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International Coverage

The battle for the Old Confederacy
The Independent (United Kingdom)

In the long and bruising campaign for the White House, both presidential candidates have been tip-toeing around the issue of race, fearful that if mishandled it could somehow deliver a fatal electric shock. …"Bill Clinton finally showed you can win the presidency without winning the South," said Ferrel Guillory, professor of politics at the University of North Carolina. "But if Barack Obama becomes the first black president to win the presidency with support from the South, it opens a new era in American politics."

The magic touch of hugs
The Herald-Sun (Melbourne, Australia)

In the undemonstrative society we live in today, isn't it time we thought about embracing the healing power of hugs? …Another study, at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, in 1999, found that pain and anxiety in the elderly was significantly reduced when they received therapeutic touch, while in 2005, University of North Carolina researchers reported that women had lower blood pressure after hugging their partners.

National Coverage

A New Dean for UNC’s B-School
Business Week

James Dean talks about his new job as dean of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. He is developing a new leadership curriculum and expanding computer simulation in the classroom.

Outside the Lines: Second Impact Syndrome
"Outside the Lines" ESPN

Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz, director of the Sports Medicine Research Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, speaks about the need for high school athletic programs to have licensed athletic trainers on staff in light of recent deaths of high school football players throughout the country.

How to avoid the next housing bubble (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Los Angeles Times

…Now is an opportunity to expand housing affordability for moderate-income families, not retreat from it. Prices have dropped, and as I noted earlier this week, many safe and sound lending models with proven, low-default rates exist for first-time buyers. Particularly interesting is a recent University of North Carolina study highlighting that it is not the low-income borrower profile but rather the risky mortgages themselves that cause defaults.

Adjusting Your Investment Mix Near Retirement Makes
Sense — If You Don't Overreact
The Washington Post

For Nalin Parikh, retirement seems so close, yet so far away. At 64, he was ready to retire from his job as a physics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by next August. …That was before the stock market started to seesaw, before he lost more than $5,000 in his 403(b) plan, which is essentially a 401(k) for university, civil government and nonprofit employees.

Regional Coverage

Can’t be too careful about concussions in football
The Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas)

There was a story in The New York Times out of Montclair, N.J., last week where a high school football player collapsed and died of a brain hemorrhage during a junior varsity game. …The fatality was at least the fourth among high school football players this year, according the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury at the University of North Carolina, which has been tracking the health and welfare of athletes on all levels and playing fields for more than 20 years.

CRA deserves kudos, not blame for its impact on the American dream
The Indianapolis Star (Indiana)

While the federal government is making gigantic efforts to keep credit flowing to Wall Street, we'd better make sure we don't shut off access to mortgage money for those who live on Main Street. And to make sure that doesn't happen, it's important to keep pointing out it was loosely regulated risky mortgage lenders — not risky borrowers — who were at fault for the housing crash, according to a new study by the Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The analyses
The Baltimore Sun (Maryland)

…Political scientist Jonathan Oberlander, associate professor of social medicine and health policy and administration at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, offers an analysis of the candidates' plans in the Aug. 21 New England Journal of Medicine, including a chart with key points.

State and Local Coverage

Carolina blue, Campbell orange and hometown pride (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Fayetteville Observer

Higher education took center stage at two ceremonies last week during this busy election season. One event marked the installation of the new leader of UNC-Chapel Hill. …As a reader of this newspaper, you may wonder what else there is to say about Sunday’s formal installation of Fayetteville native Holden Thorp as the chancellor at the University of North Carolina. What I took from that beautiful afternoon in Chapel Hill was a fresh shot of pride as one of our community’s best and brightest laid out his vision for the future of the university.

Peeling the Orange
The Chapel Hill Herald

UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp was so intent upon using his installation speech to talk about the future that he chose to abbreviate his look at the university's past. His "History of the University of North Carolina, Abridged" is further proof that the boyish chemistry phenom from Fayetteville has a pretty lively sense of humor.

