October 26, 2004

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Policy to Preserve Coastline Runs Into Reality on Nation's Beaches
The New York Times
As a coastal getaway, Cape San Blas would seem to have everything going for it - balmy weather, the teal-green Gulf of Mexico and talcum-smooth sands on a stretch of beach often cited as one of the nation's best....For instance, after a series of hurricanes struck the Outer Banks of North Carolina a few years ago, the Federal Emergency Management Agency "interpreted Cobra provisions rather liberally," said Dr. David Salvesen of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina, who has studied the issue.

Nutrient Is Linked to Healthy Babies
The Wall Street Journal
Scientists who study fetal development are abuzz over a nutrient most people have never heard about...."During pregnancy, enormous quantities of choline are pumped across the placenta. It's 15 times more concentrated in the fetus than it is in the mother," says Steven Zeisel, who runs the nutrition department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and is recognized as an expert on choline.
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GOP's Burr Is Back to Basics in N.C. Contest
The Washington Post
The sign on the outside of a tobacco warehouse here proclaims a big "thanks" to Republican Senate candidate Richard Burr for helping tobacco farmers get a $9.6 billion buyout as part of major legislation passed by Congress this month...."Economic distress is being felt in rural areas that have been reliably Republican on cultural issues," said Ferrel Guillory, who runs a program on southern politics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State & Local Coverage

UNC fights frat's lawsuit
The News & Observer
UNC-Chapel Hill says it did not violate the constitutional rights of a Christian fraternity when it revoked the group's official recognition as a campus organization,
according to a motion sent to federal court Monday.
Note: The Associated Press (N.C.) distributed this story.

UNC seeks Christian fraternity's suit's dismissal; group asks for reinstatement
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The legal wrangling over a Christian fraternity at UNC that had its official status revoked by the university continued Monday with a flurry of court filings.

Heels earn better grades
The News & Observer
The NCAA released its 2004 report on graduation rates on Monday, and the news was better for North Carolina football, worse for N.C. State football and just
plain odd for Duke basketball.
Related link: http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/10/2004102601n.htm (Subscription required.)

UNC named most entrepreneurial campus in U.S.
Triangle Business Journal
The Princeton Review and Forbes.com have named the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the most entrepreneurial campus in the country.

J'accuse (Book Review)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The United States has declared war at some point on every major European nation except France....Lloyd Kramer is chairman of the History Department at UNC-Chapel Hill.

He brought sex out of the bedroom (Book Review)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Once in the late 1950s, my mother made a paper bag mask to wear to a local theater to view an "art film" that contained brief snatches of nudity....Marianne Gingher teaches literature and writing at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The right priority (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
Tuition increases always can be tough pills for students and their families to swallow. They can be even tougher to take if the extra money is not being used to create the best possible learning environment for the student body as a whole.

BTI, NCT: Can't we all get along?
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
PlayMakers Repertory Company is enhancing a centuries-old play this month with state-of-the-art technology in its Paul Green Theatre. The UNC-Chapel Hill-based company has updated its assisted listening system with FM technology.

Week Ahead
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Economist Hernando de Soto on "The Mystery of Capital." Frank Porter Graham Lecture, 7:30 p.m., Hanes Art Center auditorium, UNC-Chapel Hill. De Soto is the author of several books on capitalism and head of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru, which promotes property rights as a solution for global poverty. He was a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. Free. Contact: Randi Davenport, 843-7765, or Dee Reid, 843-6339.

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