specialty cheese case, for example, is made
up of about 30 percent local cheeses.
The average co-op in the U.S. sources
about 20 percent of its products locally,
as opposed to 6 percent at a conventional
grocery store, according to data compiled
by the National Cooperative Grocers
Association. The average co-op also has
157 local vendors, while a conventional
grocery store has 65 on average.
When it comes to organic foods, 48
percent of groceries at the average co-op
are organic, compared to 2 percent at a
conventional store.
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The Durham Co-op Market opened
after about six years of planning and
financial hurdles, as founders and volunteers raised the funds required to launch.
Business is booming so far.
“Most grocery stores do see a slump
in sales in summer,” Pyatt said. “We’ve
survived the summer slump very well.”
Beth Fowler, a founding member of
the co-op’s board of directors, said it’s
normal for co-ops to take a long time to
be put together because they are owned
by everyone who buys a member share.
The Durham Co-op Market consulted
with Weaver Street Market in the beginning stages of its planning.
“That’s one of the principles of coops,” Fowler said. “Co-ops help each
other.”
Before the market opened, there was
another co-op on West Chapel Hill
Street — the Durham Food Co-op —
that has since closed. Pyatt said this co-op
was much smaller and more specialized
than the Durham Co-op Market.
“They were just a totally different
beast,” she said. “We’re definitely a bigger,
more full grocery store. You can come
here and get all of your shopping done.”
For Bump, the co-op’s array of organic
————
Injie Ahmad and Sara Salama, who
visited the co-op for the first time in late
August, liked having the opportunity to
support local agriculture and buy organic
produce.
Salama said the co-op has a more
honest quality than some conventional
grocery stores.
“It’s just a really good experience going
inside,” she said. “It feels more trustworthy than a chain store.”
And in Carrboro, residents also turn to
co-op markets to “buy local.”
Andrew Kennedy, a UNC senior who
resides in Carrboro, is one such example.
He frequents Weaver Street Market Coop in Carrboro as well as the Carrboro
Farmers’ Market.
“The fresher the produce is, the better
it tastes to me,” he said.
Members have access to a monthly
deal, which includes a discount on a
particular product each month. These
members are rather akin to shareholders
of a business. They get to vote in elections
for the store’s board of directors and have
a say in its operation.
“We want people to feel like they’re a
part of the store governance,” Pyatt said.
Some people think of co-ops as too
expensive and overwhelmingly geared
toward those in higher income brackets.
But this is something the market wants
to change.
“Stereotypically, co-ops are kind of
exclusive or bougie,” Pyatt said. “We
definitely want to break that mold.”
————
The market offers a special “Food
for All” deal for customers who receive
benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program. Shoppers in SNAP
pay $15 for a one-time owner fee instead
of the usual $100. They also get 10
percent off everything in the store, except
alcohol, every time they shop.
Pyatt said she’s not particularly worried about competing grocery stores like
Food Lion and Whole Foods hurting
business. Neither representatives from
Food Lion nor Whole Foods responded
to requests for comment.
“Most people do shop at more than
one grocery store, and that is A-OK with
us,” she said. “As long as people are doing
some of their shopping here, we’re happy.”
So far that seems to be happening. On
a day in late August, there are enough
customers at the co-op to fill a classroom.
The atmosphere outside is notably relaxed. Customers read and talk to friends
while kids run around on the mulch. It’s
like a playground, but the store has a
profound business impact on the surrounding neighborhoods and brings more
foot traffic to the area.
Above all, the co-op is a place that
welcomes everyone.
“We really want to encourage people
that this is not only a place to shop but
a place to hang out,” Pyatt said. “Come
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By Sarah chaney and Deborah Harris
Photos by Kelly Archer | Staff
im Heavner is a grandfather, a
businessman and a journalist of over
50 years, but he swears he’s as young
as when he first walked into the radio
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He has worked at WCHL — the radio station he owns — almost his whole
life. He remembers his time as a young reporter at the Chapel Hill station,
scurrying around the newsroom, able to avoid showing WCHL founder Sandy
McClamroch how little he really knew about how to run a radio station. After
all, McClamroch was very occupied with his other job as mayor.
One day, McClamroch asked Heavner to become a partial owner of the
station. They had quite a run together, and Heavner would grow a small empire,
controlling a large chunk of Chapel Hill’s media landscape: Nine radio stations.
But as time wore on, Heavner wore down. He has been attempting to unwind
the radio station for a while now. In the early 1990s, deals were made. A new
leader, Don Curtis, stepped in to replace Heavner for about a decade. But the
station became delocalized and things fell apart, and in 2002, Heavner put
WCHL back on the air, restaffing the radio station and making it local again.
Now, after WCHL’s parent company, University Directories, has passed a year
in bankruptcy court, the station and its affiliate news site, Chapelboro.com, will
change hands to a new owner, Leslie Rudd, a Kansas-based investor. In the midst
of radio mayhem, when stations are constantly turning over staff and some are
hemorrhaging money, the fate of WCHL is uncertain.
Chapel Hill hopes the small news operation will improve and return to its
former glory.
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————
On Oct. 24, 2014, University Directories, a collegiate marketing and media
company that includes properties such as WCHL and runs under Heavner’s
ownership, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the
Middle District of North Carolina, according to court documents.
