June 5, 2002

Carolina in the News

Current National Coverage

Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina 
people and programs cited recently in the national media:

College Board to Add Essay To Its SAT I Aptitude Test
The Wall Street Journal
Quick: In 200 words, explain why "there is strength in numbers." Your college career 
could depend on it. The College Board plans to announce major changes in the SAT 
I college-admissions exam on June 27, toughening the math test and adding longer 
reading passages to the verbal exam...
...The good news for students is that writing for the SAT, or any other brief test, isn't 
terribly hard. Kim Ables, director of the University of North Carolina Writing 
Center, which helps Chapel Hill students hone their college papers, offers a five-
paragraph formula: an introduction that sets a theme, three paragraphs of examples 
and a conclusion...
...At UNC, admissions director Jerome Lucido says he, too, would like to see the 
SAT essays. But reading them would be "daunting," he admits (the school received 
17,500 applications this year), and probably unnecessary if his admissions staff 
understands what the College Board score means. 
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1023229214122814160,00.html?mod=at%5Fleisure%5Fmain%5Feditors%5Fpicks%5Fdays%5Fonly
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Voter turnout foreseen as stable
Des Moines Register 
The last time Iowa voters chose a governor, the debate at the Iowa Capitol was over 
how much to cut taxes - not how deeply to cut the budget...
...One reason Iowa, like the rest of the nation, may be uninspired to take their 
patriotism to the polls is that relatively few Americans suffered deeply in the economic 
downturn that preceded Sept. 11 and the jolt sustained afterward, said George 
Rabinowitz of the University of North Carolina. Voters would be much less forgiving 
if the economy had tanked without the terrorist attacks, said Rabinowitz, a professor 
of American government and politics.
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/18344515.html

Graduate education for the real world
UAT training students to apply their skills in nonacademic settings
Austin American-Statesman
There was a time when Alice Chu believed her only career option was to be a university 
professor. Then Chu, a doctoral student in linguistic anthropology at the University of 
Texas, took a class that changed her mind. Now, she thinks she could be a consultant 
for a nonprofit agency or for the federal government, as well as a teacher...
...The idea is catching on. Other institutions, including the University of North Carolina, 
Arizona State University and the University of Minnesota, have expressed interest in 
starting similar programs, Cherwitz said. 
http://www.austin360.com/auto_docs/epaper/editions/monday/metro_state_1.html

Film's aim is to make language no barrier
Health care workers will get exposure to Latino cultures, Spanish
The State (South Carolina)
Frederico, a Latino immigrant who works construction and recently learned he is HIV 
positive, sits across a desk from the director of his local community health clinic...
...By using an unusual methodology, the filmmakers from the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill hope they can make it easier for health-care workers to learn 
Spanish....
...The movie will serve as part of a UNC course in working with Latino immigrants, 
she said. It is being paid for by the Funds for the Importance of Post Secondary 
Education, which is contributing about $470,000, and the UNC department of 
education.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/3396377.htm

National News Notes

Sallie Krawcheck, a 1987 Carolina graduate, was profiled in a cover story in the 
June 10 issue of Fortune magazine. Krawcheck, a Morehead Scholar who graduated 
with highest honors in journalism, is chairman and CEO of a finanical research firm, 
Sanford C. Bernstein. To view article, please go to 
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=208073

State and Local Coverage

Education leaders want control over budget cuts
State calls for 8.3 percent cuts in education, but senators say that's likely to be reduced 
to 5 percent.Education leaders from public schools, community colleges and universities 
traveled to Raleigh on Tuesday to ask legislators not just for a reduction in the size of 
cuts being contemplated, but for enough local flexibility to deal with whatever legislators 
decide. 
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/Issues/2002/06/05/news08.html

Educators warn Senate on deep budget cuts 
Senate leaders said they would try to keep education budget cuts below 8 percent 
Tuesday after they heard educators spell out the consequences of layoffs, crowded 
classrooms and a blow to North Carolina's reputation. But school superintendents, 
board members, community college presidents and university chancellors got a more 
hopeful message from Gov. Mike Easley. He offered his proposed lottery as a way 
out of the budget mess.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/1436335p-1468784c.html

N.C. education leaders plead budget case
Those who work in the trenches of public education came to Raleigh on Tuesday to 
meet en masse with Senate leaders to discuss possible solutions to the budget crisis 
that threatens their classrooms. They heard a fiery, revival-like speech from Gov. Mike 
Easley about the importance of a state lottery to generate new revenue to pay for 
reducing kindergarten classroom sizes and for expanding the pre-kindergarten program 
called More at Four. 
http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-234015.html

Balancing act on UNC salaries (Editorial)
The UNC system and some of its campuses, including Chapel Hill, have taken a lot of 
bashing in recent weeks for salary increases that have raised red flags about university 
spending. 
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/Issues/2002/06/05/opinion00.html

Kenan-Flagler draws high rankings
The UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School has been ranked among the 
world's best at providing education for executives in a survey assessing business 
schools in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Australia. 
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/Issues/2002/06/05/news09.html

