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...level of disillusionment Fullilove feels matches the enthusiasm she felt as an 18-year-old high school senior from Dayton, Ohio, visiting the Air Force Academy for the first time in the spring of 1999. Only the best and brightest, the top 20% of their high school class, have a chance at admission. Fullilove was that and more. She was a straight-A student, a cheerleader, a hurdle jumper and a swim-team member. A dance champion by age 5, she choreographed her own routines, sang and did comedy. She was determined to follow in the footsteps of her mother...
Jackson’s book, Leaping from a Public School to a Top U., is among the more personal volumes of the series. In her book, she describes her own jump from a large public high school in Dayton, Ohio, to Harvard—with all of its demands and expectations...
Known as Scotty because he was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1909, Reston was raised in Dayton, Ohio, under difficult circumstances. He was nearly expelled from the University of Illinois journalism school when a Depression-era bank failure made his $100 tuition check bounce. Memories of his early penury, Stacks says, and his immigrant's outsider mentality stuck with Reston through his life, even though by his 40s he was a well-paid pillar of the East Coast establishment...
...Dayton said he would not be comfortable changing abstinence periods without further research. In the interest of more donors and fairer rules, that research should begin as quickly as possible. At the same time, the FDA and the CDC should evaluate more fundamental changes to its donor screening. Condom use, the number of sexual partners and the type of sex—whether vaginal, anal or oral—determine the risk of HIV transmission more directly than broad identity categories. As BGLTSA Public Relations Chair Marcel A. Q. LaFlamme ’04 points out, “ultimately...
Incorporating individual behavior into a new risk calculus could make the blood supply safer without relying on stereotypes of gay men. There are practical limits on the level of nuance possible through donor interviews and questionnaires, of course, and Dayton wisely warns against making them too much longer. “If you start asking to many questions, you start getting incorrect answers,” he said. But more accurate assessments of individual risk may only require a few new questions...