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

National Coverage

Inside the List (Book Review)
The New York Times
Required Reading: Can a peaceable literary vegetarian from Brooklyn bring together what a bloody Southern basketball rivalry has torn asunder? That was surely the hope of administrators at Duke and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, when they chose Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals” as the joint summer reading for this fall’s incoming freshmen.

First U.S. Inpatient Clinic For Moms With Postpartum Depression Opens
The Huffington Post
Some initiatives are so relevant, so beneficial to a population in need, that it's hard to believe they're new. One of these is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hospital's inpatient perinatal psychiatric unit for new mothers with severe postpartum depression, the first free-standing unit of its kind in the United States.

How to intern at Morning Express with Robin Meade (Blog)
CNN.com
Hi! My name is Keren Goldshlager and I’m the summer intern* for HLN’s Morning Express with Robin Meade. ...Then, during my second year as a reporting major at UNC Chapel Hill, it suddenly seemed like internships were all anyone could think about. Where are you applying? Are you going to live at home? Are you going to work for an accounting firm, a research lab or maybe a television station?

Regional Coverage

New Orleans charter testing drama casts light on how cheating allegations are handled
The Times Picayune (New Orleans, La.)
...In Louisiana's current setup, there is "a conflict of interest all the way up the line," and not just as it relates to charter schools, said Gregory Cizek, a professor of educational measurement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "No one has a really strong interest in investigating in a really searching manner," he said.

State and Local Coverage

Tar Heel Class of 2015 moves into UNC dorms over weekend
News 14 Carolina
After a summer of jobs, internships and relaxation, the Class of 2015 at UNC moves into their dorms for the first time this weekend. There are about 4,800 first-year and transfer students and many will be living on campus. Close to 3,500 freshmen and transfer students are moving into their new homes and beginning a new chapter in their lives.
Related Links:
http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/aug/21/wsmain03-higher-
education-notebook-ar-1318332/
http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2011/aug/21/freshmen-arrive-unc-weak-
economy-their-minds-ar-1319985/

Back-To-School Week: UNC's New Class May Be Best Ever
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
The fall semester officially gets underway at UNC this week, with a brand new class of nearly 4,000 incoming students. And associate director of recruitment Andrea Felder says it’s one of the University’s best classes ever. "We're very proud," she says. "Many of our students were not only in the top 10 percent, but also ranked first or second (in their class)."

Students Arriving On Campus
WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill)
...Students spent the weekend moving into residence halls at UNC-Chapel Hill. A record number of them qualified for financial aid. An 18 percent budget cut - the largest in the university system - also forced UNC-Chapel Hill to limit class offerings and lay off faculty.

Franklin ready for fall
The Chapel Hill Herald
Eddie Williams, owner of the longtime Franklin Street business Time-Out, said his food purchases – of mostly chicken, cheese and flour – have been way up recently in preparation for the return of thousands of UNC students to Chapel Hill.

Athletic trainers urged in schools
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...Kevin Guskiewicz, the Director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center at UNC Chapel Hill, told the committee that schools should consider not fielding teams in football, boys and girls lacrosse, boys and girls soccer and wrestling until a school system had enough money to hire a certified trainer. The NCHSAA board of directors considered the committee's recommendations, but did not move toward requiring its member schools to have a certified trainer.

UNC opens nation’s first standalone inpatient unit for post-partum depression
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
...Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, director of Perinatal Psychiatry Program at the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders, said the first program that UNC launched for post-partum depression was an outpatient program that kicked off in 2005. She said they found that of all of the women seen there, about 5 percent had symptoms severe enough to need treatment in an inpatient setting. She said post-partum depression appears in 10 to 15 percent of all women after pregnancy, she said, and is one of the most common complications of child birth.

Tar Heel of the week: She gets a grant to study what makes you sick
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Lee-Ann Jaykus thinks a lot about things most people would rather forget. ...When she embarked on this research in the 1990s, there was skepticism in some quarters over whether it was feasible, or even worthwhile, to focus on food-borne viruses, said Mark Sobsey, director of the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory at UNC-Chapel Hill, who oversaw Jaykus' Ph.D. studies. The large USDA grant confirms the field's significance.

Forsyth Co. trend shows differences in Hispanics
The Star News (Wilmington)
...In North Carolina, the percentage is not as high. Most Hispanic children are U.S. citizens, and more than 55 percent of all Hispanics in North Carolina are authorized to be in the United States, according estimates from a 2006 study on Hispanic immigration by UNC Chapel Hill's business school.

Fraud trial of former New Hanover ABC chief starts this week in Jacksonville
The Star News (Wilmington)
When New Hanover County's former Alcoholic Beverage Control Board administrator faces a felony charge this week in court, he won't do so with a jury of his neighbors. ..."That's more common in high-profile cases or cases involving high-profile people," said Jeff Welty, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina School of Government who studies criminal law and procedure.