University Directories was selling to Eli Global, a Durham-based company
run by Greg Lindberg, court documents allege.
“The (buyer) we had chosen had signed a letter of intent and a nondisclosure
agreement that prohibited his using the information he gathered for any reason
that to certify that what we were representing was true,” Heavner said. “Then,
secretly, he went in and bought (University Directories’) bank notes and tried to
buy the company for $1,” Heavner said.
“Which is not very nice,” he said. “Our lawsuit is pretty clear — it alleges
that’s illegal. It charged him with fraud.”
It was an odd day for Heavner this August when he received notice on the
latest news in the bankruptcy saga. He was on his way to Wyoming for vacation
because he didn’t think much was happening with the case.
His team had put together a plan to get the company out of bankruptcy court.
WCHL wanted to find a suitable buyer, unimpaired.
Later that day, Heavner learned Rudd, whom he calls a “very wealthy man,”
was making an offer after having found WCHL on the market.
“We would have gotten out of his way and applauded doing it (had we
known),” Heavner said.
Rudd could not be reached for comment.
The publicity on these details was unfortunate, Heavner said.
Heavner’s not allowed to say much more on the bankruptcy case. Typically
exuding a sense of vibrancy and openness, he tightens up a bit when pressed for
details on the legal battle, stating it’s still in litigation.
He hopes that when Rudd replaces him in October or November, the radio’s
legacy will live on. He’s optimistic it will.
————
Heavner is known for hiring some
of the sharpest minds in journalism.
Eminent journalists like Charles Kuralt
began at WCHL, using the station as a
stepping stone. Heavner’s strategy has
been to bring as many UNC-Chapel Hill
students as possible on board, convincing
them WCHL will leverage their careers.
But the model has created a
high-turnover business and, in some
cases, low morale.
Ran Northam worked at WCHL for
two and a half years, leaving last October.
The experience, he recalls, was “unique”:
A small-town radio station, a shrinking
staff. His job as a part-time reporter-turned-news-director meant he was
at the station at 5 a.m. to produce the
morning show, which ran from 6 a.m. to
9 a.m.
Going into the job, Northam hoped
he would be there for awhile. There was
so much potential in such a small, community-centric news operation. But the
news station’s diminishing staff size and
demanding work schedule took its toll.
He had no energy outside of work and
was putting in what often amounted to
60-hour weeks.
“You were expected to work well
beyond a 40-hour work week at a salaried position that did not supplement a
40-hour work week,” he said. “Physically
it wasn’t doable.”
When Northam first started work at
WCHL, he didn’t have much contact
with Heavner. Later on though, Heavner
was more present, and the two had
weekly meetings where they’d talk about
Northam’s work and how he was doing
personally.
“Jim was a person who you could never leave the room and not have learned
something,” Northam said. “He wanted
to influence you in some way, whether
you asked for it or not.”
————
Heavner was inducted into the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce
Business Hall of Fame in 2013. But
when asked what the title meant to him,
he’s a little scattered in his response.
He credits the visibility of being in the
media business as a possible reason for
the award. He trails into thoughts and
memories of his role in the community.
“When Sandy hired me, he said,
‘You’re going to be part of the community,’” Heavner said.
Perhaps his evasion of expanding
upon his achievements as a businessman
is because Heavner has always perceived
himself as a journalist. He’s the one asking questions at press conferences. He’s a
story junkie — just ask his colleagues.
In recent years, his business strategies
have played a key role in the fate of the
news station he claims to love so much.
WCHL had never flirted with the
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need to know what the Town Council, the school board, the
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Adam Hochberg, UNC-CH School of Media and Journalism Professor
possibility of a change in ownership prior
to the sale to Curtis in the early 1990s.
But after Curtis took over, Heavner
realized Curtis wasn’t programming
the station for the community, and he
bought it back.
“There was no local news coverage
(under Curtis),” said Bob Woodruff,
minority owner of the radio station and
an employee of WCHL from 1974 to
1999. “(Curtis) basically had paid music
and programming. He didn’t have a news
staff to curate local news.”
————
WCHL exists in an industry ridden
by financial turmoil. Northam has stayed
in contact with WCHL employees and
says from what he’s heard, the station itself has always broken even. Never made
money, never lost it.
“It’s always just been there as a community asset,” he said.
Heavner acknowledges that in the
past year, with the uncertainty of everything, the radio has struggled more.
Community stations across the nation
are dying, despite the value they add.
“It’s important for people to have this
information — you need to know what
the Town Council, the school board, the
government is doing,” said Adam Hochberg, a lecturer at the UNC School of
Media and Journalism.“Someone needs
to be checking that Obey Creek is not
polluted, the power plant on Cameron is
not spewing out chemicals.”
The severe ice storm of 2002, Eve
Carson’s murder, the Chancellor’s
inauguration: The radio station was one
source Chapel Hill could rely on in these
times of crisis and change.
————
WCHL has been in the same brick
building on Vilcom Center Drive since
1978. Walls clad with photos of the
Old Well and UNC basketball victory
celebrations, it embodies community
journalism.
Some, like Northam, wish WCHL
would move to a more central and visible
location in the bustling heart of downtown Chapel Hill.
