Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
First Laid Eggs
"The Naked Scientists" BBC Radio (United Kingdom)
Science News from this week: For years, scientists have assumed that the first born of any batch of offspring has a better chance of survival …. this definitely applied to birds and it seems that the first laid egg might do better than its siblings. But [Dr Keith Sockman from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill] has found out that although this still seems to be true, the first laid egg actually has a harder time in getting to hatch in the first place and he’s here to speak to us now.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/science-and-technology/early-bird-doesnt-
always-get-worm-unc-researcher-finds.html
National Coverage
10,000 Mourn Slain UNC Student President
The Associated Press
The father of the slain University of North Carolina student body president asked thousands of mourners gathered Tuesday to find solutions to the world's violence, prejudice and inequity. The shooting death of 22-year-old Eve Carson, which police called a random act of violence, stunned the community this month; her body was found in a street about a mile from campus.
Regional Coverage
Tar Heels remember slain student leader
The Athens Banner-Herald (Georgia)
Dressed mostly in Carolina blue, an estimated 10,000 people flocked to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's basketball arena Tuesday to remember slain student body president Eve Carson.
Study links SoCal's polluted air to brain, heart problems
The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.)
…Western Riverside and San Bernardino counties have among the worst fine-particle pollution in the nation, a result of diesel soot and other emissions, wind patterns and geography. The microscopic particles already have been linked to early deaths, asthma hospitalizations and stunted lung development in children, among other health problems. …In 2002, research by scientists with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that dogs raised in highly polluted Mexico City showed neurological damage and brain lesions.
State and Local Coverage
Thank you (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
Without a doubt, everyone has been in a state of shock since the death of our Student Body President, Eve Carson, two weeks ago. Yet students, police and officials at UNC have all come together to produce commendable work in the face of a tragedy.
UNC Remembers Carson
"WUNC News" WUNC-FM
Members of the UNC community gathered yesterday at the Dean Smith Center for a memorial to pay tribute to slain student body leader Eve Carson. Rose Hoban was there and filed this report.
10,000 pay tribute to Carson
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
To hear her friends tell it, Eve Carson's energy and effervescence were most evident in her text messages and e-mail messages — which she routinely overloaded with exclamation points.
Eve Carson's life celebrated
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
She loved late-night dance parties. She wore her prom dress to a Carolina basketball game. She ate all the ice cream in the freezer. She considered meeting new people a wonderful adventure, and she charmed and held the attention of powerful UNC officials as well as her fellow students. The life of Eve Marie Carson, UNC's late student body president, was remembered, memorialized and celebrated at the Dean Smith Center at UNC on Tuesday afternoon.
Carson's murder — and life — deserve attention (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
In the couple of weeks that have passed since the brutal murder of Eve Carson, the attention given to the UNC student body president's life — and death — has been intense. It has been constant.
UNC Celebrates Eve Carson's Life
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
A sea of Carolina blue filled the Dean E. Smith Center Tuesday afternoon when students, faculty and administrators remembered the life of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president, whose life was cut short earlier this month.
Thousands celebrate Eve Carson's life
News 14 Carolina
A mourning University of North Carolina campus vowed Tuesday to continue the legacy of its slain student leader, who was shot to death and left on a street earlier this month. An estimated crowd of 10,000 — including some wearing Carolina blue ribbons on clothing bearing symbols of Duke and N.C. State universities — attended the tearful memorial service for Eve Carson held at the Dean E. Smith Center.
UNC family pauses to mourn its loss
The Fayetteville Observer
Many people already know that Eve Carson was the popular student body president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Morehead-Cain scholar. Her photographs, like memories, now locked in time, capture a self-assured young woman, and one doubly blessed with book smarts and striking Hollywood looks.
Criminal Justice and the Eve Carson Case
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Local officials are demanding answers about the circumstances surrounding the death of slain UNC-CH Student Body President Eve Carson and that of Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato. The two men arrested in those cases were both on probation when the crimes they are charged with were committed. Host Frank Stasio examines the particulars of the state’s courts and probation system with North Carolina Central University Law Professor Irving Joyner. Plus, Lewis Pitts, an attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina, and Tamar Birckhead, assistant professor of law at UNC-CH, discuss chronic problems in the state’s juvenile justice program. Finally, Keith Woods, Dean of Faculty at the Poynter Institute, discusses media coverage of the case.
