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Smith Sinks Shot for NCAA Title
Tar Heels Defeat
La. Tech for Ist
Women’s Crow
BYZACHARYALBERT
SENIOR WRITER
RICHMOND, Va. With 0.7 seconds left in the NCAA
championship game, UNC’s season rested in the hands of Char
lotte Smith.
But the 0.7 seconds seemed like an eternity.
The Tar Heels trailed by two to Louisiana Tech, when UNC
junior Stephanie Lawrence lobbed the ball across the lane to
Smith, who waited at the right wing. Smith released, and the aim
was true.
The final shot hung in the air as the horn sounded, kissed in off
the iron and the celebration began.
The Tar Heels had won the national
championship, downing the Lady
Techsters 60-59 in front of a noisy
throng of 11,966 at the Richmond Coliseum.
“I tried to make it exciting for you guys,” said UNC head
coach Sylvia Hatchell. “Can you believe that? It was just our
day.”
North Carolina (33-2) became the first ACC school to win an
NCAA championship, and only the second school to win a men’s
and women’s title. The Techsters finished their season at 31-4.
Buttheday didn’tlooktobe, after
the Tar Heels’ last possession. UNC
senior guard Tonya Sampson spun
in the lane with five seconds remain-
ing and tossed up an off-balance
jumper that nicked the backboard off to the left.
Several players battled on the floor, but UNC’s Marion Jones
and Tech’s Racquel Spurlock held the ball on the tie-up to set up
the inbounds play off the alternate possession.
“I didn’t even think it was our ball,” Sampson said. “When I
saw the (possession) arrow, my heart just dropped.”
UNC was granted one last chance, and senior center Sylvia
Crawley knew her dreams were going to happen.
“I can honestly say that there was never a time I thought we
were going to lose,” said UNC center Sylvia Crawley. “We were
down, and I didn’t know how we were going to win, but I knew
we were going to win this game.”
The day would not have been without the play of Smith. The
6-foot junior from Shelby pulled down a career and NCAA title
game-high 23 rebounds to go along with her 20 points.
But Smith’s last three were the most important.
“I just had to put the time factor aside, ” Smith said. “I just said
‘Oh, God,’ and it went in. I didn’t even look at it."
But everyone in the coliseum watched it sail. No Tech player
was within five feet of Smith on the final shot.
Jones watched from the left wing.
“I knew it was in, ” she said. “Ifyou could see it all, Charlotte’s
confidence in the shot, the release, the form—l knew it was going
in.”
Hatchell watched the shot from the sidelines.
“She was right in front of our bench, and when it left her hand,
I knew it was on course,” Hatchell said. “I had already started
walking down the floor because I knew it was going in. I know
these kids well enough that when they release it, I can tell whether
it’s going in or not.”
And as soon as the ball slid through the net, Hatchell ran the
sidelines with fists pumping to shake the hand of Tech coach
Leon Barmore.
Barmore lauded Smith’s performance and UNC’s team effort
down the stretch.
“We just had a problem matching up with her, ” Barmore said.
“She’s a great player. I wish it could’ve been Louisiana Tech
today, but it wasn’t. I am not ashamed to lose to the University
of North Carolina.”
Student, Alumnus Rifled in Head-On Collisions
BY JAMIE KRITZER
STAFF WRITER
A December graduate of the University
and a UNC senior were killed in separate
head-on car collisions over the weekend.
The first accident occurred Friday morn
ing in a head-on crash with another vehicle
on a clear stretch of N.C. 54, eight miles
south of Graham.
Harvey Tillman Long 111, 23, of
Roanoke Rapids had just passed another
vehicle when his 1984 Oldsmobile collided
with a 1990 Dodge Caravan at 9:10 a.m.
Inthesecondaccident, whichhappened
at 2:33 p.m. Sunday, UNC senior Olivia
Copland: Term Returned Credibility to SBP Office
BY JAMES LEWIS
SENIOR WRITER
Overflowing cardboard boxes sit out
side Student Body President Jim Copland’s
Suite C office.
A small refrigerator has been unplugged
and rests idle within the innermost con
fines of student government.
Tuesday, Copland and his administra
tion formally will step onto the sidelines as
Student Body President-elect George Battle
begins his transition into office.
