July 23, 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

DVD Trains Doctors
Popular Mechanics
Rather than spend millions replacing aging microscopes, some medical schools may switch to a DVD that is packed with images of healthy and diseased tissue. First-year medical students at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill currently pop the DVD into their computer when they need to look at specimens of cells, tissues and organs.

State & Local Coverage

UNC-CH board approves recommendation allowing ads at sports venues
N.C. Associated Press
The board of trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has unanimously approved a plan to explore the sale of some signs and other advertising at the school's football and basketball stadiums.

UNC trustees OK 'tasteful' ads
The News & Observer
North Carolina trustees cleared the way Thursday for "limited and tasteful" commercial signs in Kenan Stadium and the Smith Center....Chancellor James Moeser supports the plan to allow signs.

UNC explores sale of ads in athletic venues
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC's Board of Trustees unanimously approved a plan Thursday to explore the sale of signage and other potential advertising in campus athletic venues.

UNC approves the idea of advertising
News 14 (Time Warner, Raleigh)
UNC Chapel Hill will break its tradition and allow permanent advertising inside the Dean Dome and Kenan Stadium.
Related link: http://www.wral.com/news/3565092/detail.html
Note: NBC 17, WTVD-TV and WUNC-FM aired stories on athletic signage.

How about a 'No'? (Editorial)
The News & Observer
Oh, how the officials of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been a-puffed with pride through the years over their policy of not using sports facilities as advertising venues. We don't do that, sniff, sniff, because it's just not the Carolina way.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/print/friday/opinion/story/1457088p-7594492c.html

UNC ads amount to sellout (Commentary)
The News & Observer
The horse is already out of the barn. Or, more accurately, the ads are already as good as on the wall....So kwitcherbitchin, because nothing will prevent UNC-Chapel Hill from defiling the Dean Dome and Kenan Stadium with advertisements.

Campus Y will be remade
The News & Observer
UNC-Chapel Hill trustees agreed Thursday to use public money to help renovate the Campus Y, a 1907 university landmark that is the headquarters of a student group that promotes social activism and community service.

Campus Y gets $1M boost from trustees
The Herald-Sun/The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC's Campus Y received a significant jolt of financial help Thursday with a decision by campus trustees to contribute $1 million toward renovating the 100-year-old building.

Leaders promise vote on lobbying rules
The News & Observer
Supporters of a ban on lobbyist-supported travel, gifts over $25 and other perks to legislators were heartened to see some heavyweights in the General Assembly introduce bills this session to do just that....Commission Chairman Gene Nichol, UNC-Chapel Hill's law school dean, said he thinks legislators will stay true to their word. But he plans to campaign for the reforms just in case.

Charlotte mill owes success to Brazil firm
The Charlotte Observer
From "Big" Bill Anderson's stool behind a Plexiglas window, it's hard to sense the intense violence of the smoke-spewing, spark-spitting furnace on the other side at Charlotte's only steel mill....It is based in Tampa and lists its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Gerdau is among a handful of major Brazilian companies venturing overseas, said Geraldo Ferrer, a professor at the Kenan School of Business at UNC Chapel Hill.

Chapel Hill Biotech gets $1.6 million grant
Triangle Tech Journal
The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) announced it has awarded $1.6 million to Asklepios, a biotechnology company closely allied with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to develop gene therapy strategies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a fatal, childhood-onset disease.

Issues & Trends

Change Tax Incentives to Encourage Students to Attend College, Senators Are Told
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The federal government should consolidate and simplify federal-tax incentives for college students and make permanent the tax exemption of education-related withdrawals from 529 college-savings plans, college and industry officials told the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.

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