DURHAM - Close games against Duke are nothing new for the North Carolina women's lacrosse team. So it wasn't much of a surprise when Saturday's game between the rivals at Koskinen Stadium came down to the final seconds.In the teams' last three meetings the game has been decided by a margin of one point and this game followed suit.With just 14 seconds remaining in the game, Lauren Gallagher scored to beat No.
Read More »NEW ORLEANS -- North Carolina entered the season facing questions about its ball-handling ability.It ended the season being unable to answer them.The Tar Heels gave the ball to Penn State 22 times on turnovers Sunday in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Read More »Board of Trustees Chairwoman Anne Cates will be departing from her post later this year to join the Board of Governors, leaving the trustees in search of her replacement in the coming months.Cates and eight new members were appointed to the board Thursday by the state Senate. She said she expects to start her new post in July after the expiration of her second four-year term with the BOT in May.Five other board members' terms will expire this year, and replacements will be named in April after BOG approval.
Read More »NEW ORLEANS -- Titus Ivory walked the halls of North Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte hoping to one day play for North Carolina.North Carolina never showed similar interest, and Ivory didn't think he should go somewhere he wasn't wanted.Ivory was there on the court at the Louisiana Superdome on Sunday, but he wasn't wearing the home white North Carolina uniform.After the game, he wasn't wearing all of his navy blue Penn State one, either. As the team ran to the locker room following its victory celebration, Ivory's arms were raised above the fleet-footed herd.
Read More »Turning their frustrations into a formal complaint, two students have sent a letter to University officials requesting that South Campus residents be compensated for hardships caused by construction in the area.Sophomore Max Gustashaw and freshman Christina Baur, co-presidents of the newly formed South Campus Resident Alliance, sent the letter to Department of University Housing Director Christopher Payne, Chancellor James Moeser, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Sue Kitchen, Student Body President Brad Matthews and Student Body President-elect Justin Young on March 6.Gustashaw and B
Read More »Women's Week is next week, yet we've all heard the complaint so many times: "Carolina is like 60 percent women; why do we need a week for them?" We need to set aside a time and space to celebrate people who are not celebrated every day. We need to remember the historical and current ways women are made invisible, degraded, violated and tossed aside. We need to work against this system of problems and look for ways to celebrate all women.Many who do not understand events like Women's Week or Black History Month fail to see harmful inequalities that still persist today.
Read More »The members of the Board of Governors have voted unanimously to authorize planning for the James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Education, a center in Chapel Hill that will aim to improve N.C. public schools.The institute is named for former N.C. Gov. Jim Hunt, who will act as honorary chairman.
Read More »With a matchup at Duke looming Wednesday night, Butler -- a second-tier Division I program from Ohio -- appeared to be a perfect tuneup for the North Carolina men's lacrosse team Saturday.Instead, an inconsistent offense and a poor defensive effort nearly resulted in the No. 12 Tar Heels' second embarrassing loss of the season to a lesser opponent.
Read More »After watching North Carolina swimmer Katie Hathaway hoist herself out of the pool and grin from ear to ear, no one would ever guess that there was ever a time when the co-captain didn't love being submerged in chlorine. But when Hathaway was at the tender age of eight and had been swimming competitively for a year, she quit. "The water was too cold," Hathaway said. Luckily for UNC coach Frank Comfort and the swimming and diving team, Hathaway's sister Darcy, also a swimmer, convinced her to pick the sport back up less than a year later.
Read More »Two musicians who claimed they were not paid for a concert took to the picket line to air their grievances.The two men started picketing W.B. Yeats Irish Pub on West Franklin Street on the nights of March 1 and March 2 holding signs reading, "W.B. Yeats does not pay its bands."The Scooby Brothers, UNC juniors and roommates Scott Hirsch and Bobby Sapp, had performed top-40 songs in a four-hour, two-guitar acoustic/electric set at W.B. Yeats on Feb. 25. The duo said the manager of the pub had not reimbursed them $69.96 for P.A.
