Archives 1997 Scholarship scandal in Louisiana Baton Rouge, La.
Last fall when William "Bud" Davis, the chancellor of State University, suddenly resigned his position in the wake of charges that his office awarded nearly fifty minority scholarships to White students, many educators and politicians around the state sighed a collective relief that this most recent scholarship fiasco appeared to end as Davis departed. Jul 12, 2007, 04:49
Archives 1997 Fast lane to the NFL - Carolina Panther's Fred Lane from Lane College, Tennessee Conventional wisdom will have you believe that players from small colleges can't make it at the professional level because they didn't play against a level of competition that adequately prepared them for the pros -- as did the football players at top-rated programs like Florida State, Michigan, and Nebraska. Jul 12, 2007, 04:48
Archives 1997 Less sugar and more of the sweet life: the Diabetes Prevention Program Washington
The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is a researh study being conducted at twenty-five medical centers around the country. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the program hopes to prove that type 2 diabetes can be prevented by altering one's lifestyle and/or medication. Jul 12, 2007, 04:41
Archives 1997 A prescription for participation: diabetes study helping African Americans overcome fears of ethnic medical research They don't want to take pills. They're unwilling to participate in randomized trials. They are reluctant to take a chance," says Robert Ratner, M.D., head of the Medlantic Clinical Research Center in Washington, D.C., discussing why some people don't want to participate in medical research. "There remains reluctance to participate in any medical study. Some of it is, `I want someone else to do it so I "know it's safe, then I'll do it' -- the guinea-pig phenomenon." Jul 12, 2007, 04:40
