Sept. 16, 2005

Carolina in the News

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

International Coverage

Digital mammograms better than film for some-study
Reuters News Service
Digital mammograms are more accurate at detecting breast cancer than traditional film mammograms in women who are premenopausal, under age 50, or who have dense breasts, according to results from a study of nearly 43,000 women released on Friday. ... Other women should stick with film mammograms, said Dr. Etta Pisano, the study's lead author (and radiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
Additional International coverage: Globe and Mail (Canada)
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/acrin091605.htm

National Coverage

Digital Mammograms Offer New Options
The Associated Press (National)
Newer mammograms that allow doctors to use digital imaging to help spot cancer are better than standard X-rays for young women and those with dense breasts, but not for most post-menopausal women, a landmark study led by a North Carolina researcher concludes. ...For all other women, "film is just as good," said Dr. Etta Pisano, a radiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who led the study.
Related Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091600559.html
Additional National coverage: Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, MSNBC, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Beloit Daily News (Wis.), The Centre Daily Times (Pa.), Albany Times Union (N.Y.), Tuscaloosa News (Ala.), ABC News, CBS News

Evacuee clinics reveal long-neglected illnesses
The Associated Press (National)
Rocio Roberts' right eye has a yellow tinge – a possible sign of liver disease. It's worried her for two years, but she never had the money to see a doctor about it. ..."They're having acute problems that sort of force the issue," said Edwin Fisher, chairman of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.

Government watchdog groups say constitutional amendment will help budget process
The Associated Press (National)
A proposed constitutional amendment to give more power to the Legislature in creating state budgets would match the system in most other states and help get a budget passed on time, government watchdog groups said Thursday. ...But Quattlebaum said a survey by a University of North Carolina professor and other works found New York gives its governor more power than most others.

Napster Announces College Deals
The Los Angeles Business Journal
In what could mean a significant increase in its subscriber base, Napster Inc. announced Thursday that the University of California, California State University and the University of North Carolina will allow it to offer the company’s subscription music downloading service to students.

Column supports profiling Arabs
The Washington Times
Some spirited prose justifying racial profiling cost a University of North Carolina student her job as a columnist for the campus newspaper. ... "This was a teachable moment. This writer used bits of direct quotes which were accurate, but out of a larger context," said Jock Lauterer, who teaches community journalism and newswriting at the school.

State & Local Coverage

Several Triangle media outlets covered Chancellor James Moeser's "State of the University" speech Thursday. For a full text of the speech, go to www.unc.edu. Select coverage links follow.

Moeser: UNC to aid N.C.
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill can and will do more to serve the state, Chancellor James Moeser said in a speech Thursday to faculty, staff and students. ..."We have a responsibility to continue leading and probing with humility and curiosity for opportunities to match our resources with the state's needs," Moeser said. "Our commitment to engagement and public service is part of Carolina's genetic code."
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/stateofuniversity091505.htm

UNC to build affordable housing
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC is about to get into the housing development business. UNC Chancellor James Moeser announced plans Thursday to build 140 affordable housing units on a piece of land that was part of the stalled Winmore development. Aside from dormitories for students, this will represent UNC's first foray into the housing market, although not its last. It plans to build more houses in the future when it starts its massive Carolina North development.

A global outlook
The Daily Tar Heel
In the past Chancellor James Moeser has used his State of the University address to outline bold campus-based initiatives. ...“North Carolina must compete in this global economy,” Moeser said. “So it is absolutely critical that its flagship university be a player on the world stage. We must be engaged internationally.”

Funding drive launched
The Daily Tar Heel
Although Chancellor James Moeser's State of the University address focused on global outreach, he made sure the importance of student needs was not lost. He launched an initiative to further draw qualified students to campus.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/meritdrive091505.htm

Arts series gets challenge grant
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust has given a $5 million challenge grant, to be matched dollar for dollar, to UNC Chapel Hill to establish a new endowment for the university's Carolina Performing Arts Series.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/kenanartsendow091405.htm

Grant to add funding for arts
The Daily Tar Heel
A new challenge grant for $5 million will help provide a stable source of funding for the Carolina Performing Arts Series. But the University community is going to have to work for that money. The William R. Kenan Jr. charitable trust initially will give $2.5 million to UNC. The University then must raise $5 million before the end of the Carolina First Campaign on June 30, 2007.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/kenanartsendow091405.htm

Column on Arabs strikes a nerve at UNC
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The dismissal of a writer from a student newspaper over a controversial column usually would stir a tempest only on campus. But not at UNC-Chapel Hill, a frequent battleground in the national culture wars.

UNC student newspaper columnist fired
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
A columnist for UNC's student newspaper has been fired following the publication of a controversial opinion piece that, at the outset, suggests that all Arabs "be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport."
Related Link: http://newsobserver.com/news/ncwire_news/story/2795968p-9236650c.html

Behind the scenes at 'Wait, wait'? Do tell
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Watching the taping of a radio show offers a glimpse behind the curtain of airwaves, warts and all. Roughly 800 audience members filled Memorial Hall on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus Thursday night for National Public Radio's "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me." They got more than the usual earful.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/wait091505.htm

Flying High
"The State of Things," National Public Radio
Clyde Edgerton was featured on today's (Sept. 16) edition of "The State of Things" to discuss his new book, "Solo: My Adventures in the Air" (Shannon Ravenel Books/Algonquin/2005). Clyde was born and raised near Durham, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is familiar to listeners as the author of eight novels, numerous articles and columns, and as a general lover of baseball, music, drama and North Carolina bon vivant.

Knowing quality health care when you buy it
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
It was billed as a "Town Hall Meeting" to talk about ways consumers could make sure of buying quality health care, but most area health care consumers were working during Thursday morning's first of three national sessions by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). ...William Roper, CEO of UNC Health Care, vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of UNC's School of Medicine, hosted the event. He's been on the national radar for years, as former director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator for the Health Care Finance Administration, predecessor to today's Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.

UNC Hospitals probed after refusing to see boy who lost fingertip
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The federal government is reviewing whether UNC Hospitals violated federal law by refusing care to a toddler from rural Bladen County whose fingertip eventually had to be amputated. ...UNC Hospitals turned down Lanier's transfer request because she had said the child was a possible candidate for reimplantation and the Chapel Hill medical center doesn't do such procedures, said Karen McCall, spokeswoman for UNC Hospitals' parent, UNC Health Care. Reimplantation is more complex than reattachment because it involves reconnecting nerves and repairing blood vessels and muscle.

They pay if you click
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
If you type "e-mail marketing" into Google's search engine, Bronto Software appears under "sponsored links." ..."We are starting to see people who say they spend more time on the Web than with any other media," Isaid Sri Kalyanaraman, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Children's museum finds home
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Laughing Turtle Home will be filled with laughing toddlers by early next year. ...Students studying education or working with the UNC-Chapel Hill Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute provide a ready pool of volunteers and interns, Wiegerink-Clossick said.

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