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North Carolina sophomore forward Kelly Esposito (33)
pushes the ball upheld during the Tkr Heels’ 6-1 drub
bing of the Hurricanes at Fetzer Field on Sunday. The
win improved UNC to 10-1 overall, 2-0 in the ACC. The team
will travel to Clemson on Thursday for another ACC match.
Woollen tightens One Card policy
Enforcement a result of risk audit
BY KEVIN KILEY
STAFF WRITER
In years past, the security at
Woollen Gym was so relaxed that,
on many occasions, anybody who
wanted could enter.
But that is not the case this
year.
Beginning Sept. 5, Campus
Recreation began enforcing previ
ously overlooked entrance policies
that required One Cards to be pre
sented to use the facilities.
Facility monitors were hired to
carry out the rule.
“In the past, the policy has not
been enforced correctly,” said Paul
Dunlop, campus recreation facility
operations manager.
The policy limits access to
Woollen Gym, Rams Head
Recreation Center, the Student
Recreation Center and all other
indoor campus athletic facilities,
said Marty Pomerantz, director of
campus recreation.
SPORTS CALENDAR
TODAY
Men's Soccer
vs. Elon
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Fetzer Field
WEDNESDAY
Field Hockey
vs. Appalachian State
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Henry Stadium
Volleyball
vs. Wake Forest
Time: 7:30 p.m.
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Those permitted in the facilities
are students with One Cards, as well
as faculty, staff and family members
who purchase a gym and pool pass,
Pomerantz said.
“The enforcement of this policy
is just to revamp the facility so it’s
working correctly.”
Officials are working to create a
“limited-use” pass for customers.
The new Woollen Gym monitors
who include students regulate
the traffic in and out of the gym.
Alex Kittinger, one of the moni
tors and a sophomore political
science major, said reactions have
been mixed.
“I haven’t had to turn many peo
ple away on my shift, but I’ve heard
there are a lot of people coming
without ID, and they’ve been kind
of ticked off since we’ve started
enforcing this policy,” he said.
Dunlop said he believes the nega
tive reaction to the policy is natural.
“The complaints are exactly what
Location: Carmichael
Auditorium
THURSDAY
Women's Soccer
at Clemson
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Clemson, S.C.
FRIDAY
Men's Soccer
at Virginia Tech
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Blacksburg, Va.
Alum to take stab at anew thrill
BY BRANDON STATON
SPORTS EDITOR
Most likely, as a normal
American, you’re probably not too
familiar with the sport of fencing
it might not even interest you to the
point where you’d care to watch.
Perhaps without that little white
protective suit and apiarist mask,
people might find fencipg more
entertaining these days.
While a former fencer isn’t quite
crazy enough to partake in any
thing as ludicrous, UNC alumnus
Nick Becketti took up a hobby last
November that some would say is
just as crazy skeleton.
“I was really looking for anew
sport,” he said. “Someone said
check it out, so I looked into it and
started training.”
Becketti said that for the past six
months he has trained as a sprint
er would, receiving tutelage from
Steve Gisselman, the assistant
director of strength and condition
ing for Olympic sports.
“All my success came through
training with him,” Becketti said.
we expected,” he said. “People just
find it to be an inconvenience.”
Increased enforcement comes
after the department of exercise
and sports science underwent a
risk management audit last year.
The audit reported that changes
were necessary to reduce liabil
ity.
“There was also an increase in
the amount of larcenies, and we
feel that enforcing this policy will
reduce this,” Pomerantz said.
He also said that enforcing the
policy will decrease the number of
individuals who could be harmful
or who occupy space that is allo
cated for paying customers.
Some faculty members who reg
ularly use Woollen said the policy
is beneficial for the gym’s atmo
sphere.
“I think the new policy is a
good thing. It keeps out the riff
raff,” said Kevin Robinson, direc
tor of facilities for the Athletics
Department.
He said he has been playing bas
ketball in Woollen Gym with other
faculty members for years.
“The gym is here for the stu
dents,” he said.
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Time: 9 p.m., Today
Location: Goldie's Grille
If you’ve never heard of skeleton,
the very name might draw you in.
