January 8, 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:

N.C. campus may honor Wellstone
St. Paul Pioneer Press
A professor and a dean at the University of North Carolina hope to raise 
$25,000 for a campus memorial to U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, an alumnus 
of the Chapel Hill school. ... 
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/4888233.htm
(Note: UNC's full release on this effort is at 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan03/wellstonebench010303.html)

Growing better kids Grant gives new parents jump start
Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, AK)
As temperatures downtown hovered far below zero Tuesday morning, 
children inside the Boys and Girls Club were planting flowers in sunny 
yellow watering cans. ... The child-care rating program already has about 
100 child care groups--either classes in centers or home providers--
signed up, according to Robin Barker, of Information Insights, which is 
heading up that program. Barker said 13 trained raters will visit each 
class for a pre-rating visit using a scale developed at the University of
North Carolina. .... 
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113%257E7247%257E1096193,00.html

State and Local Coverage

Black studies scholar to speak at UNC 
The Herald-Sun
Cornel West, the prominent black studies scholar who made news in 
academic circles last year when he left Harvard for Princeton, will deliver 
the keynote address during UNC’s weeklong commemoration of Martin 
Luther King Jr.’s birthday. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-306784.html
(Note: This coverage -- and an additional story in today's News and 
Observer -- resulted from Carolina's announcement about this event detailed 
at http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan03/mlk010703.html)

Warming up to classes after winter break (Question and Answer)
News and Observer
January is perhaps the toughest month for a teacher. The weather is cold, 
and students are just returning from a two-week holiday break ... Lisa 
Joyner, a clinical instructor at UNC-Chapel Hill, works with prospective 
teachers, showing them how to stay focused and how to keep students 
engaged after the lull. ... 
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/2072753p-1988820c.html

Roses & raspberries 
Chapel Hill News
Roses to UNC Chancellor James Moeser for acting quickly and decisively 
to undo a silly decision by a campus official that would have kicked a 
Christian group off campus for being too Christian. ... 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/2070431p-1987525c.html

County review of election format likely
Charlotte Observer
Gaston County commissioners are expected to appoint a committee 
tonight to conduct a top-to-bottom review of how commissioners are 
elected, including whether to change township boundary lines and scrap 
countywide votes for township seats. ... Bob Joyce, assistant director 
of the Institute of Government at UNC Chapel Hill, said there are 
clear pros and cons for both at-large and district voting ... 
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/states/north_carolina/counties/gaston/4897191.htm

PETA objects to scientist 
News and Observer
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is on the attack again in 
Chapel Hill. As part of a $10 million, sorry-we-put-beef-extract-in-our-
fries court settlement, McDonald's Corp. supports giving $250,000 to 
a UNC-Chapel Hill nutrition researcher. Dr. Steve Zeisel wants to use 
the money to study whether women on strict vegetarian diets get 
enough of the nutrient ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2072548p-1988710c.html

A Mix of Fine Arts
Chapel Hill News
The nine students came to Chapel Hill last August from all directions ... 
They were all enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at UNC ... 
They were busy planning and placing their works for the First Year 
MFA Candidates Exhibition, which runs from Thursday through 
Jan. 24. ... 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/our_town/story/2070329p-1987434c.html

Faculty Council will take up pay inequities
Chapel Hill News
The chair of the UNC Faculty Council says she expects an “animated” 
discussion Friday about the role the university’s faculty should play in a 
review of possible salary discrepancies related to gender at UNC ... 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/2070456p-1987551c.html

Carolina Inn remains important to UNC (Letter to the Editor)
Chapel Hill News
The stunningly decorated public areas of the Carolina Inn during the 
holidays reminded us of how important the inn has been to the university 
and to Chapel Hill for three quarters of a century. ...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/2070366p-1987465c.html

Patrols decrease break-ins during holiday break
News 14 Carolina (Time Warner, Raleigh)
Fewer UNC students returned to find burglarized homes after the holiday 
break then they did last year. ... 
http://rdu.news14.com/content/top_stories/?ArID=21019

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Affirmative Action Has Failed to Integrate Colleges, Report Says
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Minority students have less access to college than they did before 
affirmative action, according to a study being published by the American 
Association of University Professors. ... 
http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/01/2003010801n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

States Need to Improve Management and Use of Student Aid, Study Says
The Chronicle of Higher Education
States need to improve their strategies for financing, developing, and 
evaluating their student-aid programs to make them more effective, and 
more attractive to lawmakers, according to a report released today by 
the Institute for Higher Education Policy. ... 
http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/01/2003010803n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

State enters '03 with slight surplus 
News and Observer
For the first time since he has been in office, Gov. Mike Easley is going 
into the new year with a slight budget surplus rather than a shortfall. Easley 
administration officials said Tuesday that tax collections were running 
$57.9 million ahead of schedule as of Dec. 30 ... 
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/2072683p-1988686c.html

Easley uneasy about hotel 
News and Observer
Gov. Mike Easley on Tuesday urged N.C. State University to find a private 
developer for its proposed conference center and hotel -- soon. ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/2072746p-1988724c.html

Delayed check-in (Editorial)
News and Observer
With North Carolina's Council of State apparently reluctant to put the thumb 
up for a proposed hotel and conference center on N.C. State University's 
Centennial Campus, university Chancellor Marye Anne Fox made the right 
decision in delaying the council's vote ... 
http://www.newsobserver.com/editorials/story/2072476p-1988753c.html

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