October 8, 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:

True Grit
Fortune Magazine 
Sallie Krawcheck bet her career on her scruples. Two years ago, she and her colleagues at 
Sanford C. Bernstein stubbornly insisted that running a pure research house--with no investment 
banking, no exotic trading--was the only upright, conflict-free way to give stock market advice to 
investors... Bank of America's Amy Brinkley rises to No. 17, from No. 31, because her new 
position, chief risk officer, is key to CEO Ken Lewis's mission to manage risk throughout the 
company... 
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=209630
(Note: This story mentions two members of the UNC Board of Visitors: Sallie 
Krawcheck and Amy Brinkley. Krawcheck and Brinkley were also listed in Fortune Magazine's 
"The 50 Most Powerful Women in Business." Brinkley was listed as 17th and Krawcheck was 
listed as 42nd. To view the list online, please go to 
http://www.fortune.com/lists/women/index.html

Fine Role Models But Few Answers For Success (Commentary)
The Washington Post
There was one question on my mind while attending the Executive Leadership Council's awards 
dinner in Washington the other night. Here were 75 CEOs and 150 presidents of Fortune 500 
companies. And all of them were black... That kind of devotion also made a difference for 
Sherman Whites, associate brand manager for Tropicana. "I had a close-knit family that provided 
me with lots of encouragement," said Whites, who studied engineering at Florida A&M University 
and went on to earn an MBA from the University of North Carolina...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52283-2002Oct6.html
(Note: Whites is a Kenan-Flager Business School 2001 graduate.)

Safety: Home Is Where the Harm Is
The New York Times
As many as 20,000 Americans died in accidents at home in 1998, a new survey reports, and an 
additional 7 million were hurt. The study was released by the Injury Prevention Research Center, 
part of the University of North Carolina, and was based on a review of death certificates, 
emergency and clinic records and earlier studies. The researchers, led by Dr. Carol W. Runyan, 
also conducted a telephone survey of more than 1,000 households...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/health/08SAFE.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access archives.)

About Breast Cancer (Editorial)
The Clinton (Conn.) Recorder
The fear of breast cancer is mounting, and for good reason. In 1964, of all women who lived to 
age 80, one in 20 was diagnosed with breast cancer. Today the rate is one in eight. An estimated 
203,500 new invasive cases of breast cancer are expected to occur among women in the U.S. in 
2002... Marilie Gammon, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., 
and formerly of Columbia University, New York City, where the study was launched, leads the 
study....
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1634&dept_id=84659&newsid=5623702&PAG=461&rfi=9

Regional Coverage

Early-decision plans assailed 
Richmond Times-Dispatch
The frenzy arrives each fall, as high school seniors rush to submit early applications to the colleges 
of their choice... Since then, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a handful of 
smaller colleges have done so. Yale plans to make a decision next month...
http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBKPFS417D.html

Local News Notes

Robert Golden, chairman of the psychiatry department, School of Medicine, participated in a 30-
minute public interest show, "Around The Triangle," broadcasted by Clear Channel Radio-Raleigh 
on Oct. 6. This program about National Mental Health Week and National Depression Screening 
Day was broadcast simultaneously on all four Triangle radio partners' stations (WDCG-FM 105.1, 
WRDU-FM 106.1 , Sunny 97-FM, and WTRG-FM 100.7 ). 

State and Local Coverage

Cash for a campus (Editorial)
News and Observer
Its "Carolina First" campaign to raise $2 billion in private gifts may be a recognition of the realities 
of public education these days. But even after the campaign makes its goal -- which after a lot of 
hard work it presumably will -- the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill must stay true to its 
core mission of public service: educating a broad cross-section of the sons and daughters of this 
state while also pursuing a high-quality research program in which helping people live better lives is 
a top priority...
http://newsobserver.com/editorials/story/1793957p-1799275c.html

Report on fund drive inaccurate 
The News and Observer
UNC-Chapel Hill leaders are keeping secret exactly how much private money they hope to collect 
in the Carolina First fund drive. But they say the figure reported Monday by The News & Observer, 
$2 billion, was wrong. 
http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/1794142p-1799326c.html

WUNC-FM, the local National Public Radio affiliate licensed to the university, aired a story about 
the Carolina First campaign this morning. The story, which ran as part of a local insert during today's 
"Morning Edition," quoted Chancellor Moeser and previewed Friday's campaign goal announcement.

