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October 28, 2002
Carolina in the News
The Carolina connections of two alumni have been prominently cited in the national, regional and state
media in recent days -- the late Senator Paul Wellstone, who died Friday, in a plane crash, and
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, who led the Washington, D.C., area sniper investigation.
News Services has supplied information or photos for a number of those stories, some of which are highlighted
below.
An Unapologetic Liberal
The Washington Post
Sen. Paul D. Wellstone (D-Minn.), who died yesterday in a plane crash in the middle of a tough
reelection campaign, was a leading champion of liberal causes in the "happy warrior" tradition of Minnesota
Democratic politics... After public school in Arlington, Wellstone attended the
University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned a PhD in political science while participating in a variety of causes that
would later mark his political career, including civil rights and poverty issues...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19727-2002Oct25.html
Other coverage highlighting Wellstone's years at Carolina includes:
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/25/national/25CND-MAN.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/26/obituaries/26WELL.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/25/politics/25CND-CRASH.html
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-10-27-wellstone-usat_x.htm,
The Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-wellstone26oct26.story,
The Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0210260199oct26.story
(Note: The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune require free registration
to access articles. Additional coverage includes: New York Daily News, St. Paul Pioneer Press, St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, The Orlando Sentinel, The Chronicle of Higher Education and
Grand Forks Herald
(North Dakota))
Other state coverage highlighting Wellstone's connection with Carolina includes:
A conscience to remember (Editorial)
News and Observer
Paul Wellstone was a diminutive dynamo, an unapologetic liberal, an eloquent voice for the disadvantaged
and a United States senator in the mold of, appropriately enough, Hubert Humphrey... Paul Wellstone had
strong connections to North Carolina. He received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in political science
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where he was also a star wrestler)...
http://www.newsobserver.com/editorials/story/1865588p-1859661c.html
Wellstone fought for the little guy (Commentary)
The Herald-Sun
Some people get into politics for all the wrong reasons. U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone was most certainly not
one of those people. Wellstone, the populist Minnesota public servant who perished in a plane crash Friday,
believed politics could be the art of helping people. Pure and simple... Wellstone had been a grand athlete
in college, a championship wrestler at UNC. He managed to mention Chapel Hill nearly every time I saw
him...
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/columnists/gaspo/
He was a rare person in politics (Commentary)
Charlotte Observer
Not long ago, Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was preaching to his choir -- a full house of college
Democrats... He was also a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/4372770.htm
Wellstone dies in crash
News and Observer
Paul Wellstone, who was in a close re-election fight that could help determine control of the U.S. Senate,
was killed Friday in a fiery plane crash in Minnesota along with his wife and daughter, three campaign staffers
and two pilots. An outspoken liberal Democrat who taught political science before going to the Senate in
1990, Wellstone had sharpened his political sensibilities at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he earned undergraduate
and doctoral degrees during the 1960s...
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1860488p-1856115c.html
Even Helms became a friend
Charlotte Observer
The animosity between Sen. Paul Wellstone and his political nemesis, Sen. Jesse Helms, began when Wellstone
was a UNC Chapel Hill student listening to Helms' conservative editorials on WRAL-TV...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/4372781.htm
UNC helped define Wellstone's outlook
The Herald-Sun
As a UNC student in the 1960s, Paul Wellstone no doubt got caught up in the progressive movements
sweeping many college campuses at the time. Between the civil rights movement, anti-Vietnam war sentiment
and the still-fresh wounds of the Speaker Ban at Carolina, students were becoming more and more aware of
social issues. Perhaps his experience at UNC, both as an undergraduate and doctoral student, helped shape
the man considered one of the most liberal members of the U.S. Senate... "He was first generation born of
Russian immigrants," recalled Thad Beyle, a longtime UNC political science professor who served on
Wellstone’s dissertation committee...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-281101.html
A UNC News Services backgrounder -- representing joint efforts involving athletics, political science faculty,
the General Alumni Association and others -- about Wellstone's UNC ties is at:
http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2002/wellstone102502.htm
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The Challenge of a Career Ends in Success for Moose
The New York Times
On the morning that it became apparent a skilled marksman was on the loose, Charles A.
