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Foul Trouble, Poor Offense Derail UNC
By Kelly Lusk
Senior Writer
WINSTON-SALEM - Rashad
McCants stood on the sideline, wringing
a towel in his hands. He rolled his eyes,
raised his arms in a questioning manner
and clapped his hands in frustration.
There was 1:22 left on the clock at
Lawrence
Joel Veterans
Memorial
Coliseum on
Wednesday
Men’s
Basketball
UNC 60
Wake Forest . .75
night, and North Carolina was down
72-56 to No. 9 Wake Forest. McCants
had fouled out with more than five
minutes left in the game, and the
Demon Deacons had successfully put
the game out of reach.
Wake Forest secured at least a share
of the regular season ACC tide with its
75-60 victory against UNC, while the
Tar Heels will have to continue to fight
to make sure they end their season at or
above .500 to ensure a postseason bid.
“It’s frustrating to give such a great
effort and come up short,” said UNC
coach Matt Doherty.
The Tar Heels’ steady defense kept the
game tight until Wake’s star senior Josh
Howard came alive in the second half. A
Howard 3-pointer with 8:55 left in the
game sparked the Deacs on a 17-4 run.
That, combined with UNC having four
of its five starters in serious foul trouble,
doused any Tar Heel hopes of an upset.
“When Wake Forest shoots three
times as many foul shots, and we have
our best players on the bench, yeah,
that causes problems,” Doherty said.
To make things worse, center Byron
Sanders fell to the floor with just less
than eight minutes left on the clock. He
UNC Honors
Maintenance
Employee
Hubbard has been
at UNC for 50 years
By Brian Hudson
Staff Writer
The beauty of UNC is one of its
greatest bragging rights, but many stu
dents don’t realize the countless hours
of labor grounds employees spend
keeping the campus maintained.
On Wednesday, UNC officials hon
ored William “Bus” Hubbard, who has
spent the past 50 years as a grounds
worker - the longest any UNC employ
ee has worked in University history.
More than 100 people attended the
ceremony Wednesday to honor
Hubbard at the Employee Forum meet
ing in the Assembly Room of Wilson
Library. Most people in attendance
were Hubbard’s fellow employees, each
clad in their denim work uniforms.
“He’s a hard worker. Everyone on
campus knows who he is,” said Tommy
Griffin, Employee Forum chairman.
“He set a standard for all of us.”
Hubbard, now 66 years old, started
working at UNC injanuary of 1953.
“He’s been here one-fourth of the
history of the University,” Griffin said.
The average tenure of a grounds
employee is five years, he said.
During the meeting, Griffin joked
about the young age at which Hubbard
began working. “I won’t tell you how
old he was because it is against labor
laws,” he said.
During the ceremony, members of
the Employee Forum passed a resolution
honoring Hubbard and his colleagues.
The resolution honored them for
having “braved frigid and dangerous
conditions to carry on around-the-clock,
exhausting work” and bringing “wide
spread acclaim to the campus through
painstaking maintenance.”
The resolution also proposed to name
the new Grounds Department facility the
William J. Hubbard Grounds Facility.
Although the building has been designed,
a location has not yet been confirmed.
Grounds Director Kirk Pellandl) said that
once a site is chosen, construction should
take 12 to 14 months.
Hubbard was presented with a
framed picture of the resolution honor
ing him and a framed picture of an
artist’s rendering of the facility.
Griffin made clear that the award
was for Hubbard’s integrity and charac
ter as much as his endurance and dili
gence. “Anyone that knows Bus knows
he’s a great a person.”
Chancellor James Moeser also was in
attendance. “It is a tremendous honor to
recognize Bus Hubbard,” he said as
Hubbard stood next to him, beaming
from ear to ear. “He’s an example to
everyone.”
Throughout the ordeal, Hubbard
remained grateful yet reserved.
“I feel alright,” he said. “I just enjoy
my job. That’s why I stay here.”
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hopped off the court and did not
return. Doherty said after the game that
Sanders suffered a “bad sprain” in his
right ankle.
UNC (15-14, 5-10 in the ACC) only
scored two points in the next two min
utes before McCants committed his
fifth foul. Wake (22-4, 12-3) scored
seven points during that time.
“Foul trouble gets a player out of
sync,” McCants said. “You can’t do
anything right; you can’t play defense
how you want to."
But defense wasn’t North Carolina’s
biggest problem. Lack of offensive pro
duction crippled UNC down the
stretch.
Tar Heel point guard Raymond
Felton said he knew he was having a bad
game when he botched a layup attempt
with 7:30 left in the first half. He shot 2
of 14 from the floor (14 percent), includ
ing 1 of 8 from behind die arc.
