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Ever since she took over as principal of Foothill High School two years ago, JoAnn Murphy has wanted to involve parents in their children's education. It's hardly an original notion, but considering that the 100 students at the Albuquerque school are all incarcerated juvenile offenders, her application to establish a Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) at the school was groundbreaking. "It showed that in all venues it's important to have parental involvement," says Anna Weselak, national PTA president...
...ensure that it did.”And at Dartmouth, tensions over the school’s former mascot—the Indian—have lingered for years, but a series of events brought the issue to the forefront of campus debate this fall.In November, Athletic Director JoAnn “Josie” Harper publicly apologized for inviting the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux hockey team to a tournament being held at Dartmouth.The University of North Dakota’s continuing use of a Native American mascot “is offensive and wrong...
...must offer a sincere apology to the Native American community, and the Dartmouth community as a whole, for an event that will understandably offend and hurt people within our community,” wrote JoAnn “Josie” Harper, Dartmouth’s director of athletics and recreation, in a letter to the editor published in The Dartmouth. “UND’s position is offensive and wrong...
Earlier observational research—based on food intake and over-the-counter supplements—had suggested that antioxidant vitamins might have cardiovascular benefits for women, according to JoAnn E. Manson ’75, the lead researcher and a professor of medicine...
...elections were perfect before Congress decided to hold them on computers. They weren't. "Stuffing the ballot box" is not an expression from the world of fiction. The problem with overvoting punch cards existed for decades before the dateline PALM BEACH COUNTY became a household term. Peoria County clerk JoAnn Thomas says she routinely tossed out several hundred twice-punched ballots every year. That represents roughly 1% of all registered voters in her jurisdiction...