It’s a rare operation, though, and unlike many cities in the area, such as Cary,
Chapel Hill has this radio station that
churns out highly local news. While the
town itself is undergoing a transition in
which Sutton’s Drug Store is no longer
a drug store and the local paint store is
gone, WCHL remains a stand-alone
community station.
Its status as such a community-oriented station means the recent news of
Rudd’s buyout is the talk of the town. It
means there’s a sense of hope in the air
that Rudd’s alleged passion for Chapel
Hill will revitalize the station.
“If you’re interested in Chapel Hill
stories, you’re going to turn on WCHL,
and you’re going to hear local stories.
I think that’s very, very beneficial,”
Northam said.
————
The waiters and waitresses at 411
West, an Italian eatery on Franklin
Street, know Heavner by name. UNCCH journalism professors know of him
through their own time broadcasting at
the station.
“He was probably, of all the people
who have lived in Chapel Hill, the most
significant person to live in that town,
in terms of making it Chapel Hill,” said
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Stuck
in the ‘60s
How and why North
Carolina public schools
remain separate and
unequal in 2015
By zoe schaver
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But these mixed classes conflicted
with a school board decision in 2010
that students at different levels could not
be mixed in the same classes because it
would create difficulty for teachers trying
to split instruction between groups of
students, according to an article in the
Daily Tar Heel.
“(The schools) hired extra people to
resegregate the classes,” Mayfield said.
“They pulled out the standard kids, who
were mostly minorities, because there
were fewer of them and had them in
separate classes — they ended up being
mostly small classes, mostly composed of
people of color.”
Kelly Batten, principal of CHS at the
time the classes were shut down, declined
to comment for this story. Current administration at CHS declined to comment, as the school’s administration has
changed since 2011.
Hanna Peterman, a freshman at
CHS at the time, said there weren’t any
problems with the classes until they were
separated.
“When you’re in class with both standard and honors credit people, you don’t
know who’s who, and there’s more diversity, socio-economic and racial,” she said.
Series Part 1: Segregation education
wo separate English classes, with two separate teachers,
took place in the same room during the same period.
The students were learning close to the same curriculum, but half of the students were designated “honors”
and half of them “standard.”
Just a month before, the picture had been different. At the
start of the 2011 school year, all of those students were in the
same class, a mix of students from the honors and standard
programs. It was an initiative spearheaded by teachers both at
Carrboro High School and at East Chapel Hill High School
to create better discussions and improve student learning by
making classrooms more diverse.
“It worked really well for over a year, with the approval
of the principal (of CHS) and the then-superintendent of
schools,” said Christine Mayfield, who was an English teacher
at the time. “It created an environment where everyone was
together, discussing issues together.”
The Path to Integration in Schools
1954
1951
1959
1896
“Separate But Equal”
Plessy v. Ferguson rules that
segregation is legal under the
“separate but equal” doctrine.
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Graduate Racial Diversity
Federal courts order UNC-Chapel
Hill to admit black students in its
law, medical and graduate schools.
Start of Desegregation
Brown v. Kansas Board of Education
rules “separate but equal” as
unconstitutional. Greensboro is the
first city to announce its compliance.
Bridging the Divide
“When they split up classes, it alienated people.”
————
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
is not the only school system struggling
to find lasting policies and practices that
meet the goal of integrating students
without causing a firestorm of complaints.
Over the course of its history, North
Carolina has been a hot spot of forward
thinking when it comes to getting students of all races together in classrooms.
Greensboro was the first Southern
town to stand in support of the Brown v.
Board of Education Supreme Court case
calling for desegregation. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District was
the site of the famous case in 1971 that
forced hesitant schools to make moves toward integration by busing their students
across the county. Wake County became
a national role model in 2000 when it
pioneered assigning students to schools
based on their family income.
But the state has not stayed ahead
of the game. A 2014 report from the
University of California revealed rapid
backpedaling in North Carolina toward
levels of segregation not unlike what
1969
Majority black Charlotte City Schools
and majority white Mecklenburg
County Schools combine to form
Charlotte- Mecklenburg Schools.
2000
Integration Takes Shape
Swann v. CMS orders CMS to
start desegregating and
submit plans of integration.
A New System in Wake
Wake County adopts the first
socio-economic assignment
plan for enrollment.
Aileen Ma | Staff
Source: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Where the Majority Lies
Racial Breakdown of North Carolina Schools
Durham
After years of integration efforts, the distribution of students across K-12
schools continues to show patterns of racial segregation.
out of 55
schools have
white students
as the largest
category.
Racial Composition of Yearly Enrollment
A 2014 report from UCLA charted racial divides in the Durham-Chapel Hill metropolitan area,
identifying multiracial schools (three races represent 10 percent or more of total student
enrollment), minority majority schools (50 to 100 percent minority), intensely segregated schools
(90 to 100 percent minority) and apartheid schools (99 to 100 percent minority).
60
percent of schools
50
multiracial
minority majority schools
intensely segregated schools
apartheid schools
46.6%
20
10
0
26.5%
16.9%
10.8%
24%
14.6%
10.7%
5.8%
1989-1990
1999-2000
years
Aileen Ma, Zoe Schaver | Staff
Source: Department of Public Instruction, University of California - Los Angeles
schools looked like in the ’50s and ’60s.
