November 27, 2002

Carolina in the News

Current International Coverage

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

Terror threat not linked to economic status
Arab News (Saudi Arabia)
A few months ago, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, World Bank President James Wolfensohn 
offered the theory that poverty was the root cause of global terrorism ... A second study by the 
University of North Carolina’s Kenan Institute goes even further. Institute analysts Jennifer 
Bremer and John D. Kasarda say terrorists are more likely to surface and thrive in Third 
World countries where the political regime is corrupt, repressive and holding back economic 
progress. ...
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=20665
(Note: Bremer and Kasarda's comments also appeared in an early article from The 
Washington Times, http://www.washtimes.com/business/20021120-30416962.htm. )

Current National Coverage

Trying to Raise a City in the Shadow of Detroit's Airport
The New York Times
They had paid the consultant from North Carolina $60,000 to tell them how they could be like 
Amsterdam and Hong Kong and Dallas. They had spent millions of dollars acquiring land for the 
project. ... "It's going to change that Rust Belt image," John D. Kasarda, director of the Keenan 
Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said in his 
presentation ... 
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/27/business/27BRIC.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles.)

'Grid Computing' Is the Next Wave in High-Performance Computing
The Chronicle of Higher Education
After Internet2, "grids" may be the next big thing in high-performance computing. A grid is a 
network of computational research centers whose supercomputer clusters, databases, and 
specialized programs form a pool of resources that is more powerful and more versatile than 
that of any single research center, or node, on the network. ... In the lineup as nodes on the 
grid are the North Carolina Supercomputing Center at Research Triangle Park, Duke University, 
North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. About
$1.5-million has been allocated so far for the research grid. ...
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/11/2002112701t.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles)

Naval Academy seizes students' computers 
The Washington Times
Administrators at the U.S. Naval Academy seized almost 100 midshipmen's computers last 
week because officials believe they contain music and movies illegally downloaded from the 
Internet. ... In its letter to colleges and universities, the RIAA and the other entertainment trade 
groups cited the copyright-infringement policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill as one that other schools could emulate. ...
http://www.washtimes.com/business/20021126-67158157.htm

Expect more from care for chronic illness (Opinion-Editorial Column)
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Take a look around. Odds are you -- or someone close to you -- is learning to live with a 
chronic illness ...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/97364_chronic27.shtml
(Note: Morris Weinberger is a professor of Health Policy & Administration at the University 
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)

Teachers taught to see each child as unique learner
The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 
Sorting homework assignments, the teacher saw one paper without a name. She didn't have to 
guess which of her fourth-grade students had submitted it: the boy who had already forgotten to 
put his name on three other papers that week. ... Instead, she attended a workshop focusing on
learning differences -- as discussed by Mel Levine, a North Carolina pediatrician ... Levine, a 
professor at the University of North Carolina, studies the various ways in which children learn ... 
http://libpub.dispatch.com/cgi-bin/documentv1?DBLIST=cd02&DOCNUM=52236&TERMV=51169:10:51181:5:51186:8:

Current Regional Coverage

Safety requires proactive move (Editorial)
The Baton Rouge Advocate
Body bags stacking up in the morgue should not be the test by which public safety officials 
decide whether to institute highway rules.The Louisiana Highway Safety Commission recently 
took a wait-and-see approach to addressing the hazard of cell-phone use during the operation 
of a motor vehicle. ... Highway safety experts say that driver distraction is a factor in one-third 
of all accidents. A study by the University of North Carolina listed cell phones as the eighth-
leading cause of traffic accidents....
http://www.theadvocate.com/stories/112702/opi_edi1001.shtml

So you think your house isn't ready for holidays? (Commentary)
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
Bones, coffins and crosses crashed through the kitchen wall of a Brazilian home over the 
weekend after a torrential rain washed out part of a neighboring cemetery. ... A religion scholar 
gave a presentation at the annual convention of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion 
this month, in which she discussed how Oprah Winfrey has become a spiritual leader with her 
own religious following of sorts. Winfrey "has a process of rituals that she [encourages] her 
followers to practice" to achieve a certain way of life and peace of mind, Kathryn Lofton of
the University of North Carolina told MSNBC. ... 
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/lifestyle_columnists/article/0,1426,MCA_529_1569031,00.html

State and Local Coverage

New software helps children with computers
News 14 Carolina (Time-Warner, Raleigh)
New software is being developed by UNC-Chapel Hill researchers to help children with physical 
disabilities become competent writers. "We firmly believe that the way children learn to read and 
write it doesn't matter if they have a disability,” said UNC Speech Pathologist Professor Dr.
Janet Strum. ...
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=18878&SecID=2

UNC counsel’s pay raises some legislators’ eyebrows 
The Herald-Sun
A controversial university decision to pay a departing administrator her entire salary for 18 months 
after she leaves her current position may have repercussion in the next legislative session. ... 
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-292983.html

Low-profile manufacturing 
News and Observer
Funoodles, crackers, beef jerky, wine corks, lip balm, gas pipes and bedding. If those products 
are not part of your image of the Triangle, you just don't know the Triangle. ... Manufacturing has
less share of total jobs here [in the Triangle], but what we have is holding its own," said James F. 
Smith, an economist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...
http://newsobserver.com/business/story/1974636p-1926029c.html

Fund will honor band’s legacy 
The Herald-Sun
In memory of good times enjoyed with Chapel Hill’s legendary fraternity-party band Doug 
Clark and the Hot Nuts, UNC alumnus Mike Haley has created the Doug Clark "Thanks for 
the Memories" scholarship fund at the university. ... 
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-292989.html
(Note: This coverage resulted from a UNC news release, 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov02/dougclark112602.html)

Rachel Ann Rosenfeld (Obituary)
News and Observer
Rachel Ann Rosenfeld, 54, died Sunday morning at UNC Memorial Hospital ... She moved to 
Chapel Hill, NC in 1981 and was Assistant Professor (1981-1984), Associate Professor 
(1984-1988), and Professor of Sociology (1988-present) at the University of North Carolina, 
Chapel Hill. In 2002, she was named William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor. Since 
1981, she has also been a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at UNC. ... 
http://www.newsobserver.com/obits/Wednesday.html
(Note: To view this obituary, go to the above url and scroll down to "Chapel Hill.")

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Web Site Lists Professors Who 'Indoctrinate' Students
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A new Web site allows students nationwide to anonymously accuse their professors -- who are 
named -- of political bias. Some of those professors are calling the site "silly" and "cowardly." The 
site, NoIndoctrination.org, which was announced last week, was started by Luann Wright two years 
after her son took a writing course at the University of California at San Diego that she found 
objectionable. ... 
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/11/2002112605n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

Early-admissions programs are drawing criticism
Miami Herald 
Call it the ''early admission'' game. For decades, many universities have allowed students who are
intensely interested in a single institution to apply to them in October and get a firm decision by mid-
December. Students applying under regular programs might not hear until April. ...
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/4605699.htm

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