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TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2007
Heels look to bounce back
BY POWELL LATIMER
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
After the first losing season in
recent memory, North Carolina
volleyball has high hopes for a
return to the top.
None of the players on this year’s
team had known a losing season
before 2006 s 11-20 campaign, and
the memories of those losses serve
as motivation for the 2007 squad.
“We don’t really say it very often,
but it's kind of in the back of every
one’s minds,” senior Christie Clark
said. “It’s kind of fueling us for this
year. It’s motivation to have a great
year and come back. We learned a
lot last year, and I think we can take
that and put it into use this year.
It’s definitely fueling us, because no
one likes to have a losing season.”
Exactly how far UNC can rise
is debatable, since no player from
2006’s team ranked in the nation
al top 50 in any major category.
However, if the Tar Heels have to
rely on intangibles, they certainly
have them in seniors Ashley Board
and Clark.
“They’ve come in and created a
really good climate for the return
ing players and for the freshmen
to be welcome, and that’s what you
want,” head coach Joe Sagula said.
“And making it competitive and
holding people accountable.”
Board in particular immediately
stands out as a leader. In her first
practice back after a hip injury,
Board hit the floor again and again
on the wrapped hip.
“When I’m out there I don’t real
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Senior Ashley Board goes for a dig in practice. Board and the rest of the
volleyball team hope to rebound after a disappointing 11 -20 season.
ly feel anything,” Board said. “It’s
just instinct to go hard all the time,
and I’ll think about the pain later.”
Leading by example would have
been enough, but Board kept up a
constant dialogue of encourage
ment and advice to her teammates.
“It’s so much fun there’s never
a dull moment with Ashley on the
court,” Clarke said. “She’s always
talking in a positive way; she’s
always telling you where to hit
the ball because she sees the court
really well.”
But Board is not the only cause
for optimism on the Tar Heel side.
The program brought in a few
highly touted recruits Courtney
Johnston and Sue Haydel. Haydel
Sports
was the 2005 National Junior
Player of the Year and Gatorade
Louisiana Player of the Year in
2005 and 2006.
“They both attack very, very well
with a lot of velocity and power, and
they’re significantly more mature
than most freshmen coming in,”
Sagula said. “They’ve acclimated
extremely well to the program.”
A few returning players for the
Tar Heels also have sparked the
coaches’ interest.
“The person that first comes to
mind is Christine Vaughen,” Sagula
said. “Asa sophomore she has really
seemed to have impressed a lot of
the coaches, and I think her team
mates. She’s come in extremely fit;
she’s worked really hard to get to
this point.”
Vaughen had the second-highest
kill percentage on the team last year
and was fourth in blocks per game.
Another sophomore who could
take a bigger role is Ingrid Hanson-
TVintland, who averaged 2.49 points
per game and 2.03 kills per game.
Heading into 2007, Sagula’s
hopes are high for his team.
“I believe that this team will
compete for the ACC title, will get
into the NCAA tournament and
before it’s all over will be ranked
as one of the top teams in the East
Region, and then nationally will
put us somewhere to be ranked in
the top 25,” Sagula said.
“I think that is a realistic expecta
tion for this program. I think we’re
going to bounce back real big.”
Contact the Sports Editor
at sports@unc.edu.
Freshmen tackle death penalty
BY EMILY STEPHENSON
STAFF WRITER
UNC’s first-year students
brought a national political issue
into an academic setting before
they even set
foot in their
first classes.
About 20
first-year
students
met with
Chancellor
Welcome to
Zambia
James Moeser and Student Body
President Eve Carson on Monday
afternoon to discuss this year’s
summer-reading book.
Moeser began by asking students
to share what surprised them most
Ruling sends death-penalty
debate back to N.C. officials
BY ALEXANDER TROWBRIDGE
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
A judicial decision this summer
added anew twist to the continuing
debate about N.C. execution proto
cols, but the opinions of involved
parties remain largely unchanged.
Senior Administrative Law
Judge Fred G. Morrison decided
to send the issue back to the N.C.
Council of State, a board consist
ing of Gov. Mike Easley and other
elected officials.
The ruling was the latest in a
long line of decisions about the
death penalty made at the judicial
and legislative levels.
The debate began Jan. 18, when
the N.C. Medical Board effectively
stalled executions in the state by
deeming it unethical for doctors to
participate in state executions.
Execution protocol requires
that a doctor be present during an
execution.
Morrison’s concluding remarks
chided the board for overstepping
its boundaries.
“To threaten to discipline a doctor
for helping in this manner is not reg
ulating medicine for the benefit and
protection of the people of North
Carolina,” the conclusion states.
He said that the council, which
considered the issue in February
without hearing from condemned
inmates’ lawyers, erroneously
approved a protocol allowing doctors
to be present without participating.
Morrison concluded that die lim
ited participation of trained medi
cal professionals in lethal-injection
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about Sister Helen Prejean’s “The
Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness
Account of Wrongful Executions.”
The book gives Prejean’s account
of her relationship with two men
on death row whom she believed
to be innocent.
Several students expressed their
concern with Prejean’s representa
tion of the American justice system.
In the book, Prejean defends
her anti-death-penalty stance
with examples of prosecutorial
misconduct and convoluted legal
procedures.
“I was surprised that something
like this actually happened in the
American justice system,” fresh
man Brad Waters said.
executions posed serious risks of
undue pain to the condemned.
Even after Morrison’s decision,
the debate among lawmakers,
activists and the Medical Board
remains at a standstill, as do execu
tions in North Carolina.
Senate Minority Leader Phil
Berger, R-Rockingham, who pro
posed a bill last February to strip
the Board of its power to punish
doctors involved with executions,
remains opposed to the decision of
the board and wants the power to
continue executions placed back in
the hands of elected officials.
“The legislature should certainly
address the issue and, in my opin
ion, should address it in a matter
that is consistent with the views of
the majority of the people in the
state,” Berger said.
Sen. Elbe Kinnaird, an Orange
County Democrat and opponent of
capital punishment, supports the
Medical Board’s authority and said
that doctors’ moral responsibilities
transcend politics.
Medical Board officials said it
was inappropriate for Morrison
to mention the board in a case in
which it was not involved.
As they are a party in other
cases still being tried, though, they
refused to comment beyond their
position statement: “Physician par
ticipation in capital punishment is
a departure from the ethics of the
medical profession.”
Contact the State & National
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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Lizzy Hazeltine, another first
year participant, said she thinks the
book also reveals the modem legal
system’s deviation from the adage
“innocent until proven guilty.”
Moeser said the problems of pros
ecutorial misconduct and assump
tions of guilt have been illuminated
by events following last year’s Duke
University lacrosse scandal.
Former N.C. District Attorney
Mike Nifong, was disbarred from
the N.C. State Bar because of his
actions in prosecuting the case.
Many of the students also said
they were astonished to read
Prejean’s evidence implying that
the death penalty is not the quick,
cheap solution that many of its
supporters claim.
“I feel like it kind of gave me a
perspective that you don’t usually
see as much,” Waters said. “I am
much more informed about the
topic now.”
Most group members said that
the discussion session forced them
to examine their beliefs.
“I won’t say that it converted
me in any way,” freshman Jordan
Seal said. “But I would like to sit
down and have a conversation with
Helen Prejean.”
Moeser, who has led a summer
reading discussion group at the
start of each of his eight years at the
University, said different opinions
are desirable in group discussions.
“The quality of this discussion
was really wonderful,” he said. “I
would have been disappointed if
there had been no difference of
opinions. This is what a University
discussion should look like.”
Contact the University Editor
at iulesk@unc.edu.
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