A win means a degree (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
Question: If a college basketball team's record on the court gets it into the NCAA playoffs, what kind of academic record should a team have to qualify? Answer: It ought to do better than graduate a mere half of its players. …Big-time, top-winning teams did not lead. North Carolina (86 percent) was the only school among the four No. 1 seeds in this year's NCAA men's tournament to graduate at least half its players.
Roses & raspberries
The Chapel Hill News
ROSES Not the NCAA Tournament Final Four — about which the less said the better, so as not to jinx anything — but the Final Four of an alternate competition that tracks the tournament teams on the basis of their academics rather than their athletics. …Carolina, seeded No. 1 in the basketball version of the tournament, made a strong showing in the Inside Higher Ed championship, as well, reaching the Final Four.
Iraq war still political hot topic
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Five years after a U.S.-led military coalition liberated Iraq from Saddam Hussein's reign of terror, America's continued military presence in that war-ravaged country remains a hot topic of political hindsight amid worry about elective futures. …"It seems pretty clear that a solid majority of Americans think going to war was a mistake," said Jim Stimson, a UNC professor with expertise in American public opinion. "This has been the pattern with every war in our history."
War Protests Planned Locally, Across The Nation
WSOC-TV (Charlotte)
…Thousands of protesters are expected for what's billed as a day of coordinated non-violent civil disobedience aimed at interrupting business as usual. …College students from New Jersey to North Dakota planned walkouts. A student group at UNC Chapel Hill e-mailed the Eyewitness Newsroom of plans to walk out and hold a rally on campus.
Paper covers rock
The Chapel Hill News
…Wilson Library on Monday opened one of its more unusual exhibits — music posters by Casey Burns and Ron Liberti — with one of its more unusual presentations: a short discussion with the artists and Cat's Cradle owner Frank Heath, followed by a rock concert, with performances by Billy Sugarfix, Lud and Regina Hexaphone. …The exhibit, on display in the Manuscripts Department on Wilson Library through May 31, features posters Burns and Liberti — both of whom are also musicians — created for shows at local clubs, most of them at the Cat's Cradle.
Kids' marrow program coming
The Charlotte Observer
By summer, Carolinas Medical Center plans to begin offering bone marrow transplants for children, hospital officials announced Tuesday. Dr. Andrew Gilman, a specialist in bone marrow transplantation from UNC Chapel Hill medical school, will lead the program at Levine Children's Hospital. It will be the third of its kind in North Carolina.
Sex trafficking conference set
The Chapel Hill Herald
The Carolina Women's Center at UNC, in partnership with other campus and local organizations, will host its biennial conference on sex trafficking April 3-4 at the Friday Center. …"Each year approximately 800,000 individuals are trafficked worldwide across international borders and victimized through forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation," said Pamella Lach, conference coordinator and professor in the UNC College of Arts and Science's history department.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/carolina-womens-
center-to-host-sex-trafficking-conference-april-3-4.html
Civil War summit March 29 at UNC
The Chapel Hill Herald
Scholars, authors and historians will discuss the ramifications of the Civil War in a symposium beginning at 8:15 a.m. March 29 at UNC's Carroll Hall Auditorium.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/unc-to-host-
civil-war-symposium.html
Richard Wright event April 11-13
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC will commemorate the life and work of novelist, essayist and poet Richard Wright, to mark the centennial of his birth in 1908, April 11-13. Over the course of the weekend-long centenary, Wright's life and work will be celebrated in a staged-reading of Paul Green's revised adaptation of "Native Son," a colloquium hosted by UNC's Institute for Arts and Humanities, and will conclude with a commemorative performance event at UNC's Memorial Hall.
Library boosters to hold sale
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC Friends of the Library will hold a book sale March 27-29 at the American Legion building, with proceeds to benefit the University Library Endowment. More than 8,000 books will be available, said Liza Terll, executive secretary for Friends of the Library. Terll said there were especially good offerings in the areas of art, history, biography and fiction, as well as a large number of classical music compact discs.
UNC Event Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/book-sale-march-
27-29-to-benefit-library.html
Survive and advance
The Chapel Hill News
When Erica Eisdorfer submitted her unpublished novel to the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition, she was realistic, to say the least, about her chances. …"When I entered, I said, 'Nah, I have no chance,'" said Eisdorfer, who lives in Carrboro and manages the Bull's Head bookstore on the UNC campus.