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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Remembering Eve Carson

Below is a brief sampling of the national, regional and local coverage of these tributes to Eve and her contributions to Carolina and the lives of so many in Chapel Hill.

UNC chancellor search moves forward
News 14 Carolina
As local police officers made the first arrest in Eve Carson's murder, the makeshift memorials on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill show that the former student body president made a lasting impression on the campus during her time there. One duty bestowed upon Carson was to find a new chancellor for the school she loved. She was part of the university's Chancellor Search Committee, and even though Carson's death has been particularly hard on those she worked with, they say the search must go on. "She was a big part of what we're doing and a big part of this campus, and she will be going forward," said Neslon Schwab, chairman of the Chancellor Search Committee.
Related link: http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=6113

UNC to hold memorial service
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill will hold a memorial service for Eve Carson at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Dean E. Smith Center. Doors will open at 3 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to wear school colors. Students, faculty and staff should walk to the Smith Center or use the campus RU and U bus routes, which will have extra buses added to their routes before and after the service.
Related link: http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=6124
UNC News Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/
unc-to-celebrate-life-of-eve-carson-at-memorial-march-18-at-smith-center.html

N.C. State to Wear Carolina Blue in Memory of Carson
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
North Carolina State University is asking all students, faculty, staff and alumni to wear Carolina blue Tuesday in remembrance of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's student body president. "We will do this in remembrance of Eve Carson and to show support for the UNC community," N.C. State Senior Class President Zach Adams said in a message to students. "It is important that we provide support during this time of loss."

Suspect Charged, Another Sought in UNC Student's Slaying
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
...UNC Chancellor James Moeser expressed similar sentiments in a written statement."Our interests are in seeing justice served and helping our community during this difficult time," he said. "We are thankful for all of the expressions of support pouring in for the Carolina family and our local community in these past few days. Those kind thoughts and prayers for Eve Carson's family and our community have made a difference."
Related link: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2573861/
UNC Statement: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/
chancellor-moeser-comments-about-charges-in-carson-case.html

Killings Put Southern Campuses on Edge
The Associated Press (National)
Three murders in less than a week have sent three Southern college campuses into grief, and brought renewed attention to campus safety — a topic already on the minds of parents and students after recent mass killings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois. ...UNC spokeswoman Lisa Katz said parents have been in touch with the university about a range of issues related to the killings, including security, but most were not generally worried about the overall safety of the campus. "Certainly whenever something like this happens, students probably call their parents just to say, 'I'm OK,'" she said.

Still no closure in murder case (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
We have charges. What we don't have, though, is closure. We may never have it. Late Wednesday afternoon, the Chapel Hill Police announced that two young men -- Demario James Atwater and Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. -- had been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Eve Carson, the UNC student body president. It is the first time in the week since Carson's death that there is something tangible to think about, some possible facts to ponder in this awful mystery.

Innocence lost in her sanctuary (Opinion)
The Charlotte Observer
Caroline Castle Hicks is 50 now, a freelance writer in Huntersville, and the mother of two. But she remembers every detail of the house and the town where she grew up happy. She writes in an essay: "Chapel Hill in the 1960s was ... a sort of intellectual Mayberry, with one of the most stunning campuses in the country and a quaint, tidy main street that would have been at home on a Hollywood back lot." ... Then, last Friday, Hicks read about the murder of UNC Chapel Hill student Eve Carson and was horrified. "My knees almost buckled," she says. "It was just unspeakable that something could happen to this beautiful young girl with such potential."
Related link: http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=288349

Don't let the evil divide us (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Hey, wait a minute, pal. I didn't kill anybody. Honest. Ever since the black dude showed up on television in the hooded sweat shirt and tilted baseball cap profiling for the ATM camera -- no, even before he showed up on television -- trying to withdraw cash from Eve Carson's account, I've been getting telephone calls and e-mail from people guaranteeing that her killer was black. ... Eve Carson's death was a loss that will reverberate throughout society because of the good she won't be able to accomplish. A person that young who had already had such a positive impact on her world, as evidenced by the thousands of students who gathered at the campus vigil in her honor, could over time have had an immeasurable impact on the larger world.

