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Sept. 15, 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
Nominee Is Standing on Precedent, and Setting His Own, With Hearing Responses
The New York Times
Time and again, as he has danced his way around questions on issues like the right to privacy and the right to die, Judge John G. Roberts Jr. has looked to the past, saying he is simply following the precedent of Supreme Court nominees who have come before him and will become his colleagues if he is confirmed. ...Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, said that Judge Roberts had indeed been more expansive than Justice Scalia, but not by much.
UNC News Tip: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/nomination071905.htmKatrina 'war room' in gear
USA Today
Sometime Friday, a brand-new, 100-bed hospital will open its doors to patients on a parking lot next to the shuttered Mardi Gras Party Shop in hurricane-battered Gulfport, Miss. ...No detail is too small for Op Center staff to handle. Kamoie even agreed to reimburse North Carolina about $200 to fix a flat tire that temporarily halted a convoy transporting another mobile hospital to Gulfport from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Faith - Students hit the (holy) books
The Washington Examiner
High school starts at 7:30 a.m., but 26 students in Bristow, Va., squeeze in an extra hour of learning starting at 6. ...For one thing, Mormon teens are about one-third more likely than even conservative Protestant teens to hold religious beliefs similar to those of their parents, according to the National Study of Youth and Religion, an ongoing six-year study conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
State & Local Coverage
State travel restrictions lifted, but Moeser urges conservation
The Chapel Hill Herald
Although the state's travel restrictions have been lifted, UNC is still urging its professional schools and academic departments to use gasoline judiciously. In an e-mail distributed widely this week, Chancellor James Moeser called on UNC employees to continue limiting the use of state vehicles and once again endorsed commuting alternatives such as park-and-ride lots and carpooling.
Wait, wait ... they're funny!
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Peter Sagal, host of National Public Radio's "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me," is used to interviewing well-known media-savvy wits, but he has a different preference. ...Sagal, along with judge/scorekeeper (and UNC alumnus) Carl Kasell are bringing "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me" to UNC's Memorial Hall for live tapings today and Friday with a veteran panel of Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts and Roy Blount Jr. Authors Lee Smith (Thursday) and Clyde Edgerton (Friday) are scheduled to participate in the "Not My Job" segments.
UNC News Release: www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/wait091505.htm
NPR newsman to show lighter side in return to UNC
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Veteran newscaster Carl Kasell can do a reasonable impression of Marilyn Monroe's sugary little-girl voice and a high-pitched Monica Lewinsky. But after more than four years, he hasn't nailed his George Bush. Kasell, a Goldsboro native and 1956 graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, is one of National Public Radio's most "visible" voices. He's the morning newscaster who delivers the headlines on the hour from 5 to 11 a.m.
'Road' manuscript travels to UNC-Chapel Hill
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Jim Canary, a rare-book conservator from Indiana University, gingerly and reverently unrolled the scroll of Jack Kerouac's original, typed manuscript of "On the Road" Wednesday afternoon like a rabbi would handle a Torah. ...Charles McNamara, curator of rare books at UNC-Chapel Hill, said he has worked for two years to bring Kerouac's scroll to the university to draw attention to the school's large Beat material collection. UNC, he said, has one of the largest in the country, about 10,000 items. It includes photos of Kerouac taken by his friend and fellow Beat, Allen Ginsberg, as well as poems and letters from Kerouac's first wife, Eddie Parker. The exhibit will include some of these materials, McNamara said.
Related Link: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2795682p-9236451c.html
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/kerouac090105.htm'On the Road' scroll rolls into UNC
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Beat writer Jack Kerouac was on a roll. ...The complete first draft of Kerouac's semi-autobiographical road trip novel, on a four-year international tour, arrived at UNC's Wilson Library Wednesday. It will be on display there until Dec. 17, and visitors can examine 48 feet of the scroll that helped shape a generation.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/kerouac090105.htmSixty years of lovin' Andy (Opinion column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...It's been a little more than 60 years since a curly-headed kid from Mount Airy came to school and started building an enduring career in show business that would take him from Broadway to the big screen to the small screen, where, in 1960, he would begin "The Andy Griffith Show," which was to be, simply put, one for the ages. He's been spending the weekend in Chapel Hill with his wife, Cindy, to help the old school celebrate the renovation of Memorial Hall, where he first performed. And he's donating his archives to the alma mater.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/griffith090905.htmLaw school students team up to help Katrina victims
News 14
Law school students from Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill have teamed up to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Students from both universities organized a donation drive at Duke University. They worked to fill an 18-wheel truck with supplies.
