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Neuse River cleaner 5 years after nitrogen reduction began
It's been five years since drastic new rules were established to cut the flow of nitrogen into the Neuse River and scientists say the river is much cleaner as a result.
NC State
announces new department of social work
Opening the door to new opportunities for social work students, faculty and
staff, the North Carolina State University Social Work Program officially
became the Department of Social Work after recent approval by the university's
Board of Trustees.
Miracle
dog survives the odds
It's a miracle just in time for the holidays.
Fetterman
Inducted into Business Hall of Fame
Campbell benefactor and advisory board member Annabelle Lundy Fetterman was
recently inducted into the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame. Fetterman
is the former chair and CEO of the Lundy Packing Company, one of the nation’s
largest pork producers. She has served on the board of directors of Premium
Farms, the company that purchased Lundy Packing in 2000.
Cree
suit settles with a fizzle
Co-founder resigns, drops all claims
Long
time coming
Wolfpack's Rivers finally earns first-team all-ACC honors
NCSU
fans lukewarm about bowl invitation
The N.C. State Wolfpack is heading to the Tangerine Bowl.
Tangerine
Bowl Tickets Already On Sale
Tickets Can Be Purchased By Phone Or Online
NCSU
accepts Tangerine Bowl bid
Clemson is headed to the Peach Bowl while Maryland gets the Gator Bowl.
N.C.
State Selected for Tangerine Bowl
Clemson is headed to the Peach Bowl while Maryland gets the Gator Bowl. Now,
N.C. State has accepted a Big 12 match-up in the Mazda Tangerine Bowl.
Past
Comes Back To Haunt N.C. State Swim Coach
University Investigates 37-Year-Old Molestation Conviction
Editorial:
Breaking the mold, pronto
Thankfully, Gov. Mike Easley has taken it upon himself to fix the mold problems
that have closed two dormitories at N.C. Central University in Durham.
Point
of View: Recruiting industry isn't the whole story
N.C.'s broadly based effort for better business
Food-borne
Disease; Modified RT-PCR assay detects low-level Norovirus food contamination
J. Jean, food science
Lawsuit
filed by Cree co-founder settled
A $3.2 billion lawsuit filed by a Cree Inc. co-founder and his wife that accused
his brother and other company executives of violating securities fraud and
breaching fiduciary duties was settled Tuesday.
Professor
embraces stereotype of college: Timeless tweed
Philip Carter, microbiology and immunology
Iams
Opens Second MRI Center: Making MRI More Readily Available
Iams Pet Imaging Center on the campus of North Carolina State University
Some Shops
Offer A New Kind of Clean
cites Joe DeSimone, professor of chemical engineering
Some Shops Offer A New Kind of Clean
Nov. 25, 2003
The Washington Post
By Don Oldenburg, staff writer
© Copyright 2003 The Washington Post.
Normandy Cleaners is a small shop, barely noticeable in the stretch of storefronts at the Potomac Promenade Shopping Center in Potomac. Even its new white neon "Natural CO 2 Cleaners" sign gets too washed out to read on bright days.
"It's hard to see," says Gongsan Park, vowing to change the sign so customers will know this is now an environmentally safe, health-conscious "alternative dry cleaners."
Two months ago, Gongsan and her husband, Jaeman Park, who have owned and operated Normandy Cleaners for nearly six years, invested in cutting-edge cleaning technology to replace the standard but controversial dry cleaning method. The Parks are among the first cleaners in the metropolitan area to offer the liquid carbon-dioxide cleaning method.
The standard solvent used in dry cleaning is perchloroethylene, commonly known as "perc." More than 90 percent of the nation's 33,000 cleaners use the chemical, which the Environmental Protection Agency lists as a pollutant of air and groundwater. Cleaners are required to follow EPA regulations in handling perc and disposing of its byproducts at hazardous waste facilities.
Perc also is considered a health risk: Laboratory studies on animals have found high-dose exposure to be toxic and possibly carcinogenic. Studies have shown that exposure even at lower levels can cause headaches, nausea and dizziness.
The Parks decided perc is no perk for their customers. "Now we don't worry about our health or the environment," says Gongsan Park of their new CO 2 system. They chose it after traveling to New York, New Jersey and California over the past year to see available CO 2 machines and other promising environmentally safe cleaning alternatives, such as wet-cleaning and silicone-based systems. "Now we smell some detergent, some soap, but no chemical smell with CO 2 ," she says.
Joe DeSimone, professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University, says CO 2 doesn't beat up clothes like perc does.
"Perc is a hell of a degreasing solvent and it will strip everything off a garment. It is something that should be in a garage washing engine parts," says DeSimone, who designed the first biodegradable CO 2 -soluble detergent and launched the first CO 2 commercial cleaning technology company in 1998.
Consumer Reports conducted a study for its February issue that compared the cleaning of all alternative technologies with conventional perc-based dry cleaning. The CO 2 method, it concluded, "gave the best results. . . . The clothing didn't change shape, shrink or stretch. There was little or no change in the color or the texture of the fabrics."
But DeSimone says dry cleaning owners are slow to change over to CO 2 systems because of cost -- the Parks invested more than $200,000 for theirs. Cleaners nationwide using CO 2 systems still number in the dozens instead of hundreds.
"It's just a matter of time," says DeSimone of the hope that environmentally safe technology will one day replace perc.
Meanwhile, environmental and health advocates are pressing the dry-cleaning industry to rid itself of perc. Last week, environmental groups filed a suit asking a federal court to order the EPA to review the health risks from perc emissions from dry cleaners and to set new standards. Southern California became the first region in the country to ban perc by 2020. Other states have passed regulations imposing fees on dry cleaners to help pay for cleaning up perc-contaminated sites.
"We don't endorse one solvent over another," says Nora Nealis, spokeswoman for the National Cleaners Association, a trade group that embraces a 2001 report by the American Council on Science and Health which concluded perc is not hazardous to humans when used according to regulations.
