November 1, 2002

Carolina in the News

Current National Coverage

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

Rush to pick college early leaves many seniors behind (Editorial)
USA Today 
Before midnight tonight, thousands of high school seniors will scramble to enter a dubious pact with the college 
of their choice. Under early decision programs offered by many universities, students who apply to a college by 
Nov. 1 — and promise to attend if accepted — have a chance to know in early December where they'll be 
going to school next year... Some colleges agree the practice has gotten out of hand and have ended their early
decision programs. The University of North Carolina, for one, worried that its early decision students were less 
diverse than others it admitted. Yale University is also considering scrapping the process...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2002-11-01-edit_x.htm

(Note: News Services worked closely this week with USA Today's editorial writer, sharing extensive 
background information and setting up a background conversation with Jerry Lucido, undergraduate admissions. 
Today's editorial follows others, including The Washington Post, that have prominently mentioned Carolina's
stand on early decision admissions since last April's announcement.)

College pact is valuable tool (Opinion-Editorial Column)
USA Today 
There is no need to demonize early decision. If it did not exist as an opportunity for students to indicate clear-
cut first choice college preferences, we would have to invent something to provide that option...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2002-11-01-edit-oppose_x.htm

Interview With Wife of Police Chief Charles Moose
CNN: Connie Chung Tonight
CONNIE CHUNG, HOST: Good evening. I'm Connie Chung. Tonight: the Caribbean connection... In 1975, 
Moose graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in history, on his way to becoming a 
lawyer, not a cop...
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/31/cct.00.html

Issue in North Carolina Race: It's the Economy
The Los Angeles Times
Evidence of the anxieties roiling this country town was as near as the headline announcing another factory 
shutdown, spelling 97 more layoffs in a region where the mood this week seemed as leaden as the chill autumn 
sky... "This state in particular is going through a pretty painful economic transition. This recession has taken a 
really severe toll on the state. It has hastened the collapse of the low-wage, low-skill, small-town industries," 
said Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program in Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at the University 
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ncsenate1nov01.story
(Note: The Los Angeles Times requires free registration to access articles.)

A Closer Look at a Quiet Public Servant (Book Review)
The Washington Post
BENJAMIN V. COHEN: Architect of the New Deal By William Lasser, Yale Univ. 385 pp. $35. When Ben 
Cohen died in 1983, The Washington Post declared, "It is hard to think of any American of his generation who 
was more gifted than Mr. Cohen. It is harder to think of any who used his gifts better, in the public service, 
than he did." One of Felix Frankfurter's bright young men who arrived in Washington in 1933... 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49280-2002Oct31.html
(Note: William E. Leuchtenburg is the William Rand Kenan Jr. professor of history emeritus at the 
University of North Carolina.)

Study: Some mainstream Web sites switch to porn
Sacramento Business Journal
Today's information technology site is tomorrow's pornography site, according to new research from San Diego-
based Internet management software maker Websense Inc... Domain name expiration problems have been 
much publicized in recent years. Websense points to an effort by Private Media Group of Spain to buy the failed 
music-trading Web site napster.com domain name for the purpose of transforming it into an adult-oriented site. 
Conversely, last month the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won a lawsuit against the operator of 
UNCGirls.com to transfer ownership back to UNC, bringing an end to that site's use as a provider of sexually-
oriented materials, Websense says...
http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2002/10/28/daily30.html

National News Note

A brief about the late Sen. Paul Wellstone's wrestling career at Carolina was featured in this week's issue of Sports 
Illustrated. UNC coach Bill Lam was quoted in the piece appearing in the "Scorecard" section along with a photo 
of Wellstone in his wrestling uniform. No online links are available.

Current Regional Coverage

Healthbriefs: When the job is killing you
The Times-Picayune
Need more proof that a job that's too taxing can be a killer? A new Finnish study shows that workplace stress 
more than doubles the risk of death from heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular conditions... C. David 
Jenkins is a professor of preventive medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and 
a spokesman for the American Psychological Association. He says the Finnish results "are not surprising for 
someone who has been following these concepts...
http://www.nola.com/archives/t-p/index.ssf?/livingstory/31_hf_briefs.html
(Note: To view this brief, please go to the above url and scroll down the page.)

Regional News Note

Sharon Sullivan Mujica, outreach director of the Consortium in Latin American Studies, is quoted in the "Carolina 
Living," a special section for North Carolina readers of Southern Living magazine. Mujica's comments were featured in 
a brief, "The Best Thing about Our State." Her UNC affiliation was prominently mentioned. No online links are available.

