Sailg Ufctr Hwl £> 'O6 years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Brooks to Take Reins While Provost Heals By Carrie Callaghan Staff Writer Associate Provost Ned Brooks will Step in to fill Provost Richard Richardson’s posidon while Richardson recuperates from a heart attack. Chancellor Michael Hooker said he expected Richardson to return to the office by June 1. Richardson was admitted to UNC Hospitals on March 24 after suffering a heart attack. Doctors cleared a blocked Toppling Pole Injures 3 A truck driver clipped a pole on Franklin Street after becoming lost off Interstate 40 on Monday, police say. By Jacob McConnico Assistant City Editor A tractor-trailer’s sway disrupted those on Franklin Street on Monday when it knocked over an aluminum light pole and sent the hollow rod crash ing onto three unsuspecting pedestrians. The 18-wheeler, owned by Werner Enterprises Inc., of Omaha, Neb., turned a comer too sharply and snapped the pole sending one man to the hospital and requiring treatment at the scene for two other onlookers. Chapel Hill police Sgt. Dennis Jordan, the officer in charge of the acci dent scene, said the driver, Peter Christopher Weed, was heading north on Columbia Street when he tried to make a right turn onto Franklin Street. Although the trailer received only See CRASH, Page 8 Absent of Color UNC's 28 Sports Teams Have No Black Head Coaches By Hugh Pressley Assistant Sports Editor Remember that old game show, the one where contestants would gyrate around and scream like elementary school kids who forgot their Ritalin, hoping to avoid the hapless fate of going from rich to broke at the hands of an unre lenting whammie? North Carolina assistant track and field coach Tudie Blake probably remembers it. Or at least she should. Because oddly enough, that made-for- TV game - “Press Your Luck” - has a striking similarity to the all-too-real cards that life has dealt the Jamaican- born, three-time Olympian. Try coming out of the womb with a genetical ly inscribed dou ble-whammie - being both a woman and black. Then try working harder than the census bureau in China to make a name for yourself in coaching, only to be scoffed at because of your sex and the way you look. In the world of coaching, that’s one game of “Press Your Luck” in which Blake ended up taking home an assort ment of lovely parting gifts. “When you’re a woman and you’re black, people look at you like you don’t know what you’re doing, like you don’t know what the real deal is,” says Blake, in her third season as UNC’s assistant track and field coach working with the sprinters and hur dlers. “I was always told women can’t do the same thing a man can do, and being a female in a male-dominated sport, there was always that issue.” artery, and Richardson returned home March 27. Brooks said the new duties of act ing provost should not be too much for him. “I don’t expect that my life will change all that terribly much.” Provost Richard Richardson r , ' " ■ y S-, : y Ji/W'Z'j ” . " jii " V lw fafegjp ® dk.’ V , i— —.—.———i——— jjSSMMtuc* „—„—— —.... ... DTH/JON OSTENDORFF EMS workers prepare to take Daniel J. Marascia of New York to UNC Hospitals in an ambulance. Marascia was one of three pedestrians injured when a tractor-trailer knocked over an aluminum light pole on Franklin Street. The driver was issued a safe movement violation. ; 'A' (, HR DTH/SEFTONIPOCK George Smith, left, helps freshman football center Adam Metts with his morning weightlifting. Smith, who has worked for UNC for seven years, is the director of the strength and conditioning program. But despite all of society’s stereo- “When I started coaching (high typing, it hasn’t Stopped Blake from school track), the way I dealt with that taking those fold-worthy cards and r rOArHFN P