Meanwhile, the Parks, who emigrated from Seoul in 1996, believe the CO 2 system will pay back their investment. "We believe people will want to come here because of this," Gongsan Park says.
Neuse River cleaner 5 years after nitrogen reduction began
Nov. 25, 2003
Associated Press; WCNC-TV Channel 6 (Charlotte, NC)
By staff writer
© Copyright 2003 Associated Press
It's been five years since drastic new rules were established to cut the flow of nitrogen into the Neuse River and scientists say the river is much cleaner as a result.
The state Environmental Management Commission adopted the rules to reduce the level of nitrogen from sewage and fertilizer after massive fish kills in 1990s.
The goal was to cut the levels 30 percent by this year in the 248-mile river that runs from Falls Lake north of Raleigh to Pamlico Sound. It serves as both a drinking water source and way to carry away treated wastewater from nearly 400 treatment plants.
Researchers identified nitrogen as the cause of an explosion of harmful algae blooms that use up dissolved oxygen and led to the fish kills.
The rules required sewage plant operators to control what they dumped into the river and forced farmers to control how much fertilizer ran off their fields into creeks and streams.
The rules also required developers to leave buffers along streams and creeks. Similar protections have since been put in place for the Tar-Pamlico River basin.
Ken Reckhow, director of the University of North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, said there had been a downward trend in nitrogen concentrations in the river since 1997.
Reckhow said it was hard to pinpoint what caused the decline in nitrogen. Besides improvements in wastewater-treatment plants and the buffers, there have been major hurricanes that flushed the river basin.
"They are all candidates, and they all may contribute," Reckhow said.
There are about 1 million acres of farmland in the river basin, where farmers in 17 counties report an average 37 percent reduction in nitrogen fertilizer. Subtracting the number of acres that went out of production, the reduction is about to 31 percent.
In some counties, including Wake, Orange,and Johnston, farmers reduced nitrogen use by more than 40 percent. Only two counties, Granville and Pitt, have not met the goal.
Farm nitrogen use may have decreased because of market demands that made farmers switch from corn to cotton, a crop that uses less nitrogen fertilizer.
"We must recognize that crop shift has played a role in reduction of nitrogen," said Natalie Jones, Neuse River Basin coordinator for the state Division of Soil and Water Conservation.
Despite the changes that have helped the river, there are constant challenges from rapid development along its route.
Some communities along the river such as Johnston County have tried innovative approaches to reduce nitrogen being dumped into the river, such as a piping treated wastewater to irrigate a golf course.
Ken York, the county's project coordinator, said rapid growth justified the $7 million cost of the project, paid for partly by a Clean Water Trust Fund grant.
JoAnn Burkholder, director of the Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology at N.C. State University, said drought contributed to apparent lower nitrogen levels because there wasn't as much run off in the years 2000 through 2002.
Information from: News & Observer
NC State announces new department of social work
Nov. 25, 2003
Outer Banks Sentinel
By staff writer
© Copyright 2003 Outer Banks Sentinel
Opening the door to new opportunities for social work students, faculty and staff, the North Carolina State University Social Work Program officially became the Department of Social Work after recent approval by the university's Board of Trustees. The new department resides in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Most notably, department status will help pave the way for a new master's of social work degree.
The department has a well-established bachelor's of social work (BSW) program and is working to develop a master's of social work (MSW) degree. This combined BSW/MSW program will be the first of its kind in the Triangle. With university approval, the plan is for classes to begin in fall 2005.
"Achieving department status is a significant milestone in our continuing development," said Linda R. Williams, director of field education and member of the department faculty for 25 years. "This is a real statement of commitment to our department by the university, and it certainly clears the way for a number of exciting new initiatives."
The new status also will increase accessibility to research grants, allow the department to expand its teaching and support staff, and help facilitate the accreditation process, which takes place every eight years through the Council on Social Work Education.
"As a professional degree-granting unit, we have to demonstrate autonomy in curriculum, administrative processes and hiring," said Dr. Joan Pennell, head of the Department of Social Work. The Social Work Program achieved accreditation last spring, and Pennell says that the new department status will help make the process go even more smoothly.
The NC State Department of Social Work currently offers a BSW, which prepares students for entry-level social work practice in many public and private social agencies. The department has 125 students, with 20 percent from underrepresented groups. The department's mission is to promote a socially responsible society through education, research and extension/community service.
Departmental special projects include: Family-Centered Meetings, part of the child welfare reform effort in North Carolina and funded by the N.C. Division of Social Services; Child Welfare Education, which prepares students for practice in public child welfare in North Carolina and is also funded by the N.C. Division of Social Services; and Geriatric Enrichment of Social Work Education, which is supported by a three-year grant from the Hartford Foundation and the Council on Social Work Education.
Nov. 25, 2003
News 14 Carolina
By Katie Marzullo, staff writer
© Copyright 2003 TWEAN Newschannel of Raleigh, L.L.C. dba News 14 Carolina
It's a miracle just in time for the holidays. Popcorn, a six-pound stray dog with five legs, has made it through unprecedented surgery and found a home in the process.
The tiny dog's been out of surgery less than a day. Dr. Ansede, along with Dr. Rebecca Tudor of N.C. State Veterinary Hospital, amputated two of Popcorn's five legs.
“Unfortunately, due to the positioning of this leg, she wasn't going to walk on it anyway and it was actually going to be a source of pain so we had to remove these two legs,” Dr. Ansede said.
The dog’s condition was practically unheard of.
"I knew from my experience it was very rare,” Dr. Ansede said. “I just didn't know how rare it was. After doing literature searches, there was nothing out there."
It was Raleigh resident Liz Bell who found the dog and brought it to Dr. Ansede.
"It looked like she'd been hit by a car, the way she was carrying herself,” Bell said.
