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VOLUME 113, ISSUE 116 AN UNEXPECTED DEPLOYMENT % lip WHH -SK r Id jr„ t - ; DTH/LOGAN PRICE N.C. Army Reserve National Guard Cpl. Bill Alsobrook (far right) carves the ham for his wife, Beth Alsobrook, and in-laws, Eddie and Nell Fields, during their Thanksgiving meal Thursday. Bill Alsobrook spent the holiday, also his wedding anniversary, with his family after spending three years in Iraq and other stations. BY ERIN GIBSON ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR For the first time in nearly three years, Cpl. Bill Alsobrook, 30, will spend the holiday season with his family. He returned Tuesday to his home in Chapel Hill nine days early after three weeks of service in New Orleans with the N.C. Army Reserve National Guard. The unexpected, early departure from duty last week allowed Alsobrook to spend Thanksgiving with his wife and her family in Laurinburg. He spent the last two Thanksgivings training for and serving in Iraq. “I’m going to cook Bill anything he requests,” said Nell Fields, his mother-in-law. And she did. VOLLEYBALL WINS ACC TITLE, WILL HOST NCAAS FROM WIRE REPORTS With a 3-0 victory against Maryland on Saturday, the North Carolina vol leyball team clinched the ACC Championship, and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels will host the first and second rounds of the Tournament, the NCAA announced Sunday. UNC will take on College of Charleston on Friday at 7 p.m. If the Tar Heels win they will face the winner of Virginia Commonwealth and Purdue. In the clinching match senior outside fitters Camilla Ihenetu and Dani Nyenhuis combined for 27 kills and just 10 errors for a, 30-26, 30-19, 30- 18, victory at Carmichael Auditorium. Both the Tar Heels (23- 9) and the Terrapins (27-4) finished the season with a league record of 18-4, but UNC won the tiebreaker on total head-to-head games won (4-3). The victory marked the first time UNC has won the regular season ACC title since 2002. Single-day tickets for the NCAA matches are $6 for adults, $5 for students and $4 for children. UNC stu dents do not get free admis sion with a UNC One Card. CORRECTION Due to an editing error Wednesday’s front page article “A blogger’s world” misrepre sents Derwin Dubose’s state ments. His three statements quoted in the article were spoken at various points, not chronologically as the article implies. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ohr Sathj ®ar Rcrl \in\m Tree vendors put on firs N.C. stands out in holiday-dependent industry BY DESIREE SHOE STAFF WRITER In the sudden chill after Thanksgiving, an army of Christmas trees waits in neat rows at Back Achers Christmas Tree Farm in Raleigh. Walking with cane in hand, owner Frank Barick is ready to meet the onslaught of holiday tree shoppers. His Christmas trees, the prepa ration of which requires long years of planting, fertilizing and shap ing, became available for cutting Thanksgiving Day. And Barick isn’t alone. In fact, he’s just one of more than 1,600 growers in the state and about 400 choose-and-cut Christmas SEE XMAS TREE, PAGE 5 AN UNEXPECTED EXIT BY DANIEL MALLOY SPORTS EDITOR The recipe for beating the North Carolina women’s soccer team is not a simple one. First, you need one part experience against UNC’s relentless style. Second, you need to throw WOMEN'S INSIDE SOCCER 'Nole keeper Fla. State 1 Ali Mims has UNC 1 career day (5-4, PENALTY KICKS) RAGE 9 in an outstanding goalkeeper to withstand the Tar Heels’ barrage of shots. And finally, you need a hefty helping of luck. online I dailytarheol.com . A TUNE UP The Carnegie Foundation revises research university classifications THE ORANGE REPORT blogs about late-night food availability in Chapel Hill A DRINK FROM THE WELL blogs about UNC's outreach efforts in the state www.dailytarheel.com Hirkey, ham, sweet potato casserole and corn pudding were just a few of the items filling plates Thursday. The Fields’ other daughter, Tiffeny, also came home for Thanksgiving din ner. While the women prepared the meal, the men talked and watched football. “I would definitely say I’m thankful to have my husband back,” said Alsobrook’s wife, Bethany. “And I’m glad he made it home safely from Iraq.” While AJsobrook said he is happy to be home, he was disappointed that he could not see M3 7-yfeSr-old daughter, who lives with her mother in Florida. She was supposed to spend </ Mfc l v _ j iv ; w&i i DTH/KATHRYN HUGHES Bruce Barick prepares a live tree for sale during the holiday season at the Back Archers Christmas Tree Farm in Raleigh earlier this month. In Florida State’s NCAA quar terfinal victory against the top seeded Tar Heels at Fetzer Field on Friday, the Seminoles combined all three elements, and then some. Asa result, FSU won, 5- 4, on penalty kicks, advanc ing the ’Noles to just their second final four —and keeping the Tar Heels out for only