Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 The Daily Tar Heel VOLuME 118, IssuE 131 thursday, january 13, 2011 www.dailytarheel.com Junior forward Tyler Zeller leads Student: UNC MEN’S BASKETBALL the frontcourt and team with Subject Comments dive | page 5 14.5 points per game and is Frontcourt UNC’s frontcourt has quickly become the team’s stron- BEST IN SHOW second with 7.6 gest point. Tyler Zeller is ninth in the ACC in scoring Diversions recalls the greatest rebounds. and tied for eighth in rebounding. John Henson entered the season about 30 pounds heavier and has developed movies, national albums and A- his post game nicely. Reserve forward Justin Knox has local albums of 2010, and sits DTH/BJ DwORAK filled out the frontcourt well. down with Reigning Sound Backcourt Larry Drew II has improved since last season despite frontman Greg Cartwright. playing only 24 minutes a game, thanks to the emer- Freshman gence of freshman Kendall Marshall. Sophomore off- Kendall Marshall B guard Dexter Strickland has shown to be a force on has shown his fast breaks and defensively. passing abilities while playing sig- Bench If nothing else, Roy Williams has plenty of options off nificant minutes the bench. Leslie McDonald has improved dramatically from the bench. as an outside shooter since his freshman season. Knox has solidified the frontcourt, chipping in 6.2 points B+ and 4.4 rebounds per game. Harrison Barnes has not been bad this season — his 11.7 WORAK Freshmen DTH/BJ D points per game rank second on the Tar Heels — but fans and pundits, perhaps unreasonably, expected more from Barnes than the 38 percent he has shot from the field thus far. Reggie Bullock has looked lost on the floor B- for large chunks of the first half of the season. city | page 3 Offense Of the 12 teams in the ACC, UNC boasts the third-high- LOSERS WIN BIG est scoring offense. But this year, the Tar Heels have struggled to score at times and thrived at others. In A town-sponsored weight its conference opener against Virginia, the Tar Heels loss challenge modeled after B- went nearly nine minutes without a score. “The Biggest Loser” awards Defense Between Henson’s 2.7 blocks per game and Strickland’s cash to residents who shed suffocating perimeter defense, UNC is holding its opponents to a 40 percent clip from the field. Should the most post-New Year’s that continue, their opponents’ 30.6 percent 3-point DTH/ERIN HULL A- pounds. John Henson has turned away 40 of UNC’s oppo- accuracy would be the lowest in UNC history. nent’s shots this season to lead the defense. COMPILED BY LOUIE HORVATH, AARON TAUBE, MARK THOMPSON AND JONATHAN JONES university | page 3 PRICE OF PARKING UNC’s Department of Public Safety may have to raise unC seeks consistency in aCC play parking and park-and-ride permit fees to avoid losing BY AARON TAUBE “Last year, I wasn’t as confident,” McDonald said. “I ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR think that came with the thought of being a freshman more than $6 million by In the North Carolina men’s basketball team’s ACC and just being put out there on that broadcast. But 2015-16. Department opener at Virginia, the Tar Heels showed off their now being a sophomore, having a little games under toughness, using lockdown defense to make a second- my wing and being able to work on my shooting has representatives outlined its half comeback and pull out a 62-56 victory. really brought my confidence along.” Tonight at home against Virginia Tech, UNC will UNC’s depth will be especially significant against five-year plan Wednesday. have to prove its consistency. a banged-up Virginia Tech squad that entered the “At times this year we’ve been really good defen- year ranked No. 21 but began faltering at the end of JOIN THE DTH sively, and at other times we have not,” UNC coach November with three straight losses to UNLV, Purdue Roy Williams said. “Last week, Wednesday, Thursday, and Virginia. The Hokies also fell victim to season-end- The Daily Tar Heel will host Friday were better than this team had ever practiced. ing foot injuries to forward Cadarian Raines and All- an information session for We were flying around, we were talking, we were ACC guard Dorenzo Hudson. Coach Seth Greenberg doing all this stuff, then we got up there and couldn’t now has just eight scholarship players at his disposal. students interested in working guard a bathtub. Gee, so, who knows?” Fortunately for Greenberg, he still has the services this semester. Tonight’s contest is the first of three the Tar Heels of seniors Jeff Allen and Malcolm Delaney. Allen