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Sept. 12, 2005Carolina in the News
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people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage
Andy Griffith to donate personal items to UNC
The Associated Press (National)
Andy Griffith will donate manuscripts, television and film footage, and other memorabilia documenting his 55-year career to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ..."This generous donation will ensure that his legacy is forever intertwined with a university that is proud of his accomplishments and grateful for all that he has given back," Chancellor James Moeser said.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/griffith090905.htmWhat's next for displaced New Orleanians?
The Newhouse News Service
America is witnessing the largest instant migration in its history. ..."Always in the immediate aftermath of a disaster we have what is called a therapeutic community, where people want to help," said James Johnson, a geographer who is director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC News Tip: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/hurricane090205.htm
Trauma Surgeon Criticizes Federal System
The Associated Press (National)
His house on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans bears the name Tsa-La-Gi, "medicine man" in Cherokee. If he ever gets back to it, Dr. Norman McSwain may want to rename it "rain man." ..."He is an icon. He is unbelievably dedicated," said one trauma care physician who trained with him, Dr. Preston "Chip" Rich of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Regional Coverage
Nurses arrive in disaster zone
The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Ca.)
The long drive to Mississippi is over and the real work has begun. ...Waveland is in shambles, but something called "Camp Katrina" is intact and North Carolina physicians, from Duke, Wake-Forest and University of North Carolina had set up a field hospital.
State & Local Coverage
Stellar sounds from a new space
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The evening had all the elements of a Hollywood opening -- red carpet, rotating spotlights, dozens of photographers, tuxedoed gentlemen, glittering ladies, and celebrities emerging from limousines. The hoopla Saturday night was part of the re-opening ceremonies for UNC's Memorial Hall, expanded and redecorated after being closed 3 1/2 years. The event, one of three over the weekend, was an awards night, a stellar classical concert and a homecoming all in one.
Tony Bennett rings in new era for grand hall
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
With spotlights sweeping the sky and purple hues illuminating their entrance, a mix of big spenders, alumni and hard-core crooner fans showed up Friday night to see two cultural landmarks: UNC-Chapel Hill's extremely made-over Memorial Hall and the ageless Tony Bennett.
Singer Tony Bennett headlines reopening of Chapel Hill hall
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Singer Tony Bennett entertained 1,434 people who got seats for the grand reopening Friday of renovated Memorial Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Sometimes Andy just beats all
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Andy Griffith was so homesick, he could die. ..."It's time for me to pass this on to you folks," said Griffith, 79, as he held up scripts from The Andy Griffith Show during an announcement Friday at the university. The letters, postcards, film reels and playbills already gathered at UNC-Chapel Hill's Wilson Libra-ry offer only a taste of what's to come. University faculty and Griffith himself have yet to sort through boxes of keepsakes still sitting in Griffith's California house and his home in Manteo.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/griffith090905.htmGriffith helps reopen renovated Memorial Hall
The Chapel Hill News
With a proclamation by Chancellor James Moeser, brass fanfare and the cutting of a 20-foot Carolina blue ribbon, the newly renovated Memorial Hall was re-opened 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 Andy Griffith, in cutting the ribbon with a pair of oversized scissors.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/memorialdedication090805.htmN.C. clinic at heart of 'village'
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In recent days, a village has arisen around a field hospital that North Carolina's medical disaster network sent to this hurricane-shattered town. ..."Everyone realizes, and not just in a word way, that everyone is important," said Preston "Chip" Rich, division chief of trauma critical care at UNC Hospitals and medical director for the UNC Health Care system. "The guy who went and found us a washing machine is just as important -- maybe more important -- than anyone else because we have to have it to be able to stay here and get the job done."
Americans anxious, not resigned (Opinion-editorial column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Joanne Caye is a clinical assistant professor in the school of social work at UNC-Chapel Hill. She studies the effects of disasters on families and children. "I think that because of events and also to a degree the way our country has responded to those events -- 9/11, the aftermath of that -- I think there is a level of anxiousness or anxiety, and I'd probably go more toward anxiety and maybe some increase on our fear of strangers and fear of the unknown. I think people don't venture out as much as they used to.Givers clobber campus goals
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The carloads of toys and clothes just kept coming. And coming. ...At UNC-Chapel Hill, students and faculty at the School of Public Health contacted government agencies to lend their expertise. They were told to wait awhile until the situation in Louisiana and Mississippi stabilizes. In the meantime, they set about raising $10,000 for hurricane relief. It seemed an ambitious goal at the time, but by Friday, the school had already raked in $6,500.Flood victims and death penalty: there's a link (Opinion-editorial column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
There is no obvious connection between our government's disgraceful response to the devastation in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast communities and our state's repeated failure to declare a moratorium on executions until we can examine the fairness of the death penalty. ...For example in 2001, UNC professors Jack Boger and Isaac Unah issued a study in which they found that the odds that a person will receive the death penalty are 3.5 times greater if he kills a white person than if he kills a racial minority. Boger and Unah sent their study to the General Assembly, where it was officially ignored.Event revives students' memories of 9/11
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Travis Thompson was a freshman in high school on Sept. 11, 2001. He remembers sitting in computer class, watching the television after the school's principal announced over the public address system that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. ..."September 11th will forever be a time when the world stopped, and then had to move forward," Peggy Jablonski, UNC's vice chancellor for student affairs, told students. "Let us move forward with peace and love with each other."