She quickly learned that wasn't the case and was faced with footing the bill for an expensive amputation but in the end, strangers came to the rescue.
"People were really, really generous and really compassionate and donated some money so that we were able to give her the surgery,” Bell said.
People, from not only Raleigh but out of state, donated a total of $3,000.
Bell took Popcorn home Tuesday but the dog does have some rehabilitation ahead of it.
Cree suit settles with a fizzle
Nov. 26, 2003
The News & Observer
By Jonathan B. Cox, staff writer
© Copyright 2003 The News & Observer Publishing Company.
GREENSBORO -- A $3.2 billion lawsuit that jolted Cree, one of the Triangle's most successful home-grown businesses, and split its founding family came to an abrupt end Tuesday after the case was settled.
Eric Hunter, a Cree co-founder who alleged in June that the Durham semiconductor maker had engaged in fraud and corporate malfeasance, dropped all claims against Cree, agreed not to sue again and resigned from the company. Cree will make no payments to Eric Hunter or his wife, Jocelyn, as part of the deal.
The settlement was disclosed in a Greensboro courtroom Tuesday morning, as a federal judge prepared to consider a motion by Cree to toss out the lawsuit.
"It looks like they're out of the woods," said Tom Sepenzis, an analyst who follows Cree for ThinkEquity Partners in San Francisco. "The worst is over."
Eric Hunter filed suit June 12, alleging that Cree and its chairman, F. Neal Hunter, his brother, used undisclosed deals to boost Cree's finances and stock dating back to August 1995.
When he tried to report the alleged impropriety, Eric Hunter, who founded the company with Neal Hunter in 1987 based on research conducted at N.C. State University, said he was threatened and harassed to keep quiet.
The Hunters' mother, a third brother and other relatives tried to undermine the claims by describing Eric Hunter as mentally unstable. Still, the suit spooked investors. The company's stock fell. The litigation sparked shareholder suits and an informal inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"A lot of what happened, the SEC audit, the class action lawsuits and the Eric and Jocelyn lawsuits, were all tied together," said Harsh Kumar, an analyst with Morgan Keegan & Co. in Memphis, Tenn. "Since the main person who brought up the charges is backing out ... it substantially weakens the other cases."
Shares of Cree, which makes light-emitting diodes used to illuminate mobile phones, cars and other electronic gadgets, rose 36 cents to $18.49 Tuesday. The stock didn't rise more because investors have dismissed the suit for weeks, analysts said. The shares have risen 56 percent since hitting a one-year low in August.
"I'm glad it's behind us," said Chuck Swoboda, Cree's CEO.
Mike Unti, the attorney representing Eric Hunter, declined to comment on the settlement.
The agreement was an unexpected conclusion to a bizarre case. Eric Hunter once said he would never settle and that there would be "shock and awe" when the litigation was debated in court.
Even with the settlement, Cree still faces challenges. The SEC continues to investigate. Shareholder lawsuits are scheduled to get under way in court by early spring.
Meanwhile, Cree faces mounting pressure from rival LED manufacturers in Taiwan.
As part of the settlement, Cree accepted Eric Hunter's resignation as a technology consultant. He previously was CEO of the company. His stock options were canceled, except for a portion of those set to vest in May 2004.
Neal Hunter wasn't a party to the pact. But Eric Hunter agreed to dismiss the allegations against his brother, provided Neal Hunter doesn't sue, Unti said in court.
Staff writer Jonathan B. Cox can be reached at 836-4948.
Nov. 24, 2003
SportsIllustrated.com
By staff report
© Copyright 2003 Sports Illustrated.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Philip Rivers has finally been named first-team all-ACC.
The North Carolina State quarterback, who has thrown for more than 13,000 yards in his career, was beaten out by Matt Schaub, Woody Dantzler and Heisman Trophy winner Chris Weinke the past three seasons.
But there was no denying Rivers in 2003. He was the only unanimous selection to The Associated Press team as voted on by 63 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.
The 6-foot-5 senior quarterback has completed 311 of 438 passes for an ACC-record 4,016 yards and 29 touchdowns. His 71 percent completion rate is also a conference single-season record heading into the Wolfpack's bowl game.
"I think he's the best football player in the country," Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said. "I don't know of a guy who means more to his football team than he does. He just does it week after week after week after week."
Rivers' main target, Jerricho Cotchery, was the only repeater on the offensive team. Cotchery has 73 catches for 1,198 yards and nine touchdowns.
Maryland place-kicker Nick Novak and return specialist Steve Suter also were named to the first-team for a second straight season.
Joining Cotchery at wide receiver was Florida State's Craphonso Thorpe, whose 19.5 average per reception is tops in the ACC.
A pair of 1,000-yard rushers were named at running back -- Duke's Chris Douglas and Georgia Tech's P.J. Daniels.
Douglas had six 100-yard games, while Daniels led the Yellow Jackets in rushing every game.
Virginia's Heath Miller was the runaway winner at tight end with the third-most points on offense behind Rivers and Cotchery.
The first-team offensive line consisted of Alex Barron of Florida State, Sean Locklear of N.C. State, C.J. Brooks of Maryland, Tyson Clabo of Wake Forest and center Hugh Reilly of Georgia Tech.
Florida State's Darnell Dockett was the top vote-getter on defense with 114 points. He was joined by teammates Michael Boulware at linebacker and defensive back Stanford Samuels.
In addition to Dockett, Georgia Tech's Eric Henderson, Maryland's Randy Starks and Duke's Matt Zielinski were named to the defensive line. Henderson leads the ACC with 10 sacks.
Keyaron Fox of Georgia Tech headed the linebacking corps with Leroy Hill of Clemson. Fox leads the ACC with 138 tackles, while Hill tops the league in tackles for loss with 241/2.
