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...later today the school's trustees are expected to do something about it. Following the example of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Louisville is joining more than two dozen other schools that have begun promising a free education - books, tuition, and room and board - to students from poor families. Students accepted at Louisville who meet income guidelines will be guaranteed that if federal aid won't cover their costs - all of them - the universities will make up the difference. Schools like Miami of Ohio and UNC-Asheville have adopted similar programs...
...Chapel Hill began the program in 2003, at first offering the no-loans promise to any student from families earning less than 150% of the federal poverty threshold. Since then it has expanded the income cutoff to 200% of the poverty line, and the school currently has about 900 students attending cost-free. "All of us in higher education have been concerned about access and affordability," said Shirley Ort, director of scholarships and student aid at Chapel Hill. "But we did this frankly to simplify our message. With all the media focus about spiraling college costs, we were afraid...
...Anyone who thinks rope skipping is child's play hasn?t been to the 3-hour-a-day practices run by coach Ray Frederick, Jr., of the Bouncing Bulldogs in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In a typical session, team members climb 2000 to 3000 football stadium steps and do 500 one-footed jumping jacks. That hard work has paid off. "We've won the national championship three years in a row now, and that's never happened before," says Frederick, whose team currently consists of 95 boys and girls, ranging from ages...
...upcoming halftime show at the Army-Navy men's basketball game on January 21. "The crowd always loves the 'rodeo,' where you're bouncing on your butt. They always find that fascinating," notes team member Krishinda Lee, 22, who is a junior at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill...
Among their bonds was a love of sports: Ford had been an All-American football player, and Zeoli created a ministry for professional athletes. It was at a pregame "football chapel," Zeoli says, that Ford renewed his personal commitment to Christ. Zeoli was holding a service at a Washington-area Marriott hotel for the Dallas Cowboys, in town to play the Redskins. Ford, who was then the Republican minority leader in Congress, went to hear his friend preach on "God's game plan." Ford was especially moved by the sermon and hung around to talk with Zeoli privately afterward about...