October 14, 2002

Carolina in the 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:

A fine balancing act between jobs and courses
The Financial Times
(London, England)
Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state in the Nixon administration, once famously said that 
"next week there cannot be any crisis. My schedule is already full." Mr Kissinger's sentiments are familiar 
to all those who have taken an executive MBA - and never more so than today.... At the University of 
North Carolina, for example, Kenan-Flagler Executive Education requires a corporate sponsorship letter 
from everyone intending to take a programme - even though some students may pay for a proportion of 
the course costs themselves."It's not about sponsorship; it is more about the time," says David Ravenscraft,
finance professor and Kenan-Flagler's associate dean of executive MBA programmes...
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=021014001065&query=%22sarah+murray%22&vsc_appId=quickSearch&offset=0&resultsToShow=10&vsc_subjectConcept=&vsc_companyConcept=&state=More&vsc_publicationGroups=TOPWFT&searchCat=-1

Diversity on offer as five schools form alliance 
The Financial Times
(London, England)
Enthusiasm for executive MBAs with a global perspective continues to know no bounds as increasing 
numbers of schools opt for a qualification with a multi-continent slant... The schools involved - the Chinese 
University of Hong Kong Faculty of Business Administration; Fundaýýo Getulio Vargas in Sýo Paulo, Brazil; 
the Monterrey Tech Graduate School of Business Administration in Mexico; RSM School of Management 
in Rotterdam and Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - 
believe that this broad alliance offers a multi-cultural perspective that is second to none...
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=021014001064&query=Linda+Anderson&vsc_appId=totalSearch&state=Form

Current National Coverage

Rush to Judgment
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A private school in San Antonio, arrived at the annual meeting of the National Association for College 
Admission Counseling here last month on a mission: Sort out exactly what the rules are on early-admissions 
programs... This year, Beloit College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced that
they would drop their early-decision programs this fall. In August, Mary Washington College said it would 
drop its early-decision program as of next fall...
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i08/08a03901.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

University's Islamic plan is contested
Philadelphia Inquirer
The group that unsuccessfully sued to stop the University of North Carolina from assigning freshmen a book 
on the Koran, Islam's holy book, is now taking aim at the school's plans to hold an Islamic awareness week 
next month...
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/nation/4270167.htm
(Note: This national Associated Press story, which originated from The Durham Herald-Sun, also appeared as a 
brief in The Washington Post and other North Carolina media including The Charlotte Observer, The News and 
Observer and News 14 (Time Warner-Raleigh).)

Nanotech finds biological inspiration 
United Press International
Nanotechnology research is focusing increasingly on DNA, nature's own molecular-scale instructions, as a 
possible building block for man-made devices, scientists said Saturday at a conference... The DNA 
molecule also could act as scaffolding for the assembly of computer circuits, said Chris Dwyer, a computer 
science researcher with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021012-122115-2395r

Business Week ranks Kenan-Flagler's MBA Program 18th
The MBA Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School' was 
ranked #18 overall in Business Week's 2002 rankings of the top 30 U.S. business schools. Business Week 
also ranked the top 10 non-U.S. business schools. Business Week ranked Kenan-Flagler #15 overall in 2000, 
when it last ranked MBA programs...
http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/news/press/mbarank02.html
(Note: A related story appears at: http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2002/10/07/daily58.html)

Colleges Could Face Lawsuits Over Illegal File-Sharing
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Universities that fail to crack down on student software pirates face a growing threat of lawsuits or new 
regulations, industry and government representatives warned at a discussion held on Friday at the University 
of Texas at Austin... The letter sent to college officials last week cited the University of North Carolina, 
Drake University, and the University of Michigan as institutions that have instituted codes of conduct for 
online use...
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002101401t.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

Divided attention 
San Francisco Chronicle
With DVD players in the backseat, CD changers and video screens on the dashboard, and drivers and 
passengers alike chattering on cell phones, cars are fast evolving into rolling entertainment and communication 
centers... And a different study by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center found 
that nearly 30 percent of distracted-driver accidents had nothing to do with electronics, but instead were 
caused by a person, object or event outside the car. 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/14/BU146462.DTL&type=business

New concern over concussions
Baltimore Sun
Sarah Ellenberger still goes to all her high school team's soccer games. She just doesn't play anymore. The 
Annapolis 15-year-old has been sidelined permanently after suffering two concussions within a week... 
Where they disagree is how long to keep somebody out - whether it's a week or two weeks or a month," 
said Dr. Robert C. Cantu, medical director at the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research 
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of a widely used set of return-to-play 
guidelines...
http://www.sunspot.net/news/health/bal-te.md.concussion14oct14,0,984457.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

