June 1, 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

Gadgets rule on college campuses
USA Today
The American college campus, long an oasis of scholarship and coming-of-age, is now being transformed by a more palpable force: an armada of laptops, cell phones and perpetual connectivity....At the University of North Carolina here, where every building and most outdoor common areas offer wireless Internet access, sophomore Dax Varkey lugs his laptop everywhere.

Cigarette-makers' target: Women
The Chicago Tribune
Tobacco companies did extensive studies of sex differences in smoking so they could design cigarettes with special appeal to women, such as lemon-flavored and vanilla-scented cigarettes, a new study has found....Paul Bloom, a marketing professor in the business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, noted that cigarettes aren't the only "sin product" marketed specifically to women.

Study: Tobacco Firms Wooed Female Smokers
The Associated Press (National)
Tobacco companies did elaborate research on women to figure out how to hook them on smoking -- even toying with the idea of chocolate-flavored cigarettes that would curb appetite, according to a new analysis....Paul Bloom, a marketing professor in the business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, noted that cigarettes aren't the only ''sin product'' marketed specifically to women.

State & Local Coverage

Planning university's financial needs
For good of state's future, keep research institutions strong, competitive (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Winston-Salem Journal
There has been a great deal of criticism about the state Senate's budget provisions allowing our two University of North Carolina system research universities, UNC Chapel Hill and N.C. State University, to set tuition and allowing full undergraduate scholarship recipients to be considered North Carolina residents....

Carolina North or no, airport should go (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
As long as Horace Williams Airport remains open, UNC is stymied from moving ahead with its plans for Carolina North, the huge research campus the university wants to build there. To hear the university administration tell it, the little landing strip stands in the way of the glory that will be Carolina in 2050....

Get ready to say goodbye to the airport (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Horace Williams Airport has been on shaky ground for some time. And the ground just got shakier....So Horace Williams will close, if not immediately, then soon. And the construction of Carolina North will begin. Not accepting that idea is not accepting reality.

Notable imbalance? (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
So "several trustees expressed dismay about the gender imbalance at UNC-Chapel Hill where the 2004-2005 freshman class was 58 percent female" (news story, May 27)....

Health-care system came through for writer (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill News
My heart bleeds. It really does. Sure, Maria Palmer has a perfect right to complain about the $350 deductible from the State Employees Health Care Plan ("Paying for medical care," May 11).... just sensed a tight camaraderie, an immense feeling of pride and dedication from all the UNC personnel in their noble work against death.

NC Businesses fish for Government Contracts
"The State of Things" WUNC
It wasn't exactly the dating game, but small business owners came to Research Triangle Park in search of the perfect match. The University of North Carolina's Small Business and Technology Center held its 8th Marketplace Conference where small business sellers meet buyers from Federal and State Government entities.

Issues & Trends

Wages of work (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
State government, by giving other employers an incentive to compete with generous pay, could help improve the quality of life for all Tar Heels....As a whole, state employees have taken a financial beating over the past five years.

Work cut out for next leader
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The next UNC president will confront a tall challenge: managing a complex, fast-growing university system at a time of strained state budgets, climbing tuition, higher public expectations and threats to cohesion from renegade campuses.

UNC revs up search strategy for president
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Before they begin searching in earnest for the next leader of the state's public university system, the members of the UNC system Board of Governors' presidential search committee need to figure out where the university has been and where it's heading, a consultant said Tuesday....Clearly, UNC's next president will need to understand this landscape coming in, Weary stressed.

Produced by News Services, Carolina in the News is an e-mail sampling of current news media coverage about Carolina people and programs, as well as issues and trends that affect the university. Stories usually will be online and available free for a limited time - often one to two weeks. Expiration dates before stories move to archives vary by media outlet. Some outlets require free user registration or a subscription.

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