May 24, 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

Companies Recruiting New Graduates
The New York Times
Rebecca Palmer, who just graduated from Wichita State University, did not have to look for a job. The job found her.....Marcia B. Harris, director of career services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that this year about 35 percent of graduating seniors had jobs awaiting them, up from 30 percent last year and about 15 percent in 2003.
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A Moving Force In Fight for Bush's Judicial Nominees
The Washington Post
Every Monday morning for months, veteran Washington lawyer C. Boyden Gray has plotted strategy via a conference call with the heads of groups that want to ease the confirmation of President Bush's judicial nominees. He has also spent many hours raising millions of dollars for the cause.....Clayland Boyden Gray (he did not want to be called Clay Gray, so he uses only the first initial) went to Harvard and was first in his class at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

A Centrist Approach to Sports Reform
Inside Higher Education
It's not as if the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics was a firebrand group in its first incarnation 15 years ago; it was, after all, headed by the presidents of the University of North Carolina and Notre Dame, William C. Friday and the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, old school gentlemen if there ever were.
Related link: http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/05/2005052403n.htm

Some experts say deaths aren't all that matters
Cox News Service
A recent study that the government-estimated death toll from obesity is far smaller - by 253,000 deaths - than reported last year has scientists and food industry interests in a food fight that even the strongest school principal couldn't break up....Mensah; Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina; and others stress that the conflicting numbers dealing with obesity and death have no bearing on the toll obesity extracts on the living, such as diabetes, heart disease, and arthritis.

State & Local Note

Skip Bollenbacher, professor of biology, will be featured on "North Carolina People" with Bill Friday on Wednesday (May 25). Air times on North Carolina Public Television are: 8:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Check local listings.

State & Local Coverage

Dental care available for war returnees
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
If they sign up promptly, Reservists and National Guard soldiers returning home after service in Iraq or Afghanistan will become eligible for free dental services under a $355,000 contract being announced today by UNC Hospitals and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Related link: http://newsobserver.com/news/ncwire_news/story/2439436p-8844059c.html
Note: WUNC-FM also reported on this story.

Senate seeks cuts in Medicaid services
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Kent Goddard and his wife, Laura, live in a townhouse in north Raleigh. They've been married for 14 years. He volunteers as an advocate for the mentally ill. She works part time as a hostess at a restaurant.....The problem the Senate budget tries to address is tied to rising health care costs everywhere, said Jonathan Oberlander, an associate professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

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