“Over the last two decades, the share
of intensely segregated schools — those
that enroll less than 10 percent white
students — has tripled,” the report states.
“In 2010, intensely segregated schools
accounted for 10 percent of the state’s
schools, up from only 3 percent in 1989.”
Jennifer Ayscue, a UNC alumna and
a primary author of the UCLA report,
said North Carolina is a microcosm of
the racial divide in schools that exists
nationwide.
“In the 1980s, the South was the most
desegregated region in the country, and
North Carolina was part of that,” she said.
“We were doing really well. That’s why it’s
particularly disappointing and concerning
to see these reversals.”
————
Across the state, the reasons for resegregation have a common thread: More
and more often, school districts are opting
to send kids to the schools nearest their
homes rather than busing them across the
county. As a result, residential segregation
carries over into the school system.
School assignment is more flexible
in small towns like Chapel Hill and
Carrboro, where the farthest school from
a child’s house might only be a 15-minute
drive away, said Todd LoFrese, assistant
superintendent for CHCCS.
“It’s a challenge in some places with
long bus rides for kids,” he said.
North Carolina school districts started
prioritizing neighborhood schools and
parental school choice when the courts
0.8%
13
out of 14
schools have
white students
as the largest
category.
majority nonwhite
out of 169
schools have
white students
as the largest
category.
43.8%
Chapel Hill-Carrboro
majority white
122
57%
40
30
8
Wake
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
56
out of 159
schools have
white students
as the largest
category.
2010-2011
began declaring districts integrated
around the turn of the century, which
meant those districts were no longer
under a strictly monitored court order to
integrate.
Scott McCully, executive director
of student placement for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School district, said
this has meant student assignment plans
that focus on diversity have become more
difficult to develop since the early 2000s.
And because the use of socio-economic
data in student assignment plans — such
as free and reduced lunch data — is
restricted, he said districts with limited
budgets have their hands tied.
Fast-growing districts like CMS,
which has a growing population of
low-income students, are already straining their resources to accommodate their
student population in any way they can,
he said.
Shelby Dawkins-Law, a UNC graduate student in the School of Education,
researches school segregation and has
talked to students across the state who
attend segregated schools.
“One (white) student was saying how
she attended school in Wake County, and
it never occurred to her that people had
different goals and plans after graduation,”
Dawkins-Law said.
“She was editor of the school newspaper, and people hadn’t turned in what
college they were going to. As she was
asking people where they were going, they
looked at her like she was crazy. That was
the first time she realized not everyone
goes to college.”
————
Mayfield, who now teaches in Chatham County Schools, noted CHCCS
has a more extreme wealth disparity than
many districts, giving it a specific kind of
problem.
“(Segregation) denies everybody a
plurality of discussion,” she said. “That’s
more true in school systems like CHCCS,
where there are a lot of white kids that
have had a lot of privilege, and at the
same time, there are a lot of people of color that haven’t — you don’t have a ton in
the middle. It’s a less toxic dynamic when
you have some kids in the middle.”
The UNC Center for Civil Rights
published a 2011 report on school segregation in Halifax County, N.C., where a
group of parents recently filed a lawsuit
against the county alleging segregation in
the schools there harmed their children.
In their complaint, the parents describe
classrooms where black students had a
substitute teacher for an entire year in
core-curriculum classes like math and
science, did not have access to basic,
adequate bathroom facilities and were
suspended at much higher rates than
students in the adjacent, mostly white
district.
Elizabeth Haddix, an author on the
initial report, said that statewide, schools
that have a significant non-white population or low-income population get
stigmatized as bad schools.
“That’s an unfortunate mentality to
have when what we know from educational research is that to get a good
education, you need to have students from
different backgrounds in the same room,
able to compete with one another,” she
said.
————
Mayfield has taught in schools all over
the country. She’s noticed the privilege of
white students carries weight everywhere.
“Even if it’s not state money, the rich
white schools are going to have PTAs that
raise a lot of money. It’s just going to be a
lot of amenities,” she said.
Widening achievement gaps and racial
divides are not problems schools are powerless to solve, though, Ayscue said.
“I think people really aren’t as aware
— they think desegregation is something
that we tried a long time ago and it didn’t
work, or it got better and we don’t need to
do it now,” Ayscue said.
“The real truth of the matter is, we
didn’t really try it for a sustained period
of time — at most, it was one or two
decades, and during that period it was
working, but we shifted our focus to this
more standards-based accountability
system.”
The administration at CHS has
changed in the years since mixed classes
were shut down, but since the school
board maintains the same policy, standard
and honors English students are still
taught in different classrooms. Chatham
County, where Mayfield now teaches, faces similar problems that separate different
races.
“Segregation hurts everyone in different ways,” Mayfield said.
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Kezia recently relocated to the Triangle
area from Philadelphia. She has been a
Reiki practitioner for the past 16 years. In
her sessions she combines Intuitive Life
Coaching with hands on healing energy
work, and finds it highly effective, not only
for uncovering the roots of an imbalance,
but for empowering clients, assisting
them in creating breakthroughs and shifts
in all areas of their lives. With warmth,
compassion, and higher intuitive sight,
Kezia helps clients step into lives of greater
wholeness, fulfillment and joy.
