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December 8, 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
A legal titan throws his hat in the governor's ring
The Christian Science Monitor
Eliot Spitzer, the crusading New York attorney general, has made it official: He wants to be governor...."People have soured considerably on Washington insiders," says Thad Beyle, an expert on governors' races at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Fuzzy thinking and fizzy science (Letter to the Editor)
The Boston Globe
It's somewhat amusing that just days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was forced to admit that it had significantly overstated the number of obesity-related deaths in America, Derrick Z. Jackson's column claims "there is little debate left" over the health risks of fat ("The fairy tale about soft drink nutrition won't sell," op ed, Dec. 1)....Jackson ignores key studies from the Georgetown Center for Food and Nutrition Policy and the University of North Carolina, which conclude that soda doesn't cause obesity.
State & Local Coverage
Rethinking industry, a Southern specialty (Opinion-Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Globalization is provoking a lot of anxiety in North Carolina these days....Peter A. Coclanis is the Albert R. Newsome professor of history, and associate provost for International Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Get on with the action
The Chapel Hill News
More than 100 kids were running around in circles, screaming and yelling and jumping up and down. And the parents were smiling....Along with UNC athletes and alumnae like volleyball player Katie Wright and soccer's Kristine Lilley, the 8- and 9-year-olds frolicked about the indoor playing surface.
Ram's Club hopes to bring in nearly $1M by seating fans courtside
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
From his seat at the Smith Center, Paul Lawing doesn't have to look down at his beloved Tar Heels.
Pink tickets
The Chapel Hill News
The two men, decked out in Carolina blue hats and sweatshirts, thought they had lucked out.
Stadium naming rights sold
The News & Record (Greensboro)
The scoreboard is up, there's grass on the field and now the city's new downtown baseball stadium has a name...."That should make it stand out, because no one else in the (Triad) area has a title sponsor," said John Sweeney, professor of advertising at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Dangerous season for deer, drivers
The Charlotte Observer
It's peak season for deer-related car crashes, and highway safety officials in the Carolinas are warning drivers to be careful on the roads....Fifty percent of all deer-related crashes in North Carolina happen during October, November and December -- coinciding with both mating and hunting seasons when deer are especially restless, according to the UNC Highway Safety Research Center in Chapel Hill.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct04/robertso101304.htmlIcagen preps for an IPO
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Icagen for a fourth time updated its plans to go public, prompting expectations that the Durham drug-development company may follow through on its long-dormant initial public offering of stock as early as January....One of the study's lead investigators, Dr. Kenneth Ataga, an assistant professor of medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, presented the study results at a meeting of the American Society of Hematology last weekend.
Menorah is miracle on ice
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
It's a bit of a paradox, chain-sawing a menorah out of ice on an unseasonably warm December day in honor of Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday that stretches over eight days....The real miracle Tuesday night, said several people attending the first public menorah lighting on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus, was that the 5-foot candelabrum didn't topple over when lit.
Issues & Trends
Risky Business Redux
The Chronicle of Higher Education
If Alice Handy hadn't become an endowment manager, odds are that she could have excelled as a high-stakes poker player....Ms. Handy was one of several endowment fund managers who left higher education in the last year to set up private investment firms. Jay Yoder, director of investments at Smith College, departed to set up a private hedge fund and alternative asset firm; Mark Yusko left the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to start a private asset-management company.
Subscription required.UNC's Broad view (Editorial)
News & Record (Greensboro)
Molly Broad makes access to higher education a top priority for the University of North Carolina. Enrollment numbers point to success.
Expectations for athletes (Editorial)
The Daily Dispatch (Henderson)
We've stereotyped athletes in our society - football players in particular - as dumb jocks. And at some institutions of higher learning, the stereotype might be true....Sounds bad, doesn't it? And in some cases, it is. But we must look inside the numbers to find the truth, which in some cases reveals a brighter story, and in others - including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - shows that there's still a lot of work to do.
Town OKs $220,000 in cemetery repairs
The Chapel Hill Herald
The town has agreed on $220,000 in repairs and improvements to the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, although not without some sharp dissent among Town Council members.
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