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

National Coverage

Defining a Ban on Secret Research
Inside HigherEd
... James L. Peacock, chair of the committee that reviewed the discipline’s military ties and a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said he thought it would be possible to keep the spirit of the proposed secrecy ban while carving out a few exceptions. Peacock said that a key part of the anthropology code of ethics is the principle of “do no harm” to those you are studying. As long as that principle is applied to any exemption from the secrecy rule, he said there was little danger of the rule being undercut. He said he saw the association’s work at this point as “being pragmatic about the context of research.”

State & Local Coverage

Morehead-Cain scholars named
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Top high school students from the United States and beyond -- including 42 from North Carolina -- have been announced as Morehead-Cain Scholars at UNC-Chapel Hill.
UNC News Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/students/
79-u.s.-high-school-seniors-named-morehead-cain-scholars.html

13 from Charlotte area win award
The Charlotte Observer
Thirteen Charlotte-area high school seniors are among the newest Morehead-Cain Scholars to UNC Chapel Hill. The award is worth about $80,000 for N.C. residents and $140,000 for out-of-state students, and covers all expenses for four years, a laptop and summer enrichment activities.
UNC News Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/students/
79-u.s.-high-school-seniors-named-morehead-cain-scholars.html

WNC students named Morehead-Cain scholars
The Citizen-Times (Asheville)
Four Western North Carolina students have been named Morehead-Cain Scholars at the UNC Chapel Hill. Only 79 students from across the country were selected for the scholarship.
UNC News Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/students/
79-u.s.-high-school-seniors-named-morehead-cain-scholars.html

N.C. needs doctors (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
... Last week the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina approved an expansion of its two public medical schools along with the Area Health Education Centers and local teaching hospitals affiliated with them. Part of the plan involves growing the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine by 70 students. Fifty of them would study their first two years in Chapel Hill, then complete their third and fourth year clinical rotations in Charlotte, in collaboration with Carolinas Medical Center. UNC Charlotte and Chapel Hill would also partner on research and examine ways to expand medical education in Charlotte.

Getting vitamin D is tricky even in sunny South
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
You know you need your daily servings of fruits and vegetables. Some experts think we need a regular dose of sunshine, too. Evidence from multiple studies suggests that at least 40 percent or more of older U.S. adults not living in nursing homes may be deficient in vitamin D. Vitamin D plays a major role in supporting bone health by increasing the amount of calcium and phosphorus the body absorbs from the intestines. ... Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a licensed, registered dietitian and author. She holds a doctorate in health policy and administration from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she is a clinical assistant professor in the School of Public Health.

Despite statistics, students hopeful
The News & Record (Greensboro)
..."We heard a lot of statistics in there," said Jasmine Renee Mitchell, one of the three student panelists. "I know those Dudley kids kept hearing 'underprepared, underprepared, underprepared.' ... But I would tell them not to be discouraged." Mitchell, a Smith High graduate who won a Morehead-Cain scholarship and is now a sophomore majoring in economics at UNC-Chapel Hill, was the panelist closest in age to the Dudley students who filled the first three rows.

Nichol will return to UNC to teach
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Gene Nichol, the former UNC-Chapel Hill law dean who stepped down abruptly last month as president of The College of William & Mary, has accepted an offer to rejoin the law faculty at UNC-CH.

Issues & Trends

Oregon's AVI buys Morrisville's Ercole Biotech
The Triangle Business Journal
Biotechnology startup Ercole Biotech is being sold to its drug development partner, the companies said Thursday. ... Ercole was founded in 2002, when it spun out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Its founders once had plans for the company to grow to more than two dozen employees, but it struggled to raise venture capital and ultimately wound up staying afloat through partnerships with AVI and grants from the National Institutes of Health. It has about a half-dozen employees.