Moose, the police
chief of Montgomery County, Md., was putting on his dress uniform to attend an officer's funeral... As a college
student at the University of North Carolina in the early 1970's, Mr. Moose studied political science under
Reuben M. Greenberg, now the Charleston, S.C., chief of police...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/national/nationalspecial/27MOOS.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles.)
Story 'Not About Me,' Reserved Moose Says
The Washington Post
As the public point man in the investigation into the deadly sniper attacks, Montgomery County Police Chief
Charles A. Moose has been the sympathetic top cop reassuring the public, the combative official accusing the
media of compromising the probe and the emotional father figure urging residents to spend more time with their
children... He attended segregated schools through sixth grade and graduated with a bachelor's degree in U.S.
history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28524-2002Oct27.html
Sniper tracker wrestled at UNC
The Herald-Sun
Bill Lam first came to know Charles Moose and his fellow wrestlers at UNC the way many new collegiate
coaches meet their players. He ran them to exhaustion. Lam, a new wrestling coach at Carolina during the 1973-
74 season, had eight returning wrestlers...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-281316.html
Other coverage noting Moose's Carolina background includes the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/monday/metro_d3cbcdfe1768f0d7007c.html,
The Houston
Chronicle (no online link available at this time) and New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/10-25-2002/news/crime_file/story/29993p-28455c.html
Other National Coverage
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the national media:
Be true to your school? The pressure is on to pick a college NOW
New Jersey Star-Ledger
On the first Friday in October, it appeared that roughly half of Newark Academy's senior class would apply to
college early... The difference between these two high school experiences hints at some of the concerns about
Early Decision. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently abolished Early Decision because it found
the process attracted mostly financially secure students from high schools with savvy guidance departments...
http://www.nj.com/living/ledger/index.ssf?/base/living-0/1035726492225670.xml
NAFTA proves bittersweet for U.S.
Houston Chronicle
In the quiet mill towns of North Carolina, everybody knows which factories shut down to go to Mexico and
which politicians supported the North American Free Trade Agreement... "North Carolina is a state with one
foot in the old economy and one foot in the new, and the turf under the old economy is getting shaky," concludes
Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program in Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at the University of
North Carolina...
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory2/1633917
(Note: Guillory also was interviewed in Chapel Hill last week by ABC-TV
for upcoming election stories
expected to air Thursday night.)
Thousands March in Washington Against Going to War in Iraq
The New York Times
Thousands of protesters marched through Washington's streets, chanting and waving banners against possible
military action against Iraq. The rally was one of several held in American and foreign cities today... Among
them was Liz Mason-Deese, a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, who has sold $20
bus tickets in front of the student union and handed out antiwar flyers at college football games to get more
students to pay attention to the issue...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/politics/27PROT.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles.)
Ring out the old, ring in the new
CBS.MarketWatch.com
James F. Smith is one of the most prescient and accurate economic forecasters in the world -- and he's increasingly
optimistic about the U.S economy lately. Smith produces the University of North Carolina's Business Forecast
and recently became chief economist of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. As the New York Times
wrote, "James Smith has made some of the most accurate economic forecasts of anyone, anywhere in the last six
quarters."...
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B46E0906D-841C-4C33-A7F2-1A1F962CAE6C%7D&siteid=mktw
National News Note
The October 14 and 21, 2002, issue of The New Yorker magazine featured a story about
Otto Juan Reich, the
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Reich is a 1966 graduate of
Carolina, which was
cited in the article. This article is not available online.
State and Local Coverage
Modernizing Morehead
News and Observer
When UNC-Chapel Hill chemist Holden Thorp volunteered to help reinvent the dated Morehead Planetarium two
years ago, the job looked easier than it does today... So far, he and Jennifer Lamb, Morehead's campaign
director, have had the most luck stirring interest in scholarships for public-school field trips to Morehead...
