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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2026-02-03 · 23:03 UTC
Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games – UNC-Chapel Hill

Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games
Student photo, from article…
The 25 journalism students will produce stories at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics in Italy for NBC and local stations.
By Caroline Daly, University Communications and Marketing, Friday, January 30th, 2026
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A group of 25 Carolina students will gain hands-on experience in live television and sports writing during the 2026 Winter Olympics (Feb. 6-22) with the support of a sports broadcasting professor.
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students, alongside C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor, will travel to Milan and work as reporters during the Games. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Hussman has sent students to cover the Games as official reporters for the International Olympic Committee and NBC News. This will be the fifth Olympics covered by Hussman students, but the first Winter Games.
“A couple of the students have never left the country, so this will be a brand-new experience for them,” said Tuggle. “The Winter Olympics are also staged differently, so this will be a different kind of experience for the students who have gone before.”
The students will report around the city, speaking with fans and families of Olympians to find stories with a North Carolina connection. The content and stories produced by the students will be available to every NBC News station across the country.
Students will communicate with media outlets in the Triangle area, the coast of North Carolina and Pennsylvania to develop story ideas and video packages that will run on live local news broadcasts. They will also pitch stories to any market in addition to their primary partners and translate content into Spanish for Telemundo.
Each student team will include a writer, television reporter and an audio reporter. All students will also produce social media content throughout the Games.
This experience will give students practice with same-day turnarounds on stories and television packages. A team of students will also spend part of the Games in Cortina, along with making trips to the ski villages.
Sophomore Eliza Jennings will produce broadcast video packages for WITN-TV and Curtis Media Group while in Milan. Jennings has never been to the Olympics before and is excited for the opportunity.
“When you decide to come to Carolina, these are the kind of moments you dream about,” said Jennings. “Most people work their whole lives for an opportunity like this, and to get to go to the Olympics as a sophomore in college kind of feels like a journalism student’s version of winning a national championship. It just doesn’t get much better than this.”
Senior Kyla McGhee, who went with the Hussman team to the 2024 Paris Olympics, is going again to Milan. She will produce video packages with North Carolina stations WRAL and WITN-TV.
She plans to pursue a journalism career after graduating this May and hopes the experience will be helpful in preparing for her future work with tight turnarounds and deadlines.
“I feel blessed to be working for another Olympics. Not many people can say they’ve attended the Olympics, and I have the opportunity to add two Olympics to my resume,” said McGhee. “I’m looking forward to the whole experience. I’ve never been to Italy, so I’m excited to explore a new country and see sports like figure skating, hockey and snowboarding.”
Jennings thinks the experience will be “life-changing” for the students’ careers. “It’s an incredibly unique opportunity you don’t really hear college students getting to do,” she said. “It makes me feel like I’m capable of achieving anything I work hard enough for in the future.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games | UNC-Chapel Hill
#2026MilanCortinaOlympics #CATuggle #CarolineDaly #CoveringWinterOlympics #Hussman #HussmanSchoolOfJournalismAndMedia #Italy #LocalStations #NBC #Professor #Students #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNCEdu #WinterOlympics
#2026milancortinaolympics #catuggle #carolinedaly #coveringwinterolympics #hussman #hussmanschoolofjournalismandmedia
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2026-02-03 · 23:03 UTC
Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games – UNC-Chapel Hill

Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games
Student photo, from article…
The 25 journalism students will produce stories at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics in Italy for NBC and local stations.
By Caroline Daly, University Communications and Marketing, Friday, January 30th, 2026
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A group of 25 Carolina students will gain hands-on experience in live television and sports writing during the 2026 Winter Olympics (Feb. 6-22) with the support of a sports broadcasting professor.
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students, alongside C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor, will travel to Milan and work as reporters during the Games. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Hussman has sent students to cover the Games as official reporters for the International Olympic Committee and NBC News. This will be the fifth Olympics covered by Hussman students, but the first Winter Games.
“A couple of the students have never left the country, so this will be a brand-new experience for them,” said Tuggle. “The Winter Olympics are also staged differently, so this will be a different kind of experience for the students who have gone before.”
The students will report around the city, speaking with fans and families of Olympians to find stories with a North Carolina connection. The content and stories produced by the students will be available to every NBC News station across the country.
Students will communicate with media outlets in the Triangle area, the coast of North Carolina and Pennsylvania to develop story ideas and video packages that will run on live local news broadcasts. They will also pitch stories to any market in addition to their primary partners and translate content into Spanish for Telemundo.
Each student team will include a writer, television reporter and an audio reporter. All students will also produce social media content throughout the Games.
This experience will give students practice with same-day turnarounds on stories and television packages. A team of students will also spend part of the Games in Cortina, along with making trips to the ski villages.
Sophomore Eliza Jennings will produce broadcast video packages for WITN-TV and Curtis Media Group while in Milan. Jennings has never been to the Olympics before and is excited for the opportunity.
“When you decide to come to Carolina, these are the kind of moments you dream about,” said Jennings. “Most people work their whole lives for an opportunity like this, and to get to go to the Olympics as a sophomore in college kind of feels like a journalism student’s version of winning a national championship. It just doesn’t get much better than this.”
Senior Kyla McGhee, who went with the Hussman team to the 2024 Paris Olympics, is going again to Milan. She will produce video packages with North Carolina stations WRAL and WITN-TV.
She plans to pursue a journalism career after graduating this May and hopes the experience will be helpful in preparing for her future work with tight turnarounds and deadlines.
“I feel blessed to be working for another Olympics. Not many people can say they’ve attended the Olympics, and I have the opportunity to add two Olympics to my resume,” said McGhee. “I’m looking forward to the whole experience. I’ve never been to Italy, so I’m excited to explore a new country and see sports like figure skating, hockey and snowboarding.”
Jennings thinks the experience will be “life-changing” for the students’ careers. “It’s an incredibly unique opportunity you don’t really hear college students getting to do,” she said. “It makes me feel like I’m capable of achieving anything I work hard enough for in the future.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games | UNC-Chapel Hill
Tags: 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, C. A. Tuggle, Caroline Daly, Covering Winter Olympics, Hussman, Hussman School of Journalism and Media, Italy, Local Stations, NBC, Professor, Students, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC.edu, Winter Olympics
#2026MilanCortinaOlympics #CATuggle #CarolineDaly #CoveringWinterOlympics #Hussman #HussmanSchoolOfJournalismAndMedia #Italy #LocalStations #NBC #Professor #Students #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNCEdu #WinterOlympics
#catuggle #carolinedaly #coveringwinterolympics #hussman #hussmanschoolofjournalismandmedia #italy
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2026-02-03 · 23:03 UTC
Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games – UNC-Chapel Hill

Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games
Student photo, from article…
The 25 journalism students will produce stories at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics in Italy for NBC and local stations.
By Caroline Daly, University Communications and Marketing, Friday, January 30th, 2026
- Share on Facebook, Share on Twitter, Share on Pinterest, Share via Email, Print Friendly
A group of 25 Carolina students will gain hands-on experience in live television and sports writing during the 2026 Winter Olympics (Feb. 6-22) with the support of a sports broadcasting professor.
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students, alongside C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor, will travel to Milan and work as reporters during the Games. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Hussman has sent students to cover the Games as official reporters for the International Olympic Committee and NBC News. This will be the fifth Olympics covered by Hussman students, but the first Winter Games.
“A couple of the students have never left the country, so this will be a brand-new experience for them,” said Tuggle. “The Winter Olympics are also staged differently, so this will be a different kind of experience for the students who have gone before.”
The students will report around the city, speaking with fans and families of Olympians to find stories with a North Carolina connection. The content and stories produced by the students will be available to every NBC News station across the country.
Students will communicate with media outlets in the Triangle area, the coast of North Carolina and Pennsylvania to develop story ideas and video packages that will run on live local news broadcasts. They will also pitch stories to any market in addition to their primary partners and translate content into Spanish for Telemundo.
Each student team will include a writer, television reporter and an audio reporter. All students will also produce social media content throughout the Games.
This experience will give students practice with same-day turnarounds on stories and television packages. A team of students will also spend part of the Games in Cortina, along with making trips to the ski villages.
Sophomore Eliza Jennings will produce broadcast video packages for WITN-TV and Curtis Media Group while in Milan. Jennings has never been to the Olympics before and is excited for the opportunity.
“When you decide to come to Carolina, these are the kind of moments you dream about,” said Jennings. “Most people work their whole lives for an opportunity like this, and to get to go to the Olympics as a sophomore in college kind of feels like a journalism student’s version of winning a national championship. It just doesn’t get much better than this.”
Senior Kyla McGhee, who went with the Hussman team to the 2024 Paris Olympics, is going again to Milan. She will produce video packages with North Carolina stations WRAL and WITN-TV.
She plans to pursue a journalism career after graduating this May and hopes the experience will be helpful in preparing for her future work with tight turnarounds and deadlines.
“I feel blessed to be working for another Olympics. Not many people can say they’ve attended the Olympics, and I have the opportunity to add two Olympics to my resume,” said McGhee. “I’m looking forward to the whole experience. I’ve never been to Italy, so I’m excited to explore a new country and see sports like figure skating, hockey and snowboarding.”
Jennings thinks the experience will be “life-changing” for the students’ careers. “It’s an incredibly unique opportunity you don’t really hear college students getting to do,” she said. “It makes me feel like I’m capable of achieving anything I work hard enough for in the future.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games | UNC-Chapel Hill
Tags: 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, C. A. Tuggle, Caroline Daly, Covering Winter Olympics, Hussman, Hussman School of Journalism and Media, Italy, Local Stations, NBC, Professor, Students, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC.edu, Winter Olympics
#2026MilanCortinaOlympics #CATuggle #CarolineDaly #CoveringWinterOlympics #Hussman #HussmanSchoolOfJournalismAndMedia #Italy #LocalStations #NBC #Professor #Students #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNCEdu #WinterOlympics
#2026milancortinaolympics #catuggle #carolinedaly #coveringwinterolympics #hussman #hussmanschoolofjournalismandmedia
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2026-02-03 · 23:03 UTC
Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games – UNC-Chapel Hill

Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games
Student photo, from article…
The 25 journalism students will produce stories at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics in Italy for NBC and local stations.
By Caroline Daly, University Communications and Marketing, Friday, January 30th, 2026
- Share on Facebook, Share on Twitter, Share on Pinterest, Share via Email, Print Friendly
A group of 25 Carolina students will gain hands-on experience in live television and sports writing during the 2026 Winter Olympics (Feb. 6-22) with the support of a sports broadcasting professor.
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students, alongside C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor, will travel to Milan and work as reporters during the Games. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Hussman has sent students to cover the Games as official reporters for the International Olympic Committee and NBC News. This will be the fifth Olympics covered by Hussman students, but the first Winter Games.
“A couple of the students have never left the country, so this will be a brand-new experience for them,” said Tuggle. “The Winter Olympics are also staged differently, so this will be a different kind of experience for the students who have gone before.”
The students will report around the city, speaking with fans and families of Olympians to find stories with a North Carolina connection. The content and stories produced by the students will be available to every NBC News station across the country.
Students will communicate with media outlets in the Triangle area, the coast of North Carolina and Pennsylvania to develop story ideas and video packages that will run on live local news broadcasts. They will also pitch stories to any market in addition to their primary partners and translate content into Spanish for Telemundo.
Each student team will include a writer, television reporter and an audio reporter. All students will also produce social media content throughout the Games.
This experience will give students practice with same-day turnarounds on stories and television packages. A team of students will also spend part of the Games in Cortina, along with making trips to the ski villages.
Sophomore Eliza Jennings will produce broadcast video packages for WITN-TV and Curtis Media Group while in Milan. Jennings has never been to the Olympics before and is excited for the opportunity.
“When you decide to come to Carolina, these are the kind of moments you dream about,” said Jennings. “Most people work their whole lives for an opportunity like this, and to get to go to the Olympics as a sophomore in college kind of feels like a journalism student’s version of winning a national championship. It just doesn’t get much better than this.”
Senior Kyla McGhee, who went with the Hussman team to the 2024 Paris Olympics, is going again to Milan. She will produce video packages with North Carolina stations WRAL and WITN-TV.
She plans to pursue a journalism career after graduating this May and hopes the experience will be helpful in preparing for her future work with tight turnarounds and deadlines.
“I feel blessed to be working for another Olympics. Not many people can say they’ve attended the Olympics, and I have the opportunity to add two Olympics to my resume,” said McGhee. “I’m looking forward to the whole experience. I’ve never been to Italy, so I’m excited to explore a new country and see sports like figure skating, hockey and snowboarding.”
Jennings thinks the experience will be “life-changing” for the students’ careers. “It’s an incredibly unique opportunity you don’t really hear college students getting to do,” she said. “It makes me feel like I’m capable of achieving anything I work hard enough for in the future.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games | UNC-Chapel Hill
#2026MilanCortinaOlympics #CATuggle #CarolineDaly #CoveringWinterOlympics #Hussman #HussmanSchoolOfJournalismAndMedia #Italy #LocalStations #NBC #Professor #Students #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNCEdu #WinterOlympics
#winterolympics #uncedu #theuniversityofnorthcarolinaatchapelhill #students #professor #nbc
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2026-02-03 · 23:03 UTC
Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games – UNC-Chapel Hill

Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games
Student photo, from article…
The 25 journalism students will produce stories at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics in Italy for NBC and local stations.
By Caroline Daly, University Communications and Marketing, Friday, January 30th, 2026
- Share on Facebook, Share on Twitter, Share on Pinterest, Share via Email, Print Friendly
A group of 25 Carolina students will gain hands-on experience in live television and sports writing during the 2026 Winter Olympics (Feb. 6-22) with the support of a sports broadcasting professor.
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students, alongside C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor, will travel to Milan and work as reporters during the Games. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Hussman has sent students to cover the Games as official reporters for the International Olympic Committee and NBC News. This will be the fifth Olympics covered by Hussman students, but the first Winter Games.
“A couple of the students have never left the country, so this will be a brand-new experience for them,” said Tuggle. “The Winter Olympics are also staged differently, so this will be a different kind of experience for the students who have gone before.”
The students will report around the city, speaking with fans and families of Olympians to find stories with a North Carolina connection. The content and stories produced by the students will be available to every NBC News station across the country.
Students will communicate with media outlets in the Triangle area, the coast of North Carolina and Pennsylvania to develop story ideas and video packages that will run on live local news broadcasts. They will also pitch stories to any market in addition to their primary partners and translate content into Spanish for Telemundo.
Each student team will include a writer, television reporter and an audio reporter. All students will also produce social media content throughout the Games.
This experience will give students practice with same-day turnarounds on stories and television packages. A team of students will also spend part of the Games in Cortina, along with making trips to the ski villages.
Sophomore Eliza Jennings will produce broadcast video packages for WITN-TV and Curtis Media Group while in Milan. Jennings has never been to the Olympics before and is excited for the opportunity.
“When you decide to come to Carolina, these are the kind of moments you dream about,” said Jennings. “Most people work their whole lives for an opportunity like this, and to get to go to the Olympics as a sophomore in college kind of feels like a journalism student’s version of winning a national championship. It just doesn’t get much better than this.”
Senior Kyla McGhee, who went with the Hussman team to the 2024 Paris Olympics, is going again to Milan. She will produce video packages with North Carolina stations WRAL and WITN-TV.
She plans to pursue a journalism career after graduating this May and hopes the experience will be helpful in preparing for her future work with tight turnarounds and deadlines.
“I feel blessed to be working for another Olympics. Not many people can say they’ve attended the Olympics, and I have the opportunity to add two Olympics to my resume,” said McGhee. “I’m looking forward to the whole experience. I’ve never been to Italy, so I’m excited to explore a new country and see sports like figure skating, hockey and snowboarding.”
Jennings thinks the experience will be “life-changing” for the students’ careers. “It’s an incredibly unique opportunity you don’t really hear college students getting to do,” she said. “It makes me feel like I’m capable of achieving anything I work hard enough for in the future.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hussman students to cover their first Winter Games | UNC-Chapel Hill
#2026MilanCortinaOlympics #CATuggle #CarolineDaly #CoveringWinterOlympics #Hussman #HussmanSchoolOfJournalismAndMedia #Italy #LocalStations #NBC #Professor #Students #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNCEdu #WinterOlympics
#2026milancortinaolympics #catuggle #carolinedaly #coveringwinterolympics #hussman #hussmanschoolofjournalismandmedia
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2026-01-20 · 18:45 UTC

Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg – The Daily Tar Heel
A Border Patrol agent searches a neighborhood in Southeast Raleigh, N.C.. Nov. 18, 2025. Photo courtesy of Scott Sharpe / The News & Observer.
Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg
By Nakai Moore, January 19, 2026
There comes a point when euphemism becomes collaboration. What Immigration Customs Enforcement is doing in Minneapolis is not immigration enforcement, domestic security or a policy disagreement between parties. This is an actual federally sanctioned paramilitary organization. We often ask with the power of hindsight how democratic societies sleepwalk into fascism. We imagine sudden coups and suspension of elections. History is far less theatrical. It happens when opportunities for prosecution are deferred, when leaders like Merrick Garland and Jack Smith treat extraordinary abuses as legally delicate rather than existentially dangerous, and when the state refuses to punish those who violate the Constitution and normalize terror.
That is why accountability must now be uncompromising: this is how fascism is confronted, the way it always has been — through prosecution, dismantlement and the unambiguous assertion that state terror will be met with law, not indulgence.
They need to be Nuremberg ’d.
For the past couple of months, there has been a constant stream of videos coming from across the country of ICE harassing people — detaining people for their accents, wearing masks concealing their faces, demanding proof of citizenship, driving unmarked vehicles, beating people, all culminating with the extrajudicial killing of Renee Good. In Minneapolis, citizens are openly carrying and defending their neighborhoods. Riots and protests have proceeded daily for the past week.
ICE has continuously assaulted Fourth Amendment rights and is backed by the Department of Justice, which would rather probe and investigate Democratic politicians than those who abused power and enabled this machinery. Figures such as Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi must be confronted by the full, relentless authority of the law with the next Department of Justice. Not symbolically, not cautiously and not years too late, but through aggressive, evidence‑driven prosecutions that treat complicity in constitutional violations as the grave offense that it is.
After Jan. 6, 2021, the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland and Special Counsel Jack Smith approached open insurrection with caution and deference. Their soft, timid handling of the insurrection — plagued by delay, restraint and an institutional fear of appearing political — sent a message that power could act with impunity. This message did not evaporate; it metastasized, now amplified in Minneapolis and across the country as federal immigration agents operate with overwhelming force and unchecked authority. What we are reaping today — militarized deployments of DHS agents, legal challenges accusing the federal operation of racism and the fatal shooting of a civilian in broad daylight — is the consequence of a Justice Department too hesitant to halt abuses at the source.
For examples on how to conduct this, one must look no further than historical precedent. After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials established a bedrock principle: leaders who use the machinery of the state to terrify, suppress and ignore basic rights are not exempt from prosecution simply because they held office. That unprecedented tribunal did not debate ideology or excuse political intent — it demanded accountability for crimes against humanity, cutting off the head of fascism so the body could not regrow.
More recently, Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for his role in plotting a coup and attempting to overthrow constitutional order, demonstrating that even powerful national figures can be held accountable for their attempts to undermine democracy. Our Supreme Court has ruled contrarily, granting presumptive presidential immunity to sitting and past presidents for all official acts.
Regardless, we need to establish a fundamental value: no grace for fascism, no tolerance for state terror. By cutting off the head of the snake, dismantling the agencies that enabled abuse and affirming that such violations carry consequence and punishment, we not only prosecute wrongdoing but also inoculate society against the normalization of fascism. If we fail again, history will not forgive our hesitation.
@dthopinion | [email protected] | The Daily Tar Heel encourages reader feedback and dialogue. Send us feedback and continue the discussion on social media.
Editor’s Note: The column points to the future, and yes, we should have another Nuremberg Trial, Trump Version, after we take back the House and Senate, impeach Trump, and then, begin the trials in World Courts. I believe we must, to save American and World Democracy. I recommend viewing the YouTube videos about the first Nuremberg Trial. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_and_the_Nazis:_Evil_on_Trial (via Wikipedia), and the documentary from 2024 on Netflix, if you can: https://www.netflix.com/title/81561941
— DrWeb
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg – Daily Tar Heel
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#trump #theuniversityofnorthcarolinaatchapelhill #thedailytarheel #opinion #nurembergtrials #nuremberg
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2026-01-20 · 18:45 UTC

Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg – The Daily Tar Heel
A Border Patrol agent searches a neighborhood in Southeast Raleigh, N.C.. Nov. 18, 2025. Photo courtesy of Scott Sharpe / The News & Observer.
Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg
By Nakai Moore, January 19, 2026
There comes a point when euphemism becomes collaboration. What Immigration Customs Enforcement is doing in Minneapolis is not immigration enforcement, domestic security or a policy disagreement between parties. This is an actual federally sanctioned paramilitary organization. We often ask with the power of hindsight how democratic societies sleepwalk into fascism. We imagine sudden coups and suspension of elections. History is far less theatrical. It happens when opportunities for prosecution are deferred, when leaders like Merrick Garland and Jack Smith treat extraordinary abuses as legally delicate rather than existentially dangerous, and when the state refuses to punish those who violate the Constitution and normalize terror.
That is why accountability must now be uncompromising: this is how fascism is confronted, the way it always has been — through prosecution, dismantlement and the unambiguous assertion that state terror will be met with law, not indulgence.
They need to be Nuremberg ’d.
For the past couple of months, there has been a constant stream of videos coming from across the country of ICE harassing people — detaining people for their accents, wearing masks concealing their faces, demanding proof of citizenship, driving unmarked vehicles, beating people, all culminating with the extrajudicial killing of Renee Good. In Minneapolis, citizens are openly carrying and defending their neighborhoods. Riots and protests have proceeded daily for the past week.
ICE has continuously assaulted Fourth Amendment rights and is backed by the Department of Justice, which would rather probe and investigate Democratic politicians than those who abused power and enabled this machinery. Figures such as Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi must be confronted by the full, relentless authority of the law with the next Department of Justice. Not symbolically, not cautiously and not years too late, but through aggressive, evidence‑driven prosecutions that treat complicity in constitutional violations as the grave offense that it is.
After Jan. 6, 2021, the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland and Special Counsel Jack Smith approached open insurrection with caution and deference. Their soft, timid handling of the insurrection — plagued by delay, restraint and an institutional fear of appearing political — sent a message that power could act with impunity. This message did not evaporate; it metastasized, now amplified in Minneapolis and across the country as federal immigration agents operate with overwhelming force and unchecked authority. What we are reaping today — militarized deployments of DHS agents, legal challenges accusing the federal operation of racism and the fatal shooting of a civilian in broad daylight — is the consequence of a Justice Department too hesitant to halt abuses at the source.
For examples on how to conduct this, one must look no further than historical precedent. After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials established a bedrock principle: leaders who use the machinery of the state to terrify, suppress and ignore basic rights are not exempt from prosecution simply because they held office. That unprecedented tribunal did not debate ideology or excuse political intent — it demanded accountability for crimes against humanity, cutting off the head of fascism so the body could not regrow.
More recently, Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for his role in plotting a coup and attempting to overthrow constitutional order, demonstrating that even powerful national figures can be held accountable for their attempts to undermine democracy. Our Supreme Court has ruled contrarily, granting presumptive presidential immunity to sitting and past presidents for all official acts.
Regardless, we need to establish a fundamental value: no grace for fascism, no tolerance for state terror. By cutting off the head of the snake, dismantling the agencies that enabled abuse and affirming that such violations carry consequence and punishment, we not only prosecute wrongdoing but also inoculate society against the normalization of fascism. If we fail again, history will not forgive our hesitation.
@dthopinion | [email protected] | The Daily Tar Heel encourages reader feedback and dialogue. Send us feedback and continue the discussion on social media.
Editor’s Note: The column points to the future, and yes, we should have another Nuremberg Trial, Trump Version, after we take back the House and Senate, impeach Trump, and then, begin the trials in World Courts. I believe we must, to save American and World Democracy. I recommend viewing the YouTube videos about the first Nuremberg Trial. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_and_the_Nazis:_Evil_on_Trial (via Wikipedia), and the documentary from 2024 on Netflix, if you can: https://www.netflix.com/title/81561941
— DrWeb
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg – Daily Tar Heel
#Column #CrimesAgainstHumanity #DailyTarHeel #Nuremberg #NurembergTrials #Opinion #TheDailyTarHeel #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #Trump

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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2026-01-09 · 00:36 UTC

Closing UNC global centers threatens international studies – Raleigh News & Observer

Opinion
UNC history professor: My school is withdrawing from the world
By Louis A. Pérez Jr
Updated January 8, 2026 8:30 AM https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article314241109.html/video-embed/amp/newsobserver/314211151/1#amp=1
News that the administration of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill plans to “sunset” six global education programs can be met with nothing less than disbelief and incomprehension. The six programs—Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe/Eurasia—centers of national prominence and international distinction, have long served as the programmatic hubs of global studies at Carolina.
The UNC administration appears to have decided that programs of international studies no longer sufficiently align with the larger Carolina mission to warrant continued support. The decision to close the global education centers is attributed to matters of budgetary exigencies: the need to reduce $7 million in spending over the next several years. However, it is not at all certain what budgetary analytics the administration has deployed to project a $7-million savings by closing the global programs. The centers operate efficiently on very modest budgets. The closing of the global education centers will most assuredly not yield a $7-million savings.
On the contrary, a calculus of a cost-benefit analysis demonstrates that the global programs have obtained external funds in amounts that far exceed their operational cost to the University. Over the past 10 years, the global centers have combined to bring to Carolina from outside sources a total of $28 million in the form of government and non-government funds.
Notwithstanding the cost-saving rampages of recent months in Washington, D.C., the global programs have been resilient and resourceful, demonstrating entrepreneurial aplomb and fundraising savvy. In the past 10 years the global programs have secured substantial non-government funding in the form of grants from private foundations, endowments, donations, and gifts large and small. The three centers of Asia, Europe, and Latin America, for example, have obtained more than $7 million from non-governmental sources.
It is not certain that the administration fully grasps the reach and breadth of the centers’ contributions to the well-being of the University. Outside funds obtained by the centers have played a vital role in advancing the Carolina global mission, enabling the development of new global courses, strengthening foreign-language competencies, expanding study-abroad opportunities, enriching undergraduate education, advancing graduate student training, and fostering faculty professional development. External funds have served to sponsor campus visits of scholars of distinction, prominent journalists, practitioners of statecraft, celebrated writers and poets, and world-leading figures in the performing and visual arts, thereby enriching the intellectual and cultural life of the University community. Resources provided by the centers have enabled sponsorship of international conferences and national symposia addressing global issues of critical national importance. Almost none of the above would have been possible without the centers.
The closing of the centers is inimical to Carolina’s long-term strategic interests and incompatible with its lofty aspirations “to be the leading global, public research university in America.” The planned closure of the centers will diminish global education opportunities and impair institutional capacity to sustain global programming initiatives. The attending elimination of global education staff positions threatens the loss of irreplaceable professional expertise and invaluable administrative experience upon which the Carolina global education mission depends.
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2026-01-09 · 00:36 UTC

Closing UNC global centers threatens international studies – Raleigh News & Observer

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UNC history professor: My school is withdrawing from the world
By Louis A. Pérez Jr
Updated January 8, 2026 8:30 AM https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article314241109.html/video-embed/amp/newsobserver/314211151/1#amp=1
News that the administration of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill plans to “sunset” six global education programs can be met with nothing less than disbelief and incomprehension. The six programs—Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe/Eurasia—centers of national prominence and international distinction, have long served as the programmatic hubs of global studies at Carolina.
The UNC administration appears to have decided that programs of international studies no longer sufficiently align with the larger Carolina mission to warrant continued support. The decision to close the global education centers is attributed to matters of budgetary exigencies: the need to reduce $7 million in spending over the next several years. However, it is not at all certain what budgetary analytics the administration has deployed to project a $7-million savings by closing the global programs. The centers operate efficiently on very modest budgets. The closing of the global education centers will most assuredly not yield a $7-million savings.
On the contrary, a calculus of a cost-benefit analysis demonstrates that the global programs have obtained external funds in amounts that far exceed their operational cost to the University. Over the past 10 years, the global centers have combined to bring to Carolina from outside sources a total of $28 million in the form of government and non-government funds.
Notwithstanding the cost-saving rampages of recent months in Washington, D.C., the global programs have been resilient and resourceful, demonstrating entrepreneurial aplomb and fundraising savvy. In the past 10 years the global programs have secured substantial non-government funding in the form of grants from private foundations, endowments, donations, and gifts large and small. The three centers of Asia, Europe, and Latin America, for example, have obtained more than $7 million from non-governmental sources.
It is not certain that the administration fully grasps the reach and breadth of the centers’ contributions to the well-being of the University. Outside funds obtained by the centers have played a vital role in advancing the Carolina global mission, enabling the development of new global courses, strengthening foreign-language competencies, expanding study-abroad opportunities, enriching undergraduate education, advancing graduate student training, and fostering faculty professional development. External funds have served to sponsor campus visits of scholars of distinction, prominent journalists, practitioners of statecraft, celebrated writers and poets, and world-leading figures in the performing and visual arts, thereby enriching the intellectual and cultural life of the University community. Resources provided by the centers have enabled sponsorship of international conferences and national symposia addressing global issues of critical national importance. Almost none of the above would have been possible without the centers.
The closing of the centers is inimical to Carolina’s long-term strategic interests and incompatible with its lofty aspirations “to be the leading global, public research university in America.” The planned closure of the centers will diminish global education opportunities and impair institutional capacity to sustain global programming initiatives. The attending elimination of global education staff positions threatens the loss of irreplaceable professional expertise and invaluable administrative experience upon which the Carolina global education mission depends.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Closing UNC global centers threatens international studies | Raleigh News & Observer
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-12-31 · 21:41 UTC
Culture of fear in places of learning. Faculty at NC colleges report anxiety over threats to academic freedom – WFAE 90.7 – Charlotte’s NPR News Source
Students walk across campus on Sept. 30, 2025, at the University of North Carolina
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Culture of fear in places of learning. Faculty at NC colleges report anxiety over threats to academic freedom
By Kate Denning | Carolina Public Press, Published December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST
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Students walk across campus on Sept. 30, 2025, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
At a recent Faculty Assembly meeting, a body of delegates from each of the 17 UNC System institutions, Wade Maki, chair of the assembly and UNC-Greensboro professor, asked its members to raise their hand if they had colleagues who were afraid of losing their job because of something they said in the classroom. Every delegate raised their hand, acknowledging concerns about academic freedom.
He asked them again to raise their hand if they had colleagues who were afraid of losing their job because of something they posted on their private social media accounts. Again, every delegate raised their hand.
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“I can’t think of anything that better expresses the climate that we are in,” Maki said.
North Carolina has narrowly avoided being in the spotlight alongside the slew of universities to fire faculty over speech both in and out of the classroom. But just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean that academics feel entirely safe from the national phenomenon. Some say the anticipation is creating a culture of fear and self-censorship among faculty in the classroom and when interacting with the media.
‘Aggression’ toward academic freedom
Todd Berliner is the president of the recently revived American Association of University Professors UNC-Wilmington chapter. He and the eight others on the executive committee resurrected the chapter because of the “unprecedented aggression toward faculty and toward academic freedom that has erupted” in the last year, though it’s really been happening for nearly a decade, he told Carolina Public Press.
What were once commonly shared values in academia like shared governance and academic freedom have become politicized and challenged, Berliner said.
Several high-profile firings occurred this year due to professors speaking on issues related to gender identity — one at Texas A&M after a gender and sexuality lesson in a literature class and another at the University of Oklahoma after a psychology professor gave a student a failing grade on an assignment that cited the Bible to disagree with the notion that there are more than two genders. Both raised concerns about the state of academic freedom in higher education.
In September, an associate professor — a rank that typically indicates academics have obtained tenure at their institutions — at a small private North Carolina college declined an interview request from CPP because the person did “not feel it is safe to even report on academic/scientific expertise, as that is now often attacked, and professors are now being reprimanded/fired for taking such a stance.”
Instances like these indicate a newly aggressive climate toward the mission of academia and the open exchange of ideas, Berliner said.
“When faculty feel threatened and when this kind of aggression is directed toward faculty, we can’t do our best work, and we need to be able to think freely and expose ourselves and our students to whatever ideas are pertinent to the issues of the day and to history in order to gain understanding,” he said.
Aside from disagreements over course material, public statements on current events and other outside political activity have also resulted in retribution for academics. As many as 40 faculty members were fired this year over comments related to the assassination of firebrand conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the national branch of the American Association of University Professors told The Guardian in October.
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-12-31 · 21:41 UTC
Culture of fear in places of learning. Faculty at NC colleges report anxiety over threats to academic freedom – WFAE 90.7 – Charlotte’s NPR News Source
Students walk across campus on Sept. 30, 2025, at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
Education
Culture of fear in places of learning. Faculty at NC colleges report anxiety over threats to academic freedom
By Kate Denning | Carolina Public Press, Published December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST
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Students walk across campus on Sept. 30, 2025, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
At a recent Faculty Assembly meeting, a body of delegates from each of the 17 UNC System institutions, Wade Maki, chair of the assembly and UNC-Greensboro professor, asked its members to raise their hand if they had colleagues who were afraid of losing their job because of something they said in the classroom. Every delegate raised their hand, acknowledging concerns about academic freedom.
He asked them again to raise their hand if they had colleagues who were afraid of losing their job because of something they posted on their private social media accounts. Again, every delegate raised their hand.
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“I can’t think of anything that better expresses the climate that we are in,” Maki said.
North Carolina has narrowly avoided being in the spotlight alongside the slew of universities to fire faculty over speech both in and out of the classroom. But just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean that academics feel entirely safe from the national phenomenon. Some say the anticipation is creating a culture of fear and self-censorship among faculty in the classroom and when interacting with the media.
‘Aggression’ toward academic freedom
Todd Berliner is the president of the recently revived American Association of University Professors UNC-Wilmington chapter. He and the eight others on the executive committee resurrected the chapter because of the “unprecedented aggression toward faculty and toward academic freedom that has erupted” in the last year, though it’s really been happening for nearly a decade, he told Carolina Public Press.
What were once commonly shared values in academia like shared governance and academic freedom have become politicized and challenged, Berliner said.
Several high-profile firings occurred this year due to professors speaking on issues related to gender identity — one at Texas A&M after a gender and sexuality lesson in a literature class and another at the University of Oklahoma after a psychology professor gave a student a failing grade on an assignment that cited the Bible to disagree with the notion that there are more than two genders. Both raised concerns about the state of academic freedom in higher education.
In September, an associate professor — a rank that typically indicates academics have obtained tenure at their institutions — at a small private North Carolina college declined an interview request from CPP because the person did “not feel it is safe to even report on academic/scientific expertise, as that is now often attacked, and professors are now being reprimanded/fired for taking such a stance.”
Instances like these indicate a newly aggressive climate toward the mission of academia and the open exchange of ideas, Berliner said.
“When faculty feel threatened and when this kind of aggression is directed toward faculty, we can’t do our best work, and we need to be able to think freely and expose ourselves and our students to whatever ideas are pertinent to the issues of the day and to history in order to gain understanding,” he said.
Aside from disagreements over course material, public statements on current events and other outside political activity have also resulted in retribution for academics. As many as 40 faculty members were fired this year over comments related to the assassination of firebrand conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the national branch of the American Association of University Professors told The Guardian in October.
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-12-23 · 01:29 UTC

