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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 75 sports | online EPIC RIVALRY Field hockey giants UNC and Old Dominion meet tonight at Henry Stadium, renewing a rivalry that regularly produces intensely close contests. . .. city | pages BOUNCING BULLDOGS An athletic display of back-flips and elaborate footwork that drew hundreds of spectators at the Beijing Olympic Games is coming to Chapel Hill. HAVE A STORY IDEA? I IHRj Assistant Features Editor Sarah Frier will be at Caribou Coffee from 11 a.m. to noon Sunday to hear your tips. online | dailytarheel.com VANGUARD JAZZ Jazz orchestra plays in the style of Thad Jones and Mel Lewis. ONE MONTH LATER Students reflect on how the start of the school year went. LOCAL PET FOOD DRIVE A radio station and a vet clinic team up to help hungry pets. CORRECTION Due to an reporting error, the graphic with Thursday’s pg. 1 story, “Ben Folds Five: First time home in almost a decade,” showed individuals who were not in the band. Darren Jessee and Robert Sledge, original bandmates with Ben Folds, were not pictured. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error. this day in history SEPT. 19,1959 Students gather in Woollen Gym from 8 p.m. to midnight for the first dance of the term with music provided by The Embers. Admission was sl. Today's weather # Sunny H 77, L 58 Monday weather # Sunny H 76, L 61 index police log 2 calendar 2 nation/world 4 crossword 7 opinion 8 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Slip laxly @ar Mrrl Thorp axes weekend workdays BY ASHLEY BENNETT STAFF WRITER Chancellor Holden Thorp announced Thursday that currently employed housekeepers won’t have to work weekends, about an hour after Student Action with Workers rallied to stop weekend work. The group had gathered in the Pit to protest a policy set in January for residence hall housekeepers. The policy required some housekeepers to work a weekend day as part of their 40-hour work week. In June, weekend workers stopped receiving overtime pay. SAW members and about 10 housekeepers vocalized their complaints before marching to South Building to deliver a letter of concern about the new work sched ule to UNC administrators. The group intended to deliver the letter to Carolyn Elfland, associate vice chancellor for campus services. Instead, they were greeted with handshakes from Thorp, who invited a member of SAW and a house keeper to meet with him. “If students and staff are here, and I’m here, I’m here to listen,” Thorp said. BY MIKE EHRLICH they’ll really try to exploit it” / ( W senior writer But the Tar Heels will be looking to &A A When Virginia Tech beat the Hokies at their own game. The | visits North Carolina Heels boast a strong kicking game this weekend, the and the ACC’s best return attack, led most crucial match- by senior speedster Brandon Tate. ™ 9 flßfe U P will occur with- Tate averages 37 yards per punt HRmT . J out either offense or return and 38 on kickoffs both | defense on the field, good for best in the conference ■ - —and he took a punt back for an h cial teams units go 82-yard score in the season opener, \ V J j head-to-head, it will a game in which he racked up 397 E V V be a jflk versus new, pitting a “You’d like to keep the ball away perennial power against an up- from him, but he's got other ideas,” jßg and-coming system. Beamer said. “He wants to go catch It’ll be Beamer Ball it. and where he starts off might -'- Brandon Ball —and it could very well not be where he ends up. He's Hr be the difference in the ballgame. quick, he's got great speed, he's :.v Since Frank Beamer took control of the got size, he’s just very, very .* _ V* C , -* p Virginia Tech football program in 1987, the impressive." a | . - , 'X t Hokies consistently have had the best special Any time Tate stands deep I * , •„ /!,*.*7 t tv, ■ • , " ’ T e ' eg.; teams unit in the nation. and awaits a kick, he presents I , - • ' k MEL: “They play extraordinarily well on special the other team with a dilemma Hf • ' ‘ m9BF teams,” UNC coach Butch Davis said. kick the ball to No. 87 and H "* . ‘ W “They'll capitalize on every opportunity risk giving up a momentum- I ■•iA-R&bSivf if you’re not sound in all of the phases swinging touchdown, or kick it I of special teams. They’ll try to find >’ something that you don't do well, and SEE SPECIAL TEAMS, PAGE 7 - , -- Keeper’s rehabilitation ends in goal BY PENN ELY STAFF WRITER During spring practice after his sopho more season, North Carolina goalkeeper Jacob Wescoe collided with a teammate and was sent to the hospital at 7:30 a.m. Wescoe had broken his fibula and tom every ligament in his ankle. The doctors gave him a 23 percent chance to play competitive soccer again. If he could even recover, the rehabili tation process would take at least a year. “It was hard at first,” the senior from Raleigh’s Garner High School said. “I’ve gone through a lot of injuries in high school and my first two years here, but nothing like that.” He underwent three reconstructive