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Barksdale Big
As UNC Earns
Sweet 16 Spot
By Brian Murphy
Sports Editor
For the second consecutive game,
North Carolina forward LaQuanda
Barksdale played the role of closer. And
as a result, the Tar Heels are headed
back to the Sweet 16.
Barksdale, often overlooked on a
team filled with flashier players, scored
seven consecutive Tar Heel points to
stem a late
Alabama
comeback
and pace
UNC to a 70-
56 win before
2,235 fans at
Carmichael
Women’s
Basketball
Alabama 56
UNC 70
Northeastern .. .55
UNC 64
Auditorium in the second round of the
NCAA Tournament.
“As she gets stronger physically, she’s
going to be an unbelievable player
because she can shoot outside and
inside - just do
basically about
everything,”
UNC coach
Sylvia Hatchell
said.
Defensive Change
Clamps Down
'Bama Star Canty
See Page 14
Barksdale, a
second-team All-ACC selection, fin
ished with 17 points on 8-of-14 shooting
in a team-high 35 minutes.
With the win, fourth-seeded UNC
advanced to the Midwest Regionals in
Normal, 111., next weekend. UNC will
take on the winner of tonight’s game
between No. 1 seed Purdue and Kansas,
the region’s ninth seed, on Saturday.
The Tar Heels (28-7) might not have
even been in Sunday’s contest if not for
Barksdale’s defense at the end of Friday
night’s opening-round contest with
13th-seeded Northeastern.
With the Huskies trailing by four
with less than two minutes to play,
Barksdale stole two consecutive passes
and took both in for lay-ups, ending the
Huskies’ upset hopes and cementing the
Tar Heels’ 64-55 victory.
“I think those were really big buck
ets,” Barksdale said. “But 1 know if I had
played better defense earlier in the
game, we wouldn’t have been in that
position. I guess better late than never.”
Sunday’s heroics came a little earlier.
Barksdale’s seven-point swing pushed
the Tar Heel lead from three to six, and
the fifth-seeded Crimson Tide would
See WOMEN'S BASKETBALL, Page 8
Suspect Arrested for Assault
A female victim was treated
for scrapes and bruises after
an assault and attempted
rape at 3:30 a.m. Friday.
By Matt Leclercq
Assistant City Editor
A man arrested Sunday for an
attempted rape that occurred over the
weekend near a busy Chapel Hill inter
section will have a first appearance in
Orange County District Court today.
Leonard Grant Rone, 26, whose last
known address was on Oakwood Drive
Extension in Carrboro, faces four
charges, including felony attempted
first-degree rape, according to police.
At 3:30 a.m. Friday, a manager of a
store near the intersection of Estes Drive
and Franklin Street saw a man and
woman talking in a parking lot, Chapel
Hill police Capt. Tony Oakley said.
The manager then heard a woman
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UNC senior center Yanick Clay celebrates after the Tar Heels topped Alabama 70-56 to advance to the Sweet
16 for the third consecutive year. The fourth-seeded Tar Heels will play again Saturday in Normal, 111.
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scream and noti
fied police, but no
longer saw anyone
outside. A few
minutes later, a
nearby resident
also called police
and said an
injured woman
was at her door,
Oakley said.
Police believe
the victim, who
was Rone’s girl
friend, was
assaulted in a
parking lot adja-
Police charged
Leonard G. Rone
with attempted rape,
assault, kidnapping
and common law
robbery.
cent to where the store manager had
seen her and Rone talking a few minutes
earlier.
“(The victim) had bruises and scrapes
in the upper part of her body and to her
face,” and she was treated and released
from UNC Hospitals, Oakley said.
Rone also faces one felony charge of
first-degree kidnapping and misde-
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meanor charges of assault inflicting seri
ous injury and common law robbery,
according to police.
He was being held in Orange County
Jail on Sunday evening under a $79,150
secured bond.
The victim had been forced from one
parking lot to another parking lot, which
warranted a kidnapping charge.
Rone also took the victim’s keys,
which constitutes common law robbery,
Oakley said.