After last year’s effort to impeach the
Student Congress speaker and a student
body president that made it a point not to
be visible to students, Copland won his
campaign on a platform for a stronger
student voice and a more credible student
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UNC 60
Louisiana Tech 59
Victory Celebration
Today at 4 p.m. in
Carmichael Auditorium
Sylvia Crawley, Tonya Sampson and Charlotte Smith
accept the championship trophy at the NCAA women's
basketball tournament Sunday at the Richmond Coliseum.
The Tar Heels won on a last-second shot by Smith.
The game was a hard-fought struggle from the get-go. Louisiana
Tech battled back from key injuries suffered in it’s 69-66 win
against Alabama the day before.
While the injuries slowed down some Tech players, Techster
guard Pam Harris surged ahead to lead her team with 15 points.
With 15.7 seconds showing and three seconds left on the shot
clock, the gold-betoothed senior drove the lane and popped from
15 feet to give Tech the 59-57 lead.
“I just tried to step up, being a senior, to lead my team,” Harris
said. “I tried to tell them it wasn’t over.”
The outcome was far from over. Although the Tar Heels trailed
by as many as five with five minutes to play, Crawley made sure
her teammates had the focus to win.
“A lot of people were looking at me like, ‘Sylvia, why are you
screaming what is wrong with you?” Crawley said. “But if that’s
what it takes to win it, I’ll do it.”
The openingjump went to the Tar Heels, but the game wouldn’t
be controlled as easily as the tap. The Techsters traded baskets with
UNC throughout the first half, and it appeared Tech would take a
32-30 lead into the lockerroom.
But Sampson changed that with a quick steal from Techster
guard Kendra Neal and a layup in the final second—the afternoon’s
Please See CHAMPIONS, Page 5
Frigga Tjia, 21, of Cary was killed after
losing control of her gold-colored Acura
on Interstate 40 in Durham. After losing
control of her vehicle, crossing the median
and continuing southwest into oncoming
traffic, Tjiaranintoa 1984 Mercedes-Benz
driven by Katherine Yelton of Southport.
Yelton was in critical but unstable con
dition Sunday night at Duke University
Medical Center. Her husband William, a
passenger in the car, also was in critical
condition.
Durham police officerS.L. Gaither said
he did not know at the time how Tjia lost
control of her vehicle. Tjia, who was an
economics and industrial relations major,
JIM COPLAND
leaves office Tuesday.
government.
“In terms of
broad goals, it was
to make student
government an ac
tive voice to hit the
big issues, and I
think we’ve done
that,’’Copland said.
Whether it was
the site selection for
the Sonja H. Stone
Black Cultural Cen
ter or the 24-hour
visitation policy in campus residence halls,
Copland was a vocal campus spokesman.
Anne Cates, a member of the UNC
Board ofTrustees, said Copland effectively
had communicated student opinion to the
AUI can say is, ‘Thank you, Lord, thank you. ’
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MONDAY, APRIL 4,1994
had been returning to UNC after Easter.
Gaither, who responded to the call at
2:46 p.m., said both cars were destroyed in
the collision. The Mercedes-Benz was so
damaged that its roof had to be pried off to
remove the Yeltons.
Traffic on eastbound MO was backed
up Sunday afternoon, with drivers slowed
to a near halt for two hours. The wreckage
and emergency vehicles at the scene of the
accident resulted in only one open lane for
traffic. The westbound lane was closed.
Tjia was the vice chairwoman of the
Undergraduate Honor Court and wanted
toattendlawschoolaftergraduating. “She
was really instrumental in putting together
BOT. “I think he’s been very diligent and
supportive in making the students’ voice
heard,” she said.
She added that Copland had arranged
for the trustees to meet with the students on
several issues, including the visitation
policy and the black cultural center.
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for stu
dent affairs, said Copland brought some
thing unique to the job. “Jim has brought a
lot of energy and excitement,” he said.
“He’s brought a lot of innovative ideas.
Boulton said Copland had made sure
his voice had been heard.
“One thing I will say about him is that
he’s never without an opinion, and he
always knows how to express it.”
Copland oversaw an administration
with eight committees and what some crit
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the freshman Honor Code presentation,”
said senior John Sauls, who served as asso
ciate student attorney general under senior
William Tucker Ball. “She spent countless
hours working in the office.”
Sauls and junior Harrison Tuttle, chair
man of the honor court, had not heard
about Tjia’s death. Both said they were
shocked about the accident.
Ball, former student attorney general,
said, “She was very kind-hearted and she
did a very solid job as vice chair.”