ACC interception leader James Butler of Georgia Tech was named at defensive back along with Eric King of Wake Forest and Andre Maddox of N.C. State.
Wake Forest's Ryan Plackemeier, who is averaging 45.8 yards a kick, was named the all-ACC punter.
Fetterman Inducted into Business Hall of Fame
Nov. 26, 2003
Campbell University News & Events
By staff report
© Copyright 2003 Campbell University.
Campbell benefactor and advisory board member Annabelle Lundy Fetterman was recently inducted into the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame. Fetterman is the former chair and CEO of the Lundy Packing Company, one of the nation’s largest pork producers. She has served on the board of directors of Premium Farms, the company that purchased Lundy Packing in 2000.
The Hall of Fame is sponsored by Junior Achievement and North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI). It recognizes business leaders who have made significant contributions to the state’s economy and who have provided outstanding service to their community and state.
Campbell’s relationship with the Lundy and Fetterman families goes back approximately three generations. Fetterman’s father, entrepreneur Burrows T. Lundy, the founder of Lundy Packing, and his wife, Mabel, established the Lundy Chair of Business at Campbell in 1975. Son Dr. Lewis M. Fetterman, Jr., is an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences in Campbell’s School of Pharmacy, and daughter Molly Fetterman Held received a Master of Business Administration from Campbell in 1982. Both Annabelle and Lewis Fetterman have served Campbell as members of the Presidential Board of Advisors for over 25 years and have helped lead many of the University’s capital campaigns. She received Campbell’s prestigious Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award in 1981 and an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Campbell in 1987. In December 2000, Fetterman was awarded Campbell’s Presidential Medallion, given to those individuals who have made meaningful contributions in their professional and personal lives.
During her tenure as CEO at Lundy, Fetterman was named to Working Woman magazine’s list of top women chief executive officers in the country on several occasions. She has also served on the board of directors for American Meat Institute, the North Carolina Agribusiness Council, Inc., the National Right to Work Committee, and the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry. In addition, Fetterman has served on the board of trustees of North Carolina State University and was appointed by Governor Jim Hunt to the North Carolina Business Council of Management and Development, Inc. In 1995, she was honored by the Tuscarora Council of Boy Scouts of America with the Distinguished Citizen Award.
Annabelle and Lewis Fetterman have established numerous academic scholarships at Campbell and their generosity and support helped to complete one of the centerpieces of the Campbell campus, the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business.
“I was so proud and honored to attend the magnificent Hall of Fame Awards ceremony,” said Dr. Shahriar Mostashari, acting dean of the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business. “One of the criterion for induction into the Hall of Fame is that the laureate be a leader who has made outstanding contributions to his or her company, the industry, and the economy of the state of North Carolina. Not only has Annabelle Fetterman made all of that, her contributions to Campbell University and the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business are monumental. She has distinguished herself throughout North Carolina and the nation in shaping future generations of business leaders.”
One of only three women to be inducted into the Hall of Fame since its establishment in 1988, Annabelle Fetterman shares the honor with the likes of James Buchanan Duke, founder of Southern Tobacco Company (now Duke Energy); William Henry Belk, Sr., founder of Belk Brothers Company; J. E. Broyhill, founder of Broyhill Furniture Industries; and Juanita Morris Kreps, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
Lewis R. Holding, chairman of the board of directors of First Citizens Bank, Leon Levine, founder and chairman emeritus of Family Dollar Stores, and Ed O’Herron, Jr., former CEO of Eckerd Drug Stores, were inducted with Fetterman.
Founded in 1887, Campbell University is North Carolina’s second largest private institution and the second largest Baptist university in the world. Located in Buies Creek, NC, just east of the center of the state, Campbell combines academic excellence and Christian commitment.
NCSU fans lukewarm about bowl invitation
Nov. 25, 2003
News 14 Carolina
By Heather Moore, staff writer
© Copyright 2003 News 14 Carolina.
The N.C. State Wolfpack is heading to the Tangerine Bowl. While it’s still in Florida, it’s a long way from last year's Gator Bowl win.
Before football season even started, sportswriters and fans predicted how well the Wolfpack would do this year. With only seven wins and five losses, the Pack fell short of most people's predictions.
“Luck just wasn't the way it should have been this year with triple overtime with Ohio State and Florida State and some key losses,” Wolfpack fan Andrew Moore said.
N.C. State's loss to Florida State kicked the Wolfpack out of the running for a BCS bowl but fans still hoped for a return trip to the Gator Bowl or to Atlanta for the Peach Bowl.
“I was expecting we'd get the Gator Bowl,” Lisa Franceschi said. “We were so close to Ohio State and so close to Florida State and when we lost to Maryland, I kind of assumed we'd get the Peach Bowl off of reputation. I know it’s not record, but just reputation.”
But Pack fans had no such luck. On Tuesday, N.C. State accepted a bid to the Mazda Tangerine Bowl in Orlando on December 22.
“It’s still a pretty good bowl, so everybody should be happy,” Curtis Zeigler said.
“A lot of people were hoping for the Peach Bowl but it could be worse,” Franceschi said. “At least it’s not the Continental Tire Bowl.”
“I'd much rather be going somewhere else,” Rex Henry said. “We've already been to the Tangerine Bowl.”
N.C. State played Pittsburgh in the Tangerine Bowl two years ago but most people remember it as a bad experience because the Panthers pounded the Pack 34-19.
A lot of fans are already making plans to go to the game, if for no other reason, just to say goodbye to the player who has entertained fans for the past four years.
“It’s Philip Rivers’ last game, so there should be a lot of N.C. State fans there,” Zeigler said.
Fans hope the Wolfpack can win the bowl so Rivers can end his college career with a victory.
This is the Wolfpack's fourth trip to a bowl game in the past four years. Coach Chuck Amato joins former N.C. State Coach Lou Holtz as the only coaches in the school's history to take their first four teams to bowl games.
