May 26, 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

Aspirin Is Seen as Preventing Breast Tumors
The New York Times
Women who take aspirin regularly have a lower risk of developing the most common type of breast cancer than those who do not, researchers are reporting....Researchers at the University of North Carolina and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York also participated in the study.

Prison Investigator's Army Experience Questioned
The Washington Post
Maj. Gen. George R. Fay, who is leading the Army's investigation into the role of military intelligence at Abu Ghraib prison and other detention facilities in Iraq, is an insurance company executive who has been on active duty for five years....Richard Kohn, professor of military history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said yesterday that Fay's limited experience as a reservist "does not inspire confidence in the investigation."

Regional Coverage

SAT improvement triggers devastating accusation
Virginian Pilot
Alexis Martin felt jubilant the second time she took the SAT....The Virginian-Pilot asked Gregory J. Cizek, a professor of educational measurement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to review it.

State & Local Coverage

Roving science lab wows students
Fayetteville Observer
About 50 seventh-graders at Anne Chesnutt Middle School had a date with Destiny on Tuesday....The traveling lab from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was in the school parking lot for about three hours.

Democrats hoping Bush stance helps Kerry in tobacco states
Winston Salem Journal
President Bush won North Carolina by 13 percentage points in 2000, and until recently was considered a lock to win the state's 15 electoral votes in November...."Tobacco farmers and families and the community itself are not as powerful as it used to be, there are fewer people involved. This would have been a much bigger issue 20 years ago," said Ferrel Guillory, the director of the program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Aspirin may cut breast cancer
The News & Observer
An aspirin a day appears to reduce women's risk of the most prevalent form of breast cancer, and researchers now think they know why....Dr. Marilie D. Gammon, professor of epidemiology at UNC-CH's School of Public Health, said her group has established a link between aspirin and the production of estrogen, which contributes to tumor growth in about two-thirds of breast cancer cases.

Aspirin may fight breast cancer
The Herald Sun
Daily use of the lowly aspirin might prevent more than one-fourth of the most common forms of breast cancer, according to a report published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a UNC researcher and her colleagues.

Why we really get into Trojan horse story
The Charlotte Observer
Did the good citizens of Troy really pull the wooden horse inside their city walls, or is that a myth?..."It's a terrific story," says Kenneth Sams, a professor of Greek architecture at the UNC Chapel Hill department of classics. "One of the greatest we have."

UNC to study 2 school districts
The News & Observer
A team from UNC-Chapel Hill will begin a study of Orange County's two school systems next month, and commissioners hope the findings will inform future discussions about education in the county.

Margaret Blanchard, 60
The News & Observer
Margaret A. Blanchard, a demanding but beloved UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor with a following of students who called themselves "the Peggy people," died Tuesday at her Hillsborough home after a lengthy bout with cancer.

Issues & Trends

More Kids Major in Going Slow
Newsweek
Travis Quezon is a modern-day Renaissance man. During his seven years in college, most of them at the University of Hawaii, he has studied chemistry and oceanography, art history and sign language. A few years ago, he decided to get focused and major in English-and geography. He can't say exactly when he'll graduate. "Maybe next May," he muses.
Note: At Carolina, 70.5% of students entering in the class of 1999 graduated within four years.

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