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Oct. 2, 2007

 

Carolina in the News

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

International Coverage

Amway joins up to help spread the word
Shanghai Daily

While nearly everyone in China is enjoying the national holiday, it seems we are the only creatures in the world still hard at work. If I were not a Special Olympics volunteer, I would probably be traveling around somewhere and enjoying sightseeing with my peers. But then I wouldn't have the chance to know so many of the nice people I am working with. Whether coaches, University of North Carolina students or Fudan volunteers, I can see the infinite passion for work on everyone's face.

National Coverage

Chapel Hill, NC: 'Small-town charm,' schools drive sales
USA Today

For the past decade, Chapel Hill, N.C., has been attracting more Americans in search of an attractive and affordable place to start a business, raise a family or retire. It's a college town — home to the University of North Carolina — with highly regarded schools and medical facilities and pleasant weather.

Supreme Court potpourri: Free speech and sex harassment
Inside Higher Ed

… In the other noteworthy case the Supreme Court dispatched Monday, it declined to hear an appeal by Anson Dorrance and the University of North Carolina of last April’s decision in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered them to stand trial on charges that the women’s soccer coach harassed and sexually discriminated against a former player and that the university and its officials failed to put a stop to his behavior. … In a statement Monday, North Carolina officials played down the significance of the Supreme Court’s decision, saying it was “not unexpected” because it is “exceedingly rare for the nation’s highest court to intervene in that way.”

State & Local Coverage

Searching for what? (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Is UNC-Chapel Hill seeking a new chancellor for a liberal arts university, or a CEO for a Wall Street firm? Going by the makeup of the committee searching for a successor to retiring Chancellor James Moeser, it's an even bet. The speedily appointed panel is heavy on businessmen (and a couple of businesswomen) and light on professional academics. Of the five professors on the 19-member panel, exactly none is from the humanities.

Keep the chancellor search process open (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald

UNC is justifiably proud of its historic importance. It is, after all, as one is endlessly reminded around the campus, the nation's first public university. The word public in that phrase is just as important as the word first. There were, of course, a number of schools – Harvard, William & Mary, Yale, Princeton, etc. – that began educating students before the University of North Carolina did. But they are all private colleges.

The search for a champion (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel

With nine months to conduct an extensive search within UNC and across the country, the chancellor search committee has a heavy task to complete. Finding a replacement for Chancellor James Moeser will be extremely challenging, especially with a July 1 deadline looming in the not-so-distant future. With that in mind, we'd like to share our thoughts on what we'd like to see in the next chancellor.

UNC-CH seeks extraordinary leader
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

A new leader will take over UNC-Chapel Hill in 2008, just in time to manage a growth spurt, recruit 2,000 faculty members in eight years and tangle with the town over the development of a new research campus called Carolina North.

Moeser's exit and Carolina North
The Chapel Hill Herald

No on can be certain what kind of impact James Moeser's imminent departure as chancellor of UNC Chapel Hill will have on Carolina North, the most monumental item on the town-and-gown to-do list.

UNC, Dorrance may face harassment trial
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition by the state Attorney General's Office for the court to hear a nine-year-old sexual harassment suit against UNC-Chapel Hill and its women's soccer coach, Anson Dorrance. The case was one of many that the high court declined to consider, according to a list of orders posted on the court's Web site Monday.

Report: Tar Heels have No. 1 sewn up – in sports fundraising
WRAL-TV (CBS; Raleigh)

When it comes to money raised or pledged to athletics, a recent survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education shows the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is at the top of the list, ahead of any other university across the nation. … That, however, does not hold true for UNC-Chapel Hill. Academic fundraising is also on the rise, with its current campaign raising a record $2.2 billion.

Buying back into UNC (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel

Desperate times sometimes call for desperate measures. But when that problematic period is over, usually it is wise to return to the status quo. As of now, graduate school tuition increases affect only students in general graduate programs. For the professional schools, like the business and law schools, campus-based tuition has been frozen at the 2003 levels while each individual school has instituted increases of its own. The money from these hikes goes directly to the professional schools, not to the University as a whole.
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Issues & Trends

Ruins yield heirloom
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

As firefighters tended to lingering hot spots the day after a fatal fire, one precious belonging was salvaged from the wreckage Monday. UNC-Chapel Hill senior Sarah McNulty was out of town the night of the fire. She cried Sunday afternoon remembering the diamond cluster ring her grandfather had given her grandmother for their 25th anniversary, which she had left in its ring box on her dresser.

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