October 4, 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:

Building a B-School from Scratch
Business Week Magazine 
San Diego is no doubt a place where MBA students one day hope to retire... Then, on Oct. 2, the newly 
formed B-school at the University of California at San Diego countered with a major hire of its own: It 
tapped Robert Sullivan, now the B-school dean at the highly regarded University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School, to get its new school off the ground. He'll take over at 
UCSD on Jan. 1. Sullivan is a veteran who has proven he can make a difference...
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/oct2002/bs2002103_1877.htm
(Note: For more information, please see 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/moeser_statement100302.htm)

Home Injuries Rising, Often Deadly
WebMD
Home may be a place to escape the dangers of the outside world, but a new report shows dangers abound 
on the home front as well -- causing as many as 20,000 deaths, 7 million disabling injuries, and 20 million 
hospital trips in the U.S. each year... "Falls are by far the major problem, followed by poisonings," says 
Carol Runyan, PhD, MPH, director of the injury prevention research center at the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1738.55741
(Note: This coverage resulted from a UNC news release
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep02/runyan092602.htm)

Islam expert says Quran distorted 
Daily Hampshire (Mass.) Gazette
The version of Islam endorsed by the Taliban and Osama bin Laden is an extreme view of the Quran's 
teachings alien to most Muslims, an American authority on Islam told a mostly student audience Wednesday 
afternoon at Amherst College. Michael Sells, whose book on the Muslim holy book recently caused an 
uproar at the University of North Carolina, said the idea of American college students reading an Islamic 
religious text was upsetting to conservative Christians...
http://www.gazettenet.com/10032002/five_col/538.htm

National News Notes

Kevin Guskiewicz, research director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes, was among sources 
featured in a brief story airing Tuesday on ABC's "World News Tonight" about the health problems of 
retired professional football players. The story focused in part on the death of Hall of Fame center Mike 
Webster at age 50. News Services has promoted the work of the UNC center on an ongoing basis.

William R. Ferris, professor of history and associate director of the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill’s Center for the Study of the American South, was interviewed about B.B. King for National 
Public Radio's "Morning Edition" for a story expected to air next week. Ferris was also interviewed for
NPR's "Weekend Edition" in the WUNC-FM studios in Chapel Hill for an upcoming series on the recordings 
of James Son Thomas. No air date has been set for that series.

Regional Coverage

'04 hopefuls gather in Iowa
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt's decision this week to back President Bush's Iraq resolution is 
evidence that the presidential campaign of 2004 has started, some observers say... Gore, as a senator from 
Tennessee, angered his party leaders by supporting the 1991 Gulf War resolution. But by criticizing the 
current war effort so publicly, he cleared the way for other Democrats to speak out, said Ferrel Guillory, 
director of the Program on Southern Politics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/news_d3d96243721f32ff00f4.html

Admissions procedures changed 
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Mary Washington College is scrapping its early-decision admissions option next fall, saying the binding 
program pressures students to lock into a choice before some are ready... Nationally, a handful of schools, 
including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have dropped binding early-decision programs in 
recent months....
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/more/MGBE1891U6D.html

Religious teens better behaved, study suggests 
Naples (Fla.) Daily News
Religious teens show a host of beneficial behaviors lacking in their peers, from fewer traffic tickets to less 
drug use, a new study shows. "For some people this will be intuitively obvious ... but it's good to have 
empirical data," said study director Christian Smith at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
http://www.naplesnews.com/02/09/naples/a6259a.htm
(Note: This coverage was the result of a UNC news release
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep02/smithcr091702.htm. Other coverage known to date 
includes WebMD and The (Corvallis, Ore.) Gazette-Times.)

State and Local Coverage

UNC tries to tighten faucets on campus 
The Herald-Sun
UNC is embarking on a campus conservation campaign as it tries to cut water use by 25 percent. Tabbed 
"Every Drop Counts," the public relations blitz will distribute signs, e-mails and other communications around 
campus encouraging faculty, staff and students to save water... Shaving its water use by 25 percent will be no
easy task, said Ray Dubose, the university’s director of energy services... While many students returned to 
campus last month with little or no knowledge about the drought, the word has spread, said Dan Waxman, a 
sophomore from Wilmington who is working on campus conservation issues...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-273387.html
(Note: This coverage was the result of a UNC News Services release
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/everydrop100202.htm)

Peeling the Orange 
The Herald-Sun
What’s the true hue of Carolina blue? UNC’s Alumni Review magazine showed four shades of this official 
color recently and asked readers for their opinions... On entering UNC’s original Robert B. House Library, 
students would traditionally rub the nose of the metal sculpture bust of the building’s namesake for good luck --
particularly if they were studying for a test... Anecdotes for Gladys Coates, who died quietly at age 100 
last week, were an inevitable part of the very fitting funeral service for her Wednesday...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-273385.html

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Lawmakers and Educators Spar Over College Costs and Federal Student Aid
The Chronicle of Higher Education
If anyone came to Thursday's hearing of the House of Representatives education committee expecting an answer 
to the question implicit in the session's title -- "The Rising Price of a Quality Postsecondary Education: Fact or 
Fiction" -- they were likely to have been disappointed....
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002100401n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

Lawmakers adjourn 
News and Observer
The North Carolina General Assembly adjourned the 2002 short session at 3:35 a.m. today with the remaining 
members lined up in the aisles of the chambers and the ceremonial dropping of white hankerchiefs by the House 
and Senate clerks... Dropped from the final package were costly Senate proposals to cut the corporate tax rate 
and add money for two major projects: a cancer hospital at UNC-Chapel Hill, and biopharmaceutical training 
center at N.C. State University...
http://newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/1784278p-1791684c.html

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