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February 7, 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
North Carolina: Edwards to direct center on poverty
The New York Times
Former Senator John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice-presidential candidate, will direct the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, which the University of North Carolina plans to establish at its law school, a university spokeswoman said.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb05/edwards020405.htmlBack in N.H., Edwards Is Mum on 2008 Run
The Washington Post
Former senator John Edwards returned to New Hampshire on Saturday for what could be described as a coda to the 2004 presidential campaign....On Friday, officials at the University of North Carolina announced that Edwards will head a new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, a nonpartisan entity that will let him explore the divisions between the nation's rich and poor, a subject that animated his presidential campaign.
Staying in the Game
Newsweek
I'm OK," former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards says....Come spring, when school lets out, they'll move back to North Carolina, where he has taken a position as director of the new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Related link: http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=50529Edwards's Speech Is on Poverty, but Focus Is on Where He Spoke
The Associated Press (National)
In what appeared to be an early start for the 2008 campaign cycle, John Edwards told New Hampshire Democrats on Saturday that poverty was "one of the great moral issues of our time," and he pledged to help fight it....The University of North Carolina announced on Friday that Mr. Edwards would direct a new center on poverty, which will be affiliated with its law school.
Edwards returns to UNC to take up issues of poverty, work
The Associated Press (National)
One of former Sen. John Edwards' main themes on the presidential campaign trail in 2003 and 2004 was the gap between the haves and the have-nots in American society....Edwards, a 1977 graduate of the law school at UNC, also will be a guest lecturer on campus beginning later this semester, said Dean Gene Nichol of the UNC-CH law school.
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Cox News Services
A cultural disconnect in Dixie
U.S. News & World Report
The hundred or so Democratic activists gathered in an auditorium at North Carolina Central University on a January weeknight to meet with state party bigwigs have each been given two paper flags--one green, one red....Kerry discussed his faith on the campaign trail reluctantly and was perceived in the South as culturally foreign, "a windsurfer and snowboarder," says University of North Carolina Prof. Ferrel Guillory.
Resumes: Make them clear, correct and direct
Chicago Tribune
As first impressions go, a well-crafted resume is critical to grabbing employers' attention....University career centers are invaluable resources for making sure all these elements are in place. "We're very good with using our red pencils," says Marcia Harris, director of career services at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Making a Case
The Chronicle of Higher Education
It has been 188 years since Harvard Law School, the nation's oldest, accepted its first class...."I'd be really concerned ... about giving national accreditation with that poor level of bar passage," Judith W. Wegner, former president of the Association of American Law Schools and a professor and former dean at the University of North Carolina School of Law, said in an e-mail interview.
Subscription required.Collaborative Efforts: Promoting Interdisciplinary Scholars
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Creative research and teaching increasingly occur at the junction between traditional disciplines....The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill further advises that: "The arrangement most likely to protect the faculty member is to assign basic responsibility to the 'home' department but to require that the review committee include faculty from both units."
Subscription required.Please Take My Advice (Book Reviews)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A perennial complaint about higher education -- repeated at conferences, in articles, and in university corridors across the country -- is that professors are not taught how to teach....Peter Filene, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Filene has written several books, including a novel, Home and Away. He has won six teaching awards.
Subscription required.Regional Coverage
Tim Tyson on race and murder
The Capital Times (Madison, Wis.)
Tim Tyson could not be more surprised. Late in January, Tyson learned that he and [Bob] Dylan had both been nominated for a prestigious National Book Critics Circle award ...Not only did "Blood" receive the nomination for the national award, but it has just been selected as the book that all incoming freshmen at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill must read before coming to campus and then discussing it.
State & Local Coverage
Edwards revs up for race in 2008
The Charlotte Observer
Three months after losing the last national election, former U.S. Sen. John Edwards effectively began his campaign for the next one Saturday night....On Friday, UNC Chapel Hill announced that Edwards will head a new center on alleviating poverty, a constant theme in his run for the presidency last year before losing the nomination to Kerry.
