The Carolinian [April 13, 2010]

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Independent Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro- Founded 1919
Greensboro, NC I Vol. XC, No. 22 Carolinianonline. com April13- Apri119, 2010
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Opinions I Page S
America's obesity
problem, Corporations
own U.S. elections
A&E I Page 9
Time to Art Partrl,
Manchester Orchestra,
Opera opens at UNCG
Sports I Page 11 _
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- Colby Hyatt pitches a
~lete game, Outdoor
Adventures, Matt's life
as a cydist, Baseball-
·and Softball mid-season
, . reVIews
Features I Page 14
Knitting with Megan,
Jobs of yesteryear, why
the quality of the Caf is
not up to expectations ·
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, .. -· ~;.~~' Author of~Picking Cotton speaks on ~am pus
The 2009 -best selling noveljs a memoir of a local college
student who was raped .at ·. l<riifepoint and ·the innocent man
who ~~_rved 11 years in prison for the crime.
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Kayla Kenn~dy .
Campus News Editor
New York Times best-selling
author, Jennifer Thompson­Cannino
spoke at UNCG last
Thursday about the journey that
brought her, along with best
friend Ronald Cotton, to write
the 2009 novel, Picking Cotton.
Despite her small, 5'2'
frame and -soft-spoken voice
Thompson-Cannino easily
captivated Alumni House, which
was overflowing with students,
teachers, alumni and community
members to the extent that
several extra chairs needed to­be
brought in before the guest
speaker could begin.
Upon reaching the podium she
apologized for Cotton's absence,
exphiining that his work schedule
at an insulation plant is often at
odds with speaking engagements.
She added with a laugh that she
didn't mind because "[she] and
Ron have way too much fun
together to work anyways:'
Although the book is just a year
old, the duo has been featured
on · countless media outlets,
including 60 minutes, Tlie Today
Show, a PBS documentary, ... ,
throughout the past 12 years
~hap.ng their story of "inj_ustice
alia redemption:'
She and Ron's claim to fame
is far from desirable - a college
student brutally raped at
knifepoint in her own apartment
before escaping the intruder
with nothing but her life and
~ bed sheet. And the man she
SIERRA DENNIS/THECAROLINIAN
Author of Picking Cotton, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino autographs copies of her
2009 best-seller in the UNCG Alumni House last Thursday.
confidently identified as her
attacker, who served 11 years
in prison for a crime he did not
commit before being exonerated
by DNA evidence. On the surface
they appear to be the unlikeliest
of friends, to say the least. But at
heart they share the same pain:
Both of_ their lives were changed
forever on July 28, 1984. -Both
are victims of a fatally-flawed
criminal "justice" system. Both
are victims of a man named
Bobby Poole.
To say that Jennifer Thompson
was sitting on top of the world
SEE PICKING COTTON,-PAGE 4
Bowles
rejects UNCG
propsal for
pharmacy
school
Craig Veifri
Staff Writer -
UNC President Erskine
Bowles stunned UNCG and the
Triad at large last week by setting
aside the proposal for the highly
sought after standalone school
of pharmacy at UNCG for two
years and will proceed instead
with plans to establish a UNC­Chapel
Hill satellite campus at
UNC-Ashville.
Documents from the UNC
Board of Governors meeting
dated April9 cited "uncertainty"
in the pharmacy field and its
expansion, the " .. .increasing
reliance on automation and
robotics as a way to handle
prescription volume and
reduce costs; and, perhaps most
importantly ... the uncertainty of
the health care reimbursement
system with regard to creating
a revenue stream to compensate
pharmacists for patient care
services, which is the primary
focus of our current Pharrn.D
programs:'
"We believed;' said Brady
to the News & Record . last
Monday and repeated in a later
statement, "that there was a
need in the Triad, particularly
for a research-intensive school
of pharmacy that would not only
SEE PHARMACY, PAGE 2