 |
March 13, 2006Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage
Sour on sweet drinks
The Los Angeles Times
No one nagged or hounded. No one said, "Turn that TV/computer/video game off and go outside and play."...All liquid, says Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, needs further attention in diet studies. In research published in the March issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, he and a panel of nutrition scientists propose beverage consumption guidelines.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/healthybeverage030806.htmThink Before You Drink
WebMD
Avoid drinking calories, new beverage guidelines stress. ...Now a blue-ribbon panel of six leading U.S. nutrition experts has come up with guidelines for healthy drinking. The panel's chairman is Barry M. Popkin, PhD, professor of nutrition, head of nutrition epidemiology, and director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.'
The Fallback
The New York Times
If you harbor serious thoughts of running for the presidency, the first thing you do — long before you commission any polls or make any ads, years before you charter planes to take you back and forth between Iowa and New Hampshire — is to sit down with guys like Chris Korge. ...But perhaps the most viable candidate who is making a strong bid to inherit Dean's activist base is John Edwards, who now directs an antipoverty center at the University of North Carolina.
Web key in bid for news chain
The Sacramento Bee
With circulation falling but Web sites flourishing, the future of American newspapers is increasingly found on the Internet. What isn't obvious, however, is just how prosperous that future will be. ..."The Internet is going to help it to specialize, to change its way of covering the news to create highly tailored products for different segments of the audience," said Philip Meyer, a University of North Carolina journalism professor and author of "The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age."
Coming Back to School
Time Magazine
When Talal Al-Dehaim's friends learned last summer that he was leaving Saudi Arabia to go to college in the U.S., they told him it might not be a good idea. ...They worry when news like the debate over the Dubai Ports deal or the attack earlier this month by a Muslim student from Iran who, claiming it was "the will of Allah," drove into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could turn campus opinion against them.
Related Link: http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn121.html
Note: Last Wednesday's (March 8) Orlando Sentinel opinion column by Kathleen Parker about the Pit investigation was distributed by Tribune Media Services and has been reprinted in newspapers including The Kansas City Star, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas), Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (Ind.), Pasadena Star-News (Calif.), Whittier Daily News (Calif.) and the Dallas Morning News. Link from Wednesday's (March 8) Carolina in the News: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-parker0806mar08,0,5430364.column?coll=orl-opinion-headlines
State & Local Coverage
UNC seeks unity after attack stuns campus
The Charlotte Observer
UNC Chapel Hill leaders are seeking ways to unite the campus more than a week after an attack with divisive religious overtones challenged the school's tolerant reputation. ...Moeser said the campus's response has mostly been one of support for Muslim students and that the school "has built a reservoir of good relations" since the 9-11 attacks. The chancellor said his job is to create an atmosphere where "students can debate these issues without personalizing them."
Related Link: http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/417414.html
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/hitandrun930.030306Students praise incident response
The Chapel Hill News
As the last ambulance pulled away from The Pit, signs were already being posted around the scene, telling students who had just seen an SUV hit nine people how they could get counseling. By late afternoon that day, Chancellor James Moeser had sent the first of two e-mails to students, faculty, staff and parents giving details about the incident. Two days later, on Sunday, he sent another e-mail update, promising an event after spring break that would bring the campus together.
Related Link: http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/417153.htmlNot for us to decide (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In his column March 8 ("At UNC, call it what it is: terror"), Rick Martinez describes at length the U.S. code that addresses terrorism. But he is missing an important point: federal authorities determine what is terrorism. Not a university chancellor and not a university police chief. ...Matthew G. Kupec, Vice chancellor, university advancement, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill.
Related Links: http://www.newsobserver.com/580/story/416763.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/681/story/416760.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/681/story/416765.htmlTerrorism in Chapel Hill? (Opinion-editorial column)
The Chapel Hill News
The other day, a young Muslim man drove a rented Jeep through a crowded area of the UNC campus here in Chapel Hill. He said he had done it to "avenge the deaths of Muslims abroad." Like trout taking the bait, campus "conservatives" took a reactionary response of putting together a "unity rally" to condemn the media and authorities for refraining from labeling this act "terrorism" immediately. And because of this, which was probably the goal, the incident got international attention. I live in Chapel Hill. I go to school here as a 39-year-old returning student. It wasn't terrorism. ...Ian Kleinfeld is a UNC junior.
