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Jan. 30, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:International Coverage
People with Power
"Newshour," BBC World Service
John Edwards, now Director of the Center for Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina, was featured on today's edition of BBC's "Newhour" to discuss why in the richest country in the world, there is an increasing number of people living in poverty.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan06/bbc012606
Note: BBC World Service's "Newshour" program broadcast live Monday (Jan. 30) from North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC’s studio in Durham for two hour-long editions, at 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. This was the first time the show has originated from a local radio station anywhere in the world.National Coverage
To the Olympics and Beyond, Iona Is in It to Win
The New York Times
Like the little engine that could, Iona College has been working hard to get ahead, and having the persistence of the storybook train may be the college's best strategy for success. ... NBC hired 123 interns nationwide, from about a dozen colleges and universities, with the largest groups coming from Iona, George Washington, Syracuse, Cornell, Hofstra, Ithaca, La Salle, the University of Hartford and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said Michael M. McCarley, a spokesman for NBC Olympics. At Iona, the network interviewed 60 students on campus.
William Ivey Long Keeps His Clothes On
The New York Times
On the night that the movie "The Producers" had its premiere at the Ziegfeld in New York, William Ivey Long, costume designer for both it and the hit Broadway show, sidestepped the red carpet and went quickly inside. ...Long assumed he would become a professor like his father and graduated from the College of William and Mary before taking a teaching fellowship at his parents' alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
WUNC to launch Dick Gordon show next month
The Associated Press (National)
A new show featuring Dick Gordon, former host of National Public Radio's "The Connection," will hit the North Carolina airwaves beginning Feb. 16, Chapel Hill-based WUNC announced Saturday. The one-hour program called "The Story" will shift away from the typical pundit-focused show to include more involvement from listeners, WUNC general manager Joan Siefert Rose said at the station's Capital Campaign gala.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov05/wuncdickgordon110305.htmCar sharing revs up on college campuses as officials grapple with parking and congestion
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Until recently, faculty and staff members at the University of Massachusetts at Boston who needed a car to get to university business during the day would reserve one of the Chevrolet Luminas in the university's 10-car motor pool. But the cars, which were purchased in the 1980s, were giving in to wear and tear. ...The University of Massachusetts at Boston, along with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and American University, are part of a growing group of institutions turning to car-sharing companies like Zipcar and its main competitor, Flexcar, in an effort to save money, free up parking spaces, and improve community relations by encouraging students and faculty members to leave cars at home.
Note: Subscription required.Regional Coverage
XL means Xtra Large
The St. Petersburg Times
Former Bucs defensive lineman Brad Culpepper rose from behind the desk in his law office on the eighth floor of a downtown high-rise to model his pants. ...In March the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study that said 97 percent of NFL players during the 2003-04 season were overweight, including 56 percent with a body mass index (BMI) doctors consider obese. The NFL claimed the study, done by University of North Carolina endocrinologist Joyce Harp, was flawed because the BMI uses height and weight for its calculations, not muscle mass and percentage of body fat.
Osceola is next frontier, experts say
The Orlando Sentinel (Fla.)
The future growth of Metro Orlando's economy will depend largely on Osceola County's ability to build 200,000 or more new homes over the next 25 years and wisely manage that staggering growth, a panel of land-use experts said Friday. ...Such a plan would identify specific locations and standards for services such as schools, sewage pumping stations, stormwater-retention ponds and wildlife-management areas, said David Godschalk, a professor of city planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
State & Local Coverage
UNC targets 6-year degree
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
"College: The best five or six years of your life." The tacky T-shirt slogan is funny because it's true. ...The issues are tied but not tightly, said Jerome Lucido, UNC's vice provost for enrollment management and director of undergraduate admissions. Students drop out or take time off from school for many reasons: family commitments, extended internships, etc. Some need the extra year or two, but most don't, Lucido said.
Carolina North discussion finally begins (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Suddenly, after months of relative quiet, there appears to be a flurry of action around UNC's proposed Carolina North development. The university has announced in the past few weeks a new committee that will look at plans for the project Carolina wants to build in the center of Chapel Hill.
UNC’s price upsets some
The Chapel Hill Herald
Joy Kasaaian, who is from Ohio, said low cost was a main reason she chose UNC over other universities. ... But Stephen Farmer, UNC's director of undergraduate admissions, said admissions decisions are more complicated than that. Students will compare the cost of attending UNC to that of other universities, he said. And when they do so, UNC fares very well. UNC, which Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine has named the most affordable public university for four consecutive years, is still a better bargain than many similar universities.
Note: No link available.BBC coming to Durham
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A British international news show will broadcast live from the WUNC radio studio at the American Tobacco Complex on Monday, featuring stories about North Carolina and the South. Host Robin Lustig and his team have been in the region for more than a week, focusing on military bases in the state, local views on the Iraq war and rural poverty.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan06/bbc012606.htmDick Gordon show to premiere Feb. 16
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Carl Kasell of "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" and the BBC's Robin Lustig came to the podium, too, but the real excitement at WUNC's Capital Campaign kickoff dinner Saturday was Dick Gordon. ..."It's called 'The Story' because we really want to hear from people with first-hand experience in the news," said WUNC general manager Joan Siefert Rose. "We've heard from listeners that they get a little tired sometimes of pundits and the same kind of talking heads from all the foundations and think tanks."
