April 1, 2004

Carolina in the News

Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:

International Coverage

Paying music downloaders triple
United Press International
Either free or pay, Americans are tapping the Internet for tunes....But a study by two researchers, one at Harvard Business School and the other at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, reports that sharing digital music files has no effect on CD sales.

State & Local Coverage

UNC gets $2.6M grant to develop 3-D medical technology
Triangle Business Journal
The National Library of Medicine has awarded the department of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a three-year, $2.6 million
contract to develop and test 3-D video technology.
UNC release link: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar04/finalcomp033104.html

A politician's ploy (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
By now members of the University community are all familiar with the incident involving Elyse Crystall, a lecturer in the Department of English.

UNC-CH lecturer finds support
The News & Observer
A group of students and professors came to the defense Wednesday of Elyse Crystall, the UNC-Chapel Hill lecturer whose recent e-mail message to her class led to a federal investigation of race and sex discrimination at the university.

English instructor defends e-mail
The Herald Sun
UNC instructor Elyse Crystall defended in a statement Wednesday a controversial e-mail she sent to her students in February as an attempt to assure them her classroom is a safe haven for the free exchange of ideas.

Protecting civil rights (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer
I was interested to read in your March 27 article ("E-mail sparks federal probe") that the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights will investigate whether UNC-Chapel Hill is protecting the civil rights of all its students, including those with Judeo-Christian beliefs. ... Walter B. Jones, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington (The writer, a Republican from Farmville, represents the 3rd Congressional District.).

Chancellor makes right call on Spencer (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Thanks to one man's crusade, and a chancellor's good sense, scholars will take a fresh look at an aspect of UNC's history that's as painful as it is celebrated: the university's closure and reopening amid the bitterness of Reconstruction.

No running away (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
As a product of the South, the University of North Carolina repeatedly has faced the United States' most consistently painful social issue....The chancellor is right to encourage and facilitate discussion about Spencer and other potentially dark facets of UNC history.

Loflin's role in land deal criticized
The Charlotte Observer
Current and former Union County commissioners are saying fellow board member Clayton Loflin overstepped his bounds when he encouraged a developer to assemble land the county then bought for Jesse Helms Park...."In terms of him going out and suggesting the guy buy land or not buy land, if he's doing it as a private individual, that's one thing," said Fleming Bell, a professor specializing in government ethics at UNC Chapel Hill.

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