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Sept. 14, 2007
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Anita Roddick's entrepreneurial legacy
CNNMoney.com
For years, Body Shop founder Anita Roddick's work has inspired Lisa Jones Christensen's students at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Many young MBAs want to follow the passionate and politically-minded entrepreneur's lead in building fast-growth firms that embrace ideals such as protecting the environment.
The view from the bottom
The Story (American Public Media)
Brooks de Wetter-Smith has always been in love with Antarctica. He can't really pinpoint why. He is a flutist by profession, as well as an accomplished amateur photographer. He decided to combine all three passions into one major lifetime journey - he took an extended trip to Antarctica. The program aired today at 1 p.m. on WUNC, 91.5 FM.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun07/antartica061807.html
A Dropout Problem for Colleges
The New York Times
The Beatles insisted that money can’t buy you love. Apparently it can do a lot of other things, like lure top-flight talent from one high-profile, well-paying job to another high-profile, better-paying job. ... Mark Yusko started Morgan Creek Capital Management after departing from the helm of the endowment for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Burr named ranking Republican on Veterans Affairs
Media General News Service
Senate Republicans named Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs yesterday. ... "VA is not a big powerful committee. You don't get on "Meet the Press" and it's not something which can lead to bringing in a lot of money (for fundraising), but it's a very emotional committee, particularly during this period of war," said Ferrel Guillory, the director of the Program on Public Life at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Regional Coverage
Patriotism, faith defined by fire
The Kaufman Herald (Kaufman, Texas)
A distance less than half a football field is all that separated Lt. Col. (Ret.) Brian Birdwell from American Airlines Flight 77 when it slammed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. ... Among the many locations the Birdwells have visited over the past three years are the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles; the Jaycee Burn Unit at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the Orange County Burn Center in Orlando; the Strong Burn Center in Rochester, New York; and the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
State & Local Coverage
Students run tests aboard mobile lab
The Rocky Mount Telegram
The DESTINY science lab rolled into Rocky Mount this week, giving students a real biotechnology experience. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill laboratory – a refurbished 40-foot, 33,000-pound bus – travels across the state providing experiment resources to schools that lack access and equipment.
UNC Media Advisory: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2007/destinyrockymt091007.htmlCarolina North school planned
The Chapel Hill Herald
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education is still hopeful that future Carolina North development will include a new school.
For 20 years, a show where art and nature mingle
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Past the climbing hydrangea and the Yaupon holly, rising out of the Honeycup shrub, Rita Spina's copper and aluminum "Twentieth Anniversary Flowers" greets visitors to the N.C. Botanical Garden, where for two decades the annual Sculpture in the Garden exhibit has joined North Carolina-grown works of art with the state's native trees, wildflowers and herbs.
UNC News release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep07/botgardscultp091107.html
New banks to cater to Latinos
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Start-up bank Nuestro Banco plans to open its first branch in Garner on Monday, the first of several moves destined to heat up the competition for Latino banking customers. ... A UNC-Chapel Hill study released last year estimated that the Hispanic population statewide jumped by one-third between 2000 and 2004, and that Hispanics pumped $9.2 billion into the economy in 2004.
Plan may violate public records law
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Chatham County's new attorney has written a policy on releasing documents he says is meant to "supplement" the state's public records law. .. "Most local governments don't have a separate policy. They have the law," said Cathy Packer, a media law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Carolina Group Brings Software Freedom Day to Chapel Hill
WRAL-TV 5 (CBS, Raleigh)
The Carolina OpenSource Initiative group is hosting a “Software Freedom Day” celebration on Friday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Governor stands by DA choice
News 14 Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
Another controversy could be brewing in the Durham district attorney's office. ... "I wouldn't be surprised if there were some lawyers who argued we could appeal this because we know people have to be elected form the area in which they're serving,” said Thad Beyle, a political science professor at UNC-Chapel Hill.
13th Annual 'Best of Badin' is this Friday and Saturday
The Salisbury Post
The 13th Annual "Best of Badin" Festival, to be held Friday and Saturday in Badin, will include a special display that highlights the historic Hardaway Site in Stanly County. ... Visitors to the "Best of Badin" Festival will have a chance to view a sampling of artifacts from the site and talk with Steve Davis, a research archaeologist and associate director of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at UNC.
Issues & Trends
UNCC students vote to go green
News 14 Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
Students at UNC Charlotte overwhelmingly voted this week to be more environmentally friendly on campus, by approving a project to raise student fees in order to make campus more green. ... UNCC student leaders are hoping to model their green initiative after schools like UNC-Chapel Hill and Appalachian State University.
Where the Boys Are ... Not on Campus
WRAL-TV 5 (CBS, Raleigh)
A gender gap on college campuses nationwide continues to expand, but officials said those numbers haven't yet moved from the classroom to the boardroom. ... "I don't know that this is a crisis," said Steve Farmer, admissions director at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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