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www.dailytarheel.comwednesday, february 11, 2009VOLuMe 116, Issue 147

FACE-OFF

Sports Illustrated on Campus calls the Carolina-Duke rivalry the No. 1 “Hottest Rivalry”in college basketball, and ESPN names the rivalry as the third best in all of sports in the past century. A glance at a timeline of great moments in UNC-Duke history shows the intensity of this matchup.

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1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 20001920 1930

Mar. 4, 2007: Duke’s Gerald Henderson elbows

Tyler Hansbrough in the face in the closing seconds of the game, escalating the rivalry to new

heights.

Wins in the UNC-Duke Game

128 wins56.9%

97 wins43.1%

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NCAA Titles

Final Four Appearances

North Carolina and Duke in the Final Four

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17Mar. 2,1974: UNC rallied to score 8 points in the

final 17 seconds to send the game into overtime in the “greatest comeback in

college history.” UNC won in overtime 96-92.

Mar. 2, 1968: No. 10 Duke defeats No. 2 UNC 87-86 in triple overtime at Duke

Indoor Stadium.

Jan. 24, 1920: North Carolina wins the first

game ever played between North Carolina and Duke (still known

as Trinity College).

Feb. 29, 1964: This was the largest margin

by Duke against UNC, 35 points.

Mar. 5, 1921: This was the largest margin of victory by UNC against

Duke, 37 points.

DTH ONLINE:: View photosfrom past UNC-Duke match-ups at www.dailytarheel.com. And for a preview of tonight’s game, turn to Pg. 14.

41%

21%

THOMAS EDWARDS

JASMIN JONES

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thomas edwards and Jasmin Jones are the two left standing in the six-candidate race for student body president. Because no one garnered a majority of the vote, the top two finishers will face off on Feb. 17.

INSIDE View the full list of students elected to student Congress. pAgE 11

staffiera and williams senior class presidents

russell wins Caa without a runoff

By ElISABETH gIlBERTstaFF writer

M e g g i e S t a f f i e r a a n d Sebastian Williams leapt up and embraced to a standing ovation as they unofficially were declared the winners of the senior class officer race Tuesday night.

The pair emerged victorious with 1,268 votes, beating out opponents Tim Nichols and Tina Chen-Xu, who garnered 698 votes.

“It ’s just such a relief,”

Williams said after the results were announced.

“It’s just, you know, for the last three weeks, no sleep, and it’s just building up, it’s just such a relief to have it over.”

The senior class officers are charged with planning social events for seniors, organizing the class gift and service proj-ects and serving as marshals for University events.

The winning candidates’ plat-form is focused on service proj-

ects, including environmental-awareness programs at local schools and volunteer events to help senior citizens. They also will plan a senior talent show to raise funds for the Senior Campaign.

They said their first order of business will be to build the team of marshals and other offi-cials who will help them put that platform into action.

“I think it’s important to get

By lAuRA HOxWORTHstaFF writer

In what Board of Elections officials called a “very interest-ing race,” John “JRuss” Russell took 50.5 percent of the vote to win outright the position of next year’s Carolina Athletic Association president.

With 8,730 votes total, the election was fewer than 50 votes away from a runoff.

Junior Courtney Brown took second place with 1,841 votes, or 25 percent, and

sophomore Nick Varunok came in third with 1,742 votes and 24 percent.

Russell, who said he was excited and relieved by the out-come, credited his win to the efforts of his campaign staff.

“It’s all about the campaign team,” he said. “They really thought outside the box and did a superior job.”

Aside from overseeing the CAA, the president’s duties

see CAA, Page 11see SENIOR ClASS, Page 11

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983 votes

574 votes

439 votes

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RonBilbao

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1,268 votes

Meggie Sta∞era/ Sebastian Williams

50.5 percent

3,650 votes

John Russell

2009 Student election reSultS

By BlAkE FRIEMAN AND ElIzA kERNstaFF writers

Juniors Thomas Edwards and Jasmin Jones nabbed the top two spots in the student body president election Tuesday and will now com-pete in a runoff election Feb. 17.

Edwards won 41 percent of the vote and Jones earned 21 percent in the election with the high-est voter turnout in University history.

The results are contingent on final certification by the Board of Elections, which will review the candidates’ submitted financial statements by this afternoon.

A total of 8,736 students cast ballots, 17 percent more than in any other election. Since neither won a majority of the vote, they will face each other again in a runoff, for which they will receive an additional $100 in campaign money.

Edwards and Jones beat out the other four candi-dates: Ron Bilbao, Michael Betts, Ashley Klein and Matt Wohlford.

Edwards, who produced the longest campaign plat-form and gathered the most signatures in the petition-gathering period, said he’s delighted to compete in the runoff, although he understands the challenges ahead.

“I’m just going to try to catch up on my sleep,” he said. “My campaign will probably take a day off, and then we’ll be back out there in the Pit trying to get out the vote.”

When the Board of Elections announced that there would be a runoff, Jones jumped in the air and began screaming along with her supporters in the audience.

Jones said she was thrilled to be allowed the chance to participate in the runoff and is excited for next week.

“We don’t care about the vote disparity, we’re just happy to be in the runoff,” she said.

Jones said she is also prepared for the challenge and ready to work hard over the next week of campaigning.

“We’re going to really have to rev up the team and come up with some new and creative ideas,” she said. She added that she might try to re-evaluate some of her platform points.

see SBp, Page 11

edwards, Jones headed for runoff after record turnout

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this day in history

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MOVED MARkETthe hillsborough Farmers

Market has taken up residence at the home depot, located on n.C. 86 and i-85, after being

banned from the town’s public services and the public market.

NEED A plACE TO lIVE?some area property owners

have policies against renting to undergraduate students. Legal experts say that’s oK, but some

students aren’t so happy.

uNC VS. DukEsee a full page previewing a

matchup of two of the most storied rivals in college basketball.

university | page 3

TAlk SExUnC hosted its own version of “talk sex with sue Johanson” in Memorial hall on tuesday. Johanson gave tips on toys,

tongues and many other things.

FEB. 11, 1992 …Construction workers

renovating old west find a letter in the wall from a worker in 1923. the letter states his age and wage and offers a reward

to whoever finds the letter.

BlOg: ElECTIONS watch a video of the candidates’ reactions.

VIDEO: SuE TAlkS SEx hear what students had to say about the sex lecture.

uNC AT CAMERON View a slideshow of the last UnC matchups in Cameron.