Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Latin America Brings Up Its Dead, Seeking Truth to Help Settle the Past
The New York Times
In the aftermath of Chile’s 1973 military coup, the Nobel Prize-winning poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda was found dead…a judge recently ordered his remains exhumed from a grave overlooking the Pacific Ocean to investigate claims that he was poisoned…Latin America is experiencing a wave of exhumations, reflecting not only the difficulty some political figures have finding serenity in the afterlife, but also the region’s willingness to resurrect unresolved questions and quarrels over its history, even if it literally involves digging up the past…“Where history is not settled, the heroic dead continue to speak,” said Lyman Johnson, a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina, who has explored Latin America’s tradition of exhumations.
Muscle and Speed Win a Crowd’s Adulation
The New York Times
The Mariinsky Orchestra‘s three-concert stand at Carnegie Hall, which ended on Tuesday evening, was billed as a 60th-birthday celebration for its music director, Valery Gergiev…But in the other two concerts…a repeat of a performance I heard a year ago in Chapel Hill, N.C., and recognizably the same…Mr. Martynov’s playing was again brilliant. In a hall twice the size of the 1,400-seat Memorial Hall on the University of North Carolina campus, Mr. Matsuev’s pummeling pianism seemed contained and less oppressive, but still out of scale with the work’s modest proportions.
Study: Poor children are now the majority in American public schools in South, West
The Washington Post
A majority of students in public schools throughout the American South and West are low-income for the first time in at least four decades, according to a new study that details a demographic shift with broad implications for the country…“More and more of these kids are in economic distress,” said Gene Nichol, who directs the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina…
Regional Coverage
Strength, balance exercises may prevent sports injury
Chicago Tribune
Strength training and balance exercises are more likely to help prevent sports injuries than stretching, a new look at the evidence suggests…Researchers said it’s not clear which specific exercises have the best chance of warding off ankle sprains, ligament tears and other injuries…"Counting all injuries together, it’s very hard to say which (exercises) actually work for which injury," said Yu, from the physical therapy division at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
What To Do If You Are Disengaged At Your Job
Chicago Tribune
The other day I was speaking to a friend of mine who was unhappy in his job…A few years ago, Dr. Gerald Bell, a professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, published a study where he asked 4,000 retired executives – whose average age was 70 – one question: If you could live your life over again, what would you do differently?
State and Local Coverage
G1 Therapeutics raises $12.5 million
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Chapel Hill-based G1 Therapeutics, a start-up company that’s developing a treatment to against side effects of chemotherapy, has raised $12.5 million to help further the development of its lead product candidate….The company was founded by Dr. Norman Sharpless, associate director for translational research at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Chapel Hill braces for a rare Thursday night football game
News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Goodyear blimp will float above town, Franklin Street will throw a block party and some faculty will be riled up. It can only mean one thing: Thursday night football in Chapel Hill.
Related Link:
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/10/17/faculty-urges-north-carolina-push-bold-athletics-reform#ixzz2hzRzRVtX
UNC: NCAA has say in length of P.J. Hairston suspension
Charlotte Observer
For the first time, North Carolina coach Roy Williams on Wednesday acknowledged that the NCAA will play a role in determining the length of P.J. Hairston’s suspension to start the season.
Related Link:
http://chapelboro.com/sports/unc-sports/ncaa-stepping-in-to-the-p-j-hairston-ring/