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When Lamar Richards arrived at Carolina in 2019, he knew the history of the University.
He knew that he was at an institution that, at one point in time, wouldn’t have allowed him in the classrooms simply because he is Black. Richards knew the history of the University’s struggle over integration decades before he was born and the role students played in opening campus up to all.
“Students have been behind every sustainable and large change that’s happened at this University for its existence,” he said. “That’s just reality.”
Richards wanted to be part of
that history and be a leader.
Richards received 59.7 percent of the 3,219 votes cast in the election, defeating his opponent, junior Keshav Javvadi, by 851 votes, according to the results from the Board of Elections.
Dr. Amir Barzin, the medical director at the Family Medicine Center at Chapel Hill, said an error on the HallPass website may have caused the influx of students at two of UNC’s testing sites on Tuesday.