January 22, 2004

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

National Coverage

Panel Says Zoloft and Cousins Don't Increase Suicide Risk
The New York Times
Adding to the debate over using antidepressant drugs for depressed teenagers and children, a group of prominent researchers issued a report yesterday saying that Zoloft and similar medicines did not increase children's suicide risk....Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, said he found the report persuasive.

New doubts over the old school name
Christian Science Monitor
It's a lingering irony in the South that many of the region's mostly black public schools are named after Confederates who fought, at least in part, to preserve the slave trade....For most Southerners, naming schools after Confederate heroes was part of "a casual assumption that white heroes of the past deserve to be commemorated by everybody," says Fitzhugh Brundage, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State and Local Coverage

UNC-CH approves out-of-state tuition jump
The News & Observer
As a crowd of students stared in silent protest, the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted Wednesday night to raise tuition by $300 for North Carolinians and a whopping $1,500 for out-of-state students next year.

UNC trustees: Raise tuition
The Herald-Sun
They began the afternoon packed shoulder to shoulder, a mass of students with crossed arms, defiant expressions and the clear hope that a proposed tuition increase would be defeated.

UNC-Chapel Hill trustees approve tuition hike
Associated Press
Tuition at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill would increase $300 for in-state students and $1,500 for out-of-state under a proposal approved Wednesday night by university trustees

UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Approve Tuition Hike
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
The price tag for students attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is about to go up. Wednesday night, the Board of Trustees approved a much-debated tuition hike.

Trustees approve tuition hike at UNC
News 14 (Time Warner, Raleigh)
Note: WTVD-TV, WUNC-FM, and WCHL also reported on the tuition increase.

UNC Health Care getting new leader
The Herald-Sun
UNC Health Care will have a new chief executive officer by the end of the week.... UNC system President Molly Broad is expected to present at least two finalists to the system's Board of Governors during a special meeting on Friday. According to a published report, one finalist is William Roper, the current dean of UNC's School of Public Health.

Doctor Fatigue: Duke, UNC Study Prescription For Change
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
Hollywood and television shows portray doctors in hospitals as overworked, tired and temperamental. Real doctors will admit that fiction is not too far from reality.... "So in order to develop a work environment that gives quality education as well as quality patient care, the hospital has to spend money and it's mainly on personnel," said Dr. Robert Cefalo, UNC assistant dean of graduate medical education.

Professor: Board could challenge 2 positions
Washington Daily News
The Beaufort County commissioners legally could challenge the validity of two Washington City Council appointments to the Warren Field Airport Commission, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill confirmed Wednesday.

Issues and Trends

Lowest state wages to rise
The News & Observer
Nearly 900 state workers are getting rare midyear raises aimed at lifting them above the poverty level....About half of the 898 low-wage workers are employed on University of North Carolina system campuses. Another 393 work as housekeepers, cafeteria workers and utility workers for the Department of Health and Human Services. They will see the raise in their February paychecks.

Town hears duplex ideas
The News & Observer
In a town with as transient a population as Chapel Hill's, it is rare to go into a neighborhood and find families who can boast of four generations before them being on the same streets and in the same homes....Northside, a historically African-American neighborhood just a short skip from the downtown shops and the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, is an exception.

Aldermen seek Carolina North particulars
The Herald-Sun
While details about UNC's Carolina North campus are not yet concrete, town officials and residents want to make sure their concerns about the massive development are set in stone.

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