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Nov. 3, 2005
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Note
Dr. Phil Berke, professor in the department of city and regional planning, will be featured on CNN's show "Open House" Saturday, November 5. The show, which airs Saturday mornings at 9:30, examines issues and trends affecting the housing industry. Berke, whose area of expertise is ecological design and urban form, land use planning and evnironmental policy, will discuss whether or not homeowners in low risk areas should pay higher insurance premiums to support those who live in high risk areas (coastal areas that get battered by hurricanes.) The interview was coordinated by News Services with the help of ITS' video services and was conducted out of the studio facility in Peabody Hall.
National Coverage
Pressure Mounts to Mend the Health System
The Wall Street Journal
Wal-Mart Stores, the master of controlling the cost of everything, is alarmed at the rising cost of employee-health benefits. The United Auto Workers, which negotiated the best health benefits in U.S. industry, will force its General Motors retirees to pay health premiums for the first time and surrender active workers' raises to pay for health benefits. ..."People are increasingly frustrated with a health-care system that costs too much, doesn't cover everybody...and has outcomes that aren't satisfactory for individual patients because of poor clinical quality," says William Roper, chief executive of the University of North Carolina Health Care System.
Mommy Shift Begins as Nanny Shift Ends
The Los Angeles Times
Margoth Enriquez looks at the clock. It's 6:03 p.m. — past time to go home. ... There are roughly 62,000 Latina nannies in Los Angeles County, said University of North Carolina professor Philip N. Cohen. He based his estimate on census data and noted that the actual number may be higher.
Alito's Potential Impact on States' Rights Issues
"Morning Edition," National Public Radio
Michael Gerhardt, a professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, featured on today's "Morning Edition" to discuss how Samuel Alito may shape decisions on states' rights, if confirmed to the Supreme Court. Morning Edition airs Monday through Friday on more than 600 NPR stations across the United States, and around the globe on NPR's international services.
UNC Tip Sheet: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/supremetip103105.htmlNew Orleans' troubled renaissance
The Christian Science Monitor
Darrin Butler exhibited at an art show in his hometown of New Orleans two days before hurricane Katrina hit and was "too lazy" to unpack his car before evacuating. Inside was all his artwork and two pairs of pants. ..."But a lot of New Orleans' culture was built around poverty: the Mardi Gras Indians, the neighborhood restaurants selling po' boys, the kids playing jazz on the sidewalks," says Ferrel Guillory, a native Louisianian and director of the program on Southern politics, media, and public life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
From E-mail to Riches
Business Week
Broadwick is the provider of the e-mail marketing software IntelliContact, which allows companies and nonprofits to create, send, and track permission-based e-mail newsletters and surveys through an on-demand Web-based application. The company boasts more than 3,000 clients, including Super 8 Motel, International Paper, and Re/Max. Allis has 21 employees and monthly sales of $130,000. The company is adding at least 300 new clients each month. Allis himself has received attention in the press for his work and success at such a young age.
Note: Ryan Allis is a University of North Carolina student. To reach his profile, click on the third photo from the left of the page.State & Local Coverage
Alito 'very quiet and reserved,' says UNC prof, a former colleague
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Upon leaving his post as U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, Samuel Alito gave a warm, funny speech at his going-away dinner that left his friends and colleagues chuckling. For those on hand that evening in 1990, the comic nature of Alito's speech was surprising -- for this was not a man given to levity, recalled Eric Muller, a UNC law professor who worked with Alito while an assistant U.S. attorney in Alito's office.
