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Elections Result of BSM Pressure
BSM and CAA officials were
involved in 'a screaming
match' during the battle to
hold Homecoming elections.
By Jonathan Cox
Special Assignments Editor
Janora McDuffie and Ashley Cohen
were crowned Homecoming Queen and
King on Saturday, which has led to alle
gations that their sponsoring organiza
tion, the Black Student Movement, pres
sured Carolina Athletic Association offi
cers into holding a re-election Friday.
After admitting that the orginal elec
tion process Thurday was marred by
possible tampering and that all candi-
Penalty Strokes
Add Tension
To Big Game
North Carolina goalkeeper
Nicole Frey faced a penalty
stroke finish for the first
time in her career Friday.
By Brian Murphy
Assistant Sports Editor
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -
Maryland’s Jen Pratt is used to assisting
on goals.
But with Friday’s ACC Tournament
field hockey game with North Carolina
in the balance, Pratt, the ACC’s all-time
assist leader, had no choice but to shoot.
With the score tied at 1-1 through
regulation, two overtimes and nine
penalty strokes, it was Pratt who
stepped up for the game’s decisive
stroke.
Despite the pressure, the senior cooly
flipped the ball into the upper right cor
ner of the net past Tar Heel goalie
Nicole Frey.
“I didn’t have any doubts that we
would win it because we played so
hard,” Pratt said.
“It was a combination of everybody
that got us that far. It wasn’t just me, it
was everybody.”
Pratt’s goal lifted No. 7 Maryland
past the fourth-ranked Tar Heels 2-1
and into the tournament finals against
Virginia. The Terps went on to defeat
Virginia 1-0 in overtime to claim the
ACC Championship.
Despite Pratt’s rhetoric, the penalty
strokes set a shooter against the goalie in
the ultimate one-on-one. With the game
tied through two overtimes, each team
selects five shooters for penalty strokes.
In alternating turns, each team’s
player takes a shot against the opposing
goalkeeper. The set-up is not one for the
faint of heart.
“It’s hard,” said Maryland goalie
Angela Platt, who stopped two of the
Tar Heels’ five strokes. “It’s nerve-rack
ing. There’s no way to describe that
feeling.”
North Carolina, which had won 14 of
the past 15 conference tournaments,
struck first in the strokes session. Senior
Nancy Pelligreen knocked her shot into
the lower right hand comer past Platt.
Frey, facing penalty strokes for the
first time in her career, stopped the first
shot she saw, denying 1997 ACC
See PENALTY STROKES, Page 4
DTH Nabs Top Honors at Journalism Conference
The Daily Tar Heel was
named one of the best five
college daily newspapers
in the country Saturday.
Staff Report
Staff members from The Daily Tar
Heel garnered national honors at the
74th National College Media
dates had violated publicity rules, CAA
reported that neither a king nor queen
would be chosen. Instead, there would
be an all-inclusive four-person court.
However, at 2 a.m. Friday, Hunter
McCrossin, CAA co-president, contact
ed the court candidates and informed
them an election would take place 9
a.m. until 1 p.m. Friday in the Pit.
“About 1 a.m. it came to our attention
that Lester Crafton had an e-mail sent
out on his behalf,” McCrossin said.
Such actions would be in violation of
the CAA rule that states that king and
queen candidates are not allowed to
generate any of their own publicity
while running for the crown. Earlier
Thursday, BSM had violated the same
rule by passing out fliers that urged stu
dents to vote for McDuffie and Cohen.
DTH/JOHNIKEDA
North Carolina back Jana Toepel battles for the ball with Maryland midfielder Keli Smith in Friday's ACC Tournament matchup.
Both players scored on penalty strokes after the Tar Heels and Terrapins remained tied 1-1 through 100 minutes of play.
Tar Heels Fall in ACC Tournament
By Evan Markfield
Assistant Sports Editor
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The
North Carolina field hockey team want
ed intensity going into its ACC
Tournament matchup with Maryland.
But the fourth-ranked Tar Heels got
more than they bargained for Friday in
a 2-1 loss to the No. 7 Terps - UNC’s
first ACC-Toumament loss since they
fell to
Maryland in
the 1992
finals.
After 100
minutes of
Field Hockey
UNC I
Maryland 2
hockey - more than 65 of those score
less -and 10 penalty strokes to decide
the contest, intense barely begins to
describe the atmosphere at the
University Hall Turf Field.
Both the Tar Heels (12-7, 5-3 in the
ACC) and the Terrapins (15-5, 3-2),
posted first-half goals, but then the game
turned into a nail-biting defensive strug
gle through the second half and two 7-
on-7 overtime periods.
What resulted was the ultimate cli
max for an already intense matchup -a
Convention in Kansas City, Mo., on
Saturday, and the paper won top honors
as one of the five best college dailies in
the nation.
The DTH was awarded a national
Pacemaker Award - college journalism’s
top prize - for the 1997-98 school year
under Editor Erica Beshears, who grad
uated in May. The award is equivalent
to the Pulitzer Prize on the college jour
nalism level.
DTH Editor Sharif Durhams said he
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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Monday, November 9, 1998
Volume 106, Issue 113
RHA President David Jemigan said the
BSM had a right to be upset about the
elections. CAA Co-President Hunter
McCrossin supported a second vote.
“Up until that time (of finding out
about the Crafton e-mail) we stood by
our decision to have a four person
court,” McCrossin said. “For many peo
ple this was unacceptable. There was a
shootout on penalty strokes.
Things looked good for UNC at the
outset of the penalty attempts as senior
forward Nancy Pelligreen faked left and
shot right to beat Maryland keeper
Angela Platt.