Familiar face to head visitors' center
The Chapel Hill News

The new face at UNC's front door is a familiar one to the community. About one-and-a-half years after handing over the reins to Franklin Street landmark Julian's College Shop to her brother, clothing designer Alexander Julian, Chapel Hill native Missy Julian Fox has become the new director of the UNC Visitors' Center, also on Franklin Street. She started her new job Oct. 6.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/1730/107/

UNC Hits Book Milestone Next Month
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)

Ever wondered just how many books Chapel Hill libraries contain? In November, the University will catalogue its six millionth book, according to rare-book librarian Libby Chenault. In her time with Wilson Library, she’s seen the University’s collection more than double, adding about a million books every eight years.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/1779/107/

Takeoff delayed for airport panel
The Chapel Hill Herald

There will be a delay in the timetable for establishing an airport authority for Orange County. But that delay has nothing to do with citizen protests over the initiative, said Roger Perry, chairman of the UNC Board of Trustees. University officials are "just making sure we get it right," Perry said.

Runway blues (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Over in Orange County, UNC-Chapel Hill is revving up to build a new airport, but even in the early stages of a long process the university is being buffeted by a strong propwash from the public. …The airport land has been designated by UNC for its Carolina North project.

Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
"Bookwatch" UNC-TV

At a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated, Nortin Hadler argues that an even more important issue is being overlooked. …Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson regarding the uses and abuses of a particular type of treatment, such as mammography, colorectal screening, statin drugs, or coronary stents. (Dr. Hadler is a professor of medicine and microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)

CeNeRx hopes antidepressant brings smiles
The Triangle Business Journal

Drug development concern CeNeRx BioPharma has closed on $15 million in financing to take its lead product, an antidepressant, into phase II clinical trials. …If CeNeRx gets Tyrima to the market, the company would have the only RIMA antidepressant for sale in the United States, says Dr. David Janowsky, a practicing psychiatrist and professor in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

ESPN show's report focuses on death of Rose's Waller
The Daily Reflector (Greenville)

The death of J.H. Rose football player JaQuan Waller was part of an ESPN report on the effects of second impact syndrome and the debate over the role of certified athletic trainers and first responders in high school sports. …The report also featured Kevin Guskiewicz, director of the Sports Medical Research Laboratory at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A former athletic trainer for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Guskiewicz believes every high school should have a certified athletic trainer.

Onslow high schools are ahead of the curve
The Daily News (Jacksonville)

Following the deaths of three North Carolina prep football players this fall, there's a push to mandate that all of the state's high schools have a licensed certified athletic trainer. …Further, (Que) Tucker said, the NCHSAA is putting together a task force to look at the proposals presented this month during an emergency meeting of the association's Sports Medicine Committee by Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz, chairman of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of North Carolina.

For Libertarian Munger, success doesn't require victory
The Associated Press

Mike Munger is under no pressure to win his race for governor on Election Day. …“He’s his own man, and so he doesn’t at all shrink from sharing his views. But he challenges others in sharing their views,” said professor Gordon Whitaker, who taught with Munger at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Latino shoppers see a retail explosion
The News & Record (Greensboro)

…Statewide, the number has increased from about 77,000 people in 1990 to almost 600,000 people, according to 2006 census data. Hispanics now account for close to 7 percent of the state's population. …With the state's burgeoning Hispanic population, it was only a matter of time until entrepreneurs started targeting the growing market, one that is expected to have $18 billion in buying power by 2009 if migration trends continue, according to researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill.

UNC chancellor's home redo: $900,000
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

UNC-Chapel Hill is making more than $900,000 in renovations to Quail Hill, the chancellor's secluded residence. ,,,The work is not being done at the Thorp family's request but because of a series of required code improvements to the 1960s-era home, say university officials.
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Authors discuss essay collection
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

Dan Pollitt, Gene Nichol and Dan Carter — contributors to "American Crisis, Southern Solutions: From Where We Stand, Promise and Peril" — will discuss and sign copies of their new collection of political essays at the Regulator Bookshop Thursday at 7 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. …Pollitt is a professor emeritus of constitutional law at UNC Chapel Hill. Nichol is president of the College of William and Mary and a former dean of the law school at UNC.

