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October 12, 2004
Carolina in the News
University Day Coverage
Dr. James Johnson, William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management and director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center, delivered today's keynote remarks at the annual University Day convocation in a packed Hill Hall Auditorium. Several local media outlets covered the event. Upcoming coverage plans include:
WRAL Newschannel on digital cable (Channel 256 on Time-Warner Cable in the Triangle) will air Johnson's speech tonight at 8 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2 p.m. The University Access Channel (Channel 4 on Time-Warner Cable in Chapel Hill) also will air the ceremony tonight at 8 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.)
A copy of Johnson's prepared remarks is posted at http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct04/uday101204.html.
University Day website: http://www.unc.edu/universityday/.
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Many Assisted-Living Residents Are Undertreated
Reuters International Wire Service
The majority of elderly people in assisted-living or residential care facilities are not receiving all of the medications they need for four common conditions, according to new study findings released Monday....To investigate whether the elderly were also facing problems due to a lack of needed medications, Dr. Philip D. Sloane of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and his colleagues reviewed the medical records of 2014 people 65 years of age or older.
National Coverage
Military influence in elections on the rise since Bush-Dukakis race
San Francisco Chronicle
For much of the nation's history, the American military has tried to maintain at least the appearance of political detachment, considered crucial to the concept of civilian control of the military as enshrined in the Constitution....Elements of the old apolitical military ethos remains -- only about two dozen of the more than 200 living retired four-star generals have ever endorsed anybody, according to Richard Kohn, chair of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
No Train, No Gain?
Entrepreneur Magazine
Like many entrepreneurs, Chris Stone has a training budget.... "We see companies that have a belief in [certain training programs]," says James W. Dean Jr., associate dean of executive education at University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill.
Student suicides spur action on campuses
Chicago Tribune
Diana Chien, 19, had lived in New York for only a month, having transferred here to be close to her boyfriend....Emory University in Atlanta and the University of North Carolina are experimenting with a different approach to finding troubled students who might be too depressed to seek help.
Scholars see it plainly: No clear way to require that political ads are true
Toledo Blade
It's a question Ohioans frequently have asked this year....After one day in Ohio, William Marshall felt the Buckeye pain. "What you guys are being subjected to; there ought to be battle pay given to every single person in Ohio," said Mr. Marshall, a law professor at the University of North Carolina.
State & Local Coverage
UNC wins $10M federal education grant
Triangle Business Journal
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $10 million to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to work toward better teaching, learning and student achievement in rural schools nationwide.
UNC release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct04/ruraled100804.html
Reeve breathed life into research
The News & Observer
In the Triangle, some of Christopher Reeve's biggest fans toil at a laboratory bench....Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill are using mice to study how nerve fibers grow from one part of the spinal cord to another...."He almost single-handedly raised the consciousness in this country of this area of research, and moved the field
forward," said Dr. William Snider, director of the UNC Neuroscience Center in Chapel Hill.
Greatest living American? Try John Lewis (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer
Some folks have the capacity to expand our sense of the possible. A few can even lift our sense of the necessary. A couple weeks ago, we were fortunate in Chapel Hill to enjoy an extended visit with U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia....Gene R. Nichol is dean and the Burton Craige professor of law at the UNC School of Law.
Heels suspend three players
The News & Observer
Three North Carolina football players were suspended indefinitely Monday after being cited for misdemeanor possession of marijuana -- a punishment athletics director Dick Baddour said could "very possibly" last the rest of the season.
Tar Heel blue? (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer
The N.C. State/UNC-Chapel Hill football game on Saturday at Kenan Stadium has to be one of the most exciting college games I've ever attended, and I've been in the stands at many. The Tar Heels entered the stadium with expectations from the media that the Wolfpack would easily beat them. The game was sold out.
Jew sits at table of Palestinian discontent
The News & Observer
When a controversial Palestinian conference opens at Duke University on Friday, Rann Bar-On will be the local host running workshops and answering questions from the media...."There is a segment of Israeli society that is influenced by post-colonial thinking that rejects the most basic premise on which Israel exists," said
Yaakov Ariel, a professor of religion at UNC-Chapel Hill. "It's a larger group than it used to be."
College teaching, in and out of class (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer
Recent discussion of suicides at UNC-Chapel Hill highlighted a mistake most universities make. They think they have to choose between fame and responsibility. Because universities want to be well known, they need faculty members who are well known, and both administrators and professors get the idea that they cannot
become famous if they spend time talking to students. This is nonsense...Before his retirement John J.W. Rogers was the William R. Kenan Jr. professor of geology at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Health care for elderly discussed
The Daily Reflector (Greenville)
As more Americans get older, the need for quality health care and information on the latest medications becomes more important, a geriatrics professor said during a symposium hosted by East Carolina University....Philip Sloane, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, led a discussion on clinical dilemmas in care during the symposium for ECU's Continuing Medical Education department.
Governor's campaign stops in Jacksonville
The Daily News (Jacksonville, NC)
Gov. Mike Easley's campaign stop in Jacksonville on Monday came in a county that wasn't so kind to him four years ago...."It's hard to say why Easley's doing so well out in the East," said Thad Beyle, professor of political science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Issues & Trends
Thousands of college students fail to apply for federal aid
The Associated Press (National)
A new study says hundreds of thousands of college students who may be eligible for federal financial aid don't get it for a simple reason - they don't apply.
Chapel Hill moves to rezone UNC property
The Chapel Hill Herald
The Town Council will seek to rezone a large portion of the Horace Williams property off Airport Road in a move that would give the town more control over how UNC develops the land.
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