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1 st Round: Birmingham, Ala.
UNC 84, Missouri 70
Pressure Ignites Improbable Run
By Evan Markfield
Senior Writer
Pinpointing when the North Carolina
men's basketball team began its turn
around is a rel
atively easy
task.
It happened
at tournament
Florida's Miller
Cleared to Play
Against Tar Heels
See Page 10
time, when
each game could be the last. It hap
pened right about when everyone had
finally counted the Tar Heels out alter
an 18-12 regular season finish and a first
round exit from the ACC Tournament
at the hands of Wake Forest.
But pinpointing why the metamor
phosis took place is a little harder for the
players to do. They are quick to spew
A COURSE ON THE CORPS
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Col. Greenwood shares war experiences with junior Aaron Jabbour.
Greenwood, senior aide to the commandant of the Marine Corps, spoke
Thursday at the curriculum of Peace, War and Defense luncheon.
Committee Promises to Address Reported Labor Violations
By Elizabeth Breyek
Staff Writer
~~A labor committee made plans
Thursday to draft a letter to a UNC
licensee, asking the factory to address
violations alleged in a student complaint.
-In response to reports made by junior
Todd Pugatch about worker code viola
tions, the Labor Licensing Code
Advisory Committee met to plan how it
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forth such diched phrases as “second
season" and “do or die.”
Those trite, albeit valid, explanations
are only a pari of the reason the Tar
Heels are one of the four basketball
teams in the country left standing after
the other 60 in the NCAA Tournament
were swept away in the wave that is
March Madness.
“At the beginning of the season, that’s
definitely where I thought we were
headed," center Brendan Haywood said
of his UNC team that was ranked No. 2
in the nation in November. “But in the
middle of the season, there was a little
bit of doubt. We weren’t playing our
best basketball, we lost four straight, and
that’s just part of being human."
A few weeks before that January los
ing streak, the Tar Heels attempted to
would handle the situation.
Students for Economic Justice also
discussed the complaint in a meeting
with interim Chancellor Bill McCoy.
Pugatch, a member of both SEJ and
the advisory committee, sent a report to
McCoy on Wednesday claiming that
Bryan Industries, a Mexican subcon
tractor facility of Logo Athletic Cos., a
UNC licensee, had problems with child
labor and other unfair labor practices
2nd Round: Birmingham, Ala.
UNC 60, Stanford 53
right the ship with a team meeting fol
lowing a 97-80 loss against Louisville.
UNC was 8 1, had dropped to 13th in
the The Associated Press putt and was
not getting the type of offensive < ousts
tency it wanted.
“Our offensive execution was just
bad,” Haywood said. “We were winning
games with our offensive play, but out
execution w'as horrible.”
The meeting didn’t fix the glitches in
the offense. Those maladies would con
tinue to haunt the Tar Heels right up
through the ACC Tournament loss, in
which they set season lows in points (52)
and field-goal percentage (37.5).
More importantly, the meeting did
n’t even address the one thing that
would eventually be the Tar Heels’ sal
vation - defense.
Schools Slip in Yearly Ranking
The School of Education
has climbed from 22 to 17
in U.S. News & World
Reports' graduate rankings.
By Jennifer Hagin
Staff Writer
Forty two University graduate pro
grams are among the nation’s top 25,
according to U.S. News & World
Report’s annual rankings released to the
press Thursday -but several programs
slipped from last year.
Richard Folkers, spokesman for U.S.
News, said the magazine ranked gradu
ate programs in business, nursing, edu
cation, law and medicine, along with u
yearly rotation of other programs.
UNC degree programs in the five
when he interviewed workers in July.
“In the long term, we want to have an
arrangement for independent, effective
monitoring,” said LLCAC Cos
Chairman Pete Andrews.
“But since we don’t have that rela
tionship in place yet, we need to help
the chancellor decide how to handle this
complaint.”
The committee said it wanted to look
into whether the facility was a UNC
Friday, March 31, 2000
Volume 108, Issue 23
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Tough defense was an off-and-on
occurrence throughout UNC’s regular
season. One afternoon the team was let
ting Honda State bomb away, going 10-
01-18 on 3 pointers to down UNC 71571,
and a week later it was holding Georgia
Tech to a season-low 27.4-percent shoot
ing performance in a 70-53 Tar Heel win.