Related Link: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/opinion/story/2910735p-9362225c.html
http://www.chathamjournal.com/weekly/opinion/one_on_one/dgmartin-060313.shtml7 students from Charlotte area win Moreheads
The Charlotte Observer
The Charlotte region is home to seven new recipients of Morehead scholarships to UNC Chapel Hill. The award is worth about $80,000 for N.C. residents and $140,000 for out-of-state students, and covers all expenses for four years, summer enrichment activities and a laptop.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/morehead031006.htmUNC center wins award in magazine
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill's Rams Head Center has been selected for one of Food Management magazine's Best Concept Awards for 2006. The winners will be featured in a cover story and highlighted at the 2006 Food Management Ideas Conference May 17-19 in Chicago, immediately preceding the National Restaurant Show.
UNC News Brief: http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2006/031006.htmUNC to study infant feeding, care
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health has established a Center for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care, the first center of its kind in a school of public health. The center will advance and support research and practices that enable mothers and families to succeed in healthier feeding of infants and young children and related maternal health and nutrition in North Carolina, the United States and globally.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/breastfeeding030706.htmUniversities collect 2,623 pounds of food
The News & Observer (Raleigh)/The Chapel Hill News
The "Big Four ACC Canned Food Drive" has ended, with four North Carolina universities collectively raising $15,809 and 2,623 pounds of food. ...UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Wake Forest and N.C. State universities participated in the February competition. UNC-CH took the top spot, raising $8,852 and 264 pounds of food.
Related Link: http://www.lincolntribune.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4097
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/accfood031006.htmKatrina repairs engage students
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
This spring break, some college students will be clad in sweaty T-shirts, not wet T-shirts. Instead of dipping into crystal blue seas at resort meccas, they'll make a southward pilgrimage to the Katrina-wrecked Gulf Coast to help with reconstruction. ...College students from around the country tackled those questions earlier this month in Chapel Hill. A group of UNC students hosted a national conference on reviving New Orleans and improving U.S. disaster response. Students presented their ideas on Katrina-related topics, including serving displaced Louisiana voters and providing affordable housing for disaster victims.
UNC News Releases: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/helpothers030806.htm
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb06/roosevelt022206.htmStudents break at Gulf Coast, for service, not sun
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Once synonymous with beach destinations and a weeklong bacchanalia, spring break has become for many college students a time for altruism. ...A team from Duke, UNC and other universities sponsored by Westminster Presbyterian Fellowship left Friday for Guatemala, where their work will include a reforestation project.
Related Link: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/2910724p-9362210c.html
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/helpothers030806.htmStudent scores get new look
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Triangle colleges and universities are reconsidering hundreds of applications thanks to corrected SAT scores that are as much as 160 points higher than initially reported. ...Two universities, UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, each got lists of 80 corrected scores. At N.C. State University, 32 applicants' scores changed. "I can't say our staff was jumping for joy, but I don't think it is going to be significant," said Steve Farmer, admissions director at UNC-Chapel Hill.Betts slated for N.C. Journalism and Advertising Halls of Fame
The Charlotte Observer
Jack Betts, an associate editor of the Observer, is one of six people who will be inducted next month into the N.C. Journalism and Advertising Halls of Fame, officials announced Friday. ...He and the others will be inducted at an April 2 ceremony in Chapel Hill. The halls are based in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC Chapel Hill.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/hallfame030906.htm
Newspaper Merger
"The State of Things," WUNC-FM
Phil Meyer, UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor, was featured on today's (March 13) edition of "The State of Things." This morning, Knight-Ridder announced it was selling its newspaper operations to the McClatchy Company for $4.5 billion. The deal has repercussions here in North Carolina, as McClatchy will now own the two largest and most influential newspapers in the state - the News and Observer of Raleigh and the Charlotte Observer.
