Tar Heels Sixth in Directors’ Cup
Carolina, a perennial top 10 finisher in the annual measure of postseason success in men’s and women’s varsity sports in the NCAA’s Division I, placed sixth in 2010-11. It is
the Tar Heels’ 16th top 10 finish in the competition’s 18 years.
Stanford won the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup for the 17th
time in the competition, which has gone by different names over
its history. UNC is the only other school to have won it, in its
inaugural year. The Tar Heels have averaged a sixth-place finish.
The same three other ACC schools made the top 10 for the
second straight year — Duke (fifth),Virginia (seventh) and Florida
State (ninth). The top four after Stanford are Ohio State, Cal-
Berkeley, Florida and Duke.
The Directors’ Cup is a joint effort of the National Association
of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and USA Today. Points are
awarded based on each institution’s finish in up to 20 sports — 10
women’s and 10 men’s.
This year is only the fourth time that Carolina has not been the
highest-finishing ACC school.
The Tar Heels earned nine top 10 national finishes in the
2010-11 season, led by a second-place national championship
game appearance by field hockey; third-place finishes by men’s
soccer and women’s lacrosse; and fifth-place finishes by men’s basketball, women’s tennis and baseball. The women’s golf team
placed eighth; and women’s soccer, women’s basketball and men’s
lacrosse were ninth.
27 Tastes
of Local Flavor
Two stories that appeared originally in the Review are
among
27 Views of
Chapel Hill: A
Southern University
Town in Prose and
Poetry, a collection
that features 10
alumni and 14 current or former faculty members among
the authors. The
book, released in
August, includes a
piece on the wonders
of a First Breath of
Spring bush in the
Arboretum and
another on the
impact of World War
II on Chapel Hill and
the campus.
The publisher, Eno
Publishers, previously published
27
Views of
Hillsborough.
The new book
includes an introduction by creative writing Professor Daniel
Wallace ’08.
Gifts Up for First
Time in Two Years
The University received $277 mil- lion in gifts from private donors in the past year. When pledges are
included, the total for the year ended June
30 is $305.6 million.
The total for gifts is up for the first time
in two years, and it amounts to Carolina's
second-best year on record. Gifts rose 3. 3
percent, from $268.1 million; and commitments, which includes gifts and pledges,
increased 5 percent, from $292 million.
Gifts and pledges include:
■ A $3.63 million gift from The Blackstone
Charitable Foundation of New York to
create the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network. The five-year initiative aims to help
North Carolina’s Research Triangle
become headquarters for high-growth
companies with the greatest potential to
create jobs.
■ A $1.63 million grant from the Local
Government Federal Credit Union to fund
School of Government initiatives that will
make it easier for economically distressed
communities in the state to get new projects off the ground and give public officials
the executive training they need.
■ A $1 million gift from David Kittner ’ 39
and the Samuel and Rebecca Kardon Foundations to establish the Kittner Family Distinguished Professorship Fund in the School
of Medicine’s ophthalmology department,
creating the department’s largest professorship fund.
■ A $500,000 pledge from Howard R.
Levine ’ 81, chair and CEO of Family Dollar Stores Inc., to create an endowment to
support undergraduate and graduate students in Jewish studies.
■ A $200,000 grant from The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation of New York to enable
theater ensembles to develop new works in
residencies with PlayMakers Repertory
Company.
■ A $1.5 million commitment from an
anonymous donor to create a new Global
Gap Year Fellowship Program, giving
incoming students the opportunity to
spend a year in international service before
their first year at UNC. The program provides financial support to new high school
graduates who wish to defer their matriculation for a year to pursue a combination
of work, travel and volunteer service.
Men’s Basketball Schedule for 2011-12
Oct. 28/29. . . . UNC Pembroke (exhibition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBA
Nov. 11. . . . . . . Carrier Classic vs. Michigan State . . . . . . 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Nov. 13.......at UNC-Asheville .........................3p.m.
Nov. 20. . . . . . . Mississippi Valley State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBA
Nov. 22. . . . . . . Tennessee State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBA
Nov. 25. . . . . . . vs. South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBA (ESPN2)
Nov. 26. . . . . . . vs. Southern California or UNLV . . . . . . . . . TBA (ESPN2)
Nov. 30. . . . . . . Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9: 30 p.m. (ESPN)
Dec. 3.......at Kentucky......................... Noon(CBS)
Dec.6 .......Evansville .......................7p.m. (ESPNU)
Dec. 10......Long Beach State.......................... TBA
Dec. 17......Appalachian State.................6p.m. (ESPNU)
Dec. 19......Nicholls.........................7p.m. (ESPNU)
Dec. 21...... Texas ..........................7p.m. (ESPN2)
Dec. 29......Elon ...........................7p.m. (ESPNU)
Jan. 1.......Monmouth ......................3p.m.(ESPNU)
Jan. 7. . . . . . . . Boston College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2: 30 p.m. (ACCN)
Jan. 10. . . . . . . Miami. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 p.m. (ACCN)
Jan. 14. . . . . . . at Florida State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 p.m. (ESPN)
Jan. 19. . . . . . . at Virginia Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 p.m. (ESPN or ESPN2)
Jan. 26....... N.C. State ................7p.m. (ESPNor ESPN2)
Jan. 29. . . . . . . Georgia Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 p.m. (ESPNU)
Jan. 31.......at Wake Forest ...................9p.m. (ESPNU)
Feb. 4. . . . . . . . at Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 p.m. (ESPN or ESPN2)
Feb. 8. . . . . . . . Duke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 p.m. (ESPN/ACCN)
Feb. 11. . . . . . . Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 p.m. (ACCN)
Feb. 15.......at Miami .................7p.m. (ESPNor ESPN2)
Feb. 18. . . . . . . Clemson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 p.m. (ESPN or ESPN2)
Feb. 21.......at N.C.State .....................8p.m.(ACCN)
Feb. 25.......at Virginia ................4p.m. (ESPNor ESPN2)
Feb. 29. . . . . . . Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. (ESPN or ESPN2)
March 3. . . . . . at Duke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. (ESPN)
March 8-11. . . . ACC Tournament at Atlanta . . . . . . . . . . (ESPNU/ACCN,