Read More »Students hoping to catch the UNC men's basketball team in postseason action might have the chance Monday morning to purchase tickets to the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.But the number of tickets available to students rests heavily on the region the team is assigned to by the tournament selection committee.Carolina Athletic Association President Tee Pruitt said the tickets will be distributed over the phone on a first come, first serve basis, so any students interested in obtaining tickets should call the ticket office early Monday."You have to hop on this thing as soon as i
Read More »ATLANTA -- One of the hot questions surrounding the ACC Tournament this weekend is how much the Georgia Dome will affect shooting percentages.The preliminary answer? Not much.Domes -- because of their size and significant open space behind the baskets -- can create different looks than shooters are used to seeing. But some of the ACC's best marksmen aren't concerned after working out with their teams in 1-hour sessions Thursday."It's similar to the Carrier Dome (at Syracuse)," said Virginia guard Keith Friel, who played at Syracuse when he attended Notre Dame.
Read More »A bill recently introduced in the N.C. House of Representatives would entitle the public to video or audio transcripts of closed meetings of the public bodies in North Carolina.On Tuesday, Rep. Robert Grady, R-Onslow, proposed the bill requiring public governing bodies to videotape or audiotape closed sessions of public meetings.The bill would not change the portion of the current statute that restricts transcripts of closed meetings from becoming public record until the need for privacy can no longer be justified. Current N.C.
Read More »TO THE EDITOR: By approving a salary raise for graduate teaching fellows and teaching assistants, the University has taken a progressive step.If you spread out the $4,100 that teaching assistants receive per course over the semester, it amounts to a little over $500 per month. Considering most graduate students are self-supporting, $500 per month isn't enough. Besides, teaching assistants at UNC are underappreciated. They are expected to be more accessible to students than professors and prompt in grading, which they usually are.
Read More »Tiers of metal scaffolding envelop Old East and Old West residence halls as the centuries-old dormitories receive further repairs.While the current construction consists only of roofing replacement, officials say any renovation projects on Old East and Old West must exercise caution to preserve the buildings' historic authenticity.On Jan. 22, construction crews began roof and gutter work on the buildings.
Read More »Chancellor James Moeser sent a letter Wednesday to Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary Waldorf requesting re-evaluation of the town's application of zoning regulations and permits to the University.The chancellor's letter asked for elimination of a zoning cap that limits University floor space and modification of the special-use permits currently applied to the Horace Williams and Mason Farm land tracts.The letter also requested exemption from zoning-compliance permits and the site-plan reviews associated with them. The costs of zoning compliance permits were raised by the town July 1, 2000.
Read More »UNC Association of Student Governments President Andrew Payne said Thursday that he hopes the Board of Governors' recent decision to re-examine its tuition-setting policy will result in more student input.The BOG approved tuition increases at six system schools Wednesday -- a move that also incited the board to reconsider the process it adopted in 1998 to set tuition levels at the 16 campuses.Payne said the level of student involvement in tuition decisions, which are made each spring at the BOG level and each fall at the campus level, is not up to par.
Read More »The ACC's two headliners met at the Smith Center last Sunday with the media spotlight shining solely on Chapel Hill.The league's seven other schools only benefitted by what transpired on that rainy afternoon.Duke's 95-81 victory meant top-seeded North Carolina will head into this weekend's ACC Tournament losers of three of its past five games.
Read More »TO THE EDITOR: One week after the announcement of ESPN's Stuart Scott as this year's Commencement speaker, Faculty Council Chairwoman Sue Estroff voiced opposition to the selection. In doing so, she illustrated an appalling degree of narrow-mindedness, arrogance and intellectual snobbery.In The Daily Tar Heel's March 7 article, "Students, Faculty Defend Speaker Choice," Estroff was quoted as saying, "It's ironic that this year, at this ultimately academic conferral of degrees, we have a sports anchor." Imagine that. A lowly, bottom-of-the-food-chain sports anchor.
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