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Aug. 29, 2005Carolina in the News
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people and programs cited recently in the media:International Coverage
Trials beginning on new medication for sleeping sickness
Sudan Tribune (Paris, France)
Clinical trials are soon to begin on a new treatment for trypanosomiasis - also known as sleeping sickness - a disease that threatens about 60 million people a year in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The compound known as DB289 is the first new medication for the disease in 50 years, and the only oral medication that’s ever been developed, according to a new release on the trials released by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), the lead institution in the team which also includes researchers from Scotland, Kenya, England, and Switzerland.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug05/tidwell2082505.htmExpert: Katrina could unleash disaster
CNN.com (International)
Flooding expected from Hurricane Katrina could wreak catastrophe on New Orleans, overwhelming its water and sewage systems, damaging its structures and leaving survivors in a bowl of toxic soup, a top hurricane expert said Sunday. ...Rick Luettich, a professor at the University of North Carolina's Institute of Marine Sciences, compared Katrina's expected impact on areas far up the Mississippi to "grabbing the end of the bed cover and giving it a hard snap."
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/hurricanetip071805.htm
National Coverage
Freshmen books trend on campus
The Associated Press (National)
As the freshman class arrives at Philadelphia’s Temple University, they will learn about campus rules, meet with their academic advisers and, hopefully, read a book: “West of Kabul, East of New York,” Tamim Ansary’s memoir of life in Afghanistan and the United States. ... Some choices have been controversial, notably “Approaching the Qur’an,” an analysis of the Islamic holy text that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill selected in 2002.
Too Many Episiotomies in U.S.
Fox News.com
A study looking at episiotomy rates around the world shows that a third of American women get episiotomies during childbirth. ...Childbirth practices researcher Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD, estimates that close to 1 million unnecessary episiotomies are performed in the U.S. each year. She says episiotomies are probably medically warranted in fewer than 10 percent of cases. Hartmann is director of the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Science finally tackles a weighty sports issue
The Dallas Morning News
Nothing much consoles the hundreds of friends and family who honored the life of Fort Worth's Thomas Herrion last weekend, except, of course, the memories he left them. ...But is it? The Center for the Study of Retired Athletes in the University of North Carolina's department of exercise and sports science wants to find out.
Related Link: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/12497546.htm
Regional Coverage
At Mars Hill Church, purple hair is OK, but 'dogging it'
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Kate Justus recently professed her faith in a public way, getting dunked at sunset by pastors in wet suits as part of a mass baptism organized by Mars Hill Church. ...The site has "doctrinal commitments, for sure, but the traditional faith seems approached in a more open, hip, creative, searching way. Even the (wavy neon) graphic on their Web site ... suggests edgy," said Christian Smith, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, who has studied the spiritual lives of teenagers.
NCAA frowns on fantasy college football game
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Want to draft Ohio State's Ted Ginn Jr. for your college football fantasy game? ...But Koleman Strumpf, a University of North Carolina associate economics professor who studies the gaming industry, says the NCAA might be overreacting.
State & Local Coverage
New era for the performing arts
The Chapel Hill Herald
I trained as an organist but know that one doesn't have to be a musician to appreciate the attributes of a fine performance in a great hall. Get ready neighbors! Stellar performances in a state-of-the-art yet classic hall in your own backyard are close enough to touch. ...James Moeser is chancellor of UNC Chapel Hill.
There is no link available to this story.Broadening the foundation
The Daily Tar Heel
For the entire University community, this year is a milestone. ...“There were a couple days where my desk was literally shaking — vibrating — because of the jackhammers,” Chancellor James Moeser said last week.
Businesses welcome Hall’s impact
The Daily Tar Heel
Tony Bennett’s performance in September at Memorial Hall will do more than pack the renovated theater — it will get people stepping out in downtown Chapel Hill. “That’s part of the whole idea,” said Emil Kang, executive director for the arts, who is in charge of several campus performance spaces. “It’s a whole evening out.”
