The Cincinnati Post, Monday, Feb. 22
Feature on Miami University's Thomas C. Page Center for Entrepreneurship
says it isn't a haven for convention with course titles such as "Guerilla
Marketing" and Imagination."  As Miami moves to make this undergraduate
minor program one of the top three in the nation, there's even a plan for
letting zoology majors, music students and others get minors in
entrepreneurship, said Michael Morris, the center director.  Also quotes
Mary Beth Price (Page Center's Richard A Forsythe chair).
And:
Photo of Miami students Patrick King and Hayden Emery painting apartments
for Tender Mercies.  Caption says Miami students fasted for 30 hours and
painted apartments during World Vision's 30 Hour Famine event to raise
awareness of world hunger.

Dayton Daily News, Tuesday, Feb. 23
With meningitis cases among those between the ages of 15 and 25 doubling
since 1991, some colleges are acknowledging that all students should be
warned about the potentially deadly disease, even if the vaccination is
expensive and not always covered under insurance.  Miami University has no
special notice of the disease for incoming students and follows Centers of
Disease Control recommendations regarding the vaccine.  There have been no
meningistis-related cases at Miami since a student died in 1997 of
meningococcemia.
And:
Black History Month events include Freedom Summer Revisited, a presentation
sponsored by the Western College Program at Miami University.

Sacramento Bee, Sunday, Feb. 21
For countless seniors, the meaning of retirement is changing.  Once a time
of relaxation, retirement is being transformed into a period of economic
and spiritual renewal.  Quotes Suzanne Kunkel (Scripps Gerontology Center).

Middletown Journal, Monday, Feb. 22; Journal-News, Tuesday, Feb. 23
Whoever put up racist fliers last fall in Miami University's center for
black culture no doubt wanted to start something.  What they started was a
lingering, agonizing mystery that may be settled with a jury trial.  Quotes
senior Steve Knisely, Miami president James Garland, senior Ayars Borden,
Bret Freeman (secretary for diversity affairs, ASG), Brad Allen and Nathan
Estep (president, ASG).  Middletown Journal articles also cites Bill
Madison (manager, diversity enrollment in business school).

Ch. 12, Friday, Feb. 19
Civic leader Lavatus Powell died Wednesday.  He is survived by his wife
Myrtis Powell (vp, student affairs).

Ch. 5, Friday, Feb. 19; Ch. 9, Saturday, Feb. 20
Story about World Vision 30 hour famine said Miami University students were
fasting and volunteering in soup kitchens.

The Middletown Journal, Sunday, Feb. 21
Recipients of scholarships from Soroptimists International of Middletown
include MIami-Middletown students Denise Watts (widow and mother of a
teen-age daughter) and Teca Gillespie  The Women's Opportunity Award, given
to aid mature women who must enter or return to the job market, was
presented to Teresa Rinear, a single mother of three children who is
employed at Miami University and takes classes at the Oxford and Hamilton
campuses.

Journal-News, Tuesday, Feb. 23
Group ice skating lessons will be offered starting Friday at Goggin Ice Arena.


Elsewhere in education:

Journal-News, Tuesday, Feb. 23
Editorial from Mona Charen (columnist and political consultant) says the
current administration and most of the educational institutions in the
country have been flouting the law on racial classifications for some time.
Discriminating on the basis of race--even for the apparently noble purpose
of remedying past societal discrimination against certain groups or to
achieve racial diversity--is flatly illegal and has been for 20 years.

Kristal Humphrey
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