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Eve Carson remembered

Carolina's Student Body President Eve Carson was celebrated at a campuswide remembrance gathering on Polk Place Thursday afternoon and a candlelight vigil in the Pit on campus Thursday evening, each of which drew more than 5,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the greater community. Below is a sampling of the international, national, regional and local coverage of these tributes to Eve and her contributions to Carolina and the lives of so many in Chapel Hill.

 

Shooting victim remembered in vigil
United Press International

UNC Student Body President Fatally Shot
The Associated Press

Student Body President at UNC Shot to Death
The Washington Post
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Grad’s murder shocks Clarke Central
The Athens Banner-Herald

UNC Campus Mourns
By Dave DeWitt
WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill)

Eve Carson’s death stuns campus
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Many join in grief for UNC student leader
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Police: Student’s Murder a Random Act
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)

Campus mourns death of student leader
WTVD-TV (ABC/Raleigh)

Remembering the Carolina way
The Daily Tar Heel

There is only one Eve Carson (opinion-editorial column)
The Daily Tar Heel
By Margaret Jablonski, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs

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

International Coverage

Facebook and managing online reputations
Digital Arts (United Kingdom)

As more professionals sign up for Facebook, the site's earliest users are finding they must reevaluate how they manage their profiles and the information posted to them, according to experts in online identity and reputation management. …According to Fred Stutzman, a social networking researcher at the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science, the problem cuts to a misconception that baby boomers and Generation X hold in their views toward younger people (often called Gen Y).

National Coverage

Banks Willing to Rework Mortgages
The Associated Press

While Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wants banks to lighten the debt load of distressed home owners, the unspoken question remains: who pays the tab? …"If you reduce the principal, obviously somebody will have to take those losses," said Roberto Quercia, director of the Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Who that is, like if the losses could be spread about many stakeholders, is the more difficult decision."
UNC Tip Sheet:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/government-and-law/unc-professor-offers-analysis-of-
mortgage-crisis.html

Regional Coverage

Immigration issues focus of speech, symposium
The Tulsa World (Kansas)

Professors, lawyers and legal experts from around the country will discuss and debate immigration at a symposium Friday at the University of Tulsa. In connection with the event, a University of North Carolina law school professor, Hiroshi Motomura, will speak on "The Rule of Law and Immigration Law" on Thursday night.

State and Local Coverage

Students provide dental supplies
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

Fifteen UNC students will spend their spring break providing dental supplies and education to hundreds of children and adults in the Dominican Republic. The students are members of Delta Delta Sigma, a pre-dental honor society at UNC.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/unc-students-forgo-spring-break-
to-aid-dominican-orphans-dental-needs.html

UNC student paper gives $10K to aid homeless
The Chapel Hill Herald

The UNC student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, donated $10,000 Thursday to the "Real Change from Spare Change" initiative to help homeless people in Chapel Hill. …Joe Schwartz, the student president of the DTH Board of Directors, said the paper wanted the community to know that even though its reporters come and go, the paper wants to be a part of the community and contribute to positive changes in the community.

Cumbie named center's director
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School has named UNC alumnus Stephen M. Cumbie as executive director of its Center for Real Estate Development. The center's education, research and outreach in real estate development helps business leaders create and manage property in ways that have a positive impact and sustainable results.

Food cloning topic of lecture
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

Daniel Pomp, a professor in the nutrition department of the UNC School of Public Health and at the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, will offer a look at the risks of food cloning at 7 tonight at a forum at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center off Franklin Street.

UNC set to begin cleanup of site
The Chapel Hill Herald

After years of meticulous planning, UNC is set to begin a systematic cleanup of a chemical waste disposal site on university property near the Horace Williams Airport. …The deadline is 2012, so the team is "well ahead of that schedule," said Larry Daw, geophysicist and geologist in the UNC Department of Environment, Health and Safety at a news conference on Wednesday.
Related Link:
http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=6044

NCSU, UNC shun Google, Microsoft on deal to digitize books
The Triangle Business Journal

Concerned about restrictions imposed by Google and Microsoft, libraries at the Triangle's two public research universities have lined up with the nonprofit Open Content Alliance, or OCA, to put their collections online. …Richard Szary, director of UNC's Louis Round Wilson Library, says library officials discussed digitization with Google and Microsoft but chose The Internet Archive for a number of reasons.

UNC publication highlights Roxboro
The Courier-Times (Roxboro)

The City of Roxboro is highlighted in the Winter 2008 issue of Popular Government, a periodical published four times a year by the University of North Carolina’s School of Government. …(Lydian)Altman and Margaret Henderson with the UNC School of Government’s Public Intersection Project served as the city’s strategic plan facilitators.