the second time in history, and the second year in a row. Florida State had the first ingre dient the experience of losing, City | page 4 'THE OTHER ONE' Downtown Chapel Hill's oft-neglected thoroughfare, Rosemary Street, looks for a revitalization of image with several projects.. Thanksgiving with Alsobrook, but when he was sent to New Orleans, the plans changed. “We were told we would be gone until Dec. 1, then Commander Lusk came up and told us ... he’d have us back for Thanksgiving,” he said. “We didn’t believe it until we saw it.” But Alsobrook said he enjoyed the chance to spend time with his family and to celebrate his wedding anni versary, which he said he has missed three of the past four years. Alsobrook, a hockey fan, and his wife marked the anniversary by SEE HOMECOMING, PAGE 5 4-1, to the Tar Heels on Sept. 22. “Any time you play Carolina for the first time you really can’t prepare for it, because they are so athletic and so organized,” said FSU coach Mark Krikorian. “We felt that we were much more pre pared this time because we had seen them earlier in the year.” As for ingredient No. 2, the Seminoles had not one but two outstanding goalkeepers. For reg ulation, they had junior Ali Mims, who had a career-high 13 saves. And for penalty kicks they brought SEE EARLY EXIT, PAGE 5 Li- 2SS& wBM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2005 Holiday stirs up new experiences BY NATALIE HAMMEL STAFF WRITER Still digesting their turkey and gravy from Thanksgiving dinner, Jackie Yoong, Yvonne Ho and Andrea Jie, exchange students from the National University of Singapore, sat down to watch the annual holiday classic, “A Christmas Story.” “It was really cute,” Yoong says. “Our friend was saying it was a classic, so we watched it to see what you guys watch.” Thanksgiving break offered students a variety of opportunities to travel and reconnect with family and friends. Yoong, Ho and Jie forewent independent travel during the break from school, a popular option for international students. They opted to celebrate a traditional American Thanksgiving in Cherryville with Roy Upchurch, a sophomore history major, and his family. “I think that it would be nice to travel, but I just thought that this is a really nice way to celebrate Thanksgiving,” Yoong says. Upchurch met Jie last summer when he studied in Singapore and the two became friends. “We were trying to think of things they had to see when they were over here,” he says. “I was like, ‘Oh, you have to come to Thanksgiving.’” The food was a pleasant new experience for the exchange students. Ho says she enjoyed almost everything her favorite dish was sweet potato casserole. “I’m trying to learn how to make it because me and my mom, we are both sweet potato fans,” she says. Celebrating the holiday with Upchurch’s family reminded Jie of home, she says. “It’s been a long time since I’ve been with my own family, and it’s nice to come and be part of a family over Thanksgiving.” In addition to a traditional Thanksgiving after nobnTeast, the Singaporeans also went on a hay- SEE THANKSGIVING, PAGE 5 HOLLEY MIGHT LEAVE FOR NFL FROM STAFF REPORTS The North Carolina foot ball team could have an unanticipated hole to fill next season. After UNC’s season-ending 30- 3 loss to Virginia Tech on Saturday, junior wide receiv er Jesse Holley said he is consid ering leaving the University to enter the NFL Draft this spring. Holley was the team’s leading wideout this season with 670 receiving pa ■ Jesse Holley said he might go pro this year. yards. “It’s been a thought that I’ve entertained,” Holley said. “We’ll see how things go.” If Holley departs, it would be an enormous hole for the Tar Heel offense to fill. The team already is losing quarterback VJl|‘ r, ‘‘ ' r ip wQtk _ ij| toggL. I DTH/LARRY BAUM Tar Heels Lindsay Tarpley (25) and Kendall Fletcher (4) are rebuffed by a stingy Florida State defense that gave up only one goal on 31 shots. sports I page 10 PUNCHING IT IN Junior transfer Ben Hunter scores two in the Tar Heels' 2-1 win against Virginia on Sunday, helping to advance UNC to the NCAA quarterfinals. Matt Baker along with four starters on its offensive line. Also, three of UNC’s top five wide receivers are seniors Jarwarski Pollock, Derrele Mitchell and Wallace Wright. Mike Mason, who was the team’s second leading pass catcher, would be the lone returnee of the group should Holley depart. “I just have to take it one step at a time, go do some things, weigh a couple options out this year, and see what it’s like,” Holley said. “Whether I come back or not, a lot of guys are still going to be on this team. “And we’ll just have to take one step at a time... and figure out what we have to do to be competitive first half and second half.” weather '"V y Few Showers H 71, L 60 index police log 2 calendar 2 crossword 6 edit 7 sports 10
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