Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Facebook doesn’t feel right
Science News
A big chunk of social media users say that digital communications don’t hold an old fashioned candle to face-to-face conversations. Among 300 tech-savvy college students, roughly half feel uncomfortable interacting on Facebook, Twitter and other social media but do so because it’s unavoidable, Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reported on August 10.
State and Local Coverage
UNCSA Students Reach Orphans in Haiti Through Global Arts
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem)
For many years, University of North Carolina School of the Arts Social Studies teacher, Jonathan Milner, has led students to remote parts of the world. They have traveled to places like Nairobi, Kenya where he and his students fed AIDS orphaned infants and children. …In May of 2013 Milner led a group of 10 UNCSA students along with 2 doctors from UNC Chapel Hill to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Their trip centered around the Zanmi Beni Orphanage where they shared their love for art with the Haitian children. Though they were prepared for scenes of poverty in Haiti the reality on the ground was still shocking for the students.
UNC AD says PJ Hairston will play this season, but not in every game
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
P..J. Hairston will play this season, but not in every game. That’s what Bubba Cunningham, the North Carolina athletics director, told a group of university faculty members during a question-and-answer session on Thursday.
Issues and Trends
One-year tuition freeze for UNC system is good start (Editorial)
The Winston-Salem Journal
When it comes to the UNC system’s in-state tuition freeze, one year is a good start. But more are needed beyond that. UNC President Tom Ross said last week that he would recommend no in-state tuition increase for the 2014-15 academic year. Members of the Board of Governors, with whom the final tuition decision would rest, sounded pleased, lending hope to the prospect that the freeze will be formally approved in February.
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http://www.news-record.com/opinion/n_and_r_editorials/article_2fa3011a-05aa-11e3-91f5-0019bb30f31a.html
UNC system looking at deeper cuts
The Triangle Business Journal
Cuts from state taxpayers to the University of North Carolina system have been the norm in the past few years, and the 2013-14 school year is no different. State lawmakers in the General Assembly reduced the UNC system budget from $2.58 billion last year to $2.51 billion this year and budgeted $2.49 billion for 2014-15. The UNC Board of Governors takes that overall budget and divvies it up to the 17 institutions.
NSA establishes $60 million data analytics lab at NC State
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As the field of “big data” continues to grow in importance, N.C. State University has landed a big coup – a major lab for the study of data analysis, funded by the National Security Agency. …The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences will be launched in a Centennial Campus building that will be renovated with money from the federal agency, but details about the facility are top secret. Those who work in the lab will be required to have security clearance from the U.S. government.