If you know that it involves you,
clad in little more than a helmet,
barrelling head-first inches above a
sheet of solid ice at speeds in excess
of 80 mph you understand that if
you have anything more than your
skeleton left by the time you get to
the bottom, you’re doin’ all right.
“Everybody always asks this
■What’s it like?’, ‘Are you crazy?’ sort
of thing I dunno. Before I was
doing this, I got really into going
downhill on my skateboard.... And
that was only going like 45 miles
an hour.
“I figure, if I fall (off the sled),
Fm only falling ... like, I’m that
close anyway. I’m on ice and I’m
goin’ the same direction my face
is gonna come from way up high if
I fell off my skateboard.
“You can’t really think about (fall
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Freshman Elise Harris works at the
desk at Woollen Gym checking UNC
One Cards. There is anew policy
which does not allow guest passes.
“It shouldn’t be open for just
anybody to walk in.”
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2006
ing). As soon as you think about it,
that’s when you’re gonna crash.”
This reckless abandon helped
Becketti land the top spot at a trial
run last August in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Becketti said that in three runs
each madman’s top two times are
combined for the final tally, and
the slowest time is then irrele
vant. When all Was said and done,
Becketti’s third-best time was better
than the fastest time of the runner
up in the meet making Becketti
the winner by a landslide.
From here, he’ll go to the timed
trials in November, and if all goes
well, he could be one step closer to
being in Vancouver for the 2010
Winter Olympics.
Even though Nick’s dreams are
lofty, his mother, Linda Becketti,
said she knows that her son won’t
likely become the next Tom Brady.
“I’ll probably be the only person
in the stands,” she said, laughing.
“I think it’s wonderful that he’s
set high goals to go after.”
Linda Becketti said that the sport
itself made her a little uneasy, but
Second dancer at Duke
lacrosse party sentenced
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DURHAM A stripper who
performed at a Duke lacrosse
team party where another dancer
said she was raped was sentenced
to 120 days of house arrest Monday
on a probation violation.
Kim Roberts was arrested on
March 22, eight days after the
March 13 party, and charged with
violating the terms of a probation
agreement stemming from her
2001 conviction for embezzling
$25,000 from a photofinishing
company in Durham, where she
worked as a payroll specialist.
Terrence Eason, a chief probation
officer in Durham, said Roberts had
five probation violations, for leaving
the state, missing appointments
with probation officers, leaving her
job without court permission, mov
ing without notifying the courts and
falling behind in her restitution.
The term of the original proba
tion was to end in December, but
will now run through December
2009. Mark Simeon, Roberts’ attor
ney, said his client will begin the
Former UNC
fencer Nick
Becketti will
try for a spot
on the U.S.
skeleton crew
early next year.
that she trusts her son’s judgment
If he gets to the U.S. trials in
January, Nick Becketti said he’ll
have a better idea of where he
stands in regard to receiving a spot
on one of the sport’s Cup teams,
which would allow him to compete
in Vancouver.
Until then he has to pay his
way. With the amount of travel
involved, he has more at stake than
just another Olympic dream.
He estimated that the effort will
cost SB,OOO through February.
In an effort to help raise money
to support his training, Goldies will
host a fundraiser tonight at 9 p.m.
Contact the Sports Editor
at sports@unc.edu.
house arrest on Oct. 9 and will be
allowed to leave her home to work.
Roberts is $1,400 behind in her
restitution payments, Eason said.
If she catches up, her house arrest
will be cut to 60 days. She will move
to unsupervised probation if she
pays the restitution balance before
December 2009, Simeon said. “It’s
a fair result,” he said. “She’s very
relieved to have this behind her.”
A grand jury has indicted three
lacrosse players on charges of rape,
kidnapping and sexual offense. The
accuser, a student at North Carolina
Central University, told police she
was raped in a bathroom by three
men at the off-campus party.
According to arguments filed
by defense attorneys, Roberts said
during her initial interview with
police that the rape allegations
were a “crock” and that she was
with the accuser the entire time.
In an April interview witW&e
Associated Press, Robertssaidshe
was not in the bathroom and there
fore could not say for certain the
accuser was not raped.
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