Arab fundamentalists don't understand Quran (Letter to the Editor)
The Sunday article by Kirk Ross on Michael Sells' book ("Approaching the Qur'an: 
The Early Revelations") as required reading at UNC-Chapel Hill underscores why this 
is a very bad idea. The book doesn't address Islamic culture and civilization. It is the 
equivalent of making devotional selections from the Bible or Tanakh required reading. 
When will that happen?...
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/Issues/2002/06/05/opinion04.html

All Christians don't think alike (Commentary)
Greensboro News & Record
I have just read a set of sweeping generalizations in which I and other Christians who 
object to the summer reading requirement for incoming freshmen at UNC-Chapel Hill 
are characterized, by implication, as those who are to be pitied for making sweeping 
generalizations...
http://www.news-record.com/news/opinions/letters/wedbottom1.htm

‘Approaching the Qur’an’ appropriate for students (Letter to the Editor)
As the time for a new class to head off to college quickly approaches, I would like to 
take a moment and reflect on this journey which is the start of some of the most 
shaping years of our lives. We have a proud tradition in America, on going to college 
not to simply form a career, but to also open our minds to ideas that seem to be foreign 
and mysterious...
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/chhletters/index.html#233829

In interest of health, UNC should keep swim test (Letter to the Editor)
The recommendation to do away with the swim test at UNC should enrage more 
people than just us alumni. The idea should enrage any thinking person interested in 
combating the trend in America that says being out-of-shape, less than physically fit, 
and obese is quite OK
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/chhletters/index.html#233830

A vivid mosaic of N.C. woman's life 
My grandmother pieced two kinds of quilts: "Left-handed Monkey Wrench," a pattern 
of triangles and squares, and string quilts, made of pieces "too short to be saved" but 
saved anyway because nothing was wasted. The bits and pieces were arranged and 
pieced in a kaleidoscope of colors.
http://newsobserver.com/features/arts/story/1430266p-1463063c.html

Ackland's Contemporary Art Show
WNCN-TV (NBC -- Raleigh) 
Unexpected materials, techniques, and approaches to abound in Ackland's 
Contemporary Art Show. Tseng Kwong Chi bought a Mao suit at a thrift shop in 
Canada. He wears it in his photographic self-portraits, posing as a Chinese ambassador 
to the United States in the most unexpected places, as in "Cotton Field, Tennessee." His 
goal: to explore cultural stereotyping. 
http://www.nbc17.com/community/1489937/detail.html

Children's services eliminated
Last year, the Orange County Partnership for Young Children, in collaboration with 
the UNC Dental School and the Orange County Health Department, provided free 
dental screenings -- and, when necessary, follow-up care -- for about 1,600 preschool 
children throughout the county.
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/Issues/2002/06/05/news06.html

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

High court won't block new maps 
The state Supreme Court denies a request to stay a decision throwing out legislative 
district maps. The state Supreme Court refused Tuesday to set aside new House and 
Senate maps created by a state court, a ruling that increases the likelihood that state 
legislators will be elected this fall in districts drawn not by the General Assembly but 
by a judge.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/1436339p-1468758c.html

Kinnaird, Lee prepared to start battle in same Senate district
State Sens. Howard Lee and Ellie Kinnaird are still in the same single-member 
district following a ruling by Superior Judge Knox Jenkins last week on recently 
redrawn redistricting plans. 
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/Issues/2002/06/05/news05.html

Friends won't be rivals 
State Rep. David Miner, a Cary Republican, recruited former Wake County manager 
Richard Stevens to run for the state House and gave money to his campaign. Now 
Miner and Stevens, who also lives in Cary, find themselves in the new House District 
36 if the maps drawn by Superior Court Judge Knox Jenkins are not overturned on 
appeal.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/1436338p-1468792c.html

Council, UNC attempt to bridge gap
Columbia Street widening, affordable housing are topics at breakfast meeting at 
Women's and Children's Hospital. Town Council members and UNC Health Care 
representatives met under the Old Well -- actually, an architect's interpretation of the 
UNC landmark -- at the new Women's and Children's Hospital Tuesday for breakfast. 
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/Issues/2002/06/05/news07.html

Town's tree rules may branch out 
Chapel Hill might expand a protection ordinance to include single-family lots. 
People in this town love their trees, even if the maples, oaks, pines or other specimens 
happen to be on someone else's property. The woody perennials are community 
treasures -- natural assets that do not get the protection that some would like to see.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1436393p-1468756c.html

Setting Priorities (Commentary)
Gov. Mike Easley's plan for funding enrollment growth with a nonexistent lottery doesn't 
add up. With N.C. officials predicting a budget shortfall of $2 billion for the upcoming 
fiscal year, financial prudence has become a guideline. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor 
James Moeser recently nixed a new video board for the University that would be funded 
entirely with private money. Moeser rightfully decided that the board, priced at $2 million, 
would make state leaders question the University's spending priorities.
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/05/30/3cf59369a9f1b

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