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weather I TODAY: Variably cloudy; high mid-60s TUESDAY: Carolina blue skies; high in 70s 0 Jffw- Century of Editorial Freedom BMB Est 1893 Volume 101, Issue 20 UNC marches to New Orleans lV ' ' |H m I l|j|. _y> v** * - ■ Herald-Sun photo/Mark Dolejs Eric Montross scored 15 points as UNC used its inside game to power past the smaller Cincinnati frontcourt Fans decorate Franklin Street with toilet paper, beer cans By Steve Politi Sports Editor In Jack London’s famous short story ‘To Build A Fire,” a man perished while trying to save his life from a blizzard by turning a simple spark into a fire. If only he knew the proper ingredi ents needed to build a fire, Carolina style: Beer boxes. Beer. Toilet paper. Twigs. T-shirts. Cardboard. Matches. “And wood! ” screamed a Chapel Hill resident who claimed he was Kenny Rogers. “We need wood. Wood wood wood!” And the crowd broke out into a chant of “wood wood wood ... “ until, to its dismay, the fire burnt out. That was the struggle for North Caro lina basketball fans Sunday. The Tar Heels defeated Cincinnati in overtime 75-68 and advanced to the Final Four for the second time in three years. That was the easy part. Now it was time to celebrate, and a proper Franklin Street celebration re quires a bonfire. Hundreds of feverish fans fought their way to Chapel Hill’s Popular professor to leave UNC By Marty Minchin University Editor The University will lose one of its 13 black chaired professors to Emory Uni versity in June. Trudier Harris, an African-Ameri can studies and folklore professor in the Department of English, announced to English department officials last week that she was leaving UNC for another chaired professorship at Emory in At lanta. ohp Daily (Tor Iff! main drag, singing, screaming, throw ing toilet paper and trying, mostly un successfully, to build a fire. “This is a very expensive shirt,” said Michael Caldwell, a senior from Char lotte, as he ripped it off and threw it into a small fire. “But I’ll make the sacrifice for the team. It’s a Carolina tradition.” But two of the 40 police officers on hand for crowd control put his fire out. Caldwell didn’t get back his shirt. “It’s a polite crowd,” said Chapel Hill Fire Department Capt. Eric Upton, who was sitting on the back of his fire truck. “The only reason we’d use (fire hoses) is if they set a building on fire.” But why build a fire? “Because they won’t let us,” an swered Billy Faires, a junior from Chat tanooga, Tenn. But why was Faires wearing a Goofy hat? “Because that’s the way Cincinnati looked,” he answered. Greg Bell, a Chapel Hill musician, played the UNC fight song on his accor dion while others sang until their faces turned Carolina blue. “It was written for the accordion “This woman is surely one of the most admired members of the English department,” English professor Everett Emerson said. Harris currently holds the J. Carlyle Sitterson chaired professorship at UNC. At Emory, Harris will serve as the Augustus Baldwin Longstreet profes sor of American literature. Harris said she had received offers of chaired pro fessorships from other universities be fore. Teaching at Emory will be a great Dean is God, and we're all disciples. Andrew Young, law student Chapel Hill, North Carolina even that Hark the Sound part,” Bell said, proceeding to belt out a few bars. “It seemed like a good way to make a few dollars, or better yet, maybe a beer.” Although the partiers held nothing back, most of them are expecting an other chance to build fires, coat Franklin Street in toilet paper and sing North Carolina’s fight song all night long next weekend. Others were hoping to get lucky and get tickets for next weekend’s games. UNC plays Kansas Saturday, with the winner advancing to the championship game to play either Michigan or Ken tucky. “I’m getting ready to set up my tent for Final Four tickets,” said Bennett Deese, a junior from Colfax. Added Jay Turner, a freshman from Graham, “From Franklin Street to Bour bon Street” And that’s when the real celebration will begin. “I don’t think it’ll be really big until we bring the whole thing home,” said Jimmy Mitchell, a waiter at the Rat. Katy Wurth contributed to this re port. opportunity, she begin her term at Emory July 1. V\ ; Stephen-, * S “^ S ’ Trudier Harris^ page 5 TAR HEELS SKIN BEARCATS IN 0T unc ”771 CINCINNATI By Warren Hynes Senior Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. He took the ball, stood at the top of the key and eyed