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Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:

International Coverage

Elderly more likely to wait in French ERs: study
Reuters (Wire Service)

…"Some of this may just reflect that (doctors) are making a choice to see the simplest patient earlier but then decide to go back and spend more time with the older patient," said Dr. Tim Platts-Mills, an emergency medicine doctor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. For example, it would probably be appropriate for a doctor to take one minute to assess a younger patient with a sprained ankle if the doctor can then spend 10 minutes with an older patient, said Platts-Mills, who reviewed the new study for the journal.

Want your government to foster a vibrant economy? See what North Carolina did
The Globe and Mail (Canada)

…At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012, 61 per cent of undergraduate business students and 75 per cent of MBA students took at least one class on entrepreneurship. Students also have the opportunity to seek advice from and pitch to venture capitalists and entrepreneurs through programs such as the business-plan competition Carolina Challenge or the incubator Launching the Venture. Ted Zoller, director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sees increased entrepreneurial content as a fundamental change at business schools, which for decades existed solely to produce employees for big corporations.

National Coverage

Outgoing UNC chancellor: Let ADs handle athletics
The Associated Press

Holden Thorp is packing up after nearly five years as chancellor at the University of North Carolina, preparing for his next job as provost at Washington University in St. Louis. It's no accident he's leaving a school that regularly plays for national titles at the NCAA's highest level to one that competes at its lowest.
Related Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/opinion/nocera-the-way-to-run-college-sports.html

It wasn’t always this bad. The growth of political polarization, in 1 chart.
The Washington Post

…(The paper was co-written a by a political scientist at Duke University and one at the University of North Carolina. If those two schools can come together, can’t we all?) What the duo did was analyze the voting records to find similarities. They then grouped those similarities — Yahoo’s Chris Wilson did a similar experiment here — into a single chart comparing the likelihood of uniform party line voting over time. Their conclusion? “We have not seen the current level of partisanship since the early 1900s,” write James Moody of Duke and Peter Mucha of UNC.

The Hot New MBA: Supply-Chain Management
The Wall Street Journal

…With global operations becoming more complex, companies and the consulting firms that service them are scrambling to hire people with supply-chain expertise. Here, some new programs offered in supply chain management. …University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School, and Tsinghua University, Chapel Hill, N.C. and Beijing, Global Supply Chain Leaders Program—M.B.A. from Kenan-Flagler, Master of Engineering Management from Tsinghua

On Military Sexual Assault Reforms, Legislative, Executive Branches Must Balance Powers
The Huffington Post

…Richard Kohn, professor emeritus and military historian at UNC Chapel Hill, said that legally, Congress has the "whip hand," but practically, it can't use it. "Congress finds it almost impossible to exercise it because it's so divided — not only along partisan lines, but in perspective, divisions of age, gender, race," Kohn said. "And it's usually in the grip of its very powerful military affairs committees, which tend to be extremely supportive of the military itself. Over time, it's very difficult to make substantial change in the military without it cooperating and agreeing."

Regional Coverage

Jeff Gelles: Big Data's effect on politics discussed (Column)
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Pa.)

Does Big Data threaten to play a Big Brother-like role in American electoral politics? Or are concerns about the micro-targeting of voters that arose during the 2012 campaign make a mountain out of a molehill – albeit a very busy and well-financed one?…Turow, who cosponsored last week's conference with University of North Carolina professor Daniel Kreiss, already knew that many Americans were skeptical about targeted ads. But he wanted to know how data mining has changed campaigns, and what the mix of Big Data and politics portends.

State and Local Coverage

Sexual Assault Policy Task Force Update
WCHL-FM (Chapel Hill)

UNC’s recently assembled Title IX task force, charged with re-designing the University’s sexual assault policy, met Wednesday for the group’s third meeting so far. Student Body President Christy Lambden is a member of the group that is dealing with sensitive, and at times, uncomfortable issues. He says they are making headway, though.

Is The South Dying?
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM

…In her research, (Tracy) Thompson consulted many writers and historians. She worked with Hodding Carter III, a professor of Leadership and Public Policy at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. While Thompson maintains that the South is ever changing, Carter feels that the South and the country at large dragged its feet. “America was racist. America didn’t give a damn about black people. It didn’t give a damn before the Civil War. It didn’t give a damn during the Civil War…" he said.

1789 Incubator Fosters Young Entrepreneurs
WCHL-FM (Chapel Hill)

1789 is not just the year UNC was founded—it’s the newest business incubator to open in Chapel Hill. It’s geared towards Carolina students and recent graduates, with the goal of supporting the area’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Following in the footsteps of Launch Chapel Hill, which opened in May– 1789 will act as a feeder to its predecessor.

45 years after RFK died, still poverty, plenty and a call to justice (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Robert Francis Kennedy died 45 years ago today. An assassin’s bullet ended one of the most astonishing presidential campaigns in American history. Kennedy was complex. The politician of 1967 and 1968 was not the pugilistic and strategic figure of the McCarthy hearings, the Teamster investigations and his brother’s 1960 presidential campaign. (Gene Nichol is Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina's School of Law.)

Issues and Trends

Jim Woodall On Prosecuting Eve Carson’s Killer
WCHL-FM (Chapel Hill)

It’s been a long journey for Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall in prosecuting Laurence Lovette Jr., one of two men convicted in former UNC Student Body President Eve Carson’s 2008 murder. Though Lovette was re-sentenced Monday to life in federal prison with out the possibility of parole, Woodall says it’s not a closed case yet.

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