Water conservation gets a boost (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun
The spare facts speak starkly of our dilemma. After several months of the worst drought the region 
has seen, the water reservoirs for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area are nearly two-thirds empty. There 
is less than a 145-day supply of water remaining. In Hillsborough, the town’s reservoir is 86 inches 
below full. Less than 150 days of water are left... At UNC, the university has begun “Every Drop 
Counts,” a conservation program with a goal of cutting water consumption on campus by 25 percent...
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/chhedits/57-274492.html
(Note: For more information about "Every Drop Counts," please see 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/everydrop100202.htm)

UNC faculty discuss curriculum revision 
The Herald-Sun
Among the faculty’s concerns about UNC’s proposed curriculum revision, at least one tried and true 
theme is emerging... Consider, for example, the comments of Beth Grabowski, an art professor, 
discussing the clusters concept... Minutes later, biology professor Seth Reice commented on a proposal 
to implement team teaching for certain courses... Laurie McNeil, a physics professor who chaired the 
task force that came up with the new curriculum proposal... There’s a lot of things that take place, 
within these walls, that are outside the realm of traditional learning," said William Smith, a mathematics 
professor... "I think it is really split," Risa Palm, dean of the college, said of faculty sentiment for the 
proposal... "When reading the report, I was pleased to see that our curriculum proposal has really hit 
most of the major themes, if not all of them," said Karen Gil, associate dean for undergraduate 
education in the college of arts and sciences....
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-274616.html

Going after V.C. gold 
The Herald-Sun 
Nadine Carozzi, co-founder of Durham-based Athenix Corp., has learned to translate her company's
science into the kind of language investors want to hear... With the help of Springboard Enterprises, 
a Washington D.C. organization dedicated to helping female entrepreneurs raise venture capital, 
Carozzi presented Athenix's business plan to more than 100 potential investors at a venture capital 
forum last week... The conference at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School was the first Springboard 
venture capital forum in the Southeast and its ninth since the organization began in January 2000. 
The group has helped more than 200 women-led companies raise more than $750 million in venture 
capital...
http://www.herald-sun.com/archives/URNDetail.cfm?URN=0401715019
(Note: The Herald-Sun requires free registration to access archives.)

What didn't happen to UNC in the state budget (Commentary)
Chapel Hill News 
It was a long short session but not the longest -- cantankerous but not as rancorous as others. The 
budget that ultimately emerged was unsurprising in its cuts and in that it passes much of the burden on 
to a new General Assembly convening in January...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/1785929p-1793385c.html

Transferring to UNC-CH brings questions (Commentary)
Winston-Salem Journal
Nearly two months of the fall semester have passed, and as a sophomore transfer student at the University 
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I've been reflecting on how my transition to a new school has affected 
me academically, socially and personally...
http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/MGB9VS7GY6D.html

Awareness can be key to treating depression (Opinion-Editorial Column)
Chapel Hill News
Thursday is National Depression Screening Day. This is so important because many people who are 
suffering from this illness do not realize that they have depression... 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/1785856p-1793293c.html
(Note: Elizabeth Kirk is working on a master’s degree in social work at UNC-Chapel Hill.)

UNC Hospital Woman's Heart Center focuses on No. 1 killer of women in the U.S. 
The Sanford Herald
During the years she was completing her residency and fellowship at UNC Hospitals, Dr. Eileen Kelly 
grew to realize that there was an astounding gap between research studies relating to men's and 
women's health... Spurred by this knowledge, and after completing her fellowship in cardiology, Kelly 
joined with other cardiologists and a group of similarly concerned internists to establish the University 
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's first UNC Hospital Woman's Heart Center... 
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5599576&BRD=2048&PAG=461&dept_id=343874&rfi=6

UNC should take responsibility for animal treatment (Letter to the Editor)
The Herald-Sun
PETA did not target UNC’s laboratories to protest Sen. Jesse Helms’ proposal to deny protection
to 95 percent of animals used in laboratories by excluding rats, mice and birds from the definition of 
“animal” under the federal Animal Welfare Act...
http://www.herald-sun.com/opinion/chhletters/index.html#274436

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

More Than 300 College Presidents Sign Statement Condemning Anti-Semitism
The Chronicle of Higher Education
More than 300 college presidents signed a statement published in a full-page advertisement in The New 
York Times on Monday condemning threats made against Jewish students and calling for "intimidation 
free" campuses. Many other presidents, however, declined to sign the statement because it failed to 
mention threats made against Muslim and Arab students
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002100801n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

Students on More Than 30 Campuses Protest Against Threatened War With Iraq
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Students at more than 30 colleges across the country held protests on Monday against a prospective U.S. 
war with Iraq, as part of a "National Student Day of Action." The protests, which included at least one 
counter-protest, came as President Bush was set to make his case in an address to the nation Monday 
night for war against Iraq...
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002100802n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.)

Chapel Hill sets more land-use hearings 
The Herald-Sun
With an eye to a showdown vote late next month, the Town Council has scheduled another round of 
hearings on a sweeping rewrite of Chapel Hill’s land-use regulations....
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-274659.html

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