surgeries, the last of which was an experi mental operation. “Playing was no longer my main goal. I was trying to get back to a competitive REVIEW * Ben Folds Five reunion just wasn’t the same Group got rockin’ at the encore BY BENNETT CAMPBELL ARTS EDITOR - For a while, it just didn’t seem right. Sure, nobody who paid for a’seat in Memorial Hall for Ben Folds Five’s reunion spent any time actu ally sitting in one. Sure, Folds tickled the ivories as brilliantly as he ever has. Sure, there was a deafening roar as the trio came on stage. But as Ben Folds Five progressed www.dailytarheel.com After the meeting, Thorp said the University will hire additional housekeepers for the weekend shifts, though he said he wouldn’t commit to a specific proposal. “We’re not requiring anyone to work on the week ends,” Thorp said. “We’re not requiring anyone to have an unreasonable workload.” Domenic Powell, a SAW member, said he was grate ful for the opportunity to meet with the chancellor but unsure if Thorp will follow through with changes. “Anew approach will be taken when anew approach is approved,” Powell said. Several housekeepers said during the protest that they were fighting against the weekend work schedule because they have small children, rely on public trans portation or have part-time weekend jobs. Only one housekeeper spoke at the rally, and the rest were reluctantto enter South Building. SAW member Laura Bickford said one housekeep er had been scolded in a meeting with housekeeping management and had been told to not be so vocal on SEE HOUSEKEEPERS, PAGE 7 level. There were a lot of moments of doubt,” he said. Wescoe beat out the three other goal keepers on the roster and won the start ing spot. He had never played in a game until this year. And since August, he has led the Tar Heels to an undefeated 5-0-1 record. He has 16 saves so far, including 5 saves against powerhouse UCLA. Wescoe was named ACC Co-Player of the Week and to the Soccer America National Team of the Week after the first-ever game action the senior saw in his tumultuous career. It’s a fairy-tale ending for Wescoe, but the road to this point hasn’t been easy, as he spent the past three seasons buried at the bottom of UNC’s depth chart And while he was undergoing physical therapy, the Tar Heels were straggling, missing the NCAA tournament in 2007 for the first time since 1998. through the first few tracks of “The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner,” the album it played as part of MySpace’s “Front to Back” series, something was off. Maybe it was the overly majestic setting of Memorial Hall when was the last time Ben Folds Five played in a concert hall with a giant chandelier? Maybe the trio just needed a little time to shake the rust off. But most likely, it was the fact Then Tyler Deric, the All-ACC Freshman goalkeeper from a season ago, left the team before the 2008 season, which left the window open for Wescoe to claim the starting spot. The result of his journey is both remarkable and improbable. “It’s a testament to his will, character, and discipline to fight through all of this and come back,” coach Elmar Bolowich said. “Jacob, by last spring, we had virtually no hope of him ever playing again because of the severity of his injury. We didn’t know if and how Jacob would bounce back.” And the senior speaks of nothing but competing and says his personal goal for the season is doing anything he can to help his team. “That’s been my focus for the three years that I’ve been here and now that I’m on the SEE WESCOE, PAGE 7 that the nature of MySpace’s pro motion sapped Folds and Co.’s potential for audience interaction, and thus, almost prevented a com pletely authentic reunion. MySpace was recording the event for an October rebroadcast on its Web site, which prevented Folds from any real back-and-forth with the fans. Even Folds himself jokingly admitted right before the set began, “If I knew about this concert 10 years ago I would’ve sequenced the record a little different.” . The atmosphere wasn’t abysmal . ft ‘Y f> Mm Op DTH/HANNAH SHARPE UNC housekeeper Pam Breeden addresses a crowd at a rally led by Student Action with Workers demanding recognition of worker's rights. ■" • Ww DTH FILE/KAITLIN MCKEOWN Goalkeeper Jacob Wescoe came back from a leg injury to earn a starting spot for the UNC men's soccer team. “Ifl knew about this concert 10 years ago I would’ve sequenced the record a little different.” BEN FOLDS ' by any stretch of the imagination. Folds let the audience sing a hand ful of the band’s more classic lines and bassist Robert Sledge’s infec tious goofiness shined through his plucking and strumming. Fblds, Sledge and drummer Darren Jessee don’t seem to have FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2008 missed a beat since breaking up. But based on the audience’s involvement, it wasn’t until the encore that it really felt like the real Ben Folds Five came out. And it turned out to be com- SEE BEN FOLDS FIVE, PAGE 7
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