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July 3, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage
A Sweetener With a Bad Rap
The New York Times
Every time Marie Cabrera goes shopping, she brings along her mental checklist of things to avoid. ... Barry M. Popkin, a nutrition professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says that a widely read paper on the subject that he wrote in 2004 with George A. Bray, a professor of medicine at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., was just meant to be a "suggestion" that would inspire further study.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/healthybeverage030806.htmEdwards calls for U.S. war on poverty
The Associated Press (National)
Former vice presidential candidate John Edwards, who is mulling over a run for the presidency in 2008, called for withdrawal from Iraq within the next 18 months, and for the U.S. government to launch another war - on poverty - in a speech Friday at the National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women's conference. Edwards, a former Democratic senator from North Carolina who currently directs a poverty research center at the University of North Carolina, couldn't resist a few partisan jabs at the current administration, calling the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ''a failure of presidential leadership.''
If you've ever been broke, consider
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Like some of you, I have been broke at times but never truly poor. Thanks to my parents, we were never on welfare; I didn't wear hand-me-downs and never missed a meal because there was no food in the house. ... Walter Farrell, a University of North Carolina professor who previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, talked about the ability of some social programs to reach only "the top of the food chain" in the underclass while neglecting those who remained on the bottom rungs of society.
Partisan, Territorial Spats Plague 4th Circuit
New York Law Journal
The politics of judge-picking have been a particularly virulent pox on the Senate over the past few years; lately, it's the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals where the battle lines are most closely drawn. ... Of course, says University of North Carolina law professor Michael Gerhardt, the irony is that the paucity of North Carolina judges is due in part to the state's now-deceased Sen. Jesse Helms (R), who spent the entire Clinton presidency blue-slipping every North Carolina nominee.
Regional Coverage
The new faces of UW athletics
The Seattle Times
Two years ago, as an uneasy spring melted into summer at the University of Washington, Todd Turner came west to become the school's 15th athletic director. ... Turner told him the school's place in the state's conscience was similar to that of the University of North Carolina. It had the professional schools, it was a flagship university, it had some prestige academically.
Wheels by the hour program rolls into Atlanta
The Atlanta Business Chronicle
One of the nation's largest vehicle-sharing programs is coming to town. ... Its chief rival, Boston-based Zipcar Inc., competes with the company in San Francisco and D.C., and also operates in Minneapolis, New York and Toronto, as well as at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Similar programs abound in Europe, Canada and Australia.
State & Local Coverage
UNC aims to connect Latinos to educators
The Chapel Hill Herald
As UNC School of Education professor Regina Cortina explains it, many of North Carolina's fast-growing number of Latino residents are coming from parts of Mexico from which few people have emigrated before.
Overseas for holidays
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
... U.S. Rep. David Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat, is off to Kenya, Lebanon and Liberia with the House Democracy Assistance Commission. He is a co-chairman of the commission. ... He is also meeting with students from a group called Carolina for Kibera, which is doing volunteer work in the poor neighborhood of Kibera in Nairobi.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun06/lightbox062706.htmClinic knows mind of women
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Women's mood disorders, including postpartum depression and severe premenstrual syndrome, are the focus of a new psychiatric clinic at UNC Hospitals. ... The UNC clinic was established by Dr. David Rubinow, who took over as chairman of the department of psychiatry in January.
Related Link: http://dwb.newsobserver.com/news/ncwire_news/story/2971302p-9404123c.htmlUNC to run Chatham Hospital
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Chatham Hospital is getting a new management team along with its planned $26 million new hospital. The hospital's board has decided to turn management of the Siler City hospital over to UNC Health Care, ending an 18-year management relationship with Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health Resources.
Surveillance, security and the press (Opinion column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The story that most aroused N&O readers in the past week has to do with the press and national security. When is it appropriate for newspapers to publish information that could jeopardize our common safety and well-being? ... A local terrorism expert who thinks the Times report did go too far is David H. Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, which is centered at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill. He said details in the story, such as the name of the international banking cooperative, could help terrorists evade counterterrorism monitoring.
Tensions deepen between council, mayor
The Charlotte Observer
Stallings Mayor Lynda Paxton says the tension between her and other town leaders started almost as soon as she was elected. ... Frayda Bluestein, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's Institute of Government, said a council can pass an ordinance defining the mayor's powers as long as it doesn't conflict with the town charter or general statutes.
City debates rule of next-best for appointments
The Asheville Citizen-Times
When now-Mayor Terry Bellamy defeated former Councilman Joe Dunn in the election last November, she left two years remaining in the council seat she had vacated. ... But Bob Joyce, assistant director of the Institute of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill, said the next-highest vote getter option might not suit every slate of candidates. "If you're electing three and have three excellent candidates and the fourth is a crackpot ... I can also see why the City Council would not want to bind itself that way," he said.
Pilot Marking a Milestone
The Southern Pines Pilot
David Woronoff still has the memo that Tom Bryant sent him in May 1995. It suggested that he look into buying The Pilot in Southern Pines. ... "The Pilot consistently ranks as one of the best newspapers in the country, not just among nondailies," says Jock Lauterer, a lecturer for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC Chapel Hill and director of the Carolina Community Media Project.
Triangle prepares for July Fourth holiday
News 14 (Time Warner, Raleigh)
People across the Triangle are gearing up for the July Fourth holiday. Many plan to head to big celebrations in Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill. ... People in Durham will see fireworks at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, and in Chapel Hill, the town celebrates at Kenan Stadium on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.
Labor leader? (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Regarding the proposal by former Sen. John Edwards to, among other things, "Help workers organize through unions" (news story, June 23), I find it a bit discouraging that Edwards is using the precious resources of UNC-Chapel Hill to shill for labor unions.
Issues & Trends
First class of Elon law students excel in academics, officials say
The Associated Press (N.C.)
The approximately 100 students who make up the first class of the law school at Elon University come from 40 different undergraduate institutions and have academic credentials on par with law students at Campbell University, school officials said. Their grade-point averages and the median admission exam scores are a little lower than those of students at Duke University, Wake Forest and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, three of the nation's top 40 law schools in a U.S. News & World Report ranking.
Arboretum may feature Long fresco
The Asheville Citizen-Times
The Benjamin F. Long IV Fresco Trail in North Carolina could become longer soon. ... If arboretum officials make a deal with Long, the arboretum, an affiliate of the University of North Carolina system, would be part of the new trail of 11 sites in North Carolina that contain 16 of Long’s frescoes.
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