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July 30, 2003
Current National Coverage
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:
Changes to public housing spur State Street revival
The Chicago Tribune
When Firas Ghantous was a Chicago college student a decade ago, he never
imagined walking down the crime-ridden State Street corridor, let alone living near
what was home to about 34,000 of the city's poorest residents, stacked in rows
of public housing. ... "I don't think anybody ever believed back in the 1990s ... that
any of us would live to see the dramatic changes in the State Street corridor, " said
Michael A. Stegman, a former HUD official and now a professor at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(Note: The Chicago Tribune requires free user registration to access articles. )
Searching for 'Just Right'
The Baltimore Sun
Imagine Warren Thrweatt's surprise. The Baltimore man is standing at the Golden
Corral buffet on a Sunday evening about to load his plate ... Yet, moderation is a
relative term. In the age of the 7-Eleven 64-ounce Double Gulp and the IHOP
Super Stacker, what meaning can it possibly have? Not so much, says Suzanne
Havala Hobbs, a dietitian with the School of Public Health at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
(Note: The Baltimore Sun requires free user registration to access articles.)
State and Local Coverage
Group could offer lead on UNC morale (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun
Talk about serendipitous timing: Amid the flap over the use of Barbara Ehrenreich's
"Nickel and Dimed" by UNC's summer reading program, Chancellor James
Moeser has announced that he'll assemble a task force to examine campus
working conditions.
Roses & raspberries
The Chapel Hill News
... Roses to Gatorade and Mia Hamm, for teaming with UNC to fight obesity.
Gatorade will give the School of Public Health $4 million over four years to
conduct research and educate the public about childhood obesity.
New top UNC officials making much more than predecessors
The Herald-Sun
When UNC officials were recruiting Steve Jones to be the dean of the Kenan-
Flagler Business School, they were acutely aware of two financial hurdles.
25 years later
The Chapel Hill News
Bland Simpson didn’t intend for the album to languish unheard and unreleased for
all those years. .. He is, among other things, an assistant professor and
director of the Creative Writing Program at UNC ...
Directions for navigating life on UNC campus
The Chapel Hill News
Walk around campus these days and you can’t help but notice small groups of
people — young, old and in between — clustering around buildings, in front of
artworks and milling about. It is orientation time at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, the time for the incoming students and their parents to
get acquainted with the new homestead.
More cash for pretty teeth
The News and Observer
America's obsession with perfect white teeth is giving dentists something to smile
about. ... The elective services are so sought-after, dentists are almost have to do
so, said Dr. Edward J. Swift, a professor at the University of North Carolina's
dental school and chairman of its department of operative dentistry.
A license to marry
The News and Observer
Jo Wyrick won't leave home without it. No, it's not a credit card. It's a medical
power of attorney. ... But Gene R. Nichol, law school dean at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the ruling could well lead to expanded
freedoms such as marriage.
A world of disease (Letter to the Editor)
The News and Observer
Your July 18 headline "Global disease settles in N.C." nicely summarized a new
health care phenomenon in our state. Because of less restricted international move-
ments of persons and goods, North Carolinians no longer enjoy the defense of
distance from "foreign" diseases.
(Note: James W. Lea is a professor of family medicine at the UNC Center for
Global Health.)
Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina
In Growth Spurt, Columbia Is Buying Swath of Harlem
The New York Times
Columbia University, long starved for land at its campus in Morningside Heights,
is buying up a 17-acre swath in West Harlem for its first major expansion in 75
years. The university's long-range plan calls for removing the battered brick
industrial buildings now in the area bounded roughly by Broadway, 125th Street,
12th Avenue and 133rd Street and replacing them with a new tree-lined campus
of school buildings, performing arts centers, research labs, a jazz club and
dormitories.
(Note: The New York Times requires free user registration to access articles.)
Facing a Friday Deadline, U.S. Takes Steps to Ease Arrival of Foreign
Students on Campuses
The Chronicle of Higher Education
To ensure that legitimate foreign students can arrive in the United States on time
for the fall term, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is taking extra
measures this week to forestall potential problems with its database to track the
students.
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access
articles.)
UNC architect's entry makes 10-way council race
The Herald-Sun
Dianne Bachman, a project architect with UNC and a former chairwoman of the
town's Community Design Commission, joined the Town Council race on
Tuesday.
Fixing downtown's woes (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
If you put 50 people in a room and ask them to talk about Chapel Hill’s
deteriorating downtown, what do you get?
FGI to move from downtown to Meadowmont
The Herald-Sun
After a decade on West Franklin Street, a local market-research firm plans to
move later this year to the Meadowmont development along N.C. 54
Gimghoul residents oppose UNC plans (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill News
Following is an open letter to UNC Chancellor James Moeser. I am president
of the Gimghoul Homeowners Association and am writing to express the position
of the neighborhood regarding the university’s proposal to construct a parking
deck and chiller plant in the area behind the Paul Green Theater and adjacent to
Cobb dormitory and the Chapel Hill Cemetery.
(Note: To view this letter, click on the above url and scroll down the web page.)
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