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Tar Heels Fall Short in Bid for ACC Title
Bv Bret Strelow
Assistant Sports Editor
GREENSBORO - North Carolina
point guard Nikki Teasley had carried
the Tar Heels on her road-tested legs
throughout Monday’s ACC title game
against Duke.
But at game’s end, her right wrist
couldn’t flick off one last moment of
magic.
Teasley
missed
3-point oppor
tunities with
.51 seconds
Women's
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UNC 76
Duke 79
and 23 seconds left that could have
given UNC a late lead. Instead, Duke
survived and claimed its first ACC
Tournament championship, knocking
off the Tar Heels 79-76 at the
Greensboro Coliseum.
Unexpected Star
Shines for Duke
In ACC Title Win
Bv Will Kimmev
Assistant Sports Editor
GREENSBORO - Few people knew who Missy West was
before the ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament.
Duke’s reserve forward had played less than 13 minutes
per game during the regular season, averaging 6.3 points.
But she has quickly made a name for herself during the last
three days. The senior averaged 14 points per contest in the
Blue Devils’ three-game run to the title and was named to the
all-tournament second team.
“A lot of people, l think, doubted my ability, and that ticks
me off,” she said wearing a grin and an ACC champion
T-shirt after Duke defeated North Carolina 79-76 on Monday.
UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell said she knew that West could
stroke it from the outside, but West made sure that the Tar Heels
would always remember that fact by scoring six of Duke’s final
12 points. She tallied 14 for the game on 3-of-4 3-point shooting.
West drilled a trifecta with 3:58 remaining to end a 7-0
UNC run and push the Blue Devil lead to five at 67-62.
Then West had to prove her mettle from the free throw
line. With UNC ahead by one and 1:38 left in the game, she
missed the front end of a one-and-one.
About a minute later, West stepped back to the line with her
team clinging to a 73-72 lead. She made the first shot, but the
second caromed out. Duke led by two with 39 seconds left.
UNC guard Nikki Teasley missed a 3-pointer, West grabbed
the rebound, and the Tar Heels again sent her to the line. This
time, she knocked down both freebies, giving Duke a 76-72 lead.
“I wanted to make those foul shots,” West said. “Even though
I missed some, I made the last two which counted the most.”
While the pressure of making free throws with the game on
Student Recounts Story
Of Honor Court Battle
By Jason Arthurs
Staff Writer
A UNC junior has spent the last few
months untangling herself from the con
troversy caused by a small impromptu
protest against Kraft Inc.
Last week’s out-of-court compromise
between Chiara D’Amore and
University officials that relieved her of
Honor Court
charges marked
the end of a
lengthy batne that
began more than
four months ago.
D’Amore faced
Honor Court
charges for her
involvement in a
campaign against
Philip Morris,
Kraft’s parent
company, that
placed protesters
face to face with
Kraft recruiters.
She said the
Junior
Chiara D'Amore
said she never
expected a small
protest to develop
into a heated debate.
events leading to the confrontation
between protesters and Kraft recruiters
began Oct. 27 when she received a
phone call from her former coordinator
from Green Corps, an environmental
activist group, whom she worked for in
the fall semester.
The group aimed to shed light on
Teasley, who finished with 31 points
on 12-of-19 shooting, drained a 25-foot
er with 1:51 left to give North Carolina
a 72-71 lead, its first advantage since an
18-16 lead 9:05 into the game.
But after Duke junior Georgia
Schweitzer canned a layup with 1:06
left, Teasley missed a 3-pointer from the
same spot of her last make, and the ball
rolled harmlessly out of bounds.
Blue Devil guard Missy West was
fouled and hit one free throw, but
Teasley’s shot from the opposite wing on
UNC’s next offensive trip also sailed off
the mark.
“I felt pretty good about shooting
anywhere on the floor,” said Teasley,
who scored 15 second-half points and
hit 7-of-11 treys in the game. “They gave
me just a little bit of space, just enough
to shoot, and I was going for the win,
not for the tie.”
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UNC junior forward Jackie Higgins snags one of her
12 rebounds from Duke's Michele Matyasovsky.
the line is tough, it wasn’t West’s most difficult chore of the
evening. She had to guard Teasley, who poured in 31 points.
“I took it as a challenge,” West said. “I wanted to guard her
to prove that I could guard her. I can’t say that I did a really
great job, but I tried my best. She got me a couple of times
one-on-one, but hey, we won.”
West’s biggest problem in keeping up with Teasley was her
lack of quickness, which can be attributed to three knee oper
ations. Despite the injuries, West never stopped trying.
“Missy’s probably one of the toughest players I’ve ever
See WEST, Page 4
Kraft’s affiliation with Philip Morris, a
heavyweight in the tobacco industry.
At the coordinator’s request,
D’Amore said she scheduled an
appointment with the recruiters, not
knowing she needed to register first with
University Career Services.
When the coordinator informed her
that the protest would be moved from
the Pit to her meeting with the recruits,
she said she backed.down.
“I just didn’t think it was a good
idea,” she said. “They were just two
middle-aged women there to recruit.”
