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Townsend to receive scholarship
BUTLER COUNTY — Sheila Townsend, a Miami University senior and native of Hamilton, is this year's Bill Moeller Scholarship Award winner and will be recognized tonight at the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies at the Manchester Inn in Middletown. This year's 25th class of inductees consists of Dr. Jan Adams (Middletown High School), Steve Channell (Edgewood), Jack Garretson (Taft), Jean Marks (Talawanda), Dick Martin (Fenwick), Mark Maus (Badin), Bob Nuxhall (Hamilton), Angie Fischer O'Farrell (Ross), Elise Spears (Hamilton), Joe Urso (Hamilton Catholic) and Willie Wineberg (Fairfield). .
Need Scholarship money? Boston University Young Republicans ...
The group, Boston University College Republicans, told campus publications the $250 Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship was intended as a statement and they had raised funds privately for the award, which does not have the backing of the university. "We think giving out a scholarship based on any race is crazy," Joe Mroszczyk, president of the group, told the college's BU Today Web site. Of all the groups to do this... why am I not surprised its a Republican one? I understand the debate regarding "what is taking affirmative action to the point of reverse discrimination" only too well. Just recently on the ballot this month was a measure asking about it. Would they be protesting if it was somthing like, say, scholarships to the child of a veteran? I've seen those around a lot. THere's so many scholarship sites adn opportunities, even OUTSIDE the school designed ones, even if the competition is fierce, that it seems like theres other ways to go about getting money. Maybe if we brought the FEDERAL financial aid packages up to the times....j I really wonder which caucasian students will APPLY for this scholarship! At any rate, college is unaffordable for pretty much EVERYONE right now, so i see why people might be eyeing other peoples scholarships jealously. But as unnaffordable as it is to a middle class white family, its even MORE unaffordable to students of many other ethnicities. So I stand with the school in encouraging diversity on their campus.
House must OK scholarship change
With the election behind them - and their loss of majority control less than two months away - state House Republicans no longer have a reason to hold up an upgrade in a state scholarship program that would make some college affordable for virtually every Michigan high school graduate. What's left of the legislative year offers ample time to approve a replacement for the current Merit Award scholarship, which gives a $2,500-$3,000 maximum to those passing a state standardized test. Sure, there'll be a cost increase associated with offering students up to $4,000 in aid, if they can complete two years of college or equivalent training with a 2.5 grade-point average. The benefits to be gained justify the $60 million add-on to the current scholarship program budget.
Iraqi soldiers eat frogs, rabbit at handover ceremony
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi soldiers bit the heads off frogs and ate the heart of a rabbit as signs of courage on Wednesday at a ceremony to transfer Najaf province, home to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines, from U.S. to Iraqi control. A U.S. general called the transfer, under a plan to gradually hand over security and allow the withdrawal of 135,000 American troops, a major step forward in strengthening the Iraqi government as it seeks to rein in sectarian violence. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said Iraqis can take over security of all Iraq's 18 provinces by June, despite doubts about capabilities and the sectarian loyalties of the army and police. The province has been spared much of the violence, but its capital Najaf is the scene of a power struggle between two powerful Shi'ite militias vying for control of the holy city, the seat of Iraq's most influential Shi'ite clerics.
Rutgers student meets with Pres. Bush
Danielle Josephs wants to be U.S. secretary of state some day, and she got a taste of what it might be like Monday when she met with President Bush to discuss the global rise of anti-Semitism and other concerns of American Jews. The meeting may not have been so unusual for the nine university presidents, deans and chancellors who were there, but Josephs is a 21-year-old Rutgers senior from Teaneck. Because of her work at Rutgers, including establishing a dormitory where Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Christian students live with and learn about one another, Josephs was invited to be one four students among 14 "Jewish leaders in higher education" meeting with Bush before the White House Hanukkah party. "The president was really impressed by the tenacity of American students," Josephs said afterward.
Scholarship in European Union Law Has Undergone a Transformation ...
Scholarship in European Union Law has undergone a transformation in the last decade or so. It is increasingly theoretically informed and empirically rich. This book exemplifies this positive change. Discussion of Bourdieu sits alongside a detailed account of the internal functioning of the European Commission. Constructive but not uncritical, and seeking to build theory from practice, this volume presents an illuminating account of new governance in the EU. Joanne Scott, Professor of European Law, Faculty of Laws, University College London About the Author/Editor Katerina Sideri is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter, England. She writes in the fields of law and social theory, law and governance, regulation of technology in the EU, and bioethics.
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