July 28, 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

Delta CEO's memo stirs alarm among investors 'More must be done ... quickly,' Grinstein says
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Delta Air Lines' turnaround efforts are not enough to offset high fuel costs and "more must be done and done quickly," Chief Executive Gerald Grinstein said in a memo that fueled investor speculation Wednesday of a looming Chapter 11 filing. ...Grinstein is saying, "We have made our best-faith effort and it doesn't appear to be enough," said John Kasarda, a management professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. Delta "simply can't get out of the hole," he said.

Where conservatives debate the law
The Baltimore Sun
A lot of speculation has gone into a simple matter of fact: Has Judge John G. Roberts Jr., the president's nominee to the Supreme Court, been a member of the Federalist Society? ..."It's a perfectly legitimate activity, but it's an activity that people understandably are curious" about, said Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina.

Police report raises questions about Missouri football death
The Associated Press (National)
The Missouri football player who collapsed on the field and later died after a preseason workout wasn't immediately taken to the hospital across the street once he was unconscious but instead driven to the football team's offices, a university police report shows. ..."You would think if he was unconscious, they would have taken him (first) to the hospital," said Fred Mueller, a sports exercise professor and former assistant football coach at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who conducts an annual survey of football-related deaths nationwide.

N.C. newspaper probes quotes' sources
The Associated Press (National)
A small North Carolina newspaper was under investigation by its corporate parent Wednesday amid allegations it used invented quotes in interviews published on its front page. ...One of the people quoted in "Two Cents Worth" was Emma Burgin, a Greensboro resident and senior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her name and photo appeared with a quote naming the Dave Matthews Band as her favorite musical group.

State & Local Coverage

Philanthropy
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Scott Edwards, executive vice president of SunTrust Bank and Carolinas group credit officer, is giving $1.5 million to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to support Kenan-Flagler Business School and scholarship programs for student athletes and students from low-income families. Edwards, who is based in SunTrust's Durham office, is a graduate of UNC.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul05/edwardsgift072605.htm

UNC system falls short (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Your July 27 editorial "Chapel Hill cabal" was the latest attempt by your editorial page to distort the issues at hand regarding UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University gaining the ability to set -- within limits -- their own tuition. Simply put, if the Board of Governors was doing its job by seeing to it that UNC-Chapel Hill and other universities in the UNC system were properly funded to provide competitive salaries to their faculty, there would be no need for these proposed measures.

Breakaway tuition move would harm university system
The Asheville Citizen-Times
As lawmakers seek to reconcile House and Senate versions of the state budget, a provision that would give UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University autonomy in deciding tuition hikes is the subject of an intense lobbying campaign.
Related cartoon: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/powell/

Nays rise vs. UNC vying with business
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
The town's downtown development board is the latest local group to oppose legislation that would allow public universities to sell goods and offer services in competition with private business. ..."It does remain UNC Chapel Hill's desire to play a role in downtown redevelopment," UNC Vice Chancellor Nancy Suttenfield, a downtown board member, said. "We have no desire to compete with the private sector or the merchants."

Medical school plans new salary structure
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Some faculty in UNC-Chapel Hill's medical school could see their salaries fluctuate in the future -- the school plans to set salaries year-to-year based on performance. ...The new plan is necessary for the academic medical center's financial health, said Dr. Robert Golden, vice dean of the medical school.

It's hot outside, no matter where you're from
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
There's an insulting meteorological stereotype for either side of the Mason-Dixon line: Yankees, born to cold northers and head-high snow piles, gasp like guppies when they confront true Southern heat. ..."When we look at Atlanta or Charlotte or Houston and those high-rise office buildings of glass, those would be ovens without air conditioning," said William Ferris, co-editor of the encyclopedia and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The things we think we know (Opinion-editorial column)
The Charlotte Observer
Based on a recently released study, we now know that routine use of episiotomy -- a standard surgical procedure performed in about 35 percent of U.S. births to reduce tearing vaginal tissue -- usually provides no benefits in uncomplicated deliveries and may actually hinder the new mother's recovery. ...From Dr. Kathleen Lohr, director of the RTI International-University of North Carolina Evidence-based Practice Center

Service set for Campus Y leader Anne Queen
The Chapel Hill Herald
If you lived in Chapel Hill in the 1950s, '60s or '70s, chances are you knew Anne Queen. You probably even dropped by her house on Mallette Street to hobnob with the leading writers, politicians and academics of the day, or simply to have tea with fellow students. Queen, the longtime leader of UNC's Campus Y, was, say those who remember her, sort of the "grand dame" of Chapel Hill, a gregarious hostess who served as a community mainstay during the university's most turbulent years.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul05/queenmemorial070105.htm

Issues & Trends

Chapel Hill downtown group takes aim at crime
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A vicious assault has made crime one of the first things the Chapel Hill Downtown Economic Development Corp. wants to tackle now that its new director, Liz Parham, has arrived. ...The resolution passed unanimously. UNC-Chapel Hill Vice Chancellor Nancy Suttenfield abstained. Roger Perry, president of East West Partners Management Co. and a UNC trustee, did not attend the meeting.

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