March 24, 2004

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

U.S.C., L.S.U. Meet at White House
The New York Times
Southern California and LSU finally met Tuesday, but not on the football field. President Bush hosted the players at the White House to honor the co-national champions....Both teams are national champions, Bush declared to cheers at a ceremony featuring three other NCAA championship teams: Indiana's men's soccer team, North Carolina's women's soccer team and USC women's volleyball team.

President Welcomes NCAA Fall National Champs to White House
Whitehouse.gov (press release)
...we honor Coach Anson Dorrance's UNC Tar Heel women's soccer team. (Applause.) Anson's got a pretty good record. He's coached for 25 years, and he's won 18 national championships. That's the sign of a good coach who knows good talent and knows how to mold everybody into a good team. This year they were 32-0. When I had my honor of having my picture taken with the team, I asked, what was the closest match, closest game. One of the ladies said, it was 3-0. That's a heck of a team; 32-0 and the closest game is 3-0. UNC gets a lot of attention for its basketball team, but let me remind you of what the legendary coach Dean Smith said. He said, "UNC is a women's soccer school." And once again, these ladies have proven Coach Dean Smith correct. Welcome back.

Hispanics and the Bottom Rung
Business Week
You may be excused if you assumed African Americans and Hispanics are in the same economic boat....Economic research supports that statement. For example, Cubans, who are often lighter in color, receive more positive treatment in the workplace, which translates into a 2.2% gain in earnings, according to a preliminary study led by William Darity, director of the Institute of African-American Research at the University of North Carolina and Jason Dietrich of the U.S. Treasury Dept. Yet, Mexicans and Dominicans get less favorable treatment, and Hispanics overall earn 8% to 9% less than whites do for the same work.

State & Local Coverage

SARS treatment could boost company
The News & Observer
Ron Fleming was at the fax machine at Kucera Pharmaceutical's Durham lab when it began spitting out a National Institutes of Health report....But the technology, a technique to make chemical structures, that led to the discovery of the drug was developed at Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and licensed by Kucera.

Coach settles with one player
The News & Observer
Debbie Keller, one of two former UNC-Chapel Hill soccer players who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against coach Anson Dorrance, has settled her side of the case, Keller and the university said Tuesday.
Related link: http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-462200.html

Radio excellence
The News & Observer
WUNC 91.5 FM won five Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in electronic journalism, including the top award in its category, according to the Radio-Television News Directors Association, which announced the awards Monday.

Vandals strike UNC's canvas mural display
The Chapel Hill Herald
An effort to beautify the UNC campus in the midst of construction came to a halt when vandals struck shortly after eight murals went up....Titled "Art Under Cranes," the series of canvas murals had lined the wire construction fence along the walkway from Morrison Residence Hall to the parking lot by Kenan Field House on South Campus.

UNC historian became national archivist
The Chapel Hill News
Selected for his collection development skills that were honed in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, American historian Robert Diggs Wimberly Conner (1878-1950) of the UNC faculty was appointed to the newly created position of United States Archivist by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934.

The great outdoors
The Chapel Hill News
The 150 hopefuls sat anxiously in the Hanes Art Center auditorium-style classroom, waiting for their chance at summer stardom...."We're going to do everything we can to get you a job this morning, this afternoon," said Scott Parker, director of UNC's Institute for Outdoor Drama, which hosts the try-outs every year.

Golden Fleece marking 100 years
The Chapel Hill Herald
On the southern end of the university, it's the Dean E. Smith Center. In the middle of campus, there's Davis Library. Closer to Franklin Street, it's the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center....The success stories are many. Seven presidents of the UNC system were members, and six Carolina chancellors were as well.

Issues and Trends

Chapel Hill sets budget forum
The News & Observer
Anybody who wants to comment on the coming fiscal year budget and local matters to go before the legislature should show up at Town Hall tonight.

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