October 15, 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:

Institute of Medicine Announces 65 New Members
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academies, announced the election 
of 65 new members on Monday, raising the total active membership to 1,358. In 
addition, five people were elected as foreign associate members, bringing the total 
members in that category to 66... Luis A. Diaz, C.E. Wheeler Jr. distinguished 
professor and chairman of dermatology, School of Medicine, University of 
North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002101503n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

Do Amber Alerts Put Drivers in Jeopardy?
The Los Angeles Times
Some say the signs create unsafe situations, but others say the potential good is worth 
the risks... A 2001 study by the University of North Carolina found that objects and 
events outside the car were the leading causes of distraction-related accidents, far 
surpassing cell phones, smoking and radios....
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wheel15oct15.story?null

Harmon Has His Way With Words
United Press International
There's an old saying that if you know all the rules you have license to break them once 
in a while, and few people are going to challenge William Harmon when he decides to 
do so by making up a word or two. The humanities professor at the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill is poet, with a bona fide poetic license to do whatever he wants 
with words. ...
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021014-010830-9087r
(Note: This coverage was the result of a UNC news release
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/harmon101102.htm)

Rumors of Niyazov's Ill Health Symptomatic of a Closed Society
EurasiaNet
Turkmenistan’s State Information Service recently interviewed German cardiologist Hans 
Meisner and some of his colleagues about the health of President Niyazov. The German 
doctors are currently visiting Ashgabat... Steve Sabolis assistant professor of history at 
the University of North Carolina and an expert on Turkmenistan. Sabol said that, if the 
reports are true, Niyazov’s reluctance to leave the country could be due to his fear of a 
coup during his absence.In Sabol’s opinion, Niyazov’s recent government reshuffling could
have added to this fear...
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav101302.shtml

Colleges find classes filling with more students 
Sioux Falls (South Dakota) Argus Leader
When Laura Eiesland enrolled at the University of Sioux Falls, she expected to take the
two religion classes required of her and no more... Professor Christian Smith of the 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has seen an increase in enrollment, although 
he is not sure why...
http://www.argusleader.com/life/Sundayfeature.shtml
(Note: This national Associated Press story was also featured in The Providence
(R.I.) Journal, The Orlando Sentinel and The News and Observer, among other newspapers.)

National News Note

Timothy McKeown, associate professor of political science, was interviewed by phone 
Monday afternoon on CKNW (broadcasted on 980 AM and 96.7 FM in Vancouver, 
B.C.) about his research about the Cuban missile crisis. This coverage was due to 
UNC News Services pitching efforts. 

Regional Coverage

Income in corporate reports never gets to IRS
Knoxville News-Sentinel
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 Shackelford, an accounting professor 
at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School...
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/business/article/0,1406,KNS_376_1475909,00.html

State and Local Coverage

Investing in UNC (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
UNC supporters around the world should start digging deep into their pockets. Officials 
with the Carolina First Campaign announced Friday that they plan to raise $1.8 billion 
during an eight-year campaign, started more than three years ago...
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/10/15/3dac0a30aeea5

UNC kicks off $1.8B private funds drive 
Chapel Hill Herald 
Organizers of UNC's Carolina First capital campaign threw together a potent party Friday, 
mixing a pep rally with a little historical theater to announce its fund-raising goal. Over the 
next five years, UNC hopes to raise $1.8 billion in private funds, a lofty but attainable goal 
set in recent weeks after members of the campaign's steering committee decided the original 
goal of $1.5 billion was too low...
http://www.herald-sun.com/archives/URNDetail.cfm?URN=0401715434
(Note: This Herald-Sun story, not available in the paper's archives until today, was the basis 
of an Associated Press story distributed from the Raleigh Bureau over the weekend. The 
Herald-Sun require free registration to access archives.)

UNC-CH PAC Yet To Donate Any Funds
The Daily Tar Heel 
Citizens for Higher Education, a recently formed political action committee acting in the interest 
of UNC-Chapel Hill, has raised more than $200,000 to help influence state elections but has 
yet to donate to any campaigns...
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/10/15/3dac0bf0a24cc

Smart rivalries (Editorial)
News and Observer
North Carolina wouldn't be North Carolina if college sports fans whose blood runs light blue 
didn't disdain their Wolfpack cousins or if Blue Devil partisans didn't turn, well, blue, at the 
thought of losing a basketball game to the school on the Hill... An N&O story on Saturday 
detailed some of the schools' collaborative efforts. Among others, they include cooperative 
hiring practices, a Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in peace and conflict 
resolution, Chapel Hill's financial partnership in an N.C. State program for making a new
generation of microchips, and joint biomedical research by Carolina, Duke and N.C. Central... 
It no doubt helps these days that Chancellor James Moeser of UNC-CH, Chancellor Marye 
Anne Fox of N.C. State, and President Nan Keohane of Duke have developed close 
professional relationships...
http://www.newsobserver.com/editorials/story/1815437p-1815269c.html

Funds for UNC raises spark debate 
The Herald-Sun
When UNC pushed through a controversial plan to increase tuition to raise money for faculty 
raises, it was widely believed the money would be spread evenly among the campus faculty... 
"The bottom line is, there isn’t enough money to reward people who have done a fabulous job 
this year," said Sue Estroff, chairwoman of the UNC faculty... With little excess cash flow and 
with competing universities looking to steal faculty away, merit raises are the best way to help 
fight off the advances of other institutions, Provost Robert Shelton said last week at a meeting 
of UNC’s Faculty Council... Representatives of the university’s 6,500 rank-and-file staff have
in recent years also lobbied for more competitive salaries and larger raises, and UNC Chancellor
James Moeser said recently that fair raises for staff will be a top university priority this year...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-277009.html

