VOLUME 116, ISSUE 19
AMONG THE ELITE
TAR HEELS ROLL PAST WSU
TO EAST REGIONAL FINAL
BY NICOLE LUKOSIUS
SENIOR WRITER
CHARLOTTE - Tyler
Hansbrough hit his first field
goal Thursday after barely two
minutes of plav in the second
half.
Held to two points on 0-for-4
shooting in the first 20 minutes.
Hansbrough
could not
have given
Washington
State a better
opportunity to
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WSU 47
UNC 68
lay the groundwork for a potential
Sweet 16 upset.
But while Hansbrough strug
gled to find the bottom of the net
North Carolina spark plug Danny
Green led the charge in the first
half Thursday night.
He made it look easy, scoring
12 points, coming up with three
UNC hitting its
stride at right time
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Alex Stepheson contests a
shot from Washington State's
Derrick Low on Thursday night.
Stepheson recorded three blocks.
Residents’ safety concerns heightened
Chapel Hill crime
changes slightly
BY SARAH FRIER
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Chapel Hill resident Steve
Dorozenski makes his wife ner
vous when he walks to work on
Franklin Street early in the morn
ing and back home late at night.
After Student Body President
Eve Carson was shot to death.
Dorozenski, who owns Jack Sprat
Cafe on Franklin Street, said he
started to consider the danger of
the dark alley he passes through
on the way. And he wishes there
were more police around.
*1 know it’s impossible to make it
completely safe, but the town offi
cials should at least attempt to cre
ate a safe feeling,” Dorozenski said.
Police statistics show Chapel Hill
experienced slightly more crime
last year than the year before.
But the rate of personal crimes
homicide, rape, robbery and
aggravated assault decreased by 1
percent from 2005-06 to 2006-07,
according to the Chapel Hill police
department's quarterly report.
The only other homicide this
year was the result of a domestic
dispute, but police say Carsons
killing most likely was random. The
idea that it could have happened
to anybody has prompted some to
tread with more caution.
SEE TOWN CRIME, PAGE 9
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FEATURES The annual Triangle Dance
Festival is 8 p.m. today in Memorial Hall.
A Battle Lane garden by Kenan Residence
Hall will host a ’garden grow down” today.
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Sweet 16 victory against
Washington State.
steals and blocking a shot all
while coming off the bench to
help UNC to a 14-point halftime
lead.
But Hansbrough would return
to his dominant form in the sec
ond period, and the double digit
margin would only grow larger
en route to UNC’s 68-47 victory
in the East Regional Semifinal at
the Charlotte Bobcats Arena.
“We played really, really well
during stretches," said North
Carolina coach Roy Williams.
“We felt like Danny Green gave
us a huge lift off the bench in the
first half shooting the ball in the
SEE ROUT, PAGE 9
BY GREGG FOUND
SENIOR WRITER
CHARLOTTE - Even the
NCAA Tournaments top overall
seed can play a little nervously
sometimes.
Only four days after wallop
ing Arkansas, the Tar Heels were
slow to regain the powerful form
they had in Raleigh during their
game against Washington State
on Thursday.
Once they did, though, they
looked like the regular Tar Heels
—and they didn’t look back in
blowing by the Cougars.
‘A lot of that (hesitance) is the
NCAA Tournament, kids want
ing to do so well that they pres
sure themselves." UNC coach Roy
Williams said.
SEE RHYTHM. PAGE 9
IS YOUR HOUSE
SAFE?
Take a look at the following images for good and
bad practices to prevent a break-in where you live.
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leave blinds on windows and doors closed, with the panels
facing up so that if someone tries to look in, they see the
ceiling and not the floor, where they might be able to tell if
someone is in the house Hide valuables from plain view
large rocks outside your residence are tools burglars use to
break windows. Trim plants in from of windows and doors
to 3 feet or smaller so there are fewer hiding spaces. Get
an alarm system and post a sign out front as a warning
RESEARCH BY CATARINA SARAIVA WITH ADVICE FROM CHAPEL Hill POIICE DEPARTMENT
Sports | page 8
WOMEN'S HOOPS
The top-seeded women's team
will take on fourth-seeded
Louisville at noon Saturday in
New Orleans for a chance to
compete in the Elite Eight.