HOME REPAIR
Are you cleaning out before the holidays?
Trying to make room before Thanksgiving guests arrive?
Don’t dump your stuff…DONATE it to the Habitat ReStore.
there are two ways you can donate during ReStock the ReStore:
1. Stop by the ReStore on Saturday, October 24 from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. to drop
off your donations. Volunteers will be on-hand to assist you.
2. Have items that are too large to bring in yourself? Call 919-354-0892 to
schedule a FREE pickup at your home or business for your large donations.
Either way, be sure to mention ReStock the ReStore when you make your
donation! All of the proceeds from this ReStore go directly to Habitat for
Humanity in Durham and Orange Counties. Of course, donations are always
welcome anytime and are tax deductible.
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CAROL’S ELECTRIC
4915 Hwy 54W, Chapel Hill
919.929.0582
www.carolselectric.com
[email protected]
We offer services in electrical repairs, LED
lighting, and remodeling for your electrical
repairs. We are here for you whenever you
need it! We also offer emergency service
work for your electrical needs. Last minute
repairs are not a problem. Carol Dixon is
N.C. licensed and insured and has been
in the electric contracting business for 25
years. Her customers say they really enjoy
having a woman do their work.
FIXALL SERVICES
Raye Jordan
919.990.1072
[email protected]
www.fixallservices.com
Fixall Services has been serving the
Triangle area for over 20 years, providing
electrical, plumbing and HVAC services
as well as painting, power washing, wood
and structural repairs, roofing, landscape
maintenance and brick and concrete work.
Licensed contractor/Insured, Chamber of
Commerce member. Major credit cards
accepted.
LANDSCAPING
TOMMY WARD LANDSCAPING
919.942.0390- call anytime
Lawn cleanup - leaves, gutters, etc., plus
lawn aerating & reseeding. Lawn & bush
hog mowing. Trees topped & cut, shrubs
pruned. Mulch for sale- oak, pine & pine
straw. Gravel driveway repair & grading
plus tractor service. 40 years of experience.
ART & LEISURE
WINE AND DESIGN CHAPEL HILL-DURHAM
200 North Greensboro Street, A-8
Carr Mill Mall
Carrboro
919.455.0749
www.wineanddesign.com/location/chapel-hillnc/home
Wine and Design Chapel Hill offers you the
opportunity to have an exciting night out
with friends, family members or coworkers.
Our paint parties are led by local artists
who feature a different painting every night.
It’s the perfect place to let loose and uncork
your creative side with good friends and
great wine. No experience required. Our
ArtBuzz Kids programs allow little ones to
join the fun, too. The studio is relocating to
The Glen Lennox Shopping Center on Hwy
54 in June 2015.
CHATHAM ANIMAL RESCUE AND EDUCATION 40TH
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
(919) 542-5757
www.chathamanimalrescue.org
Chatham Animal Rescue and Education
(CARE) celebrates its 40th birthday this
year! Join us at the Pittsboro Roadhouse
Sunday, October 4 from 4 to 8 pm for the
North Carolina debut of the 2015 Internet
Cat Video Festival, produced and curated
by the Walker Arts Center. Pasta buffet,
cupcake contest, raffle items, and door
prizes. Purchase tickets online.
ST. THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC SCHOOL
940 Carmichael St. in Chapel Hill
We are offering tours of the school campus
on the first Thursday of each month from
9-11AM. Talk to administrators, students,
parents and teachers about what it’s like
to join our school community. To register
call 919-942-1546. Tours for 2015 will be
October 1, November 5, and December 3.
RESALE
CIRCLE CITY BOOKS & MUSIC
121 Hillsboro St., Pittsboro
919.548.5954
Weekdays 11-7, Sat 10-7 and Sunday 12-5
Circle City offers a wide selection of rare,
used and unusual books, vinyl and CDs.
The store can also offer book owners a way
to sell their most valuable books though its
online branch to achieve the highest return
possible, even as the market for used
books contracts. Entire libraries or small
collections, direct sale or consignment.
CORA FOOD PANTRY
CHATHAM HUNGER WALK 2015
Sunday, November 1, 1:30 – 4:00 pm
Help CORA Feed the Hungry! Over the
next year, CORA expects to distribute more
than 215 tons of food to Chatham County
families. The donations you collect for
Hunger Walk will help make that possible.
Walk a three mile route on event day
through Pittsboro and visit CORA. For an
information packet, visit the website at
www.corafoodpantry.org.
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR
Orange County Studio Tour
ORANGE COUNTY ARTIST GUILD
OPEN STUDIO TOUR
November 7-8 and 14-15
Saturdays 10:00 to 5:00
Sundays 12:00 to 5:00
Every November, round yellow
signs with purple numbers and
balloons appear in Chapel Hill,
Carrboro, Hillsborough, in fact, all
over Orange County. Some may even
appear in your neighborhood, but I
wonder if you know what they represent. Follow the arrows attached to
the signs, and you’ll find yourself at
an art studio, talking to one of your
neighbors who happens to also be an
artist and a member of the Orange
County Artists Guild.
