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Students Use Internet To Help With Laundry

Students Use Internet To Help With Laundry PITTSBURGHThrough May 15, Carnegie Mellon University is piloting eSuds, a Web-based laundry system, in three residence halls. If all goes well with the pilot, the system will be installed campuswide this August, just in time for the 2004-05 school year. eSuds, which was developed by USA Technologies Inc., […]

Former Football Great Stirs Controversy With Comments on Black Athletes

Former Football Great Stirs Controversy With Comments on Black AthletesSOUTH BEND, Ind.Just one day after suggesting that Notre Dame needed to lower their academic standards to “get the Black athlete,” former Heisman Trophy winner Paul Hornung said he regretted his comments.“I was wrong,” Hornung told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “What I should […]

Let the Games Begin

Let the Games Begin— AgainHBCU coaches and administrators give their play-by-play accounts of the benefits of reviving college football programs By Crystal L. KeelsIt’s the pageantry, the precision, the rhythm and the music. It’s wave after wave of energetic flute, trumpet, tuba and drum players wearing colorful uniforms and executing intricate steps. It’s the dramatic […]

Creating a Successful Student-Athlete

Creating a Successful Student-AthleteDiscipline, focus and hard work are just a few attributes, says advising expert Dr. Ruth Darling By Kendra HamiltonCritics of big-time college sports have been working for decades to control the rampant rise in commercialization on campus — and to hold the line on academic integrity. But the balancing act is a […]

Leadership & Policy

Academics and Athletics: Playing for the Same Team

Academics and Athletics: Playing for the Same TeamHigh expectations greeted Dr. Myles Brand when he became president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in January 2003. As the fourth president of the nation’s most powerful amateur sports organization, Brand has the distinction of being the first to have been a college president. As president […]

Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Blacks in Coaching

Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Blacks in CoachingDuring the 2003 football season, African Americans were employed as head coaches at five of the 117 NCAA Division I-A colleges and universities. At the conclusion of the 2003 season, there were 13 head coaching vacancies at Division I-A football programs; one African American was hired. Today, five African […]

Academics, Athletics and Life Skills

Academics, Athletics and Life SkillsAvid Black Issues’ readers know that in early April we honor outstanding students of color who have excelled both in the classroom and on the court, track or field with our annual Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards. The Arthur Ashe edition is a favorite of many scholar-athletes, parents, coaches and […]

Louisiana Officials Mounted Fierce EffortTo Keep Williams at Grambling

Louisiana Officials Mounted Fierce EffortTo Keep Williams at GramblingDespite failure, officials agree it was worth the tryBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.University of Louisiana System President Sally Clausen did her best to talk Grambling State University football coach Doug Williams into staying at the historically Black university. But Clausen couldn’t talk the Tampa Bay Buccaneers into […]

University of Georgia Names New Athletic Director

University of Georgia Names New Athletic DirectorATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia hired Damon Evans as its athletic director last month, the first Black person to hold that job in the Southeastern Conference. Evans, 34, will take the position of his mentor, Vince Dooley, who is being forced out of the athletic director job and will […]

A Year in Review: Headliners

HeadlinersHoward University’s School of Communications was renamed the John H. Johnson School of Communications in recognition of a $4 million contribution from the legendary founder of Johnson Publishing Co., which produces Ebony and Jet magazines.University of Virginia student Daisy Lundy, a student of African American and Korean background, reported being assaulted in February by a […]

A Year in Review: Milestones

MilestonesHistorically Black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania kicked off its 150th anniversary celebration in April. The sesquicentennial celebration will last through May 2004 and will encompass a variety of special events. The University of Pennsylvania became the first and only Ivy League institution to establish a criminology department. The University of California-Santa Barbara announced that it […]

A Year in Review: A Tribute to Academic, Athletic Excellence

A Tribute to Academic, Athletic ExcellenceThe 10th anniversary of tennis legend Arthur Ashe’s death in February triggered an outpouring of tributes in the news media and by some sports organizations. Ashe, who was 49 years old when he succumbed to an AIDS-related illness on Feb. 6, 1993, is now celebrated as much for his social […]

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