Nov. 21, 2005

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Can Brazil Nuts and Tuna Fight Arthritis?
U.S. News & World Report
Scientists have long suspected that osteoarthritis, a painful condition of the joints, occurs more often in people who don't get all the nutrients they need. ...It's not a good idea to start taking extra selenium, since too much can be toxic, says lead author Joanne Jordan, a UNC associate professor of medicine and orthopedics. Better to watch your diet.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov05/jordan111005.htm

As the Campus Turns
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Can Brad, Alexis, Valerie, and Chad — college students with little acting experience and a meager production budget — concoct a convincing daytime drama? (Cue organ music. Long, tortured reaction shot.) ...Characters on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's General College have been lying, cheating, and mysteriously disappearing since 1986, when then-sophomore Adam Reist created his own show on local cable television after being turned down for college radio.
Note: Subscription required. For a copy, email Michelle at mgreene@dev.unc.edu.

Regional Coverage

Women's health care re-evaluation urged
The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware)
The traditional medical approach for treating women of childbearing age needs to be re-evaluated if improvement is to be seen in the infant mortality rate for the nation and Delaware, experts said Saturday at a conference on the issue at the University of Delaware. "The way we've been doing it isn't working," said Merry-K. Moos, a family nurse practitioner and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, who spoke at the conference, co-sponsored by the Delaware Area Health Education Center and Thomas Jefferson Medical College.

State & Local Coverage

The big hookup
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The name Dick Gordon worked magic in WUNC's latest on-air fund-raiser. Dick Gordon, host of the late and lamented public affairs show "The Connection." Dick Gordon, director of intelligent conversations that transcended the Q&A format. Dick Gordon, the rare radio voice who remained polite whether the subject was art or war. Dick Gordon, a national public radio talent who is moving to the Triangle to launch a new syndicated show from the UNC-Chapel Hill-run station.

Chapel Hill physician is 2005 H. Fleming Fuller Award recipient
The Kinston Free Press
Dr. AnnaMarie Connolly, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a physician at UNC Hospitals, is this year's recipient of the H. Fleming Fuller Award.The award was presented to Connolly Nov. 18 at the UNC Health Care board of directors' annual banquet.

Kinston natives pledge $350,000 to UNC
The Kinston Free Press
Alan Heilig and his sister, Debra Heilig Schwartz, have given $125,000, and Alan has pledged an additional $225,000, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to establish an endowed lectureship in Jewish studies.The gift goes to the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, which is a part of UNC's College of Arts and Sciences.

Easy can be good ... and bad (Question-answer)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Debashis "Deb" Aikat is an associate professor and "media futurist" in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill. He teaches online research and reporting and researches Internet applications and the future of communication.

Student-magazine to highlight Duke-UNC relationship
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Duke and UNC -- a proximity, a rivalry and now a magazine. Rival Magazine, which highlights the two universities' best-of-enemies relationship, will start publication with a student staff on both campuses next year, says Brint Markle, a Duke student and the magazine's cofounder.

Crystal ball shows a cloudy future (Opinion-editorial column)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Prior to and during Chapel Hill's election season I wrote articles and spoke before council urging the town not to join the Community Carbon Reducation Program. One of my concerns was that this program, proposed by UNC's Douglas Crawford-Brown, excluded UNC, and thus UNC's power plant emissions, from any of the program's emissions studies and pollution reducation plans.
Note: No link available. For a copy, email Michelle at mgreene@dev.unc.edu.

Duke hosts writers festival
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Ever wonder where writers get their inspiration? The 2006 North Carolina Festival of the Book (formerly known as the North Carolina Literary Festival) should have some answers as writers come together to address "It's All About the Story." ...The 2006 festival represents a collaboration between the libraries of Duke and the state university campuses of N.C. State, UNC Chapel Hill and N.C. Central University, with funding from these libraries and other sources.

