Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
TOMS Shoes' giveaways helps it stamp towards profit
The Telegraph (United Kingdom)
…But TOMS is steering this concept in a new, and potentially powerful, direction, says Lisa Jones Christensen, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at The University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. In a typical "buy one, get one free" arrangement, the benefit accrues only to the buyer, she says. "With the TOMS model, you generate something for someone else while also advancing your own fashion."
National Coverage
This Week in Small Business: Taxes, Bankers, the Windows Phone (Blog)
The New York Times
…Interesting new books this week: “Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century” by Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein, which makes the case that universities need to do a better job educating future business minds.
Audio: In the Study of Concussion, a New Frontier of Research
The Chronicle of Higher Education
..Kevin M. Guskiewicz is one researcher who has been at the vanguard of efforts to better understand the complicated nature of concussions. For nearly two decades, Mr. Guskiewicz, who is chair of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's department of exercise and sport science and holds a Ph.D. in sports medicine, has focused his work on understanding the injury.
Older women with healthy bones may not need frequent bone scans
The Los Angeles Times
Medical experts say women, beginning in their mid-60s, should be screened for osteoporosis on a regular basis. …Dr. Margaret L. Gourlay of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, looked at data from 5,035 women age 67 and older who were part of the long-running osteoporosis study called the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures. Women 65 and older who did not have osteoporosis at the time were enrolled in the study from 1986 to 1988 and had bone-mineral-density testing at least twice during the study.
Go Corporate or Change the World: How About Both? (Blog)
The Wall Street Journal
Upon reading my first blog post, a friend asked, “Will you feel like a sellout if you take a job at some high-profile business firm?” I can see where the concern might come from. Many of my friends find it hard to believe I am even a business major given that I buy nearly all my food from Trader Joe’s, love indie music, and plan disaster relief trips in my spare time. (Emily Noonan, of Bloomingdale, Ill., is a senior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, pursuing a degree in business administration and a second major in Asian studies.)
Share This! Young People Rally Peers to Get Out the Vote
The Huffington Post
Plenty of people have told us about how young people feel this election cycle. We face a so-called "enthusiasm gap," the media says. …Costumed students who participate in canvassing to encourage their peers to vote will celebrate their outreach with performances by exciting bands, such as Passion Pit at the University of North Carolina in Raleigh on Oct. 29 and OK Go at Ohio State on Oct. 31.
Bigotry and Islam: Bill O'Reilly's at It Again
The Huffington Post
Bill O'Reilly and his inflammatory speech was on The View this week, and everybody knows it. But, the attention should go elsewhere. …These opinions existed but were less visible until the debates in New York over the proposed Islamic Center reached a high pitch. When the University of North Carolina assigned reading the Qur'an to incoming freshman, O'Reilly compared the assignment to having students read Hitler's Mein Kampf in 1941.
Regional Coverage
Region's high schools adapt to changing protocols for treating concussions
The Roanoke Times (Virginia)
…(Dr. Gunnar) Brolinson suggested using a less expensive option called the Balance Error Scoring System. It is a foam pad developed by the University of North Carolina on which athletes stand with one foot and are scored by how many times the opposite foot touches the ground. Brolinson said it has its flaws, but at least it has been scientifically tested.
Related Link:
http://qctimes.com/sports/high-school/football/article_c45d4c16-d984
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State and Local Coverage
Students with Pell Grants on the rise
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The number of local undergraduates receiving Pell Grants — the federal government's aid program for low-income students — has skyrocketed over the past year. …At UNC Chapel Hill, the number of recipients rose from 2,540 to 3,259, a 28 percent increase. Pell Grant recipients now make up more than 18 percent of the student body. …"The weakening economy is certainly a prime factor," said Shirley Ort, director of scholarships and student aid at Carolina. "Many more students simply need more aid."
Inside Politics: Some partisan polls require closer look
The Fayetteville Observer
…Ferrel Guillory, a political observer and lecturer in the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said polls that come from either side of the political spectrum typically have an agenda. "Clearly, what the Pantano campaign is trying to do is show that it's competitive so that it would mobilize Republican voters in the district," he said. "The McIntyre campaign – it's releasing a poll to tell you that as an incumbent, he clearly is the front-runner, and I don't think there's any doubt about that."