Answers murky about fructose intolerance (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

We hear that fruits and vegetables are good for what ails you. Nutrients in these foods support health and help protect against heart disease and some forms of cancer, among other benefits. Pile your plate with heaping helpings — that's the prevailing advice.

Next, sorting out who will pay
The Winston-Salem Journal

Four years ago, Mark Horn got up just before midnight. He took a shower, grabbed his bags and then left for the Roadway trucking complex in Kernersville. He was picking up a rig for a long haul to Ohio. …It is unusual for a nightclub to be held accountable in these types of cases, said Charles Daye, a professor at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law.

Chapel Hill area is in developer's sights
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Glen Lennox, the half-century-old neighborhood and shopping center that were the first of their kind in town, could soon be torn down. …Dorothy Verkerk, a professor of art history at UNC-Chapel Hill and former Town Council member, wrote to her neighborhood e-mailing list his week and encouraged her neighbors to speak up when the developers bring a concept plan to the Town Council this spring.

UNC leaders endorse med school expansion
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

The UNC Board of Governors today endorsed a plan by the state's two public medical schools to add students and create regional campuses. …UNC officials said they developed the plan in response to an expected shortage of North Carolina doctors, especially in primary care.
Related Link:
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880307083

Panel OKs RDU hangar for medical flights
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

The long saga of Chapel Hill's Horace Williams Airport moved forward Thursday when a UNC system committee approved a plan to build a new airport hangar at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The hangar will house UNC-Chapel Hill's AHEC Medical Air Operations program, which flies doctors, pharmacists and other health care workers around the state to tend to patients in rural areas.

UNC asks patients to pay upfront
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Less than two years after UNC Health Care pledged to ease billing practices some found threatening, the system is again ramping up efforts to collect money from its patients. …UNC Health Care leaders say asking for such payments doesn't conflict with their commitment to be more friendly to patients. In fact, collecting more of what patients owe on the front end will ensure that fewer people get menacing letters, calls from collection agencies or invitations to court, said Karen McCall, the health system's senior vice president for public affairs.

Big money, the university and public health (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Institutions of higher learning are tax-exempt and supported because they are supposed to serve the public interest. …This is why the planned renaming of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health as the Dennis and Joan Gillings School of Global Public Heath, in exchange for a gift of $50 million, raises concerns.

Issues and Trends

James Anderson named new chancellor at Fayetteville State
The Associated Press

Fayetteville State University has a new chancellor. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors said Friday that James A. Anderson will assume his new duties June 9.

UNC names buildings for Spanglers
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

The administration buildings of the University of North Carolina system have been renamed the Spangler Center in honor of former UNC President C.D. Spangler Jr. and his wife, Meredith. The UNC Board of Governors unveiled new signs for the buildings at a meeting today. The Spangler family participated in the event.
Related Link:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2008/03/03/daily48.html

UNC report changing thoughts on academic planning
The Chapel Hill Herald

The recently adopted UNC Tomorrow Commission report is changing the way university officials look at academic planning. On Thursday, members of the UNC Board of Governors received a volume of proposals that represent a dramatic shift in the way degree programs at state schools would be added, expanded or discontinued.

UNC studying satellite campuses at community colleges
The Triangle Business Journal

While there may not be a University of North Carolina at Jacksonville yet, there is a campus in the military town that is offering four-year undergraduate degrees. …The University of North Carolina System wants to expand that satellite campus model to other underserved areas of the state as an educational and economic development tool, says Harold Martin, senior vice president for academic affairs for the UNC System.

Expansion plans move south
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

Duke University's plans for its Central Campus redevelopment are heading south — literally. …The suggestion of clustering student services around new housing is similar to what UNC has done over the past few years on its South Campus, an effort that followed the adoption of a new campus master plan.

Scientists visit NCRC, learn about study
The Kannapolis Citizen

David H. Murdock welcomed a busload of Duke University scientists to Kannapolis on Wednesday and gave an official nod to a groundbreaking medical study that bears his name. …Duke will collaborate with the six public universities on campus, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and N.C. State University.

Affordable housing, bus requests heard
The Chapel Hill Herald

Affordable housing and new buses are near the head of the line as the town council works on its 2008-09 fiscal year budget. …The town bus system is funded through a partnership with UNC and Carrboro.

Haywood hospital begins recertification process (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Smoky Mountain News

With its CEO gone and a new consulting group on board, Haywood Regional Medical Center is working around the clock to regain its Medicare and Medicaid funding. …Another option is that a university with a medical school could take over HRMC. Thompson said UNC-Chapel Hill has expressed interest in the facility.

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