Vrabel’s pregame message resonated with Drake Maye, Patriots – Boston.com

New England Patriots
Mike Vrabel’s pregame message resonated with Drake Maye, Patriots before win over Ravens
“You take it for granted. Just what a beautiful sport. The best sport out there.”
Drake Maye helped lead the Patriots to a comeback win over Baltimore on Sunday. (Danielle Parhizkaran / Globe Staff)
By Conor Ryan, December 22, 2025, 11:20 AM, 3 minutes to read
Hours before Drake Maye helped the Patriots erase an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter against the Ravens, the Patriots quarterback heeded the message doled out by his head coach in the visiting locker room at M&T Bank Stadium.
New England was dealing with plenty of adversity entering Sunday’s primetime matchup — fresh off of collapsing against the Bills at Gillette Stadium the previous weekend.
Compounding the Patriots’ woes was the sting of the injury bug, with New England soldiering on without key cogs like Milton Williams, Will Campbell, and Robert Spillane on Sunday night. An already reeling New England depth chart would be further sapped of its talent as Sunday’s bout carried on.
But as Maye and the Patriots took to the field in enemy territory, Vrabel preached the importance of relishing the moment — especially amid a season where a once-rebuilding New England franchise has consistently punched above its weight.
That message rang true for Maye, especially in the aftermath of Sunday’s dramatic 28-24 victory.
“You take it for granted, man,” Maye said postgame. “You take it for granted. Just what a beautiful sport. The best sport out there. This game, it’s brutal. There’s times with injuries and losses that weigh on you, but this winning feeling, there’s nothing like it. Coach reminded us of that pregame.
“He said, ‘You can’t buy that back, winning in that locker room.’ At his age, he always says, ‘I wish I could suit up again.’ You just can’t buy that. He said, ‘You can buy anything else in life, but you can’t buy this time we’re in right now.’ And what a time it is.”
New England overcame several hurdles on Sunday, be it those aforementioned injuries or several early miscues that prevented the Patriots from piling on points against Baltimore.
But in crunch time, Maye played some of the best football of his young NFL career.
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-12-23 · 01:29 UTC

Vrabel’s pregame message resonated with Drake Maye, Patriots – Boston.com

New England Patriots
Mike Vrabel’s pregame message resonated with Drake Maye, Patriots before win over Ravens
“You take it for granted. Just what a beautiful sport. The best sport out there.”
Drake Maye helped lead the Patriots to a comeback win over Baltimore on Sunday. (Danielle Parhizkaran / Globe Staff)
By Conor Ryan, December 22, 2025, 11:20 AM, 3 minutes to read
Hours before Drake Maye helped the Patriots erase an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter against the Ravens, the Patriots quarterback heeded the message doled out by his head coach in the visiting locker room at M&T Bank Stadium.
New England was dealing with plenty of adversity entering Sunday’s primetime matchup — fresh off of collapsing against the Bills at Gillette Stadium the previous weekend.
Compounding the Patriots’ woes was the sting of the injury bug, with New England soldiering on without key cogs like Milton Williams, Will Campbell, and Robert Spillane on Sunday night. An already reeling New England depth chart would be further sapped of its talent as Sunday’s bout carried on.
But as Maye and the Patriots took to the field in enemy territory, Vrabel preached the importance of relishing the moment — especially amid a season where a once-rebuilding New England franchise has consistently punched above its weight.
That message rang true for Maye, especially in the aftermath of Sunday’s dramatic 28-24 victory.
“You take it for granted, man,” Maye said postgame. “You take it for granted. Just what a beautiful sport. The best sport out there. This game, it’s brutal. There’s times with injuries and losses that weigh on you, but this winning feeling, there’s nothing like it. Coach reminded us of that pregame.
“He said, ‘You can’t buy that back, winning in that locker room.’ At his age, he always says, ‘I wish I could suit up again.’ You just can’t buy that. He said, ‘You can buy anything else in life, but you can’t buy this time we’re in right now.’ And what a time it is.”
New England overcame several hurdles on Sunday, be it those aforementioned injuries or several early miscues that prevented the Patriots from piling on points against Baltimore.
But in crunch time, Maye played some of the best football of his young NFL career.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Vrabel’s pregame message resonated with Drake Maye, Patriots
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-11-11 · 22:15 UTC

Drake Maye is an MVP candidate and the next great NFL quarterback – The Washington Post
After a not-so-long wait, the Patriots have found their next great QB in Drake Maye. (Photo illustration by David D. Robbins Jr. / The Washington Post; Winslow Townson / AP)
NFL
The next Tom Brady? No, Drake Maye is a different breed.
Maye has led the Patriots to the top of the AFC in his second year. Though that story might sound familiar, his play style and personality set him apart.
November 8, 2025, 10 min

By Adam Kilgore
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — On the drive home to Charlotte in January, Drake Maye’s truck broke down on the side of Interstate 95. It should not have surprised him. Maye’s high school coach had told him he ought to replace his 2015 GMC pickup, the same one Maye used at Myers Park High. He obviously could afford a new ride, having signed for a $20 million bonus when the New England Patriots drafted him third overall in hopes he would rescue their franchise.
Maye, though, has an aversion to ostentation. He didn’t buy a new car when he became a professional. He didn’t even replace his old truck after it failed him. When Maye goes to work at Gillette Stadium — where he is the beating heart of the New England Patriots, a sudden MVP candidate and the spiritual successor to the greatest quarterback in NFL history — he still drives the same truck.
“My mom’s always been on me about just staying humble and not buying the sports car,” Maye said last week, standing next to his locker. “But” — he paused slightly, grinning with a wink — “it is tempting.”
For Maye and the Patriots, tantalizing possibilities abound. In his second season, at 23, Maye has led New England to the top of the AFC with a 7-2 record, ascended to the quarterback elite and delivered hope that the franchise of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick has become the franchise of Maye and Mike Vrabel. Maye owns the NFL’s best completion percentage, a victory over reigning MVP Josh Allen and effortless command of his locker room.
The Patriots have exploited a weak schedule, which grows tougher Sunday with a trip to Tampa Bay (6-2). But his performance has still thrust him into weighty conversations. It’s no longer a radical argument that he will be the best quarterback from the 2024 draft, even better than No. 2 pick Jayden Daniels. It’s not outlandish to think he could steal the MVP award in his second season; betting odds have him as the third favorite, behind Allen and Patrick Mahomes. It’s not crazy to believe that the Patriots have found another Super Bowl quarterback capable of bridging eras, that the next great quarterback plays for the franchise of the greatest quarterback.
“That position runs this league. You have that figured out; everything else just falls into place,” Patriots center Garrett Bradbury said. “He understands the responsibility of the role he has. He handles it with respect, with humility, with grace. He’s a baller out there, but at the same time he knows he’s one of the guys. It’s a lot on his shoulders, but you don’t feel that.”
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He missed overlapping with him by four years, but Maye is essentially replacing Brady, for whom Belichick and the Patriots never adequately created a succession plan. Cam Newton experienced few highs and many lows with a battered shoulder. Belichick’s hiring of Matt Patricia to run his offense doomed Mac Jones’s development. Bailey Zappe made an unproductive cameo. Jacoby Brissett kept the seat warm for Maye. As a rookie, Maye barely survived behind a horrendous offensive line under the inexperienced and ineffective eye of Jerod Mayo.
Maye is an elusive runner and a deep-ball master. (Robert F. Bukaty / AP)
And now this: a fully formed, perfectly modern quarterback carrying the six northeasternmost states on his shoulders each Sunday. Maye’s 74.1 completion percentage, over a full season, would rank third highest all-time. He has not sacrificed explosiveness for precision. Maye has produced 105 plays of at least 10 yards either passing or running, second most in the NFL behind Mahomes. He ranks fifth in passing yards and third in yards per attempt.
“He’ll be the next guy to come after Tom Brady,” Maye’s high school coach said. “… He’ll embrace the fact that he’s at a place where Tom Brady was.” (Maddie Meyer / Getty Images)
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-11-11 · 22:15 UTC

Drake Maye is an MVP candidate and the next great NFL quarterback – The Washington Post
After a not-so-long wait, the Patriots have found their next great QB in Drake Maye. (Photo illustration by David D. Robbins Jr. / The Washington Post; Winslow Townson / AP)
NFL
The next Tom Brady? No, Drake Maye is a different breed.
Maye has led the Patriots to the top of the AFC in his second year. Though that story might sound familiar, his play style and personality set him apart.
November 8, 2025, 10 min

By Adam Kilgore
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — On the drive home to Charlotte in January, Drake Maye’s truck broke down on the side of Interstate 95. It should not have surprised him. Maye’s high school coach had told him he ought to replace his 2015 GMC pickup, the same one Maye used at Myers Park High. He obviously could afford a new ride, having signed for a $20 million bonus when the New England Patriots drafted him third overall in hopes he would rescue their franchise.
Maye, though, has an aversion to ostentation. He didn’t buy a new car when he became a professional. He didn’t even replace his old truck after it failed him. When Maye goes to work at Gillette Stadium — where he is the beating heart of the New England Patriots, a sudden MVP candidate and the spiritual successor to the greatest quarterback in NFL history — he still drives the same truck.
“My mom’s always been on me about just staying humble and not buying the sports car,” Maye said last week, standing next to his locker. “But” — he paused slightly, grinning with a wink — “it is tempting.”
For Maye and the Patriots, tantalizing possibilities abound. In his second season, at 23, Maye has led New England to the top of the AFC with a 7-2 record, ascended to the quarterback elite and delivered hope that the franchise of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick has become the franchise of Maye and Mike Vrabel. Maye owns the NFL’s best completion percentage, a victory over reigning MVP Josh Allen and effortless command of his locker room.
The Patriots have exploited a weak schedule, which grows tougher Sunday with a trip to Tampa Bay (6-2). But his performance has still thrust him into weighty conversations. It’s no longer a radical argument that he will be the best quarterback from the 2024 draft, even better than No. 2 pick Jayden Daniels. It’s not outlandish to think he could steal the MVP award in his second season; betting odds have him as the third favorite, behind Allen and Patrick Mahomes. It’s not crazy to believe that the Patriots have found another Super Bowl quarterback capable of bridging eras, that the next great quarterback plays for the franchise of the greatest quarterback.
“That position runs this league. You have that figured out; everything else just falls into place,” Patriots center Garrett Bradbury said. “He understands the responsibility of the role he has. He handles it with respect, with humility, with grace. He’s a baller out there, but at the same time he knows he’s one of the guys. It’s a lot on his shoulders, but you don’t feel that.”
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He missed overlapping with him by four years, but Maye is essentially replacing Brady, for whom Belichick and the Patriots never adequately created a succession plan. Cam Newton experienced few highs and many lows with a battered shoulder. Belichick’s hiring of Matt Patricia to run his offense doomed Mac Jones’s development. Bailey Zappe made an unproductive cameo. Jacoby Brissett kept the seat warm for Maye. As a rookie, Maye barely survived behind a horrendous offensive line under the inexperienced and ineffective eye of Jerod Mayo.
Maye is an elusive runner and a deep-ball master. (Robert F. Bukaty / AP)
And now this: a fully formed, perfectly modern quarterback carrying the six northeasternmost states on his shoulders each Sunday. Maye’s 74.1 completion percentage, over a full season, would rank third highest all-time. He has not sacrificed explosiveness for precision. Maye has produced 105 plays of at least 10 yards either passing or running, second most in the NFL behind Mahomes. He ranks fifth in passing yards and third in yards per attempt.
“He’ll be the next guy to come after Tom Brady,” Maye’s high school coach said. “… He’ll embrace the fact that he’s at a place where Tom Brady was.” (Maddie Meyer / Getty Images)
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-11-11 · 22:15 UTC

Drake Maye is an MVP candidate and the next great NFL quarterback – The Washington Post
After a not-so-long wait, the Patriots have found their next great QB in Drake Maye. (Photo illustration by David D. Robbins Jr. / The Washington Post; Winslow Townson / AP)
NFL
The next Tom Brady? No, Drake Maye is a different breed.
Maye has led the Patriots to the top of the AFC in his second year. Though that story might sound familiar, his play style and personality set him apart.
November 8, 2025, 10 min

By Adam Kilgore
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — On the drive home to Charlotte in January, Drake Maye’s truck broke down on the side of Interstate 95. It should not have surprised him. Maye’s high school coach had told him he ought to replace his 2015 GMC pickup, the same one Maye used at Myers Park High. He obviously could afford a new ride, having signed for a $20 million bonus when the New England Patriots drafted him third overall in hopes he would rescue their franchise.
Maye, though, has an aversion to ostentation. He didn’t buy a new car when he became a professional. He didn’t even replace his old truck after it failed him. When Maye goes to work at Gillette Stadium — where he is the beating heart of the New England Patriots, a sudden MVP candidate and the spiritual successor to the greatest quarterback in NFL history — he still drives the same truck.
“My mom’s always been on me about just staying humble and not buying the sports car,” Maye said last week, standing next to his locker. “But” — he paused slightly, grinning with a wink — “it is tempting.”
For Maye and the Patriots, tantalizing possibilities abound. In his second season, at 23, Maye has led New England to the top of the AFC with a 7-2 record, ascended to the quarterback elite and delivered hope that the franchise of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick has become the franchise of Maye and Mike Vrabel. Maye owns the NFL’s best completion percentage, a victory over reigning MVP Josh Allen and effortless command of his locker room.
The Patriots have exploited a weak schedule, which grows tougher Sunday with a trip to Tampa Bay (6-2). But his performance has still thrust him into weighty conversations. It’s no longer a radical argument that he will be the best quarterback from the 2024 draft, even better than No. 2 pick Jayden Daniels. It’s not outlandish to think he could steal the MVP award in his second season; betting odds have him as the third favorite, behind Allen and Patrick Mahomes. It’s not crazy to believe that the Patriots have found another Super Bowl quarterback capable of bridging eras, that the next great quarterback plays for the franchise of the greatest quarterback.
“That position runs this league. You have that figured out; everything else just falls into place,” Patriots center Garrett Bradbury said. “He understands the responsibility of the role he has. He handles it with respect, with humility, with grace. He’s a baller out there, but at the same time he knows he’s one of the guys. It’s a lot on his shoulders, but you don’t feel that.”
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He missed overlapping with him by four years, but Maye is essentially replacing Brady, for whom Belichick and the Patriots never adequately created a succession plan. Cam Newton experienced few highs and many lows with a battered shoulder. Belichick’s hiring of Matt Patricia to run his offense doomed Mac Jones’s development. Bailey Zappe made an unproductive cameo. Jacoby Brissett kept the seat warm for Maye. As a rookie, Maye barely survived behind a horrendous offensive line under the inexperienced and ineffective eye of Jerod Mayo.
Maye is an elusive runner and a deep-ball master. (Robert F. Bukaty / AP)
And now this: a fully formed, perfectly modern quarterback carrying the six northeasternmost states on his shoulders each Sunday. Maye’s 74.1 completion percentage, over a full season, would rank third highest all-time. He has not sacrificed explosiveness for precision. Maye has produced 105 plays of at least 10 yards either passing or running, second most in the NFL behind Mahomes. He ranks fifth in passing yards and third in yards per attempt.
“He’ll be the next guy to come after Tom Brady,” Maye’s high school coach said. “… He’ll embrace the fact that he’s at a place where Tom Brady was.” (Maddie Meyer / Getty Images)
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Drake Maye is an MVP candidate and the next great NFL quarterback – The Washington Post
Tags: Drake Maye, New England Patriots, Next Tom Braady?, Played at UNC, Quarterback, Second Season, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Washington Post
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-10-10 · 17:32 UTC