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov05/wuncdickgordon110305.htmCommunity Journalism
"The State of Things," WUNC-FM
Jock Lauterer, professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was featured in today's (Jan. 30) edition of "The State of Things" to discuss the new edition of his book, "Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local" (University of North Carolina Press/2006), and how journalists stay objective when they report on their own neighborhoods. Ninety-six percent of the newspapers in North Carolina are what Lauterer calls "community newspapers." Their circulation is less than 50,000; they operate with limited budgets and small staffs; and they face a range of challenges and rewards unknown to larger papers.
Not blowing smoke (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As North Carolina becomes more serious about lowering the incidence of tobacco use by young people, it means fewer Tar Heels will fall under tobacco's addictive spell. At the same time, taxpayers will be stuck with fewer medical bills from sick and dying smokers. A study by Adam Goldstein of UNC-Chapel Hill's Tobacco Use Prevention and Evaluation Programs suggests that progress is within reach on both counts.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec05/goldste120705.htmUNC Hospitals wants to add 68 beds
The Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina Hospitals is the latest Triangle hospital to draw up plans for a major expansion of its inpatient bed capacity, an effort aimed at handling exploding patient volumes. Hospital officials plan to ask state regulators this year for permission to add 68 acute-care beds on its Chapel Hill campus, bumping its total number of licensed beds to 776.
Students Call for Death Penalty Moratorium
WTVD-TV (ABC, Durham)
Some UNC-Chapel Hill students are joining calls for a moratorium on the death penalty in North Carolina. A handful of members of the student organization Campaign to End the Death Penalty held a rally outside the State Capital in Raleigh this morning. They want Governor Mike Easley to stop executions for two years.
Sandler elected vice president
The Chapel Hill News
Robert S. Sandler, chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in UNC's School of Medicine, has been elected vice president of the American Gastroenterological Association.
Janda receives national award
The Chapel Hill News
Laura Janda, professor of Slavic linguistics in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences, has received a book award from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
Professor receives faculty award
The Chapel Hill News
Jane Brown recently received the General Alumni Association's Faculty Service Award for accomplishments that have had a lasting influence on UNC and the GAA.
Power, stakes grow for Black
The Charlotte Observer
Power, stakes grow for Black; Tenure and fundraising bring clout, but also scrutiny from officials. ...Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at UNC Chapel Hill, says, "Whether it was Jim Black getting a road built or Liston Ramsey getting a building built ... powerful people are going to deliver for their home constituency.
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BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137833721061&path=!localnews&s=1037645509099As Greenspan exits ... a look at his legacy
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Alan Greenspan is like a rock star. He plays it cool, no matter how crazy the world around him. He speaks in code few can understand. If you listen to him long enough, your head will pound. ..."In general, he's steered us through very treacherous potentials with hardly any water splashing up on the deck," said James Smith, an economist at UNC-Chapel Hill who knows Greenspan.
The truth about lies in ... advertising (Question-answer)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Paul N. Bloom is a marketing professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill. On whether people expect misleading advertising: I don't think consumers are expecting people to lie or to stretch the truth. I think that people expect to be entertained to some degree by advertising and marketing pitches because that grabs their attention and that creates more interest on their part. They expect the basic underlying claims to be accurate and true. The fact that we've seen some things happen in recent years that are reactions to overaggressive marketing, such as the Do Not Call List, is evidence that people don't like to be misled or misguided.
Be more shocked when we don't lie (Question-answer)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Joseph Lowman is a psychology professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Excerpts from a recent interview: THE N&O: Is there a difference between a lie and a deception? JOSEPH LOWMAN: Sure. We humans come wired to deceive. In the animal kingdom, species of animals deceive all the time. Among humans, we deceive when we're competing with other members of the same sex; we deceive when we're trying to attract other sexes. If anything, deception is more the state of nature than nondeceiving.
Officer who killed man is fired
The News & Observer
The Raleigh Police Department on Friday fired an officer who shot and killed an unarmed man last summer. Officer Michelle Peele, 33, was fired the same day the department announced it had completed its investigation of the Aug. 28 shooting death of Nyles Arrington. The department would not disclose the reason she was fired, citing state personnel laws. ...Police departments often conduct their own investigations of police misconduct but seldom explain the results publicly, said Anita Earls, an attorney with UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for Civil Rights. In Peele's case, something other than the shooting could have led to the termination, Earls said.
Web sites aid search for off-campus crib
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Some things in life are done best with the help of a recommendation, such as seeing a new hairdresser, picking a new mechanic or deciding where to live. In a typical year, more than 50 percent of undergraduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill choose to live off campus, in a fraternity or sorority house or university-affiliated property.