Sniper Probe Spotlights Chief's Style
The Los Angeles Times
He has become a household name, a daily presence on national television, the earnest, sometimes testy voice 
of the hunt for a killer... Moose, who grew up in the small town of Lexington, N.C., went straight from the 
University of North Carolina — where he graduated with a history degree — to the police department in 
Portland, where he spent 24 years...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-moose14oct14.story
(Note: The Los Angeles Times requires free registration to access articles. A related story also appeared in 
yesterday's (Long Island, N.Y.) Newsday, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

State and Local Coverage

UNC-CH announces $1.8 billion goal 
News and Observer
UNC-Chapel Hill formally launched its Carolina First private fund-raising campaign Friday, with $866 million 
already pledged toward an ultimate goal of $1.8 billion...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1808182p-1808362c.html
(Note: Similar stories appeared in Saturday's Durham Herald-Sun and aired on WRAL-TV (CBS-Raleigh) during 
the Friday evening newscast. Stories also appeared in The Chapel Hill News Sunday and The Daily Tar Heel 
today.)

UNC celebrates 209 years at University Day
The Herald-Sun
The ongoing squabble about a summer reading assignment drawn mainly from the Quran figured prominently in 
UNC’s 209th birthday celebration on Saturday. Speakers at two University Day events alluded directly to the 
controversy and praised Chancellor James Moeser and other officials for defending the faculty’s right to have 
asked incoming freshmen to read "Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations."...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-276404.html

Moeser reaffirms academic freedom 
News and Observer 
Chancellor James Moeser, in a speech to the Faculty Council on Friday, reiterated his strong support for 
academic freedom and a campus where many opinions on the issues of the day are welcomed...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1808185p-1808375c.html

'We need you,' Foy tells UNC faculty 
News and Observer
Mayor Kevin Foy appealed to UNC-Chapel Hill faculty Friday afternoon to get involved with town issues. In 
his first speech as mayor to the Faculty Council, Foy talked about how the intrinsically linked town and gown 
have begun to strive toward different goals...
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1808370p-1808442c.html

Student Press: Anti-Semitic? Hardly (Editorial)
News and Observer
A new Web site, www.campus-watch.org, lists the university along with others as sympathetic toward pro-
Palestinian arguments and more extreme interpretations of Islamic texts -- making UNC-CH an anti-Semitic 
campus, according to the site's founders...
http://newsobserver.com/news/q/story/1812058p-1810906c.html
(Note: This editorial originally appeared in The Daily Tar Heel.)

Player's '98 suit vs. coach is in limbo 
News and Observer
The men who play weekend soccer at Shelley Lake Park include Brazilians and Mexicans and others fervent 
about the international sport. Sometimes a young blond woman from the neighborhood joins them... In a 
federal civil suit filed Aug. 25, 1998, Keller said University of North Carolina soccer coach Anson Dorrance -- 
builder of a dynasty that includes 17 NCAA championships -- sexually harassed her when she played at North 
Carolina from 1993 to 1996...
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1812335p-1810864c.html

UNC strikes blow for cultural illiteracy (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun
There’s nothing wrong with trying to see how the world looks from its other side, but all this standing on one’s 
head leaves one a little dizzy. At least that’s the only excuse we can surmise for the task force aiming to 
"modernize" and "streamline" UNC’s curriculum by eliminating a requirement that undergraduates take a course
touching on Western civilization before 1700... The committee, led by physics professor Laurie McNeil, would 
instead require students to take two courses in cultures from some other point of the compass...
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/chhedits/57-276688.html

Universities: Partners as well as rivals 
News and Observer
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser was thinking of today's matchup at Kenan Stadium when he teased 
a crowd of Carolina fans Friday: "We have a small matter to settle with our friends from Raleigh." Sports rivalry 
is a long-standing force in Tar Heel-Wolfpack relations, but the leaders of UNC-CH and N.C. State University 
are teaming up off the field these days to create joint academic programs, research partnerships and cooperative
hiring practices...
http://newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/1808307p-1808437c.html

UNC names new school dean 
The Herald-Sun
Jack M. Richman, a UNC faculty member since 1983, has been named dean of the school of social work. 
Richman’s appointment, effective Saturday, was approved Friday by the UNC system Board of Governors. 
Before the appointment, Richman had served as interim dean of the school and a professor teaching courses 
within the school’s master’s and doctoral programs...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-276376.html

Listening Post: Issues and ideas under discussion in the Triangle (Commentary)
News and Observer
The threat appeared suddenly, putting every American at risk. The president displayed calm and resolve, rallying
the American people. Although the government had been surprised, its improvised response seemed to have 
worked, at least for a time. The temporary halt in partisan sniping soon ended, and Americans returned to politics 
as usual...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1812113p-1810859c.html
(Note: Timothy McKeown is an associate professor of political science at the UNC-Chapel Hill. This coverage 
resulted from News Services pitching efforts.)