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ – The Daily Tar Heel
Manning Hall is photographed on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024.
University
UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

By Daneen Khan
Community Engagement Managing Editor
October 9
The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence.
SILS and SDSS faculty were informed of the decision on Wednesday at two independent school meetings before it was announced publicly at 1:04 p.m. Thursday, via an email from Chancellor Lee Roberts and Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jim Dean to the UNC community.
According to a Q and A webpage launched by the Office of the Provost, a formal timeline for the consolidation is still to be determined, but the administration does not expect any changes before the end of the 2025-26 academic year.
“Both SILS and SDSS bring distinct strengths and areas of excellence to Carolina — technical expertise, humanistic inquiry and a deep understanding of the societal implications of emerging technologies,” Roberts and Dean wrote. “The new school will grow and amplify the impact of research and scholarship, foster interdisciplinary collaboration and expand opportunities to respond to the challenges of our time.”
New leadership structure
Stanley Ahalt, the current dean of SDSS, will serve as the inaugural dean of the new school. Jeffrey Bardzell, the current dean of SILS, “has accepted a secondary appointment as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI,” according to the campus-wide email.
At the time of publication, Bardzell and Ahalt did not respond to The Daily Tar Heel’s requests for comment.
SILS opened in 1931 as the UNC School of Library Science before being renamed in 1987. The School offers an undergraduate major in Information Science, a minor in Information Systems, multiple dual bachelor’s-graduate degree programs and six graduate programs in both information and library sciences.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ – Daily Tar Heel

#2025 #AI #America #artificialIntelligence #Books #Education #History #LeeRoberts #Library #Opinion #Reading #Science #SILS #TheDailyTarHeel #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNC #UNCSchoolOfDataScienceAndSociety #UNCSchoolOfLibraryScience #UnitedStates

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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-10-10 · 17:32 UTC

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ – The Daily Tar Heel
Manning Hall is photographed on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024.
University
UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

By Daneen Khan
Community Engagement Managing Editor
October 9
The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence.
SILS and SDSS faculty were informed of the decision on Wednesday at two independent school meetings before it was announced publicly at 1:04 p.m. Thursday, via an email from Chancellor Lee Roberts and Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jim Dean to the UNC community.
According to a Q and A webpage launched by the Office of the Provost, a formal timeline for the consolidation is still to be determined, but the administration does not expect any changes before the end of the 2025-26 academic year.
“Both SILS and SDSS bring distinct strengths and areas of excellence to Carolina — technical expertise, humanistic inquiry and a deep understanding of the societal implications of emerging technologies,” Roberts and Dean wrote. “The new school will grow and amplify the impact of research and scholarship, foster interdisciplinary collaboration and expand opportunities to respond to the challenges of our time.”
New leadership structure
Stanley Ahalt, the current dean of SDSS, will serve as the inaugural dean of the new school. Jeffrey Bardzell, the current dean of SILS, “has accepted a secondary appointment as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI,” according to the campus-wide email.
At the time of publication, Bardzell and Ahalt did not respond to The Daily Tar Heel’s requests for comment.
SILS opened in 1931 as the UNC School of Library Science before being renamed in 1987. The School offers an undergraduate major in Information Science, a minor in Information Systems, multiple dual bachelor’s-graduate degree programs and six graduate programs in both information and library sciences.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ – Daily Tar Heel

#2025 #AI #America #artificialIntelligence #Books #Education #History #LeeRoberts #Library #Opinion #Reading #Science #SILS #TheDailyTarHeel #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNC #UNCSchoolOfDataScienceAndSociety #UNCSchoolOfLibraryScience #UnitedStates

#ai #america #artificialintelligence #books #education #history
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-10-05 · 16:25 UTC
Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham
- PETS & ANIMALS
Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students

ByAmber Rupinta
Friday, October 3, 2025 2:41PM
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
Ted, a rescue dog adopted through Neuse River Golden Retriever Rescue, makes regular visits to campus with his owner, Kristen Ponturiero.
“Ted and I come on campus. We like to come at least once a month,” Ponturiero said.
Before becoming a source of comfort for college students, Ted’s journey began far from North Carolina.
“Ted was actually found as a stray on March 20, 2024, with a compound-like fracture on the streets of Albania. A very kind stranger found him and took him into her care, and was able to get him very good veterinary care. They were unable to save his front left leg. So he did have an amputation over in Albania. But, as you see, he gets along fine,” Ponturiero said.
Despite his rough start, Ted quickly adjusted and showed a natural love for people.
“My husband and I took Ted out to a brewery one night. A woman approached us, and she commented on Ted’s great demeanor and that she thought he would be a great volunteer,” Ponturiero said.
That encounter eventually led them to HAPPEE Hugs and Pups Posse, a group that encourages and empowers college students by offering emotional support – one hug or pup at a time.
Many UNC students say Ted has become an important presence during stressful times on campus.
“I think a lot of students, like, we really need that, especially during a time like this. So if you are stressed about exams, but like seeing a dog, that’s just like a moment to, like, unwind and see another smiling creature,” said student April Chou.
For others, simply seeing Ted is the highlight of their day.
“This is amazing to have on campus. It literally makes my day every time I see a dog on campus. Like, just because we never get to see dogs, because kids here don’t have them in the dorms or have them in their on-campus housing. Absolutely makes my day,” said student Madeleine Bouvette.
Ponturiero says Ted’s resilience makes him even more special.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

#2025 #ABC11 #America #CollegeLife #Comfort #HAPPEE #Health #Joy #NeuseRiverGoldenRetrieverRescue #NorthCarolina #RaleighDurham #RescueDog #Students #TED #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #Travel #UNCChapelHill #UnitedStates
#abc11 #america #collegelife #comfort #happee #health
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-10-05 · 16:25 UTC
Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham
- PETS & ANIMALS
Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students

ByAmber Rupinta
Friday, October 3, 2025 2:41PM
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
Ted, a rescue dog adopted through Neuse River Golden Retriever Rescue, makes regular visits to campus with his owner, Kristen Ponturiero.
“Ted and I come on campus. We like to come at least once a month,” Ponturiero said.
Before becoming a source of comfort for college students, Ted’s journey began far from North Carolina.
“Ted was actually found as a stray on March 20, 2024, with a compound-like fracture on the streets of Albania. A very kind stranger found him and took him into her care, and was able to get him very good veterinary care. They were unable to save his front left leg. So he did have an amputation over in Albania. But, as you see, he gets along fine,” Ponturiero said.
Despite his rough start, Ted quickly adjusted and showed a natural love for people.
“My husband and I took Ted out to a brewery one night. A woman approached us, and she commented on Ted’s great demeanor and that she thought he would be a great volunteer,” Ponturiero said.
That encounter eventually led them to HAPPEE Hugs and Pups Posse, a group that encourages and empowers college students by offering emotional support – one hug or pup at a time.
Many UNC students say Ted has become an important presence during stressful times on campus.
“I think a lot of students, like, we really need that, especially during a time like this. So if you are stressed about exams, but like seeing a dog, that’s just like a moment to, like, unwind and see another smiling creature,” said student April Chou.
For others, simply seeing Ted is the highlight of their day.
“This is amazing to have on campus. It literally makes my day every time I see a dog on campus. Like, just because we never get to see dogs, because kids here don’t have them in the dorms or have them in their on-campus housing. Absolutely makes my day,” said student Madeleine Bouvette.
Ponturiero says Ted’s resilience makes him even more special.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

#2025 #ABC11 #America #CollegeLife #Comfort #HAPPEE #Health #Joy #NeuseRiverGoldenRetrieverRescue #NorthCarolina #RaleighDurham #RescueDog #Students #TED #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #Travel #UNCChapelHill #UnitedStates
#abc11 #america #collegelife #comfort #happee #health
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-10-05 · 16:25 UTC
Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham
- PETS & ANIMALS
Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students

ByAmber Rupinta
Friday, October 3, 2025 2:41PM
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
Ted, a rescue dog adopted through Neuse River Golden Retriever Rescue, makes regular visits to campus with his owner, Kristen Ponturiero.
“Ted and I come on campus. We like to come at least once a month,” Ponturiero said.
Before becoming a source of comfort for college students, Ted’s journey began far from North Carolina.
“Ted was actually found as a stray on March 20, 2024, with a compound-like fracture on the streets of Albania. A very kind stranger found him and took him into her care, and was able to get him very good veterinary care. They were unable to save his front left leg. So he did have an amputation over in Albania. But, as you see, he gets along fine,” Ponturiero said.
Despite his rough start, Ted quickly adjusted and showed a natural love for people.
“My husband and I took Ted out to a brewery one night. A woman approached us, and she commented on Ted’s great demeanor and that she thought he would be a great volunteer,” Ponturiero said.
That encounter eventually led them to HAPPEE Hugs and Pups Posse, a group that encourages and empowers college students by offering emotional support – one hug or pup at a time.
Many UNC students say Ted has become an important presence during stressful times on campus.
“I think a lot of students, like, we really need that, especially during a time like this. So if you are stressed about exams, but like seeing a dog, that’s just like a moment to, like, unwind and see another smiling creature,” said student April Chou.
For others, simply seeing Ted is the highlight of their day.
“This is amazing to have on campus. It literally makes my day every time I see a dog on campus. Like, just because we never get to see dogs, because kids here don’t have them in the dorms or have them in their on-campus housing. Absolutely makes my day,” said student Madeleine Bouvette.
Ponturiero says Ted’s resilience makes him even more special.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

#2025 #ABC11 #America #CollegeLife #Comfort #HAPPEE #Health #Joy #NeuseRiverGoldenRetrieverRescue #NorthCarolina #RaleighDurham #RescueDog #Students #TED #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #Travel #UNCChapelHill #UnitedStates
#abc11 #america #collegelife #comfort #happee #health
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-10-05 · 16:25 UTC
Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham
- PETS & ANIMALS
Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students

ByAmber Rupinta
Friday, October 3, 2025 2:41PM
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
Ted, a rescue dog adopted through Neuse River Golden Retriever Rescue, makes regular visits to campus with his owner, Kristen Ponturiero.
“Ted and I come on campus. We like to come at least once a month,” Ponturiero said.
Before becoming a source of comfort for college students, Ted’s journey began far from North Carolina.
“Ted was actually found as a stray on March 20, 2024, with a compound-like fracture on the streets of Albania. A very kind stranger found him and took him into her care, and was able to get him very good veterinary care. They were unable to save his front left leg. So he did have an amputation over in Albania. But, as you see, he gets along fine,” Ponturiero said.
Despite his rough start, Ted quickly adjusted and showed a natural love for people.
“My husband and I took Ted out to a brewery one night. A woman approached us, and she commented on Ted’s great demeanor and that she thought he would be a great volunteer,” Ponturiero said.
That encounter eventually led them to HAPPEE Hugs and Pups Posse, a group that encourages and empowers college students by offering emotional support – one hug or pup at a time.
Many UNC students say Ted has become an important presence during stressful times on campus.
“I think a lot of students, like, we really need that, especially during a time like this. So if you are stressed about exams, but like seeing a dog, that’s just like a moment to, like, unwind and see another smiling creature,” said student April Chou.
For others, simply seeing Ted is the highlight of their day.
“This is amazing to have on campus. It literally makes my day every time I see a dog on campus. Like, just because we never get to see dogs, because kids here don’t have them in the dorms or have them in their on-campus housing. Absolutely makes my day,” said student Madeleine Bouvette.
Ponturiero says Ted’s resilience makes him even more special.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

#2025 #ABC11 #America #CollegeLife #Comfort #HAPPEE #Health #Joy #NeuseRiverGoldenRetrieverRescue #NorthCarolina #RaleighDurham #RescueDog #Students #TED #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #Travel #UNCChapelHill #UnitedStates
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-10-05 · 16:25 UTC
Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham
- PETS & ANIMALS
Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students

ByAmber Rupinta
Friday, October 3, 2025 2:41PM
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding stress relief and joy thanks to an unlikely campus celebrity, a three-legged golden retriever named Ted.
Ted, a rescue dog adopted through Neuse River Golden Retriever Rescue, makes regular visits to campus with his owner, Kristen Ponturiero.
“Ted and I come on campus. We like to come at least once a month,” Ponturiero said.
Before becoming a source of comfort for college students, Ted’s journey began far from North Carolina.
“Ted was actually found as a stray on March 20, 2024, with a compound-like fracture on the streets of Albania. A very kind stranger found him and took him into her care, and was able to get him very good veterinary care. They were unable to save his front left leg. So he did have an amputation over in Albania. But, as you see, he gets along fine,” Ponturiero said.
Despite his rough start, Ted quickly adjusted and showed a natural love for people.
“My husband and I took Ted out to a brewery one night. A woman approached us, and she commented on Ted’s great demeanor and that she thought he would be a great volunteer,” Ponturiero said.
That encounter eventually led them to HAPPEE Hugs and Pups Posse, a group that encourages and empowers college students by offering emotional support – one hug or pup at a time.
Many UNC students say Ted has become an important presence during stressful times on campus.
“I think a lot of students, like, we really need that, especially during a time like this. So if you are stressed about exams, but like seeing a dog, that’s just like a moment to, like, unwind and see another smiling creature,” said student April Chou.
For others, simply seeing Ted is the highlight of their day.
“This is amazing to have on campus. It literally makes my day every time I see a dog on campus. Like, just because we never get to see dogs, because kids here don’t have them in the dorms or have them in their on-campus housing. Absolutely makes my day,” said student Madeleine Bouvette.
Ponturiero says Ted’s resilience makes him even more special.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hugs and Pups Posse | Rescue dog brings joy and comfort to UNC Chapel Hill students – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

#2025 #ABC11 #America #CollegeLife #Comfort #HAPPEE #Health #Joy #NeuseRiverGoldenRetrieverRescue #NorthCarolina #RaleighDurham #RescueDog #Students #TED #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #Travel #UNCChapelHill #UnitedStates
#abc11 #america #collegelife #comfort #happee #health
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-09-25 · 23:05 UTC
“With New Grant, “On The Books” Uses AI To Make Historical Records More Accessible” – UNC University Libraries
With new grant, “On the Books” uses AI to make historical records more accessible
A $765,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation funds three case studies that will develop best practices for using AI in archival work.
September 25, 2025

The University Libraries’ On the Books initiative is expanding its scope and exploring how artificial intelligence can make it easier to find and use materials from the archives.
A $765,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation will support three case studies using AI to improve access to materials related to groups historically underrepresented in institutional collections. Previous grants from the Foundation allowed the University Libraries to investigate text mining and machine learning as a way to identify discriminatory language in historical statutes.
“The Mellon Foundation’s generous support continues to help us apply new technologies to archival documents, and to advance our understanding of them as a result,” said Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian María R. Estorino. “Using AI ethically and responsibly to make collections machine readable opens up research possibilities that go far beyond what an individual scholar or archivist could ever accomplish alone.”
Read on to learn more about the next phase of On the Books: AI-Assisted Collections.

