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Aug. 14, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:International Coverage
Women earn more under women managers
United Press International
U.S. women earn substantially more money and narrow the gender gap in income when other women in their workplaces are in senior management, a study found. ... Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who announced the study, said the study describes what happens to workers' pay when women break through the so-called glass ceiling -- the term giving to the limit on upward mobility for women and minorities in the workplace.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug06/genderwage081006.htmNurses can help patients quit smoking
United Press International
Several U.S. studies find that a few well-chosen words from a nurse can play a part in convincing smokers to quit. ... "These reports are evidence that nurses are widely recognized as central to global efforts to reduce the detrimental health effects of tobacco use," said Dr. Molly C. Dougherty, nursing research editor and professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug06/SONsmoking081006.htmCall to tax junk food
The Associated Press (Australia)
Governments should put a tax on junk food to combat the growing obesity epidemic, according to a US nutritionist. World Health Organisation (WHO) figures show there are now more than one billion overweight adults world wide, says Professor Barry Popkin of the nutrition and economics departments at the University of North Carolina.
National Coverage
Security Through Education (Opinion-editorial column)
The Washington Post
A national security crisis is brewing, and if our country doesn't take immediate action, it could be devastating for the future of the United States. ... Fortunately, we have seen several "enlightened" universities -- including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard University, the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland, College Park -- introduce programs to ensure that students from families at the lower end of the economic ladder can graduate debt-free.
Who Needs Harvard?
TIME
It's the summer before your senior year, and you're sweating. The college brochures are spread across the table, along with itineraries, SAT review books, downloaded copies of Web pages that let you chart the grades and scores of every kid from your high school who applied to a given college in the past five years and whether they got in or not. ... He won a Morehead scholarship to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a full ride offered to the very top students. It was not only the money but also the feel of the place that drew him.
Senior Women Managers Narrow Pay Gap
The Washington Post
American women earn substantially more money and narrow the longstanding gender gap in income if other women in their workplaces reach the ranks of senior management, according to a national study announced here. ... “The glass ceiling is about all women, not just women who become managers,” said Philip Cohen, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina who announced the study here Friday at the 101st meeting of the American Sociological Association.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug06/genderwage081006.htmExperts debate merits of safe-haven laws
The Chicago Tribune
When Anjel grows up, she will learn that she weighed 4 pounds, 15 ounces at birth, her first word was "dada" and she would suck two fingers on her left hand to fall asleep. ... Marcia E. Herman-Giddens,an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health, said her research into infant abandonment led her to conclude that social ills such as poverty, abuse and incest are often behind newborn homicides.
Personal products might not feel all that soothing (Opinion column)
The Chicago Tribune
For the last several years, cosmetics and personal-care products have been the top substances involved in poisonings, according to the Illinois Poison Center. ... The most recent study found that diethanolamine (DEA), used in skin lotion, shampoo and sunscreen, may inhibit brain development in baby mice when applied to the skin of their pregnant moms, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug06/zeiselDEA080306.htmDetainee's cause of death questioned
The Associated Press (National)
A medical examiner testifying in the assault trial of a former CIA contractor said Friday that an Afghan detainee the defendant interrogated probably died from a beating, but a defense expert said there's too little information to know the cause of death. ... (Anthony) Meyer, the chief of surgery at the University of North Carolina hospitals, said during cross-examination that he couldn't give an exact opinion about what led to Wali's death.
Tests might help sort out who should get, skip chemo
The Associated Press (National)
Scientists have created a gene-profiling test that might someday help reveal which people with early lung cancer are likely to suffer a relapse and would benefit most from chemotherapy. ... In the other study, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill compared how five gene-profiling tests performed at predicting outcomes of 295 breast cancer patients.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug06/nejmperou080706.htm‘Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs’
The New York Times
When Augustus Baldwin Longstreet wrote Georgia Scenes in 1835, he included among his characters a rambunctious and offensive native gentleman from Georgia by the name of Ned Brace. ... Excerpted from Building Houses out of Chicken Legs by Psyche A. Williams-Forson Copyright © 2006 by University of North Carolina Press
State & Local Coverage
Evans: defender or visionary?
The Chapel Hill News
The Jack-Evans-as-quarterback analogy was certainly a quotable one, but what exactly did Chancellor James Moeser mean when he used it to describe the new executive director of Carolina North? Evans, the 68-year-old business school veteran, did his best to explain last week, just a few days into his new role.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul06/evanscnorth072706.htmUNC rushes to fix classroom space crunch
The Chapel Hill Herald
Ongoing construction at UNC means that administrators have had to scramble and find temporary spaces to ensure that all classes will have rooms in which to meet this fall. ... "This fall and next spring are probably the worst semesters that I've seen so far," said Megan Keefe, who works in the scheduling section of UNC's Registrar's Office.
