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January 21, 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
Chapel Hill Picks Book on Race Relations for Summer Reading Assignment
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will ask incoming freshmen and transfer students this summer to read a book about racial conflict in the South during the civil-rights era.
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UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan05/srp011905.htmlAnalysis: Issues facing President Bush in his second term
"Talk of the Nation" National Public Radio
With a second-term president, a concern for legacy is always part of the package. While only history can judge President Bush, it is also history that gives us a sense of what he faces. Joining us now from Capitol Hill is Richard Kohn, head of the curriculum on Peace, War and Defense at the University of North Carolina.
Bush, in Inaugural, Confronts Issue That May Define His Legacy
Bloomberg News Services
President George W. Bush started his second term confronting the subject that may define his legacy: the U.S. at war and leading a mission to spread freedom....Terry Sullivan, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, said there are lessons for Bush to be drawn from the U.S. experience in Vietnam.
State & Local Coverage
UVa. mirrors aid at UNC
The Daily Tar Heel
The University of Virginia again is following UNC's lead in expanding its program to help low-income students get an education.
Carolina Covenant link: http://www.unc.edu/carolinacovenant/Blood Done Sign My Name
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Host Melinda Penkava talks with Timothy Tyson, the author of "Blood Done Sign My Name". Tyson, a professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, grew up in the small North Carolina town of Oxford. In 1970, when Tyson was ten years old, an African-American man named Henry Marrow was killed outside a store in broad daylight by a white man. The incident enflamed racial tensions and touched off rioting in the town. Tyson's book, which is part historical account and part memoir, has been selected by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as its recommended reading for incoming students.
Note: The Tyson interview originally aired May 24, 2004. It will rebroadcast tonight at 9.Clearing the air on campus (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
One-third of North Carolina's college students are tobacco users, and many start smoking in college....Julea Steiner is project manager for the Environmental Tobacco Smoke Training, Education and Research Program (EnTER) in the UNC Department of Family Medicine.
Pozen pins options on FDA
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Pining for a blockbuster drug, Pozen has given employees special incentive to help an experimental migraine drug succeed....The company borrowed the idea for the stock options from companies that rely on private investments to develop their first product, said Eitan Goldman, assistant professor of finance at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill.
Students flock to take SAT before essay added
The Charlotte Observer
Droves of college hopefuls are expected to crowd school classrooms Saturday morning, eager to take the SAT one last time before a new writing section is added later this spring....UNC system schools will require students planning to enter in fall 2006 and beyond to take the new test, said Steve Farmer, admissions director at UNC Chapel Hill.
Play recounts atomic meeting
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
In order to follow Michael Frayn's play, "Copenhagen," people do not have to be able to understand the Nobel Prize speeches of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg ....Enter three actors and a director, who've had to deal with this to some extent in order to present PlayMakers Repertory Company's production of "Copenhagen." The play opened earlier this week and continues through Feb. 13 at the UNC Center for Dramatic Art in Chapel Hill.
Iraq-born local set to cast ballot for change
The Chapel Hill Herald
For as long as Maha Alattar can remember, the concept of an election in Iraq was a total farce....For Alattar, a UNC neurologist whose family fled Iraq in 1983, the chance to finally vote in a fair election is a dream beyond comprehension.
Rougemont has right stuff to become a real town (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Those irrepressible Rougemont folks are pretty serious about becoming a bona fide town.....A 1994 UNC study, "Bahama and Rougemont: Communities of Tradition, Communities of Change," had this to say about that: "Rougemont citizens can take pride in their willingness to fight for their rights and have their voices be heard."
Issues & Trends
Duke lures Nobel winner
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Duke University on Thursday became the only Triangle university with a Nobel laureate in the house....[Peter] Agre said he and his wife, Mary, have long wanted to return to the Triangle. He worked here from 1978 to 1981 as a postdoctoral fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill and as a scientist at the former Wellcome Laboratories in Research Triangle Park.
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