Archives like Wilson Special Collections Library are a rich resource for learning about our past. But many archival materials are hard for users to locate and contextualize because they lack the transcriptions, descriptions or metadata that would make them easily searchable.
Each case study in On the Books: AI-Assisted Collections brings together library experts and users to address this challenge. The Library team is working with two historians, as well as community stakeholders and other scholars, to find responsible and ethical approaches to using AI in the archives.
- Historian Antwain Hunter researches firearm use by Black Americans in the antebellum South. He will work with a team to find relevant materials and transcribe them using AI, making them easier to use and access.
- Historian Monica Martinez is an expert in civil and human rights. She will help with the development of textual datasets created from Texas statutes, which will then be used to identify Jim Crow and Juan Crow laws.
- Community partners and scholars will help the team develop processes for using AI to create descriptions and metadata for historical photos of Black Americans’ everyday lives. That data will make it easier to find and understand those photos — especially for users with visual impairments.
“All of these projects build on the same idea that has driven On the Books from the beginning,” said Head of Digital Research Services Amanda Henley, who is leading the project. “We want to identify thoughtful ways of using technology to expand access to information about communities that have historically been overlooked in archival records.”
“This kind of work is only meaningful when it can be put to use,” says co-PI Matthew Jansen. “That’s why working with scholars is so important. We hope the real-world lessons from this project will eventually make it easier for other archives and researchers to use similar generative AI techniques with their own collections.”
Continue/Read Original Article: https://library.unc.edu/news/with-new-grant-on-the-books-uses-ai-to-make-historical-records-more-accessible/ Referral Source: https://www.infodocket.com/2025/09/25/news-from-unc-university-libraries-with-new-grant-on-the-books-uses-ai-to-make-historical-records-more-accessible/

#AI #AmandaHenley #artificialIntelligence #Collections #GaryPrice #HistoricalRecords #History #infoDOCKET #Libraries #NorthCarolina #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNCLibraries
#unclibraries #theuniversityofnorthcarolinaatchapelhill #northcarolina #libraries #infodocket #history
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-09-25 · 23:05 UTC
“With New Grant, “On The Books” Uses AI To Make Historical Records More Accessible” – UNC University Libraries
With new grant, “On the Books” uses AI to make historical records more accessible
A $765,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation funds three case studies that will develop best practices for using AI in archival work.
September 25, 2025

The University Libraries’ On the Books initiative is expanding its scope and exploring how artificial intelligence can make it easier to find and use materials from the archives.
A $765,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation will support three case studies using AI to improve access to materials related to groups historically underrepresented in institutional collections. Previous grants from the Foundation allowed the University Libraries to investigate text mining and machine learning as a way to identify discriminatory language in historical statutes.
“The Mellon Foundation’s generous support continues to help us apply new technologies to archival documents, and to advance our understanding of them as a result,” said Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian María R. Estorino. “Using AI ethically and responsibly to make collections machine readable opens up research possibilities that go far beyond what an individual scholar or archivist could ever accomplish alone.”
Read on to learn more about the next phase of On the Books: AI-Assisted Collections.

Archives like Wilson Special Collections Library are a rich resource for learning about our past. But many archival materials are hard for users to locate and contextualize because they lack the transcriptions, descriptions or metadata that would make them easily searchable.
Each case study in On the Books: AI-Assisted Collections brings together library experts and users to address this challenge. The Library team is working with two historians, as well as community stakeholders and other scholars, to find responsible and ethical approaches to using AI in the archives.
- Historian Antwain Hunter researches firearm use by Black Americans in the antebellum South. He will work with a team to find relevant materials and transcribe them using AI, making them easier to use and access.
- Historian Monica Martinez is an expert in civil and human rights. She will help with the development of textual datasets created from Texas statutes, which will then be used to identify Jim Crow and Juan Crow laws.
- Community partners and scholars will help the team develop processes for using AI to create descriptions and metadata for historical photos of Black Americans’ everyday lives. That data will make it easier to find and understand those photos — especially for users with visual impairments.
“All of these projects build on the same idea that has driven On the Books from the beginning,” said Head of Digital Research Services Amanda Henley, who is leading the project. “We want to identify thoughtful ways of using technology to expand access to information about communities that have historically been overlooked in archival records.”
“This kind of work is only meaningful when it can be put to use,” says co-PI Matthew Jansen. “That’s why working with scholars is so important. We hope the real-world lessons from this project will eventually make it easier for other archives and researchers to use similar generative AI techniques with their own collections.”
Continue/Read Original Article: https://library.unc.edu/news/with-new-grant-on-the-books-uses-ai-to-make-historical-records-more-accessible/ Referral Source: https://www.infodocket.com/2025/09/25/news-from-unc-university-libraries-with-new-grant-on-the-books-uses-ai-to-make-historical-records-more-accessible/

#AI #AmandaHenley #artificialIntelligence #Collections #GaryPrice #HistoricalRecords #History #infoDOCKET #Libraries #NorthCarolina #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNCLibraries
#ai #amandahenley #artificialintelligence #collections #garyprice #historicalrecords
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-09-24 · 17:26 UTC

Column: When one of us is silenced, all of us are – The Daily Tar Heel
Photo by Jayden Pupoh / The Daily Tar Heel
Opinion
Column: When one of us is silenced, all of us are
Photo by Jayden Pupoh / The Daily Tar Heel
By Sydney Baker , Owen Baxter and Madelyn Rowley
Published Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025
On Sept. 10, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University. In the days following the event, a slew of public responses — some horrified, some celebratory, some political, some analytical — engulfed all channels of sociopolitical communication. The presidential administration and the executive bureaucracy responded with a sweeping implication: those who celebrate or rationalize his death should be censored.
While guest-hosting an episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Vice President JD Vance encouraged Americans to take direct action against responses too callous for his liking. “Call them out,” he said, “and hell, call their employer.” The chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, delivered a mob boss-esque conviction to the employers of satirists and late-night commentators: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” Attorney General Pam Bondi recently said on a podcast that the federal government “will absolutely target” and “go after” people who express “hate speech.”
This response makes one thing deafeningly clear: President Donald Trump and the current administration do not care to uphold truly free speech, despite years of insisting otherwise.
In the minutes after Kirk was shot, Republican figureheads condemned the killing of a person who was exercising his right to free speech. Yet many of these figureheads quickly lapsed into a contradictory pledge: initiating the silencing of others spouting rhetoric they personally disagree with.
Aside from being hypocritical, this vow is blatantly unconstitutional. Even if the censored commentary could appropriately be deemed “hate speech,” it would still be protected under the First Amendment. Any UNC journalism student in the most introductory course on media law could testify to this truth — as long as speech does not constitute a true threat, incitement to imminent lawless action, harassment or defamation, it is protected. And although private employers may deal out whatever consequences they deem appropriate to their employees, this strong-arming of private entities to take specific, state-sanctioned action is inorganic — and unconstitutional. If the president and attorney general do not understand free speech law, they are grossly unfit for their positions. If they do, these actions directly defy legal precedent.
Without a foundation of free speech, America would not exist. Social commentary, regardless of if it is believed to be distasteful, disrespectful or flat-out immoral, is a unique pillar of the democracy that our constitution promises U.S. citizens. The depth and variety of this response — the impacts stretched from opinion columnists to news anchors to professors to mere passport-havers — form the makings of a country where everyone is under threat of being muzzled. That’s not a country that truly cares to protect free speech, no matter how many times the head executive makes claims to the contrary.
Authoritarianism and censorship are cancers; they’re much harder to fight once they’ve spread. Those with the liberty to respond have a frighteningly limited amount of time to react with swift, appropriate action. But here’s the silver lining: resistance works. When ABC indefinitely suspended the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show under threat from the FCC for “insensitive” comments about Kirk’s death, millions responded in protesting boycotts. In less than 30 hours, parent company Disney had lost almost $4 billion in stock — and by Monday afternoon, the show was reinstated. Resistance proves that we will not take a violation of our constitutional rights quietly.
In a statement on Kimmel’s suspension, the Writers Guilds of the American East and West declared that the right not just to disagree, but to disturb, lies at the core of the First Amendment. To employers succumbing to government censorship, the Guilds highlighted just that: “Our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.”
It’s woefully naive to think that this crackdown won’t impact us all. If we can’t organize together to protect our supposed shared value of free expression, we’re complicit in a nation-wide blackout of our people-powered country. A world without fervent voices is not tranquil — it’s destitute. Our words are the electricity of democracy, avenues to obstruct dictatorship.
The government must make no attempt to abridge this freedom.
Editor’s Note: Proud to see the young students at UNC’s daily newspaper speaking out in defense of Freedom of Speech. Makes me feel the future might work ok ;)…
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Column: When one of us is silenced, all of us are –

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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-09-24 · 17:26 UTC

Column: When one of us is silenced, all of us are – The Daily Tar Heel
Photo by Jayden Pupoh / The Daily Tar Heel
Opinion
Column: When one of us is silenced, all of us are
Photo by Jayden Pupoh / The Daily Tar Heel
By Sydney Baker , Owen Baxter and Madelyn Rowley
Published Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025
On Sept. 10, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University. In the days following the event, a slew of public responses — some horrified, some celebratory, some political, some analytical — engulfed all channels of sociopolitical communication. The presidential administration and the executive bureaucracy responded with a sweeping implication: those who celebrate or rationalize his death should be censored.
While guest-hosting an episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Vice President JD Vance encouraged Americans to take direct action against responses too callous for his liking. “Call them out,” he said, “and hell, call their employer.” The chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, delivered a mob boss-esque conviction to the employers of satirists and late-night commentators: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” Attorney General Pam Bondi recently said on a podcast that the federal government “will absolutely target” and “go after” people who express “hate speech.”
This response makes one thing deafeningly clear: President Donald Trump and the current administration do not care to uphold truly free speech, despite years of insisting otherwise.
In the minutes after Kirk was shot, Republican figureheads condemned the killing of a person who was exercising his right to free speech. Yet many of these figureheads quickly lapsed into a contradictory pledge: initiating the silencing of others spouting rhetoric they personally disagree with.
Aside from being hypocritical, this vow is blatantly unconstitutional. Even if the censored commentary could appropriately be deemed “hate speech,” it would still be protected under the First Amendment. Any UNC journalism student in the most introductory course on media law could testify to this truth — as long as speech does not constitute a true threat, incitement to imminent lawless action, harassment or defamation, it is protected. And although private employers may deal out whatever consequences they deem appropriate to their employees, this strong-arming of private entities to take specific, state-sanctioned action is inorganic — and unconstitutional. If the president and attorney general do not understand free speech law, they are grossly unfit for their positions. If they do, these actions directly defy legal precedent.
Without a foundation of free speech, America would not exist. Social commentary, regardless of if it is believed to be distasteful, disrespectful or flat-out immoral, is a unique pillar of the democracy that our constitution promises U.S. citizens. The depth and variety of this response — the impacts stretched from opinion columnists to news anchors to professors to mere passport-havers — form the makings of a country where everyone is under threat of being muzzled. That’s not a country that truly cares to protect free speech, no matter how many times the head executive makes claims to the contrary.
Authoritarianism and censorship are cancers; they’re much harder to fight once they’ve spread. Those with the liberty to respond have a frighteningly limited amount of time to react with swift, appropriate action. But here’s the silver lining: resistance works. When ABC indefinitely suspended the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show under threat from the FCC for “insensitive” comments about Kirk’s death, millions responded in protesting boycotts. In less than 30 hours, parent company Disney had lost almost $4 billion in stock — and by Monday afternoon, the show was reinstated. Resistance proves that we will not take a violation of our constitutional rights quietly.
In a statement on Kimmel’s suspension, the Writers Guilds of the American East and West declared that the right not just to disagree, but to disturb, lies at the core of the First Amendment. To employers succumbing to government censorship, the Guilds highlighted just that: “Our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.”
It’s woefully naive to think that this crackdown won’t impact us all. If we can’t organize together to protect our supposed shared value of free expression, we’re complicit in a nation-wide blackout of our people-powered country. A world without fervent voices is not tranquil — it’s destitute. Our words are the electricity of democracy, avenues to obstruct dictatorship.
The government must make no attempt to abridge this freedom.
Editor’s Note: Proud to see the young students at UNC’s daily newspaper speaking out in defense of Freedom of Speech. Makes me feel the future might work ok ;)…
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Column: When one of us is silenced, all of us are –

#2025 #America #Censorship #DonaldTrump #Editorial #Education #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfSpeech #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #StudentNewspaper #TheDailyTarHeel #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #Writing

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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-09-16 · 18:06 UTC
From an indigo hue to Carolina Blue: the history behind UNC’s school colors – The Daily Tar Heel
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From an indigo hue to Carolina Blue: the history behind UNC’s school colors
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By Emily Brietz, Published Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025 | Updated 9:13 p.m.
Many students, fans and alums have proudly proclaimed that UNC is home to “the better blue.” Carolina Blue became a widely used noun in the 1930s, but the history of this beloved blue dates back much further.
UNC’s Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies
The University’s colors originated from the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, the literary and debate societies founded in 1795 that then formed a joint senate in 1959. Until the 1890s, UNC students were required to be a member of one of the societies.
“Because, effectively, every student was a member of Di or Phi, one or the other, they decided that [the University’s] colors should be the colors that represented the two societies,” Lilah Childers, the DiPhi historian, said.
The Dialectic Society’s blue is a symbol of excellence in agricultural regions like the state of North Carolina. Katherine Fiore, DiPhi’s joint senate president and UNC’s student body vice president, said the Philanthropic Society’s white has a disputed meaning.
“It symbolizes purity, but also liberty, which is part of [the University’s] motto — in Latin, that would be ‘lux libertas’ — and ‘libertas’ is where that white comes from,” Fiore said.
Nicholas Graham, an archivist with University Libraries, said that students in the 19th and 20th centuries were very proud of their DiPhi membership, and would actively distinguish themselves as members of one of the societies by wearing ribbons to graduation and other campus events.
In the 1880s, UNC football played a game against the University of Virginia, who were decked out in blue and orange. The defining colors and team spirit of UVA influenced the adoption of white and blue school colors for UNC.
“It was only natural that when UNC started competing in intercollegiate sports, they adapted the colors,” Graham said. “By the 20th century, [the colors] became more common throughout university publications, documents and then, eventually, were adopted as the official color.”
Carolina Blue’s deeper ties to the South
“Since [Carolina Blue] goes back to the 18th century, the main blue that they would have had access to would have been an indigo blue, because indigo was a color that was big in the colonies,” Marion Redd, a UNC Class of 1967 alumna who has worked in UNC Student Stores since 2000, said.
In the 18th century, darker blues were commonly associated with the wealthy and elite in Europe and throughout the American South — as in the phrase “blue blood.” The lighter shades — what we know as Carolina Blue today — were also popular amongst everyday folk, such as workers donning blue aprons.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: From an indigo hue to Carolina Blue: the history behind UNC’s school colors –

