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Dec. 6, 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
Mexico's president faces challenges (Letter to the editor)
The Los Angeles Times
Re "Calderon's daunting to-do list," Current, Dec. 3: While I share much of Jorge Casteneda's analysis of Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon, I disagree with his assertion that President Vicente Fox "did not resort to the bloody repression for which most of his predecessors came to be known." ...ALTHA J. CRAVEY, The writer, an associate professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is co-director of the documentary "People's Guelaguetza: Oaxacans Take It to the Street."
Proceed with Caution: Presentation Roadblocks
Sales & Marketing Magazine
The list of potential calamities is endless, and the opportunity for disaster always looms. ..."Add what you have to say as an addendum," says Judy Jones Tisdale, business communications professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Regional Coverage
Minnesota No. 1 in health, but getting fat
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Minnesota is still the healthiest state in the nation, so why are health officials worried? ...The survey, which is done by independent national public health scholars and supervised by the University of North Carolina, notes that Minnesota is behind some nations in key areas.
State and Local Coverage
Carolinas HealthCare explores deal with UNC
The Charlotte Observer
Carolinas HealthCare explores deal with UNC Board approves study on possible branch campus in Charlotte Karen Garloch. ...Carolinas HealthCare System officials said Tuesday they are exploring a collaboration with UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine to start a branch campus for third- and fourth-year medical students in Charlotte.
Related link: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/16174390.htmUNC to study formation of medical school in Charlotte
The Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill is working with Carolinas HealthCare System to create a medical school in Charlotte.
Area doctors to educate FDA on stents
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Triangle cardiologists will be among the experts heard this week by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel considering the safety of stents, tiny mesh tubes that prop open the arteries of hundreds of thousands of Americans. ...A UNC-Chapel Hill cardiologist, Dr. Sidney Smith, will brief the advisory panel meeting in Maryland about why the nation's leading cardiology groups adopted the drug-coated stents, hailed as a breakthrough when they were introduced in America in 2003.
Doctor showers the arts with gifts
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Assad Meymandi is on a giving spree. ...On Saturday, he met with UNC-Chapel Hill officials to plan a $1 million gift to endow the Carolina Performing Arts Series. With the gift, the red-brick terrace outside the newly renovated Memorial Hall will be named Meymandi Plaza.
Chinese delegates learn about 'Making Choices'
News 14
Some Wayne County elementary school students had very special guests visit them in their classroom Tuesday. ...“They were very impressed by the program and how the teachers taught in the classes and taught the behavior and tried to teach the lessons about physical aggression, social aggression, all those kinds of things,” said Dr. Shenyang Guo, an associate professor with the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work.
UNC Media Advisory: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2006/makingchoices113006.htmIt's not easy being green
The Chapel Hill News
Whatever you think about global warming, at least one spot on the planet got a little heated Monday night: the Council Chambers in Town Hall. ...However, Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning, said the university will strive for a LEED Silver rating and 20 percent lower energy use.
Related link: http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/
2006/12/06/City/Unc-Developments.Approved.By.Town-2524261.shtml?sourcedomain
=www.dailytarheel.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.comUNC building, parking lot projects OK'd
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC now has permission to go ahead with several major building projects on its main campus, and also to create a new park-and-ride lot on the north side of town at Chapel Hill Bible Church.
Related link: http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/chhedits/57-796372.cfmKenan expansion in planning stage
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
North Carolina athletics director Dick Baddour hopes the university eventually will tear down the old football field house, fill in the east end zone with academic support space, and add luxury boxes to the south side of Kenan Stadium.
Related link: http://www.wral.com/sports/10470830/detail.htmlParents discuss issues with schools
The Winston-Salem Journal
When Ashley Osment talked last night about how North Carolina schools are resegregating, the small crowd of parents nodded in agreement. ...Osment, a senior attorney with the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights, was one of six speakers at a meeting last night of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
UNC Tip Sheet: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2006/amicus120406.htmLabor ally may shepherd Edwards' campaign
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
David Bonior, a former top Democratic congressman from Michigan and a key ally of organized labor, is expected to manage John Edwards' likely 2008 presidential campaign. ...The live broadcast of MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" from UNC-Chapel Hill will occur Tuesday. The program initially said in a news release that it would be Monday, but it was changed.
