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Regional Coverage

Strong leadership can bring improvements
The Tennessean (Nashville)
Good libraries raise informational and educational levels for thousands of citizens. A 2007 survey by the University of North Carolina revealed that public libraries returned $5.50 in benefits to citizens for every $1 in tax support.

State and Local Coverage

UNC, N.C. State, Duke post high ‘green’ grades
The Triangle Business Journal
A new survey by the Princeton Review gives UNC, N.C. State and Duke good marks for being green. As part of its “Best 368 Colleges” book, being published this week, the Princeton Review assigned schools “green ratings” of between 60 and 99. Schools were measured based on their institutional commitment to the environment, their work on preparing students for the environmental challenges of the workplace, and students’ ability to live sustainably. By that measure, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earned a 96.

Southern stories weave together
The News & Record (Greensboro)
Southern novels bulge from crowded shelves in bookstores, but that didn't help Brenda P. Schleunes when she wanted to adapt a couple of short stories as her latest project. ...(Randall) Kenan, who is on the English faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill, says "The Foundations of the Earth" — which comes from a line in Job — "came out of a sense of the outside forces conspiring to change down east as we knew it in the early 1990s: deeply conservative, deeply religious, deeply bound by a lot of traditions."

Healing Waves
Wrightsville Beach Magazine
A child clings to the front of a surfboard as an experienced surfer paddles the board into a small wave and stands behind him as they ride toward the shore. ...Becky McGee-Hudson, a psychoeducational therapist with TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication-handicapped CHildren), an organization affiliated with UNC-Chapel Hill, reports that families who have participated in Surfers Healing say the event is incredible.

University plans moved too quickly (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
To put it most simply, not enough innovation for the innovation center. That's why the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees sent the idea back to the drawing board.

Pedestrian robbed at UNC-CH
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill is warning students to be on high alert after a "strong-arm" robbery Saturday. ...The robbery was interrupted by a UNC-CH public safety officer on foot patrol nearby, and the suspect fled.
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Issues and Trends

Smart on students (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
With a finding by the office of state Attorney General Roy Cooper that there is no law barring the enrollment of illegal immigrants in state community colleges, those colleges can now do not just the right thing, but the smart thing.