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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2003
Mayoral race gets new face
Carrboro race had been uncontested
BY KATHRYN GRIM
CITY EDITOR
A Carrboro citizen entered the
town’s previously uncontested
mayoral race as a write-in candi
date Friday.
JeffVanke, 33, professor of his
tory at Guilford College in
Greensboro, said he decided to go
forward with his plan to challenge
Mayor Mike Nelson after cutting
his work hours to spend more time
at home.
Vanke lives in Carrboro with his
wife and 1-year-old son.
This is Vanke’s first run for pub
lic office, although he has served in
various leadership positions.
’ Missing the Aug. 1 filing dead
line throws a bit of a wrench into
his campaign, Vanke acknowl
edged, but he said his growing sup
port base and the political aware
ness of Carrboro residents give him
confidence.
I “Carrboro is small, and the peo
ple are very well-educated, not just
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those at the University,” he said.
“I think it can be done.”
Vanke said the public contro
versy about a piece of art displayed
in Carrboro’s Town Hall served as
an impetus for his decision to run.
A public outcry rose this sum
mer when a painting of a U.S. flag
with its stars arranged in the shape
of a swastika —a piece created to
protest a proposed constitutional
amendment prohibiting flag burn
ing was included in a Town Hall
display.
Some citizens asked the mayor
to step down after he removed the
piece from the public eye, only to
mount it above his desk in his
office.
Nelson, who is running for his
fifth term, said he supports the
entrance of additional candidates.
“It’s a democracy, and I respect
anybody’s right to throw their
name into the ring,” Nelson said.
“I hope he focuses on the people
of Carrboro and sets his personal
News
grievances aside.”
Vanke said he decided to run
because he hopes to replace a
mayor he said has been unrespon
sive to the desires of the people of
Carrboro.
In his press release, Vanke said:
“Many Carrboro residents have
seen increased inconveniences
while being subjected to tax
increases, and they have suffered
increasingly nonresponsive, divi
sive and aggressive behavior by
their mayor on a broad range of
issues. Carrboro deserves better
leadership.”
As examples of the mayor’s
unresponsiveness, Vanke pointed
to the Board of Aldermen’s
approval of two mixed-use devel
opments, Winmore and Pacifica,
after citizens extensively criticized
the projects in public hearings.
“It seemed as if the mayor had
made up his mind,” Vanke said.
“He was very dismissive of their
opinions.”
Nelson entered the sole vote
opposing the Winmore develop
ment, a move Vanke said he saw as
solely a political gesture.
Vanke said he plans to intro
duce his complete political plat
form in the next couple of weeks.
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BY CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR.
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
More medical students are
choosing to go into specialized
medical fields, getting rid of pagers
and unpredictable hours in favor
of practices that allow more con
sistent schedules and less of a
chance for malpractice lawsuits.
UNC’s School of Medicine has
shown the same trend indicated in
a Journal of the American Medical
Association study, which was
released Wednesday, said
Georgette Dent, associate dean for
student affairs in the medical
school.
But she added that preliminary
data show that this year’s crop of
graduating medical students are in
fact bucking the trend more
UNC medical school graduates are
choosing to go into primary care
than the class of 2003.
“It looks like the class that we
have graduating in May will have a
little more than 50 percent going
into the primary care field.”
All medical students eventually
specialize in a particular aspect of
medicine, but primary care is con
sidered by medical schools to
“There is a very decided cyclical nature
of specialties.... Different generations
are picking other things.
STEPHEN MILLER, secretary for the American board of medical specialties
mean general practice, pediatrics,
internal medicine and 08-GYN.
Dent said during the last
decade, she has seen rising num
bers of people choosing specialty
fields like radiology and dermatol
ogy.
She said although students do
look at the state of the medical job
market, gender is the largest deter
mining factor for which field med
ical students ultimately choose.
“If you look at who’s going into
08-GYN and pediatrics, those
specialties are attracting mainly
females,” she said.
Stephen Miller, secretary of the
American Board of Medical
Specialties, acknowledged the
overall movement away from gen
eral practice.
But the former plastic surgeon
said trends toward and away from
primary care always have hap
pened in the medical profession.
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nature of specialties,” he said. “I
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In particular, more students are
picking dermatology, said Alexa
Boer Kimball, a professor at
Stanford University School of
Medicine, who specializes in the
field.
She said increased interest
means it’s more difficult for med
ical students to become dermatol
ogists.
“We clearly see an increasingly
competitive type of student trying
to enter dermatology,” Kimball
said. “They are typically at the top
of their class.”
She said she is sure there are
students who choose the field
because it is less hectic than pri
mary care. But she added that the
students who ultimately make it
have a passion for practicing der
matology.
In addition to that field, the
journal’s study found that medical
students are showing increased
interest in genetics, radiology,
anesthesiology and emergency
medicine.
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Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.