Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Rare Colored Photos of Japanese Internment Camps Found in Wyoming
The Japan Daily Press (Nagoya, Japan)
Photographs of the everyday lives of Japanese-Americans in a Wyoming internment camp are rare. Even rarer were colored photographs from the World War II era. But it was exactly the combination of these two that University of North Carolina professor Eric Muller discovered while working in a Wyoming Museum.
National Coverage
A Liberal Critique of Racial Preferences (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Wall Street Journal
…The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's amicus brief in the Fisher case conceded that if it adopted a top 10% plan in North Carolina, racial diversity would increase somewhat. But the university complained that by admitting the top 10% of students from low-income high schools, the average combined SAT score would fall from 1317 to 1262.
Regional Coverage
Is cheerleading dangerous?
The Wenatchee World (Washington)
…A new national report shows that high school cheerleaders were associated with 65 percent of all female catastrophic sports injuries for that age group in the past 29 years. Catastrophic is defined as resulting in death or serious injuries with or without permanent disability. The report, put out annually by the University of North Carolina, states that for the past 29 years:
State and Local Coverage
Myron Cohen to deliver UNC December commencement address
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Myron S. Cohen, an acclaimed physician and researcher who has spent the Past three decades studying the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, will speak at December Commencement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Related Link:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/morning_call/2012/10/cohen
-to-give-unc-commencement-address.html
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5622/68/
DHHS receives $5.6M grant
The Triangle Business Journal
…A 2011 study by UNC-Chapel Hill found that treating HIV-infected individuals with antiretroviral therapy when their immune systems are still relatively healthy leads to a 96 percent reduction in HIV transmission to their partners. The study suggests that early treatment of infected individuals can have a major impact on the spread of HIV disease. Dr. Myron Cohen led that effort, and was named the 2012 Triangle Business Journal Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award winner for his work.
Book on historic Carolina grave markers a ‘life’s work’
The Charlotte Observer
For more than 30 years, UNC Chapel Hill folklorist Daniel Patterson spent spring breaks and vacations roaming old cemeteries in the Piedmont region of the Carolinas. Dodging poison ivy and black widow spiders, he photographed weathered gravestones when the light was just right, so he could read the carvings; often he sat for hours, watching until that moment arrived.
School calorie caps make sense (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Most American kids don’t go hungry – for long. Obesity among school-age children is epidemic, threatening the health and longevity of an entire generation. We need urgent action to reverse the trend. (Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical associate professor in the department of health policy and administration in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
All’s quiet (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Here we go again. The search committee to pick the next chancellor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has hired Bill Funk and his Dallas-based headhunter firm, one that’s assisted the UNC system in the past, to find candidates for the job. And Rule No. 1, apparently, is that the search panel will agree to keep all candidates’ names confidential.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5620/68/
Issues and Trends
UNC looks at how many graduates state needs
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
At a UNC system strategy session Tuesday, the slide on the screen asked a provocative question: “How much education does North Carolina need?” Some might answer, “as much as possible.” Others may suggest “as much as we can afford.” And still others could pose another question in response: “What does the future job market demand?”
UNC committee meets amid protest
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
A committee charged with helping the University of North Carolina system set a course for the next five years began its work Tuesday against a backdrop of student protest over its makeup. About an hour after a subcommittee of the UNC Advisory Committee on Strategic Directions finished a work session where it discussed degree attainment goals, a group of students calling itself the North Carolina Student Power Union met at the Old Well to voice its complaint about the lack of student input in the strategic planning process.
Related Link:
http://chapelboro.com/UNC-Group-Demands-Better-Representation-On-Advisor/14475540
Florida higher education task force suggests tuition hikes, varying tuition rates
The Associated Press
A higher education task force appointed by Gov. Rick Scott may recommend tuition increases and varying tuition rates based on a student’s year in school or academic field — ideas similar to those in a bill recently vetoed by Scott. …For example, annual tuition is $6,403 at Florida State University and $6,170 at the University of Florida, the state’s two leading research schools. That compares to $7,694 at the University of North Carolina, $10,037 at Ohio State University and $16,006 at Pennsylvania State University.
Knight Commission reports: Colleges need to better police their sports programs
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
On the same day that former Penn State football coach and convicted child abuser Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 years in prison, a new report on Tuesday urged college governing officials to exercise stronger oversight over their institutions’ sports programs. The report was one of several prepared for the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which was formed more than two decades ago to resist the trend of money and booster influence in big-time college sports, which has led to numerous scandals.
Related Link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/09/2401472/decock-
time-for-trustees-to-take.html#storylink=misearch