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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.”
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when a tractor-trailer knocked over an aluminum light pole on Franklin Street. The driver was issued a safe movement violation.
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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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, April 6, 1999
Volume 107, Issue 25
Richardson said he would stay in
touch with Brooks while on leave.
“I can’t let go completely,”
Richardson said.
But Richardson said he had to do
what the doctors told him and rest.
“I, of course, want to try to stay out
here (in my house) in the woods and (get
better),” he said.
Richardson said he was looking for
ward to returning to his job, which he
assumed in March 1996. He then agreed
to remain until June 30, 2000.
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Besides work
ing closely with
Hooker, Brooks
said he also want
ed to increase his
involvement in
campuswide activ
ities while serving
as acting provost.
The capability
of the deans and
other members of
the provost’s
Associate Provost
Ned Brooks
Heinke Streamlines
Top Staff Positions
The student leader chose
just one head to of most
of his committees to cut the
size of cabinet meetings.
By Carrie Callaghan
Staff Writer
Just in time for his inauguration
today, Student Body President-elect Nic
Heinke has his cabinet members fined
up for next year.
Fourteen people will serve as cabinet
members in the positions of senior advi
sor, executive assistants and the heads of
executive committees. Heinke said he
was satisfied with his cabinet choices.
“I’m really excited about working with
these people next year.”
Amidst all the
appointments,
only one position
remained unfilled.
Heinke said he
had not filled the
position of press
secretary because
he wanted to see
whether it was
necessary.
Heinke said
the structure of
the committees
would differ
under his presi
dency than past
Student Body
President-elect
Nic Heinke
and his cabinet want
to revamp ideas
from his platform.
administrations, with a chairman and a
vice chairman, instead of two co-chair
men. Heinke said this was to keep cabi
net meetings from bAng too large.
Only the Information-Technology
Committee will have co-chairmen, as
the two people selected had differing
office will allow Brooks to continue the
work of the provost, he said.
“I don’t see any slackening of the
pace in the provost’s office,” Brooks
said. “There really are some wonderful
people in (there),” he said.
Brooks said his associate provost
duties would be shared by the various
deans to allow him to serve as acting
provost. Richardson said associate
provosts Lawrence Gilbert and Kate
See PROVOST, Page 8
areas of expertise, Heinke said.
In addition to his cabinet, Heinke
also chose 22 other people to serve as
coordinators for individual projects.
Heinke said the new cabinet mem
bers and coordinators would help him
develop an updated platform. “It won’t
be just what Nic Heinke wants to do, but
what student government wants to do.”
Ideas for the new platform would
come from students in the Pit and brain
storming with cabinet members, Heinke
said. He estimated he would probably
add another 10 points to the platform.
He said the first cabinet meeting
Sunday would allow the new members
to get to know each other, receive role
definitions and a breakdown of Heinke’s
campaign platform.
Shannon Ghadiri, a freshman from
Levittown, Pa., will lead the Academic
Affairs Committee. She worked on the
committee this year as coordinator of
curriculum reform. “I just want to con
tinue to review the current academic
system and pick any issues (that need to
be changed) and change them.”
External Relations Committee
Chairwoman-select Jessica Triche said
she also planned on continuing the work
of the committee from this year to next.
She said the committee would continue
to try to have the UNC campus drafted
as one voting precinct and to try to
increase student voter turnout.
Triche was chairwoman of the
External Relations Committee this year,
since November when previous chair
woman Danya Ledford resigned to run
for senior class president.
Triche said she was looking forward
to a great year. “I’m really pumped.”
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Bridges^
Barracks
Bombed
NATO airstrikes also
intensified attacks on Serb
ground forces suspected of
abusing ethnic Albanians.
Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Aided
by clearing skies, NATO struck fuel
depots, bridges and army barracks
throughout Yugoslavia on Monday, and
said it was taking particular aim at
Serbian ground forces accused of ter
rorizing ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic brushed off the continued
barrage, defiantly promising to rebuild
the bomb-damaged structures and
denouncing NATO “aggressors” and
“criminals.”
President Clinton promised an
“undiminished, unceasing and unre
lenting” air campaign. He said it would
no longer be enough for Milosevic to
just stop the killing. He said “a Kosovo
denied its freedom and devoid of its
people is not acceptable," adding, “Our
plan is to persist until we prevail.”
As night fell, air raid sirens sounded
again in Belgrade, heralding the 13th
straight night of NATO bombardment.
The state-run Tanjug news agency
said several missiles blasted a militarv
barracks in Prizren, Kosovo’s second
largest city, in the fourth attack there
since the NATO air campaign began
March 24.
Tanjug also said NATO jets fired mis
siles early Tuesday at a communications
relay station near Kosovo’s provincial
capital of Pristina.
Two strong detonations were heard
late Monday in the northern city of
Novi Sad, the state news agency Tanjug
said. The private news agency Beta
quoted Novi Sad’s mayor, Caslav
Popovic, as saying the power station at
See KOSOVO, Page 8
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The days of (ticket-free) parking along
an N.C. 54 Bypass exit ramp to romp
in the fields of Merritt Pasture are
numbered as officials prepare to crack
down on what they see as a
dangerous clash of speedy motorists
and frolicking field-goers. See Page 2.
Gold Medal Rush
Former North
Carolina two-sport
star Marion Jones
won the long jump
in Saturday’s Duke
Invitational track
and field meet The
fastest woman in
the world, Jones
says she will try to
win an unprecedented five gold medals
at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney,
Australia. See Page 11.
Pushing for Protection
In the aftermath of the Matthew
Shepard murder, UNC-Greensboro’s
Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Student
Association is asking the university to
include sexual orientation in its official
nondiscrimination policy. See Page 4.
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