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Rival high schools gear up for showdown
BY RACHEL ULLRICH
STAFF WRITER
You thought the Tar Heels and
the Blue Devils had it out for each
other? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
The Chapel Hill High School
men’s varsity basketball team trav
els to East Chapel Hill High School
today in a game each team hopes
to win for bragging rights, plus a
climb in the conference standings.
And for whichever team loses
well, just imagine the University
football team losing the Victory
Bell to that school in Durham.
“If there’s one game you want to
win, this is it,” CHHS senior and
player Debin Agee said.
Since ECHHS’s opening in
1996, the schools always have
harbored some animosity toward
one another.
“It’s kind oflike there’s not enough
room for the both of us,” junior and
CHHS player Eric Williams said.
And the competition has been
even more fierce since ECHHS
moved to the PAC-6, the same con
ference in which CHHS plays.
Superintendent Neil Pederson
said he has never seen problems with
the rivalry between the schools.
“I think it’s been a healthy rivalry
over the years,” he said. “It means
games are usually extremely well
attended.”
But the meeting is more than a
game for CHHS head coach Paul
Kieckbush it’s also a reunion of
sorts.
After acting as the assistant
coach for the ECHHS Wildcats for
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Students give back to community
BY NATE HEWITT
STAFF WRITER
In the spirit of giving, UNC law
students are promoting a drive to
help families who live below the
poverty line in Orange County.
The One Student, One Gift
program is aimed at encouraging
students to remember those in the
community who are less fortu
nate, said Joyce Kung, president of
the Carolina Public Interest Law
Organization.
The drive, a nonpartisan effort
meant to bring students closer to
the community, calls for each law
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insurance plans, says Blue Cross
and Blue Shield of North Carolina
representative Mark Stinneford.
To compensate, Blue Cross and
Blue Shield does offer the Alt Med
Blue program, which it introduced
five years ago. The program allows
members to receive discounts of up
to 30 percent on services including
massage therapy, fitness centers,
acupuncture, nutrition counseling
and stress management.
“Massage is a service that’s
been popular with our members,”
Stinneford says.
Interest in massage therapy
expanded to the classroom last year
at Duke University. Robert Brame
teaches a massage therapy class
that counts as a physical education
credit for students.
Brame educates students on the
health benefits of massage therapy
and teaches them techniques.
Brame says massage strength
ens immune systems, increases
range of motion, alleviates spasms
and cramps and creates a sense of
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from low attendance. Although all
students have access to women’s
games with a One Card, attendance
typically is low while classes aren’t
in session.
“I do think the teams feel under
appreciated,” said Dan Findlay,
CAA athletics communication
chairman.
While the CAA has high hopes
for students to attend games of
their own accord, its members have
planned many ways to encourage
attendance throughout the school
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almost a decade, Kieckbush, who
already has been dubbed “Coach
K,” took a head coaching position
down the road.
“It’s exciting for me,” he said. “And
I’m excited for our boys. It’ll be great
for our kids to experience that.”
Coach Ray Hartsfield of ECHHS
said he is looking forward to visit
ing his former assistant coach.
“It’s going to be different, because
for nine years he was my right-hand
man,” Hartsfield said. “I know he’s
going to do a great job, though.”
The Wildcats also are excited to
see their old coach but are worried
about how he might handle the
outcome.
“It’s gonna hurt to give him an
‘L’,” said senior D.J. McCray.
One other addition to the CHHS
Tigers came from East junior
Matt Sellers.
“We wanna prove all these peo
ple wrong,” he said. “That’s what
gets me excited.”
Roberson said the Wildcats
had been founded on incorrect
assumptions.
“When the school was built,
the rumor was that the guys who
didn’t make it at Chapel Hill made
it here,” he said. “Then we won the
state championship that year.”
But Hartsfield said he wanted
to put aside hostility at least
to some degree —and promote
sportsmanship throughout the
city with this game and the two
coaches’ behaviors.
“When you go head to head, some
one’s going to win and someone’s
student at UNC to pledge S2O.
So far the law school has raised
about $3,000.
Second-year law student Chaz
Lusk, president of the Federalist
Society said he saw an opportunity
to challenge his peers to get togeth
er for a common cause.
“With exams approaching and
everyone is focusing on themselves,
it’s important to refocus on others,”
he said.
“Our goal is to give students in
the law school the opportunity to
serve others in the community. A lot
of people think the law school only
well-being.
“It reduces stress,” he says. “That
should be the number one.”
A typical class involves Brame
walking students through a massage
technique. They work in pairs and
take turns massaging each other on
professional massage tables.
“At first they’re apprehensive
about being touched and touch
ing someone else,” he says. “At the
end they’re just ready to have their
massage.”
Brame says he has been pleased
to see the recent increase in the
popularity of massage therapy and
is glad more people are enjoying its
effects.
Moore-Pleasant says the surge
in interest is a slight inconvenience
to regular massage clients.
“It’s harder to schedule appoint
ments now, and I’ve noticed mas
sage therapists increase their pric
es, so I assume that means demand
is increasing,” she says.
“But it is absolutely worth the
price.”
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year.
In addition to revamping the
online forum, CAA officials say they
hope to spend money to get students
out to women’s basketball games.
Running advertisements and
giving away iPods are among the
proposals being considered by CAA
officials, Johnson said.
“When we come back from
break, we’re hoping to put some
more money into different events
(to promote) women’s basketball
because they are so good.”
