November 7, 2003

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

International Coverage

Young, fat, lazy, and diabetic
Jerusalem Post
Type 2 diabetes used to be a 'lifestyle' disease of the middle-aged and elderly, but now it is increasingly appearing in young people, even children....Over the past two decades, all age groups in the US - not just children and young adults - boosted their calorie intake by eating foods such as soft drinks and pizza, a trend responsible for the growing obesity epidemic, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

National News Note

Modern Physician magazine ranked the Department of Health Policy and Administration's Executive Master's Program as the "Top business graduate school for physician executives."

National Coverage

Reality of Campus Drinking Can Cut Use
discoveryhealth.com
Correcting college students'' widespread misconceptions about how much alcohol other students drink helps reduce drinking, says a University of North Carolina
(UNC) at Chapel Hill study.

State and Local Note

WUNC-TV's "North Carolina Now" featured the Health Sciences Library and director, Carol Jenkins in a segment regarding health literacy. The program, aired on Nov. 5, included other UNC public and consumer health educators.

State and Local Coverage

Moose reviews 'Three Weeks in October'
The Herald-Sun
More than the emotional torment, the bad press or any other obstacle he faced during last fall's sniper investigation in suburban Washington, D.C., what vexed Charles Moose the most was the uncertainty of it all....Earlier in the day, the now-retired chief participated in a crisis communication seminar at UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. And that evening, he gave a 50-minute lecture on his experiences to a packed crowd in Carroll Hall.
Related story:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/3007122p-2752656c.html

Issues and Trends

Penn State Will Pay to Allow Students to Download Music
The New York Times
Pennsylvania State University has agreed to cover the cost of providing its students with a legal method to download music from a catalog of half a million songs, in a departure from punitive efforts to curtail music swapping on college campuses.

French Court Upholds Landmark Program of Affirmative Action in College Admissions
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A rare French affirmative-action program, which recruits disadvantaged students from immigrant families into one of France's most prestigious public universities, survived a legal challenge when a court ruled on Thursday that the program is constitutional.

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