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November 13, 2003Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage
No Winner in Dispute Over Rosie Magazine
Los Angeles Times
The bitter lawsuit pitting Rosie O'Donnell against her former publisher...fizzled out Wednesday when the judge said neither side deserved damages because it's doubtful the magazine would have made any money....Lawrence Grossberg, a communications professor at the University of North Carolina, ventured that it might be getting harder for celebrities to leverage success in one type of pursuit into success in another.....
Drug halts artery disease in study
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Intensive treatment with a cholesterol-lowering drug over 18 months halted coronary artery disease, according to research presented Wednesday...."The burning question is, how well does this correlate with clinical events?" said Sidney Smith, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Slavic Village grant may get folks to pick up fitness pace
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Slavic Village Development has won a $200,000 grant to get residents moving - not by car, but by foot and by bike....The money is from Active Living By Design, a national program run by the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. It's funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Isanti County wins fat $200,000 grant for new trail
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.
State and Local Coverage
Chancellor Moeser's statement on the out-of-state enrollment cap issue.
UNC wise to wait (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors is wisely postponing a decision on a sticky and divisive issue: whether to raise a cap on the number of out-of-state students from 18 to 22 percent....UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser had asked the board to revise its policy to allow campuses to admit more of the best students from other states.
Public outcry delays UNC out-of-state vote
Asheville Citizen-Times
A decision on whether to allow more out-of- state students into North Carolina's public universities has been put off following widespread opposition, much of it from parents and educators in Western North Carolina.
UNC to delay talk of cap hike
Wilmington Star News
Plans to add more out-of-state students to the UNC system will likely be postponed today, the chairman of the Board of Governors said Wednesday.
UNC vote likely to be postponed
The Charlotte Observer
A vote on the controversial issue of whether to allow more out-of-state students into N.C. public universities will likely be delayed until February and possibly later.
Rise in enrollment cap still viable
The News & Observer
The question of whether to allow more out-of-state students in the University of North Carolina system won't be answered soon, but the issue is not dead....Meanwhile, UNC-Chapel Hill officials, who had pushed the plan to raise the cap, thanked the board for considering the issue. Chancellor James Moeser said the university proposed a modest change because it would be good for North Carolina.
UNC student cap vote postponed
The Herald-Sun
With opinions swirling on his board and among the state's citizenry, the chairman of the UNC system's governing body announced plans Wednesday to delay a vote on a controversial plan that would allow more out-of-state students to enroll at UNC institutions....For UNC Chapel Hill, the strongest proponent of loosening the enrollment cap, the delay eliminates the opportunity to enroll more out-of-state students in next year's fall freshman class.
3rd UNC cap plan proposed
Greensboro News & Record
A third plan to change the cap on out-of-state students at North Carolina's public universities emerged Tuesday, three days before the UNC system's Board of Governors takes up the debate....UNC-Chapel Hill touched off the debate this fall when it announced that it wants to admit more out-of-state students, who are trying to get into the university in record numbers. The number of out-of-state students UNC-CH turned down this year -- 8,609 -- was more than the number of applications it got from N.C. residents.
Brighten up N.C. (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer
While not actually connecting the dots for us, didn't your Nov. 12 front page actually offer an explanation of why UNC-Chapel Hill administrators feel compelled to go outside the state to satisfy their desire for higher rankings?...Could I propose that, instead of UNC forsaking our public schools, it offer its considerable expertise to the public school system in finding ways to better challenge North Carolina's high performers?
Chapel Hill receives grant to spur residents' exercise
The News & Observer
Delores Bailey walks every day -- from her Chapel Hill home to work, and perhaps to lunch downtown or to the Harris Teeter in Carrboro....Active Living By Design, which is part of UNC-CH's School of Public Health, received 966 applications for the grants, including more than 50 from North Carolina, Director Richard Killingsworth said.
Related UNC linkGolden Leaf grants more than $7M
Triangle Business Journal
The Golden Leaf Foundation's board of directors says it will dish out $7.37 million in 55 grants to nonprofit organizations and government agencies as part of its mission to help North Carolina transition from a tobacco-dependent economy....Much of the grant money is headed to the Triangle. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received the biggest grant in the state, a $512,500 gift to the school's Golden Leaf Scholars Program.
Local DNA banks hold clues to illness
The News & Observer
In science, human DNA is hot. Red hot....Triangle universities are already building banks. UNC-Chapel Hill is consolidating small, existing pools of DNA samples on campus to create a bigger bank.
Issues and Trends
Keeping the Public Colleges Afloat (Editorial)
The New York Times
The United States has moved entire generations into the middle class and beyond by subsidizing public colleges, putting higher education within the reach of many deserving low-income students
Change on Early Admission Produces Application Shifts
The New York Times
Changes in the early admissions rules at Harvard, Yale and Stanford have produced sharp shifts in where students applied early this year.
Sarah Lawrence College Drops SAT Requirement
The New York Times
Sarah Lawrence College is joining a growing list of schools that no longer require standardized test scores for admission, citing concerns about a writing test that is being added to the SAT.
Dean Smith joins push to curb beer ads
The Charlotte Observer
UNC basketball great Dean Smith joined a Washington-based consumer group Wednesday in calling on universities, athletic conferences and the NCAA to ban alcohol advertising from college sports telecasts.
Carrboro wants detailed UNC plan
The Chapel Hill Herald
Carrboro elected officials and citizens say they want UNC to address their concerns about the development of the thousand-acre Horace Williams tract.
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