Latta love, a lot of points ignite UNC
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Ivory Latta drove home to South Carolina last spring break, her head filled with fresh memories of crushing Duke for the ACC Tournament title. Only the vanity plate -- "Latt2" -- hinted that she plays for the women's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...Tonight's game has been sold out since Monday, and Latta expects to hear cries of love and hate from the crowd of 9,314. She brushes off her effect, saying, "It's just my personality." That personality is ever on display.
Reliable Bible (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Regarding your Jan. 13 article "If you can't believe the Bible...", about a new book by Professor Bart Ehrman of UNC-Chapel Hill: Ehrman concludes that without original manuscripts, and variants among copies, the New Testament must be uninspired. While it is true that the originals are gone, no reputable scholar, including Ehrman, would say that any of the original words have been completely lost in our manuscripts.
History is what binds us together (Opinion-editorial column)
The Chapel Hill Herald
In just a few months, a fleet of tall ships will enter Beaufort Inlet, and all around Morehead City and Beaufort the sky will be full of sail and an enlivened sense of North Carolina's history will be blowing in the wind. Many people will tour these magnificent ships, and there will be much talk of the old seafaring days, the Gold Age of Piracy and its leading light, Blackbeard, whose ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, has lain since 1718 in but 20 feet of water off Beaufort bar, and talk of the War of 1812 privateer Otway Burns, who sleeps in sepulcher beneath a cannon in the Old Beaufort Burying Ground. ...Bland Simpson, director of the creative writing program at UNC, is the author of "Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals - The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering," and other works.
Note: No link available.Issues & Trends
UA's new main man: Shelton picked as president
The Arizona Daily Wildcat
Robert Shelton from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was chosen Friday to be the 19th UA president. ..."In this day and age, in my experience you're either in a campaign or you're planning for a campaign. That's just the nature of how you build an excellent university," Shelton said. "I need to talk with the deans and the other academic leaders and we'll sit down and talk about the timing of that."
Related Links: http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/98/247/02_1.html
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/98/247/01_6.html
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/98/246/01_10.htmlShelton tops on feedback forms
The Arizona Daily Star
While each of the four finalists for the UA presidency had supporters and detractors on campus, a review of more than a thousand feedback forms indicates Robert N. Shelton was clearly the favorite choice. ..."I was very favorably impressed with Dr. Shelton. His answers to a wide range of questions were forthright, thoughtful and well-informed," wrote English professor John Ulreich. "He persuasively expressed a collaborative leadership style, rooted in a long experience of working closely with faculty, staff and students."
Related Links: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/local/012806a1_newuaprezQandA
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0128uapresident0128.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/metro/113386UNC provost named Arizona president
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC provost Robert Shelton will be the next president of the University of Arizona, the Arizona Board of Regents announced Friday. ... Shelton said he likes how Arizona uses science and research to serve the public, citing the university's work in irrigation and water-use policy. "Just like Carolina, they are conscious of their role in society," Shelton said.
Note: No link available.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2006/01/23/daily44.htmlBig bang, then a new campus
The Charlotte Observer
The North Carolina Research Campus will begin to take shape in earnest over the next month or so, with a groundbreaking for its centerpiece lab and its largest implosion yet. ...Despite all the activity in Kannapolis, Safrit also makes frequent trips to Raleigh.She deals with such issues as environmental cleanup plans and legislative funding for campus partners UNC Chapel Hill and N.C. State University. The universities will have space in the Core Lab building until their own facilities go up on campus.
A picture of misdirected spending (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
If you want a perfect picture of misdirected government spending, look at the federal work-study program for college students. Don't misunderstand. Money for student jobs is well spent. In fact, there ought to be more of it. But the dollars don't go where they're needed most thanks to a wacky, archaic formula that Congress won't change.
State salaries often boosted
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Across North Carolina, from the state's museums to its zoo, it's common for the heads of high-profile agencies to draw private salaries to supplement their state pay. A state audit last week drew attention to the case of Larry Wheeler, the accomplished and twice-paid director of the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh.
Related Link: http://www.heraldsun.com/state%5C6-695541.htmlThe knight of the right
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
So gradually did Art Pope became the powerful patron of the political right in North Carolina that few at first noticed. First he created the John Locke Foundation, a respected think tank churning out reports proclaiming the virtues of limited government. ...Pope says the left's resources include former Gov. Jim Hunt's Institute for Emerging Issues at N.C. State University, the N.C. Center for Public Policy in Raleigh, and former U.S. Sen. John Edwards' Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, as well as organizations such as the N.C. Justice Center, the Common Sense Foundation and the UNC Program on Southern Politics & Public Life.University's 'DukeCard' expansion on hold
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Duke still has made no decision on a request last fall to allow students to use their university spending accounts for purchases off campus. At other universities, however, the arrangement is common. And it is much less costly than the 18 percent commission Duke charges in its program that is now limited to restaurant deliveries to campus. ...At UNC, students are issued a UNC Card with an account for on-campus purchases. If they open a checking account with Wachovia, they can have the bank's Visa Check card feature integrated into the UNC Card, in a version called UNC Card Plus.
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