Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / Jan. 13, 2005, edition 1 / Page 11
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
(Fit? ioilg sar Mwl McCants’ block party throws down Ga. Tech BY BRIAN MACPHERSON SENIOR WRITER North Carolina fans have come to expect elevation from Rashad McCants, but this was something else entirely. Georgia Tech’s Theodis Tarver, a 6-foot-9 forward, took to the air to attempt a mid-range jumper mid way through the second half, but that’s as far as he got. McCants rose with him, extend ing his right arm just far enough to swat the ball away and create a fast break in the other direction —a break on which he eventually scored two of his 12 points. “It’s just instinctive to me,” he said. “I just do the things that come naturally.” McCants, who finished with a career-high four blocks, led a spar kling effort on the defensive end by his entire team on Wednesday. The Tar Heels consistently trapped Georgia Tech’s guards on the perimeter, forced tough shots for penetrating forwards and gen erally made life difficult for any opponent attempting to score. The Yellow Jackets shot a sea son-low 36.8 percent in the game, including a woeful 26.9 percent in the first half. Many of those misses came from behind the arc, where the Tar Heel defense was at its toughest. Georgia Tech hit just three of its 17 3-point attempts in the game, Bush focuses on high school testing THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FALLS CHURCH, Va. - President Bush began a second term drive Wednesday that he said would improve the American high school, urging the same testing and consequences he used to shake up earlier grades. In his first major education speech since winning re-election, Bush touted his plan to demand state reading and math tests in grades three through 11. That would broaden his No Child Left Behind law, which requires one year of state testing during grades 10 to 12. “Testing in high schools will make sure that our children are employable for the jobs of the 21st century,” Bush said at J.E.B. Stuart High School. “Testing will allow teachers to improve their classes. Testing will enable schools to track. Testing will make sure that the diploma is not merely a sign of endurance, but the mark of a young person ready to succeed.” Improving high schools has suddenly become a talked-about topic, with calls of alarm from the president, the nation’s governors, employers and college professors. The reason: Many high school stu dents aren’t ready for college or work after they graduate, if they get that far. “The attention is welcome,” said Kati Haycock, director of The Education Trust, an advocate for poor and minority children. “Other countries are cleaning our clocks at the secondary level, and we need to get serious about it.” Bush headed into the Washington suburbs to speak at J.E.B. Stuart High, a school known for big gains in achievement despite high poverty, student mobility and language diversity. The president reiterated ideas he presented during his fall cam paign, when he signaled that he would shift focus from elementary and middle grades to high school. They include bonuses for teach ers whose students perform well, individual performance plans for students entering high school, and more college aid for students who take a rigorous curriculum. He also proposed extra support for high school students still strug gling to read well. “It sounds odd, doesn’t it, for the president to stand up and say, ‘We need to focus on reading in high school,’” Bush said. “But that’s the state of affairs.” A flurry of reports have raised doubts about the value of the high school diploma, with graduation exams that don’t test 12th-grade knowledge, employers who can’t find workers with basic gram mar skills, and colleges that must place many students in remedial classes. Bush said his high school plan, a mix of consolidated programs and new money, would cost $1.5 bil lion. It may be squeezed fast, with a record deficit limiting domestic spending. Congress, for example, took Bush’s SIOO million request for his “Striving Readers” program and cut it to $25 million this year. Bush now wants S2OO million for the program. “Many of these ideas are the right thing to do, and they’re the right issues we’re probably late and most of those shots hardly could be called open looks. “Hey, if they can hit with a hand in their face, we can’t do nothing about that, but we wanted to make them take tough shots,” said guard Melvin Scott. “When you take tough shots, you’re going to miss them.” But not every example of UNC's strong play at the defensive end could be found on the stat sheet Three minutes after his athletic block, McCants forced guard Zam Fredrick to dribble the ball across the baseline for a turnover. The play didn’t turn the tide of the game the outcome