Tangerine Bowl Tickets Already On Sale
Nov. 25, 2003
WRAL.com
By staff report
© Copyright 2003 WRAL.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The North Carolina State University ticket office has begun selling tickets for the 2003 Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Fla.
The Wolfpack accepted an invitation to play in the Dec. 22 bowl game earlier Tuesday.
Both online orders and telephone orders will be accepted.
Due to anticipated high call volume, N. C. State is urging interested fans to utilize the school's online order system. Tickets are $45, with $40 student tickets also available.
Check the Web site for specific times and locations of ticket will call.
Priority deadline is Dec. 10 for ordering tickets.
Student tickets will be handled with a voucher system. Students will pay $40 and show their valid student ID card in Raleigh in exchange for a ticket voucher. The voucher can be redeemed in Orlando for a ticket at the World Marriott from Dec. 19-21.
Due to the tight turnaround, there will be no mailing of tickets. All tickets can be picked up via will call in one of two ways:
-- From Dec. 16-18, fans can pick up their tickets in Raleigh.
-- From Dec. 19-21, fans can pick up their tickets in Orlando.
Commemorative Tangerine Bowl patches also can be purchased for $10 apiece.
The ticket office can be reached at 1-800-310-7225 or (919) 865-1510.
Fans planning on attending the game can purchase their parking space online.
N.C. State Selected for Tangerine Bowl
Nov. 25, 2003
Associated Press; WTVD-11; News 14 Carolina
By staff writer
© Copyright 2003 Associated Press
North Carolina State started the season with hopes of winning an Atlantic Coast Conference title and the Bowl Championship Series bid that comes with it.
Instead, the Wolfpack is heading back to Orlando.
N.C. State accepted an invitation to play in the Tangerine Bowl on Tuesday, returning to the game for the second time in three seasons. The Wolfpack (7-5) will face an as-yet undetermined Big 12 Conference opponent -- likely Kansas or Colorado -- on Dec. 22.
N.C. State last played in the Tangerine Bowl in 2001, losing to Pittsburgh 34-19.
The invitation came after the Gator Bowl selected Maryland, which finished second to Florida State in the ACC, and Peach Bowl officials invited Clemson.
Despite failing to earn a BCS invitation, coach Chuck Amato said his team was happy to receive a postseason invitation for the fourth time in his four seasons as coach.
"We're disappointed we didn't go to the Sugar Bowl (for the national championship)," Amato said. "That's what our expectations were. Anything other than that, we'll take. ... We'll go to whatever bowl invites us to go."
The Tangerine Bowl replaced the Micronpc.com Bowl, where the Wolfpack beat Minnesota 38-30 in 2000. The Wolfpack also played in the 1998 Micron PC Bowl, losing to Miami 46-23.
N.C. State has a 10-10-1 record in bowl games.
The Wolfpack finished 4-4 in the ACC, losing its last two games to Florida State and Maryland in the final minutes. Saturday's 26-24 loss to the Terrapins spoiled the final home game for senior Philip Rivers, the All-ACC quarterback whose No. 17 jersey was retired before the game.
It was a disappointing finish to a season that began with high expectations. The Wolfpack was ranked as high as No. 14 before losing to Wake Forest on Sept. 6. The next week, N.C. State lost 44-38 in triple-overtime to defending national champion Ohio State, falling out of The Associated Press top 25 poll.
Rivers, an Athens, Ala., native, said he was a bit disappointed not to go the Peach Bowl to play a Southeastern Conference opponent in Atlanta. But he'll have one more chance to move into second place in the NCAA's career passing yardage list, needing 14 yards to pass Louisiana Tech's Tim Rattay.
"You have all the control in the world to do it out there (on the field), to have your hand in deciding where you go," Rivers said. "But we're excited to go down there to Florida and play."
Tom Mickle, executive director of Florida Citrus Sports, said the selection committee was also considering Virginia and Georgia Tech. The Wolfpack's 51-37 win against the Cavaliers on Nov. 1 was a factor in the choice, as was the chance to host Rivers' final game for the Wolfpack, Mickle said.
Officials expect to name the Wolfpack's opponent this weekend, Mickle said, adding that there was a small chance that it could be Nebraska.
Kansas (6-6) is eligible for its first postseason bid since beating UCLA in the 1995 Aloha Bowl. Colorado (5-6) faces the Huskers (8-3) on Friday, needing a win to become bowl-eligible.
N.C. State Athletics Director Lee Fowler said Monday before the invitation arrived that he didn't think the school would have any problem selling out its allotment of tickets.
"I think people will want to see Philip Rivers play one last time, and I think it's a perfect time," Fowler said. "People can go to the game and still be home two days before Christmas."
Past Comes Back To Haunt N.C. State Swim Coach
Nov. 25, 2003
WRAL-TV
By Kelcey Carlson, staff writer
© Copyright 2003 wral.com
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A coach at North Carolina State University who also runs a popular swim club is off the job.
John Candler has had a successful, 35-year career as N.C. State's diving coach. He also runs Candler Swim Club in Raleigh. Now, he is the center of an investigation involving a child molestation conviction from 37 years ago.
It surfaced in an e-mail last week from a woman named Jane Schneider.
"I still felt that I had a moral obligation to alert the university and also the community at large, if I could," said Schneider, who spoke to WRAL over the phone Tuesday from Michgan.
Schneider said Candler was her swim coach when she was 13 and that she knew the victim in the 1966 case against the coach.
"I was to be called as a late witness to the case," she said. "But I never had to take the stand because Mr. Candler pleaded guilty."
Schneider thought Candler left the country -- until she recently stumbled across his N.C. State coaching bio.
Candler's attorney, Jack Nichols, did not deny the Candlers are one and the same.
"He's frustrated," Nichols said. "You would be frustrated, too. Somebody dredged up something from 30 years ago, and it's been thrown in his face."
