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September 22, 2003Carolina in the NewsHere is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:
National News CoverageTampering up as testing takes on more importance in school systems
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
Some educators call teacher cheating the inevitable result of the nation's
test score obsession...."It's picked up," said Gregory J. Cizek, a nationally
known testing and cheating expert at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Stock grants for RJR execs has workers seeing red
National Associated Press
Workers at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. are furious that senior executives
received big stock grants little more than a month before announcing the
company was cutting 2,600 jobs - about 40 percent of the cigarette-
maker's work force...."There's nothing illegal or shady about it, it's just
the way the plan is written," said Robert Bushman, an accounting professor
at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
State and Local CoverageTwo giant oaks main casualties at UNC from Isabel
The Herald-Sun
Asked to describe his feelings as he examined a giant oak tree on McCorkle
Place that had been toppled by Thursday's hurricane, Ted Malone paused
long and thought hard before offering a morose answer..."The major damage
was limited to those two trees," Carolyn Elfland, UNC's associate vice chancellor
for campus services, said Friday....The two huge trees that fell Thursday were both
probably around 200 years old, and as regal as they were, their advanced ages likely
contributed to their demise, said Kirk Pelland, UNC's grounds director.
Reed says seeds of South sown across U.S.
Fayetteville Observer
Sociologist John Shelton Reed is a recognized expert on things Southern....Reed, a
Tennessee native and a retired sociology professor from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, has lived in the South for most of his life.
Playmakers will push the edge with 'Owen Meany' (Commentary)
The Chapel Hill News
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column extolling the glories of the performing arts
in North Carolina and praising such local companies as the North Carolina Ballet, North
Carolina Theater and Opera Company of North Carolina Not surprisingly, I quickly
heard from the folks at Playmakers Repertory Company, who wanted to remind me
that some of the best theater in the region, if not the country, is right here in our backyard.UNC beginning stroke study
The Herald-Sun
A UNC study is under way to determine whether treating stroke patients for a hole
in the heart will reduce their chance of having a second stroke.
(Note: This story is a result of a UNC News Services release:
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep03/pfo091103.html)A squirrel with a message
The Chapel Hill News
One of the dozens of squirrels scampering about in Philadelphia's Fairmont Park
caught Chuck Stone's eye...."I stood there for a long time and watched it," said Stone,
the Walter Spearman professor in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass
Communications.
Issues and Trends Affecting CarolinaCollege Endowments Resumed Upward Climb in 2002-3, Study Finds
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A year after the investments of most higher-education endowments lost money,
colleges and universities are back in the black.
Bonuses to do without (Editorial)
The News & Observer
The intent may be meritorious. But the timing stinks. There's the bottom line on the
approval by a committee from the University of North Carolina system's Board of
Governors for one-time bonuses for some of the system's chancellors. The amounts
will vary, depending upon merit as judged by system President Molly Broad.
Chancellors' troubles raise issues, eyebrows
The News & Observer
UNC President Molly Broad rushed to Greenville last week before Hurricane Isabel
hit, looking for an interim chancellor to take over at East Carolina University after
William Muse resigned abruptly.
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