The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, April 7, 19875
Air Jordan
By SCOTT GREIG
Staff Writer
ATLANTA Dunks: Domi
nique Wilkins 2, Michael Jordan 0.
Aside from this disappointing statis
tic, nothing upset the 16,532 partisan
fans Saturday night at The Omni,
as their hometown Hawks cruised to
a lazy 110-97 victory over the
Chicago Bulls.
It was a game that was memorable
for its Wilkins-Jordan battle, the $6
parking charge at The Omni (as if
Ted Turner isnt rich enough), the
50-win milestone achieved by the
Hawks for the second year in a row,
and the David vs. Goliath hardwood
match-up of the century Spud
Webb taking on Charles Oakley in
a jump ball situation. In un-Biblical
fashion, Oakley won the tip, but yes,
if you were wondering, the Omni
does flash a picture of a steaming
baked potato on the scoreboard
whenever Spud is the Hawks man
of note.
Jordan, who finished with a game
high 31 points, five below his
season's average, was never given an
opportunity to display his high
altitude acrobatics. He spent the
majority of his time wheeling-and-dealing
on the baseline as he
threaded through defenders, double
clutching the ball, waiting until the
last possible moment to release, his
shot. Jordan's 31 -point performance
wasn't as spectacular as it could have
been. Randy Wittman held Jordan
to 9-of-24 shooting from the field,
and a mere two points in the fourth
quarter on two free throws.
Wilkins, who finished with 24
points (7-of-17 from the floor), gave
the crowd what they wanted at 1 :07
of the second quarter and 11:24 of
the third with two Omni-rattling
dunks. Both were identical one-big-step-from-the-foul-line-look-out-below
specials that sent the crowd
into fits of ecstacy.
Proving that heroes arent hard to
find, (you just have to know where
to look.) Wittman (24 points) stood
up and took the leader's position as
his deft outside shooting and defense
on Jordan were the differences in the
game.
This "third person star" portrayed
by Wittman Saturday has become
a tradition when Atlanta plays
Chicago as Wilkins and Jordan have
Recalling
It's curious. Every spring, I look
forward to Opening Day. As the
beginning of a new season of base
ball, it is a day full of promise, full
of the rhythms of life and hope for
the future. And yet every year, it
seems. Opening Day passes without
moment. I catch the year's first
highlights on the news, maybe pick
up a late-night West Coast game on
the radio. Nothing memorable,
nothing special.
It wasn't always like this. There's
one Opening Day I remember well,
although it's been a while since I
thought of it. I was only 13 at the
time, and I was living in Puerto Rico.
That sounds like a strange way to
begin a story about Opening Day.
But baseball matters in the Carib
bean. Everyone plays it, everyone
talks about it. The winter leagues,
which often feature major league
stars, are a big deal. The honor of
a town often depends on how well
its team plays.
The Mayaguez Indios were the
designated defenders of my city's
reputation. When they won the
Caribbean Series in 1977, cars
packed the streets, lights flashing,
horns blaring. There was no school
the next day, undoubtedly to allow
us to fully absorb the meaning of
the victory.
Puerto Rico was a nice place for
a baseball fan to grow up. You could
play the game all year long. The box
scores found their way to' you
eventually, and we usually got the
NBC Game of the Week. And if I
only rarely got to listen to a game
on the radio, that just made the times
1 did hear a game all the more special.
That Opening Day was one of
those times. 1 got home from school
early, before 2 o'clock. I perched the
radio on the table that dominated
the brick patio in our back yard.
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kept low
taken to cancelling each other out
on the floor with one-on-one high
light battles, leaving the spotlight to
whoever wants to take it.
Wittman scored 10 of Atlanta's
first 15 points, forcing Chicago
coach Doug Collins to put the speedy
Jordan, rather than the slow-footed
John Paxson, on Wittman. Wit
tman, an excellent shooter, but not
the greatest speedster in the world,
regularly uses baseline picks by beef
brothers Kevin Willis and Tree
Rollins to get open for his shot. All
the banging Jordan endured trying
to keep up with Wittman through
the picks took its toll, leaving Mr.
Air himself too tired to fly.
In the second quarter, when
Jordan finally got his shots dropping
with regularity, he tallied 17 points,
63 percent of his team's offense for
the quarter. Then came the third
quarter and the fatigue. Jordan's
percentage of his team's offense
dropped as the game went into
crunch time. He was just too tired
to be the star when his team needed
him,' and the game was as good as
over midway through the third
quarter.
When these two teams meet each
other, the fans' attention turns to
watching the individual duel of
'Nique the Freak' vs. 'Air Jordan'
rather than the game itself.
This, it seems, is the only alter
native to sheer boredom, as a
Michael Jordan-less Chicago Bulls
team would probably win about as
often as hell freezes over.