“Our offense wasn’t clicking
tonight,” said Felton, who finished with
five points. “The defense was there. But
the offense just wasn’t.”
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Wake Forest 75, UNC 60
UNC 33 27 60
Waka Forest 37 3 8 76
UNC: Williams 6-13 1-2 17. McCants 3-6 3-3 10. Noel 4-2 00 9
Felton 2-M OO 6, Manuel 6-9 OO 12. Scott 2-6 1-2 7. Samlets
00 02 0. Johnson 00 00 0 Tottli: 22-65 5-9 60
Wake Ftweaf. Hotuad 1021 00 24. Levy 4-7 4-10 13. DantHws
3-6 2-3 8, Williatns 3-4 00 6. Downey 2-6 1-2 6. Efts 00 00
0 Gtay 60 5-7 W. Joyce 00 OO 0. lepote 00 00 0,
Stnckland 03 2-2 2. Schoeß OO 00 0 Totela: 27-66 14-24 76
3-point goals UNC 11-29 (Williams 4-8. Scott 2-4 Manuel 2-
5. McCants 1-2. Noel 1-2. Felton 1-8). Wake 7-14 (Howard 4-9.
Levy M. Gray 1-1, Downey 1-3}. Rebounds - UNC 28 (Manuel
6. Williams 6). Wake 40 (Howard 9) Assists - UNC 12 (Felton
4} Wake 15 (Levy 4, Downey 4} Steals - UNC 8 (Noel 3}
Wake 8 (levy 5) Total fouls - UNC 23. Wake 12.
Attendance - 14.656
Donohue Qualifies for Tournament
By Brandon Parker
Staff Writer
Emotions ran high inside Eddie
Smith Field House at the UNC Indoor
Madness Meet on Wednesday.
As the hopeful track and field athletes
began to step up into their blocks and
prepare for the start of their events, they
knew what was at stake. Either gain their
respective qualifying marks or waste a
chance to receive an invitation to the
NCAA Indoor Track and Field National
Championships.
In the end, sophomore Erin Donohue
automatically qualified for the tournament
while senior Blair Woodward posted pro
visionally qualifying marks. Senior Adam
Shunk and sophomore Laura Gerraughty,
having earned berths earlier in the season,
posted NCAA qualifying marks.
Before the events began, UNC coach
Dennis Craddock noted that there were
“five or six people that are a couple sec
onds or a couple inches from nationals.”
Donohue needed a time of 4 minutes,
Applications for Town Manager Roll In
By Kathryn Grim
Staff Writer
More than 60 applicants already have
responded to Carrboro’s national
recruitment efforts for anew town man
ager, according to a progress report pre
sented to the Board of Aldermen on
Tuesday.
The cutoff date for submission is
March 17.
The town’s search firm, The Mercer
Group Inc., said in January that it
expects to receive 100 to 120 applica
tions by the deadline.
The firm will narrow the fist of appli
cants this month to a group of 12 to 15
for review by the mayor and the board
during a closed session scheduled for
April 1.
Board members will receive a com
plete list of all applicants at that time and
will later be given access to other appli
cations if they are not satisfied with the
first narrowed pool of candidates.
The board chose to use a search firm
in December after former Town
Manager Robert Morgan left the post to
Commissioners to Study School Merger, Not Referendum
By Jessa Giroux
Staff Writer
In a cautious debate over the potential
merging of Orange County Schools and
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, the
county’s Board of Commissioners voted
Wednesday to proceed with only an
investigation of the merger’s implications.
But, Commissioner Barryjacobs said,
“This is only the beginning of the
process."
At the meeting, the commissioners
agreed to conduct an investigation that
only would answer questions about a
merger’s effects on the county, leaving
out language for a referendum that
would give Orange County residents the
final say.
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Wake's Josh Howard (5) goes up for a reverse layup as UNC's Byron
Sanders (41) contests in the Deacon's 75-60 win on Wednesday.
43.2 seconds in the 1,600 meters. With
her friend and teammate Shalane
Flanagan - who already had qualified for
nationals with her regular-season marks
pacing her, Donohue began her ascent
to the front of the pack. Flanagan ran
with her teammate for 1,200 of the 1,600
meters, and Donohue took it from there.
“(Flanagan)’s an awesome runner and
I knew she would bring me through, so
1 just followed her for the first 1,200
meters," Donohue said. “Then for the
last 400 meters, I just went all out
because I knew I had to get that time.”
Donohue’s valiant effort on the last
lap proved to be the difference, as she
posted a time of 4:42.99 and earned an
automatic trip to nationals.
However, not all of the athletes on the
brink were as fortunate as Donohue.
Woodward, a long jumper, needed 4
more inches to reach the automatic qual
ifying distance of 25 feet, 2 inches. He
achieved this goal on his final jump, but
a fault erased the mark -and his chances.
