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In the Media - Archive 2005

Fall 2005

Associated Press, Dec. 24: Union leaders use the language of civil rights to justify the actions they’re taking, says Robert Korstad, associate professor of public policy studies and history. Published in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Newsday and others.

(Raleigh) News & Observer, Dec. 20: David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, says, "The delusion that we can protect against every type of terrorist threat can actually make us more vulnerable."

NPR's All Things Considered, Dec. 18: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and Sanford Institute journalism professor William Raspberry talks about his career as he retires from the Washington Post, where he started as a teletype operator 43 years ago.

(Durham) Herald-Sun, Dec. 15 -- At the core of President Bush's "Victory in Iraq" speech at the Naval Academy "is a fundamentally flawed framing of the choice we face," says Frederick W. Mayer in an op-ed.

(Raleigh) Triangle Business Journal, Dec. 14 -- The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation will fund a four-year initiative by the Duke University Center for Health Policy aimed at helping state leaders expand programs to help the uninsured. Also News 14 Carolina.

(Minneapolis) Star Tribune, Dec. 6: David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security headquartered at the Institute, says the problem with the government's anti-terror readiness is that the searing events of 9/11 are receding into memory. Also, Scripps Howard news wire.

American Journalism Review, Dec./Jan. 2006 -- Susan E. Tifft, a public policy and journalism professor, discusses journalistic impartiality in light of coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

Ebony, Dec. 2005 -- "Exposure to high marital conflict, whether it's verbal or physical, is a mistake, especially when you embroil children in that conflict," says Kenneth A. Dodge, director of the Institute’s Center for Child and Family Policy.

Providence (R.I.) Journal, Dec. 21: The Transportation Security Administration has found support with security experts, including David H. Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security headquartered at the Institute, for a decision to modify its procedures to reduce the risk of aircraft terrorism.

Marketplace, NPR, Nov. 16: Public Policy Professor Charles Clotfelter talks about the new state lottery in North Carolina.

Los Angeles Times, Nov. 4: The prices of vaccines "are not sufficiently high, and vaccines are not profitable relative to other pharmaceuticals, and that is the problem," says Frank A. Sloan, professor of health policy, discussing the small number of U.S. vaccine producers.

Summer 2005

In the June 10 Moscow News, Ellen Mickiewicz, director of the Institute’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, discusses the first-ever sale of a Russian reality TV show to a global media corporation.

Philip Cook , ITT Professor of Public Policy and co-author of "The Winner-Take-All Society," discusses the political implications of a report on world wealth in the June 10 San Francisco Chronicle.

The ( Henderson , N.C. ) Daily Dispatch reported June 10 on research led by Assistant Professor of Public Policy Anirudh Krishna into what causes people to fall into poverty and what has helped people move out of poverty in rural North Carolina.

Spring 2005

In an op-ed for the May 18 Cape Times (South Africa ), Ambassador James Joseph, professor of the practice of public policy studies, says leadership requires placing daily concerns “in the context of eternity.”

Susan Tifft, professor of the practice of journalism and public policy studies, calls Newsweek’s now-retracted report on U.S. interrogators’ alleged desecration of Muslim holy books “the perfect storm of events,” in an article published May 17 in New York ’s Newsday. The Newsweek report sparked riots in which protesters died.

Allen Buchanan, professor of public policy and a member of the Governor’s Eugenics Study Committee, discusses North Carolina ’s delay in making amends to the victims of a sterilization program, which ran from 1929 to 1974. Winston-Salem Journal, May 10.

Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies, talks about the implications of a revised Census Bureau estimate of the number of uninsured Americans on public radio’s April 26 Marketplace. Link to audio

Jacob Vigdor, assistant professor of public policy studies and economics, sorts through the issues behind a proposal to give illegal immigrants an in-state tuition break in an April 24 article for the ( Raleigh) News & Observer.

In the April 20 USA Today, a 2001 study on gentrification in Boston by Assistant Professor of PPS and Economics Jacob Vigdor was cited, which found that a poor resident living in a gentrifying neighborhood was less likely to move. Vigdor discussed the irrationality of the prevalent feeling of dislike towards gentrification.

Assistant Research Professor of PPS Christopher Conover appeared on WUNC-91.5 FM’s public affairs program “The State of Things” on April 18 to discuss poverty, health insurance and wellness. Listen (mp3) or (RealMedia)

On April 13, Associate Professor of PPS and History Robert Korstad appeared on WUNC-91.5 FM’s program “The State of Things” to talk about what has changed for poor people in North Carolina over the past 40 years, as part of the station’s series, “North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty.” Listen (mp3) or (RealMedia)

On March 25, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of PPS Charles T. Clotfelter appeared on WUNC-91.5 FM’s program “The State of Things” to discuss the proposed N.C. lottery.
Listen (mp3) or (RealMedia)

A suggestion for U.N. reform from a speech given by Professor of PPS and Philosophy Allen Buchanan is considered in light of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s new proposals in a March 23 editorial in the Houston Chronicle.

Assistant Professor of PPS Judith Kelley’s commentary about “The Transatlantic Alliance” appears on the Young Europeans for Security (YES) Web site, and suggests that the United States and the European Union need to start identifying how each other’s interests and values diverge in order to work toward some sort of cooperation.

On March 3, Associate Professor of PPS and History Robert Korstad appeared on WUNC-91.5 FM’s program “The State of Things” to discuss a union organizing campaign at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in Winston-Salem, the company’s response and the history of union organizing in North Carolina. Listen (requires Real Player)

A book co-authored by J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy, Law and Management Frank Sloan was cited in a March 1 Chicago Tribune article about companies firing workers who won’t quit smoking. He also was quoted in a Feb. 22 New York Times article about how spikes in insurance prices attract a lot of attention and are a result of a variety of factors.

On February 4, Donald Taylor, assistant professor of PPS and community and family medicine, Center for Health Policy, Law, and Management, was quoted in a USA Today article that while undoing the harm from smoking is not immediate, the earlier one starts, the better. A smoking study he co-authored with Dr. Truls Ostbye, professor of community and family medicine was also cited.

Assistant Research Professor of PPS Christopher Conover was quoted in a Feb. 4 New and Observer article about investing in stocks vs. Social Security. He also appeared on NPR’s “Marketplace” on Jan. 27 to discuss how a group of major U.S. corporations are joining to get cheaper health insurance for employees.

In a Feb. 3 article in The Christian Science Monitor, Sanford Institute Director Bruce Jentleson commented that in her first foreign trip to Europe and the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would emphasize diplomacy and cooperation among allies.

Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and PPS Susan Tifft wrote an article for the February issue of Smithsonian Magazine about Duke architect Julian Abele, America’s first black architect and the most accomplished of his era. Her article was also cited in a Jan. 31 article in the Herald Sun (Durham).

In a Jan. 31 Christian Science Monitor article, ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of PPS Philip Cook said a handgun ban in San Francisco will not prevent criminals from obtaining guns.

Visiting Lecturer in PPS Theodore Triebel said in a Jan. 19 Orlando Sentinel article that the war in Iraq is the “elephant in the living room” at President Bush’s second inauguration.

Sanford Institute Director Bruce Jentleson was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News Jan. 18 about the close relationship between President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Salon.com quoted Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and PPS Susan Tifft Jan. 12, saying that talk-show host and syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams’s acceptance of $240,000 from the Department of Education before conducting a flattering interview with Education Secretary Rod Paige showed that “he should stick with P.R.”

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