Associated PressHomeStanford University Study Fnds Gastric Bypass Patients Get DrunkSAN FRANCISCO People who had obesity surgery got drunk after just one glass of red wine, researchers reported in a small study that was inspired by an episode on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”June 20, 2007LatinxUNM Los Alamos branch has new executive directorLOS ALAMOS N.M. The University of New Mexico’s Los Alamos branch has a new executive director.June 19, 2007SportsMississippi Valley Athletics Director Leaves for Hampton University.ITTA BENA Miss. Lonza Hardy Jr., athletics director at Mississippi Valley State University for the past six years, has resigned to take a similar position at Hampton University in southeastern Virginia.June 19, 2007Leadership & PolicyNew Alcorn State University President Being Treated for Leukemia in Michigan.JACKSON Miss. Mississippi higher education officials said Wednesday that it will be August or September before Alcorn State University’s new president assumes his post.June 19, 2007StudentsCash-for-grades Scam Highlights Dilemma For College AdmissionsBERKELEY, Calif. News that dozens of community college students in the San Francisco Bay Area may have been hitting their checkbooks rather than textbooks in a cash-for-grades scam highlighted an academic dilemma: What to do about cheaters?June 19, 2007Community CollegesSystem Allows Credits to Transfer Between Ivy Tech, UniversitiesINDIANAPOLIS A system that allows community-college students to transfer credits to the state’s seven public universities is nearly complete – a milestone in the decades-long effort to create transfer agreements that benefit students and their checkbooks.June 18, 2007Leadership & PolicyAlabama College President’s Indictment Leads to Internal Investigation of Two-Year SystemMONTGOMERY Ala. Two-year colleges chancellor Bradley Byrne said n internal investigation has begun following the indictment of former Alabama Fire College President William Langston and will focus on the hiring of the director’s children.June 18, 2007StudentsSettlement Ends Dispute Over N.J. College Newspaper Adviser’s OusterTRENTON, N.J. Trustees at a southern New Jersey community college have agreed to permanently reinstate a student newspaper faculty adviser whose removal had sparked protests from journalism groups and even criticism from a federal judge.June 18, 2007HomeDuke, Exonerated Lacrosse Players Reach SettlementDuke University has reached an undisclosed financial settlement with three former men’s lacrosse players falsely accused of rape, the school said Monday.June 18, 2007LatinxMigrant education shows young Hispanics striving to assimilateNEW OXFORD Pa. Uprooted from his native Mexico and overwhelmed by an unfamiliar language, Jorge Lua-Ildefonso was miserable on his first day of school in the United States just five years ago.June 17, 2007Previous PagePage 486 of 569Next Page