“Four inches is really a little amount
become Greensboro’s assistant town
manager.
It chose the Mercer Group based on
its previous experience with University
towns.
In the past two months, Attorney
Mike Brough has served a double role,
working also as interim town manager
and often “switching hats” during board
meetings to speak from each position.
He will fill both posts until a candi
date is selected by the board and will
lead the aldermen through this year’s
budgeting process.
The Mercer Group made two visits to
Carrboro in January to collect data
about the town and interview depart
ment heads. It also conducted focus
groups with community leaders, mem
bers of the town staff and the board and
commission chairmen.
The firm then drafted a recruitment
brochure, which the board approved
Feb. 5.
According to the report, the search
firm placed advertisements in profes
sional journals and related publications,
including minority and women’s publi
Jacobs raised the issue of public opin
ion in the decision-making process.
All commissioners except Alice
Gordon agreed to move on with the
study without the inclusion of a promise
for a referendum if the merger is even
tually improved.
“(It is) a little premature to jump to a
decision on a referendum,"Jacobs said.
Commissioner Stephen Halkiotis
agreed, saying he supports the study to
simply gather data but not to escalate
the issue.
Halkiotis said that if the referendum
issue is raised at the present moment,
“Irrational behavior and comments will
escalate even further.”
Commissioner and Chairwoman
Margaret Brown said that she is still not
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if you think about it,” Woodward said.
“But I’m pretty sure I can get it at lowa
State this weekend.”
This optimistic attitude will accom
pany Woodward to the lowa State Last
Chance meet on Saturday, along with
Bobbi Jo Munson in the 800, the
women’s 1,600 relay team and others as
they get one last shot at nationals.
Craddock said he’s hopeful for all the
national qualifications the Tar Heels can
get, especially on the women’s side,
because he thinks that they have a shot
at placing in the top five at the NCAAs.
Nevertheless, he said he was pleased
with their efforts on Wednesday.
“Track and field is a matter of tenths
and hundredths of a second and inches
and other things, and that’s just the
name of the game, but they all have had
good efforts,” Craddock said. “In a meet
like this, you just hope everybody is
going to do it and make nationals.”
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cations.
The firm also posted on Carrboro’s
Web site and other related local govern
ment Web sites, in addition to sending
out personalized invitations to a target
ed fist of potential applicants.
The firm has kept in contact with
applicants it considers especially com
patible with the criteria compiled during
the two Carrboro visits. Officials
declined to release any information
about the courted applicants.
The mayor, the board and the firm
plan to discuss the narrowed list of
applicants and reconfirm interview
dates for finalists, all of which injanuary
were scheduled to be conducted about
April 5.
The board has decided to keep confi
dential the list of applicants until it has
narrowed it to the final group.
This is to attract more qualified can
didates who might consider leaving then
places of employment to work for
Carrboro.
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at citydesk@unc.edu.
sure about what the merger would do
and that she wants to find out.
“Just information - that’s what I want
from (the study)” Brown said.
Personally, Jacobs views merging as
bringing both benefits and problems.
“(Merging is) a way to unify the coun
ty in a manner that it’s not currendy uni
fied,” Jacobs said in an interview before
the meeting.
The main advantage to merging
would be giving every student the equal
opportunity for an equal education, he
said.
Delores Simpson, Orange County
school board member, said that if a
merger were to eventually occur, it
should benefit the students and be cost
effective.
Howard Dominates on
Senior Night for Wake
By lan Gordon
Senior Writer
WINSTON-SALEM - For a while
Wednesday night, it all came slow for
Josh Howard.
Forget the rousing Senior Night send
off, which included an adoring 14,656 at
Joel Coliseum, many of them waving plac
ards that said “J-Ho! Player of the Year.”
In the first half of Wake Forest’s game
against North Carolina, Howard could
barely keep his composure.
Not only did he struggle offensively,
shooting 3of 11 for seven points, but the
man guarding him, UNC’s Jackie
Manuel went off on the other end, scor
ing nine first-half points.
So at halftime, Howard turned away
from the adulation and took a little time
for himself.
“I came into the locker room at half
and realized that the Senior Day stuff
was over,” he said. “I was ready to go
and play.”
Was he ever. And in the second half,
the 6-foot-6, 203-pound senior forward
from Winston-Salem showed why he is
the odds-on favorite to win the ACC
Player of the Year award.
Howard broke free in the second half
for 17 points on scorching 7-of-10 shooting
en route to leading the Demon Deacons
to a 75-60 win against the Tar Heels.
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North Carolina starting pitcher Adam Kalkhof held Davidson to just one
run on two hits in five innings of work in UNC's 13-1 win Wednesday.
