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Dec. 11, 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
The Aerotropolis
The New York Times Magazine
In September, Bangkok witnessed the opening of the Suvarnabhumi Airport, which when finally completed will include virtually all the components of a major metropolis: shopping malls, office buildings, hotels, hospitals, an international business center, conference and exhibition spaces, warehouses and even a residential community. ...John Kasarda, a scholar of urban planning at the University of North Carolina, defines the term as more than a place for planes to come and go.
Iraq heavy burden on Bush
McClatchy Newspapers
In the spring of 1964, an anguished President Lyndon Johnson vented his frustration over the war in Vietnam. ..."Mr. Bush, I think, is attracted to the martyrdom of Harry Truman's presidency and the enormous reversal of his status amongst historians 20 years later," said Richard Kohn, a historian on leave from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill writing a book on wartime presidential leadership.
Analysts Predict Castro Will Never Return to Power
"Weekend Edition," National Public Radio
Louis Perez, Cuba expert at UNC, was featured on Sunday's (Dec. 10) "Weekend Edition." Fidel Castro did not appear at the delayed birthday celebration held in his honor earlier this month. Castro handed over power to his brother Raul last summer after announcing that he was ill with an unexplained intestinal complaint. Many analysts have come to believe that Castro is probably not coming back.Krzyzewskiville closed to joint scholars from North Carolina
The Associated Press (National)
Duke University may open its classes to some students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but there's no home for rival Tar Heels in Krzyzewskiville.
Regional Coverage
A new kind of life
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Down, down, two miles underground went the elevator - if you could call it that - a steel cage, really, dropping at nearly 40 miles an hour into the hot, sulfurous blackness. ...Andreas Teske, a microbiologist at the University of North Carolina, is skeptical. But he said the new research answers a key question: What do subsurface bacteria use for food?
'St. Francis' is latest bank name to disappear
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The name "St. Francis Bank" soon will join Wisconsin's growing graveyard of well-known banking brands that have succumbed to acquisition or simply outgrown their original names. ..."You need to have one name for your banking system, and you decide based on which name has the most potential, which has the most current brand equity, how strong its relationships are with its customers," said Bob Lauterborn, a professor of advertising at the University of North Carolina and expert in branding.
Waiting for land on the fringes
The Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas)
The gritty flip side of Brazil's remarkable agricultural expansion can be glimpsed along a dirt road at the far end of Rio de Janeiro state. ...The 22-year-old MST has become the most organized of the groups that fight for land reform, says Wendy Wolford, a University of North Carolina geography professor who lived among MST members for a year.
State and Local Coverage
Moeser in China on health care mission
The Chapel Hill News
UNC Chancellor James Moeser will lead a delegation visiting Beijing and Shanghai this month to help develop recommendations for health-care reform in China.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/chinavisit120406.htmCSI: Croatan High School
The Daily News (Jacksonville)
Croatan High School sophomore Kristel Harlacher has watched forensic science put to work to solve crime on the popular CSI television shows, but this week she was the one who had the latest in lab equipment in her hands. ...The bus is one of two used for UNC-Chapel Hill’s DESTINY Traveling Science Learning Program. Destiny made stops recently at each of Carteret County’s three high schools.
UNC Media Advisory: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2006/destinybeaufort112706.htmRobertson Scholars' ticket ban to remain
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Duke University administrators say they won't step in to reverse a student government decision that bars some beneficiaries of a joint scholarship program with UNC from joining this year's Krzyzewskiville basketball-ticket campout.
Town's lost opportunities
The Chapel Hill News
The Town Council's troubling approval of Monday night's resolution beginning the final phase of negotiations on their expensive and off-track downtown project capped off my fifth year of local activism. ...UNC's Carolina North Leadership Advisory Committee (LAC) started out with a few hiccups. But by taking the town's 2005 Horace Williams Citizens' Committee's principles as a guideline for Carolina North, the LAC poised itself for success.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov06/cnorthadvance112206.htmAll the (sports) news that's fit to print (Opinion column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Question: Is The N&O part of the problem of sports commercialization on college campuses? Or is it part of the solution? ...The News & Observer's klieg-light coverage of the revolving-door coaching changes at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State -- with up-escalator salaries -- has caused some readers to question the paper's decision-making.
