November 4, 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:

It’s Politics Y’all
ABC-TV "World News Tonight"
Who could ever replace Jesse Helms, the conservative firebrand who has served North Carolina in the 
Senate since 1973? Two high-profile opponents are hoping to be the one. ... "There are two major 
players," said Ferrel Guillory, an expert on Southern politics. "These are people that will go to the Senate 
knowing how to deal with national issues."...
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/ncarolina_shipman021102.html
(Note: Guillory, director of the Program on Southern Politics, Media and the Public Life, was 
interviewed by an ABC crew in Chapel Hill.) 

3 elements may loosen GOP grasp of South (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Baltimore Sun
Some strange things have been happening in Southern politics lately. In several states the proportionate 
turnout of African-American voters has exceeded that of whites. In the 2000 campaign, Al Gore carried 
Orange County, Fla. And a man named John Herrera has been elected to the town council in Carrboro, 
a small community in North Carolina.... Ferrel Guillory, a political reporter now teaching at the 
University of North Carolina, says, "The biggest influx has been better educated and more affluent people.
...They're not New Deal Democrats but they are not people who think government is the problem either."..
http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/perspective/bal-pe.votes03nov03,0,6985078.story?coll=bal-perspective-headlines
(Note: The Baltimore Sun requires free registration to access articles. )

Caltech earning low marks for diversity
Pasadena Star-News
Caltech may be one of the country's top schools, but it ranks at the bottom when it comes to student 
diversity, according to a recent survey by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education... The leading schools 
in the survey are Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Stanford University. 
The 2002 freshman class at these three elite schools is more than 10-percent black...
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206%257E22097%257E967007,00.html
(Note: This Star-News story has been picked up by the National Associated Press and is appearing in 
outlets including The Augusta Chronicle, WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh), WTVD (ABC, Raleigh) and The 
Durham Herald-Sun. More details from The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education appear below.)

The Progress of Black Student Enrollments at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities 
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
For the tenth consecutive year, JBHE publishes its survey of the percentages of black first-year students at 
the nation's highest-ranked universities and liberal arts colleges. Two North Carolina universities — Duke 
and Chapel Hill — and Stanford University lead all other high-ranking universities. African Americans at 
each of these campuses make up more than 10 percent of the first-year classes. ... For the fourth straight 
year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had the highest percentage of black freshmen. This 
year 12.5 percent of the first-year class at Chapel Hill is black. This is up from 11.6 percent in 2001. 
There are more than 430 black freshmen at Chapel Hill this year...
http://www.jbhe.com/latest/37_admissions_survey.html

Checking Vital Signs: Black Student Enrollments at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Medical Schools 
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Nearly 1,200 black students are currently enrolled in the nation's 26 highest-ranked medical schools. This 
is more than 10 times the number of students who were matriculating at these institutions 30 years ago. ... 
Yet this strong performance in enrolling African Americans does not place Harvard at the top of our list of 
high-ranking medical schools as having the largest percentage of black students. The medical schools at 
both Emory University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have student bodies that are 
12.9 percent black...
http://www.jbhe.com/news_views/36_medical_schools.html

Students court colleges early 
The Albany Times Union
Derek Johndrow has built the kind of high school resume guidance counselors dream of... Yale filled 
40 percent of its 2002 freshman class through early decision, and numbers are similar at the almost 270 
U.S. schools that offer the binding option. But that could change soon. The University of North Carolina 
at Chapel Hill has dropped early decision for 2003 entering freshmen, becoming the first highly selective 
U.S. university to do so...
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=68293&category=REGION&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=11/3/2002

With Cheating on the Rise, More Colleges Are Turning to Honor Codes
The New York Times
Like most other college students, Eric Rogers knows that submitting a term paper taken off the Internet is 
outright plagiarism, cause for suspension or a failing grade... A few miles away in Chapel Hill, a task force 
has recommended that the University of North Carolina strengthen its honor code by publishing a kind of 
police blotter of cheating incidents — no names — in the daily campus newspaper, lowering the standard 
of proof for cheating and adopting a grade of XF to mark failure due to cheating...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/02/education/02HONO.html
(Note: News Services worked with this Times reporter, Kate Zernike, who also reported in August on the 
summer reading program from Chapel Hill. The New York Times requires free registration to access 
articles.)

No Road From Munich To Iraq (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Washington Post
For those intent on waging war against Iraq, the word "Munich" is shorthand for "appeasement." It has 
been brandished against those -- be they European governments, leading congressional Democrats, or 
cautious Republicans and State Department officials -- who are not fervently committed to a U.S.-led 
battle to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55403-2002Nov2.html
(Note: Gerhard Weinberg is professor of history emeritus at the University of North Carolina.)

