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International Coverage

UNC officials apologize to Tancredo
United Press International
University of North Carolina officials have apologized to former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., whose speech on campus was disrupted by protesters. University Chancellor Holden Thorp and UNC System President Erskine Bowles both telephoned Tancredo to apologize, The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer reported Thursday.
Message from the Chancellor:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2448/78/

National Coverage

The Envelope, Please: From 12 Options, a Decision Emerges (Blog)
The New York Times
I am now an official member of the Yale class of 2013. In one sense, I think I had made up my mind from the beginning. ...The Morehead-Cain Scholarship I was offered at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill felt overwhelmingly persuasive, and I felt there was a genuine chance of something truly extraordinary coming out of it. (“The Envelope, Please” is a series of posts by high school seniors chronicling their experiences during the end-game of this year’s college admissions process.)
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State and Local Coverage

Student leaders urge tolerance of different ideas in wake of Tancredo fracas
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Representatives of a broad range of student interests came together outside Frank Porter Graham Student Union Thursday to begin sorting out the lessons gleaned from an unruly protest earlier in the week that silenced a controversial speaker. UNC Chapel Hill student body president Jasmin Jones shared the podium with members of the campus chapters of College Republicans, Young Democrats, the Campus Y and The Coalition for College Access in a show of support for tolerance and increased dialogue among different ideologies.

Students Meet To Discuss Disruption At Tancredo’s Speech
WNCN-TV (NBC/Raleigh)
Students at UNC rallied Thursday night in an effort to discuss and try and heal the wounds following the disruptive demonstration Tuesday night that resulted in the cancellation of a speech by Congressman Tom Tancredo.

UNC students could face charges over speech protest
The Associated Press
Investigators are determining whether charges are warranted after a raucous student protest broke up a controversial speaking appearance this week by a former Republican presidential candidate, Tom Tancredo, the UNC chancellor said. ...(Chancellor Holden) Thorp and the president of the UNC system, Erskine Bowles, called Tancredo to apologize. "He appreciates their apology," Marcus Epstein, the executive director of Tancredo's political-action committee, Team America PAC, said yesterday.
Message from the Chancellor:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2448/78/

Protesters, UNC police deflect blame
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill Police and a student group responsible for the protest that foiled former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo's immigration talk on campus have different takes on what caused it to get out of control.

Intolerance on the Hill belies academic freedom (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
University officials including UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp and UNC system President Erskine Bowles have apologized to former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., for the unruly reception he received Tuesday when he tried to speak on campus. That's a start, but a small one, on repairing the damage to the university's reputation as a center of academic freedom and expression. There's more to be done, including educating students and some professors about the First Amendment.
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http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090416/ARTICLES/9041
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http://henderson.southernheadlines.com/index.cfm?section=83&story=15362
http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/opinion/hsedits/56-1139909.cfm

At UNC, a $50 window and one big mess (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
It was a little tense in the Bingham Hall classroom as former congressman Tom Tancredo was attempting to discuss his opposition to in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants. Students were hissing, and a couple stretched a broad banner across the front of the room, blocking him. But the event Tuesday night at UNC Chapel Hill still might have continued, had not a window broken.

Not all of us (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
I am a UNC student who attended Tom Tancredo's speech on campus, and I would like to express the frustration shared by many students that the events were perceived as a representation of all UNC students. I am most upset that Tom Tancredo left our campus feeling justified in his view that UNC students are fascists and intellectually bankrupt. This view of UNC students is downright incorrect. (Laura Stroud,, Chapel Hill)
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Hospital would create 300 jobs
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A proposed $227 million, 68-bed hospital in Hillsborough would create 300 jobs and anchor a major development at a junction of interstate highways south of the town. The project would mark a milestone for Hillsborough and become the first hospital built by UNC Health Care beyond its main complex in Chapel Hill.

UNC proposes Hillsborough hospital
The Chapel Hill Herald
A 68-bed, single-story hospital and emergency room that will cost $227 million and employ 600 staff members will be built in Hillsborough and could open in mid-2013 if state health regulators approve the project. UNC Health Care submitted an application to the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation certificate of need section on Wednesday for its new facility, which would be housed on 83 acres of land near exit 261 of Interstate 40 in the southernmost portion of Hillsborough.

Not your grandfather's Depression (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As everyone knows, these are tough economic times for millions of Americans. Indeed, the economic situation is arguably, if not unambiguously, the toughest we have faced since the Great Depression. That said, it is at this point dangerous to link these two periods too quickly or too closely, for today's economic problems, however serious, pale in comparison to those the U.S. experienced in the 1930s. (Peter A. Coclanis is associate provost for international affairs and Albert R. Newsome professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill.)

House approves new sex education bill
News 14 Carolina
The North Carolina House passed the Healthy Youth Act, which will expand the current abstinence based sex education program to three optional sex education programs. ...But for many of the lawmakers, they said the simple fact is that the current curriculum isn’t enough. And they said a new study by UNC Chapel Hill said that parents agree. “91.8 percent of parents thought that sex ed should be taught in school. Of those, 93.5 percent thought that public health officials ought to teach it,” Rep. Susan Fisher said.

Tribal leaders upset about oversight bill
The Fayetteville Observer
Lumbee leaders are concerned about a bill that would give a nonprofit group some oversight in how the state implements a law involving the welfare of Indian children. ...Sutton told the council he was not aware until Monday that the Lumbees were a part of a pilot program with the Jordan Institute, a research, training and technical assistance arm of the School of Social Work at UNC Chapel Hill.

Commercialization of collegiate sports questioned at UNC forum
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Dressed in a dark suit coat and tie, Danny Green strained to look to the back of the room to see who was asking him the question. ...Green lent his expertise to a panel dealing with the commercialization of college sports at the Scholarly Conference on College Sports on Thursday. The conference continues through Saturday at the Friday Center on UNC's campus.

James Joyce books on display
The Chapel Hill Herald
Books by 20th century Irish writer and poet James Joyce will be the highlight of an exhibit today through June 30 at the UNC's Wilson Special Collections Library. The exhibit, "Joycean Generosity, Joycean Books," will open today with a lecture by Scott Klein, professor of English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.
UNC News Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2382/107/

Mahone to speak at UNC Saturday
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Durham author and journalist Beverly Mahone on Saturday will lead a panel discussion about the emergence of social media and how it's redefining journalism. The free, public session is from 10 a.m.-noon in 111 Carroll Hall at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Discussion on street crime
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The Black Poetry Theatre and Criminal Justice Action and Awareness Committee of the Campus Y will present a play to promote discussion and action on the reality of street crime among youth in the Durham and Chapel Hill community. The play, titled "The Spectrum?" written by national slam poet and spoken word artist Kane "Novakane" Smego, will be performed at 7:15 p.m. in the auditorium of the Sonya Haynes Stone Center at UNC Chapel Hill Monday and Tuesday.

Ensemble to perform
The Chapel Hill Herald
The UNC Department of Music Concert will sponsor a performance by the UNC Percussion Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The show will be at UNC Hill Hall, 145 E. Cameron Ave.

Issues and Trends

Million-Dollar Mystery: Anonymous Donors Even the Colleges Don't Know
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In college fund raising, anonymous donors typically aren’t truly anonymous. Someone on campus — the president, or a top fund raiser who worked with the donor — knows the identity of the person who gave the gift. But in the last few weeks, that truism has changed for at least nine colleges. Those lucky institutions have received gifts totaling more than $45-million from donors who don’t want to reveal their identity at all, the Associated Press reported.
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