HEELS on to the NEXT ONE After ACC Tournament Loss, UNC Will Begin NCAA Play Thursday by Grace Raynor Sports Editor
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Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 Volume 123, Issue 11 dailytarheel.com Monday, March 16, 2015 MEN’S BASKETBALL: NOTRE DAME 90, NORTH CAROLINA 82 HEELS ON TO THE NEXT ONE After ACC Tournament loss, UNC will begin NCAA play Thursday By Grace Raynor Sports Editor The waiting game is over. The Tar Heels are headed to Florida. On Sunday night, as they gathered at Coach Roy Williams’ house to watch and celebrate Selection Sunday, the members of the No. 19 North Carolina men’s basketball team learned they would be headed to Jacksonville, Fla., as a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament. UNC will take on No. 13 Harvard on Thursday. With a win, the Tar Heels would then play Saturday against either Arkansas or Wofford. “Two things get me a little excited about this year’s team heading into the NCAA Tournament,” said Williams in a statement after the announcement. “One, we are getting healthier, which always makes it easier. And the other thing is we gained something during the ACC Tournament. I think at times DTH/KATIE WILLIAMS North Carolina head coach Roy Williams shouts during the ACC Championship game against Notre Dame on Saturday. The Tar Heels fell 90-82 to the Irish. SEE ACC TOURNAMENT, PAGE 6 Professors 9 new nominees seek BOG posts This week,16 new Board Ed Broyhill Pearl Burris-Floyd C. Philip Byers unite to of Governors members Ed Broyhill is Pearl Burris- C. Philip a businessman Floyd, a UNC-CH Byers is execu- will be selected. from Winston- alumna, works for tive director of Salem. He’s the Greensboro the Challenge support By Sarah Brown a registered Partnership. Foundation, State & National Editor Republican who She’s a registered an education has been a trustee Republican and nonprofit. He’s The UNC-system Board of at Winston-Salem former N.C. a registered athlete pay Governors is the governing body of State University. House member. Republican. North Carolina’s 16 public university campuses and the N.C. Walter Davenport Christopher Derrick Matthew-Todd Johnson The professors signed a School of Science and Mathematics. The board Walter Christopher Matthew-Todd Johnson is an statement to compensate elects the system’s presi- Davenport is a Derrick is an insurance agent from Monroe. dent and oversees tuition and fee retired Raleigh attorney from He is a registered Republican. He college athletes. levels, approves campus budgets and accountant. Lake Junaluska. was nominated for the Board of makes various policy decisions, such He’s a registered He’s a graduate Governors spot by N.C. Rep. Mark By Joe Martin as a recent move to eliminate three Democrat who of UNC School Brody, a Republican represent- Staff Writer academic centers in the system. served on the of Law and is ing District 55 who is also from To Richard Southall, the academic There are 32 voting members BOG from 2009 a registered Monroe. The Daily Tar Heel was scandal at UNC is a reflection of elected every other year by the N.C. to 2013. Republican. unable to find a photo of Johnson. what happens when student-athletes General Assembly to four-year terms. are not compensated. The current board, appointed by a Joe Knott Alex Mitchell Dwight Perry “If the players are overwhelmed by Republican-controlled legislature, their work requirements — their job, includes 29 registered Republicans Joe Knott is Alex Mitchell Dwight Perry playing basketball or playing football and two registered Democrats. an attorney from is president is an ophthal- — there’s only so many hours in a Sixteen new board members Raleigh. He’s a of Southern mologist from day,” he said. will be selected this week — eight UNC-CH gradu- Durham Durham. He’s He said NCAA violations mostly by the N.C. House and eight by ate and a regis- Development. A a registered occur in revenue sports the N.C. Senate. The House nomi- tered Republican graduate of N.C. Democrat and because universities ask nated six members for reappoint- who ran for N.C. State University, is a trustee of athletes to work a full-time ment and named the following Attorney General he’s registered as N.C. Central job, and players are more new nominees. in 2004. unaffiliated. University. motivated by their athletic require- ments than their academic ones. A group of professors from uni- versities across the country signed a statement Thursday supporting a UNC gives $3M loan to Northside group looking to help college athletes Today in revenue sports receive compensa- DTH ONLINE: Visit “Because we’re only as tion and be categorized as employ- The money will be used dailytarheel.com to view a ees of the university. The College to help return property more detailed timeline of strong as the communi- Athletes Rights and Empowerment