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Tuesday, October 17,1995
Ultimate Teams Play Different Kind of Game
■ The formerly co-ed club
sport now fields a women’s
team named Pleiades.
BY AUSTIN GELDER
STAFF WRITER
Mix the rules of soccer, football and
basketball, toss in 14 people and a 175-
gram plastic disc, and you’re ready for one
ultimate game.
Ultimate, sometimes referred to as ulti
mate frisbee, came to UNC three years ago
when students formed the Dark Side,
UNC’s ultimate club team. Since then, the
team has grown in numbers and improved
in skill, said Mark Parris, a graduate stu
dent from Lexington and a co-captain of
the team.
The game goes like this: two seven
person teams try to score points by tossing
a plastic disc to a team member in the end
zone. Players can’t run with the disc, which
can be advanced only by tossing it to a
team mate farther up the field. If the disc
hits the ground, the other team takes pos
session.
“It’s a fast-moving game,” said Margo
Hasselman, a sophomore from Blacksburg,
Va. “It plays a lot like soccer, and all you
need to play is a disc, a field and a pair of
THURSDAY
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will sponsor “Internships in Washington, D C." in
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sored by Prevent Child Abuse in Union 213.
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Teams decide before the game whether
to play to a certain score or to play for a
certain period of time.
“There aren’t any refs,” Parris said. He
said ultimate was officiated by the team
members on the field.
He said all players followed the spirit of
the game rule which says players should
maintain sportsmanlike conduct and fol
low the rules outlined in the official rule
book of the Ultimate Players' Association.
He said the game was first played in
New Jersey in the early 19705, but is now
played all over the world.
The UNC men’s ultimate team is named
the Dark Side because the team practices at
9 or 10 p.m. They have to practice at night
because they share the Ehringhaus Field
with so many other club teams that the
field is usually being used until after night
fall.
The Dark Side was a co-ed team until
this fall when Emily Larson, a graduate
student from Charlottesville, Va., started
the women’s team. She was one of the only
two women playing on the Dark Side last
year.
Larson said ultimate was so popular
there that most dorm floors had their own
teams.
Pleiades is the women’s team, named
after the constellation of seven stars repre
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basement.
UNIVERSITY CAREER SERVICES will spon
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209 Hanes Hall.
8 p.m. UNC YOUNG DEMOCRATS will meet
in Union 208.
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senting seven sisters, since there are seven
people per team.
Larson said more than 30 women have
practiced with Pleiades. She encouraged
anyone interested to come to a practice.
“If you want to be on the team, you just
have to be interested in playing and having
fun,” Larson said. She said she and one
other person were the only women who
knew how to play ultimate when practice
began.
“Playing time is based on effort, not
skill,” she said.
She said the atmosphere at games and
tournaments had been friendly, and that
other teams who knew Pleiades was an
inexperienced team helped teach them
about the game.
“I didn’t play sports in high school be
cause I didn’t like having coaches and
referees everywhere,” Hasselman said. “I
play ultimate because having the players in
charge makes it more fun and more laid
back.”
She said that although there aren’t as
many rules as there are for traditional sports
like football and basketball, ultimate was
still a demanding sport. She said it put
more emphasis on sportsmanship because
players call fouls on themselves and judge
if they go out of bounds.
Parris, men’s regional coordinator for
the Ultimate Players’ Association, said
Forms are available in University Career Services in
207 Hanes Hall.
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November. The Y is looking for hosts and facilita
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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ASSOCIATION
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Union 205.
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there had been an effort to make a mini
mum number of rules.
Both the Dark Side and Pleiades com
pete against other club teams. In the fall
they play non-college teams as well as
teams from area schools, including Duke
University and Eastern Carolina Univer
sity.
Spring is college season when they com
pete only against other college teams.
Parris said the teams usually played one
game a week, and they competed in tour
naments every three or four weeks. He said
last year the team played ultimate in tour
naments as far away as Atlanta and Wash
ington, D.C.
Santosh Rao, a senior who said he was
addicted to the game, played ultimate at
Charlotte Latin High School on one of the
few high school ultimate teams in the state.
