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Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:

National Coverage

Wall Street’s Tax on Main Street
The New York Times
...Alexander T. Arapoglou, a professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina, says states and cities often pay too much and don’t get what they bargained for. “Very often, swaps are sold to a customer who sees the bank as a financial adviser,” Professor Arapoglou says. “They are expecting a charge of some sort but expect it to be relatively modest.”

Tolerance (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
It's time to pause and reflect on the current discourse about Islam and Muslims. The families of the almost three thousand victims who died on 9/11 continue to mourn their loved ones, even as much of the developing world wonders why suffering that took place on American soil should divide the history of not just Americans but the whole world into pre- and post-9/11 phases, while their continuing suffering and poverty has become accepted as normal. (Omid Safi is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)

Resilience (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
...The man sitting next to me and I spoke like long-lost friends: "What will America be like from now on?" "What will it feel like to fly next time?" Deep into our hours-long friendship, he asked me if people would ever be the same. I thought for a moment. I heard the buzz of conversation and connection all around us. Every so often, a peal of laughter would erupt somewhere in our car. "Do you hear that?" I asked my companion. "I think they are already the same." Hurt, yes, but still the same. (Barbara L. Fredrickson is a professor of psychology and principal investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)

After Years Of Research, Confederate Daughter Arises
"Weekend Edition" National Public Radio
...Even so, University of North Carolina history professor Fitz Brundage says the contributions of enslaved blacks to the war effort should be recognized. "If Southern states in the early 20th century had given pensions to all the African-Americans who, as slaves, were conscripted to build trenches, work on railroads [and] do all manner of heavy labor for the Confederate war cause, there should've been tens of thousands of African-Americans who received pensions," he says.

Is Your Diet Too Complicated?
ABC News
...People who drink about 7 cups of water a day eat nearly 200 fewer calories than those who get less than a glass a day, reports a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In order to get those 7 cups in, drink 1 cup with each meal and snack, have a cup before and after your workout, and make time for a cup of decaf tea in the afternoon or evening.

Moving On and Moving Up in the World
The Huffington Post
...Love, according to powerful new brain/body research from Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D., author of Positivity, is a way to improve health and feel more connected -- only take sex out of the equation. ...Fredrickson's newest laboratory studies, conducted in her Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab (PEPlab) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, look at the effects of love on the body.

Emeritus Status: It's a Matter of Honor, Especially When It's Denied
The Chronicle of Higher Education
...At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for example, emeritus status is automatically conferred on all retiring faculty, earning them, among other benefits, "full professorial library privileges." In April, however, Chapel Hill administrators revoked one emeritus professor's access to e-mail, his faculty Web page, and the campus network, including access to online library resources, after they claimed he misused university resources in a personal dispute.

Regional Coverage

If a billion Muslims hate the West so much, then how come there
aren’t more Muslim terrorists staging attacks?
The Sky Valley Chronicle (Monroe, Washington)
Sometimes news media types as well as non-newsies fail to ask the right question. That is because both classes of life participants tend to ask the obvious questions. But obvious is not synonymous with right, correct, proper or even appropriate. To that end (of asking the right question) along comes Charles Kurzman, a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill sociology professor who asks perhaps the most obvious unasked question of the decade in his new book The Missing Martyrs.

Water no longer a necessary evil
The Hutchinson News (Kansas)
It wasn't so long ago that the consumption of water on the sideline used to be considered a sign of weakness, an act of treason and a show of complete cowardice. ...Between 1995 and 2009, 31 high school football players and eight college players died from heat stroke, according to a study detailed in the University of North Carolina's "Survey of Football Injury Research Annual Report."

State and Local Coverage

UNC-CH, Duke teams learn how cells stay healthy
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...The team at Duke and UNC-CH figured out that a protein related to cancer is a crucial link in the chain of events that splits apart these cellular generators - even in healthy cells. It's a connection that nobody has made before, said Adrienne Cox, a professor of radiation oncology at UNC-CH's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. It solved a mystery, Cox said, that had puzzled scientists for the last few years: Why could they find this cancer-related protein inside our cells' power generators? What was its purpose there?

UNC, community colleges partner to prevent cancer
The Chapel Hill Herald
...As part of the University Cancer Research Fund's Health-e-NC program, researchers from UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center are partnering with the state's community colleges to assess needs and preferences for adopting and implementing EBIs for cancer prevention that are suitable for their students, employees and community residents.
UNC Release:
http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2011/august/unc-nc-community-
colleges-partner-to-prevent-cancer

Medair moves into RDU
The Chapel Hill Herald
The UNC Medical Air Operations has moved into a new $2.5 million facility at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. MedAir, as the operation is called, moved last weekend from its former home at Horace Williams Airport. The state-funded agency flies UNC doctors and other health professionals associated with UNC-based Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) across the state to visit clinics and to conduct educational programs.

If nuclear disaster struck, how fast could Triangle scoot?
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...Within the emergency planning industry, North Carolina's planners are considered to be among the best in the nation, largely because of the state's experience with preparing for hurricanes. But no amount of planning can anticipate every scenario, particularly events that draw large crowds to the Triangle, said Bill Gentry, director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Community Preparedness and Disaster Management Certificate Program.

N.C. scientist works with fishermen to shape coastal policy
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Doug Rader learned one of his most powerful lessons from an angry man hauling a bucket of diseased fish. ...Armed with a fresh Ph.D. in biology from UNC-Chapel Hill at the time, Rader said he assumed strong science and hard facts would be enough to form effective environmental policy. But the fisherman he now knows well as Willy Phillips, owner of Full Circle Crab Co., taught him otherwise.

