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

National Coverage

Doctors to discuss safest age to begin playing tackle football at Swiss conference
The Associated Press
American and international doctors will discuss the safest ages to play tackle football at the Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport this week. ... Also taking part in the discussion will be Dr. Gerard A. Gioia of the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz of the University of North Carolina.

State and Local Coverage

Students gather to remember freshman
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
With the cold raindrops from the winter storm splattered across their shoulders, the members and pledges of Chi Phi fraternity filed into the Great Hall Monday night to remember their friend, David Palmer Shannon. Shannon, 18, a freshman from Charlotte, was found dead in Carrboro on Saturday night. He had planned to join the fraternity and was a member of its pledge class.
Related Link: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/10/30/3631488/alcohol-hazing-probed-in-death.html

Scrapbooks: The Facebook of the 1800s
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
...Scrapbooks aren’t always appreciated by libraries, Garvey said, and they’re hard to preserve. They’re like the ancestors to Internet bookmarks, she said. But in “Writing with Scissors,” she includes information from two scrapbooks in the libraries of Duke University and UNC. Duke has a scrapbook by the Solomons family of Savannah, Ga., which was made during the Civil War from 1861-63 in a used ledger from the family business.

Issues and Trends

Rising tuition costs take bite out of family budgets (Editorial)
The Gaston Gazette
There’s more potentially bad news coming for college students, future college students and beleaguered parents of the students. Tuition in North Carolina may be going up, for a variety of reasons. Tuition may be going up just because the student is majoring in a certain subject, or attending the University of North Carolina over a smaller state school or community college.

Exporting Online
Inside Higher Ed
California’s Coastline Community College is set to create low-cost, online bachelor’s degree pathways where students can enroll simultaneously at one of three public universities, none of which are in California. The new partnership between Coastline and the University of Massachusetts Online, Penn State University’s World Campus and the University of Illinois-Springfield should go live next spring. The project’s leaders hope it will serve as a model for expanding capacity at California’s community colleges, which have been forced to turn away hundreds of thousands of students because of budget cuts.

UNC Press editor-in-chief David Perry to retire
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
After 34 years with the publishing house, editor-in-chief David Perry will retire in March 2013. Perry joined UNC Press as an editorial assistant in 1979 and was named editor-in-chief in 1995. He acquires books in history and Southern studies, with a special focus on Civil War and military history, as well as books for the press’s regional general-interest list.