Sale involves Charlotte Observer
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The McClatchy Co. will buy Knight Ridder Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, in a $4.5 billion deal with far-reaching implications for the print industry, The New York Times reported late Sunday, citing unnamed people involved in the negotiations. ...The combination will be good for Knight Ridder "because it will pull the company behind the firewall that protects McClatchy from its investors," Philip Meyer, a professor of journalism at UNC- Chapel Hill, said before the reported sale. "Newspapers, in order to survive, are going to have to figure out how to merge print and online offerings, and that requires investment. But Wall Street won't let them invest because they're too concerned about short-term profitability."
Related Link: http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/417749.htmlOur Human Hearts
"The State of Things," WUNC-FM
Howard Carter, author of “Our Human Hearts” (Kent State University Press/2006) and adjunct professor of social medicine at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, was featured on today's (March 13) edition of "The State of Things." Throughout history the human heart has been viewed with spiritual wonder and mechanical fascination. We treat our heart as the resting place of the soul or the biological marvel of nature’s ingenuity, but in matters of healthcare we rarely treat our heart as both. How could we benefit from whole-heart healthcare?
UNC sets date to tear down West House
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC has set a date for the demolition of West House, a cozy brick home that sits at the site of a planned music building, but some preservationists are still working to save the structure. Construction for UNC's new music building starts Oct. 1 and the university will tear down the house around that time, unless the community group that wants to save the structure raises sufficient funds to move it, said Bruce Runberg, UNC's associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and construction.
Issues & Trends
Time for a do-over (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
Next fall students attending North Carolina's state universities will pay between 9 and 20 percent more for their education, depending on the campus. Those tuition increases will cost families about $40 million more each year -- and put $40 million more in the universities' kitties. ...Next fall, citizens in the state will pay about $14,000 for full scholarship students from out of state at UNC Chapel Hill and about $12,000 for each one at N.C. State.
Bowles inaugural to be low-key
The Greensboro News & Record
Greensboro native Erskine Bowles will put his hometown in the spotlight when he’s inaugurated as UNC system president on April 12. But, in deference to a man who has admitted he is “not a pomp-and-ceremony guy,” organizers are planning a series of low-key activities.
Elite public high school votes to join UNC system
The Associated Press (N.C.)
The General Assembly will be asked to approve adding a 17th campus to North Carolina's public university system, and this time it's a high school. Trustees at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics voted unanimously Friday to integrate with the University of North Carolina system. The UNC Board of Governors also must approve the reorganization.
Dental school outline mulled
The Greenville Daily Reflector
State higher education officials are working on a proposal to build a dental school at East Carolina University. ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser and officials from both schools met with University of North Carolina system President Erskine Bowles last week and discussed the dental school proposal. Moeser endorsed the idea in principle, Ballard said, opening negotiations about what form an ECU dental school could take.
University of South Carolina raising research profile
The Associated Press (S.C.)
The University of South Carolina continues to raise its profile with a $6 million federal grant for HIV prevention, and a designation by a leading education policy center as an institution of "very high research activity." ...The California-based foundation lists the 95 top-tier research schools in alphabetical order without rank. The list includes Ivy League universities such as Harvard and Cornell. Schools on the list in neighboring states include Emory University, University of Georgia, Duke University and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
USC endowment figure fuzzy
The State (Columbia, S.C.)
USC trustees were surprised at their last board meeting when President Andrew Sorensen displayed a value for USC’s endowment. ...USC’s regional peer, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reported a $1.5 billion endowment, ranking No. 33 in the nation.
Produced by News Services, Carolina in the News is an e-mail sampling of current news media coverage about Carolina people and programs, as well as issues and trends that affect the university. Stories usually will be online and available free for a limited time - often one to two weeks. Expiration dates before stories move to archives vary by media outlet. Some outlets require free user registration or a subscription.
Carolina in the News is also posted daily to the News Services Web page, http://www.unc.edu/news/clips/index.shtml.
Please share any questions, comments or suggestions at news@unc.edu.