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UNC Quest Sidelined by Irish
■ For the first time in 14
years, the Tar Heel women’s
soccer team did not advance
to the NCAA title game.
BYTODD GRAFF
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
This was not the way the North Caro
lina women’s soccer team was supposed to
lose. Not on a fluke goal, and not without
a score of its
own.
But Notre
Dame scored
Women’s Soccer
Notre Dame 1
UNC 0
early in Friday’s NCAA semifinal game,
and the Tar Heels struggled with their own
mortality for 70 minutes, battling to a slow,
painful 1-0 death.
And as the clock crept toward zero,
redemption surged across Fetzer Field, not
only for Notre Dame but for every team in
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Holiday Celebration: Chapel Hill and
Carrboro kicked off the Christmas
season Saturday with the annual
parade.
City News, Page 3
women’s soccer.
“I’d also like to say congratulations to
Notre Dame,” said SMU coach Alan
Kirkup after his team’s 4-2 loss to Portland
in the other semifinal. “They did our sport
a great service today. It was a tough game
for both teams, but it’s good to see Notre
Dame and Port
land in the fi
nal.”
UNC’s loss
was only its sec
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UNC Shot at 10th
Straight Title
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10th overall in the 17-year history of the
program
So at Sunday’s championship game, the
Tar Heels took the unfamiliar role of spec
tator, packed together at midfield, gazing
across theirtnrf, while another team would
capture the trophy that has been their birth
right. For the first time since 1985, the Tar
Heels would not win the national champi
onship.
“I guess none of us have ever sat and
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ALE Arrests 37 in Second Cops In Shops Night
BYLAURAGODWIN ♦
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The Alcohol Law Enforcement agency, in connection with the
Chapel Hill Police Department, made their presence known in
Chapel Hill this weekend through the second Cops In Shops
program.
A total of 37 arrests were made, including three people charged
with underage purchase of alcohol and 14 people charged with
underage possession of alcohol. Approximately 65 gallons of
alcoholic beverages were confiscated, according to a press release
from the police department.
Police Sergeant Harold Home said the previous Cops In Shops
program resulted in 73 arrests. Home said the previous number is
much higher because the ALE spent two nights in Chapel Hill, as
I really hope I don’t have to see that thing again.
Junior forward Debbie Keller, referring to the third-place trophy in the NCAA women's soccer final four
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 4,1995
watched a game at Fetzer, ’’ forward Debbie
Keller said. “(The loss) has set in, but I
don’t know if I realize it yet. I guess when
this game’s over I’ll realize more.”
While UNC’s realization of the loss
could only come with the official close of
the season, the prospect of a loss to Notre
Dame came early.
Twenty minutes into the first half, Notre
Dame’s Cindy Daws headed a loose ball in
the UNC box that Tar Heel forward Cindy
Parlow attempted to clear, but it slid off the
back of her head and bounced over goal
keeper Tracy Noonan.
“On the initial cross, Iput it out, ’’ Parlow
said. “And when it came back in, I was
fighting for the header, and it went the
wrong way.”
And for the nine-time defending na
tional champions, the race was on. While
the goal may have been a fluke, or at least
unlucky, its reverberations were over
whelming. Suddenly UNC’s near-impen
etrable control was tested.
Journalism Students Conducted a Scientific
Survey to See How Drinking Affects Students
BY KAREN KEMP
SPECIAL TO THE DTH
The results are in: UNC is not the beer
drinking capital of the world.
Heavy drinking among undergraduates was
pegged at barely above the average for college
students nationally in anew survey just com
pleted by the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication. Forty-eight percent of UNC
undergrads compared to 44 percent nation-
wide —are “binge” drinkers, according to a
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Colleges whose heavy drinking
rates were 50 percent or greater
were classified as “high-binge”
schools. At the hardest-drinking
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Matt Sullivan, coordinator of alcohol and
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said it was good
to know UNC is
not much worse
than average, but
not good enough.
“Binge drinking is
a very serious issue.
...No, we aren’t as
bad off as some, but
the numbers are
alarming. Students
who binge drink put
themselves at risk.”
Both the
Harvard and UNC
studies showed that
the minimum age
drinking law isn’t working. At UNC, 71 percent
of undergraduates under the legal drinking age
reported having had at least one drink in the
previous month. For those of legal age, the rate
was only slightly greater at 79 percent. In the
Harvard study, 17,592 students on 140 U.S.
campuses were surveyed in the spring of 1993.
The UNC project replicated portions of the
Harvard study by collecting self-administered
questionnaires from 451 undergraduates.
Binge drinking was defined by the Harvard
team as having five or more drinks in a row for
men and four or more for women within the
two weeks prior to the survey. Students who
drank that much three or more times were
classified as “frequent bingers” —l9 percent in
the national study and 18 percent at UNC.
UNC students who meet the Harvard defini-
opposed to the one night program conducted this weekend. Home
said he thought the number of violators was about what the ALE
expected.
Cops in Shops is an ALE program, and the police are called on
simply to assist ALE officers, Home said. Home said although he
had not been told by ALE officials, he thought this would be the
last Cops In Shops of the year.
Home said the program is meant to deter underage residents
from purchasing alcohol, and hopefully, prevent problems related
to alcohol consumption like fights and vandalism from occurring.
