Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Calories, carbon footprint: Do we get too much information about food we order?
The Canadian Press (Wire Service)
Walk into a restaurant these days and you might be able to check the calorie count of your enchilada, the salt content of your fries, the "heart healthy" status of your Asiago peppercorn steak and — in at least one pioneering place — the carbon footprint of your vegetable lasagna. …"At some point, having too much information might actually hurt, because it may start to confuse," says Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
National Coverage
CEOs: The Most Beautiful People in the World?
The Wall Street Journal
Ahh, the rigor of the Ivory Tower: the data sets, the regression math…the facial analysis? Duke University researchers, in connection with the National Bureau of Economic Research, have found that CEOs are perceived to have more competent faces than non-CEOs. …The Duke study, which was published in March, asked students from Duke and University of North Carolina, to examine photographs about 1,500 CEOs.
After Coming Out as a Lesbian, a Student May Owe $80,000 to Army ROTC
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Four years ago, Sara Isaacson had a full-ride ROTC scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a dream of becoming an Army doctor like her grandfather. Today she may owe nearly $80,000 for the cost of books and out-of-state tuition that the Army paid the university on her behalf.
State and Local Coverage
Universities crying uncle as Perdue wants more cuts
The Triangle Business Journal
The state’s public universities appear on their way to getting full funding for additional students. Whether they’ll have the professors and facilities needed to educate them is another matter. Gov. Beverly Perdue’s proposed budget for the University of North Carolina System provides $59 million for about 5,000 additional students. But the governor’s budget also proposes a 3.9 percent cut to the rest of the system’s budget, which comes on top of a 2 percent cut that carries over with the two-year continuation budget. …“It’s nice to have adequate funding for students so they can go to Carolina, but it’s equally important that we have enough faculty and instruction for them,” says Shirley Ort, associate provost and director of student aid at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Are we getting TMI about the food we order?
The Associated Press
Walk into a restaurant these days and you might be able to check the calorie count of your enchilada, the salt content of your fries, the "heart healthy" status of your asiago peppercorn steak and – in at least one pioneering place – the carbon footprint of your vegetable lasagna. …"At some point, having too much information might actually hurt, because it may start to confuse," says Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at UNC Chapel Hill.
UNC Hospitals names new COO
The Triangle Business Journal
UNC Hospitals has named Dr. Brian Goldstein its new executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective July 1. In his new role, Dr. Goldstein will be responsible for overseeing an operating budget in excess of $1 billion and a staff of more than 7,000 people. Dr. Goldstien, who also has an MBA degree in addition to his medical degree, currently serves as the hospital’s chief of staff and as executive associate dean for clinical affairs for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine.
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http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/7422310/article-UNC-Hospitals-
taps-Goldstein-for-posts?
Issues and Trends
NCCU chancellor: Why we must save college funding (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
One fundamental measure of a healthy economy is the employment rate. In a faltering marketplace, it doesn't make sense to undermine the engine of employment opportunity, and that is higher education. As chancellor of North Carolina Central University, a century-old institution founded for the advancement of African-Americans and now serving a diverse but primarily low-income student body, I am concerned about the latest round of proposed budget cuts. (Charlie Nelms is chancellor of North Carolina Central University.)
College For All? Experts Say Not Necessarily
The Associated Press
…The notion that a four-year degree is essential for real success is being challenged by a growing number of economists, policy analysts and academics. They say more Americans should consider other options such as technical training or two-year schools, which have been embraced in Europe for decades. As evidence, experts cite rising student debt, stagnant graduation rates and a struggling job market flooded with overqualified degree-holders. They pose a fundamental question: Do too many students go to college?
Men's action thwarts attack
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Joey Shelton was driving up North Columbia Street on Wednesday afternoon when he saw a man dragging a young jogger toward a car in a parking lot. … Shelton, a part-time barber and chauffeur, said he and his brother Freddie, 50, were going to check out surplus computers when they saw the man grab the woman. She had been jogging past the parking lot behind the RBC Bank at East Rosemary and North Columbia streets, about two blocks north of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. "We said it was wrong, let's go do something," said Shelton, who lives in Pittsboro.
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http://www.wtkr.com/news/sns-ap-nc–joggerrescued,0,4848601.story
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7598163/
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7440097