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September 14, 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
Prescription for reform?
USA Today
Against a backdrop of spiraling prescription drug costs, questions are mounting about whether drugmakers - and the doctors who test and prescribe their products
- always have patients' best interests in mind. Increasingly, critics say, money, not medicine, drives drug development and use...."The problem, of course, is that
many of the people with true expertise in an area are called upon by the pharmaceutical industry to help with the design of clinical trials and the evaluation of data,"
says update co-author Sidney Smith, a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill cardiologist.
Football's fun, but basketball reigns as king of Chapel Hill
The Miami Herald
Those who live here call it the Southern Part of Heaven. If God's not a Tar Heel, they argue, why is the sky Carolina Blue?....But as all good UNC fans know, a Tar
Heel, first and last, is someone who is true to his school -- but only if it's Carolina.
Related link: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/travel/9615610.htmStudy links unsafe play areas, kids' obesity
Health Day News wire service
A lack of safe and affordable recreation and too much time spent watching television increase the risk of obesity for young Black girls in the United States, says a
study in the latest issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine....Researchers at the University of North Carolina Schools of Public Health and Medicine
conducted 51 interviews with Black girls ages 6 to 9 and their mothers or grandmothers as part of an obesity-prevention pilot study in North Carolina.
State & Local Note
Carolina Covenant was the focus of a story, by WRAL reporter Julia Lewis, which aired last night. With the help of News Services, WRAL spent last Wednesday
on campus profiling a Covenant student Nayeli Lozada, including her first day on her work study job. She also interviewed Shirley Ort, associate provost and director
of scholarships and student aid, for the story.State & Local Coverage
Bell tower lights added
The News & Observer
Campus is getting a new night light....The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, a landmark on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, will have lights in the belfry, thanks to
private donors.
Dispute puts UNC police in bad light (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
The thing to remember when reading about personnel disputes like the one between UNC and former UNC Police Lt. Ed Swain is that you're not getting the whole
story. At present, North Carolina law is more concerned about protecting the privacy of state employees than about ensuring public accountability.
Triad employees are wary of filing
The Winston-Salem Journal
US Airways Group Inc. says that it's business as usual, but 1,700 of its employees in the Triad are wary of the company's intentions after its second bankruptcy filing
in two years.....Even if the airline eventually liquidates its assets and stops flying, local airports might not see a drop-off in overall service, said Noel Greis, a director at
the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
'Dummy' Patients Help Medical Students Learn From Mistakes
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
Mistakes are the seeds of learning, but they can be deadly when a resident doctor learns to become a surgeon....Patient simulators are now used at many learning
hospitals including Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Central University's Nursing School also uses them.
Foreign scholars scrutinized
The News & Observer
Duke University assistant professor Steven Cummer saw a promising training opportunity for graduate students in a Department of Defense contract to test lightning
detection equipment....Because UNC-Chapel Hill has no engineering school, the campus rarely sees restrictive contract language.
Robbery case to get review
The News & Observer
Since the day that her 15-year-old son was sentenced to prison for a home invasion, Karen Daniel has fought for his release. Daniel says she knows Erick Daniels
was not a saint, but she said her son is no robber....The center in Durham uses faculty and students from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill law schools and from
UNC's journalism school to free wrongly convicted inmates.
Issues & Trends
U.S. Leads in Sending Young People to College, but Not in Keeping Them There, Report Says
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In the United States nearly two of every three young people enter higher education, compared with one of two young people among the world's most developed
nations, according to a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, but the American dropout rate from first-degree programs
exceeds the average for the same group.
Tailgating rules divide NCSU fans
The News & Observer
The football game Saturday between N.C. State and Ohio State will capture the attention of thousands of Wolfpack fans across the nation....At schools that don't
allow drinking, such as UNC-Chapel Hill, tailgaters have learned to adapt by discreetly pouring their drinks into plastic cups.
Chapel Hill council appoints 17 to study renaming Airport Road
The Chapel Hill Herald
The Town Council named 17 residents Monday to a committee that will study the idea of renaming Airport Road for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Parking lots plans called feasible
The Chapel Hill Herald
Although there's still more number crunching to be done, a town consultant figures the town's plans to redevelop downtown parking lots into shops, homes and public
spaces would be financially feasible.
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