University Day turnout high after participation pleas 
The Herald-Sun
Sue Estroff was never so happy to buy a colleague a soda. Estroff, UNC’s faculty council 
chairwoman, happily lost a wager Saturday, having bet university marshal Ron Hyatt that turnout 
for the faculty processional at University Day would be sparse... The turnout came following a 
couple of months of good-natured but serious urging by Estroff, Hyatt, UNC Chancellor James 
Moeser and others that members of the faculty take the institution’s academic traditions more
seriously...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-277029.html

Quran lawsuit an attack on freedom (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun
If all the Virginia-based Family Policy Network wanted from the revival of its so-called "Quran
lawsuit" against UNC was more publicity, the move wouldn’t merit further comment. Unfortunately, 
it’s not. Judged by its own rhetoric, the group is quite serious about wanting to relegate public 
universities like UNC to the sidelines of any serious discussion about the humanities...
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/chhedits/57-277039.html

Faculty beliefs aren’t above criticism (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun
Until Friday, Chancellor James Moeser had scarcely taken a wrong step as the criticism came in 
about UNC’s involvement in a host of issues related to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. 
Whether it was defending the summer reading program’s assignment of a book about the Quran, 
or his signing a pledge against campus anti-Semitism when leaders of other Triangle schools did not, 
the chancellor’s instincts have been sound...
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/chhedits/57-277040.html

UNC attorney resigns
Chapel Hill Herald 
Susan Ehringhaus, who for the last 29 years has served as UNC's senior attorney, is leaving 
the university. Ehringhaus has accepted a joint assignment with the Association of American 
Medical Colleges and the Association of American Universities and will work with those 
groups on university research, health law and public policy. 
http://www.herald-sun.com/archives/URNDetail.cfm?URN=0401715433
(Note: The Herald-Sun require free registration to access archives.)

ROAD WORRIER: Freeway plan is a 'nonstarter' 
News and Observer
... Safety workers will be targeting four crosswalks on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill today as 
part of a continuing campaign to stop crashes among cars, bikes and walkers. Volunteers will 
distribute fliers on South Road near the Bell Tower, Pittsboro Street near the State Employees' 
Credit Union, Ridge Road by the George Watts Hill Alumni Center and Manning Drive by the 
School of Dentistry...
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1815634p-1815304c.html
(Note: This coverage was the result of a UNC News release
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/yieldheels101402.htm
To view this brief, please go to the above url and scroll down the web page.)

The perfect pitch 
News and Observer
The clock started ticking when Nadine Carozzi strolled onto the stage and faced a stony-faced 
audience of nearly 100 venture capitalists... Fu and Carozzi were among 16 female entrepreneurs 
selected to present their companies to venture capitalists at the Springboard Southeast 2002 forum. 
The event was held last month at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://www.news-observer.com/business/rtp_nc/story/1812132p-1810805c.html

UNC archaeologist and team uncover lost city 
The Herald-Sun 
Through painstaking excavations in sweltering heat this summer, UNC classical archaeologist 
Donald C. Haggis and a team of researchers, including graduate and undergraduate students, 
discovered a lost city near the northeast coast of Crete dating back to the 6th century B.C...
http://www.herald-sun.com/archives/URNDetail.cfm?URN=0401715547
(Note: This coverage was the result of a UNC news release
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep02/haggis091002.htm. The Herald-Sun require free 
registration to access archives.)

Black women: is their heroic image negative? (Book Review)
Charlotte Observer
From the title of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Prof Trudier Harris-Lopez's new 
book, "Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women In African American Literature," I expected
that it would be a volume of unrestrained praise of heroic black women in fiction. I thought the author 
would pour out her admiration for these women who had overcome oppression and held their families, 
churches, and communities together...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/4279605.htm

Griffith returns to hometown that's much like Mayberry
Charlotte Observer
The Mount Airy of Andy Griffith's boyhood wasn't exactly Mayberry. But in that Surry County town 
in the Blue Ridge foothills were many treasures for an imaginative boy with little interest in school and 
an unconquerable yearning to entertain... "Because of Andy's television work ... people everywhere 
got to view life as it was in this region of the country -- its simplicity, its honesty," said William Friday, 
University of North Carolina system president emeritus, who plans to be at the ceremony with 
wife Ida...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/4274146.htm

It's never too late to learn 
News and Observer
Every fall, Zelda Lipman, 76, packs up everything she needs for her four months in college. Lipman 
makes sure she has plenty of clothes and notebooks to last through the semester, as well as the photos 
of her family and friends... Dan Pollitt, who teaches a law class called "Free Speech" at DILR, agreed. 
"It's a wonderful opportunity for retired people to keep their minds sharp and learn about things that 
interest them. It's not like traditional students who take courses whether they want to or not," said 
Pollitt, an 81-year-old retired law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1808168p-1808416c.html

Issues and Trends

What to do when 'outstanding' is average
Christian Science Monitor
Remember when the ideal college candidate had good grades, and was high school president and 
captain of the football team? Today, you might be better off collecting Civil War figurines or starting 
your own cricket league. When it comes to applying to the nation's top colleges, being well rounded 
may be becoming passé, say school guidance counselors and private admissions consultants...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1008/p13s01-lehl.html

Schedule is unclear for dump cleanup 
News and Observer
The cleanup of a chemical dump on property owned by UNC-Chapel Hill will take eight years and cost 
up to $20 million, officials agree. But it's not clear when the countdown will begin or where the money 
will come from...
http://newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/1815577p-1815228c.html

OWASA to review supply, water restrictions 
The Herald-Sun
Last week’s rains dramatically improved the Orange Water and Sewer Authority’s supply picture, but 
system managers weren’t in any hurry Monday to lift water-use restrictions...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-277016.html

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