Stigmata on view at Ackland, too
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Hanging in a gallery of the Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill is a painting that might have shared the limelight in the blockbuster exhibition on view at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art, considering a similar picture by the same artist is already there. How the two paintings fit together but remain apart is a bit of an art history puzzle that visitors to both museums might find fascinating.

Business Milestones
The Winston-Salem Journal

The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts said that Suri Bieler, Kevin M. Brooks, Eric Gutierrez, Emil J. Kang and Mandy Patinkin have joined the institute's board of advisers. …Kang is UNC Chapel Hill's first executive director for the arts, a senior administrative post created to help unify and elevate the performing arts at the university.

Jazz innovator to play at UNC
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

Pulitzer Prize-winning recording artist Ornette Coleman, a saxophonist and pioneer of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, will perform Nov. 13 at UNC Chapel Hill. The concert, at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall on Cameron Avenue, is part of Carolina Performing Arts' special events programming.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/1767/107/

Home Movie Day on screen at Duke today
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

Since it began in 2002, Home Movie Day has encouraged people to take their old home movies out of storage and to a site where they may preview them and get expert advice about preservation. …In conjunction with this observance, Duke on Tuesday and UNC Chapel Hill on Monday will present screenings of some archival film collections (see box for information).
UNC Upcoming Event:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/1640/107/

Why pay Nichol? (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Can anyone find out what's in the Kool-Aid at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill that attracts radical lefties to their professorships? At least Duke has shipped its laughable law professor to the West Coast, but UNC continues to humor Gene Nichol, who says, probably with a straight face, in an Oct. 5 Point of View article that "a vote for McCain is a vote … to place the presidency above the rule of law." (C.J. Goode Jr., Durham)

Issues and Trends

New chance for an old mill town
The Charlotte Observer

Three years ago, billionaire David Murdock swept into a faltering town and laid out a bold vision: demolish the century-old textile complex and build a biotech hub in its place. …Monday's events will focus on the Core Lab, one of the campus's biggest draws, with specialty equipment and labs, as well as buildings housing UNC Chapel Hill, N.C. State University and other researchers.
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Can NCRC stay healthy in sickening economic times?
The Salisbury Post

As an industry, biotechnology might not only survive but thrive in a recession. And with its singular focus on health and nutrition, the N.C. Research Campus could succeed financially, even though it opens today in the worst economic climate since the Great Depression. …Seven UNC schools have research programs in Kannapolis, as well as Duke University.

Taylor and Williams play musical politics
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

…Meanwhile, James Taylor's vote is already in. The "Carolina in My Mind" singer is singing "You've Got a Friend" for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Taylor, who grew up in Chapel Hill and considers North Carolina his home, will perform at UNC-Chapel Hill's Fetzer Field at 7 p.m.

Faltering Economy May Affect UNC System
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)

The faltering economy is a major issue everywhere. It may cause the state legislature to give less money to the UNC system this year. …The system’s finance committee has recommended that each individual campus wait until the legislature announces its funding plans before deciding on potential tuition hikes. In recent years, many universities, including UNC, have managed to keep tuition increases down because they’ve received a healthy amount from the state.

UNC: Megachurch site students underpaid
The Associated Press

A University of North Carolina report finds that North Carolina Central University leaders who ran an unapproved site in Lithonia ignored policies and gave students improper tuition breaks. …The report found students at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church paid less tuition than UNC mandates, or about $296 per credit hour, compared to the $418 rate for a nonresident in off-campus classes.

UT-Austin goes after $3 billion in fund drive
The Houston Chronicle

UT administrators say that as state support for higher education has plunged over the years since 1990, annual state support for the academic budget at UT-Austin has dropped by a percentage point a year private funding becomes much more critical. But UT-Austin has failed to keep pace with its public university competitors in funding. …The University of North Carolina collects $6,500 more per student.

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