Edwards is edging closer to running
The Winston-Salem Journal
The first primary is still more than a year away, but presidential contenders on both sides of the aisle are beginning to line up. ..."He's got a pretty impressive schedule if he's not running for president," said Ferrel Guillory, the director the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Related link: http://www.fayobserver.com/article_ap?id=96003High coach salaries bring benefits (Letter to the editor)
The Chapel Hill News
William Friday’s lament over Butch Davis’ salary is a case of misplaced idealism (“What are priorities for college spending?” Nov. 29). At some colleges, coach salaries pay for themselves through athletic contributions. For most others, athletic budgets bring net fundraising gains. Furthermore, sports branding helps recruit top students and employees. Perhaps all this is what Friday was thinking for 25 years when he made his employee Dean Smith a rich man.
Related link: Sports spending is out of control, http://www.chapelhillnews.com/155/story/4036.htmlRoses & raspberries (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
Roses to the UNC women's soccer team, which on Sunday downed Notre Dame 2-1 to win its 18th NCAA championship. The Tar Heels put the clamps on the nation's top-scoring offense and handed the Irish their only defeat of the year.SILS dean is program's guest
North Carolina People, UNC-TV
Dr. Jose-Marie Griffiths, dean of the UNC School of Information and Library Science, was featured on North Carolina People discussing the school's programs and the range of opportunities for the school's graduates.
Note: The program aired on Friday, Dec. 1, and Sunday, Dec. 3.
Web profiles new source for police
The Charlotte Observer
When police went to search a Wilmington house for stolen PlayStation 3 consoles last week, they brought heavily armed deputies because a picture on the Internet had made them think the college students inside might be armed. ...Fred Stutzman, a doctoral student in information science at UNC Chapel Hill, said young people who post their profiles online often don't realize police may be looking at them.
State tries to drop turnover at care homes
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Susie Pickens appreciates knowing the people who care for her at Somerset Court in Goldsboro. ..."Nothing like this has been done anywhere in the country, so it's a novel use of the license to raise the bar," said Bob Konrad, a work-force specialist at the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute on Aging. "It's like a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval type of thing, but it's stronger than that."
New Union board axes growth limits
The Charlotte Observer
Union County's newly installed commissioners came out swinging: Only minutes after taking office, they reversed key growth-control measures put in place by their predecessors. ...It could be following a pattern common for suburban counties, said Richard Ducker, a professor in the Institute of Government at UNC Chapel Hill.
Plant specimens donated
The Charlotte Observer
UNC Charlotte is donating its collection of Piedmont plant and flower specimens to Mecklenburg County. ...UNC Chapel Hill has moved its herbarium from the biology department to the botanical gardens, an idea Barden said the department investigated here. Barden said the botanical gardens, too, are strapped for space.
Lecture explores Native Americans
The Wilmington Morning Star
Brett Riggs, a research archaeologist from UNC-Chapel Hill, will give a lecture, "Archaeology of Native Americans in Southeastern Northern Carolina," at 10 a.m. Monday at the Leland Library.
Sigma Chi fights punishment
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC's Sigma Chi fraternity chapter is continuing to appeal its punishments for charges of hazing new members.
George B. Tindall
The Chapel Hill News
George Brown Tindall of Chapel Hill died Dec. 2 at Carol Woods Health Center. He was 85. He was a retired professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he had taught since 1958. He was a veteran of World War II.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/tindall120406.htmIssues and Trends
Neglect 101 (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
North Carolina founded the nation's first public university in 1791. In the 215 years since, political support for higher education funding has remained strong. ...UNC system President Erskine Bowles has echoed those themes, but the National Conference of State Legislatures report is very specific.
UNC enters dispute over NCSSM lighting
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
UNC system officials have intervened in the dispute between the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics and its neighbors, and say they'll have an engineer from their flagship campus review the lighting plan for the school's new soccer field.
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