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April 6, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage
‘Dr. Doom’ Under Siege
Inside Higher Ed
Environmental scientists haven’t been the top targets of intelligent design advocates, who have generally focused on attacking evolutionary biologists. ...“I would like to make clear that Mims has dishonestly mischaracterized Dr. Pianka’s statements,” said Kathryn E. Perez, a postdoctoral fellow with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill department of biology, in the petition of support for Pianka.Tea May Fight Ovarian, Breast Cancers
WebMD
Potent chemicals found in tea can help ward off ovarian and breast cancers, new research suggests. ...For breast cancer protection, "tea again is the predominant contributor," Brian Fink, MPH, a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Regional Coverage
Southern flavors meld with Jewish tradition
The Detroit News
In America's South, the Passover table represents a blend of Southern and Jewish food traditions. Marcie Cohen Ferris, in "Matzo Ball Gumbo, Culinary Tales of the Jewish South" (University of North Carolina Press, $29.95), relates hilarious and heartwarming stories about how Southern and Jewish cultures have melded at the dinner table throughout the South. Ferris is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Why read? Ask these black ancestors (Opinion-editorial column)
The Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester)
Black History Month 2006 has come and gone, but the education of black people must continue yearlong and for as many hours a day as possible. The education of black people, the least educated in our global village, is so vital that it should take all our social and cultural agencies to accomplish. ...George Moses Horton (1791-1883), an African slave in North Carolina, took great pains to educate himself while he sold his master's produce on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He became the first African-American poet to have published a volume of his poetry in America.
State & Local Coverage
UNC dorm to get slave's name
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Former UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Richard Richardson had heard bits and pieces about Chapel Hill's slave poet -- the man who charged students 25 to 75 cents for acrostics to give to their sweethearts. ...It will be the sixth building on UNC-CH's campus to be named for a black. That is more than any other of the nation's 30 highest-ranking universities, according to a survey published in the summer 2005 edition of the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
Midland collegian wins Goldwater Scholarship
The Charlotte Observer
UNC-Chapel Hill junior Adam Roberts won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, an award for sophomores and juniors committed to finding careers in mathematics, engineering or the natural sciences.Roberts, 21, of Midland, was among 323 winners chosen from 1,081 students nominated by college faculty members across the country.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/goldwater032906.htmCarolina North panel meets today
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Leadership Advisory Committee for Carolina North will meet at 4 p.m. today in Room 204 of the Kenan Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. Meeting-related parking will be available in the Kenan-Flagler Business School parking deck beginning at 3:30 p.m.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/carolinanorth033006.htmEmployees at UNC seek flexibility in 'flex time'
The Chapel Hill Herald
The UNC Employee Forum passed a resolution Wednesday calling on university officials to be more flexible in approving "flex time." ...Administrators are now drafting a new policy on telecommuting with the goal of promoting flexibility and meeting environmental and budgetary challenges, said Kathy Bryant, communications director in UNC's human resources department.
Students camp out for Darfur
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The genocide and refugee camps in Darfur don't feel far away for some UNC-Chapel Hill students. More than a dozen students set up a mock refugee camp on campus Wednesday to raise awareness about the crisis in the western Sudan. And they're going to camp out there all night for two nights in a row.
Cousteau to discuss his family's legacy
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Philippe Cousteau, president of EarthEcho International, will speak about his family's legacy that began with his grandfather, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, at 7 p.m. today in the Morehead building on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
Listen to Dessen
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Local author Sarah Dessen reads and discusses her latest novel, "Just Listen," tonight at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham. Dessen, an instructor at UNC-Chapel Hill, has written several novels for young adults including "That Summer" and "Someone Like You," which were the basis for the movie "How to Deal."
Peace has a future here (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
With all the bad news for Triangle-area universities recently, here's something positive: one of the world's six Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution exists right here, housed jointly at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. ...Susan Carroll, Coordinator, Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution
Party edgy over Black
The Winston-Salem Journal
As legal troubles mount for N.C. House Speaker Jim Black, some of his fellow Democrats are calling for him to step down as speaker. ...Ferrel Guillory, the director of the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at UNC Chapel Hill, said that Dem-ocrats in swing districts face an interesting dilemma.
Issues & Trends
ASU gives free ride to poor students
The Arizona Republic
Arizona State University is being hailed as the first college in the West to jump on a trend of offering a free education to low-income students. In 2001, Princeton University became the first university to implement such a program, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill became the first public university to offer a similar program in 2003.`Repulsive' Duke e-mail cited
The Chicago Tribune
Once Richard Brodhead read an e-mail in which a Duke lacrosse player apparently fantasized about cutting off the skin of strippers after killing them--sent within hours after an alleged rape off campus--he had seen enough. ... "When police do not have enough evidence to make an arrest, the detailed testimony from the victim amounts to a free shot at 46 people who have no way of contesting anything," University of North Carolina journalism professor Davis Merritt told the Raleigh News and Observer.
Free parking? Great, but ...
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Free on-street weekend parking has the support of Town Council members and business leaders. ...Poitras worries that UNC-Chapel Hill students would find a spot Friday evening and stay there all weekend without limits. On the other hand, two hours doesn't give enough time for many to soak up the downtown experience, i.e. spend money.
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