April 7, 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

Music sales decline again in 2003
British Broadcasting Co.
Sales of recorded music sales fell by more than 7% around the world in 2003, the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) reports....Their effect is "statistically indistinguishable from zero," authors Felix Oberholtzer of the Harvard Business School and Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill wrote.

National Coverage

Prints, Drawings, And Watercolors, At The Lowe
ArtDaily (online arts newspaper)
"Reason And Fantasy In An Age Of Enlightenment", an exhibition comprised of seventy-three European prints, drawings, watercolors, and rare books from the eighteenth century, will be on view at the Lowe Art Museum , University of Miami, through June 6, 2004...."Reason And Fantasy In An Age Of Enlightenment" is organized by the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and drawn from the collection of the Ackland and the Rare Book Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill.

State & Local Coverage

Mainframe milestone
The News & Observer
At 30, Fred Brooks Jr. was busy changing the world....After the computer was announced, Brooks accepted a teaching position at UNC-Chapel Hill that was to begin in the fall of 1964.

System/360 paid off for IBM
The Herald-Sun
For months, the two young IBM computer developers had fought each other....[Fred] Brooks, a Chapel Hill native, went on shortly after System/360's launch to found UNC's computer science department and urged IBM president Tom Watson Jr. to establish a company facility in the fledgling Research Triangle Park.

Priory's severance hinged on timing
The Charlotte Observer
Did Duke Energy Corp. terminate Rick Priory or did he retire?...Marion Crain, a professor at UNC Chapel Hill's School of Law, said it's a legal gray area whether Priory's departure could be considered voluntary.

Students and faculty criticize probe
The Chapel Hill News
An investigation at UNC by the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education has sparked debate on campus over free speech, academic integrity and the university's policies to prevent discrimination and harassment on the basis of sexual orientation.

Roses & raspberries
The Chapel Hill News
Roses to the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center for delivering another gift to the community, especially the younger among us, with its new Magic Tree House Space Mission Show.

Planning summit need for big project (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill News

Critics misunderstand UNC fraternities (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill Herald
As president of the alumni board for UNC's oldest fraternity (DKE, founded in 1851) and a founder of the alumni advisers group, I have the knowledge of what's going on with the houses that is sorely lacking in your March 29 editorial ["UNC's fraternity system needs fixing"]

Many treatments available for people with myasthenia gravis
News 14 (Time Warner, Raleigh)
By: Dr. James F. Howard, Jr., UNC Health Care
Myasthenia gravis is a disorder characterized by muscle weakness that worsens with activity and improves with rest.

Issues and Trends

Elite Schools Move Against Rankings
The Wall Street Journal
Two elite business schools -- their long-simmering opposition to rankings of colleges and universities boiling over -- said they plan to curb the information they
provide to the ratings guides that many students rely on in choosing a program.

Bush Proposes a Time Limit for Pell Grants and New Awards for Needy Students
The Chronicle of Higher Education
President Bush on Tuesday proposed putting a time limit on how long students may use Pell Grants in order to free up money for a new program that would give
low-income students $5,000 grants to study mathematics or science in college.
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Need-Based Aid Is Biggest Influence on Students' Ability to Attend College, Report Says
The Chronicle of Higher Education
How much money states provide their need-based aid programs plays a bigger role in influencing the college-going rates of high-school graduates than several other
factors, including the cost of public-college tuition, state demographic trends, and state spending on elementary and secondary education, according to a study
released by the Lumina Foundation for Education.
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