Remembering Eve Carson
Below is a brief 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.
Hundreds Gather to Remember UNC Student
The Associated Press
Heartbroken mourners searched soul and scripture Sunday to understand why someone would fatally shoot a popular University of North Carolina student body president and cut short a life with such promise.
Note: This story appeared in Sunday's national edition of The New York Times.
Mourners crowd church for funeral of slain student
The Athens Banner-Herald
Eve Carson had the innate ability to turn brief acquaintances into good friends, her family and friends said. That gift was evident Sunday as more than 1,000 people of all ages, races and religious backgrounds, attended her funeral at First United Methodist Church in downtown Athens.
Mourners Gather for Slain UNC Student’s Funeral
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
Friends and family mourned slain University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Body President Eve Carson in her hometown Sunday. …Carson's funeral was held at 3 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church in Athens. Friends from both UNC and high school attended the service.
UNC student was 'one of a kind'
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
She was an A-plus student and class president whose biology and chemistry textbooks had hundreds of post-it notes reminding her to ask more questions and read something else because there was so much more she couldn't wait to figure out. …Most guys had a crush on Eve Marie Carson. Most girls thought of her as a sister. The world expected the world of Eve Carson.
Related Link:
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/stories/2008/03/10/auburned0310.html
"Weekend Edition" National Public Radio
As the University of North Carolina copes with the murder of Eve Carson, the school's student body president, students prepare for what is normally a spirited event: a basketball game with arch-rival Duke. Editors from student newspapers at UNC and Duke discuss the atmosphere on both campuses in a conversation with Scott Simon.
So much promise (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
March 8, 2008
The violent death of Eve Marie Carson, student body president of UNC-Chapel Hill, has shaken the entire university community to its core, and for that matter, has shocked the nation.
A bright light gone dark too soon (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
It was an appalling thing even before we knew who she was: the body of a young woman, dead from multiple gunshot wounds, was found before dawn Wednesday lying in the road in an incongruously lovely wooded neighborhood near campus. Awful as that was, the news grew immeasurably worse when police confirmed the rumors that were circulating by Thursday morning: The slain woman was 22-year-old Eve Carson, the president of the UNC student body.
Making sense of senselessness (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
They sat cross-legged on the grass, with flowers in their laps. The thousands who gathered on UNC's Polk Place Wednesday didn't need to be asked for a moment of silence. They were silent from the moment they arrived there. They were stunned mute by the senseless, tragic death of Eve Carson, one of theirs, one of the very best of them.
Finding perspective (Sports)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Before Thursday's practice, North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams gathered his players at mid-court and reminded them where the Duke game ranks. "This is just a basketball game,'' he said he told the Tar Heels. "It's a big game, it's a game that's going to get a lot of attention, but it's still a game." He and his team had recently learned of the killing of student body president Eve Marie Carson, who was shot early Wednesday and officially identified only hours before UNC's practice.
Devils stand with Tar Heels (Sports)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
For a few moments Saturday night, a rivalry was subdued, and Cameron Indoor Stadium became as quiet as a church sanctuary. Fans and basketball teams from Duke and North Carolina stood in silent unity before the 9 p.m. tipoff, respectfully honoring Eve Carson, UNC's student body president who was killed Wednesday in Chapel Hill.
New lead in Carson killing
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Police now think a second person may have been in the vehicle driven by a man they say was trying to use slain UNC-Chapel Hill student Eve Carson's ATM card.
Related Link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2811/story/992307.html
Here is a sampling of links and notes about other Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
It’s Not Just a Photography Project. It’s His Past.
The New York Times
DESPITE the frigid February air, a few hardy souls here are out and about. Two schoolgirls comb the rocky shore for pretty shells. A group of fishermen wade in the mud for quahogs. And Benjamin Donaldson, a 38-year-old New Haven photographer, furtively takes his first black-and-white shot of the day. …His work has always had a critical subtext, said Jeff Whetstone, a professor of photography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Mr. Donaldson’s former darkroom partner at Yale School of Art.
Region in crisis (Book Review)
The Chicago Tribune
Reading Richard C. Longworth's riveting new book, "Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalization," immediately got me thinking about my childhood growing up in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s. (The author is Peter A. Coclanis, associate provost for international affairs and Albert R. Newsome professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)
State and Local Coverage
HIV takes toll on black women
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Speakers at a forum on black women and HIV/AIDS on Friday emphasized education, empowerment and doctor/patient communication as weapons in the battle against transmission of the deadly disease. …Lisa Hightow-Weidman, assistant professor of medicine with the UNC Center for Infectious Diseases, cited a 2001-2005 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that reported 67 percent of women with HIV are black.
Students and interns foster lasting relationships
The Chapel Hill News
It's hard to tell who is learning more — the residents or the volunteers at Carol Woods. …Jenny Eller, a social worker in the Assisted Living Center and a former Carol Woods intern herself, had originally planned to go into hospice care before her year-and-a-half-long internship. A UNC-Chapel Hill student, Eller had a mentor in graduate school that placed her at Carol Woods, and the rest is history.
N&O gets tough with Gov. Easley (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The News & Observer has been sticking its chin out at the governor lately. What gives? …Jean Folkerts, dean of the journalism school at UNC-Chapel Hill, said she thought the coverage has been appropriate: "I think holding the governor's feet to the fire — especially when the coverage seems to show a discrepancy between what he's saying now and what the documents show — is not a problem."
Road past homes and school isn't truck route
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Jonathan James is tired of gravel trucks rumbling past his house off Culbreth Road. …Since then Neppalli has met with UNC-CH transportation planning officials, who he said were unaware of the situation.
A move to seal up more information (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
There's a move afoot in the Pentagon and other federal agencies to change the way government documents are classified. The new rule would shift massive amounts of documents and data to a single category of "Controlled Unclassified Information" exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. (Napoleon B. Byars teaches news writing and public relations courses as an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
Issues and Trends
Faculty Salaries Up 4%
Inside Higher Ed
The median increase in salaries for professors at four year colleges is 4 percent for the 2007-8 academic year, up from 38. percent the previous year and 3.4 percent the year before that. Those figures are being released today by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.
Related Link:
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i27/27a01001.htm
Buildings named for Spangler couple
The Chapel Hill Herald
… The UNC Board of Governors on Friday officially renamed adjoining buildings of the General Administration complex here in honor of former system President C.D. Spangler and his wife, Meredith. The larger of the two buildings — previously known as the General Administration Building — will be called the C.D. Spangler, Jr. Building, while a connecting annex will be known as the Meredith Riggs Spangler Building.
Related Link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/print/saturday/city_state/story/989054.html
New FSU leader has local ties
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A psychology professor with ties to the Triangle was hired Friday as Fayetteville State University's new chancellor. James Anderson, 59, was chosen in part on the prodding of two other UNC system chancellors who know him: N.C. State University's James Oblinger and N.C. Central's Charlie Nelms.