Hewitt Hits 2 Home Runs
As UNC Wallops Davidson
By Kellie Dixon
Assistant Sports Editor
Keep it solid.
That’s what North Carolina baseball
coach Mike Fox asks of his team - solid
pitching, solid defense and solid hitting.
And while the latter came a little later
than Fox
would have
liked, it didn’t
cost the Tar
Heels as they
cruised to a
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13-1 victory against Davidson at
Boshamer Stadium on Wednesday.
It started with freshman Adam
Kalkhof, who in just his second start of the
season pitched five innings, allowed two
hits and struck out five batters.
“He wasn’t really sharp to start the
game, but he settled down and made
some pitches when he needed to,” Fox
said.
KalkhoPs pitches, which included a
pair of called strikeouts in the second
inning, served to buffer UNC’s offensive
presence, which at first struggled a bit
That is, until Sammy Hewitt led off the
bottom of the second. With a 2-1 count
the junior drilled the ball over the left-field
fence to give UNC (7-2) a lead it would
not relinquish.
Hewitt had started something. Two
batters later, Ryan Blake singled to right
field, bringing home designated hitter
Chris lannetta.
“When one person on the team gets
going and the hits start stringing along,
it kind of gets everybody going,” Hewitt
“If it will serve the students in both
southern and northern Orange County
more effectively, I would be in favor of
it,” Simpson said. “However, I haven’t
seen evidence of it at the present time.”
Simpson said that Orange County
and the CHCCS school districts have
yet to analyze the problems and benefits
of merging. “I don’t think the two
groups have ironed out the pros and
cons," Simpson said. “We have to see
what the best step is for our children.”
The consolidation of county school
districts has been a nationwide trend for
a while now.
North Carolina has experienced a
decrease from 170 school districts in
1933 to only 117 districts now.
One of Simpson’s other concerns
Thursday, March 6, 2003
“He was struggling in the first half,
but he was still playing hard and scrap
ping on the offensive boards,” said
Wake coach Skip Prosser. “I’ve been
around a whole bunch of Senior Nights,
and it’s not unusual for that to happen."
At the start of the second half, the
missed putbacks and errant 3-pointers
were done. Howard drained a left-wing
triple to begin the half, then came back on
the other end to take a charge on Manuel.
“That got him into the flow of the
game and from then on, he kept hitting
big shots, getting easy baskets, dunks
and stuff,” Manuel said.
As the teams battled back and forth,
Howard continued to pour in the points.
In a decisive 20-6 swing toward the
end of the game, Howard scored 12
points including two 3s and three thun
derous dunks to effectively seal the game.
It was enough to get a chant of
“MVP” from the crowd with 3:30 to go.
And it was more than enough for die
hometown kid to get a thank-you stand
ing ovation when he came out of the
game with 59.5 seconds left, his team up
16 and still in first in the ACC.
“He’s been doing it all season, so why
not for his last game?" said Wake’s Taron
Downey. “He went out on a blast.”
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said. “It gets them picked up a little bit.”
In the top of the sixth, Davidson (3-3)
got its first real chance at any sort of
comeback when Wildcat Chris Emond
hit a sacrifice fly to right field, scoring
shortstop D.J. Dailey. With that run,
Davidson trailed 2-1.
The Tar Heels weren’t having it Chad
Prosser knocked in Blake in the bottom
of the sixth to pad UNC’s score by one.
In addition to dealing with strong
pitching that limited them to three hits in
the game, the Wildcats had to face
Hewitt.
Hewitt, who missed last season due to
shoulder surgery, homered again in his
third at-bat,
“(Hewitt’s) got some juice in his bat,”
Fox said. “He stays inside the ball like
he did and at any time the ball can jump
out of the ballpark. We need that.”
And it kept going that way for the Tar
Heels, who racked up six runs in the
bottom of the seventh to seal the win.
Prosser collected three RBI on three
hits after making some minor adjust
ments in his swing. Instead of lunging,
he waited a bit. He prospered.
Wednesday's game gave UNC a
chance to polish its offensive produc
tion, which it will need to complement
its pitching.
“That’s the good thing about pitching
and defense,” Prosser said. “If you’ve
got that then you know you’re going to
have a chance as long as you can string
a few hits together."
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sports@unc.edu.
about the potential merging is the
socioeconomic and population differ
ences between the two districts.
“I think there is a traditional differ
ence between the southern and northern
part of the county,” Simpson said.
If merger occurs, Orange County res
idents would have to match the district
tax that Chapel Hill-Carrboro residents
pay, yet Orange County residents have
about half the average income of
CHCCS citizens.
Simpson added that in a survey given
last summer to both northern and south
ern Orange County residents, both did
not feel a great need for the merger.
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at citydesk@unc.edu.
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