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Sept. 23, 2005Carolina in the News
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UNC has problem that is pleasant
The Chapel Hill Herald
A provision in the state budget adopted by the General Assembly earlier this summer has left officials at UNC with a pleasant dilemma. ..."The question is, how many [students] can we grow and still teach them properly?" asked Jerry Lucido, vice provost for enrollment policy and management. "We've got to figure out how to do this."
UNC is set for more out-of-staters
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill will welcome more out-of-state students, beginning next fall. The university's Board of Trustees agreed Thursday to implement a controversial plan that was passed this summer as a special provision in the state budget. The law gives students who don't live in North Carolina in-state status if they have full scholarships. Consequently, those non-North Carolinians won't count against the UNC system's 18 percent limit on out-of-state freshmen.
Tuition policy gets green light
The Daily Tar Heel
The University’s Board of Trustees moved forward Thursday on a plan to allow out-of state students attending UNC-Chapel Hill on full scholarships to pay in-state tuition rates. ...“No North Carolinian will be turned away who otherwise would have been admitted to this University,” Chancellor Moeser said during the meeting.
Plan is to ease school entry
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
They've got some land, more than $2 million and a plan to revolutionize public schools. The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill also wants to partner with one of the state's top-ranked school systems, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. ...The institute recently finished a major study showing that although more U.S. school systems have pre-kindergarten programs, some are just "not very good," said Don Bailey, director of the institute.
UNC forum focuses on disaster response
The Chapel Hill Herald
While forecasters tracked the path of the latest Category 4 storm to threaten U.S. coasts, UNC professors and staff gathered Thursday night to discuss the impact of Hurricane Katrina. ...Of the seven panelists, the two who garnered the most attention from the audience were Preston Rich, trauma medical director of the UNC Health Care System, and Michele Rudisill, coordinator of the MidCarolina Trauma Regional Advisory Committee. They both recently returned from serving at a field hospital in one of the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Old hate, new lens
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Mark Twain used to say that history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. DJ Spooky has a slightly different take on that: History doesn't repeat or rhyme so much as it echoes. Finding echoes of the present in the past is an aesthetic that the New York conceptual musician applies to "Rebirth of a Nation," his provocative multimedia "remix" of the 1915 movie "The Birth of a Nation." Spooky will present an hour-long deconstructed version distilled from the three-hour-plus original tonight in UNC-Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall, complete with a new soundtrack (to view a sample online, go to http://www.djspooky.com/art/birth.html).
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/spooky091605.htmWomen's Health
"Healthwise," UNC-TV
Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, associate professor of nutrition and maternal and child health, Dr. Lisa Carey, associate professor of medicine in the UNC School of Medicine’s Division of Hematology/Oncology, and Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, assistant professor in UNC's department of psychiatry, were featured on UNC-TV Thursday (Sept. 22) as a part of the station's Healthwise series. According to an August 2005 report, 28% of North Carolina women get no regular exercise and one in four is considered obese by standard criteria. On Healthwise: Women's Health, host Christine Rogers leads a panel of experts in women's health in a focus on the highlights of the study and discuss the areas where women's health needs improvement and how to accomplish it.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug05/reportcardrelease080805.htmCorporate think
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Enlightened self-interest has its benefits. ..."All the people that hate Wal-Mart must be really, really unhappy," said Robert Lauterborn, professor of advertising at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
100-calorie snacks are convenient, but at what cost?
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
They do the math. Concerned about how many calories you're taking in, but too busy to actually count them?
...While the smaller packs may help some consumers relearn what a reasonable portion size is for snacks, "they really don't help in achieving a healthy overall diet," says Barbara Laraia, research assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.
Rockingham County lays vision for the future
The Greensboro News & Record
The Rockingham County commissioners moved quickly Thursday to push the county's new courthouse and emergency operations center forward, then jumped into a daylong discussion of what they want the county to be. ...With the routine business of government behind it, the board -- aided by UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government professors Bill Rivenbark and Carl Stenberg -- set out to craft its vision of a future Rockingham County.
Joe Straley, activist and former UNC physics professor, dies at 90
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Joe Straley came to Chapel Hill to teach physics at the university in the late 1940s, and started working for change not long after his arrival. ...Dan Pollitt, a professor of law emeritus at UNC, worked together with Mr. Straley on a range of social justice issues over the years, right up to the war in Iraq.
Issues & Trends
Partnership toward research takes roots (Opinion-editorial column)
The Miami Herald
With Scripps Florida set to break ground at its Palm Beach County headquarters today , the news from the fledgling biomedical research institute is promising. ...The unique and different strengths of North Carolina State University, UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke have been key to the success of that state's vaunted Research Triangle Park. There's no reason Florida's universities can't play a similar role in ensuring Scripps' success, and vice versa.
Downtown suffers from false perception (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
C'mon downtown. Don't be scared. Come eat and shop and walk around and enjoy. Bring the family. Really, it's not that dangerous.
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