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

National Coverage

Scientific Brilliance Doesn't Always Peak Young
HealthDay News
...The study observations are sound, but there could be many explanations for the findings, noted one Nobel Laureate, Dr. Oliver Smithies, Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Smithies, 86, won the Nobel Prize in 2007 for work he had conducted at age 60, developing methods to alter genes in mice.

Genetic tests can predict who needs higher doses of Plavix
USA Today
...The study's findings could help patients get the right dose of the most appropriate medication immediately, rather than after trying and failing a series of treatments, says Cam Patterson, chief of cardiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "You don't want to wait until after you have an event to say, 'Oh, this patient is Plavix-resistant,' " Patterson says. "That could have a big impact on how we treat patients."

Occupy Chapel Hill: Police tactics debated even at small protest (Blog)
The Los Angeles Times
...Meanwhile, the Occupy Chapel Hill camp went about its usual quiet business Tuesday, displaying handouts and signs. The protest is across the street from a plaque, installed last month, commemorating those who successfully challenged a 1963 Speaker Ban Law that prohibited "communists" and leftists from speaking on the adjacent campus of the University of North Carolina.

State and Local Coverage

Tuition rocket (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Again and again, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has enjoyed the flattering characterization as the "people's university." But a proposal to raise tuition on the order of $2,800 over five years threatens to amend the compliment. "Some of the people's university," perhaps, or "a university for those who can afford it."

UNC-CH students to protest rising cost
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill students plan to protest a proposed 40 percent tuition increase at the board of trustees meeting today. Students with the "Strike the Hikes" coalition plan to meet at 1 p.m. in the Pit outside of the student union and march to the trustees' meeting at the Carolina Inn at 1:30 p.m.
Related Links:
http://www2.wnct.com/news/2011/nov/16/unc-ch-students-protest-
tuition-increase-plan-ar-1615165/
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8433783
http://triangle.news14.com/content/649636/students-to-protest-as-
unc-leaders-meet-on-proposed-tuition-hike

Cunningham active in first days on job as UNC AD
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
After just two days at the helm, new University of North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham says he's feeling right at home and Chapel Hill has been "outstanding" to him. ..."If you are in college athletics, you think about the best colleges in the country and North Carolina is right there," Cunningham said in an interview with WRAL-TV Tuesday.
Related Link:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/video?id=8433178

Blue Dog Dems won't play dead
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...Ferrel Guillory, a UNC-CH political analyst, agreed. Americans have created their own paradox, Guillory said. "And while they yearn for their leaders to come together," he said, "these very same Americans have arranged themselves in a more divided fashion, a more politically divided fashion." The new redistricting map created by the N.C. General Assembly moves more Republicans into the vulnerable Democrats' districts while putting more Democratic voters in noncompetitive districts.

UNC exhibit looks at slavery, evolution
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
A new exhibit at the Wilson Special Collections Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill examines controversial chapter of North Carolina history.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4900/107/

A proud tribute to James Brown
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
When Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis signed on to the Godfather of Soul's band in the mid-1960s, he couldn't help overlaying his background in jazz on funkmeister Brown's signature, but evolving sound. ...Its continued resonance prompted him in 2008 to launch "Still Black, Still Proud: An African Tribute to James Brown," whose tour stops tonight at Memorial Hall at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Related Link:
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/16437179/article-Tribute-to-James-Brown-at-UNC-?

Fight flares over potatoes in schoolkids' meals (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
There's a food fight going on over school cafeteria meals. The battle provides important lessons for all of us. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to modify national school meals guidelines to improve kids' diets. The last time substantial changes were made was in the mid-1990s. (Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical associate professor in the department of health policy and administration in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.)

UNC pitcher arrested, removed from team
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Chapel Hill police have charged North Carolina pitcher Cody Joseph Stiles, 20, with underage drinking, resisting, delaying or obstructing a police officer and being drunk and disruptive. A UNC baseball spokesman said Tuesday that Stiles is no longer on the team.

Davis releases video in effort to clear his name
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Months after being fired amid an NCAA investigation into impermissible benefits and academic fraud within the North Carolina football program, former Tar Heels coach Butch Davis on Tuesday continued his attempts to clear his name and distance himself from the scandal.

Issues and Trends

UNCG proposes 10 percent tuition/fees hike
The News & Record (Greensboro)
Tuition would rise 10 percent for UNCG students next year according to a proposal the university’s tuition and fee committee presented Tuesday night to the Student Government Association. In-state undergraduates would see a $660 increase in their bills next year — an extra $345 for tuition and $315 for fees, bringing total tuition and fees to $6,158.

Debate on college tuition heats up in state
The Star News (Wilmington)
The University of North Carolina Wilmington Board of Trustees won't decide until December how much of a tuition increase to request for next school year, but the tuition debate has begun at the state and local levels. The UNC system issued guidelines to individual campuses allowing them to request a 6.5 percent increase in tuition and fees. But the campuses may also propose increases beyond that to "catch up" to rates of peer institutions.