Funding for Castle Hayne, if incorporated, might come up short
The Star News (Wilmington)
...Town council candidate Steven Gause authored the bill seeking incorporation that went to Raleigh. The projected revenue numbers were part of the proposal. Gause said he got advice from the University of North Carolina's School of Government on how to come up with the budget.

Mystery master
The Chapel Hill News
Ever wondered whether that dusty old painting in grandma's attic might be an unknown masterpiece? You can find out by having it evaluated by an expert at the Curator's Clinic, held every other month at the Ackland Art Museum. Curator of Collections Timothy A. Riggs held the most recent clinic Thursday, when several area residents brought in artwork they wanted evaluated for one reason or another.

UNC Holds Exhibit Featuring Artwork Of Cornelio Campos
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
The FedEx Global Education Center at UNC is showcasing the works of painter, Cornelio Campos through October 15. Campos says his artwork portrays two types of themes; Mexican folklore and political issues.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4680/66/

R.E.M. likes Chapel Hill Community Chorus Project
The Chapel Hill News
..."It's very exciting," said Lauren Hodge, founder of the Community Chorus Project, which gives local middle- and high school-age kids an outlet to learn and perform vocal music. "R.E.M. has millions of fans all over the world, and to think that so many of them are looking at what we've done, and liking and commenting on it, we're very grateful." Hodge, in collaboration with the UNC Department of Music, founded the Community Chorus Project earlier this year.

$1 million bail set in plane theft case
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A judge set bail at $1 million for the man accused of stealing a private plane from UNC-Chapel Hill's airport and crashing it in the woods of southern Alamance County. Curtis Rene Mellott, 46, of Chapel Hill appeared before Judge Charles Anderson via video from the Orange County Jail on Friday.
Related Links:
http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/plane-46992-chapel-thursday.html
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/15157199/article-Man-accused-of-
stealing-plane-held-on--1-million-bond?instance=main_article

UNC student tells police man tried to assault her
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student told campus police Friday that a man tried to sexually assault her, according to the school's public safety department.
Related Links:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8317668
http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2011/aug/20/unc-police-investigating-
attempted-sexual-assault--ar-1317747/

Finding new dean looms (Editorial)
The Daily Reflector (Greenville)
In the same week East Carolina University's new School of Dental Medicine welcomed the inaugural class to campus, it faced a crisis of leadership following the Tuesday resignation of its first dean. A report by the state auditor found that Dr. James Hupp, who began work at East Carolina in November 2008, accumulated thousands in questionable traveling expenses and outside income, leading to the decision.
Related Links:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/08/20/1423767/and-teaching-too.html
http://www.reflector.com/opinion/mooneyham/scott-mooneyham-taking-public-lightly-633895

Issues and Trends

‘Doing More With Less:' UNC Will Emerge Stronger, President Ross Says
The Southern Pines Pilot
Tom Ross, president of the University of North Carolina, says the system is having to “do more with less,” but that it will emerge stronger from the current economic pinch. ...Ross, who moved over from the presidency of Davidson College to head up the 16-campus UNC system at the beginning of the year, was in Pinehurst Wednesday for a meeting. He later came to Southern Pines for an interview with several representatives of The Pilot.

UNCC students feel the deep cuts
The Charlotte Observer
After dramatic cuts in state funding over the past three years, UNC Charlotte's roughly 25,000 students will find a leaner university with fewer faculty and significantly larger classes when they start a new semester today. The cut this year, $33.5 million, or 16.2 percent, means 295 lost jobs at UNCC (including 171 faculty positions). Only two other schools in the UNC system - UNC Chapel Hill and Western Carolina University - face a larger percentage of cuts.

Football Coverage

College Football’s Ugly Season, Facing Scandals of Every Stripe
The New York Times
... In all, at least 10 major college football programs — including those at institutions esteemed for academics, like Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia Tech — have been investigated or punished by the N.C.A.A. in recent months. “There’s so many charges and the severity of the extent of the charges and the multiplicity of the people involved,” said William Friday, the president emeritus of the University of North Carolina. “There’s so much seriousness here.”

Austin's UNC transcript raises questions
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The typical path for a college student beginning his or her academic journey starts with introductory courses, followed by more specialized ones. That's why many colleges label classes as 100 level, 200 level and so on. But a transcript for former UNC-Chapel Hill football player Marvin Austin shows his academic path got off to an unusual start.

Sports in its place (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The recent UNC sports fiasco has finally reached the point of absurdity. To begin with, it is demeaning and counterproductive to have the chancellor of a major academic institution spending his valuable time tending to the legal problems of college sports. I am not sure at what point the big business of college sports became paramount to instructing young minds in the task of leading this country in politics, business and science. If there were never another basketball or football game played, it would not affect, even in the slightest, the academic status of this university or the future of this country. (Rick Tidwell, Pittsboro)

UNC may pursue South Carolina's AD
The Associated Press
South Carolina athletic director Eric Hyman could be the perfect candidate to be UNC's next athletics director. Getting Hyman to UNC is quite another matter. Through various feelers, UNC has learned Hyman will not pursue the job. Yet it is becoming clearer by the day that UNC will pursue Hyman.