Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media: National Coverage A Place Where Cancer Is the Norm
The New York Times
...Dr. Russell Harris, an associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina and a member of a board that evaluates cancer therapies for the National Institutes of Health, said the temptation at major cancer centers like Anderson was to try treatment after treatment. “Everyone is totally immersed in the idea that death is the enemy,” Dr. Harris said. Such a no-holds-barred stance, he added, is spurring a growing debate in the cancer community. On the Way to the N.F.L. Draft, a Year of Fulfillment in England
The New York Times
Instead of chasing after wide receivers in the N.F.L., Myron Rolle came here to chase ghosts around the ancient campus of the University of Oxford. ...He said that nothing had better epitomized and reinforced his Rhodes experience than his unexpected friendship with Aisha Saad. Saad, a Rhodes scholar from the University of North Carolina who is studying environmental policy, is a native of Egypt and a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab. She and Rolle agree that social constructs of undergraduate life would probably have precluded them from becoming friends in college. HPV Vaccine No More Painful Than Other Shots
HealthDay News
There have been reports that injections of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine are especially painful, but a new study finds that they don't hurt more than any other shots. ...Researchers at the University of North Carolina discovered that most parents of teen girls who got the HPV vaccine said their daughters didn't experience unusual pain compared to two other kinds of injections -- tetanus boosters and meningococcal vaccinations.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3026/71/ Discouraging Jeerers
Inside Higher Ed
The former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited the University of Chicago two weeks ago to deliver a 20 minute speech. It ended up taking him an hour and a half to get through his prepared remarks. ...In both instances, jeering students and other protesters held up the proceedings, as they interrupted the speakers mid-presentation and denounced the controversial visitors’ views. In April, protesters brought former Rep. Tom Tancredo’s talk at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to an end before he even started speaking. Stop Your Search Engines
The New York Times Magazine
...It came in the form of an app called Freedom, which blocks your Internet access for up to eight hours at a stretch. The only way to get back online is to reboot your computer, which — though not as foolproof as, say, removing the modem entirely and overnighting it to yourself (another strategy I’ve contemplated) — is cumbersome and humiliating enough to be an effective deterrent. The program was developed by Fred Stutzman, a graduate student in information and library science, whose own failsafe self-binding technique — writing at a cafe without Internet access — came undone when the place went wireless. (Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.) State and Local Coverage Changing and preserving at 123 West Franklin (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill Herald
University Square is still open. Really open. While we have lots of ideas for the site, we're still at the beginning of the process. So there's never been a better time for a Time Out biscuit, a haircut or a new pocketbook from Fine Feathers. ...That's why as we look at making changes at 123 West Franklin, the site of the current University Square shopping center (including Time Out) and Granville Towers student housing, I want to reassure the tenants there, and their happy customers, that we want to keep them in business as we make their venue more attractive.(Holden Thorp is chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.) UNC-CH's Thorp on the Greek community (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Writing on his blog, UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp espouses the virtues of fraternity and sorority life at Carolina. Though he wasn't in a fraternity while a student at Carolina, Thorp writes that he owes much to the Greek system. His father was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and that's where he met Thorp's mother. Speaker Hackney to speak in a UNC-CH class (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
House Speaker Joe Hackney will participate in a panel discussion Monday as part of a UNC Chapel Hill class. Hackney will be joined by UNC-CH trustee Roger Perry. The duo will speak to about 60 students enrolled in the Role of the University in American Life class, which tackles the making of laws, policies and rules that govern a university. Energy policy changes the temperature at UNC
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
It might be cooler in buildings at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this winter, thanks to an energy-use policy adopted in July. ...Chris Martin, UNC's director of energy management, said the new policy puts everyone on the same page about saving energy. "We wanted a consistent approach across all of campus with an effort to reach out and educate people as to what actions they could take to save energy," Martin said. State to require OK for tests
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Brain scans and high-tech body screenings that North Carolina Medicaid patients need will first have to be cleared by a private management company under a program that is slated to begin Nov. 1. ..."What they're being asked to do is make sure people are only getting what is needed and what's medically appropriate," said Sandra Greene, a director of health-care economics and finance at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-Chapel Hill. "When you look at what's driving health-care costs over a number of years, one of the areas is imaging," Greene said. HPV vaccination pain not unusual, study says
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Injections of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine appear to be no more painful than other shots that prevent disease, according to a new study by researchers at UNC. ...Researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center found that most parents of adolescent girls reported their daughters experienced similar or less pain from HPV vaccine shots than from tetanus boosters and meningococcal vaccinations.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3026/71/ Debate over doctors at center of health reform
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
"How many doctors do we have and how many do we need?" These questions are critical in the debate over health care reform now before Congress, says UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health professor Thomas Ricketts in an editorial in the Oct. 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3023/71/ No insurance against confusion
The Charlotte Observer
A medical professional by training, Sherry Suprock understands her health insurance policy - even the fine print. As such, she's found herself battling her insurer not once, but twice, this year, over claims she feels were wrongly denied. ..."A lot of people think they are well covered, and then find out they are not nearly as covered as they think they are," said Jon Oberlander, an associate professor in health policy research at UNC Chapel Hill. "If you wanted to create a more confusing health care system, it'd be hard to do better than the U.S. There's a lot of fine print." Doctors had no weapons to fight 1918 flu
The News & Record (Greensboro)
...In six days, three members of the Park Street family succumbed to the most deadly plague in history — the 1918 influenza outbreak. ...“It was a pretty gruesome death,” said Jim Leloudis, associate professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill. “It doesn’t take much imagination to think how terrible that death must have been, and how frightened people must have been.” Is Guilford to take on a historic debt load?
