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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 113 w ill sports I page 11 SEVEN IN A ROW The North Carolina volleyball team broke a three-way tie at the top of the conference standings with a 3-0 sweep of Duke in the Smith Center. State | page 9 FOOTBALL IS A GO After months of debate, the UNC-Charlotte Board of Trustees voted Thursday to add football to the school's athletic program in 2013. university | page 8 UNC RECYCLES Mascots come to campus to promote America Recycles Day. The Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling sponsored events. City | page 4 SCHOOL BOARD Seven candidates who hope to gain a seat on the Chapel Hill- Carrboro City School Board presented themselves and their ideas to the board. online | daihtarheel.com DOLLAR-A-DAY Campus Y groups raise awareness of poverty. WOMEN'S ADVOCACY Lillie Searles of the biology department wins the award. CACKALACKY CEO of a condiment company visits a business school class. this day in history NOV. 14,1953... UNC alumnus Andy Griffith's record appears as a huge hit, selling many copies and receiving requests on local radio stations. Today’s weather Showers H 70, L 63 Saturday’s weather T-Storms H 68, L 40 index police log 2 calendar 2 nation/world 4 sports 10-11 crossword 11 opinion 12 SailH ®ar Meel LEWIS TRIAL Defense: no kidnappings Admits to robbing football players BY EVAN ROSE AND EMILY STEPHENSON ASSISTANT CITY EDITORS HILLSBOROUGH -Michael Troy Lewis admitted to investi gators that he stole from the two UNC football players he is charged with kidnapping. But he emphatically denied charges that he also tied them up and assaulted them with a knife. Officers involved in the case testi fied Thursday, and the jury also saw KEEPING THE BALL ROLLING I jis k p DTH FILE/ELIZABETH LADZINSKII Tobin Heath, middle and teammates must compensate for the loss of two of North Carolina's I offensive starters, including Meghan Klingenberg (4), in the first NCAA Tournament game. TEAMMATES TO THE LETTER BY DANIEL PRICE assistant sports editor Last season, one word characterized the North Carolina field hockey team: Dominance. This year one word can’t do it. It takes 23 —one for each member of the team. Soon after the squad lost its third game of the season —and its best player, Danielle Forword, to a tom ACL on Oct. 10, team leaders called a players-only meeting. They wanted to unite the team behind a single idea. A single word. One that could motivate everyone both on and off the field to work toward defending their 2007 NCAA championship —a task they begin tomorrow in East Lansing, Mich. But after struggling to decide on one, they realized something important. They’re different people who are motivated in different ways. “We couldn’t think of one word, so we went around the room and everybody said a word,” junior back Melanie Brill said. “Ever since we’ve had that word on our stick and on our locker. And it’s just a daily reminder that we’re in this together.” And teammates don’t let others forget why they’re playing. SEE HOCKEY, PAGE 5 MEN’S SASKH'BALL 4 P.M. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 www.dailytarheel.com video of Chapel Hill police investi gator Lee Sparrow interviewing Lewis three days after he fled the scene of the alleged incident Prosecutors and defense attor neys agree that Lewis and two women, Tnikia Monta Washington and Monique Jenice Taylor, met one of the players at a Franklin Street bar on Dec. 15. Lewis told investigators in the video that the two women were trying to solicit sex. Lewis said he DOUBLE HEADER For the first time in more than 25 years, North Carolina fans have a choice to make. Football or basketball? UNC's football team heads to Maryland this weekend to take on the Terrapins in a key ACC matchup—a win would put UNC atop the ACC Coastal after Virginia Tech's Thursday loss. Meanwhile, the Tar Heel basketball team opens its season against Penn on Saturday at the Smith Center. The catch? The football team airs on ABO ESPN at 3:30 p.m. Tip-off for the basketball team is at 4 p.m. But the UNC Department of Athletics is try ing to make things easy on Tar Heel fans. then drove the three back to the player’s apartment. The player wanted to be tied up and asked Lewis to participate in sex with him and the women, Lewis said. Lewis said he told the player no and went into the living room. He said a second player later arrived at the apartment and joined the first player and the women. The players told investigators that a third player, who Lewis didn’t men tion, came into the apartment at the same time and went right to bed. While the women and two play BY LOUIE HORVATH SENIOR WRITER On the eve of the NCAA Tournament, Nikki Washington and Meghan Klingenberg, two of the North Carolina women’s soccer team’s best players, are preparing for the big gest games of their lives. The only problem? They are in Chilian, Chile over 5,000 miles from Chapel Hill. Their teammates will lace up their cleats against Western Carolina in a first-round game today at Fetzer