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Roy Williams acknowledges his mother during his speech onstage with Dean Smith and Larry Brown at the Basketball Hall of Fame. "Mom, I know you're watching," Williams said.
BY POWELL LATIMER
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -
From Kansas to Chapel Hill to
national championships, Roy
Williams has always followed in
Dean Smith’s footsteps.
Those footsteps led the country
boy from rural North Carolina all
the way to the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame, where
Williams was enshrined Friday
night.
“Coach
Smith, this
is truly hard
to put into
words,”
Williams said,
addressing the
former UNC
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coach from the podium during
the ceremony. “You were and
are my mentor, my teacher, my
friend. Ninety-five percent of
what I do came from you.”
It was fitting, therefore, that
Smith was one of the members
who introduced his protege, along
with fellow Hall of Fame member
and former North Carolina assis
tant coach Larry Brown.
Williams joined the elite club
Coastal insurance rates rising
BY ALEXANDER TROWBRIDGE
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
Tropical Storm Gabrielle the
seventh named storm of this hur
ricane season moved slowly over
the Outer Banks on Sunday, with
top winds of 50 mph.
The storm hit as homeowners,
state governments and insurance
agencies try to come to terms with
rising risks and soaring costs.
Coasts across the nation have seen
greater hurricane activity during
the past three years, and insur
ance agencies have been taking
that trend into account.
Candace Thorson, deputy
executive director of the National
Conference of Insurance Legislators,
said the cycle of increased hurricane
activity has discouraged insurance
companies from providing coastal
home insurance, at least at their
normal rates.
“That’s made it very difficult
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of basketball legends with some
serious credentials of his own.
He accumulated 500 wins faster
than any college coach in the
history of Division I basketball,
won a national championship
with UNC in 2005 and is the
third coach in history to lead
two separate teams to a national
championship game.
And Williams’ legacy is based
not on his winning percentage or
trophies, but on the relationships
he forms with players.
Those relationships came out
in force Friday night as a star
studded group of 22 former
Jayhawk and Tar’Heel players
came out to support their coach
and offer their congratulations.
Almost all of the players could
relate just how their former coach
had affected their lives.
May’s story is typical of
Williams’ influence. When he
arrived in Chapel Hill, May was
overweight and often injured.
Under Williams’ tutelage, he
slimmed down, gained enough
speed to run his coaches’ high
octane offense and eventually led
UNC to the 2005 national cham
pionship in which he was named
for homeowners to get insurance,”
Thorson said. “States are in a tough
bind.”
The lack of affordable coastal
home insurance has led states to
sometimes take extreme measures
in response to citizen complaints.
Thorson said the situation is dif
ficult and complex.
Lawmakers in states such as
Mississippi, South Carolina and
Florida are doing whatever it takes
to appease their constituents, who
face escalating home insurance
rates, including providing incen
tives for insurance companies and
creating insurers of last resort.
But in this regard, North Carolina
is different from other states.
Residents of the state’s coast
have guaranteed coverage they
just pay more for it.
Chrissy Pearson, director of
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A UNC student is voluntarily
going homeless this year, spending
his nights sleeping in a hammock in
the woods and packing up his other
possessions in his car.
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the Final Four Most Outstanding
Player.
“Coach Williams just helped me
become a man, so to speak,” May
said. “Always held me accountable
for my actions on the court. He’s
a father figure, and he’s my coachr
He’ll always be my coach.”
Just as powerful as May’s is
the story of Wayne Simien, one
of the players who Williams
left at Kansas when he took the
UNC head-coaching position in
2003. Simien, who committed to
Williams and Kansas barely after
he entered high school, was one
of the players most embittered
when Williams left.
“I gave my right arm for that
man,” Simien said after hearing
the news of Williams’ departure.
On Friday night, however,
Simien had nothing but praise
for the man who recruited him.
“He means so much to me as
a player,” Simien said. “I only
played for him for two years, but
I’ve known him since I was in the
seventh grade. He’s been not only
a coach to so many of us here, but
a positive male role model and a
father figure, as well.”
Perhaps the reason that
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Former UNC basketball players Marvin Williams, Sean May and
Raymond Felton congratulate coach Williams at his induction Friday.
Williams is so beloved by his
players has roots in his own
humble beginnings. Growing up
dirt-poor in Asheville, Williams
played junior varsity basketball
for UNC. Later, then-Tar Heel
coach Smith noticed the young
man and added him to his staff
after only five years of coaching
at Charles D. Owen High School
in Swannanoa.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2007
UNC alumni already
in the Hall of Fame:
Ben Camevale (1970)
Dean Smith (1982)
Billy Cimniitgham (1986)
Robert McAdoo(2000)
Larry Brown (2002)
James Worthy (2003)
Study abroad delays
transferring credit
BY AARON FIEDLER
STAFF WRITER
Staffing shortages and unco
operative foreign institutions
have led to a backlog of credit
transfers for UNC students who
recently studied abroad.
The Study Abroad Office lost
several of its advisers and now
is being forced to prioritize all
student requests.
“I understand students’ frus
tration,” said Bob Miles, associate
dean for study abroad and inter
national exchanges. “I under
stand the student who has been
overseas for a semester. They are
expecting a quick transfer.”
The office is bringing the most
pressing issues to the front, leav-
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Board
shuns
ASG’s
Jones
Wants his legal
issues resolved
BY ERIC JOHNSON
SENIOR WRITER
Despite public statements to
the contrary, the UNCrsystem
Board of Governors is making its
influence felt in the continuing*
controversy about Cole Jones and
his legal situation.
As president of the UNC
system Association of Student
Governments, Jones is entitled to
serve as the official student repre
sentative on the board, even as he
appeals an Aug. 1 conviction for
misdemeanor assault.
University officials have publicly
said they have no role in deciding
who serves as the student repre
sentative.
But according to several stu
dent-body presidents and ASG
officers, board members have
made clear their discomfort with
allowing Jones to serve unless his
conviction is overturned.
It was board Chairman Jim
Phillips who encouraged Jones
to wait until the outcome of his
Sept. 18 appeal hearing before tak
ing his seat on the board.
“I think he would be a much
more effective member of the
board if he waits until he has dealt
with the situation that has befall
en him,” Phillips said. “That’s the
advice I gave him.”
That recommendation caused
controversy between Jones and
his officers when Jones failed to
attend the board’s first meeting of
the academic year, which was held
last week.
University, officials have main
tained that it was Jones’ decision,
free of any pressure, to skip the
meeting.
But after being instructed
Tuesday by the ASG’s Council of
Student Body Presidents to take
his seat as soon as possible, Jones
contacted University officials to
request that he be sworn in.
He was told it was too late.
“Given the time frame, no one
was prepared to swear him in,”
said Kemal Atkins, UNC-system
director for academic and student
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What to do
If you're graduating in
December, need credits for
financial aid or have other
special circumstances:
> Contact the Study Abroad
Office via e-mail.
> Explain the details of your
case so that you can receive
immediate priority review.
> For more information, go to
www.studyabroad.unc.edu or
call 962-7002.
All other students:
> Requests will begin to be
processed in October.
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