February 3, 2005

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Marines Miss January Goal for Recruits
The New York Times
For the first time in nearly a decade, the Marine Corps in January missed its monthly recruiting goal, in what military officials said was the latest troubling indicator of the Iraq war's impact on the armed services....Richard H. Kohn, a military historian at the University of North Carolina, said, "It's most troubling because the Marines tend to attract people who are the most macho, seek the most danger and are attracted by the service most likely to put them into combat."

From a distance, day still special (Commentary)
USA Today
People look at you funny when you tell them you're not covering the Super Bowl...."People will wait for this one event," said John Sweeney, professor of sports communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ownership Society versus New Deal
The Christian Science Monitor
President Bush's domestic agenda, particularly his proposal to reshape Social Security with private accounts, might mark the most profound change in the relationship between Americans and the federal government since the New Deal helped pull the United States out of economic depression some 70 years ago....This would undermine that contract significantly," says William Leuchtenburg, professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina and one of the most prominent chroniclers of the New Deal era.

Southern Blacks More Prone to Die From Stroke
Health Day News
American black men living in southern states are at significantly higher risk of dying from stroke than black men living elsewhere in the country, researchers report..."The results underscore the need to know more about the incidence and survivability from stroke," said Wayne Rosamond, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State & Local Coverage

Kenan to lend China a hand
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Although the next Summer Olympics games don't get under way in Beijing until 2008, UNC-Chapel Hill's Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise already has teamed with a top Chinese university to help Olympics officials, the Chinese government and businesses plot the logistics necessary to stage the event.

WUNC to add space in Durham
The Chapel Hill Herald
When Joan Siefert Rose proposed opening a studio for occasional live WUNC broadcasts from the American Tobacco Historic District, she never imagined how the idea would grow.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/orange/story/2085230p-8463983c.html

UNC step to honor Spencers opposed
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
The saga surrounding UNC's now-defunct Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award has taken another twist.

Paying to play in Chapel Hill (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The amazing thing is that they're proud of it. That's the kicker, yes it is, when it comes to the fact that a political action committee representing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill topped a lot of corporate special-interest types in giving campaign money to politicians. During the 2003-04 election cycle, the group calling itself Citizens for Higher Education gave $362,000 to all candidates, reports The N&O.

Blueprint: Dole cited for '02 election campaign
The Winston-Salem Journal
Republican congressional leaders, eager to help President Bush pass major Social Security reform this year, are telling rank-and-file members to follow the lead of a successful senatorial candidate who used the issue to propel her to victory - Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C....Ferrell Guillory, the director of the Program on Southern Politics, Media and the Public Life at the University of North Carolina, cautioned Republicans against reading too much into Dole's victory in 2002.

Rooting for Clouds
The Winston-Salem Journal
Moments before Lil' Bit made her prediction about winter early yesterday, she stood in an empty brick building, a former barbecue restaurant, not far from several still in business whose owners were anticipating lunchtime crowds....Germans made up only about 10 percent to 15 percent of the state's settlers before the American Revolution, said Henry Watson, the director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Pop the hood, guys
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Joseph Guess, 61, used to go eight, nine years at a stretch without seeing a doctor....Dr. Culley Carson, chief of urology at UNC-Chapel Hill, said he's seen men in their 50s and 60s who have never been to a doctor.

Groups buy 70 acres for conservation effort
The Chapel Hill Herald
A "working partnership" among the Eno River Association, the North Carolina Plant Conservation Program and the N.C. Botanical Garden at UNC has successfully purchased the 70-acre Stevens Tract owned by Tom and Emilie Stevens.

Issues & Trends

President Bush Calls for Bigger Pell Grants, More Job Training at 2-Year Colleges, and Less Federal Spending
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In his State of the Union address on Wednesday night, President Bush called for increasing the size of the Pell Grant, expanding job training at community colleges, and reining in federal spending.

Leaders: Higher ed must align with changing economy
The Associated Press (N.C.)
North Carolina colleges need more partnerships and more outreach if they're going to educate workers for an evolving economy, business and education leaders said Wednesday.

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