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September 30, 2004
Carolina in the News
State of the University Speech Coverage
Covenant: You can go to college
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
UNC's Carolina Covenant program, unveiled a year ago in the hopes of making college more accessible to children of North Carolina's working poor, is expanding.
UNC expands program to help low-income students attend
N.C. Associated Press
The University of North Carolina is expanding a year-old program meant to allow the children of low-income families to attend college without going into debt.
UNC-CH to expand tuition aid
The News & Observer
Even more low-income students will have an opportunity to get a debt-free education at UNC-Chapel Hill next year, Chancellor James Moeser announced Wednesday during his annual state-of-the-university speech.
Moeser looks towards UNC's future
The Daily Tar Heel
As the University of Virginia and other public universities throughout the country take strides toward privatization, UNC is standing firm in its commitment to serving the state, the nation and the world.
Campus to expand low-income program
The Daily Tar Heel
Almost two months after inaugurating its first class of 225 students, the Carolina Covenant is set to expand its requirements and to make the University even more
accessible to the state's most impoverished students.
Broadcast note: News 14 (Time Warner), Carolina Week (which airs on Triangle area cable TV) and WCHL-AM covered the speech.
State of the University Address website:
http://www.unc.edu/chan/speech_archive/04stateofuniv.html
Carolina Covenant expansion news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sept04/covenant092904.html
Here is a sampling of other links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Weight Loss Surgery May Soon Be Paid by Medicare
The New York Times
Carmen J. Pirollo expected his latest attempt to lose weight would take a while....Dr. Russell Harris, an internist at the University of North Carolina who evaluated
weight loss studies for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of experts that advises the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, said
that when it came to surgery, the group decided, "we just don't know" what to recommend.
Recent spate of violence leaves parents battling fear
The Detroit News
With a killing at a Detroit day care on Tuesday and a student stabbed at Romeo High School the day before, the apprehensive mom or dad could be forgiven for
thinking it's nothing but a free-fire zone outside the front door.....A recent study at the University of North Carolina, for example, concluded that lack of safe
recreation in bad neighborhoods helped lead to obesity in young African-American girls, where they may of necessity spend too much time inside watching TV.
Housing Project Works to Help Sickle Cell Patients
"The Tavis Smiley Show" National Public Radio
This week is the National Sickle Cell conference in Atlanta....Dr. Marilyn Telen heads the joint Duke-University of North Carolina Comprehensive Sickle Cell
Center.
Ballantine, Easley get what they want in two debates
The Associted Press (National)
The major party candidates for North Carolina governor will hold two debates, one that allows the incumbent to talk education and another that lets the challenger focus on taxes....The first debate will let Easley, who has pushed for expanded education financing during his first term, highlight his considered successes, said Thad Beyle, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sports Concussions: New Guidelines Issued
WebMD
Tighter rules on team sports have cut injuries dramatically. To further protect athletes, a team of experts has issued a study and guidelines regarding concussions...."As sports become more of a fixture in the lives of Americans, a burden of responsibility falls on the shoulders of the various organizations, coaches, parents, clinicians, officials, and researchers to provide an environment that minimizes the risk of injury," writes researcher Kevin M. Guskiewicz, PhD, with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
State & Local Coverage
Now playing, free
The News & Observer
The comedy "Napoleon Dynamite" is still playing in movie theaters, but David Merrifield recently watched it on a 17-inch computer screen in his dorm room with a couple of buddies....At UNC-Chapel Hill, the university gets an average of three movie or music industry complaints a week regarding students who are illegally downloading, said Jeanne Smythe, director of computing policy.
Cornelia Phillips Spencer: Saint or villain at UNC?
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Was Cornelia Phillips Spencer a true heroine of UNC's history, even if she supported racial division in the South after the Civil War?
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sept04/reconstruction092104.html
NIH picks Duke prof for grant
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Homme Hellinga, a professor of biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center, is among nine research scientists from across the United States to win a
$500,000-a-year, five-year grant as part of a new series of innovation-pushing awards from the National Institutes of Health....UNC spokesman David Williamson, in
calling a news conference about the grants, said the Chapel Hill campus is getting three -- more than any other school.
Palestinian forum's speakers set
The News & Observer
The Palestine Solidarity Movement has released the slate of speakers for its controversial conference scheduled at Duke University in two weeks...The agenda
includes a panel of Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill faculty who will discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Rights, violated (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer
As a U.S. representative, as a parent and as a concerned citizen I could not help but wonder if you read a different version of the U.S. Department of Education's
report on UNC-Chapel Hill instructor Elyse Crystall than I did. (Sept. 23 news article "Federal probe clears UNC; But teacher went too far, U.S. says.")...Walter B.
Jones U.S. House of Representatives
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