UNC keeps Clemson winless in Chapel Hill

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CHAPEL HILL - Given his matter-of-fact nature, it's safe to reason North Carolina coach Roy Williams has never been a huge fan of soap operas. Suspense and melodrama, after all, aren't exactly the lures that hooked Williams into coaching.

Yet heading into Tuesday's game against Clemson, so many attention-grabbing plotlines were swirling at the Smith Center and so many questions waiting to be asked, it was hard to know what to focus on.

Could North Carolina extend its home winning streak against Clemson to 55 games, keeping the Tigers winless in Chapel Hill since the dawn of time?

Indeed. The Tar Heels won Thursday night's ACC clash 75-65, extending Clemson's frustration for at least one more year and climbing into a four-way tie for first place in the conference.

Would Tar Heels coach Roy Williams finally make a change to his starting lineup, inserting Kendall Marshall as his point guard and benching junior Larry Drew?

Indeed. In a move Carolina fans have seemingly been clamoring for since "Late Night with Roy" in October, Williams finally made the Marshall-for-Drew swap and wound up getting solid play from both floor generals. Solid enough, anyway, that the Tar Heels never trailed in the game's final 31 minutes.

Finally, did UNC have the energy and resolve to bounce back from Sunday evening's embarrassing 78-58 loss at Georgia Tech, a surprising wreck that brought back nightmares of the anxiety and doubt that ruined last season?

Yes, once again. Thanks to a gritty defensive effort late in Tuesday's game, the Tar Heels forced Clemson to miss 13 of its final 14 shots and outscored the Tigers 12-2 over the final 5 minutes.

For one night anyway, order was restored with Williams feeling as if he had gotten a vital message through to his players.

"I think we had that emotional feeling out there tonight," he said. "I told the guys (Monday) in practice, you can change your way of thinking and you can change your way of acting by changing your attitude. We have to be more aggressive. We have to be more into it on the defensive end."
Bench work

After Tuesday's loss, Clemson (13-5, 2-2 ACC) has now come to Chapel Hill 55 times since 1926 with 14 coaches and never once left with a victory. The Tigers lost three times at the Tin Can, 15 times at Woollen Gymnasium and 14 times at Carmichael Auditorium. Now, they've now dropped 23 straight at the Smith Center.

Don't think that 54-0 mark wasn't in the back of many of the Carolina players' minds heading into the night. Yet when the action started, the Tar Heels instead set the early tone with a renewed aggressiveness and got their offensive spark from freshman Reggie Bullock.

With Leslie McDonald, the team's top 3-point shooter, sidelined with a back contusion, Bullock came off the bench and responded by burying three first half 3-pointers and scoring 16 of his game-high 18 points before the break.

"I was just knocking down shots," Bullock said. "And I was finding points as easy as I could get them, whether that was going to the boards, getting rebounds or playing off my teammates."

That much-needed production propelled UNC to a 46-38 halftime lead. It didn't hurt that sophomore John Henson was active on both ends, finishing with 14 points, eight rebounds and five blocked shots.
Attitude check

As for the point guard subplot, neither Marshall (five points, five assists, three turnovers) nor Drew (eight points, one assist, two turnovers) provided anything spectacular. But both point guards were sturdy enough to allow UNC to retain its assertive edge from start to finish.

Marshall said he learned of his promotion Monday evening. Drew, however, didn't get the word until early Tuesday, news that initially shook the junior leader even if he is determined to wear a positive face publicly.

"I'm trying to go about everything in a very professional way," Drew said. "I still consider myself one of the veteran leaders of this team. So I need to stay as professional as I can. I just want to win."

Williams confessed after Tuesday's game he had intended an even more dramatic change to the starting five, wanting to insert McDonald and Justin Knox in place of Dexter Strickland and Tyler Zeller. But McDonald's injury ultimately nixed that plan.

Still, such a significant shakeup at this stage of this season wasn't just a strategic maneuver for Williams. It was a motivational tactic.

"Ultimately, what Coach was saying is that, just like last year, we can't, expect other teams to just lay down for us just because we're North Carolina," Drew said. "We have to go out and hit people back as they're hitting us. Or bob and weave or do something. Instead of going out and letting teams attack us, we have to attack them. And once they're down, put our foot on their throat and never let them back up."

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CHAPEL HILL -- The Ackland Art Museum at UNC Chapel Hill has begun screening "A Fire in My Belly," artist David Wojnarowicz's film that was removed from a Smithsonian portrait exhibit in November because a portion of the film, which depicts ants crawling over a crucifix, prompted objections from a religious organization and members of Congress.

The film will be on public view through Feb. 13 in the museum's second-floor study gallery. The Ackland is trying to present the film as a jumping off point for discussing "public response to issues of censorship, artists' rights and the power of images to provoke and inspire," according to a press release. The museum plans a panel discussion Wednesday at a site still to be determined with UNC professors from different disciplines.

