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Dec. 8, 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
Military reactions
"The World," BBC News
Captains Rye Barcott and Croft Young -- UNC-Chapel Hill alums who've just returned from Iraq -- talk about their reaction to the Iraq Study Group report. The Iraq Study Group said in its report that the United States can't reach its goals in the region without dealing directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Barcott is 2001 graduate with double major in peace, war and defense, and international studies. Young is 1995 graduate with major in international studies.
National Coverage
2 Fatal Blazes Renew Focus on Fraternities’ Lack of Sprinklers
The New York Times
With fatal fraternity house fires in Nebraska and Missouri last month fresh on their minds, fire officials in a handful of college communities have intensified their push for city ordinances requiring fraternity and sorority houses to install sprinkler systems. ...Lawrence, Kan., and Chapel Hill, where a 1996 fraternity blaze killed five students at the University of North Carolina, are the two cities fire officials cite most frequently as models for this kind of ordinance.
Mixed Messages
Newsweek
Drink ice-cold water ("your body has to burn calories to keep your temperature up") and hot water with bullion cubes ("only 5 calories a cube, and they taste wonderful"). ...But the pro-ana and pro-mia sites, which the study says are more numerous than pro-recovery sites, tend to gloss over that kind of information—and the fact that people with anorexia are more than 56 times more likely than their peers to commit suicide, says Cynthia Bulik, director of the eating-disorders program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Personal Problems Become Back Pain (Commentary)
ABC News
Science seems to be bursting with promise, if you believe what you hear and read — but the reality is slightly more grim. Seems like science can't help anyone escape their own psyche. ...Dr. Nortin M. Hadler is a Professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Attending Rheumatologist at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC.
All but the announcement from John Edwards (Editorial)
McClatchy Newspapers
The only thing missing was the announcement that he's running. The grand themes were there. ...Why else has he aggressively been promoting anti-poverty efforts across the United States from the platform of the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina's law school?
George Tindall, 85, Historian Who Charted the New South, Dies
The New York Times
George B. Tindall, a noted historian of the American South, died on Saturday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 85. ...At his death, Professor Tindall was Kenan professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he had taught for more than 30 years.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/tindall120406.htmState and Local Coverage
Textile Outsourcing
"The State of Things," WUNC-FM
Students from Patrick Conway’s “Economics of North Carolina” class at UNC-Chapel Hill were featured on today's (Dec. 8) edition of "The State of Things" to discuss the upside and the human side of global competition."The State of Things," WUNC-FM Globalization and restructuring knocked the wind out of North Carolina’s textile industry in the past decade, resulting in plant closings and layoffs affecting thousands of workers.
Tackling ills of age
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A 75-year-old man arrives in the emergency room complaining he can't breathe. ...With the state's elderly population booming, the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing is taking training programs -- and two high-tech dummies -- across the state over the next three years to teach nearly 1,100 nurses to recognize atypical symptoms of illness in older patients.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug06/AHEC_geriatric082906.htmlCancer patient's photo wins international honor
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...The Wilson family is donating the $10,000 to the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and a smaller award to the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing. The photograph will be part of an art exhibit next year titled "Lilly Oncology on Canvas" that will be displayed around the world.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar05/katherine030805.htmlLessons in healing
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
If Katie Vogel can get one child to smile during science class, she views that as a success. ...This fall, Vogel debuted "Healing and Hope Through Science" -- a program she created to provide hands-on science classes and one-on-one instruction for hospitalized children at Duke and UNC's children's hospitals.
Book selected for reading program
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The book has been chosen for Durham Reads Together 2007, a program that encourages people to read or listen to the same book and attend programs and events surrounding the story's themes. ..."It is a book about courage and character, dreams and consequences, economics and education that also happens to be about basketball," said David Carr, an associate professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science.
Win -- at what cost?
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
For the second time in four years, North Carolina's Educational Foundation is embarking on a multimillion-dollar fundraising drive to supplement the salary of a new coach -- a move that raises questions about the role of boosters, and big money, in intercollegiate athletics. ...UNC Chancellor James Moeser said that isn't the case at Carolina, where checks and balances are in place to make sure no donor erodes his, or athletics director Dick Baddour's, authority.
Roberts: Are coaches salaries out of control? (Opinion column)
The Greensboro News & Record
William Friday, president emeritus of the University of North Carolina system, has never been afraid to butt heads with football fans, coaches and athletic directors. ...The contract of football coach John Bunting was bought out in mid-season by the UNC Athletic Department to the tune of an estimated $700,000.
Critic's picks - Rock
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In the abstract, it's impossible to take Ray LaMontagne as seriously as he seems to take himself. ...LaMontagne plays Sunday at UNC-Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall.
Related links: http://www.newsobserver.com/669/story/518868.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/669/story/518857.html
Events@Carolina: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov06/events@carolina.htmMuseum's director to retire
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The N.C. Museum of History might have a new chapter to add to its tumultuous history of departing directors. ...Buford said that under her guidance, the museum has expanded its outreach and guest speaker programs, increased Web traffic, created a foundation and used its support to hire a development director. It also formed a teacher-education partnership with UNC-Chapel Hill.
Issues and Trends
Some donations ask too much of a university
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
There's a common sense story that folklorists love and that herpetologists know to be scientific nonsense. It's the one about the frog and boiling water. ...The Pope Foundation has tried and succeeded with numerous versions of this -- both at UNC-Chapel Hill and at N.C. State University.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/663/story/518884.htmlUniform study track approved
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
All ninth-graders beginning high school as soon as 2008 will need to complete the same courses now required for admission to the UNC system under a plan that the State Board of Education approved Thursday.
Former UNC Board of Governors chairman Ruffin dies
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Benjamin S. Ruffin, a one-time aide to Gov. Jim Hunt and the first black chairman of the state university system's governing board, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack, a university spokeswoman said.
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