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July 17, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:International Coverage
Teen construction workers can be at risk
United Press International
Most teen construction workers in North Carolina are doing jobs that are considered risky or are prohibited by federal and state labor laws, a study finds. A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study, published in the journal Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, was based on telephone survey of 187 people, ages 14-17, who worked construction jobs in North Carolina during the summer of 2001.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun06/teenworksafety063006.htmNational Coverage
Right, wrong? In a group, it's harder to tell
The Los Angeles Times
In his classic tale "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Robert Louis Stevenson writes of what he considered a discomforting fact of human nature: Evil dwells inside every man. ... "It's easy to say evil happens because the people who did it are evil rather than asking what made ordinary people evil," says Christopher Browning, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who has studied the role of ordinary people in committing atrocities during the Holocaust.'
The bottle-versus-the-tap debate
The Los Angeles Times
Quenching thirst can be more complicated than taking a trip to the water fountain or turning on the kitchen tap. ... University of North Carolina researchers have found that 20% of daily calories consumed by those age 2 and older come from beverages, and about half the excess calories consumed daily are from beverages, most of them with added sugar.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/healthybeverage030806.htmMore Disabled Kids Live With Single Women
The Associated Press (National)
Children with disabilities are more likely to live with a single woman - whether she is a mother, grandmother or a female foster parent - than other children, according to a new study. The findings by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicate that organizations aimed at helping disabled children must also consider the particular problems faced by the single women who often care for them, said Philip Cohen, an associate professor of sociology at the university.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul06/cohen071106.htmPolice alter tactics at DUI checkpoints
The Associated Press (National)
The State Highway Patrol has started operating some DUI checkpoints with fewer troopers, enabling the state to staff more sites and resulting in more drunken driving arrests since May than in all of 2005. ... “This move to low-manpower checkpoints is actually a pragmatic effort to get more agencies to do them and in particular to encourage law enforcement agencies in smaller communities to do them,” said Rob Foss, senior research scientist for the University of North Carolina’s Highway Safety Research Center.
Web opens new college sports pitfalls
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Before DeMarcus Dobbs plays a game at Georgia, we know this much: He has 271 friends. He was at Whitney's for a party over Memorial Day weekend. ... "From the stance of an athletic department, the thing that is the most dangerous to them is the disclosure of information, and information that shines a negative light back to the program," said Fred Stutzman, a University of North Carolina doctoral student who has published a paper on Facebook.com. "
24 sizzling tips to live it up
USA WEEKEND Magazine
Summertime ... and the living is healthy. Long, warm days lure you outdoors. Fresh fruits and veggies abound. The editors at "Prevention" offer these two dozen tips to seize the season -- each are small steps with big payoffs. ... People who down about seven cups of water a day eat nearly 200 fewer calories than people who get less than a glass, say researchers at the University of North Carolina.
Federal Court Will Reconsider Sex-Harassment Case Against Soccer Coach
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A federal appeals court has agreed to rehear a sexual-harassment lawsuit against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s women’s soccer coach, two months after the court upheld the dismissal of the case, the Associated Press reported today.
State & Local Coverage
UNC's $145M genomics dream
The Triangle Business Journal
Leaders of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are placing a $145 million bet on a glitzy new research building they hope will put UNC at the forefront of the genomics revolution. ... Greg Copenhaver, 39, is exactly the kind of young scholar universities fight over. The assistant professor in UNC's Department of Biology and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences says facilities are critical to how successful a scientist can be.
Price, nonprofit unite in Africa
The Chapel Hill Herald
The goal of bringing democracy and solutions to social problems in developing countries has brought a congressman and a Carolina group together in Africa. ... The group, Carolina for Kibera, Inc., operates in conjunction with the UNC Office of International Studies and was established for the broad purpose of youth development and resolving ethnic conflict.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun06/lightbox062706.htmLetters reveal life of Civil War soldier
The Chapel Hill Herald
Books and movies often portray soldiers as musing about life, death and other deep subjects. But in a collection of letters just donated to UNC, Civil War soldier Robert W. Parker writes to his family and friends about everyday topics: meals and sleeping arrangements at camp, his need for news clothes and supplies and how much he misses his loved ones. The collection, which has about 350 items, "knocks holes" in people's romantic ideas about war, said Tim West, director of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC's Wilson Library. "It's real people" dealing with all types of deprivations and dangers, he said.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul06/dooley071006.htmBig ideas in art around the Triangle
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
First they're front-page news, then one day you wonder whatever happened to them. They haven't gone away. They're incubating, waiting for money, progressing so quietly that they don't make headlines. ... UNC's Chapel Hill campus has embarked on a big image makeover, one that will emphasize the university's commitment to the arts. The project began with last year's opening of the refurbished Memorial Hall and will continue for years -- if $200 million or so can be found to pay for it all.Time to pay respects to 'neat edifice' on campus (Opinion-editorial column)
The Chapel Hill News
The North Carolina citizen-owned, 71-year-old West House, a documented historic and artistic structure on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, has been determined neither historic nor of architectural significance by the UNC administration and was approved last week by the Council of State for demolition.
