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New Student Leaders Take Torch
Student Body President
Nic Heinke and student
government officials were
inaugurated Tuesday night.
Bv Andrew Meehan
Staff Writer
Outgoing and incoming student gov
ernment officials often fought back tears
while they recapped their years at
UNC, talked about the future or
brought closure to disputes at the inau
guration of new student leaders
Tuesday.
About 150
of the
University’s
students and
administrators
Check out the full
text of Nic
Heinke's speech
on the Web
www.unc.edu/dth
came to the
Great Hall of the Student Union for the
inauguration of Student Body President
Nic Heinke, Student Congress mem
bers and others in student government.
Some student officials used their
speeches Tuesday night to express
regret or satisfaction with their terms.
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation President Bryan Kennedy
said he was sorry about the GPSF’s
push last semester for autonomy from
the rest of student government. “I
allowed a small group of students that
were interested in autonomy to sway
my opinion," he said.
But Kennedy also said the push
See INAUGURATION, Page 10
Jordan Associates to Hammer Out Details of Eatery
A developer says Michael
Jordan's restaurant on West
Franklin Street will be open
by mid-July or early August.
By Keu.ee Schreiner
Staff Writer
A local developer confirmed that rep
resentatives for Michael Jordan would
be in town Thursday to plan the sport
legend’s future restaurant.
Negotiations for the eatery began in
November, and its completion is now
slated for mid July or early August, said
Pale by Comparison
I he ACC s nine member institutions have four black head coaches, a number indicative of national percentages.
By Mike Ogle
Staff Writer
There are a lot of things you can do
with four fingers.
You can grip a change-up. West
coast hip-hop artists can flash a hand
signal representing their style of rap
music.
Phil Ford once used four fingers to
call out Dean Smith's four comers
offense in the
19705.
Today, in
1999, Ford can
use those same
four fingers to
count the num
ber of black varsi-
P^UNEDI
ty head coaches working in the ACC.
Wake Forest employs half of these
coaches. Jim Caldwell is at the helm of
Deacons’ football program and
Charlene Curtis heads the women’s
basketball team. The remaining two
black coaches are Bill Goodman -
track and field coach at Maryland -
and Steve Robinson - men’s basket
ball coach at Florida State. The con
ference has more than 130 head coach
ing positions for its athletic teams.
The disparity of black coaches in
the ACC, some might say falls on
racial as well as geographic lines. The
ACC, a league whose nine member
institutions all lie below the Mason-
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DTH/DAVJD SANDLER
Student Supreme Court Chief Justice Calvin Cunningham swears in Student Body President Nic Heinke on Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Student
Union. All of Heinke's cabinet, as well as new members of the Student Congress, repeated the oath of office.
developer Antoine Puech of Prestige
Associates,
The restaurant, which is still without
a name, will be housed in the Pavilion II
complex on the comer of West Franklin
and Church streets next to BW-3
Restaurant.
The pavilion is a three-story building
which, in addition tojordan’s restaurant
and retail space, will house offices, addi
tional retail space and at least two other
eateries. The remaining work on the
pavilion should be completed in two
months, Puech said.
Jordan’s representatives, whom
Puech would not identify, have been
working hard on the restaurant’s plans
Dixon line, has fewer black coaches
than other conferences such as the Big
East, whose schools are centered large
ly in northern, urban cities. The Big
East boasts four black men’s basketball
coaches alone, a number which does
not include John Thompson of
Georgetown, who resigned for person
al reasons in the winter.
Tudie Blake, who works with the
track and field teams as one of six
black assistants at UNC, has had
extended experiences in different
regions of the country. She attended
college at Kansas and had stints as a
social worker in both New York and in
Fayetteville before coming to the
University three years ago.
“In New York, if someone was prej
udiced and didn’t like you, they’d let
you know about it to your face. In the
South, it’s different; you’re not so
sure,” she said. “There’s sort of an
underlying form of prejudice in the
South, and if you don’t read between
the lines, then you won’t even know
someone doesn’t like you.”
However, the hiring of black coach
es by the nation’s athletic institutions in
general are still disproportionate to
census statistics. According to 1997
data compiled by the NCAA, only 4.1
percent of head coaches at non-histor
ically black institutions are black.
By contrast, the total U.S. popula
tion is made up of 12.8 percent
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A flea can be taught everything a congressman can.
Mark Twain
Wednesday, April 7, 1999
Volume 107, Issue 26
and want to schedule a comprehensive
press conference after they meet with
developers this week, Puech said. “They
want all of their bases to be covered,” he
said.
Meanwhile, a sub sandwich eatery
and a smoothie shop are already prepar
ing for their grand opening this summer.
Construction of two franchises, Zero’s
and Crazy Juice Company, are sched
uled to be completed by the deadline in
two months, Puech said.
Sam Knoll, a local owner of the 30-
year-old Virginia-based sub franchise,
said he was excited about what the West
Franklin Street complex would offer.
“I think (the Pavilion) has a nice
Final Four
The ACC s nine schools have four black head coaches. The numbers for the conference reflect a wide disparity of blacks in head coaching
positions throughout the country.
