May 27, 2003

Carolina in the News

Current International Coverage

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

Schools take big steps to gain a leg up
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
For Dezso Horvath, the stunning new home of York University's Schulich School 
of Business is more than a $100-million melding of limestone, glass and carpet. ... 
The most influential model turned out to be the six-year-old building at the Kenan
-Flagler School at the University of North Carolina. Kenan-Flagler's curriculum, 
like Schulich's, contains a focus on sustainable enterprise, which is reflected in 
materials and design. 
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030526/RSCHO/TPBusiness/TopStories

Current National Coverage

8 Analysts Are Dismissed by Citigroup
The New York Times
Citigroup dismissed eight research analysts yesterday and temporarily withdrew 
coverage of 117 companies, signaling a fresh initiative by Sallie L. Krawcheck 
and her research team to reduce costs. ... Ms. Krawcheck has in the past 
criticized the widely held view on Wall Street that research is a cost center, 
incapable of generating its own profits. "Wall Street firms have for years gradually 
devalued their research," Ms. Krawcheck said in a March speech at the 
University of North Carolina, her alma mater.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/business/24CITI.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles.)

When every town had its Elm Street (Book Review)
The Los Angeles Times
When Charles Dickens visited New Haven during his 1842 tour of the United 
States, he thought it one of the most beautiful cities he had ever seen, "a kind of 
compromise between town and country; as if each had met the other half-way 
and shaken hands upon it." ... [Thomas] Campanella's book ably straddles 
cultural and urban history. An assistant professor of city planning at the 
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he started his book as a doctoral 
dissertation at MIT.
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/books/la-bk-rybczynski25may25,1,7181771.story
(Note: The Los Angeles Times requires free registration to access articles.)

Hey, don't sweat it
The Chicago Tribune
The frenzy is over. To the relief of just about everyone, the dust has settled on one 
of the most competitive college admissions seasons in history. ... An informal poll 
of colleagues yielded the following eclectic "most-admired" roster: ... Paul 
Wellstone (University of North Carolina) ... 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0305250363may25,1,6443212.story
(Note: The Chicago Tribune requires free registration to access articles. )

Even native sons face uphill fight in South 
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
When a group of eight women get together at Ye Olde Sandwich Shoppe on 
alternate Wednesdays for lunch and a hand of bridge, they don't usually debate 
presidential politics. ... In his first run for office after a 20-year career as a trial 
lawyer, Edwards won the 1998 Senate race in North Carolina with an impressive 
appeal to independents and new migrants, said Ferrel Guillory, director of the 
Center for Southern Politics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel 
Hill.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0503/26southelect.html

A family legacy and the threat of scandal
The Christian Science Monitor 
The Scott family farm in the rumpled hills of North Carolina is to the Tarheel state 
what the Kennedy compound is to Massachusetts. ... "She's challenging the estab-
lished powers," says Ferrell Guillory, a Southern culture expert at the 
University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0527/p03s01-uspo.html

Civic journalists say they are here to stay
Kansas City Star 
About 15 years ago, a newspaper editor in Wichita, Kan., got fed up with the way 
his paper -- and his profession -- covered the ritual by which the American people 
choose their leaders. He set out to do it differently. ... "When you start caring about 
how public debate goes, even if you don't prefer a particular outcome, you start
making subjective decisions about what to focus on and when," Philip Meyer, a
journalism professor at the University of North Carolina, once cautioned students. 
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/5931477.htm
(Note: This story also appeared in The Sunday Gazette-Mail (W. Va.))

Taking stock of newspaper quality
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In Philip Meyer's view, taking a company public is something of a bargain with the 
devil: You get lots of money, but you get a demanding new master, too. ... "When 
you guys do that," said Meyer, a highly regarded journalism professor at the 
University of North Carolina who has been researching the intersection of 
newspaper quality and the bottom line, "you're going to become a different kind 
of animal."
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/may03/143078.asp

Universities: Your New Best Friend 
Forbes.com
Kathy Zelenock needed venture capital for her start-up, e-Cognita Technologies 
Inc., which makes transaction-management software for the mortgage industry. 
She found it at the University of Michigan. ... "It's become OK for universities to 
work with the entrepreneurial community and not have that look like they're selling 
out," says Robert Sullivan, dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ... And these days institutions of 
higher learning need that monetary support more than ever. The financial pressures 
on them are considerable, notes UNC provost Robert Shelton. State schools 
have suffered budget cuts as the surpluses in many state treasuries have quickly 
turned into nasty deficits. 
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/inc/2003/05/26/inc24824.html
(Note: Sullivan's interview was conducted prior to his departure from UNC.)