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug05/memorial082205.htmWelcomed research (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Few of the thousands of new residents of North Carolina each year arrive with as much fanfare as David Margolis. He started his research job at UNC-Chapel Hill this month, and at the same time caused an exciting international stir with news that while at his former laboratory in Texas, he had discovered that a common drug for seizures and depression may enable human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS, to be flushed from certain cells where it lies dormant.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug05/margolis081105.htmA good choice for summer reading (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Today is the day incoming students at UNC discuss their summer reading. They will gather across campus to examine their reactions to "Blood Done Sign My Name," by Timothy Tyson.Reading: Freshmen start off on same page
The Winston-Salem Journal
Summer's almost over. ..."We don't seek controversy," said Lisa Katz, a spokeswoman at UNC Chapel Hill, "but we don't shy away from it." Katz says that talk about this year's choice - Blood Done Sign My Name - has generated little of the scrutiny that two other books did in 2002 and 2003.
UNC Media Advisory: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2005/sumreadadvise082505.htmStudents welcomed, reminded
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Ted Parrish has stories to tell about the college students who lived in his Pine Knolls neighborhood last year. ...To help get things off to a better start this semester, some UNC-Chapel Hill students got unexpected gift bags Friday. The contents included a bus schedule, a guide to local night life, a voter registration form and a garbage collection schedule.Welcome to the neighborhood
The Chapel Hill Herald
It was the first week back in Chapel Hill for a lot of UNC students, and waking up and seeing a police officer with a gun at his hip standing at the door might have some people worrying what they did the night before. ..."The Good Neighbor Initiative," which is a collaboration among EmPOWERment Inc., the police department, UNC student government, the Dean of Students office and UNC University Relations.
New students, returnees fill UNC dorms on move-in day
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
The UNC campus looked a bit like a neighborhood-wide yard sale on Saturday. People milled around their cars and walked along the side of the road with armloads of household goods -- microwave ovens, fans, dishes, books, bedding materials and the like -- while carloads of others combed the area for parking spaces.
Police ready for return of UNC students
The Chapel Hill Herald
It's with a hope and a prayer that the Chapel Hill Police Department prepares for the UNC students' return to campus. For some students, being away from mom and dad is like a license to drink and to party, and although the students have only been back a few days, it seems as though students and police already have started their yearly battle.
A hearty welcome back to UNC students (Editorial)
Man aiding move at UNC-Chapel Hill dies
The Chapel Hill Herald
Yes, parking will be more difficult. The lines -- at stores, restaurants, movies, almost anywhere -- will be longer, too. And the town will be noisier, more crowded, probably dirtier and definitely different. But we're glad the students are back.
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A man moving a student into a UNC-Chapel Hill dormitory collapsed and died Friday morning. Joseph David Rayle, 60, of Winston-Salem was helping the student's family move her into Ehringhaus Residence Hall about 10:20 a.m. when he suffered what appeared to be cardiac arrest, a university police report said.
Related Link: http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-640589.htmlNeighborhood makes move to improve rentals
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Weeds, peeling paint, cars parked in front yards -- if not up on blocks -- drug dealing, frat parties. From the unsightly to the criminal, the management and monitoring of Durham's rental properties are associated with problems. ...William M. Rohe, director of the University of North Carolina's Center for Urban and Regional Studies, said the reason could be the age of Durham's housing stock and "who the housing was originally built for, which income group."Resegregation
"The State of Things," WUNC-FM
John Charles Boger, a co-editor of the new book “School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back?” (UNC Press/2005) and a professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was featured on today's edition of "The State of Things." North Carolina’s million-plus elementary and secondary students are now back in school. Those schools have been legally desegregated since the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case in 1954. But is that truly how it is in North Carolina? Is desegregation the same as integration, and, is integration the best thing for our schools. Host Frank Stasio speaks with guests on this topic.
Despite bill, airport's fate foggy
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Depending on whom you ask, UNC-Chapel Hill's Horace Williams Airport is: 1) standing in the way of progress, 2) a key artery in the state's health care system or 3) the future of regional transit. ...Chancellor James Moeser said he is willing to do what it takes to keep the "15 or so" physicians who regularly fly out of Horace Williams from being inconvenienced.
Related Link: http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-640414.htmlStyle on campus
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Back-to-school fashion doesn't always mean buying the latest looks. ...UNC-Chapel Hill students were more willing to try bright colors -- including the school's signature Carolina blue.
