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So colleges and universities have gone to war by other means. Students at North Carolina Central University urged their peers to boycott gossip sites. At Mount Holyoke College, where a localized gossip site generated a lot of hurt and anger, administrators held workshops to encourage students to talk things out...
But black schools, Savannah included, have their problems. Nationwide, 41% of black students graduate from college within six years (for white students, the figure is 59%). The rate is lower at the majority of HBCUs, which often accept low-performing students who may not have been given a chance elsewhere...
Of course, there's nothing to keep U.S News or anyone else from plugging all this new data into a rankings formula. And more than a few college presidents think that isn't such a bad thing. "Some of my colleagues are ethical purists, and I applaud them," Millsaps College...
BORN: July 22, 1954, Lake Charles EDUCATION: Millsaps College, B.B.A., 1976; Mississippi College, J.D., 1980 FAMILY: Wife, Beth; three children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 400 7th Street, Lake Charles 70601. Tel.: 318-497-0855
...assuring them loan payments would amount to no more than $50 a month. Instead, they wound up with a second mortgage and monthly payments of $148 for 15 years, a burden that strained their modest income until, less than a year later, they had lost their house. But the Millsapses along with eight other families that were hustled in the same scheme, brought a RICO suit and last July won a $115,000 collective settlement. "Congress believed that private victims of fraud are also entitled to relief," says former Federal Prosecutor Charles Wehner...