N&O's disconnect (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
I was amused by the righteous indignation expressed regarding the hire of Butch Davis as UNC-Chapel Hill's football coach in your Nov. 29 editorial "The message in money." I can only presume that the venerable N&O is planning to put its own money where its mouth is and cease extensive coverage of the heinous institution that is major college athletics.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/694/story/519747.htmlIllegal but loved
The News & Observer (Raleigh)/The Chapel Hill News
The illegal immigration debate inevitably conjures images of Hispanics creeping across a desert. ...They're unlike typical border-crossers. This group tends to have more money and better schooling. They come from nearly every nation, said James Johnson, a UNC-Chapel Hill immigration expert.
An early start in research
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Felicia Walton started work in a microbiology lab at Duke University when she was 17, not old enough by law to do some of the experiments. ...Gary Pielak, a chemistry professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, invites students as freshmen to his biochemistry lab. He starts them off slowly, assigning them to a graduate student to oversee a simple experiment. If they show promise, he said, "I put them on swing-for-the-fences kind of projects."
Scientists' goose is cooked unless they regain public trust (Opinion column)
The Winston-Salem Journal
Imagine this scenario: Some time this winter, a chicken on a small poultry farm in Western North Carolina will be found carrying the H5N1 avian flu, the virus associated with fears of a worldwide pandemic. What happens next? ...Dr. Tom Linden, a medical doctor who teaches in the UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication where I am also a part-time teacher, said that public trust of scientists, scientific findings and the government is down for a number of reasons.
Study links landfills to minority communities
WWAY-TV (ABC, Wilmington)
There seems to be a link between landfills and minority communities. That's according to a study presented this week to a legislative committee in Raleigh. ...A professor from UNC-Chapel Hill told the committee that landfills are twice as likely to be located in communities where the minority population exceeds ten percent than in predominantly white communities.
In Thailand, U.S.-style care without the expense
The Charlotte Observer
When Paul Reeve needed major dental work, he shopped around. The best deal came from a UNC Chapel Hill-trained dentist who would do the work for $10,000, instead of $37,000 quoted by others he questioned in the Charlotte area.
Enjoy the nightmare and the beauty that is our South
The Charlotte Observer
I came from Alabama. There was no banjo. ...Bill Ferris, professor of Southern studies at UNC-Chapel Hill told me over the phone last week, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." That's a smart man's way of saying the more things change the more things stay the same.
Top photo honors daughter with cancer (Opinion column)
The Charlotte Observer
Although her family often joked about her camera skills, Morganton resident Anne Wilson's photograph, "This is Not a Dress Rehearsal," was recently named best in the United States in a photo competition about people with cancer. ...Katherine also inspired the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing to establish an endowed scholarship fund in her honor. A bass fishing tournament organized by Katherine's high school classmate, Matt Farris, owner of Foothills Marine in Morganton, raises thousands of dollars for the fund each year.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar05/katherine030805.htmlReading project to use 'The Last Shot'
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The fact that a strong fan base for basketball figures into the fabric of this community had to have figured into the selection of Durham's second community reading selection. Right? ..."It is a book about courage and character, dreams and consequences, economics and education that also happens to be about basketball," said Carr, an associate professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science.
Expert: Last-minute agenda legal
The Charlotte Observer
A new majority on Union County's Board of Commissioners may have made their opponents angry when they added unexpected items to the agenda last week, but a government expert says they did nothing illegal. "There's really not a requirement that they have an agenda," said Fleming Bell, a professor at the Institute of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Tindall, 85, expert on Southern myths
The Chapel Hill News
Southern historian Dr. George Brown Tindall, Kenan professor emeritus at UNC, who is remembered as an early advocate of equality for black Americans, died Dec. 2 in Chapel Hill. He was 85.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/tindall120406.htmGun club fired up over hobby
The Chapel Hill Herald
Officers of UNC's Tar Heel Rifle and Pistol Club grew up firing guns. Club president Dax Dixson, of Pikesville, started target shooting when he was 4 and, as a teenager, began entering competitions for firing military surplus rifles.Issues and Trends
Chapel Hill chief stepping down
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Come April, if the UNC men's basketball team makes another run to the Final Four, Chapel Hill Police Chief Gregg Jarvies will be joining the revelers rather than reining them in. ..."The streets can be deluged with 100,000 people in a flash," said George Hare, patrol commander for public safety at UNC-Chapel Hill and a former patrol commander with the Durham Police Department.Next generation of developers ready to beam us up (Opinion column)
The Chapel Hill News
You go to enough meetings, you begin talking meeting-ese. ...That's the message of the Village Project, a group best known for its alternative vision for UNC's Carolina North research campus (in short: lots more housing, a lot fewer parking spaces).
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