October 11, 2002

Carolina in the News

Carolina First Campaign News

UNC announces goal of $1.8 billion for Carolina First campaign
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill officials today (Oct. 11) announced the Carolina First campaign, 
a drive to raise $1.8 billion in private funds to help make UNC the nation’s leading public university. The 
university has raised $866 million, or 48 percent of the goal, since campaign counting began July 1, 1999...
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/carolinafirst101102.htm

Carolina First Aims for $1.8B Goal
The Daily Tar Heel
Carolina First Campaign officials today will kick off the public phase of the second-largest fund-raising 
campaign ever at a public university with an announcement of their official $1.8 billion goal...
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/10/11/3da6ca1488f8c

$1.8B Objective Probably Too Low
The Daily Tar Heel
UNC officially will embark today on what University officials claim is an "ambitious" and "aggressive" fund-
raising campaign, but experts indicate that the school's $1.8 billion goal likely is a conservative benchmark...
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/10/11/3da6caa1cb0eb

(Note: Media representatives covering today's Carolina First announcement included WRAL-TV (CBS-
Raleigh), which is planning a story for tonight's newscasts, WCHL-AM, The News and Observer, The 
Durham Herald-Sun, The Daily Tar Heel and The University Gazette. News Services also will aggressively 
target additional national, regional and state media outlets with this campaign news.)

Current International Coverage

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

Sunnybrook hospital joins U.S. mammography project
Toronto Star
Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre is the only Canadian hospital taking part 
in a national mammography archive based in the United States. The project is part of a U.S. National 
Institutes of Health study, connecting hospitals at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of 
Chicago, the University of North Carolina and Sunnybrook...
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1026146292048&call_page=TS_Life&call_pageid=991479973472&call_pagepath=Life/News

Current National Coverage

Applying early isn't for everyone 
The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.)
The deal seems almost as tantalizing as those "Get Ripped Abs in Six Weeks" infomercials. With some 
advance work, the torturous college application season can be mercifully short. Pick your college, apply 
"early action" or "early decision" and rest comfortably knowing where you'll spend your college years 
months ahead of your stressed classmates... Last spring, the University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill was the first national-level college to eliminate its early admissions process altogether...
http://www.oregonlive.com/living/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/living/103416454393331.xml

L.H. Fountain; N.C. Congressman 
The Washington Post
L.H. Fountain, 89, a North Carolina Democrat who served in the House of Representatives for 30 years 
before retiring in 1983, died Oct. 10 at a nursing home in Raleigh, N.C... Mr. Fountain, a North Carolina 
native, was a 1934 graduate of the University of North Carolina and a 1936 graduate of its law school...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10084-2002Oct10.html
(Note: A related story also appeared in The News and Observer
http://newsobserver.com/nc24hour/ncnews/story/1803702p-1804849c.html)

Regional Coverage

Fayetteville, N.C., tries to shake its tough-town image
The Virginian-Pilot
The unkind nicknames were here long before this past summer, when four Fort Bragg soldiers allegedly 
killed their wives in a six-week span... In the '40s and '50s, Hay Street saw pedestrian shoppers 
patronizing department stores by day and soldiers prowling clubs by night, wrote University of North 
Carolina anthropology professor Catherine Lutz, whose book ``Homefront'' chronicles the town's 
relationship with the Army...
http://www.pilotonline.com/military/ml1010fay.html

State and Local Coverage

UNC, Quran tempest rears its head again
The Herald-Sun
The Quran lawsuit may not be dead. Attorneys for the organization that sued the university earlier this year 
over UNC’s summer reading program have filed a new motion asking a federal district court to consider an 
amended complaint. In its new complaint, attorneys with the American Family Association’s Center for Law 
and Policy argue that UNC is attempting to push Islam upon its students by hosting a number of events related 
to the religion this fall...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-275802.html

UNC lawyer to leave 
News and Observer
Susan H. Ehringhaus, UNC-Chapel Hill's top attorney, will leave the university after 32 years for an eight-
month assignment with two national higher education associations... 
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1805041p-1805423c.html
(Note: A related news release appears at http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/ehringhaus101002.htm)

Peeling the Orange 
The Herald-Sun
... Quite a few Chapel Hillians run 26-mile marathon races -- but none from the perspective of Camille Izlar, 
a diabetes educator and clinical instructor in the School of Medicine here...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-275790.html
(Note: To view this brief, please go to the above url and scroll down the web page.)

Mixed signals 
News and Observer
1999 was an eventful year for WUNC, 91.5 FM, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's public 
radio station. The year began with WUNC moving into new quarters, and ended with longtime general 
manager Bill Davis preparing to leave for National Public Radio in Washington...
http://www.newsobserver.com/features/arts/story/1790568p-1796037c.html

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