-
Bob Goodman
Track & Field
Maryland
Years at School: 10
Coaches both Men's and
Women's Track and Field
Steve Robinson
Men’s Basketball
Florida State
Years at school: 2
FSU Record: 31-31
Career Record*: 76-48
'includes seasons spent at
Tulsa University
SOURCE. 1998 NCM MINORITY OPPORTUNITIES AND INTEREST COMMITTEE'S STUDY ON RACE DEMOGRAPHICS Of NCAA MEMBERS INSITUTIOS 1 ATHLETICS PERSONNEL
African-Americans according to 1997
census information. Also, excluding
historically black institutions, 20.7 per
cent of student-athletes are black.
“It’s a concern,” said Goodman,
who is in his 11th year guiding the
Maryland track and field teams. “You
broad offering for folks,” he said.
Jordan’s restaurant will lure people
further down Franklin Street to the
Pavilion, which is about two blocks from
the center of downtown, Knoll said.
“I think the Jordan restaurant will
draw people away from the main comer
and down near us,” he said.
Eric Hoffman, operations manager
for Crazy Juice Company, said the
Jordan restaurant would have a positive
influence on his shop’s business.
“The traffic from the Jordan restau
rant will be more business for us than if
it was not there,” he said.
Zero’s franchises, which offer salads,
pizzas and 20 different oven-baked subs,
Jim Caldwell
Football
Wake Forest
Years at school: 6
WFU Record: 14-49
Career Record: 14-49
Charlene Curtis
Women's Basketball
Wake Forest
Years at school: 1
WFU Record: 8-20
Career Record*: 162-150
•includes seasons spent at
Radford and Temple
University
look at the numbers of the athletes and
the numbers of the coaches, and you
can’t figure out what’s going on.”
Goodman points to the poor racial
ratio of coaches to athletes, especially
considering that many coaches are for
mer athletes themselves. These young
are currently located in Cary and in the
Chatham Crossing Shopping Center in
Chapel Hill, Knoll said, adding that his
main focus now was the Triangle.
Hoffman said investors and founders
of the California-based smoothie shop
wanted to bring the popular smoothie
trend to Chapel Hill.
North Gate Mall has been home to a
Crazy Juice and its 21 flavors of smooth
ie drinks since November.
“Our business is good,” he said. “We
are very proud of our West Coast fruit
and our Midwest juices.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
All Sports*
Total Student-Athletes 61,652
Black Student-Athletes 12,754
Percentage Black 20.7
Revenue Sports**
Total Student-Athletes 20,476
Black Student-Athletes 9,508
Percentage Black 46.5
Total Head Coaches 13,774
Black Head Coaches 567
Percentage Black 4.1
•statistics taken from NCAA Divisions LII and HI
"footbaH men's and women's basketball
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JONATHAN BRODHAG
AND MEGAN SHARKEY
coaches face the difficult task of mak
ing the transition from field to field
general. First they have to get their foot
in the door and that can be the most
difficult task to overcome, Blake said.
See COACHES, Page 10
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NATO, U.S.
To Ignore
Cease Fire
NATO officials say the truce
by the Yugoslav president is
not nearly enough to stop
the allied campaign abroad.
Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
declared a unilateral cease-fire Tuesday
in his campaign to crush rebels in
Kosovo, saying he wanted to honor the
Orthodox Easter holiday this weekend.
Western leaders called the move a sham
and pledged to press ahead with
airstrikes.
Moments after the cease-fire took
effect at 8 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT), air-raid
sirens wailed in Belgrade, heralding
new NATO attacks.
At least six explosions could be
heard late Tuesday in the direction of
the Batajnica military airport just north
of Belgrade, and tracer rounds from
anti-aircraft were seen in the night sky.
Yugoslav television stations reported
further attacks Tuesday night at Uzice,
75 miles southwest of Belgrade and in
Cacak, an industrial town 55 miles to
the south, where U.S. officials said a
munitions plant was located.
The Yugoslav cease-fire declaration
was clearly aimed at staving off further
NATO attacks and at presenting
Milosevic’s government as a champion
of peace.
President Clinton and NATO insist
ed that half-measures would not end the
NATO air campaign that began March
24, and British Prime Minister Tony
Blair’s office said Milosevic’s
announced truce “doesn’t go nearly far
enough.”
A rebel spokesman also rejected the
cease-fire, which was announced on
Belgrade television stations, and said
the only way the group would agree to
a truce would be if NATO troops
enforced it.
Russia alone welcomed the cease
fire. “Any peace initiative must be use
ful,” spokesman Dmitry Yakushkin
quoted President Boris Yeltsin as saying.
In its statement, the Yugoslav lead
ership said the cessation of hostilities
against the ethnic Albanian Kosovo
See KOSOVO, Page 10
INSIDE
Artistic License
While
many
UNC
students
are
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planning on having more ‘traditional’
careers, some have made the decision
to follow less certain paths and
pursue careers in the arts. For these
students, the benefits of chasing after
their dreams far outweigh any of the
risks. See Page S.
Promoting Tolerance
President Clinton announced Tuesday a
proposal to include offenses based on
an individual’s gender, disability and
sexual orientation in the federal hate
crimes statute. He said the crisis in
Kosovo showed the evils of hate and
discrimination. See Page 2.
Back in the Groove
On another record-setting day for
senior centerfielder Jarrett Shearin,
North Carolina’s baseball team ended
its two-game slide by thumping Virginia
Commonwealth. Shearin set a career
high with four stolen bases and scored
his 200th career run. See Page 13.
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