Tjia’s father William Tjia said Sunday
he was unsure when the funeral would be.
Please See ACCIDENTS, Page 2
ics described as an inefficient bureaucracy.
But Copland said the large administration
accommodated greater student involve
ment in government and University issues.
“We have had more students involved,
and I think that’s a positive,” Copland
said. “We have got committees, but we
have got committees that are generally
formed along the points of my platform.
“There’s enough to do in terms of aca
demic affairs at this institution that you
can have 15 students working on it, and
they can all have stuff to do,” he said. “In
terms of advocating our position to state
government, you can have 15 students
working on it, and they would have enough
to do.”
Please See COPLAND, Page 2
B-GLAD Event Disrupted
By Protester’s "Sex Toy’
BY HOLLY STEPP
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
UNC’s gay and lesbian organization’s
celebration week ended Thursday with an
angry debate over an inflatable sheep la
beled as a “sex toy” that was placed in the
Pit by a campus conservative leader.
Senior Darren Allen, editor ofThe Caro
lina Review, a conservative magazine,
placed an inflatable sheep in the Pit near
the Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Al
lies for Diversity’s table.
The sheep was white with red features,
and it had the words “B-GLAD sex toy”
written on it.
The sheep later was moved after Patrick
Willard, B-GLAD co-chairman-elect,
called University Police to complain about
the disruption.
Officer Ernest Caviness told Allen to
remove the sheep a “safe distance" away.
“This group has the Pit reserved, and I
want you to move this a safe distance away
from their activities,” Caviness said. “You
have the same First Amendment (rights) as
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Junior Earns MVP
With Rebounds,
Buzzer-Beater
BY CARTER TOOLE
SPORTS EDITOR
RICHMOND, Va. For those of
you wondering, yes, it was designed.
Just not initially.
Charlotte Smith’s shot that put His
Aimess to shame was drawn up in the
huddle following UNC’s final timeout.
“It’s a simple triangle play,” Tar Heel
center Sylvia Crawley said on the floor
after UNC’s stirring 60-59 win against
Louisiana Tech in the NCAA title game
Saturday. “Theplanwastoshootthe3and
not the two.”
North Carolina head coach Sylvia
Hatchell concurred.
“I told them in the huddle, ‘we’re going
for the win not
the tie,”’ she
said. “It was just
a lucky call I
guess.”
But not the
original call.
Here's the 0.07
second-scenario
that lifted Smith
to the status of
UNC legend:
Tech’s Pam
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Thomas hit a jumper from the baseline to
give the Lady Techsters a two-point lead
with 14 seconds left. UNC point guard
Marion Jones brought the ball up court
and passed it to backcourt mate Tonya
Sampson. Sampson drove into the lane
and put up a rainbow.
“When I took the shot, the girl was
playing pretty good D on me,” Sampson
said.
The shot hit the front of the iron and
there was a mad scramble for the ball.
“I just wanted to get down there myself,
but I couldn’t do it,” Sampson said. “I was
like ‘Please get it, please get it.’ I was
looking at the time and finally Marion got
it.
“My heart just dropped.”
Jones did force a jump ball, and the
possession arrow pointed left to the
UNC basktt. The Tar Heels called timeout
and designed a play for their senior center.
“That was 20s—it was a lob to Sylvia, ”
Smith said. “They had that covered.”
After the huddle, Stephanie Lawrence
took the ball from the referee and didn’t
like what she saw. She called North
Carolina’s final timeout.
“Stephanie is our stabilizer," Hatchell
said. “Stephanie is smart she makes
good decisions. That’s why she takes the
ball out of bounds.”
Hatchell knew she had to come up with
something different. Much to Sampson’s
dismay, Hatchell called 30s.
“When she changed up I said, ‘No! We
need this play, we need it, Sylvia can do
it,”’ Sampson said. “She’s like, ‘Shut up,
we’re not going to do it!”’
Please See SHOT, Page 7
Senior Darren Allen, editor of The
Carolina Review, placed an inflatable
sheep in the Pit on Thursday.
they do, but they have the area reserved,”
he said.
Allen moved the sheep about 30 feet
away next to the concrete tables in front of
the Student Union.
The disagreement and the call to cam
pus police was the second during the Week.
On Wednesday, a preacher, Gary Birdsong,
was arrested for disrupting a B-GLAD
Please See B-GLAD, Page 2