Taking the 'ouch' out of shots
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
…"If it could be used, it could provide a faster, less painful way to do a shot," said (Dr. Roger) Narayan, a professor in the joint biomedical engineering department of NCSU's College of Engineering and the medical school at UNC Chapel Hill. …Dr. Harold Pillsbury, a UNC surgeon who has worked with Narayan on several projects, said the widespread use of microneedles is eagerly anticipated in medical circles. "I think this is going to be the new way we do a lot of things," said Pillsbury, chairman of the head and neck surgery department at UNC.
Making it Through UNC on a Tight Budget
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
"Carolina Connection" is a program that airs on WCHL every Saturday morning at 8:30 and is produced by students at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Last month the Census Bureau announced that the U.S. poverty rate rose to 14.3% in 2009. Impoverished Americans face challenges that some UNC students may have never considered. Other Carolina students know these challenges all too well.
Tar Heel authors take readers across N.C. (Book Review)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
…The more literary of the two, this is a lovingly rendered portrait of a unique part of the state found in the barrier islands, seaside beaches and sound-side coastlines, in a collaboration by two longtime friends. Simpson is an English and creative writing professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and a longtime member of the Red Clay Ramblers.
Hard numbers (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Scientists working in the field of climate change can only strengthen their discipline, and public acceptance of their findings, by drawing more extensively on physics, chemistry and mathematics. So it's a good thing that a new project centered at UNC-Chapel Hill aims to bring "the math community," as UNC math professor Chris Jones puts it, deeper into climate change research.
UNC should recommit to First Amendment (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill Herald
In 1963, the North Carolina legislature enacted a now-infamous "speaker ban" preventing known members of the Communist Party (or those who had pleaded the Fifth Amendment when asked if they were members) from speaking at state colleges and universities. …The "speaker ban" was imposed upon a largely unwilling UNC Chapel Hill by the state legislature. That's why it's especially unfortunate that more than 40 years later, the only remaining restrictions on the First Amendment at UNC have been enacted by the university itself.
Legacy loophole (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
There is a good deal of populist rage in the air. Some is, no doubt, misguided. American populism has a checkered history. But some is just good common sense. I know my old man would have thought that bankers who drove the economy over a cliff in a frenzy of dishonesty and greed, and then paid themselves millions in bonuses wrung from the tax dollars of waitresses and construction workers, ought to be horsewhipped. And my old man was often right. (Gene Nichol is director of the UNC Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity.)
Dream Act deferred (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill News
…The DREAM Act would have provided instant relief and comfort to thousands of high school students across the state who lack legal residency status through no fault of their own. The act was added as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which provides funding for the armed services and is funded every year. (Paul Cuadros is a professor at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.)
UNC 5-K run to raise money for charity
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Heels4Hope, the 5-K run that raised more than $13,000 in its inaugural year last October, will hold this year's race Sunday at UNC-Chapel Hill. The beneficiaries include Arc of Orange County, Push America and St. Jude Children's Hospital. The race will begin at the Bell Tower.
Euwell earns return to Tar Heels
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
North Carolina got one more player back Saturday, officially lost another for the season and pushed one more back to the "limbo" list. The school announced before kickoff that reserve defensive end Linwan Euwell would make his season debut after missing UNC's first five games as part of the ongoing NCAA investigation. Meanwhile, junior safety Brian Gupton will miss the remainder of the season. And senior cornerback Kendric Burney, who was expected to return next Saturday against Miami after serving a six-game suspension for violations of NCAA agent benefits and preferential treatment rules, has an "unresolved issue" related to the probe that might keep him sidelined even longer.
Related Link:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7728535
UNC Release:
http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/101610aaa.html
Issues and Trends
Losing one of the good guys (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
Rob Hogan was one of the good guys. He was honest, generous, decent and warm-hearted, and every time you talked to him you walked away resolving to try to be a little more of those things yourself. When Hogan died on Oct. 8 from a series of devastating complications following a fall from his tractor, we lost a friend and an irreplaceable member of our community. The huge crowd that packed the George Watts Hill Alumni Center for his memorial service last Wednesday, the tens of thousands who logged on to the website that tracked the progress of his illness, and the countless people who have shed quiet tears and said soft prayers for him and his family during the past weeks are all testament to that.
Oxford teen to plead guilty to making online bomb threats
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
An Oxford teenager has agreed to plead guilty to using the Internet to make fake bomb threats to schools nationwide, according to a federal court document. …Threats were made to numerous colleges, including Purdue University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Clemson University and Florida State University, as well as to FBI offices in Louisiana and Colorado, according to federal court records.