'Good Neighbor' teams to help students start off right (Opinion-editorial column)
The Chapel Hill News
As the start of the university's academic year approaches, our students will begin their migration back to the Chapel Hill area. Many longtime residents know well the rhythm of the late summer move-in, identified by moving vans, increased business activity downtown area and a general rise in the hustle and bustle of pedestrians along our streets. ... Peggy Jablonski is vice chancellor for student affairs at UNC.
It's time to welcome the students back (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
That sound you hear in the distance is the dim pounding of the herd, getting louder and louder and closer and closer. The students are getting ready to come back, and our community -- once again -- will be transformed. ... They like the almost pastoral place we have been and dread the chaos and tumult and cacophony that return with the full re-opening of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Teachers give their students APPLES
The Chapel Hill News
Service learning proves the axiom that nothing teaches like experience. Each time a student enters the APPLES Service-Learning Program at UNC, the semester-long experience opens their eyes to the realities of their chosen field. APPLES stands for Assisting People in Planning Learning Experiences in Service.
Gilead aims to speed AIDS drugs to poor
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Gilead Sciences is stepping up efforts to get more affordable HIV/AIDS treatments to patients in poor countries. ... Five months ago, a dozen members of the Student Global AIDS Campaign chapter at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill zipped themselves into body bags in front of Gilead's Durham operations.
53 deaths in five years tied to adult-care violations in rest homes
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
More than 50 people living in adult-care homes in North Carolina died recently after preventable mistakes. ... "The folks who are in long-term care, they are a frail elderly population, and you expect some deaths," said Bill Lamb of the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute on Aging.
Related link: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/15268446.htmDevil Is in the Details: Wording of immigration bill could have significant effect on the service sector
The Winston-Salem Journal
Tapping into the spending habits of the Hispanic community has been a risk-reward proposition for the Triad's service sector for years. A January report by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that Hispanics added $9.2 billion to North Carolina's economy in 2004 - an impact expected to grow much larger.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan06/economicimpact010306.htm
Is the Triangle square?
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Raleigh's newly opened Fayetteville Street is a fine public space that adds an interesting focal point to the Triangle, but it is a surprisingly lonely public accomplishment for an otherwise dynamic region. ... "I wouldn't say we are dull," said Bill Rohe, director of Center For Urban and Regional Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Area said to be haunted by the devil draws tourists, the curious
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Down the curvy back roads of Chatham County and beyond a stand of ancient pine trees is a spot supposedly so evil that nothing will grow on it. ... The tramping ground has found its way into numerous spooky texts and lists of mysterious sites in North Carolina. A UNC professor even named a book after it back in the 1940s.
Trip takes man a world away
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Is it any wonder that the son of a hospital chaplain and church pastor would go beyond the goal of a mission trip to Niger and benefit not one group of people, but two? ... A few weeks after Massey graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in May, he embarked on a two-month mission trip to tutor children in the West African country of Niger.
Team learns ropes for swiftwater rescuing
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC student Jordan Coates sat on a rock in the middle of the Haw River, gazing up at his rescuers as they rigged up their apparatus. It's no surprise that Coates didn't look scared in the least. Quite the contrary, in fact -- he joked and chatted with the team gazing at down at him. At one point, he poked at a snake peering out of the bushes.
Money better spent (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
I read the Aug. 5 letter by William Roper, CEO of the UNC Health Care System, defending UNC Hospital executives getting bonuses for meeting patient and staff needs, offering high-quality care and achieving financial goals.
Issues & Trends
Two new law schools join the mix
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Legal education in North Carolina will take an innovative turn this month with the opening of two urban law schools in Greensboro and Charlotte. ... The new schools will mean more lawyers and more competition in North Carolina, which for decades has had five law schools -- at Campbell, Duke, N.C. Central, UNC-Chapel Hill and Wake Forest universities.
N.C. In Running For $450M Agriculture Defense Complex
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
A consortium led by the School of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University has made the first cut in a bid to land a $450 million bio- and agriculture-defense complex to be built by the Department of Homeland Security. The group is a public-private partnership including NCSU, Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, Research Triangle Institute and several other entities.
A colorblind society still just an ideal in academia (Opinion column)
The Winston-Salem Journal
Carolina isn't ready for a black chancellor. Imagine the outcry you'd hear if a white leader at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said that. ... Winston-Salem State University, a historically black school and part of the UNC system, is searching for a new chancellor. The other day, Vic Johnson, a WSSU alumnus who is black, said that the school is not ready for a chancellor who isn't black.
Bowles’ savings plan for UNC starts at the top (Editorial)
The Free Press (Kinston)
Our hats are off to University of North Carolina President Erskine Bowles, who announced recently that he plans to make some significant reductions at the administrative level.Bowles, who took the helm of the UNC system at the first of the year, has proposed a 10 percent cut in the general administration budget.
Lacrosse error clouds story's credibility (Opinion column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
It's a reporter's greatest fear. He has been working for a month on a major investigative piece, part of the biggest ongoing local news story of the year. ... But Jean Folkerts, dean of journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill, credited the paper for correcting the error quickly and prominently. "I think that running the correction on the front page the way you did was a good sign of honest journalism," she said.
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