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Sept. 19, 2005Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:International Coverage
The new face of New Orleans
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
Ashton O'Dwyer clutches his cellphone at a wrought-iron table in his driveway as the latest news streams across a generator-powered television. Sipping a mid-morning Bloody Mary, ice clinking against the glass, the attorney watches as his posh district bounces back to life. ...But urban planner Thomas Campanella of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill said New Orleans is worth saving. He says great cities have not been abandoned in recent times, even after disasters. Chicago was rebuilt after its Great Fire, as were San Francisco and Kobe, Japan, after their earthquakes.
UNC News Tip: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/hurricane090205.htmNational Coverage
Digital mammograms are better, but scarce
USA Today
Although a study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute has concluded that digital mammography is superior to film mammography for certain women, most candidates for the new screening technology will have a hard time finding it, at least at first. ...Digital equipment represents only about 8% of the U.S. mammography market, says Etta Pisano, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill radiologist who led the study. It was presented Friday at an American College of Radiology meeting in suburban Washington, D.C.
Related Link: http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/health/ny-
hsmamm174430025sep17,0,2443351.story?coll=ny-health-print
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/acrin091605.htm
Additional Coverage: The Miami Herald, The Associated Press, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Detroit Free Press, The Vancouver Sun, The Houston ChronicleSouthern exposure
The Boston Globe
Hurricane Katrina has taken its place as the worst natural disaster in American history, an immensity underlined by the unprecedented scope of the recovery plan outlined by President Bush in his speech from New Orleans' Jackson Square on Thursday night. ...''This event has pierced the reality of the ballyhooed 'Sunbelt' South in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama," said W. Fitzhugh Brundage, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of ''The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory," recently published by Harvard University Press.
Uninsured get medical care in Katrina's wake
The Associated Press (National)
Rocio Roberts’ right eye has a yellow tinge to it — 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.
UNC student fired for 'malpractice' in column on Arabs
The Associated Press (National)
A student journalist accused of misleading those she interviewed and taking quotes out of context in an inflammatory column about racial profiling of Arabs has been fired, the editor said. Columnist Jillian Bandes told three campus sources — two Arab students and a professor who teaches a course on Arabic — she was writing an article about Arab-American relations, Daily Tar Heel opinion editor Chris Coletta wrote in an article published Thursday.
Related Link: http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/17/State/Firing_puts_East_Lake.shtmlRegional Coverage
Katrina has left Gulf Coast poor at a 'fork in road'
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Once they tap out their FEMA debit cards and abandon their temporary shelters, Gulf Coast residents who were living in poverty before Hurricane Katrina obliterated their homes and livelihoods face a daunting challenge: starting over with even less. ...The mandatory evacuation of New Orleans went smoothly for about 80 percent of the population, who could flee by car. Those left behind were those always left behind, said Kathie Mullan Harris, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina who studies poverty and social policy.
No Katrina economic storm, yet
The Wisconsin State Journal
Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast. But it won't wreak havoc on the nation's economy or send the U.S. into a recession - at least, not yet, economists told a conference in Madison on Friday. What it will do, though, is force everyone to rethink their budgets to pay higher gasoline and home heating costs, said James Smith, director of the Center for Business Forecasting at The Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Health Care Mobile medical center lifesaver
The Clarion Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)
When Peg Campos' 15-year-old son, Bradley, stepped on a nail rummaging through the remains of their decimated weekend house in Bay St. Louis Saturday morning, she rushed him to the nearest emergency room: a tent city in the K-Mart parking lot. ...Dr. Wes Wallace, a specialist in emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was filling out charts for his patients Saturday. An expert in wilderness medicine and medicine in developing countries, Wallace runs a clinic in Panama. He said the quality of the facility in Waveland eclipses anything he's seen.
State & Local Coverage
UNC-Chapel Hill leader chosen for panel
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser has been appointed to a new National Security Higher Education Advisory Board. The board, announced Friday by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, will consist of the leaders of several prominent U.S. universities.
