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Dec. 4, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Free tuition
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Students from families with incomes below $25,000 a year can now attend Arizona State University free. ...With the move, Arizona State joins several other public flagship institutions, such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia, as well as a number of elite private colleges, in defraying most costs of its neediest students.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/apr02/eardec042502.htmSeeing Distractions and Trying to Stop Them
The New York Times
For many drivers, navigating traffic is just one of several priorities. There are cellphone calls to be made, newspapers to be read and hairdos to be fixed. But the distracted driver, it seems, is a dangerous one. ...A 2001 study commissioned by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and done by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center found drivers were more likely to be distracted by roadside curiosities or while adjusting the radio or talking to passengers than by cellphones.FDA to study stent safety
The Associated Press (National)
Millions of chest pain and heart attack sufferers thought they were getting a phenomenal medical advance when tiny coils that ooze medicine were placed in their arteries to keep them from squeezing shut again. ...“They just don’t understand how important it is to continue,” said Dr. Sidney Smith of the University of North Carolina, past president of the American Heart Association.
Stents and Sensibility
U.S. News & World Report
What should you do if you're among the millions of Americans with a drug-coated stent protecting your heart–or might be a candidate for one? ...The ideal bare-metal candidate, says Sidney Smith, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Science and Medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, is not on the table because of a heart attack, does not have diabetes, and has a defined blockage, in a large artery, that is away from any branches.
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The Washington Post
What is being called an "ill-conceived prank" by its members has caused more problems for a fraternity already in hot water for breaking the rules at the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina.
Regional Coverage
Court to hear diversity case
The Wichita Eagle (Ks.)
The Supreme Court is diving into a debate over school diversity that is as old as Reconstruction-era efforts to integrate blacks into the mainstream and as new as the 5:35 a.m. start time on some buses carrying students across town in Louisville, Ky. ...Jack Boger, dean of the University of North Carolina School of Law, said the Supreme Court's decision probably won't affect Wichita because it is not under a court order.
State and Local Coverage
UNC officials heading to China
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC Chancellor James Moeser and other Carolina officials will visit China this month to co-host a conference on health care with a prominent university there. ..."I think it's critical for American universities, and especially for American research universities, to be engaged with China," Moeser said.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/chinavisit120406.htmCMS called example of imbalance
The Charlotte Observer
Why should Seattle and Louisville, Ky., be allowed to keep schools racially balanced? Just look at Charlotte, say three former school board members and their lawyers. ..."Districts that maintain racially isolated schools lose public support because parents believe that they are in battle against each other for the best schools and the most resources," says the brief, filed by lawyers from the UNC Chapel Hill Center for Civil Rights on behalf of Arthur Griffin, Sarah Stevenson, Louise Woods and 13 CMS students.
Race's role in education weighed
The Charlotte Observer
The question before the U.S. Supreme Court today: May school districts in Seattle and Louisville use racial diversity to assign students? ...Lawyer with the UNC Chapel Hill Center for Civil Rights, after hearing Superintendent Peter Gorman's reform plan Wednesday. "Ashley Osment is insane. ... It is not as if busing was a great boon to low-income, minority kids in Mecklenburg. ... What it did do was help cover up problems and spread low-performing populations around the county, the better to hide the need for true, bottom-up reform in public education."
High court's eyes on Wake schools
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Wake County's race-blind approach to school assignments may help shape the outcome of a high-profile Supreme Court case being presented Monday that would effectively end the nation's 52-year chapter on desegregation. ..."If we educate students in isolated schools, they're going to be hugely disadvantaged, both in working together in tomorrow's business world and in participating cooperatively in the nation's political life," said John C. Boger, dean of the UNC Law School and an expert in school desegregation.Durham school gets pictures of health
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Almost 200 children at Oak Grove Elementary School were caught Friday scrawling all over the walls. ...The medical students, from UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, hoped the mural would bring attention to preventing childhood obesity.
Related link: http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-795152.htmlUNC women win soccer championship
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Heather O'Reilly went out a winner. The North Carolina senior forward scored one goal and assisted on another to help the Tar Heels achieve their yearly aim -- an NCAA championship.
Related link: http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061203/
NEWSREC0105/612030322/-1/NEWSRECRSSARKIVEPaper both criticizes and profits from sports (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
An N&O editorial predictably found fault with UNC-Chapel Hill's compensation package for incoming football coach Butch Davis (Nov. 29, "The message in money"). I say predictably because in matters related to college athletics, especially where economics come into play, the editorial board is consistently in opposition. ...Steve Kirschner, Director of Athletic Communications, UNC-Chapel Hill
Related links: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/16146534.htm
http://www.newsobserver.com/580/story/516855.htmlPaper thieves try to block the news (Opinion column)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Anyone in the newspaper business has encountered situations where the subject of a news story has tried to keep it out of the paper. ...Wednesday morning, unfortunately, it happened, in what we would like to think is a most unexpected place -- the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/579/story/517124.html
DA's critics ask bar, feds to intervene
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In the war that is the Duke lacrosse case, Mike Nifong's fierce fight will not end with the trial. ...The request for federal intervention is aggressive and rare, said Richard Myers, a UNC-Chapel Hill law professor and former federal prosecutor.
Long road trip ahead? Don't `drive drowsy'
The Charlotte Observer
Call it stoicism or stupidity, but I bet many of us have made one of the most dangerous decisions possible: driving while extremely tired. ..."Once you're sleepy enough, you can't will yourself to stay alert," said Jane Stutts, associate director of the UNC Highway Safety Research Center in Chapel Hill, who said interviews with drivers after sleepy crashes generate some of the saddest stories she has heard.
Living links to Pearl Harbor wane
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The three soldiers were ambling to breakfast, enjoying the Hawaiian December morning, when the Japanese bomber dived at them. ...We lose the chance to ask them questions, and we lose people it's simply special to be around, said Richard H. Kohn, a former chief of history for the Air Force and a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Vets offered free legal help
The Greensboro News & Record
A legal clinic at Durham's N.C. Central University will begin offering free help in January to military veterans having problems with their claims for government benefits. ...Registration isn't complete, but so far at least five Central students, plus another 25 from UNC-Chapel Hill's law school, have signed up.
Issues and Trends
Smile-worthy indeed (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Regarding the Nov. 30 editorial "A smile-worthy step": Your editorial about the proposed East Carolina University dental school was right on target. As you pointed out, the Brody School of Medicine is proof that ECU can handle the challenge of educating those who will provide a high level of health care to our citizens.
ECU dental school proposal deserves $90-million review
The Kinston Free Press
East Carolina University appears to have its ducks in a row for getting a new dental school at the Greenville campus. ...Some dentists suggest that expanding the dental school at UNC Chapel Hill would be more cost efficient.Village Project holds first open house
The Chapel Hill Herald
The nonprofit Village Project celebrated some of its accomplishments over the past six years with its first-ever open house on Sunday. Crafting an alternative concept plan for the Carolina North campus has been one of the volunteer group's more prominent steps in recent years. In its vision for Carolina North, the group kept the same key uses that UNC has in mind for the new campus, such as a large amount of research space, but it dramatically increased the housing units and decreased the parking spaces.
Related link: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/108/story/3989.html
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