February 11, 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

For cold and flu sufferers, first step is to read OTC label
Newhouse News Service
As the cold and flu season persists, people keep making a beeline for the nonprescription aisle in their local drugstores....Choose those products that treat only the symptoms you're feeling, said Fred Eckel, a pharmacist at the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy and editor of Pharmacy Times.

Why We Overcommit
WebMD
Packed calendars and ceaseless schedules are sure signs of a tendency to overcommit...."Many of us have accepted invitations weeks or months in advance to do a review for journal ... serve on some committee ... or travel to give a talk, only to regret our decision when the time arrived," admit Gal Zauberman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and John Lynch Jr. of Duke University.

State & Local Coverage

Panel nixes tuition raises
Wilmington Star-News
Most UNCW students could get a break next year from soaring tuition hikes. On Thursday, a committee of the UNC Board of Governors turned down appeals from UNCW and 13 sister universities, voting to freeze tuition for in-state undergraduates.

UNC panel: Freeze tuition
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Though convinced that the state's public universities need more money to stave off faculty raids, help graduate students and add to the academic experience, a committee of the UNC system's Board of Governors nevertheless recommended Thursday a one-year freeze on tuition.

Tuition hikes may take hiatus
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In-state undergraduates at the state's public universities may get a break this fall: The UNC Board of Governors is expected to approve a tuition freeze today.

Tuition increases at university will keep quality high (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Charlotte Observer
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees is focused on fostering excellence that directly benefits the people of North Carolina. We will keep improving the quality of the already extraordinary education available to qualified students regardless of their financial circumstances....Stick Williams chairs the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and serves as vice president of diversity, ethics and compliance for Duke Energy Co. in Charlotte.

Rule blocking Duke study may change
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Medical ethicists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have raised questions about the Duke trial, but Wake Forest and UNC-CH researchers joined Duke on Thursday in a plea for a broader rules change.

Chambers Continues Fight for Students
The Charlotte Observer
More than 30 years after Julius Chambers won a U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the use of busing to desegregate schools, he said Charlotte still faces similar struggles....Besides working for the law firm he founded, he also directs the UNC Center for Civil Rights.

Parents defy Charlotte schools
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Four parents are challenging Charlotte-Mecklenburg school assignment practices, saying their children are trapped in struggling, high-poverty schools that fail to provide an adequate education....The parents are represented by Charlotte civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers and Jack Boger, a law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and deputy director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights.

3 universities offer jazz for the heart
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Still searching for a way to celebrate Valentine's Day?...Durham and Chapel Hill have long been blessed with three full-time university jazz programs -- currently led by John Brown at Duke University, Ira Wiggins at N.C. Central University and James Ketch at UNC Chapel Hill.

Issues & Trends

Tuition freeze
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Saying Connecticut families are facing "sticker shock," Gov. M. Jodi Rell, a Republican, is calling for a tuition freeze next year at public colleges. Over the past decade, tuition has grown by 59 percent at the University of Connecticut and by 82 percent in the Connecticut State University System. College officials say there is no money to pay for Governor Rell's proposal.
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Panel backs college vaccine
The Associated Press (National)
All college freshmen who live in dorms should be vaccinated for meningitis, a government panel recommended Thursday for the first time, reversing policy of the past.

Learn and Earn (Editorial)
The Winston-Salem Journal
Gov. Mike Easley's plan to establish more college-based programs for high- school students provides a great opportunity for some youngsters to get the education they will need to compete in the 21st century.

Carrboro looks at raising two taxes
The Chapel Hill Herald
A free bus ride to the store could start costing more for Carrboro taxpayers....Chapel Hill Transit services are provided jointly by UNC, Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

Your bus will be here in ...
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Missy Foley's kids were sick, and she had to get back home. She peered through the morning rain to see whether that was her bus coming down Manning Drive....It won't be a problem much longer for Chapel Hill Transit riders. Starting sometime in mid-2006, real-time bus arrival information will be posted on a local Web site and on digital message boards at up to 20 bus stops.

Produced by News Services, Carolina in the News is an e-mail sampling of current news media coverage about Carolina people and programs, as well as issues and trends that affect the university. Stories usually will be online and available free for a limited time - often one to two weeks. Expiration dates before stories move to archives vary by media outlet. Some outlets require free user registration or a subscription.

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