Governor's power mostly persuasion
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahomans have three candidates and lots of promises about what each will do once elected governor... 
Boren, like other Oklahoma governors, had to learn to work with the power of the office. That's not an 
easy task, because the constitutional power of Oklahoma's governor ranks near the bottom compared 
with those in other states, a 2.8 to be exact, according to a five- point scale created by political scientists 
at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill...
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=941491&TP=getelection

It's all good
The Boston Globe 
They're just chillin' in the hot tub, the four young women on MTV's ''Real World,'' when Brynn decides to 
make her move... Whenever it was coined, ''It's all good'' first appeared in UCLA's respected slang 
dictionary in 1997, defined as ''It's OK.'' Such anything-goes universality - the fact that it can be used to 
embrace other races, apologize for mistakes, justify virtually any personal act or nothing at all - has 
resulted in its staying power, according to Connie Eble, an English professor at the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill who specializes in slang....
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/306/living/It_s_all_good+.shtml

State and Local Coverage

Disparity seen in pay at UNC 
News and Observer 
Female professors at UNC-Chapel Hill earn less than their male counterparts across the board, with wide 
disparities in the medical school, according to the most detailed analysis of salary equity ever done at the 
university. Overall, women earn an average of $1,332 less than white men on the campus... "We have a 
problem, and it needs to be remedied," said Sue Estroff, chairwoman of the UNC-CH Faculty Council... 
UNC-CH Chancellor James Moeser said the study would require careful attention... UNC-CH Provost 
Robert Shelton said the good news was the quality of the data in the new salary analysis...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1880645p-1869872c.html
(Note: This story was picked up by the State Associated Press and was featured in yesterday's Charlotte 
Observer.)

UNC staff raises need to be N.C. priority (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
In what is without question a lovely gesture, the faculty of UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass 
Communications are holding a bake sale to benefit staff members at the school. They’ll follow that with a 
fund-raising car wash, complete with cheerleaders. Well, not quite, but alas, we exaggerate only a bit. The 
journalism faculty actually are moving forward with a plan that would encourage their colleagues to donate 
money voluntarily for one-time staff bonuses... Richard Cole, the dean of the school, acknowledges the 
obvious when he says, "staff members just don’t make enough money."... UNC Chancellor James Moeser
has said he intends to make staff raises his highest priority this year...
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/chhedits/57-284238.html

Lessons in suburban sprawl (Opinion-Editorial Column)
News and Observer, Q section
My colleagues were amused when I relayed the debate being waged on an online forum about whether 
suburban sprawl aided the sniper in his three-week rampage in Maryland and northern Virginia....
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1884367p-1872229c.html
(Note: Mary Beth Powell is associate director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)

Lessons in media coverage (Opinion-Editorial Column)
News and Observer, Q section 
Regarding coverage of stories such as the sniper attacks, two questions frequently arise. The first is: 
"How much is too much?" The second is: What "tone" should that coverage take?...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1884369p-1872101c.html
(Note: C.A. Tuggle is an associate professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina.)

Wellstone wasn't like the others (Opinion-Editorial Column)
News and Observer
Like most folks in middle age, my life has presented much to be grateful for. There is much to regret as
well. But one of my most unexpected and undeserved blessings has been a friendship with Paul and 
Sheila Wellstone. Their deaths, and that of their daughter Marcia, hit hard... 
http://newsobserver.com/editorials/story/1884300p-1872225c.html
(Note: Gene R. Nichol is dean and Burton Craige professor of law at the UNC School of Law.)

Student Press: The view from Triangle college campuses 
News and Observer
Emulate Wellstone
From The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an 
editorial says Sen. Paul Wellstone based his actions on principle rather than politics...
http://newsobserver.com/news/q/story/1886223p-1873554c.html

Katie Norman for Dole 
News and Observer
There are two Katie Normans who work at the Elizabeth Dole for U.S. Senate campaign headquarters. 
One is the Katie Norman who shows up for work unshowered, bed-headed and dressed in clothes that 
likely have lain in a heap on the floor overnight. The Katie Norman who promises only that she'll try to be 
no more than a half-hour late for work in the morning. ... Or more precisely, Mom and Dad give. Norman, 
native of Lenoir, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May, "and I've been
fortunate in that my parents are keeping me up for six more months." But their largesse has a limit, she 
says: "Every time I go home, they remind me that I'd better get a paycheck next time."...
http://newsobserver.com/features/sundayjournal/story/1884379p-1872162c.html

