February 13, 2003

Carolina in the News

Current National Coverage

Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina 
people and programs cited recently in the national media:

Holiday From Hell
ABC News
The beat of the drums is infectious. So is the energy of a tall, white man in the 
middle of a circle of drums. ... Rye Barcott, 23, a young officer in the U.S. 
Marines, chose to spend his vacation in one of the worst slums in Africa. ... For 
Barcott is also the founder and current president of Carolina for Kibera, a small
humanitarian organization based out of the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill. ... 
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/kibera_marine030209.html
(Note: Other recent coverage of Carolina for Kibera includes CNN.)

Quick Test Identifies Stroke, Experts Say 
Reuters (international wire service)
A quick test -- simply asking an ailing loved one to smile and answer a question 
-- can help virtually anyone diagnose a stroke, doctors said on Wednesday. ... 
"As the brain is deprived of oxygen during a stroke, it's literally starving minute-
by-minute," medical student Amy Hurwitz, who led a study presented at a 
meeting of the American Stroke Association in Phoenix, said in a statement. 
"The sooner the patient receives proper treatment in the appropriate medical 
setting, the better the chances for a full recovery," added Hurwitz of the 
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. ...
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=2218422

One Dimensional (Commentary)
American Prospect
Health reform is back on the national agenda thanks to the rapidly rising costs for 
medical care and growing ranks of the uninsured ...
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/02/oberlander-j-02-12.html
(Note: Jonathan Oberlander is assistant professor of social medicine at Carolina.)

National News Note

NBC-TV's "Nightly News" aired an interview with Suzanne Landis, adjunct 
professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health and associate 
professor of family medicine in the School of Medicine, on Wednesday night. The 
report was about the Buncombe County Medical Society Project Access, which 
Landis directs. This report is available to view online. Go to 
http://www.msnbc.com/news/NIGHTLYTB_Front.asp and on the right hand 
side near "Free Video," click on the right arrow until "Asheville’s plan for health "
is displayed. Click on "Start" to watch the report.

State and Local Coverage

Gov. Easley meets with survivors of factory explosion 
The Herald-Sun 
One mother looks forward to bringing her daughter home soon. Another thanks 
God for her son's steady recovery. A teary-eyed father describes his son's recent 
downturn. Two weeks after a factory explosion that killed four people, Gov. Mike 
Easley heard disparate stories of recovery Wednesday from the families of victims 
who remain at North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center. ... "It doesn't take but a split 
second for the injury to happen, but it takes a long time to get better," said Dr. 
Anthony Meyer, chief of surgery at UNC Hospitals, which includes the burn 
center. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/state/6-320097.html
(Note: Besides this regionally distributed Associated Press story, other outlets 
covering Gov. Easley's visit to the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center included The News 
& Observer, The Chapel Hill Herald, Kinston Daily Free Press, WUNC-FM, 
WCHL-AM, WPTF-AM, WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh), WTVD-TV (ABC, 
Raleigh), WNCN-TV (NBC, Raleigh), WLFL-TV (Warner Brothers, Raleigh), 
News 14 Carolina (Time Warner, Raleigh), WCTI-TV (ABC, New 
Bern) and The Daily Tar Heel.)

UNC gets $4M grant
Triangle Business Journal
The National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases has 
awarded a $4 million grant to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
medical scientists to establish a new center for multidisciplinary clinical research
on arthritis at the schools of medicine and public health. ...
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2003/02/10/daily31.html
(Note: A UNC news release about this grant is available at 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb03/jordan021203.html)

UNC ‘has funding plan’ for cleanup 
The Herald-Sun
UNC Chancellor James Moeser says the university now has a "funding plan" for 
cleaning up a chemical dump on the edge of the Horace Williams property. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-320187.html

Jazz festival swings into action
News 14 Carolina 
The 25th anniversary Carolina Jazz Festival kicks off Wednesday night. Cuban 
pianist Chucho Valdés opens the annual festival with a concert at 8 p.m. ... 
Trombonist Slide Hampton, trumpeter Scott Wendholt and bassist Charlie Haden 
will be the maestros visiting the University of North Carolina for this year’s festival. 
Festival director James Ketch, a UNC music professor, department chair and 
jazz studies director, said he is both gratified and impressed by the talent featured 
in this year’s festival. ... 
http://rdu.news14.com/content/top_stories/?ArID=23399
(Note: A UNC news release on the festival is available at 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb03/jazz021103.html)

Lobbyist leaves tips 
News and Observer
As public universities gear up for what could be a difficult budget year at the 
General Assembly, they might heed the assessment of a former UNC-Chapel Hill 
lobbyist ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2199229p-2079109c.html

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

College-Entrance Preferences for the Well Connected Draw Ire
The New York Times
One morning in late February, Mike Schoenfeld will gather about two dozen 
manila folders from his desk and carry them to a hearing room inside the admissions 
office of Middlebury College. ... Now that critics of affirmative action have 
persuaded the Supreme Court to consider whether black and Hispanic applicants 
are taking the rightful spots of more-qualified whites, some supporters of race-
conscious admissions are mounting a counteroffensive. They complain that it is the
preferential treatment afforded some applicants because of their parents' wealth 
or college affiliation that is unfair. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/13/education/13LEGA.html
(Note: The New York Times requires a subscription to access articles.)

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