#2025 #America #CarolinaBlue #Education #History #HistoryOfUNCColors #Libraries #NorthCarolina #Reading #Science #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNCHistory #UnitedStates
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-09-12 · 00:51 UTC
NewsLib and Sept. 11, 2001 – Internet Archive – 9/11 – We Will Never Forget
https://web.archive.org/web/20040617130947/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NewsLibtulloch.html
AprJunDec17200320042005
17 captures, 6 Dec 2003 – 16 Aug 2013
About this capture
Paula Hane, a contributing editor to Information Today and editor of Newsbreaks, issued an editorial on September 17, 2001 entitled, “Information Professionals Respond Following Terrorist Attacks.” (1) This article inspired me to look at a specific group of information professionals.   This group of information professionals performs both ready-reference and in-depth research for its clients. Most members of this group are true generalists, make little money, and work on extremely tight deadlines. (Perhaps not surprisingly, their interactions on their newsgroup – NewsLib — seem similar in many ways to our own ESU-SLIM class listgroups.) The individuals in this group of information professionals are generally known as news librarians or news researchers. To gain some insight into their work, I followed their interactions in the NewsLib group from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001.
From my review of approximately 300 email postings during the period from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001, I gathered three distinct impressions of news librarians/news researchers. I was impressed by their professionalism, the diversity within the group, and, perhaps, most of all, by their willingness to share and assist each other – their sense of community — especially during such a difficult time in our history.
Professionalism
Postings to NewsLib in the days prior to September 11, 2001 consisted of many of the issues that other librarians and researchers face. Postings included solicitations for help in finding resources, accessing resources, verifying resources, and assessing the quality of resources. Other topics included the following: a discussion about when news researchers “should” and “should not” receive research credit in a story; a discussion about copyright infringement; and, a survey solicitation by a group of researchers wanting to gather data on the “state of news libraries” for an upcoming conference. (2)
From September 11, 2001 to September 14, 2001 postings increased four-fold on NewsLib as news librarians and researchers searched for information on behalf of a stunned public. These people seemed to understand that they had a job that HAD to be done and they searched, shared, and asked for help, all in an extremely professional but human manner. The first question on the morning of September 11 was posted by Shelley Lavey of the Detroit Free Press at 9:24 am EST. Shelley asked the question that probably crossed the public’s mind later in the day. “Has anyone come across any significance to the date of September 11 that might be related to the events at the World Trade Center today?” (3)
In the midst of postings about the possible significance of September 11, Mike Reilly, a professor of journalism, offered his professional support. “For those of you researching and backgrounding air disasters, there are reliable resources at www.journaliststoolbox.com It has an entire section on airline disasters. Share with your newsrooms. Take care, Mike Reilly.” By 11:00 am EST, Abigail Brigham at the CNN library in New York shared a link to a list of tenants at the World Trade Center. By noon, Mari Keefe of ComputerWorld posted specific facts (and their sources) about the World Trade Center in response to the frantic inquiry, “Anybody got the fast facts like how many tons of concrete, etc? I keep getting a 404 message! “ by Suzanne Henderson of the Charleston Post and Courier.
In the few hours following the attacks, other news librarians shared information about web sites that track enroute flights. They also shared their frustration with these flight-tracking sites and other sites being overwhelmed, as well as reporting to each other that the live feed for the FAA flight-tracking web site had been suspended. Other requests and responses on NewsLib focused on gathering and putting together timelines of terrorist activities over the last twenty years.
Later in the day on September 11, researchers tried to verify among each other stories about price gouging at gas station. They also took “roll” on who had put out special edition newspapers (4). Finally, they continued to share resources. By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site. At 7:30 pm EST, Jill Konieczko, MLS, a Lexis-Nexis marketing manager announced to her colleagues that beginning at 9pm EST, special packaged content would be available for free.
By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site.
Article…
Noted Konieczko, “Our own information professionals at Lexis-Nexis are crafting searches to deliver on-point information for analysis and crisis management on the following topics:
News and Background                Terrorism Legislation                        Other Attacks on the U.S.
Terrorist Groups                             Victims of Terrorism Act                       Oklahoma City
Terrorist Organizations                   Terrorism: Selected Statutory                 U.S. Embassy Bombing
U.S. Response to Terrorism            Materials                                               Kenya and Tanzania (1988)
Osama Bin Laden                           World Trade Center (1993)                    Pearl Harbor (1941) “
Ms. Konieczcko encouraged her colleagues to contact her to suggest additional topics and said that her own team would be continuously adding content.
What most impressed me about Ms. Koniecscko’s letter to her colleagues and patrons on NewsLib was her acknowledgment of the difficult job that they were doing and would continue to do in the days ahead. On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it. Ms. Koniecscko described this situation well in her note to NewsLib. “We rely on your coverage to grapple with the details, understand the weight of the day’s events, and persevere… Again, please know that we are thinking of you, and please let us know what we at LexisNexis can do to better assist you in your research in these very difficult times.”
On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it.
Article…
Diversity:
In addition to the professionalism displayed by NewsLibbers, I was struck by the diversity of the group. NewsLib has over 1250 subscribers from 22 different countries. These statistics certainly speak to the diversity of its members, but what impresses and surprises me is the diversity of news organizations that contribute to NewsLib. Researchers from newspapers and news organizations with circulations/audiences of 100,000 have equal footing with organizations with circulations/audiences of 1,000,000 on NewsLib. A researcher from the Seattle Times soliciting information from the NewsLib group might receive responses from a researcher at NBC, a news librarian at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, an independent information professional, or a researcher from the Brazilian National News Agency. NewsLibbers also recognize the value of diverse opinions. Researchers in the United States called on Canadian researchers to get the facts on Gordon Sinclair, whose column about America had been circulating over the Internet in the day or two following the attacks. Similarly, early this week, a colleague in Belgium answered a question from a colleague in the United States about production of American flags outside of the United States. The NewsLib group highlights the democratic nature of information (information wants to be free!) and the value of different sources of information.
Community:
My final and over-riding impression of NewsLibbers is their commitment to assist each other in a common goal: to disseminate specific, validated, usable information to the public as quickly as possible. I have already noted examples of the sharing of information that goes on among NewsLibbers; now let me share a few additional examples of NewsLibbers’ “community spirit.” At 3 pm EST on September 11, Richard Geiger of the San Francisco Chronicle couldn’t access the “Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan (pdf)” (January 2001) from the FBI web site, so he asked for assistance and received the document as an attachment from a colleague. Also on September 11, Mari Keefe of Computer World happened to be working remotely and could not reach some co-workers that normally assisted her in acquiring photos. In the absence of direct assistance from her co-workers, Leigh Montgomery of The Christian Science Monitor came to Mari’s aid by providing all of the contact names and numbers necessary for Mari to purchase photos from Reuters. This happened within 8 minutes of Mari posting her initial request for assistance. Later in the week, the same kind of “community spirit” was evident. A news librarian in the Netherlands received a faxed copy of a 1980 article from the Far Eastern Economic Review from a colleague in Canada. The Canadian librarian found the article – an article about the last king of Afghanistan – copied it, and sent it to the Dutch librarian… all within 20 minutes of the initial request. If NewsLibbers are representative of news librarians overall, they are a tight-knit community indeed.
Closing Remarks
In closing, I want to introduce you to the moderator of the NewsLib group. Her name is Barbara Semonche ( [email protected] ) and she is Library Director at the University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications. On September 13, she announced that she had gathered the threads of the conversations and organized the resources for the benefit of the news community on a web site entitled: September 11, 2001: NewsLib research queries following the World Trade Center Attack. In her closing remarks, Barbara Semonche said, “May I say that you are all extraordinary in your efforts to research and share data and information during this tragedy. You are truly impressive under deadline pressure, way beyond ‘just doing your job.’” Indeed. I will be contacting Barbara by email in the upcoming weeks to gain more insight into NewsLib, news librarians, and her assessment of how this group performed in the midst of this crisis. I will keep you posted!
(1) Full text available at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010917-1.htm
- (2) News Libraries: An Assessment A lot of changes are taking place in newsrooms and news research libraries across the country. Ownership changes, new content management concerns, tightening budgets, and expanding publication / distribution options are creating new opportunities, and new challenges. The University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Minnesota Journalism Center are planning a summit meeting on these changes, opportunities and challenges to be held Nov. 15-16, 2001. An important step in preparing for the summit is to get a full picture of where the changes are occurring, and the impact of these changes on the dynamic relationship between newsrooms and news libraries. Please an overview of this research project and the summit at http://www.inms.umn.edu/research/newslib/overview.htm.
- (3) Three days later, that question was still being debated on NewsLib. The only consensus reached on an accurate and direct connection on the significance of September 11 was this: September 11 was the 10th anniversary of the United Nation’s sponsored Day of Peace.
- (4) Many reported that these special editions were the first their papers had published since the Kennedy assassination.
Thankfully, this post and article remains in the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine. Never Forget…
See also: The companion piece showing the messages, the work, the help. https://web.archive.org/web/20040617101301/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NWSworldtradecenter.html

We lost Barbara in 2015. RIP.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/barbara-semonche-obituary?id=12173408

#2025 #911 #America #BarbaraSemonche #CNN #Education #Film #Films #GaryPrice #History #JillKonieczko #Libraries #Library #Memorial #NationalPublicRadio #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NewsLibrarians #NewsLib #Politics #Reading #Resistance #September112001 #Television #TerroristAttacks #TheParkLibrary #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #TwinTowers #UnitedStates #WorldTradeCenter #YouTube
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-09-12 · 00:51 UTC
NewsLib and Sept. 11, 2001 – Internet Archive – 9/11 – We Will Never Forget
https://web.archive.org/web/20040617130947/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NewsLibtulloch.html
AprJunDec17200320042005
17 captures, 6 Dec 2003 – 16 Aug 2013
About this capture
Paula Hane, a contributing editor to Information Today and editor of Newsbreaks, issued an editorial on September 17, 2001 entitled, “Information Professionals Respond Following Terrorist Attacks.” (1) This article inspired me to look at a specific group of information professionals.   This group of information professionals performs both ready-reference and in-depth research for its clients. Most members of this group are true generalists, make little money, and work on extremely tight deadlines. (Perhaps not surprisingly, their interactions on their newsgroup – NewsLib — seem similar in many ways to our own ESU-SLIM class listgroups.) The individuals in this group of information professionals are generally known as news librarians or news researchers. To gain some insight into their work, I followed their interactions in the NewsLib group from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001.
From my review of approximately 300 email postings during the period from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001, I gathered three distinct impressions of news librarians/news researchers. I was impressed by their professionalism, the diversity within the group, and, perhaps, most of all, by their willingness to share and assist each other – their sense of community — especially during such a difficult time in our history.
Professionalism
Postings to NewsLib in the days prior to September 11, 2001 consisted of many of the issues that other librarians and researchers face. Postings included solicitations for help in finding resources, accessing resources, verifying resources, and assessing the quality of resources. Other topics included the following: a discussion about when news researchers “should” and “should not” receive research credit in a story; a discussion about copyright infringement; and, a survey solicitation by a group of researchers wanting to gather data on the “state of news libraries” for an upcoming conference. (2)
From September 11, 2001 to September 14, 2001 postings increased four-fold on NewsLib as news librarians and researchers searched for information on behalf of a stunned public. These people seemed to understand that they had a job that HAD to be done and they searched, shared, and asked for help, all in an extremely professional but human manner. The first question on the morning of September 11 was posted by Shelley Lavey of the Detroit Free Press at 9:24 am EST. Shelley asked the question that probably crossed the public’s mind later in the day. “Has anyone come across any significance to the date of September 11 that might be related to the events at the World Trade Center today?” (3)
In the midst of postings about the possible significance of September 11, Mike Reilly, a professor of journalism, offered his professional support. “For those of you researching and backgrounding air disasters, there are reliable resources at www.journaliststoolbox.com It has an entire section on airline disasters. Share with your newsrooms. Take care, Mike Reilly.” By 11:00 am EST, Abigail Brigham at the CNN library in New York shared a link to a list of tenants at the World Trade Center. By noon, Mari Keefe of ComputerWorld posted specific facts (and their sources) about the World Trade Center in response to the frantic inquiry, “Anybody got the fast facts like how many tons of concrete, etc? I keep getting a 404 message! “ by Suzanne Henderson of the Charleston Post and Courier.
In the few hours following the attacks, other news librarians shared information about web sites that track enroute flights. They also shared their frustration with these flight-tracking sites and other sites being overwhelmed, as well as reporting to each other that the live feed for the FAA flight-tracking web site had been suspended. Other requests and responses on NewsLib focused on gathering and putting together timelines of terrorist activities over the last twenty years.
Later in the day on September 11, researchers tried to verify among each other stories about price gouging at gas station. They also took “roll” on who had put out special edition newspapers (4). Finally, they continued to share resources. By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site. At 7:30 pm EST, Jill Konieczko, MLS, a Lexis-Nexis marketing manager announced to her colleagues that beginning at 9pm EST, special packaged content would be available for free.
By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site.
Article…
Noted Konieczko, “Our own information professionals at Lexis-Nexis are crafting searches to deliver on-point information for analysis and crisis management on the following topics:
News and Background                Terrorism Legislation                        Other Attacks on the U.S.
Terrorist Groups                             Victims of Terrorism Act                       Oklahoma City
Terrorist Organizations                   Terrorism: Selected Statutory                 U.S. Embassy Bombing
U.S. Response to Terrorism            Materials                                               Kenya and Tanzania (1988)
Osama Bin Laden                           World Trade Center (1993)                    Pearl Harbor (1941) “
Ms. Konieczcko encouraged her colleagues to contact her to suggest additional topics and said that her own team would be continuously adding content.
What most impressed me about Ms. Koniecscko’s letter to her colleagues and patrons on NewsLib was her acknowledgment of the difficult job that they were doing and would continue to do in the days ahead. On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it. Ms. Koniecscko described this situation well in her note to NewsLib. “We rely on your coverage to grapple with the details, understand the weight of the day’s events, and persevere… Again, please know that we are thinking of you, and please let us know what we at LexisNexis can do to better assist you in your research in these very difficult times.”
On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it.
Article…
Diversity:
In addition to the professionalism displayed by NewsLibbers, I was struck by the diversity of the group. NewsLib has over 1250 subscribers from 22 different countries. These statistics certainly speak to the diversity of its members, but what impresses and surprises me is the diversity of news organizations that contribute to NewsLib. Researchers from newspapers and news organizations with circulations/audiences of 100,000 have equal footing with organizations with circulations/audiences of 1,000,000 on NewsLib. A researcher from the Seattle Times soliciting information from the NewsLib group might receive responses from a researcher at NBC, a news librarian at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, an independent information professional, or a researcher from the Brazilian National News Agency. NewsLibbers also recognize the value of diverse opinions. Researchers in the United States called on Canadian researchers to get the facts on Gordon Sinclair, whose column about America had been circulating over the Internet in the day or two following the attacks. Similarly, early this week, a colleague in Belgium answered a question from a colleague in the United States about production of American flags outside of the United States. The NewsLib group highlights the democratic nature of information (information wants to be free!) and the value of different sources of information.
Community:
My final and over-riding impression of NewsLibbers is their commitment to assist each other in a common goal: to disseminate specific, validated, usable information to the public as quickly as possible. I have already noted examples of the sharing of information that goes on among NewsLibbers; now let me share a few additional examples of NewsLibbers’ “community spirit.” At 3 pm EST on September 11, Richard Geiger of the San Francisco Chronicle couldn’t access the “Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan (pdf)” (January 2001) from the FBI web site, so he asked for assistance and received the document as an attachment from a colleague. Also on September 11, Mari Keefe of Computer World happened to be working remotely and could not reach some co-workers that normally assisted her in acquiring photos. In the absence of direct assistance from her co-workers, Leigh Montgomery of The Christian Science Monitor came to Mari’s aid by providing all of the contact names and numbers necessary for Mari to purchase photos from Reuters. This happened within 8 minutes of Mari posting her initial request for assistance. Later in the week, the same kind of “community spirit” was evident. A news librarian in the Netherlands received a faxed copy of a 1980 article from the Far Eastern Economic Review from a colleague in Canada. The Canadian librarian found the article – an article about the last king of Afghanistan – copied it, and sent it to the Dutch librarian… all within 20 minutes of the initial request. If NewsLibbers are representative of news librarians overall, they are a tight-knit community indeed.
Closing Remarks
In closing, I want to introduce you to the moderator of the NewsLib group. Her name is Barbara Semonche ( [email protected] ) and she is Library Director at the University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications. On September 13, she announced that she had gathered the threads of the conversations and organized the resources for the benefit of the news community on a web site entitled: September 11, 2001: NewsLib research queries following the World Trade Center Attack. In her closing remarks, Barbara Semonche said, “May I say that you are all extraordinary in your efforts to research and share data and information during this tragedy. You are truly impressive under deadline pressure, way beyond ‘just doing your job.’” Indeed. I will be contacting Barbara by email in the upcoming weeks to gain more insight into NewsLib, news librarians, and her assessment of how this group performed in the midst of this crisis. I will keep you posted!
(1) Full text available at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010917-1.htm
- (2) News Libraries: An Assessment A lot of changes are taking place in newsrooms and news research libraries across the country. Ownership changes, new content management concerns, tightening budgets, and expanding publication / distribution options are creating new opportunities, and new challenges. The University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Minnesota Journalism Center are planning a summit meeting on these changes, opportunities and challenges to be held Nov. 15-16, 2001. An important step in preparing for the summit is to get a full picture of where the changes are occurring, and the impact of these changes on the dynamic relationship between newsrooms and news libraries. Please an overview of this research project and the summit at http://www.inms.umn.edu/research/newslib/overview.htm.
- (3) Three days later, that question was still being debated on NewsLib. The only consensus reached on an accurate and direct connection on the significance of September 11 was this: September 11 was the 10th anniversary of the United Nation’s sponsored Day of Peace.
- (4) Many reported that these special editions were the first their papers had published since the Kennedy assassination.
Thankfully, this post and article remains in the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine. Never Forget…
See also: The companion piece showing the messages, the work, the help. https://web.archive.org/web/20040617101301/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NWSworldtradecenter.html

