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Nov. 17, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Issues Front and Center
The Washington Post
The Democrats now have the opportunity the Republicans spurned, which is to build a broad coalition in the center and become once again the nation's governing party. ...Former senator John Edwards, another leading Democratic contender for 2008, has put his stamp on this same issue through his new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina.
Dying to be thin
ABC News
The documentary "Thin" by Lauren Greenfield, which debuted Tuesday on HBO, only shows an uncomfortable slice of treatment for eating disorders, and is not a true picture of anorexia nervosa, or of any eating disorder. ...Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., is the director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; a professor of eating disorders in the department of psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine; and a professor of nutrition at the UNC School of Public Health.
A Whole New Battle
Newsweek
Dawn and Bart Beye did everything by the book. When their teenage daughter began showing signs of a serious eating disorder, they caught on fast—confronting the illness in its early stages. ...Dr. Cynthia Bulik, a lead eating-disorder researcher who has used twin studies to look at genetic contributions to anorexia, says that though environmental factors do indeed play a roll in the manifestation of anorexia and bulimia, the biological contributions are clear. A clinical psychologist and director of the eating-disorders program at the University of North Carolina, she says that eating disorders are being held to a different standard of proof than other complex mental illnesses for which insurers will “happily pay.”
Dancing With Memory
"The Story," American Public Media
The President is in Vietnam, spending the day in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon. ...Ea Sola went on to become a ballet choreographer. Her work uses memory to produce beauty.
Note: This coverage was due to a News Services release and related pitching efforts.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov06/easola110706.htmRaw Data: Is Cancer the Price of Longevity?
Discover Magazine
A trilogy of papers published in the September 28 issue of Nature examine the role of a protein—cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p16INK4a—in aging, healing, and cancer. ...To look for the gene's effects, Norman Sharpless of the University of North Carolina genetically engineered mice that don't have it. Half the colony got cancer and died young. That underscored p16's role in cancer prevention.
Note: No link available.Regional Coverage
Kennedy School, Law School students labor for Nairobi poor
Harvard University Gazette
Nairobi's Kibera slum is home to as many as a million people, struggling to survive in a community of tin huts, dirt roads, and garbage. ...As the summer wound down, (Rye) Barcott got ready to head back to his studies at the University of North Carolina and made plans to raise money for the athletic league. But Kibera wasn't quite finished with him.
A man can't shake his roots -- they're always stalking him
The Miami Herald
He spoke by telephone from his room in a generic hotel in an eastern city but to someone with Mississippi roots, a conversation with Richard Ford was like going home. ...The real setting lies in the mind of his protagonist. And that's a landscape that evokes his native home, insists William Ferris, author, historian, associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina and former director of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Leaders like UF's $1,000-fee idea
The Orlando Sentinel
Leaders of the Florida university system gave their blessing Thursday to a proposed $1,000-a-year student fee that would enable the University of Florida to pay for 200 more professors and 100 academic advisers. ...Machen's plan draws on comparisons between UF and other top public schools, such as the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Related links: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-
puffee17nov17,0,6357335.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/
2006/11/17/m1a_UF_FEE_1117.htmlEdwards warns fellow Democrats
The Baltimore Sun
Stopping in Maryland to promote his new book, Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards came bearing a warning for his newly empowered Democratic colleagues: Don't pop the champagne corks yet.
Related link: http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061117/EDIT/611170302/1003John Edwards Reads at Borders
The Washingtonian
John Edwards was right at home Wednesday in front of the microphone in Borders to promote his book of the same name. ...Since his stint as John Kerry's 2004 running mate, Edwards, the lawyer and one-term North Carolina senator, has run a center for poverty studies at the University of North Carolina.
State and Local Coverage
Moeser tuition plan is 'bolder'
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
With some trustees aiming to increase out-of-state tuition by as much as $1,200 a year, Chancellor James Moeser offered what he called "an even bolder stroke" Thursday. ..."Our students are asking for predictability," Moeser said. "This provides that."
