VOLUME 111, ISSUE 29
Bohl out;
Williams’
future
unknown
BY AARON Fin
SPORTS EDITOR
Adding fuel to speculation that
Kansas men’s basketball coach
Roy Williams is strongly consider
ing bolting for North Carolina,
Kansas Chancellor Robert
Hemenway fired Athletics
Director A1 Bohl on Wednesday in
what appears to be a last-ditch
effort to appease and retain
Williams.
Bohl’s relationship with
Williams has been rocky, particu
larly since Bohl fired KU football
coach Terry Allen with two games
left in the 2001
season. Allen
was a close
friend of
Williams.
Bohl said
Wednesday that
Williams got
him fired.
“I believe the
Kansas basket
ball coach had
the power to
hold his athlet
ics director in
Kansas coach
Roy Williams
should make a
decision in the
next few days.
his hand like a dove. He had the
choice to either crush me with his
power of influence or to let me fly
with my visions for a better total
program," Bohl said in a written
statement. “He chose to crash me."
Hemenway denied that
Williams played a part in Bohl's
firing.
“Roy Williams has never once
said to me, A1 Bohl should be
fired,’” Hemenway said at a
Wednesday press conference. “He’s
never once said to me, ‘lf Al Bohl
doesn’t go, I will go.’
“This decision is not a Roy-ver
sus-Al decision.”
In a statement released by
Kansas, Williams expressed sad
ness at Bohl’s departure but
acknowledged the friction
between them.
“We had difficulties, and we
were not as cohesive as the athlet
ic department needs to be,”
Williams stated. “This made the
atmosphere somewhat difficult.”
Bohl was less gracious.
“A source close to the Athletic
Department believes that I am one
of the misfortunate people in
America who personally (has)
endured the results of Roy
Williams’ hatred and vindictive
ness,” Bohl stated.
North Carolina apparently dis
agrees with Bohl’s assessment of
Williams’ character. Hemenway
confirmed that UNC Director of
Athletics Dick Baddour called him
Wednesday morning to begin his
official pursuit of Williams.
“It’s a little hard to say if it was
asking permission or if it was noti
fication, but they said that they
wanted to talk to Roy, and I was
not surprised that they called,”
Hemenway said.
Williams, who said Tuesday he
had a conversation with former
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COURTESY OF THE KANSAN/BRANDON BAKER
Chancellor Robert Hemenway
(right) on Wednesday introduces
A. Drue Jennings as interim
athletics director, replacing Al Bohl.
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Cpl. Edward Chin of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, places a U.S. flag on the face of a Saddam Hussein statue in
downtown Baghdad on Wednesday. U.S. troops later pulled down the statue, and Iraqi citizens hit it with shoes to show disrespect.
HUSSEIN HAS LOST ALL CONTROL OF IRAQ
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heir hour of freedom at hand, jubilant
Iraqis celebrated the collapse of Saddam
Hussein’s murderous regime Wednesday,
beheading a toppled statue of their long
time ruler in downtown Baghdad and embracing U.S.
troops as liberators.
“I’m 49, but I never lived a single day. Only now will I
start living,” said Yussuf Abed Kazim, a mosque preach
er. A young Iraqi spat on a portrait of Hussein. Men
hugged Americans in full combat gear, and women held
up babies so soldiers riding on tanks could kiss them.
Iraqis released decades of pent-up fury as U.S. forces
solidified their grip on the capital. Marine tanks rolled
to the eastern bank of the Tigris River; the Army was
on the western side of the waterway that curls through
the ancient city. Looting broke out in the capital as
Iraqis, shedding their fear of the regime, entered gov
ernment facilities and made off with furniture, com
puters, air conditioners and even military jeeps.
“We are not seeing any organized resistance,” said
Navy Capt. Frank Thorp at the U.S. Central
Command. “The Iraqi military' is unable to fight as an
organized fighting force.”
There was continued combat in cities to the north,
though, where Iraqi troops were under attack from
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U.S. Army Spc. John Dresel of the A Company 3rd Battalion, 7th
Infantry Regiment receives a kiss from an Iraqi child in Baghdad.
U.S. and British warplanes.
The scenes of liberation in Baghdad and celebra
tions in scattered other cities unfolded as the Pentagon
announced that 101 U.S. troops had died in the first
three weeks of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Eleven oth
ers are missing, and seven are listed as captured. The
British said 30 of their troops are dead. There are no
reliable estimates for Iraqi casualties, although an
Army spokesman said 7,300 prisoners had been taken.
Iraq’s U.N. ambassador told reporters, “The game is
over, and I hope peace will prevail.”
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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2003
State
might
raise
tuition
House considers
5 percent increase
BY JOE RAUCH
STAFF WRITER
N.C. House subcommittees are
crafting a budget for the coming
year that could include both cuts
in UNC-system general funds and
another tuition increase.
One such early plan includes
S2B million in tuition increases
about 5 percent systemwide.
This plan would ignore a mora
torium on tuition increases passed
recently by the UNC-system Board
of Governors.
BOG Chairman Brad Wilson
said he is not surprised that the
budget might include a tuition
hike. “But the BOG still believes
our approach is the best for the
(UNC system),” he added.
In these early stages of the
budgetary process, divisions
appear to exist about the effect and
extent of possible cuts to higher
education funding.
House members are consider
ing several million dollars in cuts
in addition to the SB2 million cut
to the UNC system already pro
posed by Gov. Mike Easley.
“These are drastic cuts that will
hurt across the board,” said Rep.
Marian McLawhom, D-Pitt, a sub
committee vice chairwoman. “We
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ANALYSIS
Iraq war
not over,
experts say
BY CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR.
SENIOR WRITER
Iraqi citizens and a U.S. tank
toppled a 40-foot-tall metallic
statue of apparently deposed dic
tator Saddam Hussein, and chil
dren rode on the statues head as it
was pulled through the streets of
Baghdad.
Looters sw'armed the streets of
Iraq’s capital city as U.S. soldiers
gallivanted, unchecked, in palaces
where Hussein slept just weeks ago.
The end, it would seem, has
come.
But pundits say the U.S. war in
Iraq has a long way to go.
“Going into the middle of
Baghdad and toppling a statue
doesn’t constitute the end of the
war,” said Rodger Payne, an expert
on international relations and pro
fessor of political science at the
University of Louisville.
And although U.S. soldiers bar
reled their way to, and through,
Baghdad, pockets of resistance still
exist, said Louis Cantori, professor
of political science at the
University of Marvland-Baltimore.
This resistance cancels out the
images of cheering, liberated
Iraqis on news across the globe, he
said. “I suppose (the end) will be
when the city of Baghdad is total
ly secure when there is no more
resistance.
“But that’s hard to say because
there still is resistance in (other
Iraqi cities occupied by U.S. forces).
There are 10 cities, and only two or
three appear to be secure.”
But Cantori said the end is near,
namely because the centralized
government of Iraq has, for the
most part, ceased to exist.
“Probably the common-sense
thing is you have victory wfien you
have destroyed the authority of the
central government,” he said. “And
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