He was among the few students who knew
how to play the game before joining the
UNC club team.
Parris said about 60 men have been
practicing with the Dark Side this year. He
said anyone interested in the sport was
welcome to join the team.
Men and women ultimate players prac
tice together Mondays at 10 p.m. and
Wednesdays at 9 p.m. The Dark Side prac
tices Tuesdays at 10 p.m. Pleiades prac
tices Thursdays at 10 p.m. All practices are
held at Ehringhaus Field.
6 p.m. Monday through Friday and at 10 a.m. Sun
day. No meetings on Saturdays. Call Jon at 968-
8654.
SURVIVOROF SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP
meets every first and third Thursday of each month.
Call Brenda at 489-5473 for more information.
For the Record
In the Oct. 16 article, 'Candidates Reach
Out to Students,' Jay Bryan should have been
identified as an alderman who is seeking re
election.
The DTH regrets the error.
Elections Board Prepares
For Mid-Semester Vote
BY JOHN SWEENEY
STAFF WRITER
With a redistricting survey in the works,
three student referenda before Student
Congress and five empty congress seats,
the Elections Board is looking at a full slate
this fall.
Elections Board Chairwoman Annie
Shuart said all the activity was part of an
effort to add some stability to an often
unpredictable campus elections process.
”My goal, if it’s humanly possible, is to
provide some sense of continuity to elec
tions and the Elections Board,” Shuart
said.
A big part of this project will be an
evaluation of the current district divisions
for congress. The survey will determine
whether a proportionate number of gradu
ate and undergraduate students are being
represented in each district, Shuart said.
While the Student Code contained pro
visions for a biannual evaluation, Shuart
said there were no records of previous
surveys. Consequently, this year’s board
has had to start from scratch. Shuart also
said the Elections Board would be open to
student concerns involving redistricting,
and a forum on the subject would be held
in November.
A more pressing concern for the board,
however, is the Nov. 14 special election to
vote on three student referenda and five
vacant congress seats, Shuart said.
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larceny in connection with a break-in at
Capelh Hair Studio in Carrboro. Accord
ing to police reports, the front and side
door windows of the establishment were
broken, and a telephone, answering ma
chine and smock were stolen.
Rivera was arrested after being treated
for lacerations at UNC Hospitals.
Hutchison said police believe he injured
himself breaking into the salon.
Rivera was also arraigned in district
court in Hillsborough and is being held at
Orange County Jail under $5,000 secured
bond.
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The referenda, which are currently be
fore the Student Congress Student Affairs
Committee, concern funding for the free
U-bus, some minor changes to the Student
Code and a change in the language of the
original charter for the Student Recreation
Center. This change would allow money
left over from the SRC’s construction to be
used for other projects.
Under normal circumstances, the vote
on the referenda would wait until Febru
ary, when the general elections take place.
“Personally, I wish we didn’t have to do
a full-blown election in the fall,” Shuart
said.
However, Student Body President
Calvin Cunningham said the referenda had
to be voted on now because they con
cerned changes in the way student fees are
used, and the Board of Trustees will be
voting on fee changes in November.
The empty congressional seats in Dis
tricts2,s,B,lo and 18 will also be voted on
in the Nov. 14 election. Three members
have resigned their seats in the past month.
Shuart said candidate packs and peti
tions would be available in Suite C of the
Student Union on Oct. 26 for students
interested in running for those seats.
Shuart added that the Elections Board
was looking for more members. “Consid
ering the fact that half the money we pay
each year goes almost directly to student
government, we have every right to know
where that money goes.”
Police believe that another stabbing
Saturday may be connected to the Spinx
Oil incident. Hutchison said police received
a call from a West Carr Street resident
reporting a naked, bloody man on his front
porch. “He was beaten quite extensively
and there were puncture wounds on his
back,” Hutchison said.
At the time of this report, police had not
yet determined the identity of the second
stabbing victim. “His injuries were pretty
extensive, and we weren’t able to speak
with him originally because he went di
rectly to surgery,” Hutchison said.
“We’re looking into the (second) attack
and investigating a possible connection
between the two.”