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Sept. 9, 2005Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage
Road salting makes streams more like seawater
CNET News
After reviewing several years of data on the chemistry of freshwater supplies in three separate regions, University of North Carolina geology professor Lawrence Band and a group of colleagues found that road salting, combined with suburban sprawl, is causing the salinity in streams, lakes and wells in the studied regions to increase.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/band090205.htmChildhood Depression Tricky to Treat
Forbes
Although depression is common among children and adolescents, treating it can be problematic, with little in the way of scientific evidence to guide the use of antidepressants, a new report finds. ..."When we talk about treating depression, we shouldn't be limited to medication," said Dr. Robert N. Golden, a professor and chairman of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina. "Psychotherapy is also very effective."
Boston team helps hospital
The Boston Globe
A casino cook showed up with a beet-red infection climbing up his leg, possibly from bacteria left behind by flood waters. A volunteer from Pennsylvania nicked his lip with a chainsaw while clearing a tree off a roof. A woman who said her doctor was still missing came in desperate to refill her anti- anxiety medicine. ...Young, who trained at Boston Medical Center and now is on the emergency medicine faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also gave five stitches to a woman who gashed her leg on a bag of broken glass while she was cleaning her house.
Regional Coverage
No shelter from storm of issues
The Albany Times Union (N.Y.)
Hurricane Katrina is forcing citizens to face this question: What do we value? ...Certainly, Katrina prompted "some incredibly heroic and altruistic acts," said Douglas MacLean, director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
State & Local Coverage
UNC-Chapel Hill reopens Memorial Hall
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
With a proclamation by UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser, brass fanfare and the cutting of a 20-foot Carolina blue ribbon, the newly renovated Memorial Hall was reopened Thursday. "We welcome the return of this great old building, now a great new building, to the core of this university," Moeser said shortly before joining UNC dignitaries, including alumnus and actor Andy Griffith, in cutting the ribbon with a pair of oversized scissors.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/memorialdedication090805.htmCritic's Picks - Classical
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The week's big news is the re-opening of UNC-Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall after renovations. Gala concerts were indeed open to the public, but tickets were impossible to come by earlier this week.
Students will rock Memorial Hall
The Chapel Hill Herald
For as long as Lauren Pope has been a UNC student, Memorial Hall has been under construction. But this Sunday the junior business and Spanish major -- and president of the UNC Ballroom Dance Club -- will be performing on Memorial's stage, along with 225 other students in a free, day-long event to celebrate the hall's weekend gala opening.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/carolina.performs090705.htmUNC's Memorial Hall reopens after three year renovation
News 14
A landmark at UNC-Chapel Hill is opening its doors to the public again this weekend. ..."The fact that we are reaching this milestone of opening this beautiful building that has for so long been the central gathering place for this campus is just exciting,” said UNC-Chapel Hill Executive Director for the Arts Emil Kang.
Basketball players reach out to others
The Chapel Hill Herald
Four local organizations are getting a timely assist from the UNC men's basketball team, in the form of $70,000 in donations. ... The team has given $15,000 of the funds to the Inter-Faith Council for Social Services, specifically for the men's shelter and kitchen that the IFC operates on West Rosemary Street. In addition, a department at UNC Hospitals will receive $35,000 and the team is donating $10,000 to the local Ronald McDonald House and another $10,000 to a scholarship fund for needy North Carolina students at UNC, McGrath said.
Taking care of their own
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Along the busted, limb-littered roads of the Gulf Coast region, five mobile homes are making their way to families whose lives were uprooted by nature's fury. ..."Gargantuan companies, they can leverage their 20-ton gorilla status to make things happen," said Jim Johnson, a professor with UNC-Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Transplant is his only hope to live
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A lung transplant may or may not save Richard Glenn's life, but he's likely never to know. ...In a letter to state Medicaid officials, Dr. Thomas Egan, a transplant surgeon and associate division chief for general thoracic surgery at UNC, wrote that a transplant for Glenn was "justified."
Biases eyed in Wake Forest
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Like many of her low-income neighbors in northeast Wake Forest, Armenta Richardson, 55, does not have a car. ...Her experience has become common among low-income residents in Wake Forest, according to a recent study of the town conducted by a group of graduate students from UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Public Health.
Pop culture curricula edging out traditional study
The Greensboro News & Record
It takes about an hour to drive from Chapel Hill, ground zero for North Carolinas public universities, to N.C. A&T and UNCGs home bases on Market Street. ...The future is also a concern for leaders of some of UNC-CHs new programs. Take Latino studies, a year-old minor that spans 10 disciplines -- including English, journalism, and public policy . Its meant to shed light on the areas burgeoning Latino population. By and large, what you have is a population that contributes immensely to the work force -- but they're not living off the fat of the land, said English professor Maria DeGuzman, who directs the program .
Aberdeen Proceeds on Midway Grant
The Southern Pines Pilot
Aberdeen is moving forward with a plan to bring sewer service to all of the Midway community. ...But after the meeting, Holland said he and lawyers from the UNC Center for Civil Rights met with Zell the day before Zell found out about the grant and pressed him to move on the issue.
Peeling the Orange
The Chapel Hill Herald
A nice aesthetic and natural touch soon will be added to the stark white monolith of the Eddie Smith Field House on South Road just west of UNC's School of Government Building. Latticework has been erected on the front, on which vines will soon be planted. The $5 million building, an indoor track and football practice facility, was erected five years ago with the aid of the Smith family's philanthropy.
Issues & Trends
UNC system waives tuition for displaced
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Hurricane-displaced college students who end up at the state's public universities won't have to worry about another tuition bill this semester. On Thursday, the UNC system's Board of Governors voted to waive tuition and required fees this fall for students whose Gulf Coast colleges have shut down after the Hurricane Katrina disaster. So far, 65 students from the storm region have enrolled in the North Carolina system's 16 universities, said UNC President Molly Broad.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/katrina090105.html
UNC waives tuition for displaced students
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The 100 or so displaced New Orleans college students expected to wind up at a UNC system campus this semester now have one less thing to worry about. Tuition for all students -- North Carolinians and out-of-staters alike -- who spent the last week frantically seeking out a stop-gap semester of college education at one of the state's 16 public universities can now attend without paying tuition or fees. The UNC system's Board of Governors officially waived those charges Thursday.
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