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March 3, 2003
Carolina in the News
Current National Coverage
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:
Industry works to temper anxiety, encourage bookings
The Los Angeles Times
War-wary travelers have much to worry about these days: cruising into unsafe
waters; canceling nonrefundable hotel reservations; wondering if their favorite
airline will go out of business, taking their frequent-flier miles along with it. ...
"Prior to 9/11, we did a pretty bang-up job around safety issues," says Reid
Wilson, a psychologist specializing in anxiety disorders, including fear of flying."
They just don't hold water right now." Wilson, who teaches at the University
of North Carolina medical school, is seeing fewer, not more, fear-of-flying
patients ...
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-megainsider2mar02,1,1387777.story
(Note: This article also appeared in The Orlando Sentinel.)
A Critical Clue
Newsday (Long Island, NY)
Fifty years ago this month, James Watson and Francis Crick were anticipating
publication of their seminal report: They had unmasked the structure of DNA, a
discovery that laid the foundation for modern molecular biology. ... Charles
Carter, the recent president of the American Crystallography Association, said
changing the structure's name defames what he calls the greatest scientific
discovery of the 20th century ... "Franklin's work was very important," added
Carter, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "It's clear
that neither Franklin nor Watson and Crick could have gotten to the finish line
without the other." ...
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsroz023153571mar02,0,5951003.story?coll=ny-health-headlines
College towns fight student slums
USA Today
It's Friday evening in this city of 78,000 that's home to the University of
Alabama. On the tree-lined residential street where they live, university students
Chris Smith, 22, and Jayson Perkinson, 21, are sipping Bloody Marys and
expressing their extreme displeasure over a crackdown by the city. ... As students
flood surrounding residential areas, some families are moving out.. Cities, often
in concert with the schools themselves, are trying a variety of measures to get
students to be better neighbors: Several college towns, including Michigan State
University's home, East Lansing, and University of North Carolina's Chapel
Hill, N.C., limit the number of students who can live together in off-campus
housing. ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-03-02-college-slums-usat_x.htm
The anti-anti-Americans
Boston Globe
It's not the first time the Bush administration has appeared to reorder the world
with a turn of phrase. First the ''axis of evil'' united Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
... Many Czechs emerged from the Cold War viewing the United States in
something of a rosy light-as ''a guarantor of human rights or freedom,'' says
Milada Anna Vachudova, a political scientist at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill who specializes in Czech politics. ...
http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/061/focus/The_anti_anti_Americans+.shtml
Untraditional immigration
San Antonio Express-News
Pines tower along the roadside in this corner of rural North Carolina, where
desolate fields in late February are a dusty brown, devoid of life's green hues. ...
About 42 percent "harbor negative feelings about the influx of Hispanics,"
according to a 1999 study by researchers at the University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill. ... "There is ongoing tension and adjustment," said Beth Millwood,
a researcher at the Southern Oral History Program at UNC-Chapel Hill. ...
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=957263
Schools face deadline on prayer policies (Commentary)
The Tallahassee Democrat
In one fell swoop, the federal government this month told public schools that they
must accommodate religious speech - and warned school districts that they would
risk losing federal funds if they did not allow "constitutionally protected prayer." ...
William P. Marshall, a school-prayer scholar at the University of North
Carolina law school, said the directive was "not constitutionally suspect." ...
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/living/religion/5287962.htm
(Note: This commentary also appeared in The Wichita Eagle.)
Playing with venture capital
The Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)
Last weekend, Colorado startup companies tried to get MBA student venture
capitalists to finance their firms. There was a catch: It wasn't real money. The
presentations were part of the West Regional of the Venture Capital Investment
Competition ... First-place winner was San Diego State University, with second
place going to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both teams
advance to the national VCIC finals April 10-12 at Chapel Hill, N.C. ...
http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/local_business/article/0,1713,BDC_2461_1779192,00.html
State and Local Coverage
Myers: Decision for war is up to Saddam
The Herald-Sun
The decision to invade Iraq lies not with the United States but with Saddam Hussein,
the nation’s top military adviser said on a visit to the UNC campus Friday. The Iraqi
president should harbor no confusion about what is expected of him, Gen. Richard
B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a collection of local media
gathered at the campus Naval Armory. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-326136.html
In war, troops make 'the difference'
News and Observer
The nation's top military adviser had no magic answers to questions about a possible
war with Iraq during his visit Friday, but he said the military is prepared. "We are
relatively well-equipped with technology," said Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ... Myers spoke briefly at a news conference at the ROTC
Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill before going to a discussion with members of the
Triangle Institute for Security Studies. ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2270297p-2138132c.html
(Note: Among others covering a media briefing organized for Gen. Myers by the
UNC News Services were Associated Press, Raleigh Bureau; WRAL-TV
(CBS,
Raleigh), WTVD (ABC, Durham), WLFL-TV (Warner Brothers, Raleigh),
WNCN-TV (ABC, Raleigh), WUNC-TV (PBS, Research Triangle Park),
WCHL-AM, The University Gazette, The Daily Tar Heel and Carolina Week.
