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April 19, 2005
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage
Therapy: Lighting Up a Life, Literally
The New York Times
Exposure to bright artificial light can relieve some cases of depression as effectively as psychotherapy or antidepressant medication, new research suggests.....Dr. Robert N. Golden, professor and chairman of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the lead author, said he was once skeptical of such treatments.
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UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/apr05/lighttherapy040405.htmlRegional Coverage
State 'protecting' traffic information
Honolulu Advertiser
The state Transportation Department spends several million dollars each year to identify potentially hazardous traffic areas but is reluctant to share the information with the public - or even other government agencies - for fear of being sued....."Increasingly the move is to give access to more people," said Eric Rodgman, who headed a University of North Carolina effort that made all the state traffic-accident data available through the Internet.
State & Local Coverage
Hundreds of N.C. Education Jobs at Stake Without New Revenue
The Associated Press (N.C.)
The state could eliminate hundreds of university jobs and reduce public school teaching positions next year without additional revenue, education budget writers said Monday....Since vacancies provide a source to pay university teaching assistants, UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Robert Shelton said the proposal could mean fewer people are available to teach classes on campus. That may force some left-out students to stay in school another semester.
Brand to speak at UNC today
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
NCAA president Myles Brand will speak and take part today in a forum on the challenges facing intercollegiate athletics as part of the one-year anniversary of the Carolina Leadership Academy, an initiative of UNC that seeks to mold its athletes to lead beyond the playing field.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/orange/chapel_hill/story/2326316p-8704960c.html
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/apr05/brand040105.htmlNorth Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty - Dental Care
WUNC-FM
If you are poor one of the things you're probably going to have a very hard time getting is dental care. Dental care is expensive. Prices are going up faster than inflation . and tens of millions of people, rich and poor alike, lack dental insurance.
Note: Steven Offenbacher, director of the UNC Center for Oral and Systemic Diseases, was interviewed for this segment.North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty - Jackson Hamlet
WUNC-FM
Tucked away in southern Moore County is a close knit community called Jackson Hamlet. Blacks started migrating there in the late 1800s looking for land, work, and a fresh start. Generations of those families helped build the popular golf resort town of Pinehurst just down the road. But as Pinehurst and other nearby mostly white towns flourish, Jackson Hamlet is deteriorating. It has no functioning sewer system, garbage pick up, or police protection. Even though Jackson Hamlet is rural, it is densly populated. Its landscape resembles the poverty of the urban poor. Now residents are organizing and demanding change in order to preserve what's left.
Note: Alan Parnell, adjunct assistant professor of law, was interviewed for this segment.Hospital schools keep sick kids on track as they get over illnesses
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
A yellow bus is painted on the wall, complete with happy children waving from the windows.....And it's one of many attempts by staff at the UNC Hospital School to make the lives of sick children a little more like those of their healthy peers.
Ticket buyers gain from US Airways' error
The Charlotte Observer
You spot a round-trip airfare for $1.86, plus fees -- an obvious error. Do you buy?....Bob Adler, who teaches ethics at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill, says buyers have no obligation to determine the accuracy of prices. But if a company clearly makes a mistake, he says, he wouldn't buy.
UNC Awards Inaugural Gates Scholarship
WNCN-TV (NBC, Raleigh)
A sophomore in the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications on Monday became the first recipient of the Stephen Gates Memorial Scholarship.
Anthropologist to speak at library
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Anthropologist Vin Steponaitis will speak at 7:30 p.m. today at the Pittsboro Memorial Library, 158 West St., about Native American cultures in prehistoric North Carolina....Steponaitis is the director of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Surge protector may have caused fire
The Chapel Hill Herald
Local fire officials believe a faulty surge protector is to blame for a residence hall blaze late last week that displaced eight UNC students.
Charles M. Hauser, noted journalist, dead at 76
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Charles McCorkle Hauser was a newspaperman so devoted to his craft that he told his wife on the way to the hospital hours before he died to be sure to pick up The Chapel Hill News. His column was to be published that day...."He was an erudite southern gentleman, first of all," said Richard Cole, dean of the UNC-Chapel Hill journalism school. "And he was an exceedingly fine journalist with very high standards."
Issues & Trends
As Merit-Aid Race Escalates, Wealthy Often Win
The Washington Post
A father recently wrote to Dickinson College complaining that although the school admitted his daughter, it did not offer her any scholarship money, which two of its competitors had. The family's income was $250,000 a year, but the father figured that the Carlisle, Pa., college would kick in some financial aid rather than risk losing a student with excellent grades and test scores.
Registration required..Graduation rates have state universities on edge
Asheville Citizen-Times
Just about anyone who went to a big state university remembers the same exercise in freshmen orientation....UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University are the only state public universities with a six-year graduation rate higher than the national average of 63 percent.
Many N.C. colleges won't use all of SAT
The Winston-Salem Journal
For high-school students, it is an unexpected gift from what might be considered the most unlikely of places...."Most of the (UNC) campuses will be taking a wait-and-see approach" about the writing section, said Kemal Atkins, the director for academic and student affairs for the University of North Carolina system.
Mayor may not run for re-election
The Chapel Hill News
Mayor Kevin Foy may not seek a third term this fall, clearing a possible path for Councilman Bill Strom to pursue the office.
Resident's plans divide historic neighborhood
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Many residents of the historic Greenwood Road call the proposed rezoning of their neighborhood "an important stopgap."...Greenwood Road, the 163-lot neighborhood bordered by Estes Drive, Raleigh Road and Fordham Boulevard, was laid out by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green in the 1930s. It is near the theater on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus that bears Green's name.
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