no longer was in doubt —but the persistent effort seemed to justify the defens es of McCants offered by those who see him as a complete player. “Everybody has been getting the bad side of Rashad, everyone’s been down on him, trying to kill him in the newspapers,” said jpiard Raymond Felton. “Rashad is a great player. He’s just showing it this year. “He’s showing that he can play team ball, and he can score.” Tough defense, in fact, led to many of the Tar Heels’ scoring opportunities in the game —and their ability to shut down Georgia Tech’s transition game came as no surprise to the Yellow Jackets’ floor general. “We definitely knew they were going to jump out into the passing getting to them,” said Patricia Sullivan, director of the indepen dent Center on Education Policy. “But if we’re going down this path, we have to have the resources.” Bush won bipartisan support for No Child Left Behind, the law that NOW OPEN KNS Automotive, Inc. Full-Service Collision Facility Auto body & painting • Insurance estimates Auto paint color matching • Free estimates $25.00 OFF any work order between $250 - SSOO | 1 KNS Automotive, Inc. Expires 4/30/05_| $50.00 OFF any work order between SSOO - S9OO pIi|KHS Automotive, Inc. Expims4/30/05_j SIOO.OO OFF any work order over S9OO I & KNS Automotive, Inc. Exp/res4£o£s_j 919.928.0801 102 Cobb St. Carrboro H | S.c " Slim f, II." | Downtown Chapel Hill Of.**¥* :: Q °^i: rankiin street j) tut&n s 919-942-4563 Sports lanes early, and they had a lot of good pressure and a lot of easy run-out baskets,” said Yellow Jacket guard Jarrett Jack. Even when North Carolina play ers made mistakes in their own end, they found ways to atone. Jackie Manuel’s unnecessary foul of Georgia Tech guard Mario West handed the Yellow Jackets three free throws late in the second half, but his intensity paid dividends less than a minute later. As forward Anthony Morrow dribbled up the right wing, Manuel forced an errant pass into the stands and prompted a good humored exchange with Coach Roy Williams. “I told him that was for the play I did before, where I fouled the guy on the 3-point playf Manuel said, laugh ing. “I told him I made up for it “But he shook his head like, “No, you didn’t.’” It was McCants’ block, though, that prompted the buzz in the play ers’ lounge after the game. He would not reveal whether similar dazzling defensive plays will become a regular part of his repertoire. “Maybe, maybe not,” he said, hardly pausing to mull the ques tion. “You’ve got to be on your toes and watch, watch and see.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. reshaped education by demanding schools help children regardless of race, wealth or background. Democrats say Bush hasn’t pro vided enough money for the law, making them wary to join him this time round. Tar Heels cruise in the pool BY JOHN ZHANG STAFF WRITER UNC’s swimming and diving teams blew past Bucknell and Brown on Wednesday, cruising to a double dual victory. The men started off by win ning 14 straight events, defeating Brown 158 to 124 and Bucknell 167 to 124. On the women’s side, the Tar Heels posted a 151 to 145 victory against Brown and a 180 to 116 score against Bucknell. The women had the fastest times in 14 of the 16 events. Eleven differ ent women posted victories. “We just came back from our Las Vegas training trip, and we really needed a meet to race when we’re tired and before some tougher competition,” said women’s captain Virginia Hanson. Due to the quick start, UNC coach Frank Comfort exhibitioned or sat out many of the top swim mers and allowed young faces opportunities to compete. Freshmen Brandon Suddreth, Zach Swartz and Philip Owen took advantage of their chances and had the top times in the 1,000-, 100- and 500-yard freestyles. THE Daily Crossword By Diane C. Baldwin 62 Small salamanders 63 Sink alternative DOWN 1 Likewise 2 Bloodhound feature 3 Long in the tooth 4 Lobster eggs 5 Radical 6 In the offing 7 Upright framing piece 8 Half a score 9 Work unit 10 Parthenon's site 11 Put in the paper 12 Inasmuch as 13 __on (goaded) 18 Ark collection 19 Shoplifting events 23 Downfall 24 On the sleazy side 25 Corn holder 26 Red birthstone ACROSS 1 Open a little 5 Fritter away 10 Nave's neighbor 14 Company emblem 15 Pursuing 16 Math course 17 Ingenue 20 Past prime 21 Potbelly fuel 22 Consequently 23 Overwhelming defeat 24 Got a whiff of 26 Hale and hearty 29 Feudal masses 30 Citrus hybrid 31 Be in store 32 Yield to gravity 35 Jean Harlow, for one 39 To this day 40 Each and all 41 Part of HOMES 42 Do in a dragon j P I L | A | Y |lj N |g [ T | H [e| F | I | E j L [ D j ■KToTEMgrTTJI Imlalk in g[t h e rIoJu n ands E X I l eMh E L ORE |a lTt e rMe l l|aßo p e n |l|e|e|d|aJ|e|' |a|nßn|e|w|t 43 Self-defense art 45 Soft shades 48 Sister of Charles 49 Tessie or Milo 50 No-see-um 51 Take on the moguls 54 Likely wallflower 58 Spotted 59 Clear the board 60 Rosy anticipa tion 61 Nips in the bud RESUME DROP (you will also need cover letters for some organizations) January 19, 8:30 am ■ 3:00 pm, 219 Hanes Hall FortheNEW YORK RECRUITING ALLIANCE (New York City Interviews on February 25,2005)* Organizations Participating Advertising/PR Law (Legal Research) •FCB (apply for only one position) • Cravath, Swaine & Moore Assistant Account Executive Corporate Legal Assistant” Assistant Media Planner Litigation legal assistant” • GCI .Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Summer Intern Garrison Assistant Account Executive Litigation Paralegal •RF Binder Partners . Sid | ey Austin Brown & Wood Assoaate , Legal Assistant (3.0 GPA) •Saatchi and Saatchi , skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Assistant Account Executive Legal Assistant” • Sullivan & Cromwell Consulting Legal Assistant*” * National Economic Research . white & Case Associates** Legal Assistant” Research Associate (Econ, Stat, Math, Comp Sci) Marketing Healthcare/Research , jyigl | nc • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center _ Research Positions (Life Science) Program Manager Session Assistant (heaitaead™) Research Study Assistant (need science, math, social services background) Publishing Physicians Office Assistant (liaison between patent and medical team) •Random House • The Rockefeller University MaMig Pubiciiy Reseamh Assistant Editorial Sales • Social Science Research Center Production Associate Prog. P "’ Bra " Assistant" Bring resume copies for all organizations for which you wish to be considered plus one extra copy. •This program requires you to travel to New York at your expense. Further information available in 242 Hanes Hall or at http://careers.unc.edu/nyra.html "These positions require you to submit both a resume and cover letter (NERA also requires a transcript) "'See special requirements at http://sophia.smith.edu/cdo/NYC/page2.html Information on all organizations is available in 242 Hanes Hall The Wendy P. and Dean E. Painter Jr. Career Center oARiSsLL Division of Student Affairs • UNC-Chapel Hill Visit us Mon.-Fri. Bam-spm • 2nd Floor Hanes Hall • 919-962-6507 • http://careers.unc.edu • ucs@unc.edu THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2005 Owen did not win his event as he was an exhibition swimmer. Sophomores Casey Kott and Tristan Davidson swam top times in two events for UNC. Kott won both the 100 breaststroke and 200 medley. Kott said that although his body wasn’t feeling 100 percent, he swam well. “We've come together and are a lot more motivated than last year, but a lot of people are baby ing injuries just a little too much,” Kott said. “We just need to suck it up and maintain a positive attitude the next couple of weeks.” Kott also said he hopes to finish top five in an event for the ACC as an individual goal. Davidson placed first in the 200 butterfly and had the fastest time in the 100 butterfly as an exhibi tion swimmer. For the women, freshmen Kelsey Morrissy and Lindsey Marck won the 50 and 100 free styles. Junior Lizzy Bruce was a double winner for the women in the 100 breaststroke and 200 indi vidual medley. In the last five men’s swimming events and the last four women’s 27 Goggle at 28 Record spoiler 29 Claimed up and down 31 Drives the getaway car 32 Antitoxins 33 Came to roost 34 Utter joy 36 Put down 37 Old Nick's knack 38 Roll-call response 42 Big mugs 43 Scoundrels 44 Hostile to ■To 11 1? 13 Te ■■32 33 34 |3B TT 45 46 47 48 49 “■■■■SO 52 53 fbs . —fb/ events, UNC did not compete and only swam exhibition. UNC’s diving team also exhibi tioned its events, with the men not competing in the 3-meter board and the women in the 1-meter board. Freshman diver Ben Herboth won the men’s 1-meter dive and had the best score in the 3-meter as an exhibition diver. Brown diver Jessica Larsen posted an upset by winning the women’s 3-meter board. UNC’s Kate Lewis, Lauren Karatanevski and Gia Santoro rounded out the top four, respectively. The Tar Heels face ACC opposi tion Saturday at Clemson in what figures to be a tough meet. UNC hopes to carry on its suc cess into the weekend and improve upon its rankings. “It will be really demanding for our men,” Comfort said. “We tied them for the first time ever last year. But we came back from a difficult training trip and got some work done with victories under our belt.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. (02005 Tribune Media Services, Inc. AH rights reserved 45 Oater extras 46 Deadly pale 47 Barest of evidence 48 Feeling of dread 50 Chew on 51 At a snail's pace 52 Military cap 53 Account entry 55 Barbie's boyfriend 56 High dudgeon 57 Sounds of surprise 11
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 13, 2005, edition 1
11
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75