So after North Carolina’s loss to the
Demon Deacons in the ACCs, UNC’s
usually mild-mannered, laid-back coach,
Bill Guthridge, was ready to put his
team to work. The dav after the defeat,
when many thought the Far Heels w'ere
on the verge of being left out of the
NCAA’s field of 64 for the first time
since the tournament began in 1975, the
coach took his team to Queens College
See MEN'S BASKETBALL, Page 8
main categories all placed in the top 25.
Other UNC graduate programs
among the top finishers were political
science at lOlh, chemistry at 15th, fine
arts at llith and computer science at 21st.
Graduate rankings arc partly based
on statistical surveys that evaluate how
well schools prepare students for the job
market. “We feel it’s a very important
tool people could use,” Folkers said.
The ranking of the School of
Education had the most drastic jump,
from 22nd to 17th. “T his is a dynamic
time for the school, and it’s wonderful to
get the recognition,” said Education
School Dean Madeleine Grumet.
Grumet said the school had been
working on new programs, including a
masters program in secondary school
education and plans for anew degree
for experienced leat hers.
T he School of Nursing climbed from a
licensee al the time Pugatch learned of
the potential violations and whether
such violations were still occurring.
A unanimous decision was ultimately
reached to draft a letter to Logo Athletic,
informing them of the complaint and
urging them lo confirm or deny allega
tions within 30 days.
“This step puts (the licensee) on
record and subjects them to possible
future sanctions if individual monitoring
Sweet 16: Austin, Texas
UNC 74, Tennessee 69
Town Preps for Round 3
Of Franklin Street Frenzy
| Bv Amy Dobson
1 Stall Writer __
Fr local stores and watering holes,
Final Four game days in Chapel Hill
seem like deja vu.
As excitement
mounts for
Saturday’s game,
hot spots down
town are bracing
for the latest
round of basket
ball fever.
“Chapel Ffill is no stranger to Final
Fours,” said Chris Rice, owner of the
Carolina Brewery, located at 460 W.
Franklin St. “We’ll be operating at full
ranking of sixth to fifth. Diane Holditch-
Davis, children’s health department
chairwoman, attributed the success to
quality students and faculty.
She said the school also had recently
received funding from the National
Institutes of Health, strengthening all
areas of the school.
U.S. News’ undergraduate college
rankings, released in August, rated
UNC fifth in public universities nation
wide, compared to third last year. This
slip prompted administrators to propose
a tuition increase to boost faculty
salaries, an area where UNC tradition
ally ranks low.
The plan, calling for a S6OO increase
over two years, awaits approval from the
state.
Not all graduate programs climbed in
See RANKINGS, Page 8
would find false representation in what
they tell us,” said committee member
Shirley Ort.
The complaint also sparked action
from SF.J, which said it was more evi
dent that UNC was associated with the
wrong labor monitoring group.
SEJ members (old McCoy the com
plaint indicated faulty monitoring by the
See COMPLAINT, Page 8
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Elite Eight: Austin, Texas
UNC 59, Tuisa 55
capacity, and we're ready to get every
one pumped up.“
Local stores have been flooded with
fans buying Final Four T-shirts. The line
at The Shrunken Head, located at 155 E.
Franklin St., wrapped around the aisles
to the back of the store Wednesday.
“We have sold lots and lots of Final
Four T-shirts so far,” said Shelton
Henderson, manager of The Shrunken
Head. “We will be ready to sell NCAA
Championship T-shirts the second the
buzzer sounds when we win.”
Restaurants and bars are bracing
themselves for the influx of patrons by
stocking up on everything from food
See PREPARATIONS, Page 8
Smith Center Info
■ 4:30 p.m. student
admission with
UNC ONE Cards
■ 5 p m. for public
■ Game tip-off
at approx. 8:12 p.m.
Friday
Quick and the Dead
Alabama officials recently proposed a
plan to expedite the appeals process
for death row inmates. The plan met
mixed reaction from pro- and anti
death penalty activists. See Page 2.
Tar Heel Throwdown
own ways of reveling - students with
plenty of beer and the town with
much precaution. See Pages 5 and 6.
The Hit Man
Freshman
center fielder
Adam
Greenberg
has brought
intensity and
a hot bat to the North Carolina lineup
this season. See Page 13.
Today’s Weather
Mostly sunny;
Mid 60s.
Saturday: Sunny;
Low 70s.
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As the Tar
Heels wind
their way
toward the
Final Four
semifinals,
students and
Chapel Hill
officials are
planning their