all sorts of new adventures in England.”
Longino is double majoring in English and public
policy analysis, and Spelman is majoring in classical lan-
guages with a minor in creative writing. Both have been
inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Both came to Carolina
on the Morehead-Cain Scholarship.
Longino plans to pursue master’s degrees in forced
migration and comparative
social policy at Oxford and
envisions a career in human
rights advocacy. Spelman plans
to pursue a master’s in Greek
and Latin languages and literature. His ambition is to become
a professor.
Longino spent one of her
Morehead-Cain summers in
Vietnam, interviewing clients of
a small microcredit project. She
photographed their homes and
businesses, documenting the new
roofs, farm tools and other items
their first loans had bought. One
day, she heard a Vietnamese
mother’s pleas for a heart treatment for her daughter.
“Her question prompted me to ask questions of my
own,” Longino said in an earlier interview. “What fac-
tors of government and development kept vital medical
procedures out of this woman’s grasp? How could local,
national and international bodies remedy this injustice?”
The experience resulted in an invitation later from
Vietnamese colleagues to help start a foundation in
Cambodia addressing child prostitution in Phnom Penh’s
Vietnamese community. She traveled with them to
Cambodia. Longino worked to develop a support net-
work in Cambodia and identify donors for expanded
educational facilities in the village they visited.
Last spring, Spelman received the UNC prize for
the undergraduate who presents the best rendering
into English of selected passages of Greek not previously read, as well as the prize for the undergraduate
who shows the best ability to understand Latin poetry
and translate selected passages at sight. He has won two
merit scholarships from the classics department. He is
proficient in conversation in Swahili and in conversation and reading in German.
“My studies in college have
been dedicated to recovering the
past through interpreting classical
authors, to salvaging their insights
like an archaeologist unearthing
ancient structures of thought so
that we might build some pieces
of them into our lives,” Spelman
said. “Someday I hope to write
translations that will enable clas-
sical authors to speak with
immediacy to general readers.”
Working to help Burundian
refugees in Tanzania last summer
— Spelman’s second time there
with the U.N. High Commission
for Refugees on a Morehead-
Cain summer experience — he
read himself to sleep at night
with the ancient Greek poetry of Pindar, in Greek.
Since the U.S. Rhodes program began in 1904, 45
Carolina students have received the scholarships — the
second most among all top public research universities.
This year marks the sixth time that Carolina has had
two Rhodes winners in the same year.
Since 2000, Carolina has produced more Rhodes
Scholars than any other state-supported university and
the ninth most of any public or private school.
‘We’ve had so much fun together
here at Carolina, and now
we get to go on all sorts
of new adventures in England.’
Libby Longino
Longino Spelman
Rhodes continued from page 3
A list of Carolina’s Rhodes Scholars is
available at
alumni.unc.edu/rhodes.
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Campus Isn’t Big Enough for Today’s DTH
The Daily Tar Heel is set to move its headquar- ters off campus less than a block from where it was born nearly 117 years ago.
The newspaper’s board of directors has approved the
move to an office building at 151 E. Rosemary St. The
Tar Heel was born on Feb. 23, 1893, in the upstairs
storeroom of a house at 201 E. Rosemary St. (The
Daily was added in February 1929, by a vote of the
students.) The move from the old annex of the Student
Union building will occur in phases and is expected to
be completed by July 1.
The DTH had been looking to at least double its
space for the past two years and had exhausted all of its
on-campus options before approving the move down-
town. It will be the eighth home for the paper, which
has been in its current location since 1981.
Faculty Hiring
Slowed but
Didn’t Stop
In a year in which the University lost
$60 million from its
state appropriation
— including elimina-
tion of about 300
positions and
approximately 100
other layoffs — hir-
ing of new faculty
stayed at about 80
percent of normal.
Almost 230 faculty
members were hired
across Carolina.
“Some people have
retired and some
endowments have
continued to sur-
vive,” said Bruce
Carney, interim exec-
utive vice chancellor
and provost. “Funds
have been found
that way. Many of
the budget cuts
were taken out of
noninstructional sec-
tors, so there has
been money avail-
able.”
In the College of
Arts and Sciences,
39 tenured or
tenure-track faculty
have been hired.
That’s a drop from
the usual 45 to 60
additions a year.
Thirty-four fixed-term
faculty members
were hired this year
as a result of
searches made
before the budget
cuts.