Roses & (no) Raspberries (Opinion)
The Chapel Hill News
Roses to UNC astronomer Daniel Reichart, who recently moved science an important step toward one of its most coveted goals: attaching a time to the birth of the universe.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/reichartsoar091205.htmNorth Carolina books entertain and teach (Opinion column)
The Chapel Hill News
Last spring I introduced the first 10 programs in UNC-TV's current "North Carolina Bookwatch" season. Those programs have aired. ...UNC-Chapel Hill professor Gerhard Weinberg's "Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders" looks into the minds of Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo to find what they would have done if they had won the war. Weinberg also looks at the victory plans of Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, de Gaulle, and Chiang Kai shek (Nov. 13).
UNC students remember victims
The Chapel Hill News
ravis 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."
OWASA says its water tastes fine
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Dasani drinkers and Aquafina fans, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority has an alternative to those convenient, sized-to-quench bottles with the fancy labels. ...Milton Heath Jr., the board's vice chairman and a professor of public law and government at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Government, said that he doesn't want to challenge the bottled-water industry and that a state law barring government from competing with private enterprise may prohibit a direct challenge to the industry.
Orange intersection crossing flags come down
The Chapel Hill Herald
Town crews removed the orange flags and related signs at two local intersections Wednesday, after a brief experiment with the flags as a way to increase pedestrian safety. ...But after a slim majority of the Town Council decided to try the flags at the two intersections, the Highway Safety Research Center at UNC Chapel Hill noted several concerns.
Coaches vs. Professors
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The following figures show the salaries for the assistant football coaches at N.C. State compared to the salaries of the 10 highest-paid faculty members at the school. ...UNC football staff...
Underpaid judges (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Regarding your Sept. 14 Sports section article "Top-dollar assistants" and the data comparing the top salaries of N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill assistant football coaches with those of professors at each university: All of these individuals are state employees. I don't have a problem with the salaries of these coaches or professors per se.
Medicaid's denial (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
I'm the patient mentioned in the Sept. 9 article "Transplant is his only hope to live," about Medicaid's refusal to cover a life-saving operation. ...Obviously, they haven't done this, as the article mentioned my guaranteed fate if I don't get that transplant. People literally "cannot live" with their guidelines, which are countered by UNC Hospital's proven track record with these surgeries.
Boy lost fingertip after care denied
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
One afternoon in March, Claudine Lee rushed her 20-month-old son to the only hospital in rural Bladen County, the tip of his right pinkie hanging by a flap of skin. ...UNC turned Lanier down because she had said the child was a possible candidate for reimplantation -- and UNC doesn't do such procedures, said Karen McCall, vice president of public affairs for UNC Health Care, parent of UNC Hospitals.
Franklin Street gem
The Chapel Hill News
There won’t be any television cameras. No hunky handymen or dreamy designers, either. ...Nestled in one of Chapel Hill’s three historical districts, it was built for the family of a UNC professor and eventually became a boarding house for students.
Issues & Trends
Bright Prospect (Editorial)
The Winston-Salem Journal
It's nice to have friends who are worth $1.7 billion. ...It appears that the General Assembly will jump on board with an affiliated University of North Carolina research center. That center, expected to cost $16 million, will eventually cost taxpayers $25 million a year to run. It will house research operations for both UNC Chapel Hill and N.C. State University. It might also house a worker-training facility operated by the community college system.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/uncnutritioninstitute091205.htm###
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Produced by News Services, Carolina in the News is an e-mail sampling of current news media coverage about Carolina people and programs, as well as issues and trends that affect the university. Stories usually will be online and available free for a limited time - often one to two weeks. Expiration dates before stories move to archives vary by media outlet. Some outlets require free user registration or a subscription.
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Please share any questions, comments or suggestions at news@unc.edu.