July 1, 2004

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Offbeat Marketing for Cigarettes
The New York Times
Three years ago, after leaving a marketing job at the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, the maker of brands like Kool and Viceroy, Patrick Carroll embarked on a quest to create a boutique alternative to Big Tobacco's mass-produced cigarettes....Paul Bloom, a marketing professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, worries that offering free cigarettes to celebrities will encourage more minors to smoke.

Medical debt burdens 20 million, raises new questions
Investor's Business Daily
Many Americans have been hit with higher medical bills in the past few years as health-care costs skyrocketed, but the number of those being squeezed to the point of having trouble paying for other basic necessities is startlingly high....The difference may look small but easily can balloon over the years, which can affect low-income people disproportionately, said Melissa Jacoby, a law professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

State & Local Coverage

Institute gets $850,000 grant to combat smoking
Triangle Business Journal
The North Carolina Institute for Public Health, a component of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Public Health, has received a $850,000 grant to work toward reducing teen smoking in northeastern North Carolina.

UNC Study: Some Pain Relievers May Help Fight Recurrence Of Prostate Cancer
WRAL-TV (Raleigh, CBS)
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and is the second most common cause of cancer death....That could soon change. A recent University of North Carolina study suggests pain relievers may help fight prostate cancer.

Geared up for getting away
The News & Observer
When Charlie Tanzini recently visited Furman University in South Carolina with his mother, he rode shotgun with his laptop, MP3s and the Mario Brothers...."It's an enormous boom to the electronic industry," said James F. Smith, a finance professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. "

Asian oysters don't make it to tasters' table
Jacksonville Daily News, NC
A batch of Asian oysters destined for a taste test never made it to the table this week....Overall costs include payments to Pete Peterson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine Sciences of $413,000 to conduct the two-year study, Marshall said.

Visitors from Vietnam on mission
The Herald-Sun
A delegation of female parliamentarians from Vietnam stopped Friday in Durham on their way across the United States during a 13-day tour to get a firsthand look at American government....Meanwhile, Trude Bennett, associate professor of maternal and child health at UNC, cited low literacy skills as a bigger problem in the U.S. than the dropout rate.

Issues & Trends

Campus Security Focus Of UNC Task Force
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
The University of North Carolina System will take a closer look Thursday at security at its 16 campuses.

Expansion's first wave hits today
The News & Observer
When New Mexico State athletics director Brian Faison first heard the Atlantic Coast Conference wanted to expand, he never thought it would affect his university, located roughly 1,800 miles away.

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