Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • A12

PAGE 12A SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2017 ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES done for people. But when we lose our culture to invest in the new tourism- based economy not putting our future Vijay Kapoor is a municipal budget consultant from Ballantree in South Asheville. have spent my career helping governments as a public servant, an at- torney and consultant. I understand lo- cal government and can ensure strong Adrian Vassallo is an accounting firm business development executive from downtown. spent 12 years working with a variety of organizations in Asheville in leadership roles.

seen the needs and worked on Cecil Bothwell (incumbent) is a publisher and artist from Jackson Park in North Asheville. have a track record of ideas and projects that have benefited residents: single-stream recycling, energy con- servation, improved transit and protec- tion of our urban Candidates Continued from Page 8A The public will have a chance this weekend to visit the imposing Gover- Western Residence high on Town Mountain Road, and to speak to the gov- ernor and first lady. Gov. Roy Cooper and first lady Kris- tin Cooper will welcome visitors to the Western Residence, 45 Pat- ton Mountain Road, Asheville, for an open house 2-4 p.m. Sunday, according to the N.C.

Department of Cultural Re- sources. Reservations are not needed to at- tend the open house. The governor and his wife will greet guests inside the residence, and light refreshments will be served. For more information, call 828-225- 0122. The Western Residence features scenic views of Mount Pisgah and downtown Asheville.

Built in 1939, the home was donated to the state in 1964 by the Asheville Chamber of Com- merce. Meet Gov. Cooper during visit today KAREN CHAPEL HILL The national debate over removing Confederate symbols from U.S. college campuses is spurring wider questions about university bene- factors whose ties to slavery or white su- premacy flew under the radar in decades past. Students and alumni are no longer simply opposing overt Confederate me- morials, but also lesser-known founders and donors with troubling racial legacies.

And the discussions have intensified af- ter deadly white nationalist protests in August in Charlottesville, Virginia. The problem is apparent at the Uni- versity of North Carolina, where opposi- tion to a Confederate statue has dredged up racist statements by a former trustee. Tobacco magnate Julian S. Carr, himself a Confederate veteran, gave the dedica- tion speech in 1913 for the campus statue depicting an anonymous rebel soldier. His remarks included a reference to the of whipping a black woman in public.

stood out here and stood in front of a crowd of people and bragged about how he drug a through the streets for insulting a white said Gabrielle Johnson, a student who helped organize a sit-in against the statue nicknamed see how that embodies anything other than ha- chancellor has said a state his- toric monument law prevents the univer- sity from removing But the fresh attention to Carr has spurred wider conversations about his legacy at UNC and nearby Duke University, where part of campus was built on land donated by Carr. Both schools are home to a and have convened panels on how to handle controversial building names. not the first such dilemma for ei- ther school. In 2014, Duke removed the name of a former governor Charles Aycock from a dorm, citing his legacy of black disenfranchisement. And UNC chose to replace the name of a former Ku Klux Klan leader before putting a freeze on renaming oth- er historic buildings for 16 years.

The issue resonates beyond the South. Yale University announced this year it would rename a residential college hon- oring former Vice President John C. Cal- houn, an ardent supporter of slavery. Georgetown and Harvard have acknowl- edged or apologized for slavery ties. And in mid-September, protesters at the University of Virginia draped a black shroud over a statue of university foun- der Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner they accused of racism.

University President Teresa Sullivan condemned the action while acknowledging faults: ap- parent contradiction to his persuasive ar- guments for liberty and human rights, however, he was also a slave About 30 mostly Southern universities will gather this month for a symposium on higher ties to slavery. One of them, Washington and Lee University, is keeping Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in its name while pledging additional study of the history. University President Will Dudley urged critical analysis that goes be- yond the caricatures of one-dimensional heroes and Adam Domby, assistant professor of history at College of Charleston in South Carolina, said many Southern political figures from a century ago espoused rac- ism.

lot of the leading political figures of the early 20th century are going to be tainted with white Domby said, adding that Carr unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in 1900 on a white suprem- acist platform. Scholars note that Carr not unlike Lee or Jefferson has a complicated legacy. He also donated to African-Amer- ican institutions and served as treasurer for the group that started what became historically black North Carolina Central University, said university archivist An- dre Vann. I had to rationalize some of this, the lives and experiences of men and women like Carr and others are really a mirror of the society that they lived Vann said.

Debates, protests increase over slavery ties JONATHAN DREW ASSOCIATED PRESS University of North Carolina student Gabrielle Johnson helped organize a sit-in against a Confederate statue on campus nicknamed Sam does not represent history he represents she said during a recent protest. GERRY Product: ASHBrd PubDate: 10-08-2017 Zone: ACT Edition: 1 Page: News-K User: pkenney2 Time: 10-07-2017 17:39 Color: CM YK.