Field. But Washington and Klingenberg will be preparing for the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup. Instead of jockeying for position against Notre Dame or UCLA defend ers in the Final Four, the pair will be trying to find cracks in the defenses of Argentina and France. Even with a team loaded with All- Americans, their absence will visibly hurt the Tar Heels. Each made the 2008 ACC All-Tournament team, and they did it coming off the bench. SEE SOCCER, PAGE 5 What the words mean The North Carolina field hockey players have used individual words to inspire them on the field this season. Here's some of the starters' words: ***' i v pr l The Tar Heel Sports Network will begin its live radio and Internet broadcast of the foot ball game at 2:30 pm. The basketball broadcast will begin at 3 pm. at tarheelblue.com. The basketball game also will run on a tape delay on Tar Heel Sports Network sta tions Saturday at 8 p.m. Updates from the football game will be shown on the Smith Center's video boards during media timeouts, and the end of the football game will air on the boards after the basketball game is finished. But football coach Butch Davis provided a solution of his own: stay home and turn on the TV. “Just use that split picture stuff* SATURDAY ers were in the bedroom, Lewis said he put some electronics from the apartment into a bag. But the prosecution is trying to prove that before robbing the play ers, Lewis kidnapped two of them and held them at knifepoint. The player who first met Lewis at the bar told police the three sus pects asked to wait at his apartment until another friend arrived, officers testified Thursday. The player said one of the females made sexual advances SEE LEWIS, PAGE 5 Kate Scholl pride "For me it means to have pride in the prepa ration that we did this week and to take pride in our program and take pride in our school." play "It just reminds me of when I was little, and I would just go out and play and have fun." loyalty "When I'm down and I'm maybe losing a ball or just having a bad game, I think of loyalty that my teammates are there to help me." ■R*' m VBn jtfti -a FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2008 Modest funding request likely Anticipates lean appropriation BY ARIEL ZIRULNICK STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR The UNC-system Board of Governors is asking the N.C. General Assembly for a budget increase that is 4.8 percent less than last year. The board’s finance committee expressed concern about Gov. Mike Easley’s statewide budget cuts when discussing the proposal, which will go before the fiill board today. Easley has mandated a 4 per cent cut for most state agencies, but UNC-system President Erskine Bowles has asked the UNC-system to comply with a 5 percent cut Bowles said he anticipates that the 4 percent cut could be increased. A 5 percent cut is easier to man age when it’s planned for, said Rob Nelson, vice president of finance for the UNC system. Each university receives a per centage of its funding from the General Assembly, which will give final approval of the budget request UNC received 22 percent from the legislature last year. The rest of university funding comes from endowments, gifts, grants and tuition. In its last three budget requests the Board of Governors asked for an average increase of 12.5 percent Thursday’s request proposed a 5.8 percent increase for 2009-10 and 4.3 percent for 2010-11 —a total request of $l6B million, down from s3ll million last year. “We’re really trying to manage our way through this process,” Bowles said. The 17 system schools’ budget requests totaled about S2OO mil lion, Nelson said. He slashed that to less than SSO million. The major ity will be spent on campus safety, financial aid and faculty salaries. Safety has been a priority since the Va. Tech shootings in April 2007, Bowles said. Faculty salary increases are being cut from 6 per cent to 2 percent. Schools have already had to scale back because of Easley’s increasing statewide budget cuts, but have been given discretion on how to apply them. Most are refraining from filling vacant positions, eliminating non essential travel, limiting equipment purchases and cutting programs that have fulfilled their purpose. Nelson said the flexibility and advance notice has been key in cop ing with the cut in funds. “Easley told us early on that we needed to manage this way, both with 2 percent and 4 percent,” Nelson said. “This is by far the ear liest we’ve been able to manage.” When 3 percent cuts were passed in 2003-04, they mostly fell on posi tions the number and variety of courses offered, the student-faculty ratio, academic advising, informa tion technology and financial aid. “When you get above 3 per cent, that’s when suffering begins,” Nelson said. “What are you going to do without, and what positions are not going to be there permanently to teach this or administer that?” Contact the State £? National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. FOOTBALL: 3:30 P.M.
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