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

International Coverage

Value-added travel
Financial Times (United Kingdom)
...On the OneMBA programme, participants are based either at FGV in Brazil, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Egade Business School in Monterrey, Mexico, Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University in the Netherlands or Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina in the US.

A class apart …
Financial Times (United Kingdom)
...Doug Shackelford, an associate dean at Kenan-Flagler, says, “We believe there’s a tremendous market out there for people who have a great job and don’t want to leave it, or who live in a place where there’s not a top-tier [business] education within driving distance.” Kenan-Flagler launched a two-year online MBA course, known as MBA@UNC, in July. Although not an EMBA, it does not require regular classroom attendance and shares many of the characteristics.

National Coverage

Medicare: How much more will they cut?
CNN Money
...For all the chatter about how politicians have to buckle down and get serious about reining in Medicare, you might have missed this development: Last year's health reform bill cut $500 billion out of two big Medicare programs over a decade, while increasing the number of high-income retirees who have to pay larger Part B premiums. "It's as if that never happened," says Jonathan Oberlander, a professor of health policy at the University of North Carolina.

Democracy Up Close
"The Story with Dick Gordon" American Public Media
Political science professor Andrew Reynolds knows what the mechanics of democracy look like up close. He’s spent much of his career traveling to countries to advise people on the transition to democracy and was recently in Libya. He's encouraged by what he's seeing, based in part on his experiences watching the end of apartheid in South Africa nearly 20 years ago.

Turkey earthquake strikes ethnically divided region (Blog)
The Washington Post
...After a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey on Sunday, the Associated Press reports that people have rushed to help one another in eastern Turkey. ...“Just last week, around 80 people were killed in the conflict in Turkey. Now, a tragic moment for solidarity as quake areas are ethnically mixed,” Zeynep Tufekci, a Turkish-born University of North Carolina professor, wrote on Twitter.

WWJD about Occupy Wall Street? (Blog)
The Houston Chronicle
...“Jesus believed the whole system was corrupt,” says Bart Ehrman, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina. “The people who ran things were empowered by the evil forces of the world, and his followers had to work against these powers by feeding the hungry, housing the homeless and caring for the sick.”

Roman-era couple held hands for 1,500 years
Discovery News
The skeletal remains of a Roman-era couple reveal the pair has been holding hands for 1,500 years. ..."In antiquity, it is not surprising to learn of spouses or members of a family dying at the same time: whenever epidemics such as the Black Plague ravaged Europe, one member of the family would often die while the family was trying to bury another member," Kristina Killgrove, a biological anthropologist at the University of North Carolina, told Discovery News.

Regional Coverage

Now that both shoes have dropped, my take on NPR-Simeone-Occupy controversy (Blog)
The Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
...Here's Adam Hochberg, a 15-year NPR veteran who is now a fellow and columnist at the Poynter Institute, explaining why he believes NPR does have a case. ...Hochberg, who teaches radio news and journalism at the University of North Carolina, also said it doesn't matter, according to the NPR Ethics Code, whether she is performing as a journalist on a news show or as host of a music program on NPR.

Avoiding ACL injuries is all in the way we move
The Chicago Sun-Times
...About 70 to 80 percent of ACL injuries come without any contact to the knee, and women are about eight times more likely to injure their ACL than men, according to Darin Padua, an associate professor and director of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

State and Local Coverage

Kenan-Flagler adds new MBA program administrator
The Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School announced Sarah Perez as the new executive director of the MBA for Executives Programs on Friday. She is the first new director in two decades. ...“Sarah Perez is a leader in managing business school programs,” Hugh O’Neill, associate dean of EMBA Programs, said in a prepared statement. “We welcome her extensive experience and expertise, particularly in executive MBA programs, to educating business leaders at UNC Kenan-Flagler.”
Related Link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/22/1585473/perez-joins-unc-business-school.html

Work, fun blur for Web-savvy students
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...Heidi Hennik-Kaminski, a marketing and advertising assistant professor at UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said the peer-to-peer referrals brand representatives provide can be invaluable for companies that target students. "Most college students in that age demographic end up trusting each other more than recommendations coming from corporations," she said.

