February 27, 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 media:

Wall St. firms to tap insurers 
New York Daily News
Wall Street's biggest banks are expected to ask their insurance firms to pay some 
of the $1.5 billion cost of a settlement with regulators over research conflicts of 
interest ... "If what they've engaged in is a settlement that says they've got to spend 
money on different things, they'd strongly consider deducting those," said Doug 
Shackelford, a tax professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill. ...
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/63095p-58632c.html

Atmosphere hurts UGA's minority recruitment 
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
Southwest DeKalb High School senior DePorres Cormier is a near 4.0 student who 
scored 1510 on the SAT. ... Many schools begin wooing top students as early as 
ninth grade, with personalized letters from college presidents and invitations to visit 
the campus. Some, including Georgia Tech and the University of North Carolina 
at Chapel Hill, offer summer programs on campus that pair select high school 
students with African-American college students as mentors. ...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0203/27uga.html

Support for war lagging among blacks
The Houston Chronicle
President Bush's push toward war with Iraq has found less support among blacks 
than among whites and Hispanics, reflecting what some say are economic fears and 
long-standing resentments over past mistreatment. ... Blacks are also less likely to 
perceive Saddam Hussein as the same type of direct threat as al-Qaida and Osama 
bin Laden, said Joseph Jordan, director of the Sonya Haynes Stone Center for 
Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina. ... 
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/iraq/1795126
(Note: This national Associated Press story was also featured in The Lansing 
State Journal.)

Super View of Galactic Superwind 
Astronomy Magazine
A giant bubble of glowing gas towers over the heart of spiral galaxy NGC 3079, 
50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major ...
http://www.astronomy.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/001/221qjtyf.asp
(Note: This article is accompanied by two composite images produced by Gerald 
Cecil, professor of physics and astronomy.)

State and Local Coverage

UNC School of Pharmacy gets $20 million gift 
The Herald-Sun
It’s a good thing William Campbell answers his telephone. The dean of UNC’s 
School of Pharmacy, Campbell was seated at his desk not long ago when the phone 
jingled. "I answered it, and he asked what he could do to help the school," 
Campbell said Wednesday of the conversation with Fred Eshelman, a 1972 alumnus 
of the school. "I asked if he could give $20 million." ... Wednesday’s midday 
announcement occurred in the lobby of the Banks D. Kerr Hall, a recently-opened 
addition to the pharmacy school financed in part by a $2.1 million donation by the 
pharmacy chain mogul for whom the hall is named. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-325204.html

Donation is UNC's 3rd largest 
News and Observer
When Fred Eshelman was a student at UNC-Chapel Hill's pharmacy school in the 
1970s, he pictured a career as a hospital pharmacist, not a multimillionaire
businessman. The Wilmington entrepreneur, whose pharmaceutical services 
company PPD Inc. generated $563 million in revenue last year, returned to his alma 
mater Wednesday with a pledge of $20 million. It was the largest gift ever made to
any U.S. pharmacy school and the third largest individual donation to UNC-CH. ... 
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2261270p-2131345c.html

Eshelman pledges $20 million to UNC-CH
The Wilmington Morning-Star
Wilmington businessman Fred Eshelman committed $20 million Wednesday to the 
School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of 
the largest gifts to the campus from an individual. In exchange, the university honored 
the founder of pharmaceutical company PPD by proclaiming Wednesday Fred 
Eshelman Day. ...
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=WM&Date=20030227&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=302270313&Ref=AR&Profile=1004
(Note: The Morning-Star's front-page coverage includes a News Services-
supplied color photo from the event.)

Other coverage includes an Associated Press story based on the UNC news release, 
The Winston-Salem Journal, The Triangle Business Journal 
(http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2003/02/24/daily24.html), WRAL-TV 
(CBS, Raleigh) (http://www.wral.com/health/2006321/detail.html) and The Daily Tar 
Heel (http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/02/27/3e5e1990cbbd3)

A UNC news release featuring photos from the event is available at 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb03/eshelman022603.html)

Drug cuts risk of repeat clots
Charlotte Observer
Small doses of an old-fashioned blood thinner can safely and sharply reduce the 
risk that people who have survived life-threatening blood clots will suffer a potentially 
deadly recurrence, according to a major new study. ... Stephan Moll of UNC Chapel 
Hill, who helped conduct the study, said he was involved in a study evaluating 
a new blood thinner called Exanta that was promising and may be safer. ...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5272568.htm
(Note: This article originally appeared in The Washington Post. A UNC news 
release about this study is available by clicking here.)

A gratifying eureka! 
News and Observer
Dr. Paul Meis keeps a sign taped to his door at Wake Forest University Baptist 
Medical Center, typed out in computer calligraphy: ... "In my 20 years of obstetrics 
I can't think of anything this dramatic," said Dr. John M. Thorp Jr., a professor 
of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of 
Medicine in Chapel Hill and a principal investigator in the study. ...
http://newsobserver.com/features/story/2261398p-2131333c.html

Helping 'The Big Mo' in Chapel Hill (Commentary)
News and Observer
The former lobbyist for UNC-Chapel Hill kind of laid it all out there in a farewell 
report to her bosses. ...
http://newsobserver.com/editorials/story/2261204p-2131330c.html

Lang set to answer council 
News and Observer
In what could turn into a testy exchange this evening, Mayor Glen Lang will formally 
respond to conflict-of-interest concerns that the Town Council has raised about some 
of his outside financial ties. ... A. Fleming Bell, a professor of local government 
law and ethics at UNC-Chapel Hill's Institute of Government, said Capitol 
Broadband'scontracts with apartments managed by Drucker & Falk do not by themselves 
represent a conflict of interest for Lang ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2261278p-2131223c.html

Dance Marathon tops 2002 mark 
The Herald-Sun
UNC’s Dance Marathon set yet another fundraising record this year, bringing in more 
than $167,000. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-325195.html

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Title IX Reformers Keep Men in Mind
The New York Times
A federal commission formed to examine Title IX, the 1972 law that forced schools 
to offer women equal opportunity in sports, delivered its final report today, 
recommending that the law be retooled to ensure that new sports opportunities for 
girls and women do not come at the expense of boys' and men's teams ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/sports/othersports/27TITL.html
(Note: The New York Times requires a subscription to access articles.)

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