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...hours in class, six hours trying to sign up for the video for missed classes, one hour actually watching that video, 86 hours of talking to fellow first-years at 4 a.m. about obscure topics such as the time you met their older brothers at Center for Talented Youth and now they're at Harvard and have no clue about what is going on at the University...
From New Mexico, with Taos Pueblo and Navajo roots, Linson matter-of-factly describes the poverty of his youth and the inferior health care Native Americans often receive. Both influenced his decision to attend medical school. Now that he's almost through, he says he is trying to decide how best to use his training here to serve his community...
...entire program stemmed from the Native American self-determination movement of the 1960s and '70s. The movement culminated in the 1975 Self-Determination Act, which Begay says allocated more funding for Native American students and made it the reservations' mandate for every youth to go to college...
Hard as it may be to believe, the forced dialogue in this classroom, part of a program called Life Skills Training, may help address a stinging question posed during the 1996 presidential campaign. When Bob Dole belabored Bill Clinton over a rise in youth drug use, the numbers supported him: a University of Michigan study shows that in 1995, 16% of eighth-graders had used marijuana and 2.6% cocaine. Figures for 12th-graders were 35% and 4%; all were significant jumps over 1991 rates (though far below rates in the late 1970s...
Wise's message for West Virginia's youth: Stay in school. In such a poor state, he says, education is the only way to escape poverty. The Congressman is a regular on West Virginia First, a TV show that encourages college graduates to bring their skills back home, and he has given every salary increase since taking office to scholarship funds at four West Virginia schools. That was seven terms ago, and his upbeat, positive attitude makes him the expected winner this race...