Moeser to serve on newly established advisory board
The Daily Tar Heel
Chancellor James Moeser has been selected to serve on a National Security Higher Education Advisory Board created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The creation of the board was announced Thursday and is designed to foster outreach and promote understanding between higher education institutions and the FBI.
Digital best for breast scans
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Digital mammography detects more breast cancer in younger women than the film cameras used in most radiology clinics, a large UNC study concludes. ..."Our study suggests that we will find more breast cancer with digital cameras than without. They are the types of cancers that kill women. We want to find those cancers," said Dr. Etta Pisano, the UNC radiologist and breast imaging specialist who led the research.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/acrin091605.htmStudy Touts use of digital mammograms
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Women who are under 50 years old, those who have had a menstrual period in the past year and those whose doctors categorize their breasts as dense should get digital mammograms when possible, according to a ground-breaking nationwide study presented Friday by UNC radiology professor Etta Pisano.
Note: No link available. For a copy, email Michelle at mgreene@dev.unc.edu.Kerouac's road still open (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
It was hard to be a beatnik in our small town in 1960. There were only two of us, but we gave it our best. Drank coffee we didn't like. Read poetry -- out loud! -- we didn't understand. Grooved on jazz. ...The manuscript is on display at Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill. Admission is free, and it will be there through mid-December.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/kerouac090105.htm
UNC plans to boost power plant capacity
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
UNC is moving forward with plans to upgrade and boost the capacity of its steam and power plant at the western end of Cameron Avenue. The project, which eventually would nearly double the power-generating capacity of the plant, is up for a public hearing Monday before the Town Council.
UNC medical outreach arm plans to grow
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Prompted by enrollment growth in several professional schools as well as statewide shortages of nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers, UNC's Area Health Education Centers program is planning a major expansion. ..."For us, it's a demand issue," said Robert Blouin, dean of the pharmacy school. An enrollment jump of 18 percent, he said, is "a pretty substantial increase."
Related link: Chancellor Moeser touched on AHEC's future plans in his State of the University speech last week; see www.unc.edu for the complete speech.The best way UNC can care (Editorial)
The Wilmington Morning Star
It has occurred to the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that the nation’s first public university should serve the people who help pay for it. Chancellor James Moeser announced Thursday that he’s set up a task force to ponder the matter. “Our commitment to engagement and public service is part of Carolina’s genetic code,” he said.
Scribes from 1800s reveal a rowdy UNC
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Before e-mail and instant messaging, students actually wrote diaries and letters home about their college experiences. A new online library collection called "True and Candid Compositions" tells what it was like to be a student at the University of North Carolina from 1795 to 1869. ...The project began 18 years ago, when UNC-CH English professor Erika Lindemann wanted to examine students' writing skills across the generations. Lindemann reviewed hundreds of documents and compiled 666 pages, but no one would publish it.
Edwards to focus on poverty during busy political weekend
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards said Friday that television images of the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina have brought the face of poverty in America into focus. ..."I think they get it - people who have been hurt understand and now recognize that we have to maintain the country's attention on this huge moral issue," said Edwards, a founder of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina School of Law.
Affordable housing initiative laudable (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC Chancellor James Moeser's annual State of the University address is always chock full of news. This year's speech brought forth a whole series of intriguing concepts. The university, Moeser announced, would raise $60 million to support merit-based scholarships. It would set up a task force to study ways that UNC can help North Carolinians improve their lives. It will work to help improve teaching and learning in the state's public schools.
Survivor clings to life
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Darlene Cogdill holds her breath each morning when she fishes 9-year-old Hailey Arrington out of a pile of blankets on her bed. ...Disabilities render about a third of them completely dependent, said Dr. Desmond Runyan, professor and chairman of social medicine at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Many others struggle with learning disabilities, tantrums and poor coordination.
Crying is normal; it will stop
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
It's 3 o'clock in the morning. The baby has been wailing for hours. The bottle won't pacify, and the lullaby isn't lulling. Mom is at her wits' end. ..."Unfortunately, it works," said Desmond Runyan, professor and chairman of the department of social medicine at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. "You shake the baby, he gets a slight concussion, and he goes to sleep."