D’Amore said she went straight to the
recruiters to cancel her appointment,
but five or six of the protesters followed.
“The recruiters shut the door in their
face,” she said. “I’m surprised it became
such a big issue.”
The events of Oct. 28 really became a
big issue the next week when then
Student Attorney General Drew
Haywood called her and later decided to
prosecute her for three Honor Court vio
lations. The case was thrust into the
national media limelight when The
Associated Press and London-based tele
vision Channel Four picked up the story.
“Phillip Morris has been in the spot
light anyway,” D’Amore said. “It could
have seemed like a money issue.”
She said, however, that concern over
First Amendment rights and the Honor
See D'AMORE, Page 4
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Volume 107, Issue 168
Teasley almost got another offensive
chance for UNC when it appeared she
had stolen Duke senior Lauren Rice’s
inbound pass with 12.6 seconds left. But
Teasley caught the ball and landed on
the end line.
The Blue Devils (26-5) used their sec
ond life to throw a game-clinching
touchdown pass to Schweitzer, who fed
Michele Matyasovsky for a layup.
“I really thought we were going to get
the steal, go for the shot, probably get
fouled and win on the foul line,” UNC
coach Sylvia Hatchell said.
The Tar Heels (18-12) got into a posi
tion for a late run behind the sweet
shooting ofjuana Brown. Brown missed
10 of her first 12 shot attempts but rat
tled off seven consecutive UNC points
in a span of 1:13 to help UNC close to
See WOMEN'S BASKETBALL, Page 4
Civil Suit vs. County Dismissed
By Erica Coleman
Staff Writer
An Orange County judge ruled
Monday that the county was not liable
for a 1998 rape that occurred in a bath
room of the county courthouse.
During the hearing that preceded the
decision, it was argued whether the vic
tim, who was anonymously pursuing the
civil case against the county under the
alias “Jane Doe,” could sue for inade
quate safety procedures she says could
have prevented her assault.
Attorneys representing the two sides
argued for different laws that would
UNC Trauma Center on Probation
Staff and Wire Reports
The state placed UNC Hospitals’
Level I Trauma Center rating on proba
tion Monday, weeks after officials iden
tified problems with documentation and
failure to improve performance.
The probation, which could last up to
a year, comes after a December state
review that turned up a negative recom
mendation of the hospital.
UNC Hospitals spokeswoman Karen
Stinneford said Monday the hospital
had already corrected the problems
cited in the review.
“We look forward to getting our full
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North Carolina point guard Nikki Teasley pulls up for a jump shot over Duke's Missy West in Monday night's
ACC Tournament championship game. Teasley scored a game-high 31 points in the Tar Heels’ 79-76 loss.
apply to the case. These laws would
determine whether the county could be
held liable and therefore whether or not
the case should proceed to trial by jury.
Doe, a former paralegal at the
Orange County Courthouse in
Hillsborough, was attacked and raped at
at around 3 p.m. Sept. 14,1998. She was
raped three times before she was cut
with a kitchen knife across the neck,
Lischer said. The knife was brought into
the courthouse undetected, raising con
cern over the lack of metal detectors, she
said.
No one was able to help the victim,
despite hearing the screams for help,
accreditation back soon,” she said.
Since 1982, UNC Hospitals has held
the Izjvel 1 designation, which placed it
in a category with only four other hos
pitals in the state.
A Level I Trauma Center offers a vari
ety of emergency care such as injury and
rehabilitation services. It also has a trau
ma surgeon on call around the clock.
In early February, the Trauma
Subcommittee of the state Emergency
Medical Services Advisory Council
encouraged a six- to 12-month proba
tion for the Trauma Center.
Subcommittee members were con
cerned because the records tracking the
because the door had been locked from
the inside, she said.
Rodney Jenkins, 23, was arrested and
sentenced to 45 years in prison on rape,
assault and robbery charges in June of
1998.
Tracy lischer, an attorney represent
ing the plaintiff, said the courthouse
needed better safety protection for staff
and visitors.
“We need some kind of presence,
some kind of thing to let criminals know
they will get caught and that they don’t
have a safe place to come in and rape
See VERDICT, Page 4
movement of patients each year through
the center were missing.
The subcommittee made its decision
based on a staff recommendation com
piled by a state site team. The team was
comprised both in state and out-of-state
physicians and nurses recruited by the
N.C. Office of Emergency Medical
Services.
Jim Jones, spokesman for the
Department of Health and Human
Services, told The Daily Tar Heel in
February that when an institution loses its
lievel I status, it does not fall to Level 11.
Rather, it ceases to have any ranking,
he said.
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Tuesday
Yahoo! Serious?
Duke University officials protested
a Yahoo! survey of the nation’s most
wired campuses, saying the research
methods were flawed, causing their
school to rank low. See Page 2.
State of the Union
Students who work at the Union desk
have developed their own subculture
while performing tasks such as setting
up rooms for UNC clubs and
answering questions. See Page 5.
Dance the Night Away
Dance Theater of Harlem will take the
stage at Memorial Hall tonight for a
second performance. A limited number
of tickets remain at the Carolina
Union Box Office. See Page 7.
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