November 9, 2004

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Supreme Court Declines to Hear 2 Cases Weighing the Right of Felons to Vote
The New York Times
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear cases from New York and Washington State on whether states violate the federal Voting Rights Act when they strip felons of the right to vote. ....Many lawyers following the issue believe that the Florida case, which is being handled by lawyers from the University of North Carolina School of Law and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, is the strongest of the lawsuits because the facts have been extensively developed and the state's history of discrimination is clear.

Slowdown Forces Many to Wander for Work
The Washington Post
David Packman knocks on the motel room door and his wife lets him in. His 9-year-old son is waiting with sneakers on, hoping for a trip outside after a day of sitting around. Packman's other son, 4, dances gleefully around the room. Dad's home from work....It's all part of a broader reshaping of the American workplace that has been going on since the late 1970s, said Arne Kalleberg , a sociology professor who studies labor issues at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A Tug of War
The Washington Post
It's a single glass case in an 18,200-square-foot exhibition, but it's likely to draw more flak than its size would suggest...."That title may have come from the donor," says Richard Kohn, a former chief historian of the U.S. Air Force now teaching at the University of North Carolina.

Threatening Lawsuits, Hollywood Launches War on Online Piracy
The Wall Street Journal
Lawsuits against individual music pirates have done little to stop music fans stealing songs over the Internet....Koleman Strumpf, an associate professor of economics who studies file sharing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, points to newer versions of file-sharing software that make it harder to track the person who is uploading a file

In Line to Lead
The Wall Street Journal
Sallie Krawcheck is excited about her new job as Citigroup Inc.'s chief financial officer for many reasons, but there is one aspect that tickles her more than the rest: the chance to get a sneak peek at the company's quarterly earnings....A native of Charleston, S.C., Ms. Krawcheck graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1987 and went on to receive an M.B.A. from Columbia University in New York.

Bookmark--Telling Others What to Think
The Wall Street Journal
Edwin Yoder's byline used to be a familiar one...."Telling Others What to Think" is a splendid memoir in which Mr. Yoder tells of growing up in North Carolina, going to college in Chapel Hill, studying at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and learning the newspaper trade.

The Formative Years of the 'Tenured Radicals' (Letter to the Editor)
The Wall Street Journal
I am particularly grateful for Daniel Henninger's Nov. 5 Wonder Land column "Blue Democrats Lost Red America Back in 1965." As a professor of English at the University of North Carolina during that time (I'm now retired), I saw exactly what Mr. Henninger was describing. I've even seen the university largely taken over now by the "tenured radicals," who developed their devious skills in the 1960s....Richard D. Rust, Emeritus Professor of English, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Solving learning problems through better understanding of how the brain works
Newsday (N.Y.)
Tim Pfeifer is personable, athletic, bright. He's the kind of child who might fall beneath a teacher's radar when it comes to trouble....One of these pioneers is Dr. Mel Levine, author of "A Mind at a Time."...A native Long Islander, Levine is now a professor at the University of North Carolina.

Friends, family remember football player's short life
San Francisco Chronicle
Michael Pennerman lived and breathed football....Over the past decade, an average of four high-school football players have died each year in the United States following an injury on the field, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Maybe a Democrat can win in the South
The Christian Science Monitor
On this tiny crossroads along a fading Tobacco Row, a visitor from the North can get a quick glimpse into why the Democrats are losing ground in the struggle for the region's hearts and minds...."The South clearly has converged with the nation in many respects. We've closed a lot of gaps and we've gained more jobs than any other region," says Ferrell Guillory, director of the Program on Southern Life, Media, and Politics at University of North Carolina.

State & Local Coverage

New computer system to streamline hospitals' emergency department
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Five hours into his shift at UNC Hospitals, attending physician Michael Harrigan surveys the chaos of the emergency department....This move by UNC is cutting edge, just like the new computers.

Study seeks to alleviate stress created by cancer diagnosis
The Asheville Citizen-Times
Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University are assisting couples in which the woman has a diagnosis of early stage breast cancer, a study with $2.5 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute.

Holiday cards benefit hospitals
The News & Observer
It's November, meaning it's time to start thinking about holiday cards. If helping sick kids is on your list of things to do, you might consider buying those cards at Duke or UNC....The N.C. Children's Hospital at UNC also has holiday merchandise available through its Kids Cards Project.

Stairwell-riding officer earns 'toughest' title among N.C. peers
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
You hear Herbert Bryant coming before you see him....He isn't making the noise; it's his bicycle, a run-of-the-mill black mountain bike this UNC police officer rides all around campus. The thing's rattling like crazy.

Scene: Digging through layers of history
The Chapel Hill News
Archaeologists like to dig up more than a little dirt when they can. So when the invitation came during the summer to find out what lay beneath the grass blades in the back yard of the James Lee Love house at 501 E. Franklin St., the staff at the UNC-Chapel Hill Research Laboratories of Archaeology jumped at the chance.

Reality check
The News & Observer
Eleanor Gould couldn't believe it when she was asked to leave behind her job -- and her inhibitions -- for a day and allow a crew from TV's "Ambush Makeover" to give her a completely new look....So much of the segment was faked that the University of North Carolina student worries people might get the wrong impression if all they ever see is her 15-minute television transformation from frumpy to fabulous.

Issues & Trends

Broad sees no systemwide hikes
The Daily Tar Heel
The proposed budget being reviewed this week by the UNC system's governing body will not include any systemwide tuition increases.

Chapel Hill Cemetery fences meeting focus
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The fate of the 19th-century wrought-iron fences around the grave plots of UNC's oldest student groups -- the Dialectic and Philanthropic societies -- in the Old
Chapel Hill Cemetery remains an open question.

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