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Oct. 31, 2005
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage
So, Do You Believe in 'Superprecedent'?
The New York Times
As he prepares for another Supreme Court confirmation battle, President Bush faces intense pressure to quell the uproar from social conservatives who feared that Harriet Miers was not a true strict constructionist. ...At a panel discussion at the University of Minnesota this month, Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina said that cases that have been accepted by the Senate, the White House and different political leaders over time should be considered superprecedents.
UNC Tip Sheet: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/supremetip102705.htmlBush Makes Third Nomination to High Court
"Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio
Michael Gerhardt, professor of law at the University of North Carolina, was featured on today's (Oct. 31) edition of "Talk of the Nation." President Bush nominates Samuel Alito to fill retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the United States Supreme Court. Alito has served 15 years on the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. And he has a track record on that court that so far seems to please conservatives. Gerhardt discusses the new nomination.
Looking Ahead to a Possible Senate Fight over Alito
"Morning Edition," National Public Radio
Michael Gerhardt, a professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was featured on today's (Oct. 31) "Morning Edition," to discuss the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. Gerhardt, the author of The Federal Appointments Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis, says the choice is likely to spark a fight over Alito's confirmation.
Race suit tests region's schools
The Associated Press (National)
Londres Uso has lived in this growing but still bucolic city in the rolling hills of coastal Orange County for 30 years and sent his two children through the public school system. ...Twice this year, federal appeals courts have upheld voluntary desegregation plans by school districts. The courts have never said that children have a right to go to a particular school, however, said Jack Boger, deputy director of the University of North Carolina's Legal Center for Civil Rights. They have only said that students have a right to an equal education.
A Coach Becomes A Constant at Carolina
The New York Times
Ron Miller arrived at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill for a job intreview 38 years ago. The university needed a physical education professor who had some knowledge of fencing. Miller liked what he saw and never left, building one of the top college programs in the country.
Note: No link available. For a faxed copy, email Michelle at mgreene@dev.unc.edu.
State & Local Coverage
UNC exposes ties to slavery in new exhibit
The Associated Press (N.C.)
In the early years of the nation's oldest public university, students at the University of North Carolina had servants who kindled fires in their rooms and cut wood to fuel their stoves. ..."I think it's important for us to know our own history and to be honest about it," said Chancellor James Moeser. "This university was built by slaves and free blacks. We need to be candid about that."
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct05/slavery100705.htmHispanic recruitment pays off
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
As a high school senior, Christian Lopez chose UNC for academic reasons. It was simply good fortune that when he arrived in Chapel Hill, he discovered a university community rich in Hispanic culture. ..."The perception that exists, unfortunately in North Carolina, is that Carolina is an elite institution that many can't attend," said Terri Houston, who heads recruitment efforts in UNC's diversity and multicultural affairs office. "We're showing that you can come to campus."
Students seek bias addition on gender
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
UNC's nondiscrimination policy is a mouthful. ... "We have considered it, and we have affirmed our current nondiscrimination policy," said Margaret Jablonski, UNC's vice chancellor for student affairs. The university is content with its current policy, Jablonski said, because officials believe it to be adequately inclusive already.
Muslims aid quake victims
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Ramadan is a time when Muslims routinely consider the plight of the poor. For Azhar Raina, it's not just a religious practice. ...The Islamic Center of Cary, home to the region's largest concentration of Pakistani-Americans, has raised $35,000. Muslim student associations at Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University got together and raised more than $18,000.World leaders right on your block
The Chapel Hill Herald
As you likely know, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the nation's leading public universities with the real aspiration of being the nationa's leading public. There is tremendous energy here in teaching, research, outreach, the arts. Our challenge is to sustain and build upon that energy in ways that best serve the people of North Carolina - those like you who live very close to the campus and those in the state's other 99 counties. The term leading, in the context of this university's vision, signals - above all - leadership. ...James Moeser is chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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UNC working to get business incubator on campus
The Associated Press (N.C.)
The University of North Carolina is moving ahead with plans to build an incubator that will give businesses spun out of campus research a place to grow. ...Joseph DeSimone, a professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at North Carolina, helped form Liquidia Technologies after developing a material that is liquid at room temperature and hardens when exposed to light.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun05/Desimone6062105.htmBorrowed laptops all the rage for UNC employees
The Chapel Hill Herald
As the single parent of two children, Iris Greene gets precious little quiet time at home, what with 13-year-old Joyah and 11-year-old Chris running around and dominating the family's home computer. So in order to get some homework done, Greene, an office manager at UNC's graduate school, tapped into a free computer loan program the university offers its employees. For the last year, Greene has used the laptop -- in the oddest places -- to write papers and do other work for the online courses she takes through UNC's continuing studies program.
