July 20, 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

Fertility's frontier
The Los Angeles Times
Last winter, with her boyfriend "dragging his feet" about a commitment and her 36th birthday come and gone, Megan Griswold decided it was time to frankly assess her prospects for having a child. ..."An important part of counseling these women is what the anticipated results might be," says Dr. Marc Fritz, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of North Carolina and chairman of the group's guidelines committee on egg freezing.

State & Local Note

Oscar Aylor, clinical assistant professor and director of professional development at UNC's School of Public Health, was interviewed Tuesday (July 19) on WUNC-FM. An expert on healthcare executive behavior and hospital administration and planning, Aylor discussed UNC Health Care's announcement earlier this week that it will cut patient costs.
UNC Expert Database: https://www-s4.ais.unc.edu/UNCExperts/uncexperts/getperson?ID=RFRXXSDFS

State & Local Coverage

UNC, Duke scholars say nominee may get easy path
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. will face intense questioning for Senate confirmation but could come through unscathed, legal scholars at Duke and UNC say. Roberts' relatively short tenure on the federal bench -- only two years -- could work in his favor, leaving less material for scrutiny during confirmation hearings, Michael Gerhardt, a UNC professor of law, said Tuesday night after President Bush announced the nomination.
UNC News Tip: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/nomination071905.htm

Roses & (no) raspberries
The Chapel Hill News
Roses to the quartet of UNC students who established a library at the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service’s shelter for homeless women and children.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul05/Homestart071205.htm

It's horribly hot, but Chapel Hillians carry on, almost as usual
The Chapel Hill Herald
The heat index was 103 degrees, but two men spent their lunch hour Tuesday running through local residential streets. ...UNC Health Care recommends: Avoid the heat whenever possible and try to limit activities outside...

Vietnam veterans divided on legacy
The Charlotte Observer
For the men who served under him in Vietnam, Gen. William Westmoreland remains a controversial figure. ...The veterans' divergent views mirror the divisions in how American society sees Westmoreland and the war, said Richard Kohn, a professor of military history at UNC Chapel Hill.

State crime lab is faulted
The Winston-Salem Journal
A lawyers' group is asking for an inquiry into the state crime lab, citing errors and sloppy procedures in DNA testing in three capital-murder cases. ..."The revolution in forensics," said Rich Rosen, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the N.C. Actual Innocence Commission, "provides a real opportunity for resolving cases accurately, but it also presents us with some real dangers.

Issues & Trends

Which College Guides Are Best? (Opinion column)
The Washington Post
I am not sure why I agreed to write a review of the major college guides. The editor said it would be fun for a recent parent survivor of the admissions process like me to sit in judgment of the big boys. I failed to consider just how big they are.

Easley signs bill to keep state running
The Associated Press (N.C.)
The General Assembly will get two more weeks to finalize a budget after giving final legislative approval Tuesday to a bill keeping state government running in the meantime. ...Tuesday's bill also set aside more than $205 million to hire new teachers and pay for other items to cover increasing fall enrollment in the public schools, the University of North Carolina and community colleges.

ECU trustees make another run at dental school
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Trustees at East Carolina University have decided to try again at getting a dental school, choosing to study the possibility of a rural training program instead of a research-oriented one. ...The UNC Board of Governors rejected ECU's 2002 proposal, which called for a research-intensive program similar to one at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

2-year colleges to help teachers
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Teachers recruited from non-education backgrounds soon will have a new option for completing courses they need to earn a regular license: the state's community colleges. ..."If this works as we hope it will, in more distant places we can entice people to come into the profession," said Richard Thompson, vice president of university-school programs for the University of North Carolina.

Voting options may get wider
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Voters in Chapel Hill and Carrboro may be able to choose where they cast their ballots on election day as early as the fall. ...The bill, S98, also would let students at UNC-Chapel Hill, who are currently assigned to several different precincts, vote within walking distance of their classes.

Carrboro's growing, but at what cost? (Opinion-editorial column)
The Chapel Hill Herald
...To the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, Carrboro's "gotta grow." ...Supplicants couldn't demand that UNC donate a "Carolina World" fire station site several years ago, though UNC needed permission to be voluntarily annexed into Carrboro.
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