UNC Tip Sheet: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/supremetip103105.htmlGordon, WUNC-FM connect
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Dick Gordon, formerly of Boston station WBUR's news/talk show "The Connection," has been hired to host a new nationally syndicated talk show beginning early next year, WUNC-FM announced Wednesday. The as-yet unnamed program will air weekdays on the public radio station, most likely in the early afternoon. WUNC representatives said the one-hour show will not be the rebirth of the two-hour "Connection," which aired on WUNC weekdays from 10 a.m. until noon before WBUR canceled it last summer.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov05/wuncdickgordon110305.htmDedication set for memorial
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The community is invited to a dedication for the Unsung Founders Memorial at UNC-Chapel Hill on Saturday. The memorial was the UNC senior class gift for 2002. The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on the McCorkle Place quadrangle near Franklin Street.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov05/unsung110205.htmA consul who is only a puppet
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Fascinated by the lifelike and life-size puppets used in the touring play 'Tall Horse,' Charlie Steak, right, a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student in the theater arts, stayed behind after the hourlong Drama 17 class: Nonwestern World Drama to learn more about them. 'Tall Horse' producer Basil Jones shows Steak the behind-the-puppet-scene of how the wooden, 6.5-foot-tall puppet of the French consul character handles, and how it is manipulated to produce lifelike movements. The touring African puppet theater performance of 'Tall Horse' will be staged this weekend in Memorial Hall.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov05/tallhorseclass110105.htm
Note: No link available. For a copy, email Michelle at mgreene@dev.unc.edu.
Magazine honors Durham entrepreneur, 21
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Ryan Allis, the 21-year-old chief executive of Durham's Broadwick Corp., has been named to BusinessWeek Magazine's "Top 25 Entrepreneurs under 25." Allis moved to Chapel Hill from Florida in 2002 to attend UNC. In 2003 he and co-founder Aaron Houghton, 24, launched Broadwick, an e-mail marketing software company. Allis, an economics major, is taking time off from school to focus on business; he will be a senior when he returns.
Higher education steps up fund-raising efforts
The Winston-Salem Journal
If you have ever given money to your alma mater, chances are its correspondence has stepped up in recent years. ...Last month, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill increased its capital-campaign goal to $2 billion, joining a handful of on-going university campaigns that have targets of $2 billion or more. "State institutions are going to have to get creative," Case said.
Doctors Study Acupuncture To Induce Labor
NBC-17
American doctors are studying an ancient practice to help needle a woman into labor. ...Doctors often use drugs like pitocin to trigger labor, but lead UNC researcher Dr. Terry Harper said acupuncture could be a less invasive option. "The No. 1 thing we're looking at is can we help them go into labor sooner?" UNC researcher Dr. Terry Harper said.
Issues & Trends
Colleges seek fiscal fitness
The Associated Press (National)
The outgoing president of Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, Roger Martin, is an Oxford-trained church historian. His successor is a career fundraiser who brought in about $3 billion for his last two employers. ...The University of North Carolina recently tapped former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, while Radford University hired the head of the Virginia Lottery.
UNC president search favored Tar Heels
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
From the beginning of the search for a successor to UNC President Molly Broad, there was widespread pressure to put a North Carolinian in the job, according to e-mail messages and records obtained by The News & Observer. ...However, one consultant hired by the search committee, William Weary, had "a dim view of the search committee stating a desire for a candidate with NC roots or connections," according to an e-mail message May 17 from UNC Vice President and General Counsel Leslie Winner to Brad Wilson, chairman of both the search committee and the UNC Board of Governors.
A liberal town finds race is an issue
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The debate over renaming Airport Road for Martin Luther King Jr. revealed that Chapel Hill -- socially progressive, enlightened Chapel Hill -- had a race problem, many said. ...Black employees of the town and UNC-Chapel Hill have complained of poor pay, poor working conditions and lack of promotions. The council, after approving the road's new name, vowed to continue discussing race relations.
Candidate Q&A: Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy
The Chapel Hill Herald
Are you too willing to compromise with the university?
I don't think I've been too willing to compromise. I've been very willing to talk. There is a certain amount of tension that the university and the town will always experience. There's nothing wrong with that tension. But there's a difference between experiencing tension and having a bad relationship. If you have a good relationship, you can talk and point out to each other what you think is wrong with the decision the other side made. You speak to each other respectfully.
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