We lost Barbara in 2015. RIP.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/barbara-semonche-obituary?id=12173408

#2025 #911 #America #BarbaraSemonche #CNN #Education #Film #Films #GaryPrice #History #JillKonieczko #Libraries #Library #Memorial #NationalPublicRadio #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NewsLibrarians #NewsLib #Politics #Reading #Resistance #September112001 #Television #TerroristAttacks #TheParkLibrary #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #TwinTowers #UnitedStates #WorldTradeCenter #YouTube
#america #barbarasemonche #cnn #education #film #films
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-09-12 · 00:51 UTC
NewsLib and Sept. 11, 2001 – Internet Archive – 9/11 – We Will Never Forget
https://web.archive.org/web/20040617130947/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NewsLibtulloch.html
AprJunDec17200320042005
17 captures, 6 Dec 2003 – 16 Aug 2013
About this capture
Paula Hane, a contributing editor to Information Today and editor of Newsbreaks, issued an editorial on September 17, 2001 entitled, “Information Professionals Respond Following Terrorist Attacks.” (1) This article inspired me to look at a specific group of information professionals.   This group of information professionals performs both ready-reference and in-depth research for its clients. Most members of this group are true generalists, make little money, and work on extremely tight deadlines. (Perhaps not surprisingly, their interactions on their newsgroup – NewsLib — seem similar in many ways to our own ESU-SLIM class listgroups.) The individuals in this group of information professionals are generally known as news librarians or news researchers. To gain some insight into their work, I followed their interactions in the NewsLib group from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001.
From my review of approximately 300 email postings during the period from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001, I gathered three distinct impressions of news librarians/news researchers. I was impressed by their professionalism, the diversity within the group, and, perhaps, most of all, by their willingness to share and assist each other – their sense of community — especially during such a difficult time in our history.
Professionalism
Postings to NewsLib in the days prior to September 11, 2001 consisted of many of the issues that other librarians and researchers face. Postings included solicitations for help in finding resources, accessing resources, verifying resources, and assessing the quality of resources. Other topics included the following: a discussion about when news researchers “should” and “should not” receive research credit in a story; a discussion about copyright infringement; and, a survey solicitation by a group of researchers wanting to gather data on the “state of news libraries” for an upcoming conference. (2)
From September 11, 2001 to September 14, 2001 postings increased four-fold on NewsLib as news librarians and researchers searched for information on behalf of a stunned public. These people seemed to understand that they had a job that HAD to be done and they searched, shared, and asked for help, all in an extremely professional but human manner. The first question on the morning of September 11 was posted by Shelley Lavey of the Detroit Free Press at 9:24 am EST. Shelley asked the question that probably crossed the public’s mind later in the day. “Has anyone come across any significance to the date of September 11 that might be related to the events at the World Trade Center today?” (3)
In the midst of postings about the possible significance of September 11, Mike Reilly, a professor of journalism, offered his professional support. “For those of you researching and backgrounding air disasters, there are reliable resources at www.journaliststoolbox.com It has an entire section on airline disasters. Share with your newsrooms. Take care, Mike Reilly.” By 11:00 am EST, Abigail Brigham at the CNN library in New York shared a link to a list of tenants at the World Trade Center. By noon, Mari Keefe of ComputerWorld posted specific facts (and their sources) about the World Trade Center in response to the frantic inquiry, “Anybody got the fast facts like how many tons of concrete, etc? I keep getting a 404 message! “ by Suzanne Henderson of the Charleston Post and Courier.
In the few hours following the attacks, other news librarians shared information about web sites that track enroute flights. They also shared their frustration with these flight-tracking sites and other sites being overwhelmed, as well as reporting to each other that the live feed for the FAA flight-tracking web site had been suspended. Other requests and responses on NewsLib focused on gathering and putting together timelines of terrorist activities over the last twenty years.
Later in the day on September 11, researchers tried to verify among each other stories about price gouging at gas station. They also took “roll” on who had put out special edition newspapers (4). Finally, they continued to share resources. By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site. At 7:30 pm EST, Jill Konieczko, MLS, a Lexis-Nexis marketing manager announced to her colleagues that beginning at 9pm EST, special packaged content would be available for free.
By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site.
Article…
Noted Konieczko, “Our own information professionals at Lexis-Nexis are crafting searches to deliver on-point information for analysis and crisis management on the following topics:
News and Background                Terrorism Legislation                        Other Attacks on the U.S.
Terrorist Groups                             Victims of Terrorism Act                       Oklahoma City
Terrorist Organizations                   Terrorism: Selected Statutory                 U.S. Embassy Bombing
U.S. Response to Terrorism            Materials                                               Kenya and Tanzania (1988)
Osama Bin Laden                           World Trade Center (1993)                    Pearl Harbor (1941) “
Ms. Konieczcko encouraged her colleagues to contact her to suggest additional topics and said that her own team would be continuously adding content.
What most impressed me about Ms. Koniecscko’s letter to her colleagues and patrons on NewsLib was her acknowledgment of the difficult job that they were doing and would continue to do in the days ahead. On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it. Ms. Koniecscko described this situation well in her note to NewsLib. “We rely on your coverage to grapple with the details, understand the weight of the day’s events, and persevere… Again, please know that we are thinking of you, and please let us know what we at LexisNexis can do to better assist you in your research in these very difficult times.”
On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it.
Article…
Diversity:
In addition to the professionalism displayed by NewsLibbers, I was struck by the diversity of the group. NewsLib has over 1250 subscribers from 22 different countries. These statistics certainly speak to the diversity of its members, but what impresses and surprises me is the diversity of news organizations that contribute to NewsLib. Researchers from newspapers and news organizations with circulations/audiences of 100,000 have equal footing with organizations with circulations/audiences of 1,000,000 on NewsLib. A researcher from the Seattle Times soliciting information from the NewsLib group might receive responses from a researcher at NBC, a news librarian at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, an independent information professional, or a researcher from the Brazilian National News Agency. NewsLibbers also recognize the value of diverse opinions. Researchers in the United States called on Canadian researchers to get the facts on Gordon Sinclair, whose column about America had been circulating over the Internet in the day or two following the attacks. Similarly, early this week, a colleague in Belgium answered a question from a colleague in the United States about production of American flags outside of the United States. The NewsLib group highlights the democratic nature of information (information wants to be free!) and the value of different sources of information.
Community:
My final and over-riding impression of NewsLibbers is their commitment to assist each other in a common goal: to disseminate specific, validated, usable information to the public as quickly as possible. I have already noted examples of the sharing of information that goes on among NewsLibbers; now let me share a few additional examples of NewsLibbers’ “community spirit.” At 3 pm EST on September 11, Richard Geiger of the San Francisco Chronicle couldn’t access the “Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan (pdf)” (January 2001) from the FBI web site, so he asked for assistance and received the document as an attachment from a colleague. Also on September 11, Mari Keefe of Computer World happened to be working remotely and could not reach some co-workers that normally assisted her in acquiring photos. In the absence of direct assistance from her co-workers, Leigh Montgomery of The Christian Science Monitor came to Mari’s aid by providing all of the contact names and numbers necessary for Mari to purchase photos from Reuters. This happened within 8 minutes of Mari posting her initial request for assistance. Later in the week, the same kind of “community spirit” was evident. A news librarian in the Netherlands received a faxed copy of a 1980 article from the Far Eastern Economic Review from a colleague in Canada. The Canadian librarian found the article – an article about the last king of Afghanistan – copied it, and sent it to the Dutch librarian… all within 20 minutes of the initial request. If NewsLibbers are representative of news librarians overall, they are a tight-knit community indeed.
Closing Remarks
In closing, I want to introduce you to the moderator of the NewsLib group. Her name is Barbara Semonche ( [email protected] ) and she is Library Director at the University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications. On September 13, she announced that she had gathered the threads of the conversations and organized the resources for the benefit of the news community on a web site entitled: September 11, 2001: NewsLib research queries following the World Trade Center Attack. In her closing remarks, Barbara Semonche said, “May I say that you are all extraordinary in your efforts to research and share data and information during this tragedy. You are truly impressive under deadline pressure, way beyond ‘just doing your job.’” Indeed. I will be contacting Barbara by email in the upcoming weeks to gain more insight into NewsLib, news librarians, and her assessment of how this group performed in the midst of this crisis. I will keep you posted!
(1) Full text available at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010917-1.htm
- (2) News Libraries: An Assessment A lot of changes are taking place in newsrooms and news research libraries across the country. Ownership changes, new content management concerns, tightening budgets, and expanding publication / distribution options are creating new opportunities, and new challenges. The University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Minnesota Journalism Center are planning a summit meeting on these changes, opportunities and challenges to be held Nov. 15-16, 2001. An important step in preparing for the summit is to get a full picture of where the changes are occurring, and the impact of these changes on the dynamic relationship between newsrooms and news libraries. Please an overview of this research project and the summit at http://www.inms.umn.edu/research/newslib/overview.htm.
- (3) Three days later, that question was still being debated on NewsLib. The only consensus reached on an accurate and direct connection on the significance of September 11 was this: September 11 was the 10th anniversary of the United Nation’s sponsored Day of Peace.
- (4) Many reported that these special editions were the first their papers had published since the Kennedy assassination.
Thankfully, this post and article remains in the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine. Never Forget…
See also: The companion piece showing the messages, the work, the help. https://web.archive.org/web/20040617101301/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NWSworldtradecenter.html

We lost Barbara in 2015. RIP.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/barbara-semonche-obituary?id=12173408

#2025 #911 #America #BarbaraSemonche #CNN #Education #Film #Films #GaryPrice #History #JillKonieczko #Libraries #Library #Memorial #NationalPublicRadio #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NewsLibrarians #NewsLib #Politics #Reading #Resistance #September112001 #Television #TerroristAttacks #TheParkLibrary #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #TwinTowers #UnitedStates #WorldTradeCenter #YouTube
#youtube #worldtradecenter #unitedstates #twintowers #theuniversityofnorthcarolinaatchapelhill #theparklibrary
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-09-12 · 00:51 UTC
NewsLib and Sept. 11, 2001 – Internet Archive – 9/11 – We Will Never Forget
https://web.archive.org/web/20040617130947/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NewsLibtulloch.html
AprJunDec17200320042005
17 captures, 6 Dec 2003 – 16 Aug 2013
About this capture
Paula Hane, a contributing editor to Information Today and editor of Newsbreaks, issued an editorial on September 17, 2001 entitled, “Information Professionals Respond Following Terrorist Attacks.” (1) This article inspired me to look at a specific group of information professionals.   This group of information professionals performs both ready-reference and in-depth research for its clients. Most members of this group are true generalists, make little money, and work on extremely tight deadlines. (Perhaps not surprisingly, their interactions on their newsgroup – NewsLib — seem similar in many ways to our own ESU-SLIM class listgroups.) The individuals in this group of information professionals are generally known as news librarians or news researchers. To gain some insight into their work, I followed their interactions in the NewsLib group from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001.
From my review of approximately 300 email postings during the period from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001, I gathered three distinct impressions of news librarians/news researchers. I was impressed by their professionalism, the diversity within the group, and, perhaps, most of all, by their willingness to share and assist each other – their sense of community — especially during such a difficult time in our history.
Professionalism
Postings to NewsLib in the days prior to September 11, 2001 consisted of many of the issues that other librarians and researchers face. Postings included solicitations for help in finding resources, accessing resources, verifying resources, and assessing the quality of resources. Other topics included the following: a discussion about when news researchers “should” and “should not” receive research credit in a story; a discussion about copyright infringement; and, a survey solicitation by a group of researchers wanting to gather data on the “state of news libraries” for an upcoming conference. (2)
From September 11, 2001 to September 14, 2001 postings increased four-fold on NewsLib as news librarians and researchers searched for information on behalf of a stunned public. These people seemed to understand that they had a job that HAD to be done and they searched, shared, and asked for help, all in an extremely professional but human manner. The first question on the morning of September 11 was posted by Shelley Lavey of the Detroit Free Press at 9:24 am EST. Shelley asked the question that probably crossed the public’s mind later in the day. “Has anyone come across any significance to the date of September 11 that might be related to the events at the World Trade Center today?” (3)
In the midst of postings about the possible significance of September 11, Mike Reilly, a professor of journalism, offered his professional support. “For those of you researching and backgrounding air disasters, there are reliable resources at www.journaliststoolbox.com It has an entire section on airline disasters. Share with your newsrooms. Take care, Mike Reilly.” By 11:00 am EST, Abigail Brigham at the CNN library in New York shared a link to a list of tenants at the World Trade Center. By noon, Mari Keefe of ComputerWorld posted specific facts (and their sources) about the World Trade Center in response to the frantic inquiry, “Anybody got the fast facts like how many tons of concrete, etc? I keep getting a 404 message! “ by Suzanne Henderson of the Charleston Post and Courier.
In the few hours following the attacks, other news librarians shared information about web sites that track enroute flights. They also shared their frustration with these flight-tracking sites and other sites being overwhelmed, as well as reporting to each other that the live feed for the FAA flight-tracking web site had been suspended. Other requests and responses on NewsLib focused on gathering and putting together timelines of terrorist activities over the last twenty years.
Later in the day on September 11, researchers tried to verify among each other stories about price gouging at gas station. They also took “roll” on who had put out special edition newspapers (4). Finally, they continued to share resources. By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site. At 7:30 pm EST, Jill Konieczko, MLS, a Lexis-Nexis marketing manager announced to her colleagues that beginning at 9pm EST, special packaged content would be available for free.
By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site.
Article…
Noted Konieczko, “Our own information professionals at Lexis-Nexis are crafting searches to deliver on-point information for analysis and crisis management on the following topics:
News and Background                Terrorism Legislation                        Other Attacks on the U.S.
Terrorist Groups                             Victims of Terrorism Act                       Oklahoma City
Terrorist Organizations                   Terrorism: Selected Statutory                 U.S. Embassy Bombing
U.S. Response to Terrorism            Materials                                               Kenya and Tanzania (1988)
Osama Bin Laden                           World Trade Center (1993)                    Pearl Harbor (1941) “
Ms. Konieczcko encouraged her colleagues to contact her to suggest additional topics and said that her own team would be continuously adding content.
What most impressed me about Ms. Koniecscko’s letter to her colleagues and patrons on NewsLib was her acknowledgment of the difficult job that they were doing and would continue to do in the days ahead. On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it. Ms. Koniecscko described this situation well in her note to NewsLib. “We rely on your coverage to grapple with the details, understand the weight of the day’s events, and persevere… Again, please know that we are thinking of you, and please let us know what we at LexisNexis can do to better assist you in your research in these very difficult times.”
On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it.
Article…
Diversity:
In addition to the professionalism displayed by NewsLibbers, I was struck by the diversity of the group. NewsLib has over 1250 subscribers from 22 different countries. These statistics certainly speak to the diversity of its members, but what impresses and surprises me is the diversity of news organizations that contribute to NewsLib. Researchers from newspapers and news organizations with circulations/audiences of 100,000 have equal footing with organizations with circulations/audiences of 1,000,000 on NewsLib. A researcher from the Seattle Times soliciting information from the NewsLib group might receive responses from a researcher at NBC, a news librarian at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, an independent information professional, or a researcher from the Brazilian National News Agency. NewsLibbers also recognize the value of diverse opinions. Researchers in the United States called on Canadian researchers to get the facts on Gordon Sinclair, whose column about America had been circulating over the Internet in the day or two following the attacks. Similarly, early this week, a colleague in Belgium answered a question from a colleague in the United States about production of American flags outside of the United States. The NewsLib group highlights the democratic nature of information (information wants to be free!) and the value of different sources of information.
Community:
My final and over-riding impression of NewsLibbers is their commitment to assist each other in a common goal: to disseminate specific, validated, usable information to the public as quickly as possible. I have already noted examples of the sharing of information that goes on among NewsLibbers; now let me share a few additional examples of NewsLibbers’ “community spirit.” At 3 pm EST on September 11, Richard Geiger of the San Francisco Chronicle couldn’t access the “Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan (pdf)” (January 2001) from the FBI web site, so he asked for assistance and received the document as an attachment from a colleague. Also on September 11, Mari Keefe of Computer World happened to be working remotely and could not reach some co-workers that normally assisted her in acquiring photos. In the absence of direct assistance from her co-workers, Leigh Montgomery of The Christian Science Monitor came to Mari’s aid by providing all of the contact names and numbers necessary for Mari to purchase photos from Reuters. This happened within 8 minutes of Mari posting her initial request for assistance. Later in the week, the same kind of “community spirit” was evident. A news librarian in the Netherlands received a faxed copy of a 1980 article from the Far Eastern Economic Review from a colleague in Canada. The Canadian librarian found the article – an article about the last king of Afghanistan – copied it, and sent it to the Dutch librarian… all within 20 minutes of the initial request. If NewsLibbers are representative of news librarians overall, they are a tight-knit community indeed.
Closing Remarks
In closing, I want to introduce you to the moderator of the NewsLib group. Her name is Barbara Semonche ( [email protected] ) and she is Library Director at the University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications. On September 13, she announced that she had gathered the threads of the conversations and organized the resources for the benefit of the news community on a web site entitled: September 11, 2001: NewsLib research queries following the World Trade Center Attack. In her closing remarks, Barbara Semonche said, “May I say that you are all extraordinary in your efforts to research and share data and information during this tragedy. You are truly impressive under deadline pressure, way beyond ‘just doing your job.’” Indeed. I will be contacting Barbara by email in the upcoming weeks to gain more insight into NewsLib, news librarians, and her assessment of how this group performed in the midst of this crisis. I will keep you posted!
(1) Full text available at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010917-1.htm
- (2) News Libraries: An Assessment A lot of changes are taking place in newsrooms and news research libraries across the country. Ownership changes, new content management concerns, tightening budgets, and expanding publication / distribution options are creating new opportunities, and new challenges. The University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Minnesota Journalism Center are planning a summit meeting on these changes, opportunities and challenges to be held Nov. 15-16, 2001. An important step in preparing for the summit is to get a full picture of where the changes are occurring, and the impact of these changes on the dynamic relationship between newsrooms and news libraries. Please an overview of this research project and the summit at http://www.inms.umn.edu/research/newslib/overview.htm.
- (3) Three days later, that question was still being debated on NewsLib. The only consensus reached on an accurate and direct connection on the significance of September 11 was this: September 11 was the 10th anniversary of the United Nation’s sponsored Day of Peace.
- (4) Many reported that these special editions were the first their papers had published since the Kennedy assassination.
Thankfully, this post and article remains in the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine. Never Forget…
See also: The companion piece showing the messages, the work, the help. https://web.archive.org/web/20040617101301/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NWSworldtradecenter.html

