Sept. 14, 2005

Carolina in the News

Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:

National Coverage

India's MBA Gold Rush
Business Week
Vineet Kapur, a native of India, is a man of tradition. That's why he followed his grandfather and father by going abroad in search of a good education. ...The Class of 2007 at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill boasts its highest number of Indian students in the past seven years, with a total of 20 out of about 275.

Dreams are emerging of a 'new' New Orleans
USA Today
Three days after the New Orleans flood walls broke on Aug. 29, a visit to his hometown left Harry Connick Jr. feeling desperate. ..."As long as they've been around, cities have been flooded, burned, shaken by earthquakes or otherwise destroyed," says Thomas Campanella, a professor of urban planning at the University of North Carolina and co-editor of The Resilient City, a 2005 book that examined the revival of a dozen once-devastated cities. What ensures a city's recovery, he says, is the "extent to which (its) social and cultural fabric persists."

The Cellular Church
The New Yorker
....Not long ago, the sociologist Christian Smith [UNC-Chapel Hill], decided to find out what American evangelicals mean when they say that they believe in a a "Christian America." The phrase seems to suggest that evangelicals intend to erode the separation of church and state. But when Smith asked a representative sample of evangelicals to explain the meaning of the phrase, the most frequent explanation was that America was founded by people who sought religious liberty and worked to establish religious freedom.... "In other words," Smith writes, "the belief that America was once a Christiannation does not necessrily mean a commitment tomaking it a 'Christian' nation today, whatever that might mean."
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Regional Coverage

College dining takes a giant leap into the present
The New Jersey Star-Ledger
When chef Sebastian Nieto of Rutgers University in New Brunswick tosses off a few medallions of lamb with quince, polenta, Asian pears and a malbec sauce, he isn't really showing off. ...At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the new "grocery" centers carry everything from a high-end selection of imported cheese, such as Brie and Asiago, to organic fruits and vegetables.

State & Local Coverage

Andy Griffith to donate personal collection to UNC's Southern Historical Collection
The Outer Banks Sentinel (Nagshead)
Television and film star Andy Griffith, one of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's most famous alumni, is donating his personal collection chronicling his successful career to the university's Southern Historical Collection. Griffith and university officials announced the donation last week. It will create a new Andy Griffith Collection, at a news conference on the UNC campus.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/griffith090905.htm

How to Watch a Hearing
"Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio
Michael Gerhardt, professor of law, University of Chapel Hill at North Carolina and author of The Pressure of Precedent and The Federal Appointments Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis, was featured on Monday's (Sept. 12) edition of "Talk of the Nation." For Washington insiders, congressional hearings can be as compelling as great theater, as exciting as a major sports event. But for the rest of us, it's easy to lose track of the important points amid all the rhetoric. Gerhardt discusses how to watch a confirmation hearing.

Chapel Hill targets carbon emissions
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Chapel Hill Town Council joined the Community Carbon Reduction Project on Monday night, pledging to cut the town's carbon emissions 60 percent by 2050. Douglas Crawford-Brown, director of the Carolina Environmental Program at UNC-Chapel Hill, pitched the idea to the council, saying some of his students are working with Cambridge, England, on a similar effort.

Students weigh in on Carolina North
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Students for a Progressive Chapel Hill, a UNC-Chapel Hill group active in local politics, called on Chancellor James Moeser to responsibly develop Carolina North, the university's planned research campus.

'Rebel Rose' a spy for the ages
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The handwriting and the spelling were so poor in the 19th-century diary that many of the entries had a cryptic quality to them. ...Jones, curator emeritus of the North Carolina Collection, discovered the diary in the state archives in 1965 buried in the papers of David L. Swain, a former governor and president of the University of North Carolina. It was unsigned and untitled. But the woman's bold, black script made an impression on the archivist.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug05/friends082305.htm

Tempeh fills bill as a substantial tofu substitute
The Charlotte Observer
You've probably heard of tofu, that odorless, flavorless block of soybean curd usually associated with health food stores. ...Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy at UNC.

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