Northside history. Faculty Coalition was co-founded to longtime residents. ties that we live with by Richard Southall, a former UNC standing on the shoulders of those and in and work with,” professor and current director of the who paved the way for us.” By Claire Nielsen Carol Folt, College Sport Research Institute at Assistant City Editor Historically, the Northside the University of South Carolina. neighborhood was the largest black UNC chancellor Southall said CARE-FC will work to The University is providing a $3 community in Chapel Hill. But in develop relationships with other stu- million no-interest loan to help with the 10 years after 2000, the black limiting the occupancy of single- dent-athlete advocacy groups, educate the acquisition and resale of proper- population decreased by almost 25 family homes to four unrelated DEFEATED BY DUKE policymakers about the college sports ties in the historically black, low- percent to fewer than 700 people. people living together and limiting The men’s basketball team lost industry and oppose efforts that take income Northside neighborhood, But during the past few decades, parking for these homes to only 77-84 to Duke on March 7 in the away fundamental rights from players. which has largely become home to the black population and number four cars in designated areas. According to Southall, college ath- college students in rental homes. of homeowners in the neighbor- The town also created a con- Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel letes in revenue sports — football and The Self-Help Credit Union, a hood have declined, while the col- servation district around the area, Hill. Head to dailytarheel.com men’s basketball — are treated as a nonprofit credit union located in lege-age population has increased which limited the size of new separate class of citizens and deserve Durham, and the Jackson Center as the demand for student rentals homes and prohibited the con- to see the full photo gallery. the ability to negotiate their compen- will also be collaborating with the has risen. struction of most types of duplex- sation because of the large amount of town and University to manage the “Because students are interested es. The conservation district was money they bring into universities. investment. in living in these neighborhoods, created in 2004 and amended in SUNSHINE WEEK “We’re perfectly okay compensating landlords have been able to rent 2012 after Chapel Hill town staff Self-Help will buy properties and Celebrated nationally, Sunshine the players — those in power simply then sell them to residents and orga- their properties for far more than noticed an uptick in new building want to decide the compensation,” nizations who have the best interests any family could afford. Houses permits issued in the Northside Week promotes transparent gov- Southall said. “What I would love to see of the neighborhood in mind. that are available for purchase are neighborhood — the number ernment and freedom is an athletic administrator or coach “It is an opportunity for our often bought by investors and re- went from two issued in 1997 to say, ‘I am not going to negotiate or have community to be what it is purposed as rentals,” said Chapel 16 issued in 1998. of information. Using any ability to negotiate my compensa- intended to be: a community of Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt. Although the regulations and this sunshine symbol, tion. I’ll just take an education.’” life, of vitality, of family, of coming The town has implemented a policies have been steps in the right The Daily Tar Heel has marked ev- Brian Shannon, a law professor at together,” lifelong Northside resi- number of policies over the past dent Kathy Atwater said. “It has decade to slow the influx of renters ery article that uses information SEE ATHLETES, PAGE 6 been a long, long, long fight. I am into the neighborhood, including SEE NORTHSIDE, PAGE 6 obtained from public records. Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 2 Monday, March 16, 2015 News The Daily Tar Heel DAILY SENIOR SEND-OFF The Daily Tar Heel DOSE www.dailytarheel.com Established 1893 Easy there, Tiger 122 years of editorial freedom JENNY SURANE From staff and wire reports EDITOR-IN-CHIEF [email protected] hat do you do when you are insanely famous and want to KATIE REILLY open a successful restaurant? (Asking for a friend here.) MANAGING EDITOR Name it after yourself, of course. What’s a better brand [email protected] JORDAN NASH than your own name? Well, one famous athlete is having FRONT PAGE NEWS EDITOR Wto jump through some hoops to do just that. Tiger Woods is planning on [email protected] opening a restaurant in Florida, but the developer of the restaurant says he MCKENZIE COEY PRODUCTION DIRECTOR won’t be able to call it “Tiger Woods.” That’s because Nike has the rights to [email protected] his full name.