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All three networks turned to academe. CBS had Michelle Miller report on the mysterious death of the president of the student body of the University of North Carolina. The body of Eve Marie Carson, aged 22, was found in the middle of a Chapel Hill street, killed by bullets, at five o'clock in the morning…ABC chose Duke University engineering student Josh Sommer as its Person of the Week. Sommer has been given seven years to live after a diagnosis with chordoma, a cancer of the spinal cord. His response was to start the Chordoma Foundation to find a cure. With anchor Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos substituting, ABC had reporter John McKenzie profile its Person. He told us that Sommer now works 30 hours a week in Duke's biotech labs studying chordoma genetics…"Congress has started pressuring colleges with huge tax-free endowments to put more of that money into financial aid," reported NBC's Rehema Ellis. That pressure may or may not have been the factor that prompted the Ivy League to act. Either way, straight-A students from households with annual incomes that are less $100,000 no longer have to pay any tuition at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell and Brown--as well as non-Ivy Stanford.
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