South key to victory in ’04 vote
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Eighteen months from the next presidential election, the South stands as a Repub-
lican fortress that Democrats must crack if they are to have any hope of regaining the 
White House. Arkansas, one of only two Southern states with a majority Democrat 
congressional delegation, could be one of the keys to them doing that, many political 
analysts believe. ... Ferrell Guillory, political analyst at the University of North 
Carolina, said Arkansas "remains more Democratic in its day-today politics than 
almost any Southern state." 
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/story_National.php?storyid=30924

State and Local Coverage

$1B and counting: UNC hits landmark 
The Herald-Sun
It’s official. UNC is a billionaire. On the strength of two financial gifts received late 
last week, the university’s capital campaign reached the $1 billion mark, placing the 
school in some elite company.
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-355909.html
Note: This story generated Associated Press coverage so far in outlets
including The Asheville Citizen-Times, 
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/news/35485
The Charlotte Observer, 
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/5935089.htm
The News & Observer and The Greensboro News & Record (neither online).)
For more information, please see http://carolinafirst.unc.edu/)

State budget knife to cut deep at UNC 
The Herald-Sun
Like most programs at UNC, Karen Bean’s H.E.E.L.S for Health venture has
received its share of budget cuts over the last couple of years. Still, Bean was blind-
sided by news last week that the 12-year-old employee fitness service was being 
eliminated entirely. 
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-355747.html

Public health gains respect 
News and Observer
It began when the West Nile virus first cropped up in New York in 1999 and really 
took off after the anthrax terrorism in 2001, but the upshot was clear: Public health 
had transformed from a neglected stepchild to a favorite son among health 
professions. The field's new cachet has benefited UNC-Chapel Hill, which has one 
of the nation's 32 accredited schools of public health. "It's exciting, really," said 
William Roper, dean of the UNC's School of Public Health. 
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2567246p-2383101c.html

A-B Vision issues report on health 
Asheville Citizen-Times
In Buncombe County, more mothers with infants smoked in 2001. More people 
became overweight. More children were abused. ... Those concerns included 
smoking and obesity, two of the topics addressed Thursday by keynote speaker 
Bill Roper, dean of the UNC School of Public Health. 
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/news/35312

Setting standards for university success (Question and Answer)
News and Observer
Can you solve the equation 0=(x+3)(x+1)? Do you know the differences among the
Civil War, the Cold War and the civil rights movement? ... These questions are 
offered as illustrations of what high school graduates need to know if they are going 
to succeed in entry-level college courses. They are in a study by the Association of 
American Universities and Pew Charitable Trusts. Jerry Lucido, undergraduate 
admissions director for UNC-Chapel Hill, was a consultant for the Standards for 
Success project.
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2567249p-2383013c.html

Utilities seldom see fines for spills
Charlotte Observer
N.C. wastewater treatment systems spilled more than 1 billion gallons of sewage 
over the past five years, state records show, enough to fill a 100-acre lake 30 feet 
deep. .. That doesn't make spills safe, said Mark Sobsey, an environmental 
health microbiologist at the UNC School of Public Health.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5940913.htm

Molecules, mystery at Morehead (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
Earlier this month, UNC hosted a star attraction who filled one of the university’s 
largest lecture halls and set off an autograph line that snaked out the doors. No, 
Clay Aiken and the “American Idol” crew weren’t on campus. The center of 
attention was a 74-year-old bird watcher who prefers to spend his time in laborat-
ories and mumbles when he speaks. 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/2561504p-2377995c.html

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Texas A&M Will Open an Engineering Program in Qatar
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Texas A&M University at College Station on Sunday signed a 10-year agreement 
with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development 
to open an undergraduate engineering campus in the oil- and gas-rich country
http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/05/2003052707n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

Campuses seek computer boost 
News and Observer
North Carolina is losing research tools long heralded as proof that the state is a top-
notch place to conduct science. MCNC will stop operating supercomputers in 
Research Triangle Park in June. ... One, a leased IBM SP valued at more than $4 
million, will be shipped back to IBM. MCNC will lend two high-performance 
machines to UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University to help with the transition.
http://newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/2563064p-2379399c.html

At their service... (Editorial)
News and Observer
They would rather have the money for the departments and programs they run 
instead of medals for fiscal valor, but credit North Carolina officials at all levels for 
doing their best to preserve the services they provide for citizens.
http://newsobserver.com/editorials/story/2568853p-2384417c.html

...buildings in a fix (Editorial)
News and Observer
Even while services to some extent are holding their own, poorly maintained state 
buildings in North Carolina are no small problem. 
http://newsobserver.com/editorials/story/2568854p-2384415c.html

Former UNC president to lead Harvard board 
News and Observer
C.D. Spangler Jr., former president of the University of North Carolina, has been 
elected president of Harvard University's Board of Overseers. 
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2562990p-2379376c.html

Change in future for downtown
The Chapel Hill News
The recent decline in the fortunes of Franklin Street may be paving the way for a 
more vibrant downtown of the future.
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/2561638p-2378159c.html

Fixing problems of downtown (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
Is downtown Chapel Hill broken, and does it need to be fixed? There has been a 
certain amount of hysteria circulating lately over the woes of Franklin Street, 
precipitated largely by an unaccustomed high vacancy rate among downtown 
storefronts.
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/2561532p-2378025c.html

Franklin Street slide: 'Our biggest challenge'
The Chapel Hill News
This weekend, as alumni, students, and families assemble for commencement, 
downtown is at the height of graduation frenzy.
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/2561638p-2361373c.html

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