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

National Coverage

Cancer deaths less common in people taking aspirin daily, study shows
CBS News
...Dr. John Baron, professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of an accompanying commentary in the same journal issue, exercised caution and said people planning on starting aspirin should speak to a doctor, telling TIME, "Aspirin is a real drug, with definite toxicity. Just because aspirin is effective does not mean it necessarily should be used."

Cheating report thin and corrupted (Column)
The Washington Post
...Gregory Cizek, a testing expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a consultant to the Atlanta investigation, told me that “nothing we know of” has ever caused such large groups of students to change so many wrong answers to right. Massive erasing only occurs when “others do it for them,” he said.

Why Do So Many Pregnant Women Hate Their Bodies?
The Huffington Post
...A new joint survey from SELF and CafeMom.com reveals the disturbing news: For far too many women, carrying a baby brings on a struggle with body hate and disordered eating. ..."Gaining too much or too little during pregnancy is unhealthy and can cause problems later on for the mother and child," says Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Evaluating the Effects of Accelerators? Not So Fast
The Huffington Post
...The accelerator term was born to brand groups that, in addition to providing office space (though not all do), have the express focus of "accelerating" a startup from birth to viable company. Susan Cohen is a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who offers this clarification: Accelerators are organizations that provide cohorts of selected nascent ventures seed-investment, usually in exchange for equity, and limited-duration educational programming, including extensive mentorship and structured educational components.

State and Local Coverage

To Supreme Court, UNC Promotes Diversity In Admissions
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
UNC is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the benefits of diversity in an upcoming case that will determine the constitutionality of considering race in the college admissions process.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5478/70/

Town to sponsor talk on student housing
The Chapel Hill News
The Town of Chapel Hill “Special Topics” sessions return to the community with a presentation on student housing at noon Wednesday, Aug. 15, in the Council Chamber of Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend. ...Winston Crisp, vice chancellor for student affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill, and co-presenters Christopher Payne, associate vice chancellor for student affairs, and Larry Hicks, director of housing and residential education, will provide an overview of the current on-campus student housing options provided by the University and plans for future renovation and construction.

Peppers' transcript might point to broader academic issues at UNC
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
On the football field, Julius Peppers was one of the most dominating players to ever wear a UNC uniform, an athlete dubbed a “freak of nature” so skilled that he helped take the university’s men’s basketball team to the Final Four in 2000.
Related Links:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-0814-
bears-bits--20120814,0,7006520.story
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/story/2012-08-13/north-carolina-
julius-peppers-transcript/57033310/1

Peppers' agent: Many UNC athletes unprepared for academics
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
During his years as an academic counselor in the athletic department at the University of North Carolina, Carl Carey Jr. worked with some of the most physically imposing members of the student body. Yet some of them, Carey says now, were “scared to death” of walking into a college classroom.

Issues and Trends

UNC system wants more emphasis on China
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The UNC system wants to recruit more Chinese students here and offer Chinese language courses to students of all UNC campuses. System leaders are developing goals for growing interest and instruction about China, the world’s second largest economy. A contingent of UNC leaders traveled to China and Taiwan in March to get a first-hand look at the higher education system there.

Board of Governors needs to find way to keep college costs down (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Daily Reflector (Greenville)
For the last two decades, as tuition increases at University of North Carolina system campus have outstripped inflation four- or five-fold, UNC officials have assuaged their guilt by creating more financial aid programs for the poor.