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Student resembles doe Millionaire’
SPECIAL | The Red & Black
RENEE BROCK | The Red & Black
▲ Eric Covington, right, a grad student from
Richmond, Va., is told he looks like Evan Marrion.
By LIZ AUERBACH
For The Red & Black
You may have seen him
walking downtown, at the
library or even teaching your
religion class.
And like many other
University students, there was
probably a double-take when
you thought “Joe
Millionaire’s” bachelor Evan
Marriott was standing nearby.
Although he is not the
actual celebrity, Eric
Covington, a 28-year-old grad
uate student and religion
teacher from Richmond, Va. is
as close to the real thing as it
gets.
At 5 foot 11 inches, Eric is
nowhere equal to Marriott’s 6-
foot 5-inch frame, but his face
is so similar to the reality
star’s that he could pass for
his brother.
“Three weeks ago my
grandma called me long-dis
tance and told me she was
angry with me for kissing all
these girls on national televi
sion,” Covington said. “I had
to convince her that it wasn’t
me.”
His family members are not
the only people mistaking him
for the celebrity. Covington
said that everywhere he goes
recently someone is telling
him that he looks like
Marriott.
Covington and Marriott do
share some similarities
besides their uncanny resem
blance. Covington’s home in
Richmond, Va. is very close to
where Marriott grew up and
attended military school.
And like Marriott,
Covington also worked in con
struction before attending
graduate school.
Covington said, “It seems
like Evan and I have a lot in
common, I am sure that we
would have fun hanging out.
We could even build a house
together!”
Covington admits to being
a low-key, down to earth guy,
as Marriott is portrayed, but
he would never participate in
any type of reality show.
Covington shed some light
on the girl he would have cho
sen if he were the real “Joe
Millionaire.”
“Definitely Zora. She wins
on so many levels. She knows
what it’s like to live in an
apartment without heat like I
do, plus she doesn’t smoke like
Sarah,” Covington said.
This recent exposure has
certainly been an interesting
experience for this laid-back
grad student.
“It’s kind of fun, I have to
admit, but I’m sure that in a
couple of months all this hype
will die down and people will
stop referring to me as
Joe Millionaire,”’ Covington
said.
Archeologists find buried
slave plantations in North
By JESSICA LEE REECE
jreece@randb.com
Slaveholding plantations
are no longer uniquely
southern, based on new
archaeological discoveries.
Excavations in
Massachusetts, New Jersey
and New York have
unearthed evidence proving
some large estates in the
north had black slaves in the
late 1700s and early 1800s.
James Cobb, University
professor of history, said
although the discovery is
interesting, it is well known
that “lots of northerners”
were involved in the slave
trade.
“These kinds of reminders
are important to understand
the roots of the racial condi
tions are not necessarily
totally southern,” he said.
Cobb said the discovery of
the northern plantations
should not take away from
the importance of what hap
pened in the past.
Excavations near Salem,
Mass, found evidence at least
100 black slaves worked on
Samuel Browne’s plantation
producing grain and dried
meat, and raising horses.
The main reason slavery
did not become as
entrenched in this society as
it did in the south is an eco
nomic one, Cobb said.
Crops grown on southern
plantations — such as tobac
co, rice and cotton — are
labor-intensive and suited to
the southern climate.
“It’s not a situation where
white southerners were
inherently more racist to
start with,” he said. “It’s just
that slavery became much
more of a fixture in the agri
cultural society.”
In the North, the land and
climate were not as suitable
for agriculture, which led to
an industrial-based economy.
The differences in eco
nomic systems, however,
does not lead to differences
in values, Cobb said.
“There’s no particular rea
son to think that in the early
17th century the views white
southerners held for blacks
were any difference than the
views of the people who
would have been in New
England,” he said.
“It gives a better sense of
how slavery was able to flour
ish in a new country suppos
edly dedicated to human
equality and liberty.”
Cheryl LaRoche, a histori
cal archaeologist at the
University of Maryland, told
the Atlanta-Journal
Constitution that historians
are stunned by some of the
evidence.
“The popular notion is
that slavery in the North con
sisted of two or three house
hold servants but there is
growing evidence there were
slaveholding plantations,”
she said. “It’s hard to believe
that such a significant and
pervasive part of the past
could be so completely
erased from our
history.”
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Final provost candidate visits
By MEGAN E. DAVIS
mdavis@randb.com
The search for someone to fill the shoes of
former University Provost Karen Holbrook
soon may come to an end, as the final candi
date visits today.
Risa Palm, the final candidate for the
office of senior vice president of academic
affairs and provost will visit the University
today.
During her campus visit, Palm will hold
two meetings with the general public.
The first meeting for faculty, staff, admin
istrators and the general public will be held
at 2 p.m. on the fourth floor of Dean Rusk
Hall.
Palm will give a brief overview of her vision
for the University and then answer questions
from the audience.
She then will meet with students under a
similar format in Room 142 of the Tate
Student Center.
After the meeting, students will be given
the opportunity to submit feedback on the
candidate.
Forms will be available to rate the candi
date through a series of
questions and a write-in
section.
Student Government
Association and Graduate
Student Association lead
ers will organize student
feedback into a report
form which will assist
University President
Michael Adams in gauging
student reaction to the
presentation.
Following the student
meeting, Palm will complete a formal inter
view for the position with Adams.
Palm has been dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1997.
She also has served as dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences at the University of
Oregon and associate vice chancellor for
research and dean of the Graduate School at
the University of Colorado.
She holds graduate degrees in geography
and is past president of the Association of
American Geographers.
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