October 10, 2002

Carolina in the News

Current National Coverage

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

Joyce Harp, assistant professor of nutrition, was among sources featured in a brief story airing 
Wednesday on NBC TV's "Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" about obesity. To watch the story 
online, please go to http://www.msnbc.com/news/NIGHTLYTB_Front.asp and on the right 
hand side of the web page, click the right arrow directly underneath the "Nightly News" logo 
until "Americans heaviers than they think" is displayed. Click the "Play Video" button 
underneath. A North Carolina-based NBC crew interviewed Harp in Chapel Hill.

At Firms, Dual Profit Pictures 
The Washington Post 
Two years ago, International Business Machines Corp. reported to its shareholders a healthy 
pretax profit of nearly $5.7 billion, but to Uncle Sam, the high-tech giant painted a decidedly 
different picture... "There's no question the trend is growing because of stock options," said 
Douglas A. Shackelford, an accounting professor at the University of North Carolina's 
Kenan-Flagler Business School...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3551-2002Oct9.html

Brand-new welcome at Valley Forge
Philadelphia Inquirer
When the upstart American colonists decided to declare their independence and start a war 
with the the troops of King George, the British devised a clever military strategy: They flooded 
the young country with counterfeit currency... Serving on the Board of Scholars for the new 
National Center are McCullough, Benninghoff, author Thomas Fleming, and Revolutionary 
War historians Gordon S. Wood, a professor at Brown University and Pulitzer Prize-winning 
author, and Don Higginbotham, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill....
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/4249145.htm

Grooming a nation's elite
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Training to be the next generation of Chile's elite, clean-cut young men and women sit on 
benches and lawns of the immaculate campus of Los Andes University, talking quietly or 
cramming for exams... "Chile is really the one country [in Latin America] where you have such 
a tight link between Opus Dei and the political elites," said Merike Blofield, a political scientist 
at the University of North Carolina and expert on the Church in Latin America...
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/search/sfl-hchile10oct10,0,1466222.story?coll=sfla-news-caribbean

State and Local Coverage

UNC leader signs on vs. anti-Semitism 
The Herald-Sun
UNC Chancellor James Moeser has signed onto a statement condemning the mistreatment of
Jewish students on college campuses while other local university leaders have opted not to, 
saying the statement doesn’t address a broad enough cross-section of students...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-275398.html

UNC to announce final goal for Carolina First campaign
Business Journal
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will announce the final goal for its Carolina First 
fundraising campaign, a multi-year drive to raise more than $1.5 billion, on Oct. 11 at 12:30 p.m...
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2002/10/07/daily28.html

University course changes debated
The Herald-Sun
UNC’s new curriculum proposal would not require students to take a course on western 
civilization, a change some on the university faculty find a bit unsettling. Currently, students must 
take at least one course touching on pre-1700 western civilization... "They are inevitably going 
to end up taking something in western civilization, but it isn’t explicitly required," said Laurie 
McNeil, a physics professor chairing the task force... To Richard Pfaff, a history professor, the 
proposed curriculum change is an indication that UNC is heading in a disturbing direction... 
George Houston, a professor in the classics department, isn’t sure how students will respond 
once they don’t have to take the western civilization course...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-275397.html

UNC to join study of liver donations 
News and Observer
UNC-Chapel Hill will take part in a national study on the risks and benefits of liver transplants 
from living donors, officials said Wednesday...
http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/1801251p-1803754c.html
(Note: This coverage followed a UNC news release:
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/liver100902.htm)

Many likely to avoid the polls
Charlotte Observer
In a TV-saturated world, the get-out-and-vote message hasn't reached 23-year-old Terry Kennedy. 
It's buried somewhere in a pile of ads for cars, food and shoes... According to data compiled by 
UNC Chapel Hill professor Thad Beyle, 84.2 percent of North Carolinians 18 and older were 
registered to vote in 2000. That's up from just 66.7 percent in 1990...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/4250254.htm

Schools ban on-campus smoking
Wilmington Morning-Star
Pender County school officials hope a new policy will stamp out smoking at football games and 
other school events... Ms. DePalma also noted that a study of the school systems with tobacco-
free policies by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health showed 
that most people obeyed the rules...
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73113337512574&Avis=WM&Dato=20021009&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=210090328&Ref=AR

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Budget Impasse Could Squeeze Bioterrorism and Biomedical Research, NIH Director Says
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The National Institutes of Health will be forced to significantly scale back the number of new grants 
and projects it finances next year -- including a crash program to counter bioterrorism -- if Congress 
fails to pass a budget for the agency for the 2003 fiscal year, the agency's director told a U.S. House 
of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday. 
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002101001n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

Winmore development opponents weigh in 
The Herald-Sun
With a chance to speak to county and town officials simultaneously Wednesday, opponents of the 
Winmore development packed a meeting room beyond its fire-code limit...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-275429.html

Water conservation may lead to higher bills
Chapel Hill News
It's a dry and understated sentence, but it neatly summarizes the situation facing Orange Water and 
Sewer Authority as the worst drought on record progresses, day after dry day...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/1794672p-1799951c.html

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