April 13, 2004

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

U-Md. to Ease Freshmen's Financial Burden
The Washington Post
With tuition due to rise again and high school seniors mulling over acceptance letters, the University of Maryland announced a program yesterday to guarantee that
students who can least afford the college will graduate debt-free....The Maryland Pathways program, which will begin in the fall for incoming freshmen, follows similar initiatives introduced recently by the University of Virginia and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, designed to reduce the ever-increasing debt load of college graduates and draw a broader student population.

UM plans to replace loans to needy with grants
The Baltimore Sun
Joining a growing movement to bolster low-income college students, the University of Maryland, College Park announced an initiative yesterday to guarantee that needy students graduate from college debt-free....Last fall, the University of North Carolina announced the "Carolina Covenant," a $2.2 million plan to guarantee a debt-free education to poor students who work 10-12 hours per week on campus.

College of N.J. will fill aid gap for the needy
The Star-Ledger, N.J.
Taking a cue from the Ivy League, the College of New Jersey will start dipping into its own coffers next fall to guarantee all low-income students can afford to pay their college bills....Last year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill introduced the "Carolina Covenant," a program that eliminated loans for low-income students.

Spouses On the Job, Working Things Out
The Washington Post
"When I am angry with him, I just give him the silent treatment at work," Elaine Tang says with a grin while sipping tea at her Rockville restaurant....James Lea, a family business consultant who is a professor of family medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, suggests that copreneurship is the fastest-growing segment of family-based business.

Sneek Peeks at Tomorrow's Office
Business Week
Visitors to Greg Welch's office might pause in the doorway and stare -- and rightly so. Welch, a researcher in human-machine interaction at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, sits in front of a computer display that's 4,000 pixels wide -- more than three times the width of a 17-inch monitor. The display wraps around Welch, allowing him to see many documents at once.

On a tear
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Poets and blues singers long have waxed romantically about the way a woman moves....Dr. Bing Yu, director of the Center for Human Movement Science at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said girls' knees move more when they land, starting at about age 13. That makes their knees less stable.

State & Local Coverage

Roper remaking team, creating jobs
The News & Observer
After just a month as chief executive of a $1 billion health system and dean of a top medical school, some leaders would still be learning people's names and finding
their way around campus. Not Dr. William L. Roper....Since taking the helm at Chapel Hill's UNC Health Care in mid-March, Roper, 55, has already remade his
senior executive team and launched a makeover of the state-supported system's financial accounting.

Open eyes, saved lives (Editorial)
The Greensboro News & Record
Shaken last year by a spate of four cases over four months in which troubled students chose to snuff out their own young lives, UNC-Chapel Hill has taken several
welcome measures to prevent future tragedies.

Burr leads Bowles in money chase
The Charlotte Observer
Democrat Erskine Bowles scooped up $2 million for his U.S. Senate campaign during the first three months of the year, outraising Republican U.S. Rep. Richard
Burr for the quarter but still lagging well behind Burr in the overall money chase....The $26.3 million they spent then would equal nearly $50 million in today's dollars, according to a study by Thad Beyle, a UNC Chapel Hill political scientist.

Trustees mull fixes to hazing policies
The Daily Tar Heel
Running errands in the middle of the night. Cleaning houses and apartments at 7 a.m. on a Saturday...."Students were sleep deprived from having to work at the
house, do errands," said Rusty Carter, chairman of the UNC Board of Trustees' University Affairs Committee, which handles Greek issues.

Greeks worry plans could alter culture
The Daily Tar Heel
Members of the UNC Board of Trustees are trying to induce a major change to Greek culture by increasing alumni involvement and implementing a more strict code of conduct.

Dipping into a landmark's past
The Chapel Hill News
Sarah Brandes Madry wants people to see the Old Well with new eyes. The UNC landmark - backdrop of innumerable photographs of brides, grads and visitors
- is the subject of her new book, "Well Worth a Shindy."

Read the book, then sound off with author
The Herald-Sun
If you've been reading Trudier Harris' "Summer Snow," now you'll have your chance to say what you think of it -- and hear what others, including the author,
think....."Summer Snow," an account of the UNC professor's experiences as a black woman growing up in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in the 1950s and 1960s, is the inaugural work selected for Orange County's "One Book, One Community" program.

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