For many fans this Homecoming weekend, the game will be as much about nostalgia as victory.The General Alumni Association and alumni volunteers have made an effort this Homecoming weekend to get as many old Carolina hands as possible into the stands and the town.
Read More »Will Lloyd Wilson Lloyd is a senior from Graham. He is majoring in business administration. Lloyd was nominated for Mr. UNC by the Freshman Camp of the Campus Y. After graduation, Lloyd said, he plans to attend graduate school at UNC or the University of Georgia for a career in sports administration. He then hopes to become an athletics director at a college. "I've always enjoyed the business aspect and being around sports," he said.
Read More »Academic Technology & Networks officials are considering upgrading their security measures following larcenies at their headquarters in Wilson Library. An IBM Thinkpad model 600 laptop computer was reported stolen from the ATN office Tuesday. According to police reports, the laptop had been taken from the office sometime after Oct. 2. ATN officials said this was the third computer stolen from the office in two months.
Read More »Braving plummeting temperatures and low initial turnout, members of a Campus Y committee kicked off Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week by spending the night in the Pit on Sunday. Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, a national initiative to promote education about homelessness runs through Friday.
Read More »PITTSBURGH - Julius Peppers received all the motivation he needed from a photocopied article from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Pittsburgh left tackle Mark Browne criticized Peppers during the week leading up to Saturday's contest between the Panthers and North Carolina, and the comments soon became the framework for a story detailing just what the Panther senior thought about the UNC sophomore. The trash talk didn't go unnoticed by some of Peppers' teammates, who delivered two copies of the story to him.
Read More »HILLSBOROUGH - Soccer enthusiasts scored the support of the Orange County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday in their appeal for new and improved recreational facilities. Anson Dorrance, head coach of the UNC women's soccer team, was part of the soccer symposium task force that issued a report to the commissioners. The report highlighted the need for more fields and listed recommendations on how to develop soccer programs in the area. "Chapel Hill and Orange County have name recognition as pioneers in the field of soccer," Dorrance said.
Read More »Will Lloyd Wilson Lloyd is a senior from Graham. He is majoring in business administration. Lloyd was nominated for Mr. UNC by the Freshman Camp of the Campus Y. After graduation, Lloyd said, he plans to attend graduate school at UNC or the University of Georgia for a career in sports administration. He then hopes to become an athletics director at a college. "I've always enjoyed the business aspect and being around sports," he said.
Read More »It is an undeniable, though to some unfortunate, fact that many of the decisions that affect North Carolina are made not in the state, but in Washington, D.C. To ensure that those decisions are the right ones, it is essential that voters choose a qualified and reliable candidate to capably represent their interests in Congress. It is for this reason that The Daily Tar Heel endorses David Price for the 4th Congressional District. Price is unquestionably qualified: He has served 12 of the last 14 years in Congress.
Read More »By Worth Civils Senior Writer Republican challenger Jess Ward is looking to play the race card to help him defeat incumbent Democrat David Price in the 4th Congressional District. But some political insiders say race issues might hurt rather than help Ward, the first black Republican to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in the state since 1901. Ward is confident that he can win the race by pulling Durham's black vote away from Price.
Read More »DURHAM - If the North Carolina women's soccer team and its fans were elated following the Tar Heels' dominating performance in the ACC tournament this weekend, just think how the groundskeepers must feel. Surely, the men and women who tend the field at Koskinen Stadium were off somewhere toasting the beauty of the rule that teams must switch sides after halftime. Had that rule not been in effect, the side of the field that UNC attacked would have gotten awfully chewed up - and the other side would have been in near-mint condition. Applying an overwhelming amount of defensive pressure,
Read More »A museum showcasing nearly a century of Carolina men's basketball memorabilia will open its doors to the public for the first time at 10 a.m. today. Blue Heaven Basketball Museum, located at 1840 Airport Road, is the brainchild of owner David Daly, 1978 manager of the Tar Heel men's basketball team. Due to some complications with getting the museum up and running, Daly said he had little time to advertise in full force. "We're having a soft opening .
Read More »TO THE EDITOR: Anyone who votes for Al Gore is not "progressive," and any person who thinks there is any real difference between George W. Bush and Gore is mistaken. Gore's campaign is financed by the same corporate interests that support Bush. Ten of the top 20 donors to both parties are the exact same corporations.
Read More »Sam Paul would love to have eight months to prepare his men's tennis players instead of eight weeks. Yet that's the downside to playing tennis in the fall. There's simply no time. And the North Carolina coach knows it. "One thing about fall tennis is that we have some guys trying to make certain adjustments on their games, so they're not playing well," Paul said. Working to make those adjustments wasn't easy for North Carolina's Greg Archer, Max Hilkey and Nicholas Monroe on Thursday.
Read More »Game and time: North Carolina at Pittsburgh. Kickoff is at 6:30 p.m. Site: Three Rivers Stadium. TV/radio: The game will be televised on ESPN2. The Tar Heel Sports Network will provide live radio coverage; its flagship station is WCHL 1360-AM. Records: UNC is 3-5 overall, 1-5 in the ACC.
Read More »A heated discussion on minority voters and their representation in government Thursday night proved that some college students are anything but apathetic about the presidential election. The Black Student Movement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cross First and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity Inc. hosted the forum, "Tokenism in the 2000 Elections: Empowering the African-American Voter." The forum gave students an opportunity to interact with representatives of the Al Gore, George W.
Read More »TO THE EDITOR: I hope students who have moved since the last time they voted will take advantage of the unique opportunity to vote early at the one-stop voting site at Morehead Planetarium. Moving even a short distance can put a voter in a new precinct. If the address has not been changed in advance with the Board of Elections, the voter is in for major delays on Election Day. If the voter goes to the old precinct, he or she must fill out a form, then take it to the new precinct or the transfer site at the Chapel Hill Police Station before being allowed to vote.
Read More »Officials have identified the body of a man found in the rubble of Tuesday night's fire at the Brookstone Apartments complex. The victim, Roger Vanden Dorpel, 51, was employed by UNC Hospitals in the diagnostic radiology department as an X-ray technician. He lived at 1116 Brookstone Apartments. "His co-workers liked him very much, and they are devastated," said Lynn Wooten, spokesman for UNC Hospitals.
Read More »North Carolina senior forward Kristen McCann was chosen the ACC field hockey player of the year by the league's five coaches Thursday.
Read More »Students and faculty members evacuated Sitterson Hall on Thursday afternoon after a bomb threat was called in to the University switchboard. Officials said the call was made to switchboard operators, who then called the UNC Department of Public Safety at about 1:05 p.m. to alert police. Maj. Jeff McCracken, deputy director of DPS, said the unidentified caller gave no specific information. "It was a very brief, nondescript-type threat," he said.
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