has will play in a six-day span that will test their mettle. posted a double-double in five of his last six games Come to the DTH newsroom Williams has used a 10-man rotation throughout the — all of which were Virginia Tech victories. In the at 151 E. Rosemary St. Jan. 18 season, a tactic he believes will bolster the Tar Heels’ backcourt, the Hokies boast in two-time All-ACC stamina as they move further into ACC play. selection Delaney one of the ACC’s best point guards. at 5:30 p.m. Leading the charge off the UNC bench will be The senior has paced the Hokies by averaging 18.6 Leslie McDonald, the sophomore shooting guard points and 4.0 assists per game. whose improvement from a lackluster freshman “He’s a load to guard and has been ever since his CONTEST campaign has given the Tar Heels a reliable 3-point freshman year,” Williams said. “He is a difficult match- DTH/NIVI UMASANKAR shooter. McDonald has shot 45 percent from behind Men’s basketball coach Roy Williams laughs at a press conference on Think your room is the coolest the arc compared to a meager 21 percent a year ago. SEE VIRGINIA TECH, PAGE 4 Wednesday in advance of UNC’s game vs. Virginia Tech on Thursday. on campus? Send in a photo of your dorm room or apartment for the chance to unC researchers create Board to review win $150 or first pick in the UNC housing lottery. Visit on.fb.me/dPixts for more new synthetic blood cells tuition proposals information. BY TARINI PARTI for the full increase to offset the STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR inevitable budget cuts looming More stable than As the University system pre- ahead. this day in history pares for one of its toughest years Gov. Bev Perdue had originally previous versions in history, its Board of Governors asked the UNC system to prepare JAN. 13, 1982… today will tackle two big issues fac- for cuts between 5 and 10 percent UNC student Richard Davis BY ALEX HAMMER ing students — the rising cost of for the upcoming fiscal year. STAFF WRITER tuition and the depleting funds for But in a recent memo to chan- skis to class after snow, sleet Short on real blood? financial aid. cellors, new UNC-system President and freezing rain blanket the Some UNC researchers are The board is expected to review Thomas Ross said a 15 percent cut working on what they hope will campus proposals for tuition could be a possibility in light of an campus. It was the first major become the next best thing. increases to send to the N.C. expected $3.7 billion state budget Co-led by researcher and chem- General Assembly for approval. shortfall. winter storm of the season. istry professor Joseph DeSimone, Although students will not know The state legislature could also the University is in the initial the final tuition increase until the approve a supplementary tuition stages of a project that has created summer, the outcome is expected increase during the summer or Today’s weather mock blood cells that better mimic to be bleak. mandate the revenue generated Flamboyant the real things — and last longer Most campuses, including UNC, from the increase go toward the luminosity than previous versions. have proposed tuition increases state’s general fund instead of stay- Samples of the new blood parti- close to 6.5 percent, which is the ing on the campuses. H 37, L 15 cles tested in mice lasted 30 times most they could ask for under the “To remain strong, there will have longer than stiffer particles. DTH/DANIEL TURNER system’s tuition policy. to be shared pain and shared sacri- Friday’s weather This week, the online Early Chemistry Ph.D. candidate Tim Merkel uses some of the equipment in As board members consider fice,” said the board’s chairwoman Edition of the Proceedings of the his lab used to research a new type of novel synthetic blood Tuesday. the tuition proposals, UNC- Hannah Gage in an e-mail. Kind of shimmery National Academy of Sciences fea- system Association of Student The board is also expected H 40, L 25 tured the team’s recent strides in cial blood substitute “would have a ate issues such as storage or refrig- Governments President Atul to discuss alternative sources of mimicking several properties of huge impact on groups like the Red eration. It would also eliminate Bhula, who is a non-voting mem- financial aid for students. actual blood, a process that could Cross or the military.” worries about cross-typing or the ber of the board, is expected to The state’s escheats fund, lead to more effective treatments A fully synthetic blood would be immunological responses of recipi- provide student feedback.