the hoop. And as Donald Wil liams prepared to take the biggest shot of his basketball career, he heard a fa miliar voice. “I was open, and as soon as I caught it, I could hear MaHMi Coach Smith say, A,'-. ‘Knock it down,”’ |HBmH Williams said. j|H Dean Smith told s'* his sophomore sharpshooter to can the 3-pointer. His sharpshooter lis tened, and, with a quick, soft swish, North Carolina was on its way to its 10th Final Four. ||j^9|MM||| As if the entire ililSfiKHiS6wSß game had been that easy. Williams’ 3-pointer with 1:53 left in overtime gave the top-seeded Tar Heels just what they needed to hold back a roaring Cincinnati Bearcat squad, 75- 68, in Sunday’s NCAA Tournament East Regional Final at the Brendan Byrne Arena. North Carolina improved to 32-4 with the win, tying a school record for most victories in a season. UNC will make its ninth Final Four appearance in 26 years, all coming under Smith’s tutelage. And who will Smith and the Tar Heels face next? None other than former UNC assistant Roy Williams and his Kansas Jay hawks. The two teams will square off Saturday at the Superdome in New Orleans, their second Final Four meeting in three years. “We’re thrilled now, but there’s still an ultimate goal,” said UNC center Eric Montross. “We’re where we want to be, but we’re not finished yet.” So unfinished that the team opted not to cut down the nets, opting for a future date with the nylon. See CINCINNATI,, page 6 ■ JB . J ■/. $r ■' wfc iwlr 4 <jT r I W e fjfc : * j'lh i jp’i Hw* l iaE*l® ' yr H DTHflayson Sinje North Carolina basketball fans crowd Franklin Street to celebrate UNC's win and build the traditional bonfires Violent Deadheads give agents a scare Editor’s note: The DTH's Anna Griffin accompanied two drug agents to Thursday night’s Grateful Dead show. The agents' efforts to arrest a man lead to a riot involving3oopeople. The Drug Enforcement Administration agents did not want their names used. By An na Griffin Senior Writer “Die. you fucking Nazis, die... “ The agents had their man where Igfl' m im DTH/Stephani Holiwodi Fans reach for Pat Sullivan as he arrives at Raleigh-Durham Airport Sunday night Hundreds greet team at airport terminal By Carter Took Assistant Sports Editor MORRISVILLE Hundreds of alumni, students and children flooded terminal C 6 with banners, pom-poms and cameras to welcome home their East Regional Champion North Caro lina Tar Heels Sunday night at Raleigh- Durham International Airport. Flight delays forced the fans to wait nearly two hours for the plane to arrive. The Tar Heels’ flight from Newark, N.J., which was originally scheduled to arrive at 7:15 p.m., didn’t get to RDU until after 9 p.m. Nevertheless, when the Tar Heel coaches and players emerged from the vessel, the crowd erupted and swarmed the team. “It’s so exciting to come home and see all these people out here,” UNC forward Pat Sullivan said. “It shows us they wanted him face-down on the asphalt with his hands behind his back. But Deadheads fight back, or at least they do in Chapel Hill. The agents had come up from At lanta, where the Grateful Dead played last week, in the hopes of finding him. Kaylan, which was the only sort of name the agentshad on him, was caught in a similar bust in Atlanta March 22 selling LSD to a federal agent In the scuffle that ensued, a remarkably simi- AD rights reserved. NcWSportv'Art, 961014) n-^iittu/Advat Mat 9U.ua what kind of support these people have for us and North Carolina.” “It’s been two years since I had an experience like this,” UNC forward George Lynch said. “It’s just great to see these people out here.” Throngs of kids swarmed the players to get autographs of the team that they all expect to bring home the NCAA Championship. “They’ll definitely kick (Kansas’) butt,” 8-year-old Johnathan Stanley of Cary said. “Coach (Dean) Smith is a good coach and they have lots of team spirit.” “They have the talent and Dean will pull them all through,” Stanley’s brother, Blake, said. “I think they’ll be able to handle any pressure or defensive traps from Kan sas,” fellow Cary resident Holmes See RETURN, page 7 lar incident to the near-riot in Hill, he had escaped. ,‘|S But he didn’t escape Thursday. “He ’sa heroinjunkie, he usesLSD and he probably shoots up eight times": a day. ” the agent says, wiping beer out of his face and kneading the back cfhis neck, where he was hit twice by . thrown beer bottles. “We could’ve done a lot worse to him we could ' See DEAD, page 2
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