After Atlanta built a 23-point lead
midway through the fourth quarter,
Collins threw in the towel and took
Jordan out of the game for good with
7:15 left to play. Atlanta coach Mike
Fratello wasted no time in lighting
his "human victory cigar" by empt
ying his bench and fielding a team
of John Battle, Spud Webb, Antoine
Carr, Cliff Levingston and Scott
Hastings.
The sad part about this story for
Bulls' fans is that the last team on
the floor for Atlanta couldVe prob
ably beaten Chicago's starting five.
But don't despair, cage maniacs,
because you can bet youll see one
of those last Atlanta five in a
Carolina Spirit uniform during the
1988-89 season when league expan
sion brings a team to Charlotte.
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clearest. 1 had already set the dial
the night before to Armed Forces
Radio. AFR was a sort of a sports
lifeline, and 1 was hoping it would
have a game on.
It did. Just at two, a generic
announcer's voice came on the air,
welcoming me to the 1980 baseball
season. He also said that Tom Seaver
had been scratched as the Cincinnati
Reds' starting pitcher. Starting in his
place was Frank Pastore. Phil
Niekro was on the mound for the
Atlanta Braves.
It wasn't much of a game, and 1
don't recall too much of the action.
But I do remember Pastore's mag
nificence, as he tossed a three-hit
shutout and completely dominated
the Braves' hitters. Atlanta didn't
have a runner reach third base. The
final score was 9-0.
When it was over, 1 was filled with
this remarkable feeling of expecta
tion of the season ahead, with visions
of grandeur for Pastore. And for
years after that game, the same hope
flashed through my mind every
spring.
Pastore, though, is no longer in
the major leagues. That hope has
long since disappeared, and the game
has long since faded into the record
books. But for me, it is still alive,
is still what Opening Day is all about.
In my memory, 1 sit on that patio
wall, a palm tree casting its shadow
at my feet, listening, listening and
hoping for something I can't explain.
A Pastore fastball nicks the outside
corner for a called strike three. And
in that moment, 1 am truly content.
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Married undergrads enjoy a domestic lifestyle
By VERONICA GONTRAM
Staff Writer
Wednesday is the big day
your first wedding
anniversary. A celebra
tion is in order, but there is one
little problem. You have to
study for a physics midterm
scheduled for Thursday's 8 a.m.
class.
Wedding anniversaries are a
bit hard to imagine for the aver
age swinging single student at
UNC, but for several married
undergraduate couples, marriage
is a very positive part of their .
college career.
Senior Beth Burrus got mar
ried during the summer of 1986
after spending a rough junior
year commuting to Charlotte
every weekend to see her
boyfriend.
"The situation was hard; I'd
spend all week studying and
never have time to see my
friends," Burrus said. "As a
result, my grades suffered, and I
lost touch with people."
Now, as a married senior,
Burrus said, "It works out bet
ter; my grades are up, I do
Committee holds chess
By MELISSA FURR
Staff Writer
f you think a bishop is only a
religious figure and can't decide
Jijust what the bishop's relation is
to a rook, then the UNChess classes
sponsored by the Student Union
special features committeee could
clear up such pawn problems.
UNChess, which is a series of five
one-hour classes on the strategies of
chess, started last week. Partici
pants learn from instructor Derek
Slater, a UNC sophomore who is
nationally ranked in the top five
percent of tournament chess
players.
"It is easy to learn to move the
pieces, but at a more intellectual
level it takes many years," Slater
said.
The classes are designed for stu
dents who know little or nothing
about the game. Each class will
build on the ideas presented in the
preceding sessions. The classes are
designed for 22 players, but only 10
students participated Tuesday
night.
"Unfortunately we didn't get
more people, but that's OK. In a
way, it makes it easier to teach,"
Slater said.
Slater has never taught a chess
class before, but he said he enjoyed
the class.
Debra Allgaier, a sophomore
business major from Goldsboro,
said, "I have always, always wanted
to learn to play chess."
Slater instructed the class on
reading the board and moving the
pieces. He said the object of the
game is to cause a threat to the
opponent's king, which is called
checkmate. He explained stalemate
as what occurs when there are no
legal moves available to a player,
and it is his or her move. A stale
mate causes the game to end in a
draw.
Slater said the class is designed to
teach the fundamentals of chess,
and the players would not get that
much playing time.
Mark Rhodes, a junior history
major from Wilmington, said the
class is "a good reintroduction of
the basics of chess."
Rhodes said he knew a little
about the game before coming to
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don't have to say good-bye to
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good night."
With today's cost of living,
college costs arid other expenses,
money could pose a problem for
some married undergraduates.