Sept. 11 versus Dec. 7 (Opinion-editorial column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Today marks the end of four years since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The fourth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the other major attack on the United States, came on Dec. 7, 1945. What a difference in the nation's response to these two attacks! ...James C. Ingram is professor of economics, emeritus, at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Center opens; poverty tale prevails
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
When Sen. John Edwards launched his anti-poverty think tank in Chapel Hill last week, he was nearly upstaged by his introduction by Gail Agrawal, the interim dean of the UNC law school. Agrawal, a New Orleans native, told a gripping story of how she survived Hurricane Betsy in 1965 after a levee broke and flooded her home in the blue-collar district of St. Bernard Parish.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/povertycenter090205.htmEdwards' push against poverty has political benefits, pitfalls
The Associated Press (N.C.)
John Edwards says America is obliged to help the working poor escape the poverty cycle. ..."People in this country have to see this is a great moral cause," John Edwards said after a lecture earlier this week at the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina School of Law.
Related Link: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/12622123.htmChapel Hill gets hawkish on jaywalkers
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Footloose college students beware -- campus police are launching a campaign this fall to turn some peds into perps. ...There are about 26,000 students and 18,000 people who work at UNC-Chapel Hill, though not all are on campus every day. Between classes, when students often have just minutes to get to class, traffic on Cameron Avenue and South Road often backs up. Pedestrians can look like schools of fish crossing the street, often legally in marked crosswalks, and with lights when they exist.Now that Easley has found lottery success, what to do until '09?
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Since taking office in 2001, Gov. Mike Easley has pulled government out of a $1.6 billion shortfall while at the same time persuading lawmakers to pay for class-size reductions and his More at Four preschool program. ... "It's been pretty much the lottery, except for More at Four," said Thad Beyle, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
HIV drug created at UNC generates buzz
The Triangle Business Journal
Scientists and investors alike are closely watching the development of a new HIV drug, based on a discovery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, that could revolutionize the way the virus that causes AIDS is treated. ..."This is an entirely new way of treating the disease," says Scott Forrest, a technology development associate in the Office of Technology Transfer at UNC. "No other compounds are known to do this. The hope here is to be a first in class."
N.C. highway planners aiming to assist wildlife
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
With the dull thrum of traffic overhead, nature enthusiast John Kent sketches a mind's-eye journey along the muddy banks of New Hope Creek. ...In 2003, the latest year analyzed by UNC-Chapel Hill's Highway Safety Research Center, there were 15,456 deer-car collisions statewide, a 9.4 percent increase from the previous year. Ten people died in those wrecks, two more than the year before.
County to make decision on Syngenta incentives
The Greensboro News & Record
A local foundation and a business recruiter have paid a total of $300,000 to Guilford County that will likely end up with an agribusiness company as part of an unusual economic-incentives agreement forged five years ago. ...As long as its done above-board and everybody knows what everybody else is doing and there's no particular specific legal issue there, I'm not terribly troubled by the way the money is funneled, said Robert Adler, a lawyer who has worked in government and now teaches at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill.UNC team raising $30K for MS work
The Chapel Hill News
A local team of about 70 riders hopes to raise $30,000 from this weekend's Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina MS 150 Magical Mystery Bike Tour in New Bern. Chris Yankee, director of sales and marketing for UNC's Wellness Center at Meadowmont, assembled the team for the event.MS is still a mystery
The Chapel Hill News
Danielle Fain walked through UNC Hospitals' neurology clinic, stopping to talk with other nurses along the way. ...In the same office, Jennifer Smrtka, a nurse practitioner, works with MS patients and is helping with a study that looks at the effect of combining multiple treatments. The FDA has already approved the medications. But, Smrtka said, those drugs have not been tried in the combinations currently being studied. The trials are taking place at UNC and two other hospitals.
A breathtaking denial (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Rules gone wild aptly describes the state Medicaid office's denial of a promising, potentially life-saving lung transplant for cystic fibrosis sufferer Richard Glenn. ...Glenn, of course, is more than a big-ticket item for a burgeoning state Medicaid budget ($7.4 billion last year.) He's a fellow human whose life is at stake. The UNC treatment offers a better than even chance of saving it. UNC Hospitals is a top-flight medical and research facility, not a general hospital in some out-of-the-way county.
Study indicates Asian oyster not likely to be invasive in N.C.
The Jacksonville Daily News
Blue crabs sure go for those Asian oysters. ..."It doesn't mean the oyster couldn't become established; it means that there won't be a lot of adults to reproduce," said Charles Peterson, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine Sciences.
UNC doctor to give lecture
The Chapel Hill Herald
Joel Tepper, Hector MacLean Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research and chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the UNC School of Medicine, will give the 2005 Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture.
Making room for moms
The Chapel Hill News
Trevaughn Eubanks, a nursing mother who works at UNC's Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, pumps her breast milk three times a day in her office. ...In response to concerns from working mothers like Eubanks, the UNC Women's Center recently opened a lactation room in the back of the center at 134 E. Franklin St. Before it opened last semester, UNC had only one other official lactation room, a small, cramped facility on the second floor of the School of Public Health.
Issues & Trends
Billionaire proposes biotech center at N.C. textile site
The Associated Press (National)
Two years after nearby Kannapolis was the epicenter of the largest mass layoff in North Carolina history, hope may rise from the rubble of a massive demolished plant. ...Along with hundreds of former Pillowtex workers, Legg will join Murdock, University of North Carolina president Molly Broad and U.S. Rep. Robin Hayes, R-N.C., at Monday’s announcement. Hayes is the grandson of Charles Cannon, the man who for decades ran the textile company that became Pillowtex.
Related Link: http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/local_news/?AC=&ArID=102172&SecID=2
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/uncnutritioninstitute091205.htmThe Stage Is Set ...
The Independent Tribune (Concord)
California billionaire David Murdock will unveil on Monday the much anticipated economic development plans for the city of Kannapolis. ...According to a report by UNC’s Board of Governors President Molly Broad, Murdock wants four N.C. schools to work together on research of agriculture, health and medicine. The four potential schools would include North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Duke University.
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