Related links in N.C. newspapers:
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10826122.htm
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/politicians/edwards/story/2094948p-8473846c.html
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2091588p-8470172c.html
http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-573248.htmlToo cold to paint? Not so true any more (Commentary)
The Charlotte Observer
Researchers who unveiled a new study of lending practices said prepayment penalties and balloon payments lead to more foreclosures...."We can say with conviction that predatory lending leads to more foreclosures and lost homes," said Michael Stegman of UNC Chapel Hill, director of the Center for Community Capitalism.
College costs giving us the blues (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
So the trustees of The Nation's Oldest Public University think it right and fitting that students there should continue to pay even more....That's why an assistance program like the Carolina Covenant is crucial.
Airport issues keeping UNC from unveiling next version of Carolina North
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/Chapel Hill Herald
It's not clear when UNC will unveil the next version of plans for the research campus it hopes to build on the Horace Williams tract off Airport Road, a senior university official says....Vice Chancellor Tony Waldrop led the effort last winter and spring to present the last version of plans for the Carolina North campus.
Dorm themes expand intellect
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Erika Stallings is a college sophomore who juggles a heavy academic course load, participates in several student organizations, takes part in campus politics and surrounds herself with friends....Randi Davenport, executive director of the UNC-CH Johnston Center for Excellence, says she knows of no other program like the one that her organization and the UNC-CH housing department plan to launch this fall.
AIDS creeps back
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
HIV infections in North Carolina are back near their 1990s peak. Today, a patient is likely to be poor, black and, with rising frequency, female -- someone like Bulia Ramsey....Dr. Peter A. Leone, an AIDS researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill and lead author of the report, said the HIV patients in the study reported feeling powerless to protect themselves.
Our fair share?
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A confederacy of health leaders from 14 states published the "Southern States Manifesto" in 2003 with a mission not of secession but of greater inclusion....One of the most troubling trends is an outbreak of HIV infections among African-American men in college. Dr. Peter Leone, who studies infectious diseases at UNC-Chapel Hill and is medical director of the state's HIV prevention and care branch, led a team of researchers who discovered the outbreak.
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Research going full-steam (Question and Answer)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Note: Myron Cohen is director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at the UNC-CH School of Medicine.Scholarship program a boon for UNC workers (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
In the interest of full disclosure, Bruce Egan is a longtime friend and colleague of this newspaper. He has written an every-other-week Sunday column for The Chapel Hill Herald for several years and is also the brains behind the Sunday features The Chapel Hill Challenge and One-on-One.
Moeser's compromise worth pursuing (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC Chancellor James Moeser finds himself between the proverbial rock and hard place. Not only is it not comfortable, he doesn't have very much room to maneuver either.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/print/monday/opinion/story/2097757p-8476539c.htmlMale birds work hard to snag mates
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
When the attention lavished early in a courtship fades, take heart. Nature -- not a mate's uncaring ways -- may be to blame....A UNC-Chapel Hill biologist has discovered that male songbirds work hardest to lure attractive females when success is uncertain. When she-birds stick around, males quiet down.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb05/sockman020105.htmlTrue believers
The Chapel Hill News
Facts be damned; they want to believe. Sure, some things got twisted around - for effect, by error, whatever - but the underlying message still resonates in hearts and minds....The heretic on hand was Bart Ehrman, chairman of the UNC religious studies department and author of a book titled "Truth and Fiction in 'The Da Vinci Code.'"
CDC backs study on how Latino youths adjust to U.S.
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Being bicultural isn't just an asset. For Latino teens, it can be a survival skill....At least that's what some early research shows, says Paul Smokowski, assistant professor in UNC's School of Social Work.
Issues & Trends
Developer turnout small but solid (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
Clearly, developers' response to the town's request for qualifications for the development of lot 5 and the top of the Wallace Deck was not completely gratifying.
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