This year is the 21st year for the
Orange County Artists Guild Open
Studio Tour, an event that has become eagerly anticipated in Orange
County and beyond, now drawing
thousands of visitors. Started in 1995
with just 28 participating artists, the
Guild presently has 125 member
artists, 82 of them sharing their art at
65 studios this year during the first
two full weekends of November.
The Guild includes ceramic artists,
painters, artists who draw, sculptors
both of small objects and monumental outdoor pieces, textile artists,
glass artists, jewelers, artists working
in wood, photographers, and book
artists. Just about any kind of art you
can imagine is represented by an
artist in the Guild. All artist members
are juried into the Guild based on the
quality of their artwork, so these are
serious artists, men and women of
all ages who excel in their various art
and fine craft media. Most show their
work at galleries or other art venues,
and many are award winning and
nationally known. Did you know
that Orange County is a center of
the arts in North Carolina? A study,
“Clusters of Creativity,” done in 2007,
found that there were as many artists
in Orange County as in Buncombe
County, where Asheville is located.
Orange County had almost twice as
many artists per/1000 people as did
Buncombe County.
How do you “go on the tour”?
Every year the Guild produces a
Tour brochure with a map showing
all the studio locations, and makes it
available at businesses around Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and
Durham (it’s also available online
at: www.orangecountyartistsguild.
com). Visitors can decide which
studios they wish to visit and chart
their route. There are treasures to be
found at every location. If you don’t
have a brochure handy, or feel like
being adventurous by winging it,
drive around until you find one of
the bright yellow signs with balloons
posted all over the county. Then, venture inside to discover a local talent.
This is one of the few times a pop-in
visit is not only welcome, but also encouraged. During the Tour, you’ll get
a chance to meet Guild artists, learn
about their creative process firsthand,
tour the studio space where their artwork is made, view a body of work
up close, and if you wish, purchase
pieces directly from the artist. Attendance is always free, and people who
just want to look are as welcome as
those who are looking to buy.
Additionally, there are two galleries that host preview shows during
the tour, one at the Hillsborough
Gallery of Art (opening reception:
Saturday, October 30th, 6-9 pm); the
other at FRANK Gallery in Chapel
Hill (opening reception: Saturday,
November 5th, 6-8 pm).
While there are no guarantees,
keep in mind that these two weekends in November are often some
of the most beautiful in the entire
year, with crisp air, blue skies, and
vivid fall colors. Take some time this
fall to tour our beautiful county and
visit some of the many artists who
are such an important part of how
we define the uniqueness of Orange
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In 1984 the tools I used to manage
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York City were ledger paper, checkbook, pencils and a calculator. With
these stone-age tools I kept track of
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bank statements and handling accounts receivable and payable, union
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Financial Affidavits – Assistance
with the preparation of divorce and
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with entering, reviewing and paying
bills via QuickBooks, manage vendors and more.
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OCTOBER IS ADHD AWARENESS MONTH
Were You Aware that The Technology Exists to
See Into Your Child’s Brain?
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR
DR. PATRICIA LEIGH is a
Neurodevelopmental Specialist
and Board Certified Neurofeedback
doctor. She is the author of the
forthcoming book entitled ‘Solutions
in the Brain: Unlocking Your Child’s
Full Potential’ available this
Fall. The website for the Chapel
Hill Neurofeedback Center is
leighbrainandspine.com and the
office can be reached at
919-401-9933.
Did you
know that
the technology exists
to peek into
your child’s
brain and
see how it
is operating? You are not looking at
the brain directly, per se, but rather
getting a glimpse of how it is functioning. Most experts would argue
that knowing how it is functioning is
actually more important than how it
looks anyway.
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
technology has been around since
Hans Berger first invented it in 1924
but has come a long way since then.
Now with advancements in technology, the energy in your child’s
brain can be read very simply by
sensors applied to his or her head
with paste that comes off very easily.
Once the reading has been taken,
your child’s levels can be mathematically compared to his or her agematched peers to determine if your
child’s brain is operating at its best
or if there is room for improvement.
Expert scientists have determined
the precise profiles for many of the
challenges children experience and
struggle with including ADHD,
anxiety, and learning challenges of
different varieties. The “brain map”
profiles for each of these challenges
appears very different and are treated very differently by professionals.
You can see the included example
of a brainmap for a typical ADHD
profile and can see how incredibly
overactive the brain is especially in
the frontal region.
Dr. Patricia Leigh left her position
as a University professor to bring this
technology to the kids and families
of our community to help them get
the answers they need. Knowing
how your child’s brain is functioning
is the first step to informed decision
making on how to best help him or
her. The brainmap acts like a roadmap and can make your journey
toward unlocking your child’s full
potential as short and efficient as
possible. The brainmap helps you get
the biggest bang for your buck when
it comes to treatment for ADHD, anxiety or learning challenges.
We live in “The Era of the Brain”
as our decade has been affectionately dubbed due to the pouring in of
interest and resources into determining exactly how the brain functions.
