September 17, 2003

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

National News Coverage

No. 10: University of North Carolina
The Wall Street Journal
North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School lists teamwork and
leadership among its core values and offers students seven possible
career concentrations and three enrichment concentrations. One of the
school's most distinctive features is its enrichment concentration in sustainable
enterprise, which promotes the need to balance profitability with environmental
and social responsibility.

A New Winner--The Top Business Schools
The Wall Street Journal
The world's oldest business school took top honors in this year's Wall Street
Journal/Harris Interactive ranking of corporate recruiters' favorite M.B.A. programs....
The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, founded in 1881, jumped to first
place from fifth last year, largely on the strength of students' financial and analytical skills.

'Taste My Prosciutto,' He Said With a Drawl
The New York Times
Rufus Brown looks up and observes his hams. They are hanging by the hundreds
in neat rows high above him. After climbing stairs and crossing a creaky catwalk,
he finds the one he is looking for, up near the roof, where he put it last year. With
a poke and sniff of the hard, musty ham, he decides it is ready: by tomorrow, it will
be sliced thin and tucked into panini by customers.
(Note: Bowen is a 1994 UNC alumnus who graduated with honors in creative writing.)

Competing visions, unclear prospects
The Boston Globe
The Romney administration's proposal to hand millions of dollars to companies that
create manufacturing jobs in biotechnology and medical devices is renewing a long-
running debate over whether such incentives work and, more broadly, if states, given
their limited resources, should be in the economic stimulus business at all...."Any tax
incentive is a distortion and inefficient, and the most efficient thing is to cut taxes across
the board," said Michael Luger, the director of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Office of Economic Development, who has studied the cost and effects of tax breaks in North Carolina.

Wesley Clark decides he'll run
Orlando Sentinel
With retired Gen. Wesley Clark's announcement today that he will seek the
Democratic nomination for president, the field of potential challengers to President
Bush is growing more crowded...."We've had generals before -- Zachary Taylor,
Dwight Eisenhower -- but none of them had to go through primaries the way
Wesley Clark has to," said Ferrell Guillory, an expert on Southern politics at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State and Local Coverage

Don't keep it out, bring in da noise (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
It's tempting to say to those who complained about the noise generated by Sunday's
Bruce Springsteen concert to simply get a life.

Will democracy govern Iraq? (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer
Will the occupation of Iraq succeed as well as the U.S. occupation of Japan after
World War II?...Timothy J. McKeown is professor of political science at UNC-
Chapel Hill, specializing in international politics.

Healing from afar
The News & Observer
For Cameron Getz, going to the doctor in Chapel Hill sometimes means going on
camera more than three hours away....There, a Web camera and computer link the
boy and his therapist to a primary physician, Joshua J. Alexander, director of pediatric
rehabilitation at UNC Hospitals.

$2 million allows Oriel to proceed on inhaler
The News & Observer
Oriel Therapeutics has raised about $2 million from two corporate investors and is gearing
up to test its dry-powder inhaler on patients in the next six months....Founded in late 2001,
Oriel spun out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

You get what you pay for
Business North Carolina
Visions of handcuffed executives from Enron, Tyco International and Adelphia Communications haunted boardrooms....."The trend can't be higher pay and bad performance - not over the long term," says Robert Bushman, an accounting professor at UNC Chapel Hill.

Rose & Raspberries
The Chapel Hill News
Roses to Bruce Springsteen, who rocked Kenan Stadium - and much of the rest of
Chapel Hill - on Sunday night with a mega-amp performance that generated the most
energy from the stadium since Mack Brown coached the Tar Heels....Raspberries to the
State Personnel Office and UNC for a payroll SNAFU that will result in some 6,600 UNC employees taking home less of the $550 bonus they were given by the legislature this year.

Where to dump old drugs?
The Charlotte Observer
What's the best way to throw away leftover, expired medicines?..."It's a bit of a quandary," says Kim DeLoatch, an assistant professor of pharmacy at UNC Chapel Hill.

One on One: Admitted 'techno-weenie' has sideline in agriculture
The Chapel Hill Herald
Meet Joseph Nicholas Schuch Jr. ("you can call me Joe"). He's 44, was born in the
Bronx, and is the manager of multimedia classrooms at UNC. Joe is responsible for
designing UNC's newest classrooms.

Young writer avoids sophomore jinx
The News & Observer
So here comes Jhumpa Lahiri , a literary upstart, who wins the Pulitzer in 2000 with
her first book of stories, "Interpreter of Maladies."...Marianne Gingher teaches writing
and literature at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her most recent book is "A Girl's Life: Horse, Boys, Weddings & Luck."

UNC needs renaissance of academic virtues (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Charlotte Observer
The controversy over required summer reading for incoming freshmen at the University
of North Carolina has one silver lining. The mostly 18-year-old urchins entering Chapel
Hill are forced to do some reading, even if slanted to the liberal side.

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

One Price for the Well-Off, a Lower One for Everyone Else
The Chronicle of Higher Education
It's become as common on college campuses as laptops and cellphones: tuition discounting....For a time, the idea had some appeal in North Carolina, where lawmakers in recent years have struggled to meet the university's growing needs and, at the same time, a constitutional mandate that calls for tuition to be as close to free as possible for in-state students.

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