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National Coverage

Health Plan From Obama Spurs Debate
The New York Times
It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them. ...Jonathan B. Oberlander, who teaches health policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, called it wishful thinking.

More college cafeterias dump food trays
USA Today
Something familiar will be missing when students buy meals at many college dining halls this fall: trays. ...University of North Carolina. The Chapel Hill campus nixed trays in two dining halls in October. It's saving thousands of gallons of water monthly by not washing trays, says Scott Myers, dining director.

Regional Coverage

For Covington, Attitude is Half The Battle
The Memphis Daily News (Tenn.)
Jim Covington isn’t overly worried about rising gas prices, struggling airlines and other woes affecting the transportation industry. ...The term “aerotropolis” was coined by University of North Carolina business professor Dr. John Kasarda. It defines a city or region that revolves around the airport as its chief economic engine.

State and Local Coverage

Retention on agenda for UNC trustees
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill had a good year for faculty retention in 2007-2008. Of the 51 faculty members who got offers from other schools, UNC-CH made counteroffers to 26. Of those, 18 stayed, and eight left. The retention numbers are among the materials the UNC-CH Board of Trustees will discuss at its meetings today and Thursday.
UNC Media Advisory:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/july-2008-board-of-trustees-
workshop-agenda-regular-meeting-schedule-agenda.html

Pre-grad program marks its 20th year
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC Chapel Hill's Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience for undergraduates is celebrating its 20th anniversary this weekend. The program exposes minority students to a research and a graduate-school atmosphere and encourages them to pursue doctorates in the sciences, technology, engineering, math -- known as the STEM disciplines -- economics or the social and behavioral sciences.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/science-and-technology/scientist-comes
-full-circle-at-unc.html

Caswell students board Destiny bus
The Caswell Messenger (Yanceyville)
The Morehead Planetarium and Science Center's Destiny bus visited Gunn Memorial Public Library on Tuesday bringing the excitement of science to children entering grades 6-8. ...The Morehead Planetarium and Science Center started the Destiny program in 2000 and has two buses that are traveling laboratories from UNC Chapel-Hill.
UNC Media Advisory:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/glaxosmithkline-unc-
planetarium-hold-science-camp-in-caswell-county.html

Kenan-Flagler fills new post
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Peter Romanella has been named assistant director of leadership at UNC Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School, a new position that's part of the school's Leadership Initiative. Founded in 2005, the initiative is an experience-based program that assesses and develops MBAs' leadership skills.

Food For Thought
The Gaston Gazette (Gastonia)
It's important to stay hydrated while being active during the hot summer months, especially if you are outside for long periods of time and are perspiring. ...The University of North Carolina's Interdisciplinary Obesity Center developed the Healthy Beverage Guidelines (www.beverageguidancepanel.org) to help consumers make healthy beverage choices.

Smokies study IDs panorama of species
The Associated Press
A 10-year study has found more than 6,000 species of plant and animal life previously unidentified in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. ...Peter White, a biology professor at the UNC Chapel Hill, said that the park is "a hot spot of biodiversity."

A blow against exclusion (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
This month a jury in Zanesville, Ohio, awarded $10.9 million to residents of a mostly black neighborhood after finding that the local government discriminated against the community by denying access to public water service, even though it provided water to nearby predominantly white neighborhoods. (Julius L. Chambers, former chancellor of N.C. Central University, is the director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights. Mark Dorosin is a senior attorney at the center.)

The Latino baby boom shifts focus (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill News
...The migration of Latinos to the American South has moved into a different phase. The growth of Latinos is no longer being fed by immigration, but now is growing more by natural births. ...All across the country, the Latino Baby Boom is exploding. (Paul Cuadros is an investigative reporter and assistant professor at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.)

Keen to be green, but how to do it?
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
They want to design buildings that use less energy, teach employees to save water and reduce waste. ...Cindy Shea, UNC-CH's sustainability office director, said even though local government and university leaders have made progress in seeking a sustainable community -- such as by putting a fare-free bus system in place in Chapel Hill and Carrboro -- more needs to be done statewide and nationwide.

Wanted: Used athletic shoes
The Chapel Hill News
Children ages 6-12 at this summer's Carolina Kids Camp have taken on a challenge to help the environment at the possible discomfort of their noses: collecting used athletic shoes for recycling. The day camp at UNC serves children of students, staff and faculty of the University and UNC HealthCare in eight weeklong sessions this summer, lasting through Aug. 8 and each attended by 125 to 130 campers.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/carolina-kids-
seeking-shoes-to-recycle.html

Trouble with a capital T
The Chapel Hill News
The lead role in Meredith Wilson's classic musical "The Music Man" is a slick fellow named Harold Hill, but the real star of the show is an entire town. ...That communal identity is one reason the Summer Youth Conservatory -- a collaboration between The ArtsCenter in Carrboro and PlayMakers Repertory Company at UNC -- chose "The Music Man" as its 2008 production.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/arts/musicman0608.html

'Liberty' comes home: Cumberland's declaration of independence
The Fayetteville Observer
Robert Rowan’s handwriting is difficult to read in places. Signatures on the back of the paper bleed through to the front, obscuring some of the text. ...The resolves are property of the Southern Historical Collection at the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

10 years after fire at Thomas Wolfe House, visits to remodeled memorial dwindle
The Citizen-Times (Asheville)
...Early on the morning of July 24, 1998, an arsonist broke a window in the dining room of the Thomas Wolfe House, a wood frame home memorialized in the author’s autobiographical 1929 novel “Look Homeward, Angel.” ...Joseph Flora, an English professor at UNC Chapel Hill since 1962 and acting director for the Center for the Study of the American South, says Wolfe’s literary star has fallen. Wolfe’s books are still in print, but he has not retained the allure of contemporaries such as Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Issues and Trends

Now's the time for economic vision, action (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill Herald
I am fortunate to have the opportunity to utilize my 25 years of experience working globally in public policy and development to serve as Orange County's economic development director. ...The Research Triangle region boasts an innovation-based economy; add this asset to the fact that we have our own top research institution, UNC Chapel Hill, and a vision creating an economy where by pursuing community interests can be a reality. (Brad Broadwell is economic development director of Orange County.)

Town to talk about race, power
The Chapel Hill News
The town may be done talking about renaming Airport Road. It's not done talking about race. ..."We're looking for anybody that wants to learn more about what we're doing in terms of creating dialogue," said Wesson, 26, an academic adviser at the UNC College of Arts and Sciences.