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National Coverage

Hypertension: Never too old to benefit from treatment
USA Today
No one is too old to be treated for high blood pressure, a landmark study showed Monday. The study of 3,845 patients offers the first evidence that treating high blood pressure among elderly patients is safe and saves lives, doctors say. ..."Those are big numbers," says Sidney Smith of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "It's an important study at a time when most studies don't include elderly patients."

Regional Coverage

Noted Authority on Cherokee Culture to Speak
The Chattanoogan (Tennessee)
The Chattanooga History Center, in cooperation with the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, will present Cherokee Women, a lecture by Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State and Local Coverage

Duke, UNC among top 20 business grad schools
The Triangle Business Journal
The graduate schools of business at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill rank among the top 20 in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. ...U.S. News says its professional schools rankings are based on "expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research, and students."
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/unc-schools-
graduate-programs-ranked-by-u.s.-news--world-report.html

Schools That Make Sweet 16 Often See a Boost in Applications
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
...Academic researchers say that just making it into the NCAA basketball tournament will boost freshman applications by 1 percent the next year. ...The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has studied the Sweet 16 admission trend since 1986. "There's not a great correlation between our success in any individual year on the court, or on the field, and what happens in the admissions that year or the year following," said Steve Farmer, admissions director at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Carolina Performing Arts season to feature 31 programs
The Chapel Hill Herald
The Carolina Performing Arts for the 2008-09 season will included the regional debut of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet in its only U.S. performances of "Swan Lake" and "Don Quixote," both the Kirov Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev and the New York Philharmonic with music director and conductor Lorin Maazel, jazz legend Ornette Coleman and the 50th anniversary celebration of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, with special guest Sweet Honey in the Rock.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/carolina-performing-
arts-announces-2008-2009-season---details.html
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http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2008/
04/01/Arts/Arts-Series.Unveils.Its.New.Season-3294618.shtml

Pressure on for e-mail probe
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Three Republican gubernatorial candidates and the director of an open government group said Monday that the State Bureau of Investigation should look into allegations that Gov. Mike Easley's staff told state public information officers to delete e-mail messages to and from the governor's office. ...David Lawrence, a professor and public records law expert with the UNC School of Government in Chapel Hill, said he does not know of any criminal investigations under the state's public records law during the 39 years he has been at UNC.

Hunt tries state panel (Under the Dome)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
After losing his final appeal in state court, Lee Wayne Hunt --who says he was wrongly convicted and imprisoned for for the 1986 shooting deaths of Roland and Lisa Matthews in Fayetteville -- has submitted his case to the N.C. Innocence Inquiry Commission, said Rich Rosen, a law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill handling the case.

Animal shelter open as waste removed
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Orange County Animal Shelter is operating on its regular schedule while UNC-Chapel Hill cleans up an old chemical waste dump nearby, county officials said Monday. The work, in preparation for initial construction on UNC-Chapel Hill's new Carolina North campus, has changed the shelter's parking and entrance areas.

Issues and Trends

Chelsea Clinton Criticizes Bush in N.C.
The Associated Press
Chelsea Clinton returned Monday to North Carolina, telling college students that the world will ''breathe a sigh of relief'' once President Bush leaves office. Clinton spoke Monday during a town hall meeting with students at North Carolina State University. She later moved on to Peace College in Raleigh and to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Related Links:
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-938447.cfm
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1020429.html
http://news14.com/content/top_stories/594388/politicians-trying-to-
win-young-voters/Default.aspx

Two men indicted in Eve Carson murder
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
The Orange County grand jury indicted two men Monday in the shooting death of UNC Student Body President Eve Carson. Demario "Rio" James Atwater, 21, and Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., 17, were indicted for first-degree murder in the death of Carson, whose body was found early March 5 in a quiet neighborhood about a mile from the university campus.
Related Links:
http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/hsletters/index.cfm#938462
http://www.newsobserver.com/2811/story/1020541.html

Chapel Hill needs aggressive policing (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Several years ago, while discussing acceptable local law enforcement standards, a town official announced, "We don't want or support aggressive policing in Chapel Hill." ...Though I've not forgotten those words, the tragic death of Eve Carson reminded me once again of his statement and the potential collateral cost of non-aggressive policing.