We lost Barbara in 2015. RIP.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/barbara-semonche-obituary?id=12173408

#2025 #911 #America #BarbaraSemonche #CNN #Education #Film #Films #GaryPrice #History #JillKonieczko #Libraries #Library #Memorial #NationalPublicRadio #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NewsLibrarians #NewsLib #Politics #Reading #Resistance #September112001 #Television #TerroristAttacks #TheParkLibrary #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #TwinTowers #UnitedStates #WorldTradeCenter #YouTube
#america #barbarasemonche #cnn #education #film #films
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-08-30 · 23:47 UTC

University launches new AI studio in Davis library – The Daily Tar Heel
University
University launches new AI studio in Davis library
Photo by Cassidy Toy Reynolds / The Daily Tar Heel
By Mariah Temple, Published Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025
On Aug. 18, University Libraries launched its new Library AI Studio, where students can gather to learn about rapidly growing information technology and experiment with its tools. The physical space, located on the second floor of Davis Library, provides a hands-on experience with artificial intelligence.
María Estorino, vice provost of University Libraries and the University librarian, said that generative AI is just another aspect of what the library has always sought to provide for students — access to knowledge along with the tools used to create and generate it.
Equipped with experts available from 12 to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, the studio is an information center designed for the community members of all backgrounds to advance their AI literacy through various workshops, panels and one-on-one consultations.
“We serve all of campus. We’re really a neutral place for student learning and building literacies of all kinds,” Michelle Rodell, associate University librarian for health sciences and director of the Health Sciences Library, said.
Rodell said University Libraries recognizes that students will graduate into a world where AI already exists within their careers — the studio simply serves to prepare students for that reality.
Riley Harper, technical chair of AI@UNC, said he thinks the Library AI Studio is a good way for students to get involved with AI. AI@UNC is a student organization where members can assist in faculty-led research projects and gain hands-on experience through workshops.
“There’s a lot of buzzwords that are often thrown around [AI], and demystifying some of that so that it’s not misused can be a great use of funding,” he said.
Harper added that he would like to see some of the AI Acceleration Grants go towards projects run by student leadership, but overall thinks the Library AI Studio is a great initiative.
The Library AI Studio held its first in-person event on Aug. 20, a creative workshop titled “Prompt and Pour: Mocktails with an AI Twist.” Students could stop by the second floor of Davis to sample mocktails made from AI-generated recipes, enter raffles for library prizes and connect with their peers through AI bingo and online quizzes aimed to fuel conversations surrounding AI and the new studio itself.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: University launches new AI studio in Davis library –

#2025 #AI #AIStudio #artificialIntelligence #Books #DavisLibrary #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #Reading #Science #Technology #TheDailyTarHeel #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UnitedStates #Writing #YouTube

#ai #aistudio #artificialintelligence #books #davislibrary #education
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-08-30 · 23:47 UTC

University launches new AI studio in Davis library – The Daily Tar Heel
University
University launches new AI studio in Davis library
Photo by Cassidy Toy Reynolds / The Daily Tar Heel
By Mariah Temple, Published Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025
On Aug. 18, University Libraries launched its new Library AI Studio, where students can gather to learn about rapidly growing information technology and experiment with its tools. The physical space, located on the second floor of Davis Library, provides a hands-on experience with artificial intelligence.
María Estorino, vice provost of University Libraries and the University librarian, said that generative AI is just another aspect of what the library has always sought to provide for students — access to knowledge along with the tools used to create and generate it.
Equipped with experts available from 12 to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, the studio is an information center designed for the community members of all backgrounds to advance their AI literacy through various workshops, panels and one-on-one consultations.
“We serve all of campus. We’re really a neutral place for student learning and building literacies of all kinds,” Michelle Rodell, associate University librarian for health sciences and director of the Health Sciences Library, said.
Rodell said University Libraries recognizes that students will graduate into a world where AI already exists within their careers — the studio simply serves to prepare students for that reality.
Riley Harper, technical chair of AI@UNC, said he thinks the Library AI Studio is a good way for students to get involved with AI. AI@UNC is a student organization where members can assist in faculty-led research projects and gain hands-on experience through workshops.
“There’s a lot of buzzwords that are often thrown around [AI], and demystifying some of that so that it’s not misused can be a great use of funding,” he said.
Harper added that he would like to see some of the AI Acceleration Grants go towards projects run by student leadership, but overall thinks the Library AI Studio is a great initiative.
The Library AI Studio held its first in-person event on Aug. 20, a creative workshop titled “Prompt and Pour: Mocktails with an AI Twist.” Students could stop by the second floor of Davis to sample mocktails made from AI-generated recipes, enter raffles for library prizes and connect with their peers through AI bingo and online quizzes aimed to fuel conversations surrounding AI and the new studio itself.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: University launches new AI studio in Davis library –

#2025 #AI #AIStudio #artificialIntelligence #Books #DavisLibrary #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #Reading #Science #Technology #TheDailyTarHeel #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UnitedStates #Writing #YouTube

#ai #aistudio #artificialintelligence #books #davislibrary #education
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-08-30 · 23:47 UTC

University launches new AI studio in Davis library – The Daily Tar Heel
University
University launches new AI studio in Davis library
Photo by Cassidy Toy Reynolds / The Daily Tar Heel
By Mariah Temple, Published Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025
On Aug. 18, University Libraries launched its new Library AI Studio, where students can gather to learn about rapidly growing information technology and experiment with its tools. The physical space, located on the second floor of Davis Library, provides a hands-on experience with artificial intelligence.
María Estorino, vice provost of University Libraries and the University librarian, said that generative AI is just another aspect of what the library has always sought to provide for students — access to knowledge along with the tools used to create and generate it.
Equipped with experts available from 12 to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, the studio is an information center designed for the community members of all backgrounds to advance their AI literacy through various workshops, panels and one-on-one consultations.
“We serve all of campus. We’re really a neutral place for student learning and building literacies of all kinds,” Michelle Rodell, associate University librarian for health sciences and director of the Health Sciences Library, said.
Rodell said University Libraries recognizes that students will graduate into a world where AI already exists within their careers — the studio simply serves to prepare students for that reality.
Riley Harper, technical chair of AI@UNC, said he thinks the Library AI Studio is a good way for students to get involved with AI. AI@UNC is a student organization where members can assist in faculty-led research projects and gain hands-on experience through workshops.
“There’s a lot of buzzwords that are often thrown around [AI], and demystifying some of that so that it’s not misused can be a great use of funding,” he said.
Harper added that he would like to see some of the AI Acceleration Grants go towards projects run by student leadership, but overall thinks the Library AI Studio is a great initiative.
The Library AI Studio held its first in-person event on Aug. 20, a creative workshop titled “Prompt and Pour: Mocktails with an AI Twist.” Students could stop by the second floor of Davis to sample mocktails made from AI-generated recipes, enter raffles for library prizes and connect with their peers through AI bingo and online quizzes aimed to fuel conversations surrounding AI and the new studio itself.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: University launches new AI studio in Davis library –

#2025 #AI #AIStudio #artificialIntelligence #Books #DavisLibrary #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #Reading #Science #Technology #TheDailyTarHeel #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UnitedStates #Writing #YouTube

#ai #aistudio #artificialintelligence #books #davislibrary #education
DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-08-30 · 23:47 UTC

University launches new AI studio in Davis library – The Daily Tar Heel
University
University launches new AI studio in Davis library
Photo by Cassidy Toy Reynolds / The Daily Tar Heel
By Mariah Temple, Published Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025
On Aug. 18, University Libraries launched its new Library AI Studio, where students can gather to learn about rapidly growing information technology and experiment with its tools. The physical space, located on the second floor of Davis Library, provides a hands-on experience with artificial intelligence.
María Estorino, vice provost of University Libraries and the University librarian, said that generative AI is just another aspect of what the library has always sought to provide for students — access to knowledge along with the tools used to create and generate it.
Equipped with experts available from 12 to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, the studio is an information center designed for the community members of all backgrounds to advance their AI literacy through various workshops, panels and one-on-one consultations.
“We serve all of campus. We’re really a neutral place for student learning and building literacies of all kinds,” Michelle Rodell, associate University librarian for health sciences and director of the Health Sciences Library, said.
Rodell said University Libraries recognizes that students will graduate into a world where AI already exists within their careers — the studio simply serves to prepare students for that reality.
Riley Harper, technical chair of AI@UNC, said he thinks the Library AI Studio is a good way for students to get involved with AI. AI@UNC is a student organization where members can assist in faculty-led research projects and gain hands-on experience through workshops.
“There’s a lot of buzzwords that are often thrown around [AI], and demystifying some of that so that it’s not misused can be a great use of funding,” he said.
Harper added that he would like to see some of the AI Acceleration Grants go towards projects run by student leadership, but overall thinks the Library AI Studio is a great initiative.
The Library AI Studio held its first in-person event on Aug. 20, a creative workshop titled “Prompt and Pour: Mocktails with an AI Twist.” Students could stop by the second floor of Davis to sample mocktails made from AI-generated recipes, enter raffles for library prizes and connect with their peers through AI bingo and online quizzes aimed to fuel conversations surrounding AI and the new studio itself.
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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-08-30 · 23:47 UTC

University launches new AI studio in Davis library – The Daily Tar Heel
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University launches new AI studio in Davis library
Photo by Cassidy Toy Reynolds / The Daily Tar Heel
By Mariah Temple, Published Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025
On Aug. 18, University Libraries launched its new Library AI Studio, where students can gather to learn about rapidly growing information technology and experiment with its tools. The physical space, located on the second floor of Davis Library, provides a hands-on experience with artificial intelligence.
María Estorino, vice provost of University Libraries and the University librarian, said that generative AI is just another aspect of what the library has always sought to provide for students — access to knowledge along with the tools used to create and generate it.
Equipped with experts available from 12 to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, the studio is an information center designed for the community members of all backgrounds to advance their AI literacy through various workshops, panels and one-on-one consultations.
“We serve all of campus. We’re really a neutral place for student learning and building literacies of all kinds,” Michelle Rodell, associate University librarian for health sciences and director of the Health Sciences Library, said.
Rodell said University Libraries recognizes that students will graduate into a world where AI already exists within their careers — the studio simply serves to prepare students for that reality.
Riley Harper, technical chair of AI@UNC, said he thinks the Library AI Studio is a good way for students to get involved with AI. AI@UNC is a student organization where members can assist in faculty-led research projects and gain hands-on experience through workshops.
“There’s a lot of buzzwords that are often thrown around [AI], and demystifying some of that so that it’s not misused can be a great use of funding,” he said.
Harper added that he would like to see some of the AI Acceleration Grants go towards projects run by student leadership, but overall thinks the Library AI Studio is a great initiative.
The Library AI Studio held its first in-person event on Aug. 20, a creative workshop titled “Prompt and Pour: Mocktails with an AI Twist.” Students could stop by the second floor of Davis to sample mocktails made from AI-generated recipes, enter raffles for library prizes and connect with their peers through AI bingo and online quizzes aimed to fuel conversations surrounding AI and the new studio itself.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: University launches new AI studio in Davis library –

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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-07-15 · 17:51 UTC

Library IT vs. the AI bots – June 9, 2025
Left to right: David Romani, Tim Shearer and Jason Casden worked with the Library’s IT team and campus colleagues to thwart bots attacking the online library catalog.
An unprecedented attack tests the ingenuity of the University Libraries’ IT department and reveals a dark side of artificial intelligence.
by Judy Panitch
The first sign of something amiss was a cry for help.
“I’m getting reports from staff of a catalog error: ‘This website is under heavy load (queue full).’ I saw it myself once. Seems to be intermittent.”
Translation: On Dec. 2, 2024, the University Libraries’ online catalog was receiving so much traffic that it was periodically shutting out students, faculty and staff, including the head of User Experience. Could the Library’s IT experts take action?
Heavy use of the catalog during finals week is typical as students look up books and articles for term papers and projects. This was different.
“It was just a boatload of traffic, more than we had any reasonable expectation of getting,” recalls David Romani, a system administrator and the Library’s security liaison. Normal heavy use might involve 100 simultaneous searches. Now, internal logs showed 500 or more searches at a time, overloading the system and triggering glitches.
In many computer attacks, related internet (IP) addresses or a single internet service provider (ISP) might behave suspiciously. Administrators stop the attack by blocking those computers. The Library permanently bans more than 4 million IP addresses—most of them overseas—because of prior bad behavior. The University blocks millions more at the campus level.
What Romani found surprised him. The searches were coming from addresses spread broadly across the United States using reputable ISPs such as AT&T, Spectrum and Verizon. Each interaction looked exactly like something that happens thousands of times a day at a research library like Carolina’s.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Library IT vs. the AI bots

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DrWeb @[email protected] · 2025-07-15 · 17:51 UTC

Library IT vs. the AI bots – June 9, 2025
Left to right: David Romani, Tim Shearer and Jason Casden worked with the Library’s IT team and campus colleagues to thwart bots attacking the online library catalog.
An unprecedented attack tests the ingenuity of the University Libraries’ IT department and reveals a dark side of artificial intelligence.
by Judy Panitch
The first sign of something amiss was a cry for help.
“I’m getting reports from staff of a catalog error: ‘This website is under heavy load (queue full).’ I saw it myself once. Seems to be intermittent.”
Translation: On Dec. 2, 2024, the University Libraries’ online catalog was receiving so much traffic that it was periodically shutting out students, faculty and staff, including the head of User Experience. Could the Library’s IT experts take action?
Heavy use of the catalog during finals week is typical as students look up books and articles for term papers and projects. This was different.
“It was just a boatload of traffic, more than we had any reasonable expectation of getting,” recalls David Romani, a system administrator and the Library’s security liaison. Normal heavy use might involve 100 simultaneous searches. Now, internal logs showed 500 or more searches at a time, overloading the system and triggering glitches.
In many computer attacks, related internet (IP) addresses or a single internet service provider (ISP) might behave suspiciously. Administrators stop the attack by blocking those computers. The Library permanently bans more than 4 million IP addresses—most of them overseas—because of prior bad behavior. The University blocks millions more at the campus level.
What Romani found surprised him. The searches were coming from addresses spread broadly across the United States using reputable ISPs such as AT&T, Spectrum and Verizon. Each interaction looked exactly like something that happens thousands of times a day at a research library like Carolina’s.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Library IT vs. the AI bots

#2025 #AIBots #Books #History #InformationTechnology #Libraries #Library #LibraryIT #Reading #Science #Technology #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #UNC #UNCLibraries #UnitedStates

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