December 9, 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

IBM Reassures Workers After Milestone China Deal
The Washington Post
During an IBM employee meeting here Wednesday, a worker got up and asked a question that perhaps only 10 years ago would have been unthinkable: If he wanted to keep his job helping to design some of the world's most advanced computers, would he have to move to China?...Daniel Reed, vice chancellor of information technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the IBM-Lenovo partnership is all about using globalization to rise to where the profit is.

United stuck in holding pattern
Chicago Tribune
Two years ago, Glenn Tilton promised United Airlines' customers and employees, "We're going to have to be leaner; we're going to have to be more focused."...United may never emerge from bankruptcy, said John Kasarda, professor of management at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.

State & Local Coverage

DWI Task Force
WUNC-FM News
The Governor's DWI Task Force has completed its work on curbing drunk driving in North Carolina. The report doesn't recommend raising the tax on beer. Some panel members are unhappy about that. WUNC's Laura Leslie reports.
Note: Robert Foss of the Highway Safety Research Center was interviewed for this story.

Big Blue's new chapter (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
IBM is the same company that came to Research Triangle Park four decades ago to build the mother of all mainframe computers....Afterward, the project's leader, Fred Brooks Jr., decided to teach at UNC-Chapel Hill and planted the idea of an RTP location with then-chief executive Thomas Watson.

Open Meetings Law to be main topic at board meeting
The Chapel Hill Herald
The state Open Meetings Law will be a central topic at the next board meeting of the new downtown development corporation....The board has invited David Lawrence, a professor in the UNC School of Government, to speak about the law at the Jan. 12 meeting, along with Chapel Hill Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos and local lawyer Tom Higgins, who helped the group file for its incorporation as a nonprofit earlier this year.

Majority may rule on agenda
Washington Daily News
A proposed method of preparation for the Beaufort County commissioners' monthly agendas could comply with state law....The law allows county boards of commissioners to set their own rules for agenda-preparation, said David Lawrence, a professor at the School of Government in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Onslow looking at hiring a lawyer
The Daily News (Jacksonville, N.C.)
When the Onslow County Board of Commissioners decided to change attorneys this week - dropping Roger Moore after 27 years in favor of his partner, Ron von Lembke - it might have been only the start...For some questions, the staff calls the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Issues & Trends

Right result, wrong tone (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
The only positive about the Town Council's debate on the upkeep of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery is that officials ended up doing more or less the right thing.
Related News & Observer story: http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1913618p-8258382c.html

Officials investigate complaint against U.Va.
The Associated Press (National)
Federal education officials are investigating a complaint that the University of Virginia's undergraduate admissions policy discriminates against white applicants.

Nan Keohane to Join Harvard Corporation Board
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Former Duke University and Wellesley College President Nan Keohane will join Harvard's executive governing board next year.

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