Figuring out the brain has risen to
become the great scientific goal of
politicians, scientists, and private
organizations just as space exploration was decades ago. This is because
most of the answers to our questions
on the mind, body, and behaviors lies
within the functioning of the brain. If
you have questions about the happenings within your own universe, a
brainmap can provide you with some
much needed answers. n
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Probate and Trust Administration
Arbitration and mediation
services offered by
Willis P. Whichard,
Certified Mediator
919-402-1740
501 Eastowne Dr., Suite 130
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
www.tillmanhinkle.com
[email protected]
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Investing in Volatile Times
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR
STEARNS FINANCIAL GROUP
1450 Raleigh Road
Suite 105
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919-636-3634
nationwide 800-881-SFSG (7374)
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With weakness in
China and the latest
stock market turmoil
shaking up investors, we are diverting from our normal
article cycle to
provide a special Frequently Asked
Questions column, drawing from
questions we receive and discussions
we have with our clients and industry experts around the world.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How do you know when to
sell your stocks in a down market to
prevent further losses or go bargain
hunting when stock prices decline?
A: History shows that 8 out of
10 times, it’s better to bargain hunt
rather than sell low. The simplest
and most highly effective way to add
to your stocks is to rebalance your
portfolio. This means if your desired
allocation at this stage of your life is
75% stocks, and that percentage falls
to 68% (as it could have recently),
you would sell some other assets that
weathered the storm well, and move
your stock percentage back to 75%.
think they know more than they
really do about investing, which results in trading more frequently and
taking more risk.
While more trading costs will
obviously lower returns, it would
seem taking more risk would result
in higher returns, right? Not in this
case. Investment returns in the study
were over 20% worse for married
men versus married women and
even more dismal for single men
versus single women.
Q: How will I know when we’re in
one of the two out of ten times when
it actually makes sense to sell?
A: If numerous signs of a major
bubble (like we had in 1999) or storm
warnings of a recession (like we had
in 2007) are present, the likelihood of
a signficant stock market correction
is high.
The good news is our collective research from many of the top market
experts indicates a low likelihood of
a recession in the coming 12 months.
In fact, it appears that U.S. economic
growth is moderately solid, and has
even, at least temporarily, moved
to the high side of its historical
growth trend. Economic growth for
the U.S. was actually revised UP for
the second quarter to a 3.7% annual
rate from a 2.3% rate in the advance
estimate. It was the biggest increase
in three quarters, and above the U.S.
economy’s 2.7% average annualized
growth rate since 1980.
Q: As a retiree, how should I view
stocks? While stocks seem to offer
both income and growth potential,
they are also more volatile than
bonds.
A: You’re exactly right. In prior
time periods, mixing bonds into a
portfolio lowered risk and at least
gave you some reasonable return
expectations, but given today’s low
bond yields,, this is no longer the
case. As a result, dividend income
from stocks have become ever more
critical.
While it’s true that stocks are more
volatile, this should not matter to you
as long as the cash flow from dividends supports a significant portion
of your annual spending needs and
you have a longer time horizon.
However, if this is not the case, then
you risk selling assets during market
downturns to meet your withdrawal
needs. While good quality stocks rebound most of the time, the chances
of a rebound are zero if you have had
to sell stock in order to fund your
retirement.
This issue is compounded by the
fact that we are living longer. Current longevity trends indicate that
a couple reaching age 65 today has
a nearly 50% chance that one of the
two will live into their 90s. Generally, the longer you extend your time
horizon, the more you need growth
assets (like stocks or investment
grade real estate) and the less likely
you’ll experience a loss in stocks over
that holding period. The big caveat
is this assumes you’re living within
your means and a high withdrawal
rate doesn’t result in taking losses
during market downturns.
Longer time horizon = lower
downside risk. n
Source: Period 1926-2014. S&P
Econometrics.
Past stock market performance is not a
guarantee of future results.
A CRAFTED DINING
EXPERIENCE
If you are nearing retirement and
would want to move your stock
balance to a more conservative level
anyway, no action may be the best
course. Unfortunately, many investors have a difficult time with taking
“no action”, often selling low and
locking in losses.
This is especially true of male
investors. Brad Barber and Terrance
Odean did one of the larger studies on this in their February, 2001
Quarterly Journal of Economics
paper, “Boys will be Boys: Gender,
Overconfidence, and Common Stock
Investment.” In their survey of over
35,000 discount brokerage accounts
over a six year period, Barber & Odean found that men tend to be more
overconfident in “manly” pursuits,
including financial matters. They
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Lamps Limited Going Out of Business Sale
We have a new
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LAMPS LIMITED
2501 University Dr, #4, Rockwood
Shopping Ctr
Durham, NC 27707
Primary: (919) 403-5267
Fax: (919) 403-5267
Lamps Ltd is going out of business. We’ve decided not to renew
our lease! Our INVENTORY REDUCTION SALE begins now and
will continue through the Christmas
Season. During this sale, ALL SALES
ARE FINAL. Special orders will not
be discounted. Our goal is to continue to provide our usual competent
service that you have come to expect.
Lamp repairs will NOT be discounted in any way, but we will give
you great advice to make sure that
you get your lamps in tip top condition.
We have been your destination for
lamps, lamp shades, lamp repairs,
wall art, antiques and accessories for
32 years and there will be a void…
Lamps Ltd began in 1983 in the
back of an antiques shop on Gregson
Street in downtown Durham. We
were in that location for 25 years
and in 2008 we moved to Rockwood
Shopping Center where we tripled
our size. Our lease is up for renewal
in February, but we’ve decided to
begin new chapters!
