October 25, 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:

African-Americans grapple with race of sniper suspects
Baltimore Sun 
In the African-American community, the good news came first and the bad news a half-beat later. "Did you 
hear?" huddled office workers and shocked e-mail buddies said to one another: They think they caught the 
sniper ... and he's black... Chuck Stone, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina, said 
race isn't an issue when a white man commits a heinous crime...
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-te.md.concern25oct25.story
(Note: This story also appeared in today's Chicago Tribune. The Baltimore Sun requires free registration 
to access articles.)

Great pitches fly in the face of science 
San Francisco Chronicle
Barry Bonds and the rest of the Giants lineup aren't the only ones struggling to solve Anaheim's pitching staff... 
John M. Silva, a professor of sports psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who 
pitched for his college team at the University of Connecticut, said pitching is akin to being a quarterback or 
placekicker in football...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/25/SP22058.DTL

Burrell key medication testing site
The Springfield (Mo.) News Leader
Burrell Behavioral Health is part of a nationwide program that could help millions of people who suffer from 
schizophrenia... Burrell is one of 50 sites around the country participating in the CATIE project. The 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine is overseeing the project and the $60 million 
contract from the National Institute of Mental Health. By becoming part of this first of its kind study, Burrell
is likely to “have the opportunity to participate in future studies,” said Jeffrey Lieberman, principal investigator 
in the project and a leader in the field of psychiatry and schizophrenia. He is a professor of psychiatry, 
pharmacology and radiology at the UNC School of Medicine...
http://news.ozarksnow.com/news/burrell102502.html
(Note: For more information about the CATIE project and UNC, please visit 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/contecenter102202.htm)

National News Note

Montgomery County Police Chief and 1975 UNC graduate Charles Moose is featured in the "In the Spotlight" 
column of the Nov. 4th issue of People magazine. This issue is on newsstands now. No online 
links are available. 

Current Regional Coverage

N.C. project could help blue crab industry
The Virginian-Pilot
Tucked away in a makeshift hatchery in the back of the North Carolina Aquarium, conservation and research 
coordinator Joanne Harcke has been working for almost a year to reproduce the optimum living environment 
for the larvae of blue crabs. Not far away, North Carolina State University Associate Professor David 
Eggleston is searching for ways to introduce wild blue-crab larvae into underused nursery areas of the 
Albemarle and Currituck sounds... Staci Shaut, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 
assisted Harcke in the study...
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw1025cra.html

State and Local Coverage

East Burke science students experience DESTINY
The Morganton News Herald
East Burke High School student Melanie Jones concentrates on an experiment she's conducting while inside 
the DESTINY bus, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's traveling science laboratory. DESTINY 
stands Delivering Edge-cutting Science, Technology and Internet across North Carolina for Years to come...
http://www.morganton.com/news/MGBDBE2IP7D.html
(Note: The copy above is part of a long caption published with a color photo.)

Tar Heel victim of Bali blast on mend 
News and Observer
David Creecy, the Kill Devil Hills resident who was burned in a terrorist bombing in Bali earlier this month, is 
recovering better than might be expected, his doctor said Thursday... Although he has second-degree burns 
over 60 percent of his body, Creecy stood up by himself next to his hospital bed Wednesday, said Dr. Michael 
Peck, director of the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals, who is overseeing Creecy's recovery. 
"Just standing up on his own two feet is a huge accomplishment for him right now," Peck said Thursday at a 
morning news conference at UNC Hospitals...
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1858426p-1854078c.html
(Note: This coverage resulted from a UNC Hospitals news conference held Thursday. Other media outlets 
attending the conference and featuring stories about Creecy include The Herald-Sun 
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-280668.html, The Daily Tar Heel 
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/10/25/3db936bc55260, News 14 Carolina 
(Time-Warner, Raleigh) http://rdu.news14.com/content/top_stories/?ArID=16921, WRAL-TV (CBS, 
Raleigh) http://www.wral.com/news/1738772/detail.html, WTVD-TV (ABC, Raleigh) 
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/news/102402_NW_creecy.html, WVEC-TV (ABC, Norfolk, Va.), The 
Virginian-Pilot http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw1025cre.html. The twice-weekly publication Outer 
Banks Sentinel will feature a story in the next edition.)

It's showtime! (Cover Story)
"What's Up" Section, News and Observer
C.P. Lacey has a grim job, as the ruthless "executioner" of failed entertainers at Apollo Theater's amateur night. 
It's his duty to chase performers off the stage at the legendary Harlem theater, if the audience boos loudly enough...
Thirteen North Carolina acts will prove their mettle tonight as Apollo Amateur Night on Tour comes to the 
Carmichael Auditorium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The 13, seven of whom are from the 
Triangle, were chosen from an audition last month that drew 150 hopefuls...
http://newsobserver.com/features/story/1858309p-1853959c.html
(Note: A related story appeared in The Herald-Sun
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-280672.html)

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Study highlights flaws in reporting of campus sexual abuse
Christian Science Monitor
Most American institutions of higher education don't fully report sexual crime statistics as required by federal 
law, a study sponsored by the Justice Department has found...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1022/p12s02-lehl.html

N&O taps managing editor 
News and Observer
John Drescher, a journalist with 19 years' experience as a reporter and editor at newspapers in the Carolinas, 
was appointed Thursday as The News & Observer's Managing Editor... Drescher earned a bachelor's degree 
in journalism in 1983 at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was editor of the student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel...
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1858420p-1854067c.html

Guarding University Interests (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
Earlier this month, a UNC-system Board of Governors committee decided to limit the amount of time that 
campus-to-legislature liaisons -- bureaucratese for lobbyists -- can spend working the halls in the N.C. General 
Assembly. The BOG committee thus made it all the more difficult to promote the interests of both the UNC 
system and its predominant universities....
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/10/25/3db93c98906c3

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