Rush of plot propels reader into family feud
The Charlotte Observer
In "Between, Georgia," Hazel gives birth in Bernese's den, Nonny and Jonno have a court date to get divorced, a Doberman attacks Genny -- and Bernese is "a little bit arrested." ... UNC Chapel Hill: "The Namesake," by Jhumpa Lahiri. An immigrant family's experience in the United States.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan06/summerreadchoice012606.htmUNC economist moves west
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
James F. Smith, a nationally renowned economist who has worked at UNC-Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School for 18 years, has taken a new position at Western Carolina University in the southwest corner of the state.
Related Link: http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060717/NEWS/60717004/1188Study: Health options mesh
The Winston-Salem Journal
Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center said yesterday that mental-health providers can successfully integrate with pediatric clinics, giving patients more access to health services. ... About 40 counties had a shortage of psychiatrists in 2004, making it difficult for mental-health customers in rural counties to get treatment, according to a study from Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the N.C. Area Health Education Centers.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/reportpsychiatrist031406.htmCabarrus' reach for water is delayed
The Charlotte Business Journal
State officials are pushing back the decision on Cabarrus County's controversial effort to pull water from the Catawba River. ... During the Environmental Management Commission's meeting this week, Chairman David Moreau urged the state Division of Water Resources staff to take a broad view of the impact of transfers from the Catawba. Moreau is a UNC Chapel Hill professor who specializes in water-resource issues.
Counting on condos
The Chapel Hill News
The brick building on East Franklin Street once housed students and others in modest apartments with Murphy beds that folded out of the walls. ... "The big question that no one knows is: How deep is demand?" said Emil Malizia, chairman of the city and regional planning department at UNC.
Appeals court to rehear case involving UNC
The Associated Press (N.C.)
A federal appeals court will hold another hearing to consider a sexual-harassment lawsuit filed by a former women's soccer player for the University of North Carolina who accused coach Anson Dorrance of sexual harassment.
Issues & Trends
Critic Attacks Clemson's Required Reading for Freshmen
The Chronicle of Higher Education
It’s a hardy perennial of the summertime: A college or university draws criticism for its choice of required reading for its incoming freshman class. A few years ago, the target was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which was attacked for assigning a book on the Koran (The Chronicle, September 6, 2002) and, a year later, a book on life as a low-wage worker (The Chronicle, July 11, 2003).
Accuser's Name
WUNC-FM News
Joseph Kennedy, a professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law, was featured on today's (July 17) edition of WUNC News. Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong will face off with defense lawyers today for another pre-trial hearing in the Duke Lacrosse case. Anybody closely following the case in the news has heard or read the names of the three players facing rape charges many times. As for the woman who says the three defendants raped her at a team party in March -details of her life have been widely reported in the mainstream media - but her identity has not. It's a long-standing and widely practiced policy among news organizations to refuse to disclose the identity of a victim, or alleged victim, of a sex crime.
Filling a Need: Value of a dental school at ECU debated
The Winston-Salem Journal
Dr. Tim Mabe snaps on a new pair of latex gloves. It's 10:25 on a Friday morning, and he is on to his 11th patient of the day. ... John Williams, the dean of UNC Chapel Hill's dental school, also wants to persuade the state legislature to change the guidelines on full dental scholarships that are given out each year, making them available to students who promise to go to high-need areas.
Lawmakers move to undo last year's work
The Associated Press (N.C.)
General Assembly members who approved hundreds of new laws in 2005 are now pleading with their colleagues to repeal several of them before they wrap up their two-year session this month. ... Onslow County Republican Rep. George Cleveland is trying to repeal or weaken a provision giving in-state status to out-of-state students on full scholarships to UNC system schools.
Taxpayers take the hit (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Onslow County Republican Rep. George Cleveland is mad, and his anger should be shared by every taxpayer in North Carolina. Cleveland had introduced a bill in this session of the General Assembly to repeal a fast and loose bit of legislating done last year, whereby the University of North Carolina system gained the right to classify out-of-state, full scholarship students as in-state students.
Related Link: http://www.newsobserver.com/681/story/460646.htmlSafety reviews should stay with the state (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
A bill that would exempt UNC construction projects from state Department of Insurance safety reviews was sent last week to the rules committee in the General Assembly. Where, we hope, it will quietly fade away.
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