Tag Sale business: Paul’s Top Notch
Tag Sales. He has been working
on his credentials and is excited to
help people sort out and downsize
to move into their next chapter. As
you know from your patronage, he
is very knowledgeable and excited to
see old things have a second or third
life! He’s great at getting it done.
We would like to sincerely thank
the Triangle Area for your support
and patronage: it’s been a really
good chapter for us. Thank you to
the wonderful customers and friends
we’ve made along the way.
Joy will continue to do limited
simple lamp repairs: Lamp Repair
Express. Due to arthritis and stress,
the repair shop will have limited
hours and be limited to less complicated projects. We will refer customers to competent suitable entities for
more complicated projects.
We hope that you all have had
as much fun as we have serving
you and teaching you about lamps:
repairs, lamp creation, fitting lamp
shades and solving lamp problems.
You’ve learned that
*There’s not just one right lamp
shade for your lamp.
* Proportion makes a big difference in the aesthetics of your lamp.
*Lamps are the “jewelry” of your
home.
*A new lamp shade can update
your room.
*There’s more than one right way
to solve a problem!
Joy and Paul plan to take some
much needed time away from the
retail whirlwind. We are empty nesters now and look forward to having
a few months to decompress, relax,
and get into a better routine of taking
care of ourselves.
We’re not through yet, though!
Paul and Joy are each launching into
other fields.
Joy has become a consultant with
Rodan and Fields: the same doctors
who created Proactiv. They are doing
for anti-aging and sun damage what
they did for the acne market with
Proactiv. The integrity and innovation of the company matches up with
Joy’s core values. You know that her
enthusiasm and newfound knowledge is something that she will dedicate herself to sharing and helping
you with! She has had great results
reversing the years of sun damage
she got from living at the lake and
going to the beach. She’s her own
best billboard and hope that you’ll
come in to see! Joy can’t wait to
share this with you. You’ll definitely
be hearing from her.
Again, MANY THANKS for 32
great years and we hope you’ll
continue your relationship with
us through Paul’s Tag Sales, Lamp
Repairs Express and Joy’s Rodan and
Fields consultation business.
LET THE SALE BEGIN! n
Paul will be starting his Estate and
Charlie’s Gift Market
Saturday, November 7th
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18 | October 2015
Talking to Kids about Divorce and Loss
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR
DAVID SHANKS, LCSW, MBA, PLLC
919-260-7213
[email protected]
www.davidshanks.com
We all naturally want
to protect
our children
from some of
the painful
realities of
life. But that
is often not possible. It can be difficult to figure out how to handle these
situations. How much do children
need to know? What is the right way
to bring up a difficult issue?
I think the most important piece
of handling such issues isn’t as much
about the information but about how
you, the parent, are doing. Our children are always watching us for clues
about what is going on. And even
for very young children who may not
have a sophisticated vocabulary, they
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are feeling what we feel. The fundamental question they will be asking
you, although probably not in words,
is: Is it safe? Are we going to be OK?
The only response that is going to
be truly supportive and reassuring
is a believable one. Just saying the
“right” words isn’t enough.
This is one of those times when
it can be difficult to be in the role
of parent. When you are hurting,
it’s OK to let your child see it but it
is also important for your child to
see that you have the intention of
hanging in there and getting through
the crisis. Tough times can teach us
all some important lessons and this is
an opportunity to teach your children how to survive pain and loss.
It’s a time when you need to find
your own resources – to find support
from family, friends, your church or
spiritual life, or where ever you go
for strength. Sometimes a skilled
therapist can be a powerful source of
help.
Often parents wonder when and
how much to tell children – especially young children. What do you tell
a young child when grandma dies?
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Or when a divorce is looming? I
think kids need the simple facts at a
level they can understand. If there
is something big happening, kids
need to know or they may potentially
make up something even worse in
their own minds including that they
are the cause of the problem. If they
see their mother or father is in grief,
they deserve a simple and straightforward explanation. If a divorce
is looming, even teenagers don’t
need to know all the bloody details,
but they do need to know what’s
happening to the family and especially what’s happening to them. It’s
important, whatever the issue, to be
open to questions and answer them
as frankly as possible.
There are many kinds of loss. One
of the most difficult is death. Even
very young children have some understanding of death. It’s important
to help them face such a loss with as
much honesty as you can muster, as
these issues are difficult for us adults
as well. It’s fine to include your beliefs but this is not always a time for
sugar coating the issue especially if
you are in grief. If you are, your child
will know it. I think what is most
distressing is feeling a lack of reality
in the parents’ communication. Kids
will feel the disconnection between
what you say and what they observe
you are feeling. Again, it’s OK to be
honest about your feelings and it is
also important to clearly communicate to your children that they are
going to be OK.
Lastly, it’s best to not involve your
kids in your own emotional processing. You need to find your own
support so you can be there for them
emotionally. This is an opportunity
to teach them good boundaries by example. When I say that it’s important
to tell kids honestly what is happening, at the same time I think they
need only the basic facts and do not
need to be involved in too much detail. What is important in all this is to
hold the space for them to experience
life; to know that they are seen and
loved no matter what is happening.
If you can give them that, you will
be well on your way to “Creating
Successful Children.”
David Shanks, LCSW is a therapist in
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