What's going on
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Edwards and Kemp: Former vice presidential candidates John Edwards and Jack Kemp will discuss work and poverty in America, 1 p.m. today, Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre, Center for Dramatic Arts, Country Club Road (near intersection with N.C. 54), UNC campus; free and open to public.
UNC Media Advisory: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2005/dialogue102705.htmFilm Festival: "By the Dawn's Early Light: Chris Jackson's Journey to Islam," a documentary on former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, will be part of the Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Films, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Stone Center, 150 South Road, UNC campus; free.
HIV Grant: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Dr. Cathie Fogel, a nursing professor, a four-year, $771,623 grant to study HIV prevention in Southern women.
Head of Psychiatry: Dr. David Rubinow has been named chairman of the School of Medicine's department of psychiatry. He is chief of the Behavioral Endocrinology Branch and clinical director of the National Institute of Mental Health's intramural research program.
Think Partnership may restate earnings
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The corporate parent of search-engine marketing company WebSourced, which recently was hit with a $1.4 million write-off for bad debt, said Friday that it may have to restate Websourced's financial statements back to 2003. ...In the past few years, the SEC has been scrutinizing revenue recognition, and has increasingly asked companies to restate their financials, said Robert Bushman, an accounting professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Island is sued after boy dies
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In June 2003, on his family's annual vacation to Bald Head Island, 6-year-old Howard Biggers IV fell out of a golf cart. ...That comes as no real surprise to Dr. Thomas Cole, a former state public health official who now is an associate professor of social medicine and epidemiology at UNC-Chapel Hill and an editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Wrongful conviction spurs quest
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
On a June day in 1995, Jennifer Cannino was standing in the kitchen of her Winston-Salem home when Burlington police detective Mike Gauldin told her the news: DNA evidence had cleared the man convicted of raping her 11 years earlier. ...In the mid-1990s, Cotton's appeals lawyers, UNC-Chapel Hill law professor Rich Rosen and Burlington attorney Tom Lambeth, sought DNA testing.
Two chefs to talk about cookbooks
The Chapel Hill Herald
Celebrated local chefs Mildred "Mama Dip" Council and Bill Smith will discuss their new cookbooks Tuesday and Nov. 14 at UNC.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct05/MDipSmith102405.htmCarolina North panel planned
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC officials are putting a new committee together to help dictate the planning of Carolina North, the university's planned research campus off Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The group, which hasn't yet been put together but will be chaired by someone outside the university, will focus on issues like transportation, housing and fiscal equity, officials said this week.
Note: No link available. For a faxed copy, email Michelle at mgreene@dev.unc.edu.Talks touch on Evers, democracy
The Chapel Hill Herald
Literary portrayals of civil rights leader Medgar Evers and connections between democracy and nationalism will be the topics of two lectures Tuesday at UNC. The free public program, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at 100 Hamilton Hall, will introduce two new Kenan Eminent professors in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences, in the English and political science departments. A reception will follow in Toy Lounge in Dey Hall.
Issues & Trends
China Luring Scholars to Make Universities Great
The New York Times
When Andrew Chi-chih Yao, a Princeton professor who is recognized as one of the United States' top computer scientists, was approached by Qinghua University in Beijing last year to lead an advanced computer studies program, he did not hesitate.
Student activism still alive
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
On Feb. 1, 1960, David Forbes Sr. heard about something remarkable. ...Small groups of students at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill have pressured their universities to monitor the labor practices of manufacturers that produce their university-themed merchandise. A small band of Duke and UNC students have also supported university employee efforts to unionize and, at Duke, helped push the university to pay its workers a "living wage."
Mason Farm asks for protection
The Chapel Hill Herald
A group of residents from a fifth neighborhood in town have stepped forward to ask for designation as a Neighborhood Conservation District. The Mason Farm Neighborhood Association has petitioned the Town Council to consider that step.
Proud of seeing aims fulfilled
The Chapel Hill Herald
Mark Kleinschmidt: I've been particularly proud of being able to make true on many of the objectives I announced four years ago. Keeping Weaver Dairy Road, for example, from being turned into a four-lane thoroughfare. ... Will Carolina North be a huge issue for the next council? It will probably be one of the most significant issues the town has over the next 50 years. I hope we can reach a relationship with UNC similar to the relationship over the main campus development.
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