But this is not the first time Candler has dealt with molestation charges. In 1985, as N.C. State diving coach, he pleaded guilty to molestation charges involving a 15-year-old Wake County girl.
The university did not say Tuesday what, if anything, it knew about any earlier convictions.
"The people who hired John back then aren't around," Nichols said. "Who knows what they knew then other than John?"
Candler received probation for the 1985 conviction.
Nichols said he advised Candler not to speak publicly about this latest case. For the time being, Candler is on paid administrative leave while the school investigates.
NCSU accepts Tangerine Bowl bid
Nov. 25, 2003
News 14 Carolina
By staff report
© Copyright 2003 News 14 Carolina.
Clemson is headed to the Peach Bowl while Maryland gets the Gator Bowl. Now, N.C. State has accepted a Big 12 match-up in the Mazda Tangerine Bowl.
The 7-5 Wolfpack will be playing in the pre-Christmas game in Orlando. It's the third time that N.C. State has gone to the Tangerine Bowl. In 2001, Pittsburgh blasted the Wolfpack 34-19.
Despite the 7-5 record, ESPN said N.C. State quarterback Philip Rivers is a top five Heisman Trophy candidate.
Editorial: Breaking the mold, pronto
Nov. 26, 2003
The News & Observer
By Rick Martinez
© Copyright 2003 The News & Observer Publishing Company.
Thankfully, Gov. Mike Easley has taken it upon himself to fix the mold problems that have closed two dormitories at N.C. Central University in Durham.
I suspect he was fed up by what seems to be an embarrassing lack of progress from the University of North Carolina's Board of Governors and lack of leadership from its president, Molly Broad. I know I am.
Fixing the mold problems that led to the closure of more than a dozen buildings at Central and UNC Pembroke has its complications, but it isn't rocket science. Hire contractors, clean up the mold and eliminate the conditions that led to the fungus outbreak. The rub is, this job isn't going to be cheap. The board says it needs $30 million, but odds are that number is probably just the initial tab.
But money isn't the real problem here. Too much wanting to control where the money goes is the problem.
The UNC system has plenty of money. But no one wants to give up even a crumb of their slice of the system's $1.8 billion pie. Even if you buy the line that every dollar is spoken for, show me the programs that are more important than providing a clean and healthy environment in buildings used to educate and house students.
The mold infestation at Central and Pembroke is a bona fide emergency. At the very least, common sense dictates that the Board of Governors should have reprioritized its spending, even if it meant borrowing from funds designated for other purposes. (Easley could have provided a few pointers on this accounting technique.)
Instead, the board focused too much energy on finding ways to make others pay for the neglect, even as 500 Central students carted their belongings to Durham hotels. The strongest action the board could muster on their behalf was to pass two resolutions asking the state for more money. And the UNC president, instead of allowing the Board of Governors to ponder resolutions, should have introduced its members to the broader real-world consequences of their isolation.
One of the university system's goals is to make Central and N.C. State academic centers of North Carolina's budding biotechnology sector. Central received a $20 million grant in August to build a biomanufacturing research and training institute. Impressive, but how many cutting-edge biotech firms will be eager to establish ties to an institution that can't figure out how to get rid of mold?
Then there's the effect of this fiasco on student and faculty recruitment. Chancellor James A. Ammons wants to diversify Central's student body and faculty in order to bolster enrollment at the historically black college and to provide students exposure to the diverse world they'll encounter once they graduate. Strong academic programs are the primary tool he intends to use.
That strategy will be seriously undercut if parents are worried their kids may get sick in ill-maintained buildings and be forced to sleep in hotels.
And then there's the matter of race. It's a legitimate question. Last week, N.C. Central trustee Eric Michaux eloquently broached the subject by bringing up a well-known experiment showing that, given a choice, children usually choose white-skinned dolls over darker ones. He called the tendency an example of "dollism."
That's a graceful way to express what many people must have been thinking: There is no way this inaction would have been tolerated if the mold were affecting the predominantly white student body up the road in Chapel Hill. Somehow, I don't see UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser being forced to desperately beg for money and action on behalf of his student body, as Ammons has. The only thing the NCCU chancellor hasn't been compelled to do is stand on a Durham street corner holding up a sign that says "Will Work for Mold Money. May God Bless."
At least the governor gets it. He clearly pointed out that he doesn't blame Ammons for the mold mess. Conspicuously and correctly absent from his absolution were the UNC Board of Governors and President Broad.
Point of View: Recruiting industry isn't the whole story
Nov. 26, 2003
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By Roland Stephen
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Anyone listening to the debate over North Carolina's economic development policies can be forgiven for feeling confused. Some say the state's recruitment efforts aren't enough, especially by comparison with South Carolina and Virginia. Others argue that such efforts can never work.
Yet if we are interested in long-run solutions to our state's needs, it is a serious mistake to have the discussion cast only in terms of business recruitment. This is only a small part of a much larger economic development landscape.
The best way to understand the larger landscape is to begin by thinking carefully about our long-term goals. According to North Carolina's Economic Development Plan, the cornerstones for development are a globally competitive work-force, investment in science, technology and university outreach, an improved business climate and attractive communities. Broadly speaking, those seem to be on target.
What these four elements suggest is that there is no single, silver bullet in questions of economic development. What is more, every policy comes with tradeoffs. For example, many people point to South Carolina's recruitment of large-scale manufacturing as a successful economic development strategy. What is not mentioned are some of the costs: tax concessions for 20 years that reduce funding for local schools. Yet in the long run an economy adapted to the needs of the 21st century will depend much more on the skills of its work-force. On this note, we can applaud North Carolina's leaders for focusing on the long run by maintaining investment in education.
