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Changing the complexion of collegiate golf; Andy Walker helps pave the way by helping Pepperdine to NCAA championship – National Collegiate Athletic Association
Please don’t call Andy Walker the next Tiger Woods. He’s too busy being the first Andy Walker.
African-American
Ain’t Gonna Lay My ‘Ligion Down: African American Religion in the South. – book reviews
Convinced of the connection between religion and culture, Alonzo Johnson and Paul Jersild have attempted to contribute to a greater understanding of African Americans and their culturally religious ideas. Ain’t Gonna Lay My `Ligion Down: African American Religion in the South moves toward this end by examining aspects of the connectedness of Black and southern religion and culture.
Students
Scholarship, sisterhood, service – black women in African American fraternities
When twenty-two young Black women came together at Howard University to form Delta Sigma Theta sorority, their goal was to focus on scholarship, sisterhood, and service to the African American community. A review of the sorority’s early history indicates that these young women, and the ones who followed them, did exactly that.
Students
Frat-ricide: are African American fraternities beating themselves to death? – includes related articles on the National Pan-Hellenic Council, its statement on hazing and its membership development efforts – Cover Story
“They took him into a room and five members of the fraternity attacked him. They punched and kicked him. I asked if he ever got the urge to swing back and he said, `We can’t.’ He said he had been kicked in the head.”
Latinx
UC professor wins gender discrimination lawsuit – University of California at Santa Barbara Professor Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez
One day last fall, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) Professor Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez woke up and decided she was not going to take it anymore.
African-American
Holding on to African American history
For decades, white institutions and a handful of historically Black college and university (HBCU) archives have served as the main repositories for document and artifacts that tell the story of the history and contributions of people of African descent. But countless other pieces of Black America’s historical fabric are collecting dust in church basements or crumbling on bookshelves.
Students
Chicano generation gap: method of activism by scholars at center of NACCS schism – includes related article on Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan
Sacramento Protesting California’s anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 and the general anti-Latino and anti-immigrant mood of the state and the country, the twenty-fourth annual National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) conference kicked off with a rally here late last month at the base of the state capitol.
Latinx
Ed. Department, Congress Focus On Community College Transfer of Credit Problem
For low-income students, paying for college is hard enough without having to repeat courses. That’s why U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and many scholars are looking for answers that will help more students transfer credits when they move from one higher education institution to another.
Sports
UCLA Hires New Director of Basketball Operations
LOS ANGELES Joe Hillock, the women’s coach at Southern Utah for 10 years, has been hired as director of operations for the UCLA men’s basketball program.
Students
Title IX: does help for women come at the expense of African Americans?
Gender equity has created an intriguing set of circumstances in the world of college athletics.
Sports
The true significance of sports for Black Americans
I am not a sports fan. I’ve written that so many times it seems redundant to write it again. No, this is not another sports-bashing column. Been there, done that. This is a column about the context of sports, about the reasons why sports has been so important for African American people.
African-American
African American professors propose creation of institute to help developing countries
BRUSSELS, Belgium Professors at Howard and Fisk universities are proposing that an institute without walls be established by America’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to assist developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific islands.
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