Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Despite deaths, schools resist changing heat plans
The Associated Press
A leading researcher says at least three teenage football players died as school practices started up this summer, fatalities which followed new health warnings to coaches about the risks of heat stroke. …Players in Maryland and Texas, along with another Kentucky student, have died following football practices this year, said Dr. Fred Mueller, director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina.
The Unnameable (Book Review)
The New York Times
…American short fiction in particular — from Poe and Hawthorne to the present — unfurls at midnight: a dark affair emphasizing our want of health in a civilization gone sick. Terrence Holt’s first story collection, “In the Valley of the Kings,” now joins the brigade. Holt works as a physician at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and he understands the nexus between disease and dejection, between corporeal damage and spiritual ruin. He understands that storytelling rises from that ruin.
Regional Coverage
'Guiding Light' fades off the air
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.)
For 72 years, “Guiding Light” has been there for audiences. When the longest-running soap opera (including on the radio) goes out on Friday, the story will end, but the characters won't be forgotten. …The shows were basically a backdrop for commercials for soap …according to Robert C. Allen, author of “Speaking of Soap Operas,” “They're probably the most successfulbroadcast advertising vehicle ever devised.” Allen, a professor in the American Studies Program at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, adds, “If you had a time capsule, and you could put only a couple examples of commercial broadcasting in the time capsule, to represent its success in reaching a particular audience demographic, you would have to have a soap opera in the time capsule because they were the most cost-effective way of reaching women between 18 and 39 years old from the 1930s through, certainly, the 1980s and 1990s.”
State and Local Coverage
'Goosebumps' author is a hit at festival
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The N.C. Literary Festival at UNC-Chapel Hill this weekend has plenty of what you'd expect from a celebration of the written word: authors rubbing elbows with fans, speaking seriously about their craft. There's also a make-your-own-puppet station, face-painting and appearances by a big red dog. The festival's motto is "a celebration of reading and writing," director Amy Baldwin said, and "who better to share that with than children?"
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UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2816/73/
Spencer, Gurganus found own writing paths
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Elizabeth Spencer grew up listening to the stories of Beatrix Potter, the Bible and Greek mythology before she could even read. Allan Gurganus didn’t care much for books until he used them to pass time in the Navy. Both came to be published authors in diverging ways, but shared their “Influences and Inspirations” together Sunday afternoon at the final day of the N.C. Literary Festival at UNC Chapel Hill.
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http://www.heraldsun.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Authors+serve+up+Southern+fiction
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http://www.wchl1360.com/detailswide.html?id=11789
Hoops stars tout books
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Two former professional basketball players used their hands for another purpose Sunday morning at the N.C. Literary Festival at UNC Chapel Hill. Instead of shooting the ball, they held books as they read with children.
Bain & Company: getting popular (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Bain & Company, the firm hired at UNC Chapel Hill to evaluate its finances and look for cost savings, is getting popular among universities. We reported recently that after working in Chapel Hill, it headed to Cornell. Now, we learn that UC Berkeley is interested as well.
At UNC-CH, a designer chosen for University Square (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
An architect has been selected to design a new University Square in Chapel Hill. The Chapel Hill Foundation Real Estate Holdings and its development partner, Cousins Properties, have hired Boston-based Elkus Manfredi Architects. …The 12-acre tract is currently home to the University Square shopping center and Granville Towers, a private residence hall complex.
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UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2857/68/
University boards eye joint meetings
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The fast-growing web of academic connections between rivals N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill has prompted their respective trustees to ponder holding joint meetings twice a year. Lawrence Davenport, chairman of the NCSU trustees, told his board Friday that he had called his counterpart at UNC-CH, Bob Winston, to broach the idea, and that Winston was receptive.
UNC arts program explores 'Diasporas'
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Conversations on diasporas, migration and cultural identity are the focus of the Carolina Creative Campus program this academic year at UNC. The program, facilitated by the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts, uses the arts as the foundation for a cross-campus conversation on a different topic each year. The 2009-10 theme, “Diasporas,” marks the third year of the program. The first two Carolina Creative Campus themes were “Criminal Justice: The Death Penalty Examined” and last year’s “The Gender Project.”
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2797/66/
'Humans will always love to hear stories'
The Chapel Hill News
The Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation will celebrate the library's 50th anniversary today with an event at the Barn at Fearrington Village featuring barbecue, live music and readings by local authors. "Long Story Short" the celebration is called, a name it shares with a new book of "flash fiction" by 65 North Carolina writers, edited by Marianne Gingher, director of UNC's creative writing program.
Dead Sea Scrolls expert to speak in Chapel Hill
The Associated Press
A talk by a pioneer of Dead Sea Scrolls research marks the start of a series of events sponsored by a North Carolina university. Geza Vermes is the emeritus professor of Jewish studies at Oxford University. He will discuss the Dead Sea Scrolls and their contribution to the study of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. The discussion is part of a series sponsored by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina. Vermes will speak Monday evening at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2806/73/
UNC Hosts Health Care Reform Forum
WNCN-TV (NBC/Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill is hosting a forum to help you better understand the health care reform debate. UNC's Dr. Jonathan Oberlander, Dr. Tim Carey and Dr. Warren Newton will be joined by UNC School of Medicine experts to answer questions on health care reform. The forum will be held at the MacNider building on Monday from 5 – 6 p.m.
UNC recycling effort keeps 300 pounds of plastic out of landfill
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Call it the case of the incredibly shrinking waste stream. Make that shrink-wrap waste stream. During fall semester move-in weekend, Aug. 22-23, the UNC Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling partnered with the Orange County Solid Waste Management Department, the Harris Teeter grocery store chain and American Chemistry Council to recycle almost 300 pounds of plastic bags and shrink wrap from incoming students, saving almost 10 cubic yards of landfill space.
Remember the Dixie Chicks? (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
It does not seem all that long ago when the country band called the Dixie Chicks was taken to task for name-calling against President George W. Bush. Back then, showing disrespect to the president was un-American and unpatriotic. So the Dixie Chicks were booed, boycotted and belittled. And their critics stood proud, believing that standing up for the presidency meant standing up for America. And if three hard-working singers had their careers damaged, well, that should teach those folks a thing or to. (William P. Marshall is Kenan professor of law at the UNC School of Law.)
Issues and Trends
UNC-CH protesters to face judge
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Seven young activists will go to court today on charges they disrupted two former congressmen who spoke about immigration at UNC-Chapel Hill last spring. Only one of the protesters is a UNC-CH student, Morehead-Cain scholar Haley Koch, a senior accused of holding a banner in front of another student who was introducing former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican known for his anti-immigrant stance. The others were banned from campus for two years after their arrest a week later at former U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode's speech.
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Where's the accountability? (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
We're not exactly sure who dropped the ball in the probation office, but someone did. Someone wasn't watching closely enough over the two men charged in the separate murders of Duke graduate student Abhijit Mahato and UNC student body president Eve Carson in the early months of 2008. Laurence Lovette Jr. and DeMario Atwater were supposed to be on probation at the time of the murders. But although they failed to report to probation officers, they had fallen through cracks in the system and weren't being monitored.
Physician Appears In Court Following Car Accident That Killed Local Ballerina
WNCN-TV (NBC/Raleigh)
A man accused of driving drunk and killing a local ballerina appeared in court Monday morning. Raymond Cook, an assistant professor at the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill and a doctor at WakeMed, faces DWI, death by motor vehicle and reckless driving charges.
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http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/5992285/
UNC tennis player pleads guilty in hit-and-run
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill tennis player pleaded guilty Monday to several charges in an August 2008 hit-and-run wreck that injured two women.