VOLUME 115, ISSUE 23
Williams earns hall nod
Coach humbled
by top distinction
BY KRISTIN PRATT
SENIOR WRITER
Roy Williams had prepared
himself for not making the
Naismith Memorial Basketball
Hall of Fame class this year.
And while he jested in Monday
afternoon’s press conference at
the Smith Center that his wife,
Wanda, thought it was a prank
call, it’s no joke that Williams will
be inducted into the Basketball
Hall of Fame as a first-time final
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Weather means picking season may be early
BY ANDY KENNEY
STAFF WRITER
It’s the final stretch for the Sturdivant
family’s first strawberry growing season.
D & L Farms Inc., located outside
Chapel Hill, has been run by the family
since 1951 and is now staffed solely by
three generations of Sturdivants.
This year’s strawberry crop is new for
Allred’s experience put
him ahead of the curve
BY GREG MARGOLIS
STAFF WRITER
Besides taking on the top student post at
UNC, James Allred and Eve Carson are simi
lar in other ways.
Both grew up in the college towns of large
state schools; both have parents who are col
lege administrators; and both are Morehead-
Cain Scholars.
But despite those similarities, there’s one
crucial difference Allred grew up in Chapel
Hill and Carson’s hometown is Athens, Ga.
“I think James came into the job having a
stronger knowledge base of the administra
tion and the Chapel Hill community,” said
Margaret Jablonski, vice chancellor for stu
dent affairs. “Eve’s going to have to work hard
to come up to that level of knowledge base.”
Much of a student body president’s job is
inside
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ist this year.
The announcement was for
mally made Monday in Atlanta,
but Williams received the good
news last Wednesday.
“I had already gone through in
my mind what I was going to say
when he told me I didn’t make it,”
Williams said, adding that it was
the first time he could remember
being speechless.
“I was going to tell him how
flattered I was just to be a finalist
... So when he said that I had been
elected, it was a real shock.”
Williams was elected into the'
Class of 2007, along with Los
Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson,
the Sturdivants, who mainly raise hogs
and cows.
“You don’t really know what to expect in
your first year,” said Lany Sturdivant, father
of Darian and grandfather of Justin.
This season already has defied expec
tations for some established growers. A
mild spring and the recently expanded
use of special crop covers have put many
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working with campus administrators to achieve
different platform proposals. And to accomplish
those planks, it’s important to build strong rela
tionships with officials across campus.
Acquiring knowledge of campus policy and
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former Houston Comets coach
Van Chancellor, and international
coaches Pedro Ferrandiz of Spain
and Mirko Novosel of Yugoslavia.
The 1966 NCAA championship
Texas Western University squad
and referee Mendy Rudolph are
also members of this year’s class.
ESPN commentator Dick Vitale
was a finalist for his second year
but did not receive the honor.
“I’m extremely flattered, and I
don’t know if this is a word, but
I’m flabbergasted by the whole
thing, too,” Williams said.
The six-time National Coach of
the Year will be inducted Sept. 7 in
Springfield, Mass., at the Naismith
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Memorial Hall of Fame. He is the
eighth Tar Heel coach or player to
be inducted and will become one of
six active NCAA men’s basketball
coaches in the Hall —a list that
includes Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski.
He credited the honor to having
great players, great staff and fam
ily to support him throughout his
career.
But while Williams appreci
ated the honor, he said his focus
remains on winning and pursuing
a long career as a head coach.
“The pinnacle is if I could make
it and win it every year,” he said,
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Piedmont strawberry crops weeks ahead
of schedule, said Kevin Hardison, hor
ticultural marketing specialist for the
N.C. Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services.
Hardison said many Piedmont straw
berry growers are expecting an early
April 10 opening.
“A lot of (farmers) really like to be
opened up by about mid-April to late April,
and for them to open up light around the
10th, that’s real swell,” Hardison said of
Sloppy game spelled doom for Tar Heels
Both teams slow to
exit starting gate
BY MATT BROOKS
AND GREGG FOUND
SENIOR WRITERS
CLEVELAND lt’s a good thing
North Carolina fans haven’t latched
on to the Tennessee tradition of stand
ing and clapping constantly until
their team gets its first bucket of the
game because there would have been
some mighty sore feet in Cleveland on
Sunday night.
It took UNC exactly five minutes and
25 seconds to get rid of the goose egg on
the scoreboard.
In an ugly, sloppy game, this is how
the matchup started:
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and other tapas-style treats for
lunch and dinner.
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Roy Williams discusses his induction
into the Hall of Fame Class of 2007.
"The competitive part of life is
something I enjoy," Williams said.
the farms’ early openings. “It’s always
dependent on the weather, really.”
The Vollmer Farm, in Bunn, will open
its fields to the public in the next few days
and already has begun selling strawber
ries in Carrboro.
Hardison said excessive heat or pre
cipitation often pose the greatest threats
to a strawberry crop. For the Sturdivants,
though, the last hurdle could be low tem-
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huddle in the locker room after their Sunday night loss to Tennessee in the final Four.
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Spike
Lee to
visit
UNC
Noted director set
to deliver lecture
BY HARRY KAPLOWITZ
ARTS EDITOR
On April 23, UNC students will
get the chance to hear a lecture
few college students outside New
York University get to hear.
Oscar-nominated director Spike
Lee, now artistic director of the
Graduate Film
Program at New
York University's
Kanbar Institute
of Film &
Television, will
give a two
hour speech to
students and
community
members at
Memorial Hall.
“An Evening
with Spike
Lee,” scheduled
for 7 p.m., is
Director Spike
Lee will come
to campus April
23 for a two
hour speech.
sponsored by the Carolina Union
Activities Board. A date to pick up
the free tickets hasn’t been set, but
CUAB President Erika Stallings said
plans will be finalized by week’s end.
She added that she anticipates
a capacity crowd and that she is
elated about the event.
“Generally, we’ve brought a lot
of musicians, and we wanted to
do kind of a big speaker before we
left,” Stallings said. “He’s someone
who’s very talented and an accom
plished director students should
want insight into what he does.”
Lee, 50, whose lectures typically
carry a $30,000 price tag, will be
coming to UNC for a dramatically
lower figure, Stallings said. The
discount comes, in part, because
of the director’s connections to the
University and love of UNC.
The exact fee was undisclosed.
Though the format of the lec
ture hasn’t been cemented because
Stallings has not received Lee’s
rider yet, she is hopeful the event
will play out similar to an episode
of “Inside the Actors Studio.”
“We don’t want it to be him get
ting up there and getting on a politi
cal rant that anyone else could give,”
Stallings said. “We want Spike Lee
to impart on the audience things
that only he could do because he’s
such a talented filmmaker.”
The director of “Do the Right
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