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Lett: Franklin Street businesses show their support of Coach Roy Williams with signs and specials. Right: Coach Williams (left) and Chancellor James
Moeser hand out doughnuts to students at the Old Well on Tuesday morning. Williams ate lunch Tuesday with former UNC assistant coach Phil Ford.
TAR HEEL FANS
WELCOME WILLIAMS
New coach expected to bring class, competitive edge to men’s basketball
BY ROB LEICHNER
STAFF WRITER
Many students expect the credibility,
respectability and winning tradition that long have
been associated with UNC men’s basketball to
return to Chapel Hill with the hiring of head coach
Roy Williams on Monday.
“I’m really glad that he’s come back here to
Chapel Hill,” said freshman Molly Rankin, a self
proclaimed lifelong UNC fan from Charlotte. “I’m
hesitant to make any sort of prediction, but I’m
looking forward to seeing some real Carolina bas
ketball this year.”
Williams, a UNC graduate and former head
coach at the University of Kansas, was named
Monday as the new coach. He replaced Matt
Doherty, who allegedly was forced to resign April 1.
Doherty’s teams compiled a 53-4.3 record in his
three years as coach, but the Tar Heels were not
invited to the NCAA Tournament the past two
years.
Carolina Athletic Association President Sherrell
McMillan said Williams’ hiring is the greatest thing
to happen to the UNC basketball program since the
legendary Dean Smith became coach in 1961.
“I think he will leave a lasting impact on Carolina
Summer reading chosen for content, not to avoid controversy
BY RACHEL HODGES
AND JOE SAUNDERS
STAFF WRITERS
With the announcement of the
selection for this year’s Carolina
Summer Reading Program, the
University likely will avoid much of
the controversy that surrounded last
year’s reading.
But members of the selection com
mittee said the book was chosen based
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ROY’S RETURN
not just in basketball but on how UNC is per
ceived nationally,” McMillan said. “He’ll bring back
that sense of pride, class and integrity that has been
associated with Carolina basketball.”
Williams met with several faculty members,
administrators and student leaders over doughnuts
and coffee Tuesday morning at the Old Well to
reacquaint himself with the University.
Some students said that they still are upset
about how UNC officials treated Doherty but that
they are happy Williams agreed to replace him.
Sophomore Courtney Andrews said she hopes the
University will be more patient with Williams.
“We have no stability, but Roy seems like a real
ly good coach,” Andrews said. “I think they’ll give
him a longer shot than the other guys.”
It probably will take a couple of years for
Williams to restore the Tar Heels to national
prominence, said longtime fan Chi Chi Oriaku, but
it will happen eventually.
“I think we’ll get in the (NCAA) Tournament
next year, but I don’t think we’ll have a champi
onship,” the UNC freshman said. “But give him a
couple years to get good recruiting classes, and the
SEE WILLIAMS, PAGE 6
on its merits and that they were not
avoiding controversial subjects active
ly-
“ Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)
Getting By in America” by Barbara
Ehrenreich focuses on economic and
social class issues, as opposed to last
year’s reading, “Approaching the
Qur’an: The Early Revelations” by
Michael Sells.
Last year’s selection drew national
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attention after a group filed a lawsuit
against the University for violating the
constitutional provision that requires
a separation between church and
state.
Madeleine Grumet, chairwoman of
this year’s book selection committee,
rejected the idea that the University
chose the book because it did not want
to risk attracting such controversial
attention again. “We thought this book
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Ford tapped as
‘bridge’ during
Williams’ move
BY AARON Fin
SPORTS EDITOR
A lot has changed since North
Carolina last filled a men’s basketball
head coaching vacancy three years ago,
but one thing certainly has not.
Phil Ford still wants to coach.
“All I want to do is coach basketball at
North Carolina,” Ford said Tuesday.
But new UNC coach Roy Williams
said at Monday’s press conference that
he plans to bring his staff from Kansas
with him unless one of them leaves for
another opportunity elsewhere. Williams
said he hopes Kansas assistant coach Joe
Holladay is considered to replace him,
SEE FORD, PAGE 6
was on a very relevant issue, and we
thought it was beautifully written,”
Grumet said. “I don’t think the ques
tion of risk is an issue.”
Constance Jones, a senior in the
Kenan-Flagler Business School, was a
member of this year’s selection com
mittee. She said the book was chosen
from about 50 possible books for its
SEE READING, PAGE 6
SPORTS
LATE-GAME HEROICS
Three-run homer in bottom of the ninth
lifts Tar Heels past VCU. PAGE 9
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2003
Tuition hike
included in
House budget
House panel recommends
5 percent tuition increase
BY CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR.
SENIOR WRITER
RALEIGH ln one of the swiftest budget process
es in recent memory, the N.C. House Finance Committee
approved Tuesday a bill that would increase tuition at
UNC-system schools by 5 percent
and slash funding to many state pro
grams.
“This is not a perfect bill, but this
will allow us to move forward,” said
Rep. Eugene McCombs, R-Rowan, a
committee member.
The committee voted to keep in
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place a half-cent sales tax increase that was set to expire
in July.
The additional revenue from the two-year extension
will fill a $384 million hole in the state’s budget.
“I’m pretty confident that the House is going to pass
a budget this week before Easter,” said Rep. Bill
Culpepper, D-Chowan.
In a committee meeting that lasted well past 11 p.m.
Monday, the House Appropriations Committee plowed
through 60 amendments and outlined a spending plan
for the next fiscal year.
On Tuesday, the Finance Committee had to dictate
how to fund the plan, including filling some large holes.
Some of that funding will come from a 5 percent
tuition increase for the UNC system, something pushed
through the Finance Committee with little debate. The
SEE BUDGET, PAGE 6
Iraqi factions
take Ist steps
toward self-rule
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UR, Iraq Under a white-and-gold tent at the bib
lical birthplace of Abraham, the United States assem
bled Iraqi factions Tuesday and told them it has
“absolutely no interest” in ruling Iraq.
Some Muslims boycotted the meeting, and thousands
demonstrated nearby, shouting, “No to America and no
to Saddam!”
The gathering of about 80 people in this ancient city
on the Euphrates River —a first step toward creating a
postwar government ended with an agreement by
show- of hands to meet again in 10 days to discuss form
ing an interim authority.
Participants also agreed to a list of 13 points, begin
ning with the principle that Iraq must be democratic.
The points also call for the dissolution of former Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.
The meeting was dominated by presentations from
dozens of Iraqis, including a cleric from Nasiriyah who
called for a separation between religion and politics and
Iraqi exiles stressing the need for the rule of law.
“One of the bases of democracy is honest differences
SEE IRAQ, PAGE 6
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Cuitarist Matt Mullins performs
original songs with his band, Deeper
Still, on the steps of South Building on
Tuesday night. Deeper Still performed with
two other groups at the Campus Crossroads
outreach concert. Campus Crossroads is a
Christian organization at UNC.
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