The News & Record (Greensboro)
If the bond referendum for the Natural Science Center of Greensboro fails, it may be a victim of bad timing. ...“A counterargument would be that by not placing this type of decisions at the hands of the voter, you’re taking their voice away,” said Gregory Allison, a senior lecturer in public finance at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Government. Sentencing policy at center of convicts' release
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
Did the Department of Correction have the authority to make a policy more than 20 years ago granting certain inmates sentenced to life in prison time served for good behavior? ...Jamie Markham, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law has studied the statutes and the case. He disagrees. "It looks like the secretary did have the authority to set those rules," he said. Hacker attack leaves women angry, worried
The Winston-Salem Journal
A security breach that exposed such personal information as the addresses and birth dates of more than 160,000 women enrolled in a mammography registry is raising questions about protecting people's privacy while at the same time making information available for much-needed research, an expert on bioethics said. ...Officials at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine said that a hacker accessed a computer server containing files of more than 160,000 women enrolled in the Carolina Mammography Registry, a 14-year-old research project that stores and analyzes mammogram information from radiologists across the state. UNC operating rooms not closed for football game (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In a scathing letter published today in UNC Chapel Hill's Daily Tar Heel student newspaper, an emeritus faculty member bludgeons the university for last week's football game, which necessitated an early end to the workday for thousands of employees. ..."We reduced the number of operating rooms running in response to the fact that people would have a hard time getting in and out," McCall said. "We never closed. The emergency room is always open." Two Die From Swine Flu at UNC Hospitals
WCHL 1360-AM
Four people have died at UNC Hospitals from the H1N1 virus known as swine flu since the outbreak occurred. Two of those deaths happened this month, says Dr. David Weber, medical director of hospital epidemiology at UNC. The World Health Organization announced Friday that 5,000 people have died from swine flu since the virus emerged and developed into a global epidemic. UNC to celebrate Sustainability Day
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Prizes, pledges and a people mover promise to make 2009 Campus Sustainability Day on Tuesday a waste-free event to remember at UNC. The celebration from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Frank Porter Graham Student Union Plaza includes free refreshments. If it rains, the event will move indoors to the union’s Great Hall.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3028/1/ Issues and Trends To smile about: Dental school mission taking shape (Editorial)
The Daily Reflector (Greenville)
East Carolina University last week named three of 10 sites where learning centers will be established by the dental school to provide access to care in underserved rural areas of eastern North Carolina. ...To address the problem, lawmakers approved the ECU dental school in partnership with an expanded dental school at UNC-Chapel Hill. Although budget constraints earlier this year shrunk ECU's request for the dental school's planning phase from $8 million to $3 million, school officials said the amount is enough to keep the school on schedule. School's top pay outpaces growth
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In June 2006, the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics' Board of Trustees approved $31,150 in raises for Chancellor Gerald Boarman for the upcoming fiscal year. ...Bowles said he views Boarman's tenure as more a case of seeing the cup as "half full" rather than "half empty." He said the student-to-faculty ratio has decreased, while the number of prestigious UNC-Chapel Hill Morehead-Cain scholars has risen. IFC may delay new shelter
The Chapel Hill News
Inter-Faith Council director Chris Moran said the agency may delay its development permit application amid neighbors' opposition to a new men's homeless shelter on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at Homestead Road. ..."We've looked at 14, 15, 17 different locations over the years," Moran said. Last year UNC offered 1.6 acres out of 13 it was buying near Homestead Park, meeting all IFC's criteria. "The university is making this extraordinary gift, which I don't think we can ever get again," Moran said. Protesters arrested at Governor's Mansion
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Six environmental activists were arrested Saturday in a display of civil disobedience at the Governor's Mansion. They were protesting Duke Energy's controversial plan to build the coal-fired Cliffside power unit in Rutherford County. ...MacDowell identified those arrested as: Dick Paddock of Chapel Hill; Bruce Avram Friedman of Sylva; Jean Larson of Asheville, Keval Kaur Khalsa of Durham; John Allen, a UNC-Chapel Hill student from Winston-Salem, and Jim Warren of Efland. Social activist Yonni Chapman dies
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Family, friends and fellow veterans of the civil rights movement on Friday remembered Mr. Yonni Chapman as an unyielding fighter for social justice and a skilled historian who embodied the very best spirit of Chapel Hill. ...Mr. Chapman asked the university to impose a moratorium on the award, which led then-UNC Chancellor James Moeser to hold a campus dialogue on the issue. UNC eventually canceled the Bell Award and replaced it with three awards that honor women’s advocacy at the university.
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