June 13, 2003

Carolina in the News

Current National and International Coverage

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

David Brinkley, 82, Newsman Model, Dies
The New York Times
David Brinkley, the wry reporter and commentator whose NBC broadcasts with 
Chet Huntley from 1956 to 1970 helped to define and popularize television news 
in America, died on Wednesday night at his home in Houston. ... After high school, 
he attended the University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt University, but earned 
degrees from neither ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/obituaries/13BRIN.html
(Note: Other coverage highlighting Brinkley's Carolina connection includes USA 
Today, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco 
Chronicle, The News and Observer, The Herald-Sun, The Wilmington Star
-News, The Charlotte Observer and The Asheville Citizen-Times. The New 
York Times requires free registration to access articles.)

Affirmative-Action Ruling Could Impact Internships
The Wall Street Journal 
Shecoya White, an African-American student who graduated from Tuskegee 
University in Alabama this spring with a 3.54 grade-point average and a degree in 
animal science, is spending the summer at Iowa State University in an internship 
reserved for minorities. ... North Carolina has been offering "minority presence 
grants" to white students who attend historically black colleges, and to blacks who 
attend majority-white universities, as part of a federal desegregation agreement from 
the 1980s. ... Last year, the state legislature decided to award the grants based on 
need and other family factors, rather than race. That means fewer minorities are likely 
to get them, says Archie Ervin, director of minority affairs at the University of 
North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105545442687885400,00.html?mod=todays%5Fus%5Fmarketplace%5Fhs
(Note: The Wall Street Journal requires a subscription to access articles.)

Fears grow in N. Carolina as two more people fall ill
The Toronto Star
SARS, Toronto's most notorious export, may have spread in this tightly knit 
university town. With one confirmed case of SARS in its midst, employees at a 
University of North Carolina support building learned yesterday two more of their 
colleagues are in isolation and suffering from respiratory illness.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1052251826050
(Note: Other coverage includes The National Post, The News and Observer, The 
Herald-Sun, The Charlotte Observer, WNCN-TV (NBC, Raleigh), WTVD-TV 
(ABC, Raleigh), WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh) and News 14 Carolina (Time 
Warner, Raleigh).)

University Says Geneticist Faked Cancer Findings
The Wall Street Journal 
A leading specialist in the genetics of breast cancer has resigned under pressure from 
prestigious posts at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, after a university
investigative panel found him responsible for "fabricated and falsified research 
findings."
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10554498142822000,00.html?mod=todays%5Fus%5Fmarketplace%5Fhs
(Note: The Wall Street Journal requires a subscription to access articles.)

Regional Coverage

UT, Methodist, Semmes-Murphey to test new brain tumor treatment
Memphis Business Journal
Semmes-Murphey Clinic was named Thursday as one of two sites in the nation that 
will test a new site-specific form of radiation therapy as the primary method of treating 
newly diagnosed brain tumors. ... The other study location is the University of North 
Carolina Hospital in Chapel Hill. 
http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2003/06/09/daily19.html
(Note: For more information, visit a UNC news release.) 

State and Local Coverage

Breakthrough Surgery At UNC Saves Infant's Life
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
UNC Hospitals is getting praise for performing a breakthrough surgery during the 
delivery of a little girl. The surgery was the first of its kind at UNC and has only 
been performed at a handful of hospitals worldwide. 
http://www.wral.com/health/2264304/detail.html
(Note: For more information, go to
http://www.unchealthcare.org/newsroom/newsreleases/newsrelease.cfm?release=exit.htm)

NCSU, UNC embark on joint engineering degree
Triangle Business Journal
North Carolina State University in Raleigh and the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill have gotten a green light to set up a joint biomedical engineering 
department and offer a first-ever joint degree, complete with the seal of each school 
and the signature of each chancellor. 
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2003/06/09/story5.html

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Change in Aid Formula Shifts More Costs to Students
The New York Times
Millions of college students will have to shoulder more of the cost of their education 
under federal rules imposed late last month through a bureaucratic adjustment 
requiring neither Congressional approval nor public comment of any kind.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/education/13COLL.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles.)

Varsity Tempest (Editorial)
The Christian Science Monitor
The collegiate Atlantic Coast Conference's attempt to expand at the expense of the 
Big East Conference has all the elements of high drama. But it's quickly turning into
one of those Shakespearean tragedies in which everybody loses in the final act. ... 
Duke University and the University of North Carolina, playing Rosencrantz and 
Guildenstern, say they are upset about the bad faith shown by the Big East. 
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0613/p10s03-comv.html

A better budget (Editorial)
News and Observer
The state Senate's proposed solution to North Carolina's budget quandary has one 
important asset: There's money for critical human services as well as for smart 
programs needed for economic recovery. 
http://newsobserver.com/editorials/story/2613835p-2425152c.html

Butner's fine staff (Letter to the Editor)
News and Observer
The decision on locating the new state hospital at the Butner, Wake or Chatham 
County site is clearly a difficult one. Both UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University 
have longstanding affiliations with Dix and John Umstead Hospitals. Whatever site
is chosen, UNC and Duke have committed to working together to continue a 
partnership with the state that brings world-class faculty and trainees to state 
hospital campuses to assure that excellent clinical care, training and research are 
conducted there. 
http://newsobserver.com/editorials/story/2613843p-2425037c.html

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