Broadly stated, only education and innovation will secure a place for North Carolina against all competitors. Furthermore, our prosperity will depend in many ways on the success of our small and medium-sized firms. These businesses tend not to be the beneficiaries of recruitment efforts, because the jobs that they create come only a few at a time. Yet some among them will be world-class firms of the future, headquartered right here in North Carolina.
The important point is that many of the policies that foster growth and innovation from within over the long run, and which give firms already located here the workers, technologies and healthy business environment that they need, also make North Carolina a fundamentally sound place for outside investors.
The policies that underpin this broader view of economic development are enacted at every level of government, and address a wide range of issues. It is these varied but valuable activities that are slighted by a debate that focuses only on recruitment.
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For example, many innovative firms place a premium on locations that offer a high quality of life. They do so because smart, creative entrepreneurs and their employees want to live in vibrant communities. Local officials in a variety of places across the country, including Asheville, now seek to enhance and advertise their cultural amenities as part of their economic development strategy.
Others recognize that relatively isolated rural areas probably stand a better chance in the economic development game if they seek growth from within. To this end the N.C. Rural Center has launched the Institute for Rural Entrepreneurship, designed to foster small business growth as a means of job creation in rural communities.
The state Department of Commerce advanced two initiatives recently that resulted in legislative changes improving the climate for economic development. The legislature passed a tax credit for research and development, encouraging innovation among firms located within the state. It also passed a bill making regional cooperation easier by allowing separate jurisdictions to share the costs and revenues of joint development projects.
Finally, the university system is reorienting itself towards the demands of development. Partly this means even more attention to ensuring that technologies invented on campus are transferred quickly and effectively to the private sector, especially in the form of startup enterprises that may have exciting futures. More than that, the university system is finding new ways to adapt to the needs of industry, for example by building a biotechnology training center to meet the needs of biotech businesses.
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Because of the stresses and strains placed on our families and communities by economic change we certainly need as much relief as possible in the short run. There may be a place for targeting job-rich investments by outside firms today, but these efforts should occur within a broader set of policies pursued by a wide range of institutions in North Carolina aimed at long-run performance. A critical first step in accomplishing this goal is to frame the economic development debate more broadly and accurately.
(Roland Stephen is a faculty fellow at the Institute for Emerging Issues (www.emergingissues.org), which is associated with N.C. State University.)
Surgery treats five-legged dog after rare anomaly discovered
Nov. 25, 2003
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A five-legged
dog discovered near a state park has undergone successful surgery to remove
two of his legs.
During a 2 1/2-hour operation Monday morning, a veterinary surgeon removed the
dog's back two left legs, which resulted from an extremely rare genetic anomaly.
The Maltese-and-terrier mix named Popcorn created quite a stir in the local dog-lover community when she was found near Umstead State Park, northwest of Raleigh. Experts said it was unheard of for such an animal to live long past birth.
Popcorn is believed to be between 9 months and a year old.
The extra, or supernumerary, leg was removed because it was hampering the dog's movement. The more fully developed leg was also removed because it was rotated at a 90-degree angle, rendering it useless as well.
Dr. Rebecca Tudor, who performed the amputations with an assistant, said Popcorn faced severe arthritis without the surgery. Because of the abnormalities, surgery took longer than expected, she said.
"It was a little hard to determine where the muscles and blood vessels would be because they were not in the normal spot," she said. "But it went very smoothly."
Popcorn required seven stitches and will have a 4-inch scar on her hip. After further recovery Monday night at the animal hospital, she was expected to return home Tuesday.
Dr. Frank Ansede, who runs the Raleigh animal hospital where Popcorn is being treated, received more than $3,000 in donations from more than 50 donors living as far away as Wisconsin, Louisiana and Florida.
The surgery cost about $1,200, including donated services by Tudor, an anesthesiologist from North Carolina State University and a fourth-year veterinary student who plans to do a report on it.
Ansede said the remaining money would pay for spaying and further medical visits. The rest will be donated to an animal welfare charity, he said.
Food-borne Disease; Modified RT-PCR assay detects low-level Norovirus food contamination
Dec 7, 2003
Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week; Genomics & Genetics Weekly (12/5/03); Biotech Week (12/3/03); Virus Weekly (12/2/03); TB & Outbreaks Week (12/2/03); Health & Medicine Week (12/1/03)
By staff report
© Copyright 2003 ProQuest
2003 DEC 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A modified RT-PCR assay can detect very low levels of gastroenteritis-causing Noroviruses in food.
In a recent study from the United States, "Previously reported nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) primers specific for the GII Noroviruses were adapted for reverse transcriptase- polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and detection sensitivity was then enhanced by a subsequent in vitro transcription of the RT-PCR amplicons."
"The NASBA-derived primers performed comparably to other broadly reactive GII Norovirus primers with respect to detection limits (i.e, 1 RT-PCR amplifiable unit (RT-PCRU) per reaction)," reported J. Jean and coauthors at North Carolina State University. "Detection limits improved by approximately 1 log(sub)10 to 0.3 RT-PCRU per reaction when transcriptional enhancement and electrochemiluminescence (ECL) hybridization followed RT-PCR."
"The method shows promise for improved detection sensitivity in instances where very low levels of virus contamination might be anticipated," the researchers concluded.
Jean and colleagues published their study in FEMS Microbiology Letters (Transcriptional enhancement of RT-PCR for rapid and sensitive detection of Noroviruses. FEMS Microbiol Lett, 2003;226(2):339-345).
For additional information, contact J. Jean, North Carolina State University, Department of Food Science, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
Publisher contact information for the journal FEMS Microbiology Letters is: Elsevier Science B.V., P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The information in this article comes under the major subject areas of Food-Borne Disease, Gastroenterology, Infectious Disease and Virology.
This article was prepared by Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week editors from staff and other reports.
Lawsuit filed by Cree co-founder settled
Nov. 25, 2003
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - A $3.2 billion lawsuit filed by a Cree Inc. co-founder and his wife that accused his brother and other company executives of violating securities fraud and breaching fiduciary duties was settled Tuesday.
