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June 6, 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
Title helps UNC merchandise sales
The Associated Press (National)
North Carolina has apparently reversed a slump in merchandise sales by winning the national men's basketball championship....Since the Tar Heels beat Illinois 75-70 for the title in April, fans have clamored for hats, T-shirts and other items. The money goes into the school's general scholarship fund and its athletics budget.
H.I.V. Tests Pose Choice of Breakthroughs
The New York Times
For almost two decades, H.I.V. tests had two glaring flaws. They did not detect the earliest stage of infection, when people are more likely to spread the virus. And they took days to produce results, and many people never returned to learn whether they were infected....In North Carolina, 4 percent of the infections found by RNA tests are not detected by antibody tests, said Dr. Christopher D. Pilcher, director of the testing program run by the state and the University of North Carolina. In San Francisco, Dr. Klausner said, the figure is 10 percent.
The lessons of 'Deep Throat' and Watergate (Opinion-editorial column)
USA Today
All good things have unexpected consequences. When Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the Watergate scandal, saving our democracy wasn't the only outcome. Now, with W. Mark Felt outing himself as their key source in 1972-73, we can look back.
Mixed-race children share adults' mixed emotions about cultural identities
The Lansing State Journal (Michigan)
Aaron Foster was 3 years old the first time the question came. "What are you?" asked the barber, out of earshot of his mother...."It did not matter what races the students identified with," says J. Richard Udry, a professor of maternal and child health and lead researcher (at the University of North Carolina). "The risks were higher for all of them if they did not identify with a single race."
MODERN LIVING TRENDS: Tomorrow's homes must be flexible, freewheeling and full of life
The Chicago Tribune
Three powerful demographic forces will shape housing in the future, determining who will buy homes, where they'll buy them and what they will be like...."Most housing growth will be driven in the future by immigrants and Hispanics," predicted James Johnson, professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
State & Local Coverage
Pinehurst in black and white
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As a young black man in the 1940s, Charles Barrett couldn't play a round of golf at the Pinehurst resort, couldn't stay in a room at any of its hotels or eat in its white-linen dining rooms. He could, however, cook for the all-white clientele, and he did because a job at the resort was one of the best jobs a Moore County black man could get in those days. It was like being on the inside and yet stuck on the outside at the same time....
Related Link: http://www.wral.com/news/4567890/detail.htmlUNC center pushes annexation
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In the long halls of the Pinehurst Hotel and its sister lodge, the Holly Inn, hang hundreds of framed images of the men who founded and ran the now famous golf resort, the celebrities and heads of state who have played here and the laborers who have kept it running....As the region prepares to welcome scores of the world's greatest golfers and tens of thousands of spectators for the 2005 U.S. Open, the Center for Civil Rights, an arm of the University of North Carolina School of Law, claims that Moore County municipalities have systematically discriminated against the residents of black communities by drawing corporate boundaries around them.
U.S. Open used in drive for inclusion
The Charlotte Observer
A 15-minute drive gets Maurice Holland from his front porch to this month's U.S. Open Golf Championship....With help from the Center for Civil Rights of the UNC Chapel Hill law school, they've contacted media across the state and beyond. The center is distributing a documentary about the Moore County communities titled "Invisible Fences."
Nearby Pinehurst communities want services
The Fayetteville Observer
Residents of poor black communities around Pinehurst are considering new tactics to fight for sewer service....In Moore County, lawyers from the University of North Carolina's law school in Chapel Hill have been working with residents from three communities: Jackson Hamlet, which is sandwiched between Pinehurst and Aberdeen; Midway, which is surrounded by Aberdeen; and Waynor Road, which is contiguous to parts of Southern Pines.
Bill eases UNC business ban
The Chapel Hill Herald
The N.C. House has passed a bill that would give UNC system campuses what the system's lobbyist terms a "blanket exemption" from a 1929 law that bars state agencies from competing with private-sector businesses....UNC Chapel Hill officials support the proposed legislation. But they haven't pushed for it too heavily and don't expect its passage to signal any significant change, said Kevin FitzGerald, the campus lobbyist.
Issues & Trends
Universities consider insurance mandate
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Most student health centers can tend to broken bones, common viruses and other ailments that typically afflict those who seek medical attention on university campuses...."For this coming fall, seven campuses have decided to have hard-waiver," said Bobby Kanoy, UNC senior associate vice president for academic and student affairs. "Another four to six of the campuses will probably change to that next year."
The debate on tuition will go on (Opinion-editorial column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
On April 12, a group of North Carolina legislators introduced a bill allowing undocumented students who had lived in the state for at least four years, graduated from a North Carolina high school and been accepted into a state university or community college to qualify as in-state residents for tuition purposes....
Students' undocumented status a barrier to higher education
The Associated Press (NC)
Luis Sanchez has his future all sketched out. A pencil drawing the 17-year-old Pender County senior created depicts Luis as a young boy wearing a cap and gown, symbols of his academic aspirations....The University of North Carolina's 16 campuses allow undocumented residents to earn degrees as long as they pay the out-of-state price tag.
Financial Aid Rules for College Change, and Families Pay More
The New York Times
No matter how she parses it, Roberta Proctor cannot make sense of her son's college bill. Her income and her assets have not changed. If anything, she says, her family's finances have deteriorated somewhat....
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