"My husband, Eric, graduated
in 1985, and he's working now,"
Burrus said. "Also, my parents
still pay for my schooling. We
live very nicely, considering."
Another couple, Todd and
Tiffany Weddle, agreed that
expenses could create a difficult
situation for many couples. For
tunately for them, however, their
parents are still helping with
school and other financial
problems.
The Weddles were married in
August 1986, after the couple
had dated since they were fresh
men in high school. Also, the
couple still anticipated more
years of college beybnd the
undergraduate years.
"We dated in high school and
were apart my freshman year
here," said junior Tiffany Wed
the class. He said chess is a good
way to exercise your mental ability.
Donna Roach, a sophomore bus
iness major from Goldsboro, said
she came with her friend Debra
Allgaier. "Debra talked me into
this," she said. Roach said she had
learned a lot from just one class.
Meeting
ing, McKinley said.
The only board member who
replied to the petition was
Chancellor Christopher Fordham,
who said he would not attend,
-McKinley said.
In Fordham's reply, he told the
group the meeting should be held in
private, McKinley said.
Endowment Board member
Robert C. Eubanks said Monday
that he had gone "on record" a?
saying he would not attend the
meeting because meeting in public
is not a proper way to deal with the
situation.
"I don't think it's an appropriate
forum to manage your money,"
Eubanks said. "I don't think you talk
about that (financial matters) in
public not on the steps of South
Building."
Board member George Ragsdale
said Monday that he did not know
a reply was expected.
But McKinley said each letter to
board members contained a cover
letter with the AAA's return address.
" "It was very clear we expected a reply
if they were coming," he said.
"They (board members) are afraid
to face students face to face,"
McKinley said. "It's not a matter of
finances anymore. It's a matter of
whether to divest or not."
Without the presence of board
members, the meeting will be "bas
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dle. "When Todd came (here)
my sophomore year, we
expected to spend time together.
But he played football, and I
was in a sorority, so we never
saw each other."
Another reason for choosing
to marry as undergraduates, Tif
fany said, was her plans to
attend law school and the addi
tional years in school that her
career choice would involve.
The couple agreed that being
married allows them more time
for homework and separate
activities, while still providing
time for one another. Happy
with his new family, which
includes a dog and a cat, sopho
more Todd Weddle said, "I'm
comfortable and feel more
secure. 1 have everything I
want."
These two couples are fortu
nate enough to be able to afford
the expenses of apartment living
in Chapel Hill. For other mar
ried students, another housing
option is Odum Village, the
married student housing on
campus.
Slater said he had been playing
chess religiously for the past six
years. He said it would take him
another five years before he would
be in the top 50 players in the
country.
"I like to play two weekends a
month in tournament play," Slater
ically an educational rally for stu
dents and faculty," he said.
The rally will specifically address
the board and what it has and has
not done about divestment. "This
won't be just an anti-apartheid rally,"
McKinley said.
Speakers at the rally will be Sonja
Stone, associate professor of Afro-
Burnout
including holding it on campus,
don't reflect the 10-year party
tradition that began after the Pi
Kappa Phi house burned down. "1
really don't like that idea ... it will
lose its recognition of what it's all
about," he said.
Secrist said the council's unanim
ous'' vote to approve Springfest,
another annual all-campus party,
was evidence that Burnout could
continue if organizers didn't request
an exception permit under the town's
noise ordinance. .
Permits are granted for Thursday
and weekend evenings, but Burnout
is traditionally held during the day,
requiring the council to grant a
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UNC is home to many stu
dents who play the dual role of
student and spouse. If swinging
singles still can't imagine the
lifestyle, here is a scenario:
You have just finished your
Biology 1 1 exam, and youVe
been by your TA's office to turn
in that 10-page history paper. As
you journey home, a smile
comes over your face as you
think of how you will spend the
evening ahead dinner with
your spouse, watering the
garden and walking the dog.
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classes
said.
Slater is a member of the UNC
Chess Club, which is open to all
students, from beginners to inter
mediate players. The club meets
Thursday nights at 8 p.m. in the
Union. There are currently 10
members in the club.
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American studies; Cassandra Butts,
chairwoman of Black Women Uni
ted; Eric Walker, former Black
Student Movement vice-president;
and Bryan Hassel, former student
body president.
Staff writer Kristen Gardner also
contributed to this story.
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special exception. If they held it
outside on a Saturday evening it
would probably cause very little
concern," Lohmann said.
Kimberling said he became hope
ful for the future of the party because
of the support people expressed
while he was selling T-shirts. "Even
faculty members are buying shirts
and saying they think it's a good
cause," he said.
Burnout raised $5,700 for the N.C.
Burn Center last year. Pi Kappa Phi
hopes to raise $3,000 through this
year's T-shirt sales.
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