VOLUME 113, ISSUE 18
RESURRECTION
THREE YEARS AFTER 8-20 SEASON, TAR HEELS SECURE BERTH IN FINAL FOUR WITH 88-82 WIN AGAINST WISCONSIN
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Above: North Carolina senior Melvin Scott, sporting his newly minted Syracuse Regional Champions T-shirt, and head coach Roy Williams (right) celebrate the Tar Heels' 88-82 victory against
Wisconsin on Sunday that sent UNC to its first Final Four since 2000. Below: Center Sean May (42) soars in for a layup over Badger Mike Wilkinson (54). May poured in 29 points in the win.
BY BRIAN MACPHERSON senior writer SYRACUSE, NY.
Raymond Felton clutched the ball to his chest as
he unleashed a scream into the Carrier Dome air,
a team and a legion of blue-clad fans in a frenzy
behind him as the final whistle sounded.
At that point, Felton couldn’t even feel the
pain in his left ankle, the ankle that landed awk
wardly on the shoe of a defender early in the second half and
sent him briefly to the locker room, the left ankle that caused
him to grimace visibly after every play.
But in the same way he refused to relinquish the ball after
the game, he refused to let his injury derail him as he car
ried North Carolina to a 88-82 victory against sixth-seeded
Wisconsin on Sunday.
“That’s Ray,” said forward Marvin Williams. “You’re going
to have to cut one of his legs off for him not to play.”
With the win, the Tar Heels secured their first berth in the
Final Four since 2000.
SEE FINAL FOUR, PAGE 7
Budget cuts would slash UNC’s faculty, classes
Officials see University’s mission at stake
BY EMILY STEEL
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
They’ve embarked on an extensive
capital fund-raising campaign and
tried their hand at hiking tuition.
But in the puzzle of working out the
University’s budget, officials said the
pieces just aren’t fitting together.
“It is very frustrating,” said Paul
Fulton, a member of the UNC-Chapel
Hill Board of Trustees. “Chapel Hill is
Chancellor
James Moeser
said protection
of programs
is threatened.
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in a very, very vulnerable situation.”
UNC-CH officials submitted a pro
posed budget scenario to the UNC-sys
tem Office of the President late last week,
detailing the impact of a 4 percent bud
get reduction in state appropriations.
The potential cuts which amount
to more than $16.3 million would
force the University to shave away 65
filled and unfilled faculty positions, to
lose 50 to 60 faculty members to com-
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May emerges as
primary threat
BY DANIEL BLANK
SENIOR WRITER
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Final
Four dreams that seemed so real
istic several minutes earlier were
quickly starting to fade for top
seeded North Carolina.
The Tar Heels hadn’t scored in
more than five minutes, and sixth
seeded Wisconsin had ripped off a
16-0 run to turn an 11-point defi
cit with 2:30 left in the first half
to a five-point Badger advantage
2:30 into the second half.
North Carolina desperately
needed a basket, and point guard
Raymond Felton —and probably
everybody else in the Carrier Dome
peting institutions and to cut 200 class
sections.
Several other reductions include
canceling searches for tenure track
positions, thereby increasing the num
ber of adjunct teaching faculty; revers
ing progress toward offering more
courses with 20 or fewer students; and
reducing admissions to and programs
in the School of Nursing.
The state has whittled down the
University’s budget during the past
four years by a total of more than $144
million s4l million through recur
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knew who the play was going to
as he walked the ball up the court.
The Tar Heels were going to turn
to the man they had relied on as
their go-to player for much of the
past month.
And even though Wisconsin
knew the ball was going to Sean
May, there was nothing the
Badgers could do about it.
Felton lofted a lob to the center
who collected the pass, absorbed
contact from Mike Wilkinson and
calmly banked in the shot to set
up a 3-point play.
The bucket sparked a momen-
SEE MAY, PAGE 7
ring budget reductions.
“We are talking about a real prob
lem,” Chancellor James Moeser said. “I
think this is the first round in a long,
long process.”
UNC-CH officials said any more
cuts to state-appropriated funding
could detract from the University’s
mission.
“Now we have reached the point
that if cuts at the 4-percent level come
to fruition, we will not be able to pro
tect instructional programs as we
have in the past,” Moeser said during
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Thursday’s meeting of the University’s
governing board.
Upon hearing about such funding
cuts, trustees expressed frustrations
with the budgetary process of the
UNC-system. Several trustees said that
each step of the process which starts
on campus, then works its way through
the trustees, the Board of Governors and
finally the N.C. General Assembly
waters down the message the University
is trying to send about its needs.
SEE CUTS, PAGE 7
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