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March 7, 2005
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:International Coverage
'There is no better learning'
Financial Times (United Kingdom)
Strong, poised and calm, MBA students from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, take the stand. It is Saturday afternoon but the room is half-full. Two teams follow suit but when a judge declares Chapel Hill the victors, the crowd cheers.
National Coverage
Professor Melissa Jacoby of the University of North Carolina discusses personal bankruptcies
"All Things Considered" National Public Radio
To find out more about who files for bankruptcy, we're joined now by Melissa Jacoby. She's an associate professor of law at the University of North Carolina.
Players muscle out the fat
USA Today
Sports nutritionist Leslie Bonci is sitting with three very large college football players in their locker room at Robert Morris University. Her goal: to help them tackle their weight....The NFL disputes the findings by researchers at the University of North Carolina that 56% of its players, ages 21 to 44, are 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight and that about 26% qualify as severely obese.
Donations to Colleges Post First Rise in 3 Years
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Giving to colleges and universities increased by 3.2 percent in the 2004 fiscal year, the first growth in contributions since 2001....The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Virginia, and Princeton University fell off the top-20 list, replaced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, the University of Michigan system, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Subscription required.Edwards makes a KC stop
The Kansas City Star
John Edwards' flack didn't like the direction the interview was going....In the meantime, Edwards will lead a new anti-poverty program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
State & Local Coverage
Moeser backs UNC's position in lawsuit
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC Chancellor James Moeser said Friday he supports the university's stance in a lawsuit involving a Christian fraternity's right to select its members.
Take this chance to share your faith (Commentary)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
To my Christian brothers Jonathan, Carlon and Trevor: Hope this letter finds you in good spirits. Can't imagine why you wouldn't be, since that federal judge told UNC it can't force your fraternity to accept all comers. At least for now.
About exclusion (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Your excellent Feb. 28 article on "campus ministries" and the Alpha Iota Omega fraternity's noncompliance with UNC-Chapel Hill's anti-discrimination policy left me shaken.
Gay-bashing victim changed by attack
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
It happened in a matter of moments.....He was particularly touched that UNC Chancellor James Moeser attended and spoke forcefully. The university's support system has helped him greatly, as have gay student groups on campus and his own network of friends.
Related link: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/2186684p-8568060c.htmlA gift for UNC? Laudable standards...(Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Regarding the controversy at UNC-Chapel Hill over a proposal to expand the curriculum in Western studies through funding by the John W. Pope Foundation...During the controversy at Chapel Hill, at N.C. State University Nobel laureate Vernon L. Smith delivered the first John W. Pope Lecture.
...An altered proposal (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As one of the 71 (now 97 and counting) UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members who signed the open letter to university administrators that you reported on in the March 3 article "Faculty decry 'secret' negotiation," I am glad The N&O accomplished what faculty could not: prying loose the latest version of the proposal sent to the John W. Pope Foundation. The article reported that administrators initially did not want to release it to the press, but then complied.
Tighter lobbying rules sought
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
They represent a wide variety of political, religious, environmental and other interests before the state legislature -- and on some issues, they often fire at each other....Gene Nichol, the UNC-Chapel Hill law school dean, who served as committee chairman, said the loophole makes the lobbyist regulations ineffective.
Signals in the wind (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill News
Things continue to happen in politics here that do not fit with the patterns of the past....A late February conference on "New Strategies for Southern Progress" held in Chapel Hill in conjunction with the Program on Southern Politics Media and Public Life in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications helped knit these two and other happenings together for me.
Fewer teens die in car accidents under new rule
News & Record (Greensboro)
Teenage drivers are dying far less frequently on North Carolina highways since a restricted licensing program for new drivers was implemented in 1997....Disputing those figures are researchers with the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, who say USA Today badly undercounted the number of young drivers in the state.
