January 15, 2004

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

National Coverage

City Commission pushing pedestrian-friendly agenda
Lawrence Journal-World, Ks.
Wednesday's warm and sunny weather found Barb Morris strolling north on
Michigan Street with her daughter Kambria, working off a few calories en route
to her mother's house....Experts at Active Living by Design agree. The
program, based at the University of North Carolina, studies how urban
environment affects walking habits and gives grants to cities nationwide that
take steps to get people out of their cars.

State and Local Coverage

Keohane's deep legacy (Editorial)
The Herald Sun
How do you honor someone who has meant so much to higher education in the
Triangle? Simple. Create a distinguished visiting professor program. That's what
Duke University and UNC did for Duke President Nan Keohane, who will step
down in June, ending 11 fruitful years at Duke. The $3 million Nannerl O. Keohane
Distinguished Visiting Professorship will be used to bring a visiting professor to the
Triangle each year to spend six months teaching at Duke, then six months at UNC
or vice-versa.
Note: The Herald-Sun has been notified about the error in this editorial that makes
clear that Carolina raised all funds for this professorship.

Universities create professorship honoring Duke leader
N.C. Associated Press
Two universities have created a professorship funded with $3 million in donations to
honor outgoing Duke President Nan Keohane....The Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished
Visiting Professorship will be used to bring scholars to the campuses of Duke and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Keohane honored with joint-visiting professorship
Duke Chronicle
Outgoing President Nan Keohane's sterling reputation has earned her praise across
the University, the country and indeed the world. Now, even our archrivals from
down the road are getting into the act. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chancellor James Moeser announced Monday that his university will name a new
visiting professorship for Keohane. The $3 million Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished
Visiting Professorship at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, as it is formally known,
will allow a scholar to spend six months at Duke and six months at Carolina.

Opposition to tuition plan growing
The Herald-Sun
With just a week remaining before UNC trustees vote on a plan that would raise
out-of-state tuition dramatically, opposition to the proposal appears to be gaining
strength.

Tuition hike worries out-of-state students
News 14 (Time Warner, Raleigh)
Out-of-state students at UNC-Chapel Hill could pay more in tuition next year.
The university's Board of Trustees is considering raising tuition at least $1500 for
out-of-state students.

Roses & raspberries
The Chapel Hill News
Raspberries to UNC for considering a huge tuition increase for out-of-state students
that would, in effect, subsidize athletes.

He's got big ideas about tiny things
The News & Observer
Richard Superfine is taken with tiny things -- tiny as in the size of a protein, a cell
building block that is 100,000 times smaller than the width of a hair. The associate
physics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specializes
in nanotechnology and studies the properties of nanotubes made of a single layer of
carbon atoms, molecular motors, viruses and cells.

Free clinics get $10 million
The News & Observer
Free clinics across North Carolina, including five in the Triangle, will receive a $10
million infusion from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation
to nurture their services over the next five years....Greczyn said the foundation's
donation to the free clinics is the largest it has ever made. Previous large donations
went to an indigent care clinic operated at East Carolina University in Greenville and
helped fund the development of a research center at the School of Public Health
at UNC-Chapel Hill.

1964 smoking report: gains and new goals (Point of View)
The News & Observer
Forty years ago this week, Surgeon General Luther L. Terry made the historic
announcement that, according to a detailed government review of the evidence,
smoking causes cancer and other diseases....Joseph S. Pagano, M.D., is chair
of the N.C. Advisory Committee on Cancer Coordination and Control. He is also
Lineberger professor of cancer research and director emeritus at UNC-Chapel
Hill's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Lawyer awaits crash report
The News & Observer
The Robeson County district attorney told state Highway Patrol investigators
Wednesday that he will wait until he gets their comprehensive report before deciding
whether to file charges in the fatal collision of a poultry truck and a school bus Tuesday.
That report could take a month. ...Using cellular phones -- talking on them, answering
them or looking for them -- is blamed for distracting drivers and causing thousands of
crashes nationwide every year.UNC HIGHWAY SAFETY RESEARCH CENTER STUDIES; NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION DRIVER SURVEY (2002)

Issues and Trends

State budget crisis easing
The News & Observer
North Carolina's latest tax collection figures show that state government may finally be
emerging from its worst budget crisis since the Great Depression.

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