News Services also arranged a pre-game interview for Gen. Myers with the Tar
Heel Sports Networking airing during the UNC-Georgia Tech basketball game.)
Stay the course, but boost safety (Opinion-Editorial Column)
News and Observer, Q Section
At the scale of somewhat below one- billionth of a meter, the universe is made of
atoms. Atoms come in lots of different elements -- hydrogen, helium, lithium and so
on ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2274980p-2141424c.html
(Note: Holden Thorp is a professor of chemistry at UNC-Chapel Hill and director
of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.)
Osama bin Laden and McDonald’s: A fresh perspective (Commentary)
Chapel Hill News
Thomas Friedman has the best journalism job in the country, maybe the world.
Friedman is foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times ... That’s why more
than 500 people jammed into Khoury Auditorium at UNC’s Kenan Flagler Business
School last week, and overflowed into a next-door classroom connected by closed
-circuit TV, to hear this single person speak ...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/2271494p-2139241c.html
Holyfield and Fielder visit hospital
News 14 Carolina
Former stars of the boxing ring and the baseball diamond paid a visit to hospitalized
children Saturday morning. Evander Holyfield and Cecil Fielder met with patients
and parents at the North Carolina's Children's Hospital. ...
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=24521&SecID=2
(Note: The Durham Herald-Sun featured a two page spread on p. 1 of the
Chapel Hill Herald section on Sunday. No online are currently available.)
Novelist's guidance endures in students
News and Observer
Daphne Athas slips a red footstool out from under her right knee and inches forward
in her big, cozy armchair -- just far enough to reach the three dictionaries splayed
before her in her living room. An author of five novels and winner of two National
Endowment of the Arts awards, the creative writing lecturer at UNC-Chapel Hill
can get downright giddy about language ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2278082p-2143815c.html
Studies shelved when duty calls
News and Observer
Last October, Melissa Henderson was a student at the College of Charleston,
studying psychology and weeks from graduating, when she got the call ... After the
draft ended in 1973, the reserves and National Guard became a more integral part
of war-making. Yet they were used little during Vietnam and the Cold War, said
professor Richard Kohn, chairman of the Curriculum in Peace, War and
Defense at UNC Chapel Hill. ...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5291336.htm
Citizens, what should you do?
News and Observer
If you are not the kind of person who lives on gifts from others or on the profits from
your investments -- in other words, if you work for a living -- the U.S. Income Tax
Code is intended to play a central role in your day-to-day economic decision making.
... William Turnier, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, in his legal writings, points out that the charitable deduction at least
allows taxpayers to pick their favorite charities, which promotes a diverse society ...
http://newsobserver.com/business/story/2275070p-2141374c.html
Afghan native's quest ends
News and Observer
Farhad Ahad had one of those life stories that was a real page-turner. He fled his
native Afghanistan as a teenager -- led with his parents by a smuggler to Pakistan
across treacherous terrain on camels, donkeys and even a bulldozer scoop. Half a
lifetime later, the businessman, in his early 30s with a master of business
administration degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and work experience at Progress
Energy and Enron, returned to his war-torn homeland to help rebuild the country
he loved as a child...
http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/2278190p-2143805c.html
Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina
Easley's priorities (Editorial)
News and Observer
Governor Easley's State of the State address Monday will reflect a balancing act
on a budgetary tightrope. ...The governor also rightly understands that the state's
public universities and community colleges must not be shortchanged, and he's wise
to signal lawmakers that his spending plan will not demand dramatic budget cuts in
those areas -- although budget increases, thanks to the state's fiscal crisis, won't be
what they should be. ...
http://newsobserver.com/editorials/editorials/story/2270197p-2138154c.html
Duke's president to step down
News and Observer
Nan Keohane, who for the last decade propelled Duke to new heights as a top-five
university and raised $2 billion for the institution, said Sunday she will step down as
its president next year. ...
http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/2278186p-2143746c.html
Rail plan passes another hurdle
News and Observer
Federal regulators told the Triangle Transit Authority on Friday that it can finish
designing its 35-mile regional rail system, a significant step that will swell the agency
from a dozen rail planners and engineers to about a hundred. ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2270268p-2138128c.html
When does `free' stop being `practicable'? (Letter to the Editor)
Charlotte Observer
Your Feb. 21 editorial on freezing UNC tuition while increasing certain fees ("Mixed
signals") seems to ignore clear economic realities ...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/5302744.htm
(Note: To view this letter, go to the above url and scroll down the web page.)
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