Engineering students help people with disabilities
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Soft music, sensory smells and flashing lights help make learning fun for children with special needs at Lakewood Accelerated Lab Elementary School....And students in Duke and UNC biomedical engineering classes are helping to design and build technology projects to assist the students in expanding their knowledge.
Trek will aid children in Guatemala
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Like thousands of college students, Katie Weber and Leah Oster-Katz are heading to the coast this week for spring break....But while many of their peers will be pounding back beers and frozen drinks with tiny umbrellas, the UNC-Chapel Hill juniors will be pounding the pavement.
$22M in VC gone, Nuada files for Chapter 7
Triangle Business Journal
Six-year-old Nuada Pharmaceuticals has laid off its remaining 13 employees and filed for liquidation....Bell says the company has packed the chemicals and is awaiting court approval to transport them to facilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which has agreed to take them.
N&O introduces weekly Durham News
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Moving to grow in Durham, The News & Observer launched a Saturday paper today, delivering the free weekly to 53,000 Durham households this morning...."It's a reaching out by The N&O to become more important in Durham," said Richard Cole, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill. "This is another step in the competition."
Trustee helps son get lease
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A trustee at Wake Tech helped his son lease a building to the college in a deal worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars, records show....Frayda Bluestein, a professor of government at UNC-Chapel Hill, said state law prohibits a trustee from helping someone profit through information not available to the general public.
When seeing is not believing
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
We cherish our photographs....But in a new assemblage on display at the Ackland Museum of Art, artist Kimowan McLain challenges our faith that seeing is believing -- and articulates a new vision of what a memory looks like.
The mirrors have two faces
The Independent Weekly
Feathers, mirrored mosaics and a range of bright colors tell the story of Africans who escaped slavery and formed villages in the jungles of Panama, in Como se Cuenta el Cuento (How to Tell the Story), the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History's current exhibit.
Citizen's band
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Organizers of the National Symphony Orchestra's yearly state visits are fond of saying it's hard to miss 100 musicians when they descend on a community with concerts, workshops and speaking engagements....Tonu Kalum, who leads the UNC-Chapel Hill Symphony Orchestra and is president of the Conductors Guild, said that, while the NSO isn't a member of the legendary Big 5 among U.S. orchestras, it definitely falls within the top 10 or 15.
How to pronounce N.C., S.C. places becomes a ROO-barb (Commentary)
The Charlotte Observer
Wayne Harris looked up at the television when he heard the names of his first cousins, Herman and Vernon Harris, who live in Mebane....Last week I said Wingate was WING-get, referring to the town east of here in Union County. That's all I've heard, and that's also in the UNC Chapel Hill Library pronunciation guide.
Transportation expert to speak
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Spenser Havlick, a national expert in transportation and sustainable campus communities, will give a lecture on traffic congestion on college campuses at UNC at 5 p.m. Monday.
Mayhem on Franklin St. as UNC fans celebrate win over Duke
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Nothing says Carolina basketball success like bonfires on Franklin Street and toilet paper streamers in the trees.
Related linkPeople
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
RICHARD P. BARTH, Frank A. Daniels professor for human services policy in the School of Social Work, has received the 2005 James E. Flynn Prize for Research, given annually to a scholar whose interdisciplinary studies have significantly shaped modern social policy. The international award, established in 1999 by Marilyn Flynn, dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California, is accompanied by a $10,000 cash prize and a gold medallion. Barth, a member of the faculty since 1998, received the award Sunday.
Note: This article is not available online.Issues & Trends
Leaders foresee campus revamp
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
She's an academic, an economist by training who is prone to talking about international trade and global commerce. He's a consummate politician, a North Carolina insider who sees the economy in terms of jobs created -- and lost -- throughout dozens of Tar Heel towns.
Health care's burden squeezes N.C. state government all over
The Associated Press (N.C.)
From crime victims to criminals and college faculty, North Carolina state government can't get away from the soaring costs of health care....The University of North Carolina system is concerned that its faculty recruiting efforts are being hampered by the state employees' health insurance plan.
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