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October 28, 2004Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage Note
Koleman Strumpf, associate professor of economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed by CNN on Wednesday for a piece that is scheduled to air tonight, Oct. 28, during the Paula Zahn show from 8 p.m. -9 p.m. He discussed the upcoming Presidential race, the history of gambling on Presidential elections and how the stock market can foreshadow the election result.
National Coverage
Why poll numbers keep hopping around (Opinion-Editorial Column)
USA Today
Are the unsteady poll numbers making you queasy? Me, too....Philip Meyer is a Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Uneven playing field tilts N.J. politics
Gannett News Services
It was an election upset the likes of which is unheard of in New Jersey....The South "has moved away from long-entrenched political machines, and now we're in a competitive situation," said Thad Beyle, a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
A Problem of Adhesion: More evidence of sickle-cell stickiness
Science News
Interrupted blood flow in people with sickle-cell disease might arise from stickiness inherent in the unusual red blood cells these individuals have.
Note: Julia E. Brittain in the department of pharmacology was the lead author for the article that led to this story.State & Local Coverage
U.S. Senate campaigns take race to UNC-Chapel Hill
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Republican Richard Burr praised President Bush and the war effort in Iraq on Wednesday, telling students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that Iraqis will one day experience the same freedoms they enjoy.
Bowles, Burr fight for votes
The News & Observer
With a new poll showing the U.S. Senate race a dead heat, the candidates stumped across the state Wednesday, seeking voters at conventions, on college campuses and anywhere else they could find them....They held duelling rallies Wednesday afternoon on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill.
Mostly liberals? Gee, what a surprise (Editorial)
The Fayetteville Observer
We weren't shocked when we heard the news. In truth, we weren't even able to feign mild surprise. The discovery that University of North Carolina faculty and staff tend to lean left, politically, was a revelation as astonishing as learning that fish swim.
Tune In or Out? Those campaign jingles may catch your ear but they won't necessarily change your vote
The Winston-Salem Journal
Imagine a throng of George Bush supporters singing derisively about John Kerry to the tune of "Rock-a-Bye Baby."..."I doubt it, in truth," said William Leuchtenburg. "It's hard to think of a memorable campaign song." Leuchtenburg is a retired professor of history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a past president of the American Historical Association.
Philanthropy
The News & Observer
Ken Lowe, a UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus and media executive who founded Home & Garden Television, pledged $300,000 to support the faculty of the department of communication studies, which is part of the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill. The gift will establish the Kenneth W. Lowe Fund for Faculty Excellence.
N. Carolina officials dismiss AD rumors
The Charlotte Observer
Richard "Stick" Williams, chairman of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees, dismissed a published report that athletics director Dick Baddour will be reassigned to another job at the school.
UNC criticizes reports on Baddour
The News & Observer
The University of North Carolina on Wednesday denied a published report stating that athletics director Dick Baddour is in the process of being reassigned.
State looking into insurance
The News & Observer
N.C. Insurance Commissioner Jim Long is opening an investigation into the state's insurance companies and brokers to determine whether any used illegal sales practices that cheat buyers out of the lowest-price insurance options in exchange for financial rewards....State insurance commissions are set up to handle complaints, not to fish for malfeasance, said Tom Hazen, a corporate law expert at UNC-Chapel Hill.
After breast cancer, women face difficult issue of reconstructive surgery
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The physical and emotional loss of losing a breast to cancer is traumatic enough without facing another surgery. Yet many women do.
Related link: http://www.herald-sun.com/features/54-537135.htmlIssues and Trends
Moving Ideas Off Campus
The New York Times
It was the University of Arizona business school's annual Fame or Flame day, and faculty members were rating business ideas pitched by students in an entrepreneurship program as either first rate or feeble....This transfer of technology from the campus to the capitalist marketplace has been a financial windfall for many schools. The top earners in the 2002 fiscal year, the most recent with figures available from the Association of University Technology Managers in Northbrook, Ill., were Columbia University ($156 million), the University of California system ($82 million) and New York University ($63 million). For all universities, the revenue generated from their researchers' inventions has nearly doubled, to $1.3 billion in 2002 from $699 million five years earlier.
Registration required.Questions mount over Chapel Hill proposal
The News & Observer
Miscalculations by two consultants and mounds of underground bedrock could add millions of dollars to the cost of redeveloping downtown parking lots and jeopardize one phase of the town-led project, Town Council members learned Wednesday....And UNC-Chapel Hill officials have said the $19,000-per-parking space cost estimate is low in their experience of building parking decks.
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