Then Tar Heel goalie Nicole Frey
stopped a shot from Maryland’s Carla
Tagliente - last year’s ACC Rookie of
the Year - to give UNC an early advan
tage in the strokes.
But Maryland’s shooters wouldn’t be
stopped again, while Tar Heels Moira
McFadden and Holly Huff were.
Maryland senior midfielder Jen
Pratt tpok the last shot and put it in the
upper right comer of the net, giving the
Terrapins a 4-3 difference in penalty
strokes and a one-goal win.
“It’s just unfortunate that it has to
come down to penalty strokes,” said
UNC coach Karen Shelton, whose Tar
Heels had won 14 of 15 ACC
Tournaments. “I wish there was another
way to break the tie.”
But after neither team could tally a
goal in the second half or in either of the
15-minute overtime periods, it appeared
strokes were the only way the game
would ever be settled.
was excited by the prize.
“I felt that all the hard work we have
put in was finally recognized,” Durhams
said. “We are just doing our best for the
community every day.”
The paper also won a first place for
best infographic in the Design of the
Year contest for a full-page illustration of
the human body.
The DTH Web site received third
place awards for overall excellence, best
site design and best editorial content
strong advocacy for another election.”
The decision to hold another election
ended a day-long controversy surround
ing the Thursday’s voting. The episode
started when it came to the attention of
CAA officers that balloting was con
ducted improperly. Under the estab
lished system, students could vote more
than once so CAA officers nullified the
results.
Then BSM members were caught
handing out fliers that advocated their
two candidates. The crowns were
offered to Cori Ahrens and Crafton
who declined to win by default.
McCrossin said the decision to have a
four-person court stood until the BSM
began pressuring CAA officers after the
discovery about Crafton.
David Jemigan, Residence Hall
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Maryland goalkeeper Angela Platt dives as a penalty stroke hit by UNC's
Abby Martin finds the back of the net near the end of Friday's game.
The Tar Heels opened the game’s
scoring early, a poor indicator of the
defensive struggle that would ensue.
Less than five minutes into the game,
Pratt blocked a shot from UNC’s Katie
among college newspaper Web opera
tions.
Former sports editor Alec Morrison,
who graduated in May, won third place
in the Story of the Year competition for
his coverage of men’s basketball coach
Dean Smith’s retirement. The staff was
also awarded an honorable mention in
the editorials division for an editorial
about Mack Brown’s decision to leave
UNC.
Besides Durhams, seven other staff
Association president, said BSM mem
bers were a driving force behind the call
for a re-election. “I do think the BSM
had every right to be upset with the way
things were handled,” he said.
But, Jemigan said efforts by the BSM
to get the re-election reached heated lev
els in the CAA office. “There was a
screaming match in Suite B (the CAA
office) between BSM representatives
and CAA representatives,” he said.
McCrossin would not comment on
actions by the BSM, but Homecoming
co-director Jeff Stencel said the voices of
some students were not contained
behind CAA walls. “(CAA officers) were
getting harassing phone calls until about
three in the morning,” he said. “We felt
See HOMECOMING, Page 4
McDonald with the back of her stick,
resulting in a penalty stroke for the Tar
Heels.
See FIELD HOCKEY, Page 4
members were on hand for the four-day
convention, which drew a record 2,400
college journalists and advisers to
Kansas City.
Those attending included Managing
Editors Leslie Wilkinson and Rob
Nelson, State & National Editor
Courtney Weill, Assistant University
Editor Laura Stoehr, Assistant City
Editor Shelley Levine, Assistant Photo
Editor Victoria Eckenrode and General
Manager Kevin Schwartz.
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Candidates
Claim Vote
'Unfair'
Candidates say they did
not find out about the
re-election until it was
too late to mobilize voters.
By Jonathan Cox
Special Assignments Editor
Cori Ahrens will not have the typi
cally sweet memories of running for
Homecoming Queen.
“I got shafted,” she said. “I didn’t
break the policy.”
Ahrens was referring to the publici
ty policy included in the Carolina
Athletic Association rules for
Homecoming that
state only it, not
candidates, could
distribute publici
ty about candi
dates. Initial alle
gations that
Ahrens had used a
message board in
the Residence
Hall Association
office to publicize
her candidacy
were later quelled
by Hunter
McCrossin, CAA
co-president
Based on the
rules, Ahrens
should have been
crowned
Homecoming
Queen by default,
but she agreed to
the four-person
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Cori Ahrens
Lester Crafton
court proposed by the CAA.
“Then I got a call there would be a
re-election,” she said. “I think the elec
tion was done unfairly, especially since
it was decided at 2 am.”
Ahrens said she was not able to
mobilize people to get out and vote
Friday because of the late hour.
“There was no publicity,” she said. “I
was standing out in the Pit and told peo
ple, and they didn’t know.”
Lester Crafton, the UNC Marketing
Club’s candidate for Homecoming
King, experienced a similar situation.
He said he heard the news about a
See CANDIDATES, Page 4
INSIDE
Turner Turns Heads
Gail Turner,
principal of
Glenwood
Elementary
School, was
recently
chosen by her colleagues to represent
them as Principal of the Year for
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
See Page 3.
Victorious Decade
The North Carolina women’s soccer
team won the 1998 ACC Tournament
on Sunday with a 4-0 defeat of
Clemson in Orlando, Fla. The win
marked the I Oth-consecutive year
and I Ith time overall that the Tar
Heels won the ACC Tournament.
See Page 12.
Up for Grabs
The Republican party is divided over
who should replace Speaker of the
House Newt
Gingrich, R-Ga. Party
leaders from across
the country are now
vying for the most
powerful position in
the U.S. Congress.
See Page S.
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