Waiting for answers, mother perseveres
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Tyy Fritzky smiles, coos and wiggles like any other 8-month-old. The scar from where doctors slit open his head to drain blood has faded to pink. A batch of blond hair is growing around it. ...Doctors tell his mother, Nichole Fritzky, that it's too early to know whether Tyy's injuries will affect his development. Most tests on children as young as Tyy are unreliable, said Desmond Runyan, professor and chairman of social medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. But when he starts talking, therapists can give him an IQ test.
Blacks in a new world of jobs (Opinion-editorial column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Skilled and professional African-Americans face new competitive workforce challenges as corporations accelerate the "offshoring" of white-collar jobs. New economic survival strategies will be required if blacks are to thrive and prosper in the years ahead. ...James H. Johnson Jr. is William Rand Kena, Jr. distinguished professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School, and director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.
Ipod freebies multiply
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
When Carrie Knoeber was looking for ways to attract customers to open a checking account at RTP Federal Credit Union, the 26-year-old thought about what might entice her to open an account. ..."It's not just a device, it's almost an accessory," said Arvind Malhotra, an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at UNC-Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flager Business School.
Search ads find takers on Web
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," said Sri Kalyanaraman, a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Consumers with online access spend 34 percent of their total media time on the Web, according to Forrester Research.
When the advertising has a bug in it (Opinion column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
It's the giant bug that gets your attention. With spider legs and industrial-grade mandibles, the creature looks like an escapee from a bad B-grade movie. ...Tom Bowers, longtime advertising professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, says the expectations should be high. "I think readers ought to be able to expect the same standards of accuracy and truthfulness in the advertising as they expect in news columns and entertainment columns," said Bowers, who is serving as interim dean of the UNC journalism school. Ideally, he said, newspapers ought to be able to check out every advertiser, although "whether it's practical to do that, that's another question."
Devil in the details on Voyager
The Triangle Business Journal
Voyager Pharmaceutical, which has lured $50 million from wealthy individuals, has burned through $35 million of that on drug research - and plowed more than $3 million into buying CEO Patrick Smith's Florida mansion. ..."The main criticism during the late 1990s was that underwriters were giving shares to their friends, and shares were underpriced," says Jorg Rocholl, an assistant professor of finance at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
NCSU howls like wolf in raising $700M
The Triangle Business Journal
North Carolina State University has raised more than $700 million in its Achieve! campaign, nearly meeting in four years its original seven-year goal of $750 million. ...By comparison, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has set a $1.8 billion goal for 2007 and has raised $1.5 billion to date, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Riding rough
The Greensboro News & Record
Had he not turned his head, he may have made it to the restaurant. ...From the Outer Banks to the Blue Ridge Parkway, midlife riders find themselves wrecking at a growing rate, according to the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, which analyzed both federal and state crash data.
Prostate Cancer Awareness Action Team Reaches African-American Men
WRAL-TV, (CBS, Raleigh)
North Carolina has the highest prostate cancer death rate in the country. And, no one knows why. One study being conducted by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill is under way to find some answers.
UNC cracks down on jay-walkers
The Chapel Hill News
Footloose college students beware -- campus police are launching a campaign this fall to turn some peds into perps. To crack down on "jay-walking," pedestrians caught in the act could soon be ticketed by UNC police.
Editor: It’s time we moved on
The Daily Tar Heel
You all have heard about it by now. Many of you have e-mailed, called, blogged and discussed Jillian Bandes’ now-infamous column. My inbox is a veritable mountain of letters and I have been unable to attend class all week because of the amount of online feedback — now well more than 1,000 posts — that have needed to be moderated.
UNC sees improved workplace
The Daily Tar Heel
Two years after a campus task force convened to study ways to provide more benefits to University employees, most of its recommendations have come to fruition. From the reinstitution of a clerical training program for employees to a new laptop loan service, the recommendations from the Chancellor’s Task Force for a Better Workplace have enriched the working environment at UNC, said task force member Laurie Charest, who also is the associate vice chancellor for human resources.
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