May 10, 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

N.C. anti-cohabitation law comes under legal attack
The Associated Press (National)
There are some 144,000 unmarried couples living together in North Carolina, and they are all breaking the law - a statute that has been on the books since 1805....Arnold Loewy, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the ACLU lawsuit is almost certain to succeed.

Recent school bus accidents revive calls for seat belts
USA Today
A bus carrying 53 students hit two cars stopped at a red light in Liberty, Mo., on Monday morning, killing two adults in the cars and sending 23 students to the hospital....."The image of a school bus wreck or a plane crash grabs you. People don't identify as closely with the fact that 43,000 people die every year in car crashes," says Douglas Robertson, director of the Highway Safety Research Center at the University of North Carolina.

State & Local Coverage

Program teaches ways to support soldiers' families
Asheville Citizen-Times
Since her husband was deployed with the 105th Military Police to Iraq last fall, Lana Greer spends a lot of time "sitting and waiting to hear something."...Under the umbrella of UNC-Chapel Hill, this federally funded program hopes to pull communities together in an effort to reach out.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul04/citizensoldier072304.html

Center to study terrorism
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Researchers and scholars from Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and RTI International will work together to study terrorism and look for strategies to prevent attacks.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may05/schanzer050905.html
Note: A story with an interview with the new director, David Schanzer, also aired this morning on WUNC-FM.

In whose interest? (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
Two sneaky special provisions in the state Senate budget bill undermine the system of central governance for North Carolina's 16 public universities....The first provision would give two universities, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State, independent powers to set tuition rates.

Latin puts up good fight among school languages
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The ancient language of poets, priests and philosophers isn't dead to Matthew Welch....."It's less common to see somebody who's taking an AP Vergil course their senior year, so certainly that might help a student's high school transcript stand out," said Steve Farmer, the director of admissions at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Issues & Trends

College Recruitment Targets New Immigrants
The Associated Press (National)
Jesus Gaytan is one of only a few dozen Hispanic students on the Doane College campus, and he wants that to change. So do college administrators...Meanwhile, in the East, the University of North Carolina is taking steps to attract Hispanic students, especially in light of estimates that show the number of Hispanic high school graduates increasing from 2,000 to 35,000 in 13 years.

Group fights airport closing
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, an organization with 400,000 members across the country and 10,000 in North Carolina, plans to fight proposed legislation that would let UNC-Chapel Hill close Horace Williams Airport without building a replacement airfield.

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.

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