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/158/story/511662.htmlUNC eyes $4K out-of-state tuition hike
The Chapel Hill Herald
Tuition for incoming UNC freshmen from outside North Carolina would rise by $4,000 next year under a plan that the university's chancellor floated to the UNC Board of Trustees on Thursday.
Investment return 19.2% for UNC
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill's endowment reached $1.48 billion in fiscal 2006, after recording a 19.2 percent net investment return, the third highest in the past 20 years.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov06/stroupschizo111506.htmPublic preschool is moving forward
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A movement to make public pre-schools the norm has come closer to starting its Chapel Hill pilot. Years in the making, it is the "FirstSchool" project out of UNC-Chapel Hill's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.
'First School' model praised
The Chapel Hill Herald
A plan to change two Chapel Hill-Carr-boro elementary schools into pilot facilities that incorporate preschool programs will likely go forward. Board of Education members and district officials expressed support Thursday night for a proposal that would partner the school system with the UNC-based Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.
UNC trustees to ratify Davis deal soon
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
After discussing the details in a closed session Thursday, the chairman of UNC's Board of Trustees hopes the contract for incoming football coach Butch Davis will be approved in "a matter of days."
UNC names Davie awardees
The Charlotte Observer
Three Charlotteans are among the five recipients of the William Richardson Davie Award from the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees. Since 1984, the Davie award has honored individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary service to the university or society.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/511430.html
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov06/davieawards111606.htmUNC to lead schizophrenia study
The Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Medicine will lead a new clinical trial to study the side effects of drugs commonly used to treaty schizophrenia.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov06/stroupschizo111506.htmDig into the state's past
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Head to downtown Raleigh this weekend for a double dose of history and science at Bicentennial Plaza, the open area between the N.C. Museum of History and the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. ...Archaeologists from UNC-Chapel Hill will be on hand to explain artifacts' significance to the younger set.
Give interventions the Ike test (Opinion-editorial column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Once again, the United States finds itself in a war that it cannot win without paying astronomical costs in gold and blood. That there will be other Iraqs in our future is likely, given the history of U.S. military involvement since 1945. ...Timothy J. McKeown is a professor of political science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
God and Hollywood
The Fayetteville Observer
Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Cecil B. DeMille is smiling. ...“To do that, you have to draw a distinction between movies as entertainment and as evangelism vehicles,” said Shanny Luft. Luft is a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in religion and film.
'Morning after' pill in stores
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The over-the-counter version of the "morning after" contraceptive pill arrived quietly on Triangle pharmacy shelves this week. ...Ashley Tyndall, 21, a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill and president of Carolina Students for Life, said she thinks it is wrong for Plan B to be widely accessible to women who may not fully understand it. She does not think it should be available without a prescription.
Issues and Trends
NIH Director Offers Prognosis for Budget Squeeze on Research Grants
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The National Institutes of Health expects to receive more than twice as many grant applications in 2007 as in 1998, which helps to explain why many researchers are lamenting that the grants are harder to get.
Contracts for college coaches cover more than salaries
USA Today
Pick any numbers you like to define college football's premier teams - points scored, yards allowed.Dental Care (Editorial)
The Winston-Salem Journal
Rural North Carolina needs dentists, and the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors has done the right thing in approving a new dental school for East Carolina University and an expansion of the existing school at UNC Chapel Hill.
The return of the anti-war movement (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
If you closed your eyes for a moment, you might've been back in 1968. The clothes were different-- very little tie-dye around -- but there was the same passion, the same anger and -- nearly 40 years later -- alas, the same issues. ...The players in the drama were 40 or so demonstrators -- mostly UNC students -- who were protesting the opening of the center and a dozen or so veterans and their supporters who had come to support the opening and, in general, the military.
Rally set to boost UNC-RM proposal
Rocky Mount Telegram
The stakes are big, and area leaders are urging Twin Counties residents to support the UNC-Rocky Mount Rally on Monday.
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