VOLUME 113, ISSUE 42
Lottery’s fate a perilous one
POLITICKING, ECONOMIC WOE
SURROUND DEBATE OVER BILL
BY JAMES EDWARD DILLARD
STAFF WRITER
While money continues to flow
out of North Carolina, the General
Assembly is stuck.
Stuck balancing a budget. Stuck
clinging to morals. Stuck debating
a lottery.
The debate is nothing new—
every legislature since 1983 has
voted down a lottery bill.
When he was elected governor
in 2000, Democrat Mike Easley
pushed an education lottery as a
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UNC will rely on
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BY DANIEL MALLOY
SPORTS EDITOR
Tyler Hansbrough will have to
grow up quickly, because North
Carolina can’t afford to wait.
Not with the top seven scorers
gone from the team. Not with zero
returning frontcourt players who
averaged more than three minutes
a game.
No, Hansbrough needs to be
good now.
Heading into next season, UNC
returns only three players who
saw more
than gar
bage-time
minutes on
the national
champion
ship team,
and the
highly touted
Hansbrough,
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a 6-foot-8 power forward, is the
centerpiece of the recruiting class
that will have to pick up the slack.
So that begs the question: Is
Hansbrough North Carolina’s
savior?
“He is the star,” said Dave Telep,
national recruiting director for
Scout.com. “He’ll carry the work
load. He’s the best rebounder they
have in the program.”
Hansbrough is arguably the
most recognizable name on the
UNC roster, even though he has yet
to play a game in powder blue.
But thanks to the explosion of
recruiting news on the Internet
and the increase in young talent
in college and in the NBA, North
Carolina fans know about him.
They saw Hansbrough in the
McDonald’s High School All-
American game scoring 15 points
and pulling down eight boards.
They read about his USA Junior
National Select Team record
tying 31 points at the Nike Hoop
Summit.
But despite Hansbrough’s gaudy
numbers, his most impressive
quality is his tenacity.
“There isn’t as intense or pas
sionate a player in the country,”
Telep said. “He’s a horse.”
Hansbrough flirted with the
idea of skipping college altogether
to pursue an NBA career, but he
was not projected as a high pick
and said he would rather take a
chance at college glory first.
“I’m not going to Carolina just to
go to the NBA,” said Hansbrough,
who watched the national champi
onship game in the Smith Center
with 9,500 UNC fans. “I’m going
to Carolina to do what they did
last year.”
The hype is there, for sure. But
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main part of his platform.
But what makes this year unique
is that the bill was passed first by
the House instead of the Senate.
Since 1983, the Senate has voted in
favor of an education lottery three
times, only to have the House vote
it down.
This year, under the pressure of
a $1.3 billion budget deficit and
estimates of lost revenue as high as
S3OO million, the House gave in.
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is worse than gambling,” said Rep.
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Jkto stop Thursday. Though bicyclists on sidewalks
are considered pedestrians and must follow pedestrian
rules, those on the road are considered motorized vehicles
Accuracy findings imitate
Earlier this semester, I told
readers about The Daily
Tar Heel’s effort to get
a true sense of how often this
newsroom makes mistakes.
Now, some of the results are
in. And it appears that a student
paper shares many of the same
woes experienced in the profes
sional newspaper industry.
According to our sources,
about 58 percent of the stories
that run in our pages contain
at least one error, and we make
mistakes ranging from writing
the wrong titles for sources to
BUILDING UNC’S IST TO GO GREEN
BY SHARI FELD
STAFF WRITER
A dedication ceremony for the new S2O
million School of Nursing addition this
morning will mark a continuing step in
environmentally responsible initiatives.
Chancellor James Moeser and Mary
Tonges, UNC Hospitals’ senior vice presi
dent and chief nursing officer, are among the
speakers at the ceremony to take place at 11
a.m. today on the Carrington Hall lawn.
The addition which nearly doubles
the size of the nursing school— is the first
building in the UNC system to be completed
following green energy guidelines, pending
certification.
Designers planned the expansion accord
ing to specifications by the Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design Green
Building Rating System, a voluntary, consen
sus-based national standard for developing
high-performance, sustainable buildings.
The design significantly reduces or elimi
nates the building’s negative impact on the
environment and its occupants.
“I think that it will demonstrate that green
building is smart and achievable,” said Cindy
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Bill Owens, D-Pasquotank, on
April 20.
Backed for the first time by
House Speaker Jim Black, D-
Mecklenburg, the lottery bill nar
rowly overcame opposition.
Success was found with a deli
cate balance: Fifty percent of pro
ceeds would go to school construc
tion, 25 percent will go to need
based scholarships, and 25 percent
would be used to create anew fund
for impoverished schools.
Political pressures
But as the process continues,
success could be short-lived.