Classes from UNC's department of art, communications studies, journalism and law will use the exhibit as a teaching tool.

Wojnarowicz's film was part of an exhibit titled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" at the National Portrait Gallery.

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, issued a statement objecting to the work's inclusion in the exhibit.

"We call it hate speech," Donohue wrote on the organization's website. Donohue also pledged to write to members of Congressional appropriations committees voicing his concerns.

After the Smithsonian removed the film, museums and other venues throughout the country -- among them the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego -- began showing the clip. The Ackland's decision to show Wojnarowicz's film "was based on an expression of interest from faculty," said Emily Bowles, Ackland's director of communications. "We wanted to put some thought into it. … I don't know of any other place that's done it the way we have," Bowles said.

The Ackland exhibit will include newspaper articles about the controversy, as well as the statement from the Catholic League. Visitors also may record their views in a comment book.

When contacted Thursday, Jeff Field, director of communications for the Catholic League, said that while the organization still sees the piece as anti-Christian, he appreciated the Ackland's approach to the exhibit.

"It seems fair that they would do that and show the other side," Field said.

A lot of the initial displays of the disputed work happened quickly after the removal, and the university did not want to appear reactionary toward that decision, Bowles said. "We're not taking a position. We're neutral."

Wojnarowicz -- a painter, photographer, filmmaker and writer -- died in 1992. He described his 1986-1987 film "A Fire in My Belly" as a work in progress. He later disassembled the work and never completed it. At the Ackland, viewers will see the version removed from the Smithsonian, which includes music and sound, and a longer silent version that does not include the scene with the ants.

Nasher Museum of Art Director Kimerly Rorschach praised the Ackland's decision. The Nasher will show a concurrent exhibit, "Body of Christ," Thursday through June 16. The exhibit includes sculpture and painting from the museum's permanent collection depicting the crucifixion and spiritual themes.



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Connors poised for second stint in Greenville?

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Jeff Connors is set to return to East Carolina to direct the strength and conditioning program for Pirate football, according to media reports.

Connors had similar responsibilities at ECU for 10 years before leaving to work in that capacity at North Carolina. Connors has spent 10 years in Chapel Hill as strength and conditioning coordinator. He was an assistant athletic director at UNC-CH for the last nine years.

Connors worked for the Pirates when Steve Logan coached the program and those ECU teams generally outperformed the opposition late in the game, a testimony to Connors' conditioning training.

Connors would replace Mike Golden, who left ECU to rejoin former Pirates football coach Skip Holtz at South Florida.

According to the North Carolina athletics website, Connors has been honored as a Master Strength & Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches association (CSCCa). The Master Strength & Conditioning Coach certification is the highest honor that can be achieved as a strength and conditioning coach, representing professionalism, knowledge, experience, expertise and longevity in the field.

Connors has helped develop some of the top players in the Tar Heels' program, including Julius Peppers, Jason Brown, Ronald Curry, David Thornton, Kentwan Balmer and Hakeem Nicks. In four years under Connors' direction, Balmer increased his overall strength and agility and became a first-round NFL draft choice.

During Connors' tenure in Chapel Hill, 73 of 77 all-time football strength and conditioning records have changed. In the past two offseasons, eight all-time 40-yard dash records (position specific) have been established in football.

Connors also maintains department-wide responsibilities. He previously conducted the strength and conditioning program for the North Carolina women's basketball team. During that period, the team won four ACC titles and made two Final Four appearances. Currently, Connors is training the Tar Heels wrestling team. Connors has previous experience in wrestling as he trained the Bucknell wresting program that produced four All-Americas.

Connors came to North Carolina after spending 10 seasons as East Carolina's Director of Strength & Conditioning. Under Connors, the Pirates were one of the best fourth-quarter teams in the country. In 1996, the ECU defense did not allow a point in the fourth quarter until the seventh game of the season. In 1999, the Pirates outscored their opponents, 102-56, in the final period. In 2000, ECU had a 94-57 advantage in the fourth quarter.

Connors' was the head strength and conditioning coach at Bucknell prior to his experience at East Carolina.

Connors is often asked to present his strength and conditioning program to clinics and conferences across the country. He presented UNC-Chapel Hill's speed and position specific package at the National CCSCa Conference and Midwest Sports Performance Conference in 2009.

Connors was a competitive powerlifter and has won four state titles in powerlifting and has been ranked as high as fourth nationally. He holds Level I certification in Olympic Weight Lifting by the U.S. Weight Lifting Federation.

A 1980 graduate of Salem (WV) College, Connors was a four-year starter at cornerback and was team captain as a senior. He led Salem in interceptions as a sophomore and junior.

After college, Connors served as a police officer in South Florida for two years. Prior to becoming a strength coach, Connors coached high school football and wrestling at The Benjamin School in North Palm Beach, FL, and he coached linebackers at the Tennessee Military Institute in Sweetwater, TN.

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