May 30, 2007

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Bill offers undocumented students chance at legal status
Medill Washington Reports
As the immigration reform debate continues in Congress and around the country, the fate of increased higher education opportunities for undocumented students remains uncertain. ...Shirley Ort, director of financial aid at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said there are a handful of undocumented students at the school; however they are not qualified to receive state or federal funding.

Regional Coverage

‘Serial’ education plan needed for Blacks
The Chicago Defender
Virginia, Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina and other states are making serial apologies these days, expressing remorse for past participation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. ...A recent New York Times story noted, "Concerned that the barriers to elite institutions are being increasingly drawn along class lines, and wanting to maintain some role as engines of social mobility, about two dozen schools - Amherst, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, the University of Virginia, Williams the University of North Carolina, among them - have pushed in the past few years to diverse economically."

Family First: Need Help Saving For College?
WCBS-TV (New York)
If your child dreams of going to college, but finances or confusion over the process is holding them back there's a wonderful program at the Goddard Riverside Community Center in Manhattan called "Options." ...Approximately 90% of seniors go on to college. Participants have enrolled in numerous nationally-ranked educational institutions, including MIT, Amherst College, Cornell, Skidmore, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Tufts University, as well as the esteemed CUNY and SUNY programs.

State and Local Coverage

Carolina North to be part relocation
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Within the next 15 years, university officials expect to build the equivalent of two Southpoint malls at Carolina North, the future scientific research campus planned for the current site of the Horace Williams Airport. About 1 million square feet of the planned 2.5 million square feet could house existing programs, including the schools of law and public health, Carolina North executive director Jack Evans says.
UNC Media Advisory: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2007/cnorthadvisory052407.html

UNC unveils two Carolina North layouts
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC released two plans for Carolina North on Tuesday and said it will narrow that to one plan next month to present to the Board of Trustees in July. ...The two outlines, both 50-year plans, each use about 250 of the 900 acres, leaving the rest in a natural state, said Jack Evans, UNC Executive Director for Carolina North.

Armstrong grant to fund UNC cancer treatment research
The Chapel Hill Herald
Treatment for head and neck cancer is particularly aggressive, affecting speech, swallowing, breathing and communication. A grant from the Lance Armstrong Foundation to the UNC School of Public Health will fund research on the experiences of head and neck cancer survivors, so that health professionals can effectively manage the impact of treatment on a patient's social, family and work roles.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may07/lafgrant052907.html

How should our state face climate change?
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Lots of folks debate who's to blame for global warming and how severe it is, but scientists are already seeing the effects of climate change in North Carolina. ...As part of this series, The N&O has asked Dr. Douglas J. Crawford-Brown of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to answer your questions. Crawford-Brown is director of UNC's Institute for the Environment and a professor in the departments of environmental sciences and engineering, and public policy.

British War Brides
"The State of Things," WUNC-FM
Wartime American media called them “diseased harlots” but when they arrived in the U.S. on the arms of American G.I.'s, they became “ideal homemakers” nearly overnight. Host Frank Stasio speaks with Barbara Friedman, an assistant professor of journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill and author of "From the Battle Front to the Bridal Suite: U.S. and British Mass Media Coverage of British War Brides 1942-1946" (University of Missouri Press, 2007).

Favorite vegetarian dishes come from easy recipes (Commentary)
The Charlotte Observer
After "healthy," what most readers want in their cookbooks is "easy." That's what many of you tell me when you ask for vegetarian recipes you can make at home. ...Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and clinical assistant professor in Department of Health Policy at UNC Chapel Hill.

UNC cytotechnology program receives gift
WCHL-AM (Chapel Hill)
A hefty donation from medical diagnostics giant LabCorp has UNC clinical researchers delighted. The money will allow the university to expand its cytotechnology degree program. That’s UNC division of lab science director Susan Beck, who says the money will support scholarships and equipment purchases.
UNC Event brief: http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2007/052907.html

Unto These Hills changes again for 58th season
The Smoky Mountain News (Waynesville)
“Unto These Hills...a retelling” is preparing for its 58th season as one of the longest running outdoor dramas in the country. ...The drama has shown at the open-air Mountainside Theatre each summer since then when Kermit Hunter, a non-Native, wrote the original version as a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Students earn money, experience on break
The Rocky Mount Telegram
Lemarus Alston has memorized the ingredients in more than 25 Dairy Queen blizzards. ...A student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Alston is one of thousands of high school and college students working through the summer in the Twin Counties.

Issues and Trends

College cuts that hurt (Opinion-editorial column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
With enrollment in the UNC system projected to grow by almost 50 percent over the next 10 years, to nearly 300,000 students, this is no time to cut the university's faculty. Yet that's what the 2007-09 budget proposal approved by the state House earlier this month would do.

Differences left to hammer out
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Major differences in budget proposals by Gov. Mike Easley, the state House and Senate leaders: ...CANCER RESEARCH: The Senate would take $16 million from a trust fund that collects money from a national settlement between the states and the major tobacco companies for public health-care costs. That $16 million would be spent on cancer research at UNC Hospitals.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/584622.html

UNC system delves into campus safety issues
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A UNC system campus safety task force on Tuesday started to hash out the difficult issues raised by the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech last month. ...Another task force will look at safety on all campuses, including private colleges, community colleges and UNC campuses. That panel is likely to be appointed by the end of the week by Attorney General Roy Cooper, said Leslie Winner, the UNC system's vice president and general counsel.

Plumb dumb (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
It sounds bad, and it is: A former school superintendent who pleaded guilty to filching money from his district winds up with a sought-after appointment to the board that governs North Carolina's public universities. ...Last month, Mr. Swett was one of 15 people the N.C. General Assembly nominated to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.

Colleges consider climate agreement
The Asheville Citizen-Times
Some local colleges say they support a new commitment to address global warming on their campuses, but only one area college has signed the agreement. ...The goal is to have more than 1,000 colleges sign the commitment by 2009. In North Carolina, Warren Wilson College and UNC Chapel Hill are the only colleges that have signed the agreement.

Grease is golden for Triad biodiesel brewers
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The gut churning doesn't set in until midmorning. ...They bought 30-gallon barrels from a defunct textile plant and painted them a shocking color Fischer calls "tree-frog green." When those drums - located at a few restaurants, Bennett College, N.C. A&T, Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill - fill with waste oil, it's time to collect.

Chapel Hill's charm remains, with new touches added
The Triangle Business Journal
To some, Franklin Street is the No. 1 college street in America. Stretching alongside the northern border of the historic campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the street for decades has been part of the fabric that makes up the charm of what once was a village.

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