North Carolina News Note

Julie MacMillan, 1981 alumna of the School of Public Health, will be featured on UNC-TV's "North Carolina 
People." The show airs at 9 p.m. tonight with a rebroadcast at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. MacMillan is senior vice 
president for corporate administration at Quintiles Transnational Corp. and is on the board of directors 
of Vote For America, North Carolina. For more information, go to 
http://www.unctv.org/ncpeople/guestschedule/index.html

State and Local Coverage

UNC PAC Distributes $154K to Candidates
The Daily Tar Heel
During the last month, UNC's political action committee has donated the majority of its funds to powerful leaders 
in the N.C. General Assembly who are running for re-election Tuesday. Citizens for Higher Education donated 
$154,000 to more than 45 election campaigns to ensure that UNC's interests are represented in the new 
legislature...
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/11/01/3dc28dcf1d779

A reunion in debt to pioneers (Commentary)
News and Observer
There are only two people, as far as I can tell, whose jobs are easier than Archie Ervin's: Isaac Hayes' barber 
and the person in charge of explaining Michael Jordan's social consciousness. (You see, Ike has no hair, and 
Mike has no ... well, you get the picture.) Ervin, director of the Office of Minority Affairs at UNC-Chapel 
Hill, is working with the Black Alumni Reunion committee, he said, "to get African-American students enthused 
about coming back and celebrating their UNC experience."..
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1878503p-1867740c.html
(Note: A UNC news release about the reunion is at 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/blackreunion.htm.)

Wellstone at UNC: Jock turned idealist
Charlotte Observer
Sen. Paul Wellstone considered himself North Carolina's third senator. He came of age and nurtured his liberal 
leanings during the chaotic 1960s in Chapel Hill, where he earned an undergraduate degree and a Ph.D. in political
science... "You couldn't be in Chapel Hill during that time without being affected, unless you weren't paying any 
attention to the world around you," said UNC political scientist Thad Beyle, who was on Wellstone's doctoral 
committee... When Jim Stimson first met Wellstone in the Ph.D. program, he was not the person he became. 
"He was a jock," said Stimson, who teaches political science at UNC...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/4372782.htm

Peeling the Orange 
The Herald-Sun
Pure Chapel Hilliana is embodied in a new compact disc, "Echoes of Carolina," produced and distributed by the 
UNC Development Office’s Speed Hallman... The new buildings that will be constructed and renovated on the 
UNC campus in the current statewide bond-financed program are worthy of interest... You wish for more wins 
by the Carolina football team. But you can truly be heartened by UNC’s marching band, touted as "The Pride 
of the ACC."...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-283227.html

Less-stressed Moose plans UNC weekend 
Greensboro News & Record
At least twice, accidental circumstance changed Charles Moose's life. The first time, Moose was a senior at UNC-
Chapel Hill, working toward a degree in history. But the police chief from Portland, Ore., came to speak to Moose's 
class and soon, the Lexington-raised Moose had postponed his plans to become an attorney to take a job with the 
police department... Moose, likewise, is walking around looking and feeling a little more relaxed these days. This 
weekend, he and his wife, Sandy, are making a long-planned trip to Chapel Hill for the UNC-Maryland football 
game...
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/gso/chief31rk.htm

Inspire drug gets a boost 
News and Observer 
The up-and-down prospects of Inspire Pharmaceuticals' experimental medication for dry-eye disease moved 
sharply upward Wednesday, propelling the company's stock 54 percent higher. Inspire announced that, after a 
meeting Tuesday with the Food and Drug Administration, it will push ahead with submitting a new drug application 
for the dry-eye medication based on the clinical trials it already has completed...
http://newsobserver.com/business/rtp_nc/story/1876112p-1865692c.html
(Note: Inspire is one of Carolina's spin-off companies.)

Judge backs discrimination ruling vs. UNC employee 
The Herald-Sun
A Superior Court judge has affirmed a decision against a UNC employee who claimed the university discriminated 
against her, but her attorney said the ruling against his client came too late. Bobbie Sanders, a 48-year-old computer 
consultant at UNC, filed a petition against UNC in November 2000, claiming UNC had discriminated and retaliated 
against her because of her sex and age when she applied for a promotion...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-283229.html

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

NCAA Adjusts Eligibility 
The Washington Post 
After a sometimes-emotional, 20-year debate on the issue of applying an arbitrarily set cutoff score on standardized 
entrance exams as a criterion for freshman athletic participation, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors yesterday 
approved elimination of the cutoff score as part of an academic reform package...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48750-2002Oct31.html

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