October 20, 2003

Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:

National Coverage

MBA Schools Focus on Responsible Practice
National Associated Press
At business schools across the country, future business leaders are learning to be kinder, gentler managers. In fact, if you're thinking about getting an MBA, be prepared to learn how to use your financial analysis, accounting and marketing skills to help the environment and the community....The survey's highest-rated schools - George Washington, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, Stanford, Yale University, and York University in Toronto - offer four times as many courses on social and environmental subjects as the other schools.

Charlie Justice, Football Star Known as Choo Choo, 79, Dies
The New York Times
Charlie Justice, the University of North Carolina's all-American tailback known as Choo Choo who was among college football's most celebrated players of the late 1940's, died Friday at his home in Cherryville, N.C. Justice, who had been in poor health in recent years, was 79.
(Related coverage from North Carolina is below in the state and local section.)

America's Expanding Waistline
U.S. News & World Report
There is plump. Then there is fat. Then there is, alas, really fat....The trouble is starting earlier, too. According to Penny Gordon-Larsen, assistant professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, obese teens remain obese into adulthood. In a sample of 9,561 students ages 13 to 18, 11 percent were obese in 1996. Five years later, 22 percent of those same students were obese. And those who slimmed down were rare: a mere 1.7 percent.
UNC release

Students drink less after learning how much alcohol their peers really consume
Los Angeles Times
College students given a reality check on how much other students drink may be surprised to learn that their campus isn't such a party scene. ...In the first study to actually measure the breath-alcohol concentrations of students returning to their residences at night, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that 2 out of 3 had nothing to drink on weekend nights. And on weeknights, about 85% did not drink.

2nd new terminal may spur windfall
The Detroit News
Detroit Metropolitan Airport is preparing to build a second passenger terminal that could attract several discount carriers and result in more international flights to the Middle East...."The North Terminal project is sound and well-designed," said [Jack] Kasarda, director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Time Warner: Branded Again
CFO Magazine
A company beset by accounting problems, by any other name, is still, well, under investigation....Brand expert Neil Morgan, a professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, doesn't think that the specter of investigations, restatements, and lawsuits will require much image cleanup.

Florida needs to graduate to the MBA big leagues (Commentary/Column)
St. Petersburg Times
Hang out, as I have lately, with Florida's economic development leaders and you would
think the Sunshine State is becoming the economic center of the universe....North
Carolina boasted three top-50 business schools: Kenan-Flagler at UNC Chapel Hill
at No. 10....

Regional Coverage

Some state schools a smart buy
Fredricksburg (Va.) Freelance Star
If you're writing tuition checks to a Virginia public college or university, congratulations. According to some, you're getting a bargain. ...Both were beaten by first-place University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, partially due to the school's recent commitment to pay 100 percent of tuition for students living at 150 percent of the poverty level or below. Called the Carolina Covenant, qualified students will be given work-study jobs and graduate debt-free.

State and Local Coverage

He takes scientific approach to aiding state's economy (Tar Heel of the Week feature)
The News & Observer
Bob McMahan is accustomed to success. He made the grade at Duke, Dartmouth and Harvard. Trained as an astrophysicist, he succeeded in business, too. He holds five patents. Even the CIA trusted him with money. ...McMahan kept his hand in academics throughout, as a part-time UNC-Chapel Hill research professor studying motion in elliptical galaxies. Some of McMahan's most valuable contributions at UNC-CH come from his business savvy, says department chairman Bruce Carney .

Tightened Wallets (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
UNC-Chapel Hill students probably will never know with absolute certainty what their tuition rates will be the next year, but soon they might be able to wager an educated guess.

Triangle CEOs
The News & Observer
In many companies in the Triangle, a new breed of CEOs is making efforts to connect with workers....When Steve Jones was hired as dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School in July, some people were surprised he didn't use a plum parking spot at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. As the former CEO of a large Australian bank and with a long successful career behind him, surely, he was used to corporate perks. But Jones believed that by parking in front of the building, he would lose an opportunity to interact with faculty members, all of whom park in the garage.

A sampling of additional coverage about the death of "Choo Choo" Justice:
Tar Heels' mighty engine (Editorial) The Herald Sun

'Choo Choo' Justice, a hero all the way (Charlotte Observer)
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/7043074.htm
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/7042926.htm
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/7043043.htm

Asheville biggest sports star passes away (Asheville Citizen-Times)

Williams signs deal at UNC
The News & Observer
Fewer than 24 hours before basketball practice officially began, North Carolina coach Roy Williams on Friday finally signed an eight-year contract worth about $1.6 million a year.

Related stories: Williams deal rankles (The News & Observer)
Williams scores big with Heels (The Herald Sun)
Williams signs deal at UNC (The Chapel Hill News)

Tar Heel Fans Flock to Greet New Coach
Associated Press
North Carolina fans gave Roy Williams a welcome even he couldn't have expected. A standing-room-only crowd of more than 21,700 was on hand Friday night for Midnight Madness in the Smith Center, the Tar Heels' first under Williams.

Issues and Trends

UNC enrollment cap hike caused no flap in '86
The Herald Sun
If Philip Carson's reminiscences are any indication, the public debate the last time the UNC system increased its out-of-state student enrollment wasn't long on controversy.

Town-gown complaints ignore broader trends (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
While town-gown relations are obviously the dominant issue in this year's Town Council election,
it's been disappointing to see the debate conducted in sound bites....On paper, UNC and Chapel
Hill are ideally situated to help lead that process. Centuries of investment and hard work have
created an assemblage of physical, human and intellectual capital here that can't be duplicated
on short notice elsewhere in the state.

Few candidates are free of ties to campus
The Chapel Hill Herald
One of the questions that next month's election will answer is who will be on the Town
Council for the next couple of years of debate over Carolina North....UNC may file a formal
proposal with the town early next year for the planned satellite campus along Airport Road,
not long after the newest version of the council will have taken office.

Connected greenways, neighborhoods, towns (Opinion Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill News
Carrboro and Chapel Hill have an opportunity this year to change our future. For the first time
both towns have simultaneous bond referenda on the ballots for development and enhancement
of our greenway networks....Carrboro held firm with the university with regard to its plans for the
Horace Williams tract through which Bolin Creek flows, and they revised their plan to move
development away from the creek. Carrboro is advocating for UNC to set this acreage aside
permanently in a land trust or conservancy.

Financial Aid Office responds to Carolina Covenant
The North Carolina State Technician
In early October 2003, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser unveiled a financial aid plan that has broken the mold among public universities. Dubbed the "Carolina Covenant," it will grant students from qualifying low-income families four years of free education with no debt.

BC vote completes unseemly process (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
There was one positive to Sunday's vote to expand the Atlantic Coast Conference by one more school: At least Boston College, the league's newest member, actually is on the Atlantic coast.

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