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

Regional Coverage

Many newspaper chains struggling
The Sun-Times (Chicago, Ill.)

Newspapers face similar issues as their industry retrenches: declining advertising revenue — retail and classified — increased competition from online news sources, and increasing costs that can no longer support their operations. …Four of the five major newspapers now operating in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection had eyes too big for their stomachs, and their buying binges, whether of other newspapers or of their own stock, caused them to become over-leveraged, said Penelope Muse Abernathy, the Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Munger: Moving ORNL mice may breed success (Column)
The News Sentinel (Knoxville, Tenn.)

Oak Ridge's science mice have found a new home in North Carolina, where there's plenty of research money and a pretty good basketball team, too. A spokesman at Oak Ridge National Laboratory confirmed this week that the transfer of ORNL's mouse colony to the University of North Carolina had been completed.

State and Local Coverage

Complaints about health costs dominate reform meeting
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)

North Carolina citizens struggling with health care decisions expressed their frustrations Tuesday to Gov. Beverly Perdue and the Obama administration. …Dr. Bill Roper, dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a member of former President Ronald Reagan's administration, said solutions are needed quickly. "We are paying an immense amount of money for the care of all Americans. We’re just not spending it very smartly," Roper said. "We’re not spending it wisely, and that’s what we need to do – take some of the money wasted on me and pay for your health care, if you don’t have it.
Related Links:
http://wunc.org/programs/news/archive/NRH040109Healthcare_Forum.mp3/view
http://news14.com/Default.aspx?ArID=607124

Obama aide gets healthy earful
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

The national campaign to change the health care system came to North Carolina on Tuesday, when workers, employers and doctors told an aide to President Barack Obama about their frustrations finding or providing medical treatment. …The forum was held a few days after the Institute of Medicine and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-Chapel Hill reported that North Carolinians are losing insurance faster than residents of any other state in the nation.

Town leaders challenge Carolina North report
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Local politicos doubt a new satellite UNC campus will help them balance their budgets. Members of the Chapel Hill Town Council and the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday questioned a fiscal-impact study released last month about the impact of the Carolina North campus. The study concluded that the project would bring a net benefit to local governments of about $40 million over 14 years.
Related Link:
http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=9945
UNC Media Advisory:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2367/138/

Bank official 'hopeful' about N.C. banks
The Charlotte Observer

N.C. Commissioner of Banks Joe Smith said Tuesday that he's “very hopeful” none of the state-chartered banks he monitors will fail, a contrast to Southeastern states such as Georgia and Florida. “I'm very hopeful,” Smith said after participating in a panel discussion sponsored by the UNC Chapel Hill Law School's Center for Banking and Finance.
Related Link:
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/apr/01/commissioner-is-hopeful
-about-state-chartered-bank/

With few jobs out there, national service corps looking good to Triangle graduates
The Triangle Business Journal

Local college graduates, facing a tough job market and responding to a call to service by President Barack Obama, are flooding the Peace Corps, Teach For America and AmeriCorps with applications. …“I really do believe more people are looking at that, not just because they are service-oriented but because it is a down economy and it is one more place to diversify your job search,” says Tim Stiles, associate director of career services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Job fair is a daunting experience
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

More than 1,700 people flooded the Hilton North Raleigh on Wake Forest Road on Tuesday in search of an increasingly elusive prize: a job. …Twenty-nine employers, with roughly 400 jobs available, attended the fair. BB&T, Dollar General and UNC-Chapel Hill were among the prospective employers with job seekers lined up 10 and 20 deep at their tables.

Roses & Raspberries (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News

Belated roses to journalist Paul Cuadros, an instructor at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, for his book "A Home on the Field" being chosen for UNC's 2009 Summer Reading Program. UNC asks all first-year and incoming transfer students to read a book during the summer and participate in small group discussions led by faculty and staff when they arrive on campus.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/a-home-on-the-field-by-
unc-professor-is-summer-reading-choice-for-2009.html

Athlete deaths change preparation pattern for ADs
The Star-News (Wilmington)

…With the death of five North Carolina student-athletes this school year, it’s one they can’t ignore. Braswell led a discussion on handling catastrophic events which was part of the North Carolina Athletic Directors’ 38th annual conference at the Hilton Riverside. …“These guys are the guys on the front line all the time,” said Johna Mihalik of the University of North Carolina. “They really want what’s best for their kids and that was evident. “It’s still being brought to the forefront that concussions are an issue at all levels of athletics, and so people are starting to pay attention.”

