August 12, 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

Thick and proud
Philadelphia Daily News
Kensington teen Elias Colon has no trouble explaining his type of woman....She suggested parents and caretakers take a look at the healthy-weight calculator at the Web site for Get Kids In Action (www.getkidsinaction.org/1_obesity/), a health advocacy group sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Gatorade Co.

State & Local Note
Richard Kohn, professor and chair of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense in the College of Arts and Sciences was a guest today on WUNC's "The State of Things" and spoke about current issues in the military. The program airs weekdays on WUNC and will be rebroadcast at 8 p.m. today.

State & Local Coverage

City looking for ideas of what to do with flood buyout area
The Free Press, Kinston
A handful of once-crowded neighborhoods in the southeastern section of town one day will host many different kinds of "firsts."...They have a plan prepared by the University of North Carolina that suggests everything from hiking trails to a soccer field for the area.

No Olympics, no regrets
The News & Observer
Tony Waldrop was sitting in front of a television 28 years ago, a chemistry book in his lap, when he had his one-and-only bout of "what if."..."I was watching the [Olympic] Games, the 1,500, and I did pause for a moment and wonder, because the race was run in a way that would have been set up for me," said Waldrop, now vice chancellor for economic development at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Finance chief warns of debt trouble
The Charlotte Observer
If Union County officials don't curb spending, especially school construction, the county will owe more money than it can handle in five years, the county's top financial planner warned....John Vogt, a professor of public finance at UNC Chapel Hill, said a county of Union's size would "want to remain well within 15 percent."

Group seeks to save old house on campus
The Chapel Hill Herald
A community group that includes state Sen. Ellie Kinnaird is asking UNC to reassess its plan for a new Arts Common on the northwestern edge of campus.


Issues & Trends

Helping All Students (Editorial)
Winston-Salem Journal
Discovery is often little more than relearning lost knowledge....That's been done in the past 15 years, first as the state determined the low SATs were a result of a weak curriculum for A students and then, when the University of North Carolina raised admission standards, adding new required courses.

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