Look homeward Adler 
News and Observer
More than half a century ago, Richard Adler trekked from his native New York to Chapel Hill, lured by 
a storyteller named Thomas Wolfe. When he returns Saturday, it'll be to share his own tales. A 
University of North Carolina alumnus, Adler will present an evening of songs and stories from his lengthy 
career composing for Broadway, ballet and orchestra. The event is a fund-raiser for the renovation of 
the university's performing arts venue, Memorial Hall.
http://newsobserver.com/features/story/1886093p-1873444c.html
(Note: This coverage was the result of a UNC news release
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep02/adler090902.htm)

As tuition increases, so has aid at colleges 
The Herald-Sun
Even with tuition increases that topped 20 percent for some students, UNC was able to provide enough 
financial aid to keep the doors of the university open to all who qualified for admission this year... At 
Carolina, financial aid officers were able to provide aid to all students who qualified, said Vincent Amoroso, 
deputy director of scholarships and student aid... And while financial aid is still available, there is a 
segment of the population that simply assumes UNC is too expensive, said Jerry Lucido, UNC’s 
director of undergraduate admissions... To students, sticker shock is a very real problem, said 
Jennifer Daum, UNC’s student body president...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-284194.html

'Safeguard' from radiation 
News and Observer
The potassium iodide pills came in aluminum bubble packs, two to a row, and the people who picked 
them up Friday at the Northwest Harnett Fire Department figured the tablets offered enough protection 
from a nuclear incident that it was worth taking the time to get them... The thyroid relies on iodide as a key 
ingredient in the production of thyroid hormone, which regulates growth and metabolism. Dr. William H. 
McCartney, chief of nuclear medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the 
gland gets iodide from foods -- it's an additive to salt -- but also can soak it up from radioactive particles 
spewed in a reactor accident...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1880647p-1869965c.html

Cigarette smuggling a worry
Winston-Salem Journal 
Highly profitable, easy to transport and ever in demand, cigarettes have long been a multibillion-dollar
industry for smugglers across the world. Authorities, however, are becoming increasingly concerned about 
terrorist groups using the profits from cigarette smuggling to pay for their operations, especially since the 
Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington... International trade can generally be a murky business, 
said Robert Connolly, a professor of international finance and economics at the Kenan-Flagler 
Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/MGBB6YLK28D.html

Get out the vote?
Wilmington Morning Star
The political advertisements are appearing on the radio and television thicker than mosquitoes in late summer 
around Wilmington's Greenfield Lake... Thad Beyle, a political science professor at the University of 
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the Republicans have toned down their rhetoric on Iraq in recent weeks 
because voters are telling them they're more concerned about losing their jobs than what Saddam Hussein 
might do...
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=WM&Date=20021103&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=211030310&Ref=AR

State House hopefuls focus on budget crisis 
Jacksonville (NC) Daily News
State Rep. Robert Grady has lambasted what he sees as the General Assembly’s compulsive, wasteful 
spending habits and has pledged to try to rein in such practices in his bid for a ninth term in Raleigh.... Voting-
age residents of the district are 78 percent white compared to 15 percent black, putting the black population 
under the state average of 19 percent per district, said Ferrell Guillory, director of the Program on 
Southern Politics, Media and the Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://www.jdnews.com/Details.cfm?StoryID=8108

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Krzyzewski Is Burned for Showing a Political Bent
The New York Times
It wasn't as if the coach whose reputation could pass a white-glove test threw a campus keg party, but Mike 
Krzyzewski's campaign bash on Duke grounds left him scolded just the same... Krzyzewski is a Durham legend, 
but Smith is a Carolina icon. And in a state where basketball and politics commingle as religions, Smith owns both 
pulpits... The good folks from the University of North Carolina — home of the Dean Dome — point out a major 
difference: Smith retired from coaching five years ago. "I don't want to say anything about Krzyzewski," said Thad 
Beyle, a political science professor at North Carolina since 1967, trying his best at diplomacy...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/sports/ncaabasketball/03ROBE.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles.)

Town not spooked by Halloween bash (Editorial)
Chapel Hill Herald
All Hallows Eve, otherwise known as Halloween, has grown into a celebrated, not to say hallowed, tradition in 
Chapel Hill. Devolving standards of decency since it began as a costume promenade down Franklin Street have 
also grown problematic for town fathers and mothers...
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/chhedits/57-284242.html

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