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Despite the discrepancy in statistics, teen pregnancy, as black leaders are quick to point out, should not be seen as a specifically black problem. Rather, says Jacob, it is a poverty-related problem. "It has a greater impact on the black community because it is a poor community." Indeed, poor whites as well as blacks tend to have high rates of teenage pregnancy. In the largely white community of North Adams, Mass., an old mill town where unemployment has been high, teen pregnancy is reaching epidemic levels. One out of five births at North Adams Regional Hospital...
...major issue for the black community. The National Urban League has declared it its No. 1 concern and last spring, on Father's Day, launched a program aimed at teenage boys, the often forgotten partners in the problem of teen pregnancy (see box). Says League President John Jacob: "We cannot talk about strengthening the black community and family without facing up to the fact that teenage pregnancy is a major factor in high unemployment, the numbers of high school dropouts and the numbers of blacks below the poverty line...
...College will appoint an associate dean for bowel movements after a Harvard School of Public Health study links problems with regularity to spending long winters in large brick buildings. Something about the iron content in the bricks. Dean of the College Jacob Hale Russell ’05 will claim that the new appointment addresses a pressing absence of deanlets and will nicely complement the work of the assistant dean for animal control and the associate dean for undergraduate lighting...
...Jacob Hale Russell ’05 is an English concentrator in Adams House. He was arts chair of The Crimson...
Herrmann struck out four in the first three innings, but never quite escaped trouble. Just when he appeared to gain confidence—in the third inning, he coolly rung up Missouri batters Jacob Priday and Tyler Williams—the Tigers bats struck back, as they did with two more two-out runs that inning...