New owners of A Southern Season want to build business into multi-store chain
The Chapel Hill News
..."This is not a 200-store chain, but it could be a 15-store chain," said Clay Hamner, a Chapel Hill entrepreneur and managing partner of TC Capital Fund, which bought the firm from owner Michael Barefoot this week. ...Hamner, who also teaches at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School, says he usually invests in medical or software companies, wholesalers and manufacturers.

Feeding a 'food desert'
The News & Record (Greensboro)
The farmers market held last Wednesday in the old J.C. Price School in the Warnersville Community not only offered a shopping alternative, but also a route to better health. Funded by a grant from UNC-Chapel Hill, the market focuses on residents of the high-poverty, low-income community, many of whom are elderly and lack transportation to supermarkets.

Summer reading examines 'Eating Animals'
The Chapel Hill News
UNC and Duke are intense rivals on the court, but off court the universities collaborate in many ways. This year the schools are working together on their summer reading programs. A joint committee chose "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4331/75/

Christensen: Books light up history (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
While I haven't made it to the beach this summer, I have been able to read a couple of recent North Carolina histories. The most traditional of the histories, "To Right These Wrongs" (UNC Press, 2010), is the story of the North Carolina Fund, which Democratic Gov. Terry Sanford created in the early 1960s to fight poverty and inequality. ...The book was written by historians Robert R. Korstad of Duke University and James L. Leloudis of UNC-Chapel Hill.

Museum shop settles in
The Chapel Hill News
The "Targoyle" on the roof of Top of the Hill now gazes down on a new museum store that looks like it was transported straight from the big city - you could almost call it "MoMA South." The Ackland Art Museum has created a bright, contemporary space on the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets that focuses on modern design, local art and unique gifts.

Issues and Trends

Tighter budgets being felt in classrooms across UNC system (Editorial)
The Star News (Wilmington)
In just a couple of weeks students will be hitting the books in our state-funded universities as fall semester 2011 begins. They’ll be paying higher tuition, have less financial help available and most likely will squeeze into more crowded classrooms – that is, if they can get the classes they need at all.

Football Coverage

Thorp's trial (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Holden Thorp, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, seems to have excelled at everything he's ever done as a student, a scientist, a dean and in being an entrepreneur. He even plays a nice rock and roll guitar. Many people with his drive and self-imposed high standards for professional success have led institutions of higher learning.

What went wrong with compliance at UNC
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Thirteen months after NCAA investigators first visited the University of North Carolina campus, the school is in turmoil. The investigation into impermissible benefits and academic misconduct has led to allegations of nine major NCAA violations plus revelations that fewer than a dozen players incurred hundreds of parking tickets as well as a failure by the school's honor court to identify plagiarism in a football player's term paper.

UNC's Thorp admits he violated an NCAA rule
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
University of North Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp said Friday that he committed an NCAA secondary violation when he acknowledged a scholarship offer to former football coach Butch Davis' son during a phone interview.

Thorp acknowledges his own NCAA violation
WTVD-TV (ABC/Raleigh)
ABC11 has obtained a copy of the report from the UNC Task Force on Athletics and Academics days before it will be presented to the UNC System Board of Governors. The task force, which is comprised of representatives from across the UNC System, has come up with recommendations to prevent the embarrassment already felt by programs like UNC Chapel Hill football.

Drescher: N&O hits hard but fair (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
"Because of the unfairly speculative and one-sided coverage of UNC's recent football issues," wrote one UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, "I will not read your paper or visit your website again."

Gentlemen, we can rebuild them: Tar Heels post-Davis (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Only one face is different, the man with the whistle, interim coach Everett Withers. Butch Davis is gone, and nothing is going to change that for North Carolina. Really, though, with or without Davis, what has actually changed for the Tar Heels?

Withers era begins at UNC (Blog)
The Fayetteville Observer
With the simple sound of a horn, a new era in North Carolina football got underway about 1:30 p.m. Friday. The Tar Heels hit the practice field for the first time in preparation for the 2011 season, but did so without the man they thought would be leading them - Butch Davis. Davis was fired suddenly last week due because Chancellor Holden Thorp believed the school couldn't put behind a year-long NCAA investigation with Davis still runnning the UNC program.

A gift that keeps on giving (Column)
The Chapel Hill News
In the aftermath of last week's yes-no-yes back and forth about the Big Big Cat Kickoff Clash in Kenan Stadium, one person who comes away looking good in local eyes is Dick Baddour. Baddour, UNC's director of athletics, has seldom been a direct player in town and gown relations. For more than 40 years, he's pretty much stayed on the Carolina side of the rock wall that divides UNC's campus from Franklin Street, working with the dean of men, admissions and the law school before joining the athletics department.

UNC-CH athletic tutoring praised by panel
The News & Observer
A University of North Carolina system task force that is recommending greater oversight over athletic programs has praise for UNC-Chapel Hill's embattled academic support program.

Task force: UNC System must improve academic oversight of student-athletes
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
A report released Friday by the University of North Carolina Task Force on Athletics and Academics defined specific prohibited behaviors such as lying, cheating, plagiarism and bribery and outlined ethical standards for student-athletes across the UNC System.
The 13-member task force, which has been at work since March, will present its findings to the Board of Governors next Thursday.

North Carolina starts practice amid questions, distrust
USA Today
Standing in the end zone of Kenan Memorial Stadium after the first practice of the season Friday, offensive lineman Jonathan Cooper said he understood what might await the North Carolina football team when school resumes Aug. 23. There will be a dose of resentment and a dash of ridicule on campus for the players, the aftermath of a scandal that resulted in charges of nine major NCAA violations.