Raleigh doctor gives time, skills and voice to learning center (Tar Heel of the Week)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Graham Snyder holds degrees in engineering and medicine, speaks three languages and has logged countless hours saving lives amid the adrenaline rush of the emergency room. ...Atkinson said Snyder has been a key player in the center's success, helping to found it and continuing to lend his time, expertise and talent for teaching - in addition to his other duties at WakeMed and his leadership role in the residency program at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Helpful medical libraries (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In your Oct. 18 "Medical advice that clicks" article [reprinted from The New York Times], Jane E. Brody shared Andrew Schorr's compelling story. However, if like the article Schorr's book, "The Web-Savvy Patient," fails to mention the important role of libraries and librarians as reliable resources for information to help people use the Internet to their advantage and avoid pitfalls, it would be a lost opportunity. (Carol Jenkins, Chapel Hill. The writer is director of the UNC Health Sciences Library, which serves UNC's five health affairs schools, UNC Hospitals and the general public.)

Beating case appeal 'long shot'
The Winston-Salem Journal
City officials say the need for transparency is behind their push to release statements made by eight officers to a citizens committee reviewing a police investigation into a 1995 beating. But getting the N.C. Supreme Court to listen might be difficult. "It's a long shot," said Michael Crowell, a professor at the School of Government at UNC Chapel Hill.

Would previous job as city attorney hinder Ward on city council?
The Times-News (Burlington)
...“As a general proposition, the Rules of Professional Conduct for attorneys prohibits the attorney from disclosing information obtained under the attorney-client privilege unless the client consents,” said Norma Houston, a lecturer in public law and government at University of North Carolina’s School of Government.

UNC To Host Bingham Facility Forum
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
UNC-Chapel Hill is hosting a meeting for community members with interests or concerns about the University’s Bingham Research Facility on Orange Chapel Clover Garden Road. The Bingham Facility is an animal research facility that has been owned and operated by UNC since the early 1970s. Recently, a 2009 plan to renovate and expand the facility had to be scaled back on account of the University’s budget cuts.
Related Links:
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/campusnotes/neighbors-of-animal-
holding-center-to-meet-with-unc-monday
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2011/10/23/67568/group-wary-of-plan.html

Life Stories: Sechriest was always a newsman at heart
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
There was a time when it seemed most journalists in North Carolina knew exactly how to spell "Sechriest." That, and the name "Nikita Krushchev" were on a spelling test Stuart Sechriest gave his news-editing students early in their studies in the journalism program at UNC-Chapel Hill. Sechriest taught would-be reporters the ins and outs of news gathering, copy editing and deadlines for 34 years, from 1946 until his retirement in 1977, helping many of them long after they earned their degrees.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4838/68/

Rex Healthcare forming new heart practice (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Two cardiothoracic surgeons are leaving Carolina Cardiovascular Surgical Associates to form a new practice affiliated with Rex Healthcare. ...They will work with other physicians affiliated with Rex’s Heart & Vascular team, including cardiologists and vascular and thoracic surgeons, and they will join the UNC faculty led by Andy C. Kiser, M.D., who in July was named chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Davis, UNC aimed high, but scandal took school low
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The mess that will bring UNC-Chapel Hill's football program before the NCAA's sanctions committee Friday went public with a tweet from a star athlete who couldn't wait for an NFL contract to enjoy the good life.

Public school (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Some public university officials in North Carolina seem automatically to react to requests for public records as if media representatives (including The News & Observer) were seeking information to which they, and the public they represent, were not entitled. Toward the goal of keeping such records secret, those officials have gone to great lengths of rationalization and great expense of hiring outside counsel.

Issues and Trends

Brodhead, Ross, Price stand up for the humanities
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
“The humanities aren’t a luxury,” to be enjoyed only by the wealthy, Duke University President Richard Brodhead asserted. They are, he pointed out, “essential to our humanity. They enrich us as persons.” ...Tom Ross, the president of the UNC system, who presented the Caldwell Award to Price, reiterated the point. “That,” Ross said after Brodhead’s remarks, “was something we all needed to hear.”

NCAA to Consider Sweeping Changes in Athlete Aid and Eligibility Rules
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Major-college athletes could receive up to $2,000 a year more in institutional aid and be granted multiyear scholarships under a wide-ranging set of proposals to be presented to the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors next week. Other ideas under consideration include the elimination of foreign travel and nontraditional-season competition, reductions in regular-season games, fewer scholarships for big-time football and men's and women's basketball teams, and stiffer eligibility standards for athletes, according to an NCAA document obtained by The Chronicle.

Drescher: Butch, give up records (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Butch Davis, when he was football coach at UNC, pledged to provide a record of business calls he made on his personal cellphone. "Anything that has anything to do with UNC and business, those will be completely open for public record," he said July 21. Six days later, he was fired.