Police would not reveal any informa
tion about the victim except to say that
she was not a UNC student.
In an unrelated incident on Jan. 24,
a female UNC student was getting into
her car in the Northside community at
about 6 a.m. when a man with a sawed
off shotgun entered her car and sexual
ly assaulted and robbed her.
Police have not made any arrests in
connection to that incident.
The City Editor can be reached at
citydesk@unc.edu.
Housekeeping Head
Gets Nod of Approval
By Jim Harris
Staff Writer
New director of the Housekeeping
Services Department Michael O’Brien
is already impressing some housekeep
ing employees and administrators with
his spot checks of the department
Many of O’Brien’s colleagues said he
spent much of his time talking to
employees to learn how the department
functioned.
Lonzo Perry, a UNC housekeeping
employee in his fourth year, works in
Craige Residence Hall and said O’Brien
efforts thus far had gotten the director
off to a great start. “So far, he is doing
real good,” Perry said. “He seems like a
fair and honest man. Mr. (Hardy) White,
(assistant director of housekeeping), was
the director, but Mr. O’Brien must be
the most suitable man for the position.”
O’Brien said that when he began
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North Carolina's bench stares in disbelief as Weber State closes
out its shocking first-round upset of the Tar Heels.
Whiless in Seattle:
WSU Shocks UNC
By Aaron Beard
Senior Writer
SEATTLE - There were 1.2 seconds
to play. Ninety-four feet stood between
Brian Bersticker and a final chance for
North Carolina to avoid the painful bite
of the upset bug.
Weber State had led UNC through-
o u t
Thursday’s
second half.
And though
the Tar Heels
were on their
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vintage squeeze-every-last-drop-of-the
clock comeback alert, the Wildcats ten
uously held a two-point lead.
With no timeouts, UNC’s only
chance was to chuck the ball the length
of the court
and pray for a
show-stopping
finish.
Instead
“The Show”
UNC's Inside
Game Invisible
Against Wildcats
See Page 9
finished the Tar Heels.
After torching UNC for 36 points,
Wildcats’ forward Harold “The Show”
Arceneaux came up with the intercep
tion of Bersticker’s heave that lifted No.
14 Weber State to a 76-74 shocker
against the third-seeded Tar Heels in the
first round of the NCAA Tournament’s
West Region at Key Arena.
“I told people back home all week
See MEN'S BASKETBALL, Page 8
working as director of housekeeping in
January he was scared by the past griev
ances. “I was intimidated at the begin
ning when I heard there were major
problems.”
While some said O’Brien had done
well thus far, he has not experienced the
test of transition and conflict faced by
his predecessors. In 1991, UNC house
keepers filed grievances against UNC
because they felt they received low pay
and inadequate supervision. UNC
administrators passed a settlement
agreement in 1997 that increased wage
rates and created a training program.
Although these steps were taken, mem
bers of the housekeeping department
said many internal problems still
remained.
White said that from that, O’Brien
saw where the department needed to go
See HOUSEKEEPING, Page 8
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FROM THE STANDS
'99's Struggles
Embodied in
Seattle Shock
SEATTLE - “When was the last
time your school lost a first
round game?”
The question jarred me from my
tunnel-vision focus on the game. It
came from a reporter sitting only
one seat over, yet I could barely
hear his inquiry. Key Arena’s parti
sans were getting louder and louder
as Weber State forward Harold
Arceneaux scored basket after bas
ket and North Carolina fell further
and further behind.
See SEASON, Page 8
Monday
Death and Taxes
Since more new development impacts
Chapel Hill by straining schools,
clogging roads and leading to other
growing pains, the Town Council will
hear from residents at a public hearing
tonight about the possibility of taxing
those new developments. See Page 5.
It's All in the Family
UNC sophomore Sherilynn Black
passed the torch of being a Morehead
Scholar to her younger brother, Jeffrey.
Jeffrey Black, a West Charlotte High
School senior, is one of 34 recipients
from North Carolina to receive the
prestigious scholarship. See Page 1.
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