UNC Trustees Honor Daniels With Prestigious Davie Award
The Pilot (Southern Pines)
Frank Daniels Jr. of Raleigh, one of The Pilot’s owners, was among four longtime friends of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to receive the prestigious William Richardson Davie Award. Chancellor James Moeser and the Board of Trustees honored the four recipients at a Carolina Inn dinner Wednesday, Nov. 16.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov05/davie111705.htm

Long-sought fire station site is welcome news (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
Sometimes good things really do come to those who wait. The UNC Board of Trustees approved a plan Wednesday to lease a tract of land on Homestead Road to the town of Carrboro, which will build a fire substation there. The deal is pretty sweet; the town will get the land for the princely sum of $1 a year for the next 99 years.

An alternative vision for Carolina North (Commentary)
The Chapel Hill News
Leave it to Shirley Marshall, grand dame of Orange County government, to reduce the percolating debate over UNC’s Carolina North to a couple of sentences. The former county commissioner and Town Council member, sat beside me last weekend at a presentation of The Village Project’s alternative “concept plan” for the university’s research campus.

Stossel: Business good, government bad
The Chapel Hill News
John Stossel hates the government, trial lawyers and much of the media. ...The intense, mustachioed journalist and Princeton graduate laid out his views at a cost of $15,000. He put his room and board on the UNC journalism school’s tab.

Group answers suicide survivors' SOS
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Ann Gay thought her son's rebellion and mood swings were typical teenage behaviors. ...Survivors of a suicide can attend the group's annual statewide conference today in the School of Social Work at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Plenty of goods and services offered
The Chapel Hill Herald
A conference room in UNC's Wilson Library turned briefly into a small-town trading post with a college-town twist Sunday. Plumbing services, groceries, landscaping, house painting, books and local crafts were some of the goods and services people were seeking.

Clay basins yield fossils from prehistoric eras
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Vince Schneider, self-taught fossil hunter and paleontology curator at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, has pulled hundreds of rare fossils from the clay basins of central North Carolina. ...He got into the field by accident, after two students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found remains of a Triassic predator, the Tyrannosaurus rex of its day, though smaller, in a clay pit outside Durham.

Do-gooder companies help themselves
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Enlightened self-interest has its benefits. ...“All the people that hate Wal-Mart must be really, really unhappy,” said Robert Lauterborn, professor of advertising at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Issues & Trends

'Measuring' tuition (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. How about that old saying for a little guideline to apply in the future to member campuses of the University of North Carolina system when it comes to raising tuition? Tuition has been skyrocketing in the last few years, particularly on the big campuses in Raleigh and Chapel Hill. Trustees approve increases in tuition and fees, and then the UNC system Board of Governors approves or disapproves those proposals -- though the governing board seems to be holding a weaker and weaker hand when it comes to exercising its oversight role.

Week's end
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
In Wilmington, Rosemary DePaolo, chancellor of UNC-Wilmington, ought to be asked to teach her UNC system colleagues a "101" course in public relations. DePaolo is the chancellor who showed a lot of good sense, and class, too, when she donated her recent pay raise to scholarships created by her school's staff and faculty. ...In terms of dollars, the raises ranged from $15,334 for T. J. Bryan at Fayetteville State to $35,100 for N.C. State University Chancellor James Oblinger and UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser. Heck, a whole lot of state employees don't even make $35,100 a year.

Rock on (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Regarding the Nov. 12 article "UNC chancellors' raises draw ire": The president of the United States of America does not receive a salary comparable to what his counterparts in the private sector get. Nor do other federal or state officials. The rationale to raise the UNC system chancellors' pay is irrational and just plain wrong.

Lab to be Dole science hub
The Charlotte Observer
Dole Food Co.'s research labs will revolve around the biotech hub its owner is building in Kannapolis. ...It also will house temporary facilities for UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University until they have their own quarters at the campus: the Dole-N.C. State Institute for Advanced Fruit and Vegetable Science and the UNC-Chapel Hill Nutrition Institute.

Appalachian State University administrators deal with the aftermath of two drug-related deaths of students since October
The Winston-Salem Journal
The drug-related killings of two Appalachian State University students a little more than a year apart has stunned this mountain campus. ...Experts warn about reading too much into the numbers. For instance, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reported no violations in the same category last year. The difference could be attributed to different policies or how the universities do the self-reporting rather than a true picture of how many people are using drugs.

 

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