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March 21, 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
Toward a Unified Theory of Black America
The News York Times Magazine
Roland G. Fryer Jr. is 27 years old and he is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard and he is black....''Part of his work tries to dismiss the influence of racism,'' says William Darity Jr., who teaches at Duke and the University of North Carolina.
A tragic North American story (Book Review)
The Chicago Tribune
Peter A. Coclanis, associate provost for international affairs and Albert R. Newsome professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill, reviews "A Great and Noble Scheme: The Expulsion of the French Acadians" by John Mack Faragher.
Skinny isn't always healthier
Newhouse News Service
There's another side to the obesity story. It's the skinny story....But perhaps 70 percent of being thin is genetic, said researcher Cynthia Bulik, director of the eating-disorders program at the University of North Carolina.
Kenan-Flagler's Big Picture
Business Week
In 2004, about 1,500 people applied to the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school, which jumped two places to No. 16 on BusinessWeek's most recent list of top B-schools, accepted 47% of applicants, 40% of whom enrolled in the program.
A Misbegotten Tax Break
Business Week
When it comes to using the tax code to micromanage the economy, policymakers never seem to learn....Says University of North Carolina economist Doug Shackleford: "We ought to be very, very hesitant to put any of these incentives in to try to manipulate business decisions."
By 2025, Denver airport area may emerge as economic hub
The Denver Post
Julie Bender walks to the panoramic window in the Denver International Airport Business Partnership's conference room and looks east over what may be the least appealing vista in the city....This phenomenon is not new, Bender and others say. It even has a name, which was coined by University of North Carolina professor John Kasarda: the aerotropolis.
Edwards' new job ensures visibility
The Washington Times
Former Sen. John Edwards, seeking to retain his public visibility as he considers another run for president in 2008, has found an academic platform that critics say was created solely to boost his political ambitions....But the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill stepped in to fill that void by setting up the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity that he will direct when he isn't speaking around the country for Democratic causes.
New Bible doesn't tell whole Story (Book Review)
Sun-Sentinel (Fla.)
Young people are generally spiritual, but their religious knowledge is shallow, as a study on teens by the University of North Carolina announced in February. The newest attempted remedy is The Story, a radical remodeling of the Scriptures for younger eyes.
State & Local Coverage
Board OKs out-of-state tuition hikes
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
The UNC system's Board of Governors concluded its work on tuition and fees Friday, quickly and unanimously approving a series of rate hikes for the upcoming school year....At UNC-Chapel Hill, tuition for out-of-state undergraduates will rise $700, while out-of-state grad students will pay an additional $950. Graduate students from North Carolina will pay an additional $200 next year.
UNC OKs some hikes
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
This fall, in-state UNC system students are scheduled to get a break on tuition hikes, but out-of-state students and graduate students on most campuses will pay higher bills....Athletic fees for all UNC-Chapel Hill students will jump from $98 a year to $198.
Related link: http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2229646p-8609696c.htmlUNC financial maneuvers tough to follow (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Watching university administrators recently has been a little like peeking in on a game of three-card monte. Watch the dealers move this over there, take that from here, switch it around, shuffle the deck and start again.
UNC goes upscale with lavish center
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
When UNC-Chapel Hill students wander into the new $70 million Rams Head Center on Monday, they'll have some difficult decisions to make.
Q&A | North Carolina chancellor James Moeser
The Charlotte Observer
What are your thoughts about playing in the NCAA tournament in Charlotte? It's just like when we were here for the Continental Tire Bowl (in December). We've got a huge Carolina crowd at the Coliseum. It's a home game for us, so it's great to be here.
UNC's Erlana Larkins has seen good times and bad
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
As she sat on the bus heading to Lakeland, Erlana Larkins decided to write.