Meat Less (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

'Killer meat," said The Los Angeles Times headline, one of several that grabbed our attention in major newspapers last week. E. coli or mad cow disease wasn't the cause this time: Findings from a major study by the National Institutes of Health are linking eating red meat to earlier death. The study followed more than a half million older adults for ten years. Even taking into account other factors that might affect health, including use of tobacco and exercise level, people who ate more red meat – beef, pork and lamb, for example – were likely to die sooner, especially from heart disease and cancer. (Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical assistant professor in the department of health policy and administration in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.)

Foundation gives $22M for project
The Chapel Hill Herald

UNC has received more than $22 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a new project that aims to improve the reproductive health of the urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The project, Measurement, Learning and Evaluation for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, will be run by UNC's Carolina Population Center.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/unc-receives-gates-
foundation-grant-to-help-tackle-reproductive-health-issues-facing-urban-poor.html

A how-to on celebrating a UNC win
The Chapel Hill Herald

Batten down the hatches. Hide your cars. Tape up the windows. Hurricane NCAA Championship could roar through Chapel Hill in the next four to six days. …The goal for the Chapel Hill Police Department, which brings in hundreds of police officers from around the state to manage the crowds if UNC wins the national championship, is to make it a party, not a riot.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/final-four-viewing-party.html

Color a Heels win anything but blue
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Planning to paint your living room Carolina blue this weekend? Maybe you should hold off because you might not be able to buy the paint — at least not in Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill police are asking paint stores to restrict the sale of that hue this week. With UNC-CH about to play in the Final Four, police don't want the town painted sky blue if the team wins.
Related Link:
http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=9937

Simon says 'nuff, 'Noop
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

Anoop Desai, Chapel Hill's soulful singer on American Idol, received mixed reviews from the judges Tuesday night after he sang Usher's "Caught Up." …With several of the other performers getting reviews from the judges saying they did their best performances yet, Desai may have needed the best efforts of his fans, who call themselves, among other things, the Anoopettes, the Desai'ples and the Anoop Troopers, as well as his friends and classmates from UNC, to vote him through to the next round.
Related Link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1466301.html

Habitat CEO to speak
The Chapel Hill Herald

Jonathan T.M. Reckford, chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity International, will speak at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School on Thursday. …UNC is actively involved in the work of Habitat for Humanity. Kenan-Flagler established a partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Orange County to build homes in the community and dedicated its fifth house on Saturday. The project, "The House that Kenan-Flagler Built," brings together students, faculty and staff across the school and all its programs, to work together in service to the community.
UNC News Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/business/habitatceoapril2.html

World music festival planned
The Chapel Hill Herald

"Sounds of Globalism," a free public world music festival, will be held at UNC's FedEx Global Education Center, at the corner of Pittsboro and McCauley streets, on April 13 and April 16, and in Gerrard Hall on Cameron Avenue on April 14, 15, 17 and 18.
UNC News Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/arts/world-music-festival-set-for-april-13-18.html

PlayMakers hosting auction
The Chapel Hill Herald

Carolina vs. Duke basketball tickets, a weeklong London trip and dinner at The Fearrington House Country Inn will be among items available in PlayMakers Repertory Company's upcoming online auction. Bids can be placed via the "Auction" link on the company's Web site, www.playmakersrep.org, from 8 a.m. April 16 through 8 p.m. April 25. All proceeds from the third annual auction will support the artistic and educational work of PlayMakers, the professional nonprofit theater company in residence at UNC.
UNC News Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/arts/playmakers-online-auction-goes-live-april-16.html

Litwin lecture at Ackland canceled
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

UNC composer and professor Stefan Litwin's lecture scheduled for Thursday at the Ackland Art Museum has been canceled because of illness. Litwin, the George Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Music at UNC Chapel Hill, had been scheduled to present the final installment in the Ackland's ongoing series Perspectives on Progress.

Issues and Trends

Students protest illegal immigrant ban
The Charlotte Observer

…They joined more than 350 students from N.C. State, UNC Asheville, UNC Chapel Hill and North Carolina A&T State University who participated in demonstrations organized by the Coalition for College Access, a student group formed in Chapel Hill. “We believe college access should be for everyone,” said Rachel Craft, a UNC Chapel Hill senior and coalition leader.

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