October 30, 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:

Lax media let legislators hide ties (Opinion-Editorial Column)
USA Today 
Your local newspaper isn't going to tell you much about this, but the most important elections next week won't 
be the ones that decide control of the U.S. Senate or House. The real action is in the state legislatures...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2002-10-30-oped-meyer_x.htm
(Note: Philip Meyer holds the Knight Chair in Journalism at the School of Journalism and Mass 
Communication.)

Isolation is a thorn for minority faculty
Austin American-Statesman
At the University of Texas, students interested in Latina feminism rely on Lisa Sánchez González. Sánchez, an 
assistant professor of English, teaches "Latina Narrative," an advanced alternative course whose readings 
include progressive Hispanic authors such as Ana Lydia Vega and Angie Cruz instead of Chaucer, Homer or 
Shakespeare... At UT, minorities made up about 15 percent of the university's 2,653 faculty in 2001. That is 
consistent with figures at similar institutions such as the University of North Carolina, which has about 13 
percent minority faculty, and the University of Michigan, with 18 percent...
http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/tuesday/news_3.html

GOP lobbies Bush to visit Iowa
Des Moines Register
Iowa Republicans know how important a last-minute campaign appearance by the president can be. They 
learned the hard way when President Clinton campaigned for Sen. Tom Harkin in 1996... Ganske and 
Republicans running in Iowa's four competitive U.S. House races would benefit from a visit by Bush, who is 
extremely popular according to most national polls, said University of North Carolina political science 
professor James Stimson....
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/19578239.html

Regional Coverage

Former director of National Endowment for the Humanities to speak at A&M
The Byron-College Station (Texas) Eagle
A former director of the National Endowment for the Humanities will lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday at Texas A&M 
University. William Ferris, NEH director from 1997 to 2001, will speak on “Memory, Sense of Place, and the 
Humanities” in Room 206 of the Memorial Student Center... Ferris is a professor of history and an associate 
director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill. The center examines the history, culture and development of the South and encourages a public dialogue 
on issues affecting the region...
http://www.theeagle.com/aandmnews/103002lecture.htm

State and Local Coverage

Averting a killer 
News and Observer 
As early as December, about 10,000 people on the front lines of disease in North Carolina might be asked to 
roll up their sleeves and take 15 quick jabs of a two-headed needle for an inoculation against smallpox -- a 
scourge that has not infected a soul in 22 years... "The strategy is to have health-care workers immunized so 
they are protected and able to do their jobs, which is caring for the rest of us, should the unfortunate and tragic 
event unfold of a widespread outbreak," said William L. Roper, dean of the School of Public Health at 
UNC-Chapel Hill...
http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/1874106p-1863973c.html

UNC School of Public Health gets $4M grant
Business Journal
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health has received a $4 million grant 
from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a N.C. Center for Birth Defects Research 
and Prevention... Dr. Andrew Olshan, professor of epidemiology, is the principal investigator... Dr. David 
Savitz, professor and chairman of UNC's department of epidemiology, and Dr. Art Aylsworth, chief of 
the division of genetics and metabolism in the department of pediatrics at UNC's School of Medicine, 
are co-investigators...
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2002/10/28/daily23.html
(Note: This coverage was the result of a UNC news release 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/newcenter102902.html)

Night at the Apollo ‘was a blast’
Chapel Hill News
UNC freshman Erin White is no stranger to show business... But none of White’s experiences compare to
performing as part of Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater on Tour. She was one of 12 acts that performed 
in Carmichael Auditorium Friday night as part of the 32-city tour...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/snapshots/story/1874369p-1864189c.html

North Carolina's unsolved mystery (Book Review)
News and Observer
The sea has its own secrets. What happened aboard the Carroll A. Deering off Cape Hatteras in early 1921 
remains unsolved to this day. The story has been vividly re-created in a new book by Bland Simpson, 
acknowledged grandmaster of the life and lore of Eastern North Carolina in print and musicals... 
http://newsobserver.com/features/story/1864281p-1858184c.html
(Note: Simpson is an assistant professor of English and director of UNC’s creative writing program. UNC's 
news release on Simpson's book is at http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/simpson092402.htm)

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

International Team Begins New Map of Human Genome, Seeking Variations Within Large Blocks of DNA
The Chronicle of Higher Education
An international consortium of government, academic, and commercial researchers announced Tuesday that it 
was beginning a three-year, $100-million effort to build the next-generation map of the human genome. The so-
called haplotype map, nicknamed "the HapMap," will concentrate on variation among people, which scientists 
say should help predict an individual's genetic susceptibility to diseases...
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002103001n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

Gene-Mappers Take New Aim at Diseases
The New York Times
A $100 million project to develop a new kind of map of the human genome was announced today by an 
international consortium. Its goal is to hasten discovery of the variant genes thought to underlie common human 
diseases like diabetes, asthma and cancer...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/health/30GENO.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles.)

Record rainfall restores reservoirs
Chapel Hill News
For most intents and purposes, the cold, wet weather the last few days has been miserable. But officials and 
staff at Orange Water and Sewer Authority have been basking in it...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/1872674p-1862770c.html

Chapel Hill police set rules for safe Halloween 
The Herald-Sun
If you’re heading to Chapel Hill for Halloween, forget about bringing a bottle of beer, your chainsaw, your fake 
gun or spray paint can... Although Chapel Hill’s downtown Halloween event Thursday night is not an officially
town-sanctioned event, there are rules, many rules, that people must follow in order to get past the barriers that
mark that golden zone on Halloween night known as "Downtown Chapel Hill."..
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-282343.html

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