The Chronicle of Higher Education, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1999
Two marketing professors, James Stearns of Miami University and Shaheen
Borna of Ball State University, interviewed 300 incarcerated felons taking
part in college programs at three minimum-security prisons in the Midwest
and compared their responses with those from an earlier survey of students
at 11 M.B.A. programs.  They found the inmates showed just as much
integrity as the business students, and sometimes more, when faced with
difficult business dilemmas.  Quotes Stearns.

The Cincinnati Post, Thursday, Feb. 11
Student bookies, many with at least indirect links to organized crime, take
illegal bets on collegiate and professional sports on practically every
university campus in America, according to Willam Saum, the NCAA's director
of agent and gambling activites.  Although Saum has not visited local
colleges, he has asked FBI officials to speak on the gambling issue at the
University of Cincinnati, Miami University and the University of Dayton.
And:
School officials at several area universities, including Miami, said they
have not had any arrests of bookies or gamblers within the last several
years but admit gambling could exist without becoming public knowledge.  At
Miami, several students were caught this semester trying to start a
financial pyramid scheme, but no one has been arrested or reprimanded for
gambling in the recent past, said Holly Wissing (news and public
information).
And:
Letter to the editor from Rich Erlich (English) about the trend to
eliminate high school valedictorians says even with pluses and minuses
translated into numbers of one or two decimal points, even with more than
60 course grades, grades in individual courses aren't exact enough to
justify decisions made in terms of thousandths of a point of cumulative
GPA.  There should be one formal speech and only one at most commencements,
and that speech should be made by a representative of the student body.

Journal-News, Friday, Feb. 12
Edith Olivia Washington Johnson spoke on Thursday to students and faculty
at the Hamilton campus of Miami University about the accomplishments of her
grandfather, Booker T. Washington, and her godfather, George Washington
Carver, as part of the observance of Black History Month at the campus.
And:
The 1999 Miami Open Skating Competition will be hosted by Miami
University's Goggin Ice Arena today through Sunday.
And:
Calendar items for MIami University Symphony Orchestra and exhibits at
Hiestand Gallery and the art museum.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, Feb. 12
Dartmouth College's plan to end single-sex fraternities and sororities got
a cool reception Thursday from students on Tristate campuses.  Officials at
UC and Miami said Thursday they are not considering following Dartmouth's
lead.  Quotes Karin Schmidt (member of Alpha Chi Omega at Miami) and Dennis
Roberts (student affairs).
And:
Calendar items for art museum and Hiestand Hall Galleries.

Dayton Daily News, Friday , Feb. 12
Miami University students won honors in several areas at the annual
regional American College Theatre Festival last month in Indianapolis.
And:
Calendar items for Warhol and Morsberger exhibits at the art museum and
"Prospectus" at Hiestand Hall North Gallery.

Elsewhere in education:

The New York Times, Thursday, Feb. 11
Gettysburg College, a private liberal arts college with 2,200 students, has
taken the electronic campus a step further by allowing students and parents
access to an interactive Web-based system that tracks and links many
aspects of college life.  The systme was started a year ago as a way to
link students to one another and to a wide array of campus information and
a version for parents was added at the end of October.

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