UNC spurns merit raises 
News and Observer
Many professors at UNC campuses were expecting at least some raise this year from tuition revenues, but the UNC 
Board of Governors on Friday directed campuses not to use the money for widespread, merit-based faculty salary 
increases... I don't see any conflict from what I'm getting from the Board of Governors based on market value," 
Provost Robert Shelton told faculty Friday..
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1808364p-1808456c.html

Footnotes
News and Observer
Robert Kirkpatrick, a UNC-Chapel Hill English professor, often can be found with his nose in a book. But in
recent weeks, he has gone to great lengths to tune in to television... Jack M. Richman, a faculty member at the 
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work since 1983, has been named dean of the school. Richman's appointment 
was approved last week by the UNC Board of Governors. Until then, Richman had served as interim dean of the 
school and a professor teaching courses within the school's master's and doctoral programs...
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1813653p-1813386c.html

Why a decline in S.C. job seekers? (Commentary)
Charlotte Observer
Sometimes, what is left out of a report can be as revealing as what's put in... At the UNC Chapel Hill's Kenan-
Flagler Business School, professor James Johnson has definite thoughts on immigration and its effect on existing 
workers. Johnson says his research shows that employers seeking low-wage hands now favor Hispanics over 
native-born Americans with similar or slightly better skills, be those native workers black or white...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/business/4274229.htm

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Hundreds of Students Nationwide Gather at U. of Michigan to Plan Campus Strategy for Pro-Palestinian Movement
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Approximately 400 students from around the country gathered at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor this 
weekend for the Second National Student Conference on the Palestinian Solidarity Movement...
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002101401n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

Best-Laid Plans Fail to Shield North Carolina From Slump
The Wall Street Journal
For the past quarter-century, North Carolina has been one of the South's brightest economic stars. State 
investments in its university system helped spawn Research Triangle Park, which in turn made the Raleigh-Durham 
area an early technology center. Equally well-funded community colleges supplied a plethora of manufacturers 
with a skilled work force...
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1034544781620310876,00.html?mod=economy%5Fsecondary%5Fstories%5Fhs
(Note: The Wall Street Journal requires a subscription to access articles.)

College endowments lose billions in market squeeze
Boston Globe 
A grim financial picture confronts college and university trustees returning to campuses for their fall meetings as the 
bear market has shrunk endowments by billions of dollars, putting pressure on administrators to cut salaries, 
budgets, and financial aid...
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/286/nation/College_endowments_lose_billions_in_market_squeeze+.shtml

Winmore fits high-density growth model (Editorial)
Chapel Hill News
In theory, planners and a good many regular folk seem to accept that if we are to curb the urban sprawl that 
threatens to turn every inch of woods and meadow in our county into large, landscaped lawns with big houses, 
we must turn to developments that put a lot of people in a small amount of space and leave the area around it in 
its natural state...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/1806611p-1806914c.html

Critics have their say about Winmore
Chapel Hill News
Residents lined up to rail against the proposed Winmore development Wednesday night, arguing that it is too 
dense to put near Bolin Creek and will create traffic headaches and school overcrowding...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/1806668p-1806998c.html

Developers, residents square off over Winmore
Chapel Hill News
Carrboro's Sept. 24 decision to annex the proposed Winmore property may have taken some of the wind out of 
tonight's joint public hearing on the development plan, but that doesn't appear to have dissuaded many people 
from planning to attend...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/1794668p-1799949c.html

Police action quieting student rentals 
The Herald-Sun
A case in a north Chapel Hill neighborhood suggests that police are trying to take a stronger hand in dealing 
with nuisance complaints associated with student rentals..
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-276402.html

UNC: Site cleanup could take 8 years 
The Herald-Sun
The cleanup of a chemical dump on UNC’s Horace Williams property is likely to take eight years, not counting 
the time officials spent overcoming regulatory hurdles, Chancellor James Moeser says.
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-276635.html

Town wants university to move on waste site
Chapel Hill News
The Town of Chapel Hill plans to set up a 19-member citizens advisory committee to help advise the Town 
Council and keep citizens informed about university development of the Horace Williams property...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/1794653p-1799937c.html

OWASA authorizes water purchases
Chapel Hill News
The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will begin buying water from Durham as early as this week to build up 
a "bank account" of water against further drought-related shortages...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/1806660p-1806944c.html

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