"If you don’t have some type of preventative measure, it tends
to get out of hand,” he said. “Of course in a college community
you are not going to get them all, but if you get some, you have
made progress.”
The program was conducted at several locations, Home said.
“Early in the game we talked about
wanting to plant a seed of doubt,” Irish
coach Chris Petrucelli said. “I was think
ing more along the lines of us creating
some chances and keeping possession. But
the goal definitely put a seed of doubt in
their head."
The Tar Heels had trailed late in the
second half against Florida State earlier
this season, but they were always in con
trol, feeding the confidence that led to a
late tying goal and subsequent victory in
overtime.
While UNC dominated in spurts after
the Irish goal, the outright control never
returned, and looks of shock and panic
were tough to erase.
“It’s hard late in the season and in the
postseason, when your season’s on the
line, to be put in a situation you haven’t
been in before,” Irishgoalkeeper Jenßenola
said.
See LOSS, Page 11
How the Survey Was Conducted
All of the articles in this series were based on
a study conducted by the UNC School of
Journalism and Mass Communication. The study
collected data from 451 undergraduates who
filled out self-administered questionnaires
between Sept 25 and Nov. 3. The sample was
drawn from official lists of students living on and
off campus.
Most of the questions used to measure
drinking behavior were taken from a national
study of 140 campuses conducted in the spring
of 1993 by the Harvard School of Public Health.
‘The margin of sampling error for all facts and
figures throughout is plus or minus 4.6 percent.
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tion of “binging” don’t consider it abnormal.
Ninety-two percent of the so-called bingers and
even 80 percent of the "frequent bingers" clas
sified their drinking as infrequent to moderate.
Frequent bingers at UNC were five times as
likely as the non-binge drinkers to have been
hurt or injured in the past year due to their own
drinking or drug use. They were four times as
likely to “have done something I later regret
ted.” Auto accidents, unplanned and unsafe
sex, physical and sexual assaults, and drinking
related social and psychological problems are
among the consequences associated with this
level of drinking.
Ken McGee is living the nightmare of what
it can mean to take those risks. His daughter,
UNC freshman Jamie McGee, toppled off a
rooftop ladder and died April 27 after an 11-
hour stretch of semester-end partying. Now, “a
gifted person, a beautiful child, ” is gone, McGee
said. “It can happen when you get caught up in
the scene.”
Dr. Judith Cowan, director of SHS, said she
supported the Harvard definition of binging.
The test is different for men and women, she
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said, because men
metabolize alcohol
faster. A drink was
defined as a 12-
ounce beer, a 4-
ounceglassofwine,
a 12-ounce wine
cooler or a shot of
liquor.
The UNC study,
supervised by jour
nalism Professor
Phil Meyer and his
classes in medical
writing and special
ized reporting,
showed that the
characteristics
freshmen brought
with them to
Chapel Hill were
significant in predicting binging. These charac
teristics include drinking habits they had in
high school, importance of religion and family
feelings about alcohol. Although most of those
who did not drink in high school did not be
come bingers at UNC, 28 percent of the former
non-drinkers did become bingers.
Minorities were significantly less likely to
drink or binge. Thirty-four percent of minority
students had abstained from alcohol in the
previous year, compared to 11 percent of the
white, non-Hispanic students.
Although the survey showed that patterns of
behavior and beliefs may be most important in
determining who drinks excessively and who
doesn’t, many believe there are other contribut-
See DRINKING, Page 5
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Source of
Message Still
In Question
■ News groups nationwide
received a racist e-mail from
a UNC address.
BY JAMIE GRISWOLD
STAFF WRITER
The University might never know the
source of a racist e-mail message that has
been sent to multiple Internet newsgroups,
Associate Provost for Information Tech
nology William Graves said Friday.
But Dean of Students Fred Schroeder
said all sources indicate that the slurs origi
nated from the account of a former UNC
student.
Schroeder said Sunday he did not know
if the federal government was investigat
ing the message.
“It is my understanding that if some
body really does know their way around,
they can give the appearance that a mes
sage comes from one place, when in fact it
doesn’t,” Schroeder said. “However, it
appears at this point as if the message came
from the account in question.”
University E-mail Postmaster Paul
Mitchell and the Office of the Dean of
Students have continued to investigate the
message, which identified the source of the
slurs as former UNC student David Pyle,
Schroeder said.
Pyle’s e-mail account has been closed,
he said.
If investigators find that a current UNC
student was the source of the message, the
case would be referred to the student attor
ney general, Schroeder said.
“If it is a forgery or a misuse of an
account by a current student, the code of
student conduct would certainly apply,”
he said.
The student could face a number of
charges, including furnishing of false infor
mation to members of the University com
munity; damage, theft or other misuse of
University property; or unauthorized use
ofthe University’s name, or names of mem
bers or organizations within the University
community, Schroeder said.
If found guilty, the student could face
anything from a censure to an indefinite
suspension or recommendation for expul
sion.
Schroeder said it was difficult for the
University to control the content of stu
dents’ e-mail messages.
“It’s a little like asking the town of
Chapel Hill to make sure that nothing ever
gets posted on (the Franklin Street) kiosks
that isoffensive,” Schroeder said. “They’ve
probably got as much likelihood of being
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