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East Chapel Hill juniors Daniel Bolick (bottom left) and Griffin Wilson
(center) of the basketball team chat with others during a study break.
going to lose,” he said. “But we’ll
shake hands before the game, and
we’ll shake hands after the game.”
The players said they are both
excited and anxious to meet
tonight.
“We grew up playing with these
guys in middle school,” said senior
CHHS player Andrew Simpson.
“That just makes it that much
more intense.”
Both Chapel Hill and East play
ers said that even though they are
friends during the day, after tipoff
that all changes.
“It does get emotional when we
play,” CHHS senior Michael Pulver
has its own interests at heart.”
Lusk brought together several
law school organizations, includ
ing the C-PILO, the Black Law
Students Association, the Federalist
Society, the Carolina Law School
Republicans Society and the
Carolina Law Young Democrats.
Representatives from the groups
formed the steering committee,
which requests the support of every
student in the school.
The committee proposed the
drive just before Thanksgiving
and began collecting money shortly
after the holiday.
Law school representatives will
collect money until Dec. 16.
Orange County residents eli
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derful things that just happen.”
Executive Associate Provost
Steve Allred said the provost’s
office is open to the idea of fund
ing the event again, but it has yet
to receive a proposal.
Whisnant said last week that he
is in contact with one student orga
nization regarding funding, but he
declined to say which group.
As senior leaders continue to
work toward securing a speaker,
Whisnant said it is possible for the
format of the event to change.
Earlier in the semester he said
senior class officers were consider
ing hosting a performance in addi
tion to the address, but they now
are considering finding someone
who can fill both roles.
“We’re looking at if we can
find someone who can do both,”
Whisnant said. “Like if there was
a comedian that could give like a
comedy show who could also speak.
Like if there’s someone who per
forms but students look up to them
and who could speak to them.”
He said he is confident that
when substantial talks begin with
a performer or speaker, the process
will go quickly from there.
“The first thing we have to do
is to make sure we have that date
open,” he said. “After we do that
they send us a quote. And then we
either say yay or nay.”
As far as paying for the event,
seniors class officers say they will
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said. “It’s more than a game.”
McCray had similar thoughts.
“It’s like before the Chapel Hill
game, you’re so nervous,” he said.
“Because you know when you walk
through those doors, the lights are
on, the cameras are going.”
And attendance is expected to
be high.
“If (locals) don’t come to any
other game, they come to this one,”
Roberson said. “We compare it to
the Duke-Carolina game.”
But growing up in a town with a
strong university presence in bas
ketball often means high school
games are overshadowed.
gible for the gifts will be identi
fied by social workers through the
Department of Social Services and
the Inter-Faith Council Shelter,
Lusk said.
Gifts will be based on the spe
cific requests of these residents, he
said.
Students interested in get
ting involved with the drive can
e-mail the steering committee at
onestudentonegift@yahoo.com.
“The law school is standing up
for a lot more than themselves these
days,” Lusk said. ‘We are promoting
selfless and sacrificial giving.”
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wait until they have a clear picture
of how much the event will cost
before they begin nailing down
funding sources.
“It probably depends how soon
we can find out who the potential
speaker can be,” said Julian Miller,
senior class treasurer.
“It’s kind of been in the back
ground because we’ve been pretty
much focusing on establishing our
selves and establishing the senior
class as the semester winds down.”
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The state troopers said they
intend to increase checkpoints and
campaigning during the holidays.
The Chapel Hill department
held checkpoints last year one or
two weeks before Christmas Day.
There is a plan for each check
point, which local judicial officials
approve to outline a systematic way
of pulling people.
The amount of people in Chapel
Hill will decrease, so checkpoints
likely will not increase, Blue said.
“The checkpoints will be about
the same,” he said.
“There is enhanced potential
(for drinking and driving), but the
number of people we see are less,
the volume of cars goes down.”
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Chapel Hill High varsity basketball players sophomore Jarvaris Quinn
(left) and junior Debin Agee relax and do some studying Wednesday.
“It’s one of our one times to
shine over college basketball,”
Simpson said.
The noise level is so high that
last year the Tigers said they had to
make up hand signals for plays.
“Last year, I lost my voice after
the East game,” Pulver said.
A game like this one brings the
entire school community together:
Both students, players and coaches
rally, looking for a win.
“It’s like a tradition,” CHHS
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University, but the plan is not
formulating as fast as some had
hoped.
“Logistically, it just seems like
it’s not going to happen this year,”
said Elizabeth Peacock, vice chair
woman of the forum.
Forum members scrapped a
previous concept for a competi
tion between Duke and UNC arts
students and now are proposing a
festival for fall 2006.
Mark Laabs, student govern
ment executive branch chief of
staff, attended the meeting to talk
about the new SLICE Web site.
He said the student group site
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senior Luther Allison said. “We’re
gonna root for our side.”
Indeed, almost everyone in the
gym tonight will be rooting for the
“good guys,” whomever that is.
“It creates a good high school
environment for kids to play in,”
Hartsfield said. “I wish everyone
could get to play in something like
this."
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will be helpful for the arts groups
on campus.
“A lot of organizations are still
using their own sites but putting *
their events on the calendar,” he
said.
The calendar has been beneficial
for arts groups because they have
been posting their performances
and meetings, he said.
Overall, Stapleton said she is
pleased with tbe progress made
by the Student Arts Forum this
semester.
“I’m happy with it, but it has
potential to be better next semes
ter.”
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