Vague language has caused sen
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running inaccurate headlines,
and everything in between.
Despite using spell check, we
make spelling errors all the time,
although we’ve gotten much bet
ter this year. Our mistakes, from
7 think it’s really going
to increase our capacity
to educate students. We
were cramped for so long.”
AMANDA DINDINO, ASSOCIATE PR DIRECTOR
Pollock Shea, sustainability coordinator for
UNC and the only staff member on campus
to be a LEED-accredited professional.
Before the building is officially certified,
members of the U.S. Green Building Council
must approve the certification. Officials said
they expect certification by this fall.
“For the broader UNC system, the build
ing demonstrates the appeal of apply
ing green building principles to a project
because the building will have lower life
cycle costs, and it will be a more appealing
place to work and study, helping to draw
staff and students,” Shea said.
The addition’s environmental mission
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ators to fret over the prospect of
video poker, a type of gambling the
Senate has banned several times,
said Amy Fulk, spokeswoman for
Senate President Pro Tern Marc
Basnight, D-Dare.
“The Senate has made a con
centrated effort to make video
poker machines illegal,” said Sen.
Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-
Rockingham, on April 20. “Some
people refer to it as the crack
cocaine of gambling.”
Though the bill will almost defi
nitely be revised —a special com
mittee appointed by Basnight has
been reviewing the legislation for
the past two weeks —some fear
those revisions will upset the bal
and must follow standard traffic rules. The Department of
Public Safety, which also manages ticketing, event parking
and permits for various lots, regulates road rules on campus.
During February, the department issued 53 speeding and
pedestrian-related violations, according to its Web site.
factual gaffes to more subjective
fumblings, impact our relation
ships with sources, and thereby
our credibility with readers.
But we’re not that badly off.
And we’re aiming to improve:
During the course of the
semester, students, including
myself, in a class with journal
ism Professor Philip Meyer have
worked to hammer down the
specific areas the DTH needs to
target.
We sent out surveys to 400
unique sources who appeared in
articles published last semester,
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completed on green energy guidelines. Officials said the building will be certified by this fall.
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ance found in the House.
“If you change a comma, you
won’t pass the bill in the House
again,” Fulk said.
In the meantime, the money
continues to flow. Every state that
borders North Carolina has a lot
tery, and most estimates show the
state’s residents spend about S3OO
million annually on those games.
An Elon University poll conduct
ed in February showed that 37 per
cent of those surveyed had bought
a lottery ticket from surrounding
states during the past year.
The South Carolina lottery,
which has brought in $2.7 billion
SEE LOTTERY, PAGE 16
industry foibles
and we received feedback from
more than 60 percent of them.
We rated editorials, searching
for a problem, a direction and a
solution. We trolled the archives
on our Web site, searching for
mistakes from obvious misspell
ings to confusing hyphenations.
And we focused on what the
paper can do to improve accu
racy and gain a stronger hold
on readers at a time when the
newspaper market seems to be
dwindling.
Yes, 58 percent is a lot of
stories containing mistakes and
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FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2005
Mixon
leaves
UNC
booth
Will do radio for
Carolina Panthers
BY BRIAN MACPHERSON
SENIOR WRITER
North Carolina basketball fans
might have a tough time recogniz
ing the team taking the floor at the
Smith Center next season.
But if they’re listening from
home, they
might also have
a tough time
recognizing one
of the voices
bringing them
the action.
The Carolina
Panthers
announced
Wednesday that
they have hired
longtime North
Carolina color
commentator
Mick Mixon
to become the
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Commentator
Mick Mixon
has been hired
by the Carolina
Panthers.
team’s radio play-by-play announc
er for the upcoming season.
‘We are very pleased to add Mick
Mixon to our broadcast team,”
Henry Thomas, the Panthers’
director of broadcasting, said
in a news release. “While highly
regarded for his radio broadcast
ing work to date, Mick is also a tal
ented writer, radio producer and
public speaker whose strong famil
iarity with the Carolinas should
serve him well in his new role.”
That role will include community
speaking, sales and various sponsor
and fan events. He also will host
weekly team shows such as “Panther
Talk” and participate in Panthers
Television Network programming.
In the end, Mixon said, it was
the enthusiasm and passion exud
ed by the employees he met that
convinced him to make the move.
SEE MIXON, PAGE 16
inaccuracies. But it isn’t far off
from the error rates many pro
fessional papers participating in
similar studies have seen.
Most of the study results are
meant to be used by future DTH
editors, who I hope strive to
improve upon this year’s record.
But we’ve used some of them
to look at how we measure up to
professional papers, 22 of which
were surveyed by Meyer for his
recent book, “The Vanishing
Newspaper: Saving Journalism
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