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

International Coverage

Ways to profit from ‘new normal’
Financial Times
...The consultancy offering itself goes both ways. Accenture has 70,000 employees in India – its largest country – but at the same time, according to Paul Friga, professor at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, India-based consultancy firms such as Tata, Infosys or Wipro are “making strong moves into the US, leveraging a new model of global client assistance”.

National Coverage

When Your Doctor Is a Rock Star: Oncologists Make Music for Cancer
Time
..."Patients feel like we are their band," says John Boggess, an associate professor of gynecological oncology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who contributes vocals, guitar and harmonica. "They feel the same way we do, that no one is talking about their experience, no one is talking about their cancers."

Lipitor vs. Crestor: Cholesterol Drugs on a Par
Time
In a head-to-head test of two popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs — Lipitor and Crestor — both medications worked equally well. ...The patent on Crestor — which goes for about $5 a pill — won't expire until 2016. "The market for Crestor will go close to zero," Dr. Cam Patterson, chief of cardiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, predicted in an interview with USA Today.

Older ER Patients Less Likely to Get Pain Meds, Data Shows
HealthDay News
...The reasons why elderly patients are less likely to receive pain medications aren't clear but doctors may be concerned about potential side effects in older patients, suggested lead author Dr. Timothy Platts-Mills, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Salaries for college football coaches back on rise
USA Today
...The 7.3% increase in the average pay for this season would have been more than 10% if such highly paid, high-profile coaches as Jim Tressel at Ohio State, Butch Davis at North Carolina and Urban Meyer at Florida had stayed in their former jobs and retained their former salaries, rather than leaving unexpectedly. (Tressel and Davis exited amid NCAA investigations; Meyer left on his own.)

State and Local Coverage

UNC-CH panel supports 5-year tuition hike
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A committee voted Wednesday to send to the full board of trustees today a five-year plan to raise in-state undergraduate tuition at UNC-Chapel Hill by $2,800. ...The plan would raise in-state undergraduate tuition next year by $800, or 15.6 percent. Total in-state tuition and fees would increase from $7,005 to $7,795.
Related Links:
http://triangle.news14.com/content/649682/unc-ch-closer-to-tuition-hike-despite-student-protests
http://www.chapelboro.com/Tuition-Hike-Approved-By-BOT-Budget--Finance-and-A/11483794
http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2011/nov/16/4/unc-students-march-
protest-tuition-increase-ar-1615275/

UNC Trustees consider tuition increase
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Over the angry protests of students, UNC’s Board of Trustees’ Budget, Audit and Finance Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a recommended $2,800 tuition increase for undergraduate and graduate students to be phased in over five years. The full board is scheduled to consider the increase, which would bump tuition up $800 next school year for undergraduate students, when it meets today at the Carolina Inn.
Related Links:
http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/10386626/
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8433783

UNC-CH, NCSU host forum on South's economy
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
A retired chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. is among the speakers at a forum on the South's economy that's sponsored by North Carolina State University and UNC-Chapel Hill. ...The forum is being held in conjunction with the release of a report by UNC's Global Research Institute titled "A Way Forward: Building a Globally Competitive South."
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4887/67/

Still Black, Still Proud
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Saxophonist Maceo Parker left Kinston, NC when he was offered a shot at the big time with James Brown’s band. Parker toured with Brown for years before joining Parliament Funkadelic and eventually going out on his own. His band has been called, “the toughest little funk orchestra on earth.” Maceo Parker brings it all home to North Carolina tonight when he plays Memorial Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at 7 pm. He joins host Frank Stasio to talk about his days touring with the “hardest working man in show business” and the musical tribute they are paying to James Brown on campus.

Designing woman
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Visit a Macy's shoe department or flip through the pages of your favorite fashion magazine and there's a good chance you'll see the work of Charlotte native and UNC-Chapel Hill grad Maggie Gavigan. She's known as Maggie in North Carolina, but these days she answers more often to Mignonne, her given name, and the one she uses as a high-end fashion designer in New York.

Issues and Trends

NCSU committee recommends tuition, fee increases
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
An N.C State University trustees committee this morning recommended increases in tuition and fees next year that include the first of five annual supplemental increases that would be used to hire additional faculty. Under the recommendation, tuition for undergraduate students who are North Carolina residents would rise $330, or 6.6 percent, for the 2012-2013 academic year. Tuition for graduate and out-of-state undergraduate students would increase by $660.

Fayetteville State University tuition might rise for next two years
WNCN-TV (NBC/Raleigh)
Students are learning about a possible tuition hike though forums this week at Fayetteville State University. Several departments at the school have proposed raising tuition 6.5 percent a year for the next two years and increasing fees 9.3 percent next year.