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North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough puts up a shot during UNC's 68-47 Sweet 16 victory against
Washington State in Charlotte on Thursday. Hansbrough scored 18 points, 16 in the second period.
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light sensor that you can install on outside lights It will
sense when the sun sets and turn the light on Then when
the sun rises, the light will turn back off
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BACK TO THE 'BOS
Campus radio station WXYC is
holding an 'Bos dance tonight.
Doors open at 9 p.m. and close
at 2 a.m. Tickets are S5 in the
Pit or $8 at the door.
Police offer tips for
housing break-ins
BY KEELY STOCKETT
STAFF WRITER
Many students living off cam
pus don’t properly protect their
houses and apartments. Chapel
Hill police say.
“Your home is only as secure
as a piece of glass,” said Sgt.
Jack Terry, who works with
the Community Services Unit
of the Chapel Hill Police
Department.
Senior Catie Winslow knows
all too well the risks of liv
ing off campus. While she and
her housemates were away on
Spring Break, their air condi
tioning unit was pushed through
the window.
Among other items, the rob
bers took a stereo, a flat-screen
television, a laptop, jewelry and
a soccer national championship
watch and ring.
However, the robbers did not
simply take their valuables and
leave.
“They ate our food and drank
our alcohol and went through all
of our drawers and pulled every -
thing out," Winslow said.
After arriving home and seeing
her house, Winslow said she felt
shocked and violated.
“Our bedroom doors had even
been dead-bolted, and the robbers
just kicked them in,“ she said.
“My roommate had a straight
up hole in her door 1 think that
this day in history
MARCH 28,1958 ...
UNC's Amateur Radio Club com
pletes a final draft of its first
constitution —a major step in
setting up a dub radio station
on campus.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008
Officer
did not
meet
Lovette
Probation staffing
problems blamed
BY ANDREW DUNN
SENIOR WRITER
The N.C. Department of
Correction is blaming a short
age of parole officers for errors in
handling LawTence Alvin Lovette’s
supervision.
The department is investigat
ing why the 17-year-old’s parole
officer never made contact with
him in the months before he was
charged in Student Body President
Eve Carson’s shooting death.
Preliminary findings point to
inadequate screening of potential
employees, department spokes
man Keith Acree said.
The investigation is scheduled to
finish next week.
“As we look at these cases, we’re
uncovering questions about man
agement and hiring practices,"
Acree said. “We re looking at how
quickly we fill vacancies."
The probe already has led to
Lovette’s probation officer being
relieved of her case duties.
Chalita Thomas was placed on
administrative duty after it was
discovered that she had never met
with Lovette and had only been to
his house one time, when Lovette
was not there.
And on the day Lovette was
charged with first-degree mur
der, Thomas broke agency rules
by going into the Department of
Correction database to record five
past failed attempts to locate the
teenager.
Thomas also failed to report two
charges of driving while impaired
since 2006. The first charge, from
March 2006, would have imme-
SEE PROBATION, PAGE 9
“Tour home is only
as secure as a piece
of glass.”
SGT. JACK TERRY, CHAPEL Hill
POIICE DEPARTMENT
kind of freaked us out."
Terry said students and com
munity members in general often
think their home or apartment is
safer than it really is.
Because of that tendency, the
Community Services Unit offers
to inspect homes after break-ins
and gives tips to residents to
ensure the security of the resi
dence.
“We go through all the police
reports, and we call people to first
off get any further information
and to possibly find the person
who did it,’ Terry said.
Terry added* that invaders
notice when residents are out of
town, as is evident in Winslow’s
case.
“When you're away, make sure
your mail is picked up, your paper
is picked up and the garbage is
taken out on a regular basis,” he
said.
“You need to make your home
look lived in."
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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