Sept. 27, 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

Nearly 6,000 Docs Displaced by Katrina
The Associated Press (National)
Nearly 6,000 doctors along the Gulf Coast were uprooted by Hurricane Katrina in the largest displacement of physicians in U.S. history, university researchers reported Monday. ..."We don't know what this is going to mean to health care," said Dr. Thomas Ricketts, who led the study by researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "We've never had to deal with something like this before."
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/ricketts092605.htm
Additional coverage: Newsday, The Washington Post, Newsweek, ABC News, The Chicago Sun-Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Miami Herald, The Biloxi Sun Herald (Miss.), San Luis Obispo Tribune (Calif), The San Francisco Chronicle, The Myrtle Beach Sun News, The Centre Daily-Times (Penn.), The Wilkes Barre Times-Leader (Pa.), The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas)

Regional Coverage

Foul Water Likely Missed Bay Area
The Tampa Tribune (Fla.)
With the flooding in New Orleans comes polluted waters leaching into the Gulf of Mexico. ...Heavy rains in the New Orleans area also would make it possible to varying degrees for organisms to better cope with the toxins, said Seth R. Reice, a biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/reice4091605.htm

Hurricane victims likely to face emotional fallout
WSMV-TV (Nashville, Tenn.)
In the aftermath of the hurricane, we've all seen the violence, frustration and desperation. ..."People who out of frustration and lack of support, they just run out of gas they can't take it any more they need the child to be quiet and they shake them," said UNC Child Abuse Researcher Dr. Desmond Runyan.
Related Link: http://www.king5.com/health/stories/NW_090205HEnbc_mentalhealthEL.1c7b9986.html
UNC News Tip: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/hurricane090205.htm

Leverage universities to transform state economy (Opinion-editorial column)
The Des Moines Register (Iowa)
We know how to plant, grow and harvest a crop in Iowa. Can we also grow a high-technology economy? ...Once there was the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State and Duke and little between them. Now, there is Research Triangle Park.

State & Local Coverage

Nearly 6,000 Docs Displaced by Katrina
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Nearly 6,000 doctors along the Gulf Coast were uprooted by Hurricane Katrina in the largest displacement of physicians in U.S. history, university researchers reported Monday. ..."We don't know what this is going to mean to health care," said Dr. Thomas Ricketts, who led the study by researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "We've never had to deal with something like this before."
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/ricketts092605.htm
Additional Coverage: The Winston-Salem Journal, The Wilmington Morning Star, The Lexington Dispatch, UNC-TV, WUNC-FM

Much-needed housing (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill's plan to build faculty and staff housing on a portion of a 63-acre tract was characterized as housing for lower-income faculty and staff members in your Sept. 22 article "UNC plans concern residents." ...Dwayne L. Pinkney, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Carolina North moves closer to reality (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
It's still not clear when exactly, and we're not yet sure of what precisely, but it should finally be obvious to all that Carolina North will happen. UNC's mammoth satellite campus for the center of Chapel Hill will be a reality.

Task force will study idea to give tuition autonomy
The Associated Press (N.C.)
After a struggle this summer over who has the authority to set tuition at the state's two largest research universities, a panel will begin work this week on a new tuition policy for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and N.C. State University. ..."The state really needs to recognize that its flagships require the tools to be competitive with both the public flagships in other states as well as the great privates," UNC-CH Chancellor James Moeser said.

Segregation slips in
The Charlotte Observer
Those who vividly recall the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and '60s will be struck by a strange collision of facts: While public opinion polls consistently show increased racial tolerance by whites and continued residential integration, Southern schools are resegregating at a steady clip. ...The implications are troubling, says UNC law professor Jack Boger, co-editor of a new book of essays released by UNC Press in conjunction with the Harvard study. Unless Southern leaders "act decisively to assure that their schools remain diverse, many of the positive economic, social and political gains experienced in the past 30 years will be jeopardized by the new segregation of Southern Schools," he said.

Making the incentive visible, accountable
The Greensboro News & Record
Economic incentives change from city to city, day to day and deal to deal. ...North Carolina has relinquished its historic leadership role in economic development by embracing the kinds of incentives used by almost every other state , said Michael Luger, head of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise’s office of economic development at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Habit puts students at risk
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Spend a few moments at the intersection of U.S. 64 and Laura Duncan Road, near Apex High School, and a hair-raising scene will repeat itself. ...But even if vehicles are in the distance, running in the street still poses a risk, said Charlie Zegeer, director of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center at the UNC-Chapel Hill Highway Safety Research Center.

Issues & Trends

Bus tour shows off options for college financing
The Winston-Salem Journal
The high-school students crowded behind Daisy Alfaro yesterday as she led them on the tour bus, past the signs in Spanish and English, and toward computer monitors, where she urged them to start the federal financial-aid application process on the spot. ...She didn't know that she could even apply to a University of North Carolina system school. She was confused about scholarships, too. All of them, she thought, were for people who were legal residents.

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