One or two N.C. College students will get to play 'Jeopardy!'
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Katie Shelton did not make the two-hour excursion from the campus of UNC Wilmington to The Streets at Southpoint to go shopping Saturday. ...The Brain Bus, the moving logo of the show's college component, already has visited Fayetteville State University and N.C. State, and will be at UNC Chapel Hill on Tuesday, N.C. Central on Wednesday and Duke on Thursday.
First Citizens stays in ceiling
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
First Citizens BancShares is a hot stock. ... And some corporate leaders see unusually high share prices a badge of pedigree, said Anil Shivdasani, a former Wall Street investment banker who teaches corporate finance at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Tainted Evidence? Appeal in 1993 capital case questions blood tests on a mixed bag of clothing
The Winston-Salem Journal
No one disputes that George Goode was nearby when Leon and Margaret Batten were stabbed to death on Feb. 29, 1992, in southern Johnston County. ..."I cannot imagine an unbiased scientist giving an opinion with the evidence that's been commingled as it was," said Rich Rosen, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the innocence commission.
Mixed Results
The Winston-Salem Journal
Scientific advances in fighting crime make forensic evidence the stuff of television dramas. ..."Louise Robbins wasn't a witness who said, 'I saw a footprint there and it looks like the same size as the defendant's foot' - what anyone else could say," said Rich Rosen, a law professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Good Fight (Editorial)
The Winston-Salem Journal
It's uncertain whether Alleghany citizens and officials will win their fight to keep an asphalt-paving plant out of the Laurel Springs area of their county, but they deserve credit for putting up a good fight. ...A professor of government and public law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, David Owens, said that would be the case if the company has a "legally vested right to completion" of the plant based on its actions so far. "So the question is, 'When does the plant get a legally vested right?' "
More people relying on federal food aid
The Greensboro News & Record
In the grocery store, Verna Jones is a prowler, a poker, a prodder. ...Sixty-eight percent of Guilford County recipients are black, 61 percent are women, and 44 percent are under 18 years old, according to statistics collected by the School of Social Work at UNC-Chapel Hill.
The doctors are in
The Chapel Hill News
At 7 p.m. on a Wednesday, most people's work day has ended. Not Hallam Gugelmann's. After a long day as a student at the UNC School of Medicine, the 26-year old begins round two of his day -- as director of the Student Health Action Coalition in Carrboro. ...The program runs on donations, grants and funding from the UNC Department of Health Affairs. The program has raised about one-third of an endowment goal of $600,000 to cover the costs of its outreach programs as well as the clinic operations.
Ackland reopens with exhibit of prints
The Chapel Hill News
A print is any picture made by pressing a sheet of paper against an inked surface. That's anything from a postage stamp to a billboard to this newspaper. So it's no wonder variety is a hallmark of the Ackland Art Museum's latest exhibition, "Three Sides to a Sheet of Paper: How Prints Communicate, Represent, and Transform (1482-2002)," which debuted Wednesday.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug05/threesides081605.htmIssues & Trends
Boost in repairs funding still not enough
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
When the state Senate released its proposed spending plan earlier this year, it included $23 million for the UNC system's repairs and renovation fund. ...Thus, UNC officials were happily surprised last week to learn that, through some strange twist of fate, the system would receive $57.5 million to allocate to its 16 campuses for the mundane, although important, fixes to roofs, air conditioning systems and the like. That's a full $10 million more than either chamber proposed during this year's legislative session.
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ColumnistArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784709022&path=!opinion!article&s=1037645509163Bowles would make good UNC head, but may face obstacle (Editorial column)
The Winston-Salem Journal
John Edwards, who could trademark "boyish good looks" for all the times that phrase has been used to describe him, doesn't exactly resemble an 800-pound gorilla. But metaphorically, that's what he might become as Erskine Bowles' latest run, that for the presidency of the University of North Carolina system, heats up.
Roles reverse as '05 Legislature nears the end
The Associated Press (N.C.)
When the 2005 legislative session began seven months ago, House members agreed to a bipartisan power-sharing arrangement, while Senate Democrats approved rule changes to quash Republican dissent. ...They included an item that would have given two University of North Carolina system campuses the autonomy to set a portion of their tuition rates.
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