My Friends’ Dad Is A Train Driver

Published in May 22nd, 2008

After completing a rather rough spring semester I finally got a chance this week to get back to giving speeches in my Toastmasters club, the Talk of the Town Toastmasters. After nearly a year of focusing on rebuilding the club I now have some time to work on advancing to my next public speaking certification. […]

Morehouse Gets First White Valedictorian

Published in May 15th, 2008

Posted by Marty in General Interest

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Here’s an interesting Associated Press story from WSB-TV Atlanta’s web site posted May 9th. Props to my SIAC conference competitor for a good read.

Fall Semester Is In the Books

Published in May 9th, 2008

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Finally, my brain can rest for a couple of weeks. The spring semester ended succesfully and it’s on to summer school. Discrete Structures (Java 2) and Discrete Math are both history now. It’s on to Algorythms and a golf class starting later this month. I’ll stretch my brain even more from May til whenever the […]

58 Percent of Black Children Can’t Swim

Published in May 2nd, 2008

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From the latest issue of “Diverse, Issues In Higher Education”, see following article written by the Associated Press.
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Nearly 60 percent of African-American children cannot swim, almost twice the figure for White children, according to a first-of-its-kind survey which USA Swimming hopes will strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates and draw more Blacks into […]