U.S. District Court Judge Frank Bullock approved the settlement during a brief hearing in Greensboro federal court.
The lawsuit, brought in June by Eric Hunter and his wife, Jocelyn, was dismissed against all defendants, which included his brother F. Neal Hunter, co-founder and chairman of the Durham-based company.
The agreement requires no payments to Eric and Jocelyn Hunter and bars them from making the claims against Cree in the future.
Shares of Cree rose 36 cents to close at $18.49 a share in trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Bullock approved the settlement after hearing from attorneys for the two brothers. Neither of the Hunters attended the proceeding.
Cree also has accepted Eric Hunter's resignation as an employee. His remaining stock options have been terminated, except those already vested.
The agreement also contains mutual releases and promises not to sue.
Cree makes silicone carbide semiconductor wafers, used to make low-voltage, light-emitting diodes, or LEDs.
The company was born out of research Eric Hunter and others carried out at North Carolina State University. Eric Hunter has said that financial irregularities started as soon as he left Cree in 1995 to found a separate company.
His claims of financial problems split his family, with Neal Hunter, mother Annabel Harrill and other associates giving sworn statements that described Eric Hunter as suffering from mental problems.
The case caused Cree's stock to lose about a third of its value during the summer, prompted more than a dozen class-action lawsuits by disgruntled investors - many of which remain unresolved - and led the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to begin an informal inquiry, or fact-finding.
In October, Eric Hunter dropped claims of federal securities fraud and unfair or deceptive trading practices that he had lodged against the company and his brother.
The remaining claims included that the defendants violated state securities law, breached their fiduciary duties and ignored federal protections for whistleblowers when he threatened to tell the SEC.
Professor embraces stereotype of college: Timeless tweed
Nov. 25, 2003
Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, IN)
By staff report
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Dr. Philip Carter doesn't care that he's a fashion stereotype. As with no-nonsense folks - scholarly and otherwise - functionality is his style rule.
So the professor of microbiology and immunology at North Carolina State University's veterinary school wears tweed. Not only tweed jackets, but also Irish tweed caps.
"Most faculty members don't really have an eye for fashion," says Carter, 58. "I don't think I do, so I don't have to worry what color my tie is because tweed has so many colors in it."
Tweed, like the quest for knowledge itself, is classic and enduring. It is above the fray of modern times - though we should note that college campuses are also known for experimental, avant-garde looks. But tweed, practical and always in style, is the perfect fabric for people with other things on their minds.
The fabric has its genesis in a far colder clime: the British Isles.
"The tweed suit as we know it today has its origins in hunting clothes," says Kevin Jones, museum curator at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
The hardy fabric was adapted to city wear. In 18th-century England, a court suit was blended with tweed to produce, in the early 19th century, the first modern men's suit, Jones says.
Tweed first became associated with professors of "classic" subjects, such as Latin, says Diane Ellis, professor of fashion at Meredith College, in Raleigh, N.C. "These were not people who were interested in anything other than functional clothes that would last a long time."
The term "tweed" actually refers to the way a fabric is put together. The process involves dying and then weaving different colored threads into yarn, which is then turned into fabric.
Carter began wearing tweed during his own student days at Notre Dame. "The warm wool was the thing to go with," he says.
Then he discovered the fabric's durability, later confirmed during a trip to England. "You'll see men (in England) doing repairs on the railroad in tweed jackets. They just wear like iron."
Although he tends to remove his jacket in the classroom, to appear less formal and more approachable to students, Carter likes the instant dressy air the blazer adds when he walks across campus. Plus it's comfortable and doesn't wrinkle.
Although tweed suits - jacket, vest and pants - are somewhat unusual today, the separate elements have proven timeless, not always the case with "period" fashions. Tweed has also translated across gender lines; Jones points out that the fabric has graced both women's ready-to-wear and couture styles.
Carter, for now, is sticking with his caps and jackets.
And to the old stereotypical riddle, he responds: "Is it an image thing, or do professors really like tweed? Well, this professor really likes tweed."
Iams Opens Second MRI Center: Making MRI More Readily Available
Nov. 25, 2003
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This week, The Iams Company announced an agreement to build the second Iams Pet Imaging Center on the campus of North Carolina State University (NCSU). The new center will help change the way veterinary students at the NCSU Veterinary School are taught to diagnose disease, in addition to being a valuable diagnostic tool for area veterinarians.
About MRI
MRI is an advanced diagnostic tool that uses magnetic energy and radio waves to create detailed images of tissue. With this technology, veterinarians now can more accurately determine the cause and location of diseases in pets and treat them more efficiently and effectively. MRI identifies conditions such as cancer and orthopedic injuries without invasive exploratory surgery that can sometimes be required.
About the Iams Pet Imaging Center
The Iams Pet Imaging Center is the most technologically advanced MRI center available dedicated to superior veterinary diagnostic care. The center houses state-of-the art equipment with technical expertise provided by ProScan, a world leader in the development of MRI technology. To learn more about The Iams Pet Imaging Center, you can also visit Iams on the Web at www.iamsco.com , www.iams.com , or www.eukanuba.com or call 1-866-4PETMRI.
About The Iams Company
For more than 50 years, The Iams Company has been living its mission of enhancing the well-being of dogs and cats by providing world-class quality foods and pet care products. Through its Iams Partners for Health and Iams Pet Imaging Center, The Iams Company is working with veterinarians to improve the quality of life for dogs and cats. To learn more about Eukanuba(R) and Iams(R) Dog and Cat Foods, the Eukanuba Veterinary Diets(TM) line of canine and feline prescription diets, or general pet care and nutrition information, call the Iams Consumer Care Center at 1-800-863-4267. You can also visit Iams on the Web at www.iamsco.com , www.iams.com , or www.eukanuba.com .
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