November 24, 2003

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Rhodes Scholars for 2004 Selected
The New York Times
The Rhodes Scholarship Trust on Sunday announced the selection of 32 Rhodes
scholars from the United States for 2004....KISTIN, Elizabeth, Corrales, N.M.,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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Corrales Woman a Rhodes Scholar
Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico)
Growing up in New Mexico helped inspire Elizabeth Kistin's interest in Latin America.  Next year, that interest will take her to Oxford University in England as a Rhodes scholar....Kistin, 22, who graduated from Albuquerque Academy and is a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is among 32 students from across the nation to receive the scholarship. They were selected from a pool of 963 applicants.
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Republican Governors Discuss Strategy
National Associated Press
Republican governors, relishing their dominance from the White House to state
legislatures, discussed strategy Saturday for expanding their power in next year's state and national elections....But those victories ignore an underlying trend, said Thad Beyle, a political science professor who studies governors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State and Local Coverage

Morehead Scholar also Rhodes Scholar
The Herald-Sun
A Morehead Scholar at UNC has won a 2004 Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England....[Elizabeth] Kistin is the 37th UNC student to win a Rhodes Scholarship since the program began in 1902. Carolina ranks second among public universities in numbers of Rhodes Scholars produced.
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Exploring the history of Martin guitars (Question & Answer)
The News & Observer
For many musicians and those who have only a casual interest in music, a Martin guitar has long been considered that instrument's standard of quality. But little was known about the founder of the company -- C.F. Martin -- until Philip Gura, a professor of American literature and culture at UNC-Chapel Hill, learned that hundreds of unorganized letters and scores of journals from the company's founding days were stashed in various parts of the the C.F. Martin & Co. factory in Nazareth, Pa.

Longtime faculty marshal laying down the silver staff
The Herald-Sun
Folksy, kind and a complete southern gentleman, Ron Hyatt is nonetheless a driven, detail-oriented man.....He's fighting colon cancer now, and he's struggling a bit with the treatments.  They leave him winded and fatigued, but not without resolve. He doesn't plan to retire from his day job, as a professor in UNC's department of exercise and sports science.

A scholar's life in full (Editorial)
The News & Observer
E. Maynard Adams was never content to act as a mere spectator in events passing before him in the 83 years he lived. From his birth on a tobacco farm and his studies at a one-room school in Halifax County, Va., Adams, professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, became fully involved in life -- the life of the mind, the oft-turbulent life of his times, the life of his beloved university and his many students, and not least, the life of the town that was home for 55 years until his death last week.

Students fight subpoenas
The News & Observer
Two university students caught in the music industry's copyright crackdown are fighting subpoenas that seek their identities from their schools....The names of a student from UNC-Chapel Hill and another from N.C. State University were sought in subpoenas issued by the Recording Industry Association of America last week.

Her house is the White House
The News & Observer
More than 40 years after she started making the president's business her own, journalist Helen Thomas visits the White House twice a day in search of stories....Tonight, she'll give one titled "Covering History from President Kennedy to President Bush II" at UNC-Chapel Hill.

One-on-one: Teleporting - an awesome way to travel
The Herald-Sun
Meet Lisa K. Swanson, a UNC sophomore who works as a clerk at the Bull's Head bookstore on campus. Swanson is studying literature and creative writing at Carolina. I caught up with her as customers perused the bookshelves.

Issues and Trends

Higher-learning curve (Editorial)
Greensboro News & Record
According to a recent report, overall enrollment on UNC system campuses rose for the seventh consecutive year, this fall by 3.6 percent. Among the 183,347 students who matriculated at UNC schools this semester, 10,030 go to N.C. A&T, whose student body grew by 10 percent and eclipsed the 10,000 mark for the first time in the school's history. Meanwhile, enrollment at neighboring UNCG grew to 14,870, a healthy 2.9 percent increase and another all-time record.

Moving on mold (Editorial)
The News & Observer
It is a fair question: If UNC-Chapel Hill or N.C. State University had turned up with major mold problems in campus buildings, would there be any hesitation in the legislature to make sure money was found to fix the problems post-haste? Probably not.

Top jobs open at ECU
The News & Observer
East Carolina University lost another top administrator last week and another football game Saturday. It has been that kind of fall in Greenville.....ECU partisans say such bold moves are important for the region, and they attribute many of the university's recent setbacks to North Carolina politics, which UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University tend to dominate.

NCSU tuition may soon rise
The News & Observer
Cecelia Hill's son dreamed since childhood of becoming a meteorologist, and now he's a freshman in the program at N.C. State University....As a single mother, a retired Air Force tech sergeant and an administrative assistant with the state who hasn't seen a raise in years, Hill doesn't earn much money. But she'll do anything to keep her son at his chosen school: eat less dinner, take a second job, use the fireplace to heat her Goldsboro home.

Cam Hill's haunting house (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
When Cam Hill ran for Town Council this fall, he vowed to be an aggressive advocate of neighborhood interests in conflict with an expanding university....Hill says he didn’t hide, during the campaign, the fact that he was in negotiations with the university. But voters never heard him say that he was proposing to swap houses with UNC and pocket a cash settlement on top.

Hill's home swap raises many questions (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Cam Hill says "there is nothing that has gone on that bothers me. " He says "people are going to want to find something with this…but it's just not there."

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