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Aug. 30, 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
Not Just for Kids Why anorexia and bulimia are on the rise in women confronting their midlife years
Time Magazine
Psychiatrist Ann Kearney-Cooke has been treating eating disorders for 23 years. ..."Some doctors have a stereotype of who develops an eating disorder," says Cindy Bulik, director of the eating-disorders program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "I know patients whose doctors said, 'You can't have bulimia. That's a young white woman's disease.'"
Activists join anti-car network
CNN.com
When the United States declined to ratify an international treaty that would impose limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases, four twentysomething Pittsburghers decided to take action. ...Foy said Chapel Hill, neighboring Carrboro and the University of North Carolina invested in that idea. They operate a combined transit system with an annual budget of more than $12 million, serving about 6 million bus riders a year. The towns' combined population is about 75,000, plus some 25,000 UNC students.
What Is the Proper Mission of Spanish Departments? (Letter to the editor)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Ilan Stavans is right to assert that Spanish departments need to be more attentive to their students' needs. ...Five years ago an interdisciplinary group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recognized that graduates in the health sciences were increasingly unable to perform their jobs without knowledge of Spanish.
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UM institute to aid China in its fight to halt AIDS
The Baltimore Sun
Already a force in the fight against AIDS in Africa, the University of Maryland's Institute of Human Virology is expanding its reach to Asia with an agreement to help China keep its emerging epidemic from exploding into one of the world's largest. ...Founded by Gallo in 1996, the institute is the latest of several U.S. research institutions to join China's fight against AIDS. Others include the Johns Hopkins University, University of North Carolina and Harvard University.
State & Local Coverage
Reconciling Oxford's past with its present
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Although she grew up there, the Oxford Laurie Morton knows so well bears little resemblance to the racially divided cauldron of hate she read about when she sat down this summer with UNC's summer reading assignment. From the pages of "Blood Done Sign My Name" emerged a town in crisis -- split along racial lines in 1970 by the brutal murder of a black man in broad daylight.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan05/srp011905.htmlAuthor says story still speaks to world
The Chapel Hill Herald
Timothy Tyson was 10 years old when a black man was brutally beaten to death in broad daylight. Now, 35 years later, Tyson is still talking about it. ...He channeled his recollections of the event first into a scholarly thesis and ultimately into an award-winning work of nonfiction, "Blood Done Sign My Name." The book was used this summer as UNC's summer reading selection; on Monday, new students assembled in small groups across the Chapel Hill campus to discuss the book and its modern-day ramifications.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan05/srp011905.htmlUNC students discuss summer reading book
News 14
Thousands of students sat down to talk about UNC-Chapel Hill's summer reading program on Monday. Faculty and staff at the school held nearly 200 discussion groups across campus about the book "Blood Done Sign My Name" by Tim Tyson.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan05/srp011905.htmlConcerts could increase tourism dollars (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Laurie Paolicelli, the new director of the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau, has the right idea. She wants to increase tourism to the area -- that's her job, after all -- but understands that doesn't mean you have to build a theme park on Franklin Street. ...And this area does have a pretty good mousetrap. It's called the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and it brings in tourists for a variety of reasons.
Grant helps UNC, Shaw Effort
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Shaw University and the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine a three-year, $852, 263 grant to create the Shaw-Carolina Center for Prostate Cancer Research.
No link available.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug05/shawuncpg082405.htmPeople
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Priscilla Bratcher, a veteran fund-raising professional, has returned to UNC as director of development in the recently established Office of the Executive Director for the Arts.
No link available.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug05/bratcher081705.htm
Dr. Douglas A. Drossman, professor of medicine and psychiatry at UNC's School of Medicine, has been appointed to an Institute of Medicine committee studying health issues among veterans of the 1991 Gulf War and the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Irag.
No link available.
UNC News Brief: http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2005/080405.htm
Kendra Fish of Castle Rock, Colo., has been awarded the fourth Thomas Wolfe Scholarship in creative writing.
No link available.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug05/wolfe081705.htm
UNC student Sean Overbeeke and alumnus Paul Edwards have won the inaugural Saint-Hayden Media Awards, established by actress Eva Marie Saint and her husband, director Jeffrey Hayden.
No link available.
UNC News Brief: http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2005/080405.htmTar Heels watch, wait out storm
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
North Carolinians with ties to New Orleans watched reports Monday on Hurricane Katrina, many giving thanks that it wasn't quite "The Big One" forecast. Others in North Carolina mobilized to help the victims. ...Gail Agrawal, the interim dean of UNC's law school and a New Orleans native, invited all her law students from Louisiana, Mississippi and the Alabama coast to bring lunch and join her in the "Rumpus Room" at the school to watch storm coverage Monday.
'Technogeek' nudges nonprofits onto Web
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Ruby Sinreich is an evangelist, but not in the traditional sense. Mark Chilton, a Carrboro alderman running for mayor, is one of a few people Sinreich has tapped as "authors" allowed to begin new discussion topics on the site. Chilton, who has known Sinreich since their days in the Student Environmental Action Coalition at UNC-Chapel Hill, says the site has attracted a lot of attention.
Muddying the waters
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
For 23 years, Elaine Chiosso has worked to guard the 110-mile Haw River and its tributaries from Forsyth to Chatham County. ...Seth Reice, an associate professor of biology and ecology at UNC-Chapel Hill, studied water quality regulation at sites monitored by local programs, which can enact their own tougher restrictions, and sites monitored by the state. He said the study found enforcement of regulations -- including how often sites are visited and how often penalties are assessed -- was more important than the regulations themselves.
Oak Island sign law is unconstitutional
The Wilmington Morning Star
When mayoral candidate Amanda Hall’s supporters began sporting magnetic campaign signs on their car doors, Oak Island officials said they broke town law. ...Arnold Loewy, a constitutional scholar who teaches at the University of North Carolina law school, was asked if he thought the Oak Island ordinance unacceptably chills free speech.
Dorm life lasting longer
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
There are two forces in the life of Leigha Morris that control where the St. Augustine's College sophomore lives. ...The Triangle's three state schools -- UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University and N.C. Central University -- have no residential requirements.
High school student charged with raping pre-teen
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Local police have charged a Chapel Hill High School student with first-degree statutory rape after he allegedly had sexual relations with a girl under the age of 13 at a Chapel Hill motel. ...According to "N.C. Crimes, A Guidebook on the Elements of Crime," published by the School of Government at UNC Chapel Hill, consent is not a defense to statutory rape.
A burr gets the yank (Opinion column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
If at first you don't succeed - just wait a few years and the dude'll mess up. For real this time. That appears to be the philosophy over at UNC-Chapel Hill, where they finally got rid of burr-in-the-saddle campus cop Edwin Swain.MED-EL Corporation's Revolutionary Cochlear Implant System Offers Highly Sophisticated Hearing Capabilities to Profoundly Deaf
The Lincoln Tribune (Lincoln, NC)
MED-EL Corporation, an implantable hearing technology firm, today introduced the revolutionary PULSARCI100, which offers some of the most highly advanced cochlear implant technology available in the United States. ..."We have been waiting for the opportunity to offer this device to our patients because of the new, advanced electronic design and the chance to provide patients with the absolute latest in cochlear implant technology," says Dr. Pillsbury of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Issues & Trends
Students, campuses gear up for new math requirements
The Fayetteville Observer
English is Jennifer Blankenship's favorite subject, but she realizes that taking advanced math courses will help her improve as a student. ..."You would have 12 months from the first day you matriculated to pick up the math credit as an elective," Kanoy said. He is UNC senior associate vice president for academic and student affairs.
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