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1865762p-1859574c.html
Black alumni reunion marks UNC-CH's strides (Question and Answer)
News and Observer
African-Americans first enrolled at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1951. A year later, Harvey Beech became the first African-
American student to receive a degree from the country's oldest public university. This fall, 2,569 black students are
enrolled at the Chapel Hill campus, accounting for almost 10 percent of the student population. At the annual Black
Alumni Reunion this weekend, Archie Wilson Ervin, assistant to the chancellor and director of the UNC-CH Office
of Minority Affairs, will be honored for leadership, dedication, innovation and advancement of academic excellence...
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1865768p-1859555c.html
Domestic orders need to include child-custody issues (Question and Answer)
News and Observer, Q Section
THE N&O: What legal protections are available to domestic violence victims in North Carolina?
DEBORAH M. WEISSMAN: There are a range of legal interventions, some criminal, some civil...
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/q/story/1863974p-1858232c.html
(Note: Deborah M. Weissman is associate professor and director of clinical programs for the UNC School of
Law.)
Focus on insurance missing
Charlotte Observer
Pearlie Rae Burris, 55, is an Albemarle woman with a history of brain tumors. As a result, she's taken to watching
a lot of political advertisements. The former teacher remains sharp and witty. But medical bills sensitized her to the
costs and inadequacies of health insurance... Bowles and other Democrats seem to fear that if they bring up large-
scale health-care reform, they will be tied to the failed Clinton health plan, said
Dr. Jonathan Oberlander, an
assistant professor of social medicine at the UNC Chapel Hill Medical
School...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/business/4372857.htm
Justice disputes commission's authority to admonish
News and Observer
Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr, a Republican running for re-election, has consistently refused to say whether the
Judicial Standards Commission secretly admonished him last month after Democrats complained about political
remarks he made at a June GOP fund-raiser... "I don't think anything will take place in my case. I've done nothing
wrong," Hunter said at the forum at the UNC-Chapel Hill law school...
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/1865692p-1859669c.html
Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina
After Demurring, U. of Washington Chief Accepts Presidency of Rutgers U.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Rutgers University named Richard L. McCormick, president of the University of Washington, as its new president
on Friday, a month after Mr. McCormick withdrew from contention for the job and two weeks after the university
suspended the search and appointed an interim chief... Mr. McCormick, who was executive vice chancellor and
provost at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before becoming Washington's president, will officially
take the reins at Rutgers on December 1.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002102806n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)
Rutgers Names President as Changes Are Weighed
The New York Times
Rutgers University today named a new president: Richard L. McCormick, the president of the University of
Washington and a native son with deep professional and family roots on campus here...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/26/education/26RUTG.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles. Other coverage highlighting
McCormick's Carolina connection known to date include The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Newark (N.J.)
Star-Ledger and The Bergen County (N.J.) Record.)
Strong UNC voice (Editorial)
News and Observer
With two big campuses building political action committees and others scrambling to make cases for their needs
in the General Assembly, the University of North Carolina system Board of Governors is to consider a limit on
just how much lobbying those campuses can do on Jones Street. It's a move that's overdue and desperately
needed...
http://www.newsobserver.com/editorials/story/1865587p-1859644c.html
Professor questions academic freedom
The Herald-Sun
Far from deserving praise, many American universities ought to be taken to task for two-faced and subjective
defenses of academic freedom, a University of Pennsylvania scholar said at a higher education seminar Saturday...
On a panel with local luminaries UNC President emeritus William Friday and Duke law professor William Van
Alstyne, Kors charged that many institutions have vocally supported academic freedom issues since the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks that conflict with actions in prior years... The one-hour discussion featured barely a mention of the
latest academic freedom dust-up in the UNC system, this summer’s controversy
over UNC’s summer reading
requirement that incoming students read a book about the Quran, the Islamic holy text...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-281322.html
Duke’s new gene pool (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun
With the appointment of Huntington Willard as director, Duke University’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
is poised to take its place among the world’s leading genetics research centers. That is clearly what Duke has in mind
for the 2-year-old institute... Along with the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences at UNC Chapel
Hill, the Duke
Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy gives the Research Triangle a firm base for genetics research as well as
for advanced study of the ethical issues associated with using that knowledge in medicine...
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/hsedits/56-280969.html
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