Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
CDC report on teen oral sex trends sparks calls for better education
CBS News
…"I would say that the risk of STD transmission through oral sex is underappreciated and underestimated," added Dr. Christopher Hurt, a clinical assistant professor in the division of infectious disease at the University of North Carolina who was not involved in the new report, commented to HealthDay. "As part of sex education programs, kids need to be made aware of that fact: that oral sex is not a completely risk-free activity."
Related Link:
http://www.wbay.com/story/19293428/two-thirds-of-us-youth-have-had-oral-sex-cdc-reports
Egg Study Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be (Blog)
ABC News
…Tom Linden, a medical journalism professor at the University of North Carolina, said journalists should exercise caution when writing about studies like this. He said they should put the studies into context by explaining the caveats and consulting experts. “The danger here is headline writers who aren’t necessarily science writers may go way overboard in headlining the story,” Linden said.
State and Local Coverage
Former governor to dig deeper into UNC academics
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
Leaders at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill have asked former Gov. Jim Martin to lead an investigation into academic improprieties at the school. Martin will coordinate with an outside consulting group and will report his findings to the UNC Board of Governors.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5491/68/
Letter from Chancellor Thorp:
http://www.unc.edu/chan/chancellors/thorp_holden/120816-update.php
UNC chancellor asks ex-governor, auditors to look into academic fraud
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp, under increasing pressure to dig deeper into an academic fraud scandal that has now drawn national attention, said Thursday he is bringing in a former governor and a national management consulting firm to look for “any additional academic irregularities that may have occurred.”
Find out the score (Editorial)
The News & Record (Greensboro)
Maybe University of North Carolina leaders have finally decided it’s time to put on the helmets and pads and launch a full-contact investigation into academic fraud and football.
Related Links:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/08/16/2273554/tar-heels-now-facing-yet-another.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/08/17/2273399/joe-h-simpson-finally-fix-it.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/08/17/2273402/stacey-p-anfindsen-he-took-what.html
UNC Campus And Downtown Busy During Student Move-In
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
Chapel Hill residents could experience commuting delays as scores of new students are descending upon the town for UNC’s official first-year move-in period for the 2012-2013 academic year. Returning students began their move-in Wednesday morning.
Triangle schools land millions in research grants
The Triangle Business Journal
Four Triangle universities will receive nearly $4.7 million in National Science Foundation grant awards, according to a news release issued by U.S. Senator Kay Hagan’s office. N.C. State University will receive four grants totaling $2 million, while UNC-Chapel Hill will get three grants worth $778,809. Duke University received two grants worth $519,793 and N.C. Central University landed one for $200,000.
Lexington native begins journey as Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC
The Dispatch (Lexington)
Four years of college and four summers experiencing personal enrichments that are fully paid for will become an exclusive opportunity for one Lexington native. Will Whitehurst will begin his freshman year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar this weekend. The merit scholarship program provides a full scholarship that's worth close to $100,000.
Rex readies for new $80M cancer hospital
The Triangle Business Journal
A delayed cancer hospital project by Rex Healthcare that stirred some opposition in 2009 could be back on track, with the hospital system looking to sell up to $80 million in bonds to pay for construction. Rex, which is wholly owned by UNC Health Care, received approval from the state in 2010 to build a cancer hospital on its campus in northwest Raleigh. Construction was set to begin in the fall of 2011, but was pushed back.
Carolina Performing Arts celebrates all things Stravinsky
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
“The Rite of Spring,” a ballet by choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky with music by composer Igor Stravinsky, caused a riot during its premiere in Paris in May 1913. Stravinsky’s score went on to become the most influential work of the 20th century. Carolina Performing Arts, UNC’s arts season program, will mark the centennial of this watershed in modernism with nine world premieres and 11 new commissioned works.
Issues and Trends
Undermining N.C.'s higher education goals (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A recent discussion by the UNC Board of Governors is a demonstration of the fading commitment to a historic North Carolina value and policy of promoting equal opportunity to higher education in our state. Board member squabbles should not mask that fact.
UNC board should grab the reins (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A public university system requires an active board that makes independent decisions to ensure that the system meets the needs of the state and not just the needs of self-interested administrators, politicians and faculty members. Yet that is seldom the case; governing bodies tend to act like rubber-stamp committees and social clubs instead of asserting themselves.
NCCU makes ‘major’ curriculum changes
The Triangle Business Journal
N.C. Central University will eliminate or merge 14 academic programs and add two new degree programs as a result of the most comprehensive academic review by the university in 30 years. The university expects to save roughly $500,000 in program costs with the restructuring.
UNC leaders’ pay trails peers in U.S.
The Triangle Business Journal
Leaders of the University of North Carolina System and its campuses are paid smaller salaries than most of their peers. UNC System President Tom Ross and Chancellors Randy Woodson and Holden Thorp of N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill, respectively, each will earn below the midpoint salaries that their peer groups received last year and actually come in close to the minimum of their groups.