High gas prices a good thing? — See Page 3
What’s next for NSU basketball?
Beyond what the eye can see
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4.11.12
Vol. 59, I ssue 10
COLLEGE STUDENTS DROP OUT
NICE
By: Krysta Ricks
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FOR MULTIPLE REASONS The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded a study regarding college dropouts. The study found that time management, lack of funds and no family support are big factors in many students’ decision to drop out of college. Trends show that for every two million students that enroll in college every year, 800,000 will never graduate. Students have many more responsibilities today in addition to attending college. Junior social work major Randy Walker said, “I was the Sophomore King, Mr. Gamma Nu and a member of the National Society of Pershing Rifles Fraternity, Inc. and I still managed to work two jobs. It
is hard, but I have good time management skills.” According to insidetrack. com, almost three-quarters of college dropouts said their decision was based on the fact that they could not juggle school and work. Tuition and fees are becoming too expensive for some students to complete their studies. The site reported that nearly 60 percent of college dropouts said they had no help from their parents and 69 percent said they had never had a scholarship or a loan. Money is not the only support system students need in college. Lack of support
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A study reported that lack of funds and family support were big factors of student dropouts.
The state of Virginia does not agree with new ultrasound ratification.
VIRGINIA IN UPROAR AFTER ULTRASOUND MANDATE
By: Marian Brooks
procedure.” This is correct yet misleading because it implies that this law is widespread, but Virginia has joined the ranks of only seven other states that require the doctor to offer the woman an image of the fetus. Virginia’s law is not nearly as harsh as Texas’s law which requires the ultrasound image to be in the woman’s line of sight as the doctor describes the fetus and the procedure to her. State Senator Janet Howell noted in an interview with The Huffington Post that the amendment to the bill is not enough. “We have taken out the state-required rape from
Ever wondered where the NCAA gets all the money it distributes to NCAA tournament selects and the teams that advance? Athletic Director Marty Miller mentioned that the NSU men’s basketball team earned a staggering $300,000 just for making it to the first round of the tournament in a press conference held on NSU’s campus. According to ESPN.com, an NCAA budget released in February reported that the Indianapolis-based group expected to rake in $757 million through TV and marketing rights fees, championship revenue and other services. This seemingly large amount of money is distributed through academic enhancement, basketball funds, conference grants, grants-inaids, sports sponsorships, and student assistance. It is all big game of numbers
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By: Krysta Ricks
Virginia became the eighth state to require women to have an ultrasound in order to have an abortion after Governor Bob McDonnell signed the bill into law on March 7. The bill no longer requires the uncomfortable invasive transvaginal ultrasound procedure which involves a probe covered with a condom and a gel. On February 22, the Virginia House of Delegates removed that section of the bill after public outcry across the state opting for the transabdominal procedure which is less invasive. The bill states that it “allows Virginia to join about 23 other states that have an ultrasound
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