Alpha Iota Omega forgetting central tenets of Christianity (Editorial)
The Seahawk (UNC-Wilmington)
Intolerance reared its ugly head once again. In a recent court injunction, UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity Alpha Iota Omega received temporary re-instatement as a campus organization. AIO lost its status a year ago after refusing to sign the university nondiscrimination policy. The organization claims freedom of association and expression give it the right to exclude students who don't conform to its core Christian belief.
Help found
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Luisa Parral began fretting over her daughter's health a week after she was born in Mexico City. But doctors assured her there was nothing wrong -- even when, years later, the child's brown eyes appeared to be on the verge of bursting from her skull...."It was a big surgery," said Dr. Timothy Turvey, one of the surgeons and chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, UNC School of Dentistry.
Related link: http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/news/031805_NW_facialreconstruction.htmlUNC-CH and town debate campus site
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Town and UNC-Chapel Hill leaders will scrap for the upper hand in negotiations tonight over Carolina North, the university's proposed satellite campus slated to be built at what's now Horace Williams Airport.
Growth signals
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
WUNC, 91.5 FM, this month announced the hiring of two more staff members, bringing the total number of additions since September 2001 to about 20. An ambitious 32-part series on poverty in North Carolina is on the schedule for April.
Outspoken academic leaves UNC Chapel Hill (Commentary)
The Charlotte Observer
UNC School of Law Dean Gene Nichol has been a football quarterback, a philosopher, a constitutional lawyer, a politician and an outspoken academician. This summer he will try something new -- running the College of William and Mary as the 25th president of the nation's second-oldest college. He leaves behind a role in Chapel Hill that he has come to relish: raising cain and letting the chips fall where they may.
Related letter to the editor: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/opinion/story/2233583p-8613770c.htmlDeconstruction, materials reuse develop in Orange County
The Chapel Hill Herald
What do a 1910 farmhouse in Cedar Grove, a 1928 industrial building in Hillsborough, a 1960s brick ranch in Heritage Hills and a 1979 "deck house" on the golf course at the Chapel Hill Country Club have in common?....UNC's Construction Waste Specialist, Sarah Myers, is finding ways to reuse during the university's massive renovation and construction boom.
Scares and delusions of Arctic oil (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Debates about drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seem to bring out the worst in everybody. The latest idiocy is underscored by the Senate's vote on March 16 to allow drilling in the refuge. As a geologist, I am appalled by the positions taken by both sides....Before his retirement John J.W. Rogers was the William R. Kenan Jr. professor of geology at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Issues & Trends
Almost like having their own dorms
The Associated Press (National)
When Jim Davis graduated from Pennsylvania State University, he figured he was leaving for good. But more than 50 years later, he's back, this time for retirement....The Triangle is attracting a growing number of retirees who want to be closer to communities near UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University in Raleigh and Duke University in Durham.
Seat on board of UNC system coveted, takes political skills (Commentary)
The Wilmington Star-News
At first glance, the process seems pretty straightforward.....The Senate is to elect eight members to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, the body that oversees all 16 campuses of the state university system.
South Columbia St. project could face another setback
The Chapel Hill Herald
Improvements the town has long sought for South Columbia Street could be pushed back yet another year....In the past, UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care leaders have argued for widening the road, with goals such as improving the access for vehicles to UNC Hospitals and other facilities. But in 1998, former UNC Chancellor Michael Hooker agreed to drop the request for widening from the university's long-term plans.
Voting on money for Erwin Road land tops council's hearing agenda
The Chapel Hill Herald
The Town Council may decide tonight whether to kick in $100,000 toward the purchase of about 43 acres on Erwin Road targeted for development....The council also is scheduled to take public comments on the idea of rezoning parts of the Horace Williams property along Airport Road, where UNC hopes someday to build its Carolina North campus.
Downtown considers allowing alcohol at summer concerts
The Chapel Hill Herald
As restaurateurs know, lots of people like to have a beer or glass of wine when they're dining out on the town....The half-dozen concerts each year usually took place at McCorkle Place on the UNC campus, and often drew families and others with blankets and picnic dinners.
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