November 6, 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:

OSU to host tech transfer conference
Portland Business Journal
Oregon State University in Corvallis will host a conference Nov. 15 focused on the roles of academic researchers,
industry, entrepreneurs and investors in creating economic opportunities... Mark Crowell is associate vice chancellor
for economic development and director of the Office of Technology Development at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is helping UNC-Chapel Hill develop the UNC Venture Fund, a proposed $20 million
venture capital fund to invest in start-up companies affiliated with Carolina...
http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/11/04/daily6.html

Can America Keep Fyling?
CIO Magazine
During the past couple of years, the biggest U.S. airlines wrestled with the devastation wrought by the recession and
9/11... "The planes are nearly full, but they're losing money," says John Kasarda, professor of e-commerce and
IT at the Kenan-Flagler Business School and director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://www.cio.com/archive/110102/flying.html

Feed your Head
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The phrase "you are what you eat" applies not just to your body, but to your mind... Research by Dr. Steven Zeisel
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that dietary choline may be a critically important nutrient
for the development of an excellent memory...
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/printedition/search/sfl-librainfoodnov03.story

State and Local Coverage

Fair pay on campus (Editorial)
News and Observer
Only one thing tends to lessen the discomfort from a detailed analysis of professors' pay at UNC-Chapel Hill showing
that women faculty members still are paid less, on the average, than their male counterparts in the year 2002, at a
major public university noted for its progressive traditions...
http://newsobserver.com/editorials/story/1890301p-1876986c.html

UNC to buy property for parking
Chapel Hill News
University officials are in the final stages of purchasing residential property to turn into an employee parking lot...
Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor for facilities, planning and construction for UNC-Chapel Hill, said the real
estate company representing Clark approached the university about buying the property... University property
officer Stephen Condrin would not comment on the sale price of the two properties...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/1889154p-1875823c.html

Business as Usual: Finally, some good economic news to report
Wilmington Morning Star
Good news at last! Not only will the Corning plant stay open, it will soon begin to call back laid-off workers... You
won’t get negativity from Dr. James Smith, an economist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Dr. Smith has not only been lauded for the accuracy of his economic predictions, but his forecasts are significantly
more bullish than most of his “dismal science” colleagues...
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73116032818442&Avis=WM&Dato=20021103&Kategori=COLUMNIST07&Lopenr=211040019&Ref=AR

Helms will get spotlight
News and Observer
Though all the attention has been focused on Elizabeth Dole and Erskine Bowles in recent months, Sen. Jesse Helms
will take center stage on Friday. Helms, who is stepping down after 30 years, will be feted at a fund-raiser at the
North Raleigh Hilton... But the Dole-Bowles campaign won't break any records in North Carolina, a state used to
expensive Senate campaigns. In fact, there have been four Senate races that have cost more, according to an analysis
by Thad Beyle, a political science professor at UNC-Chapel Hill...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1887633p-1874917c.html

Sex ed may get more detailed
News and Observer
Seventh-graders writing pretend personal ads in class to find their perfect match? Wake school administrators want
to make sex-education classes a bit more frank -- and more relevant to the real lives of teenagers... Dr. Peter Leone,
an associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill specializing in sexually transmitted diseases and a member of the medical
review panel, said the revisions do a good job of introducing the major STDs...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1885999p-1873365c.html

Buchanan seeks dismissal of DWI appeal
Asheville Citizen-Times
Prominent Democratic contributor Huey Lee Buchanan, saying he can't be tried for the same crime twice, wants an
end to the legal wrangling surrounding his drunken driving case... "I am not aware of a case that would support the
defendant's argument," said attorney Jessica Smith, an assistant professor of public law and government at UNC-
Chapel Hill's School of Government...
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/news/22731

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

100 Top High Schools, and One Grain of Salt
The New York Times
Like countless other high school guidance counselors, Lloyd Thacker has never believed that the academic attributes
of colleges could be tabulated and ranked like the won-lost records of professional football teams... But however
much he considers U.S. News's findings to be based on dubious science, Mr. Thacker sees them as quantum mechanics
compared with a roster purporting to identify the nation's top 100 high schools, at least as measured by their ability
to supply graduates to highly selective colleges...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/06/education/06LESS.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles.)

Bus rides causing some pedestrian trouble
News 14 Carolina (Time-Warner)
Pedestrian safety on Chapel Hill’s Franklin Street is now being questioned after a 77-year-old man was killed two
weeks ago trying to cross the street... Once you cross Columbia Street, West Franklin opens up to a five lane road.
There are no crosswalks for three blocks and black paint covers old ones that have disappeared. “Unfortunately, it's
a situation where it's dangerous for both drivers and students because you've got students who want to get where
they're going and drivers who have the same goal,” said UNC-Chapel Hill senior Arash Jahanian....
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=17533&SecID=2

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