| Struggling to Keep Black Students
I think we're going to see change with these creative scholarships and matching grants," Carroll said. Gordon Chavis, assistant vice president for undergraduate admissions at the University of Central Florida and a member of the governor's Access and Diversity Commission, said that “our foundation people" have been very positive about the matching grants program. Chavis said that people usually donate to a general scholarship fund, so getting donations specifically for first generation students might require new fund raising tactics. But he added that universities could use the opportunity to court donors who want to know exactly how their money will be used. Rosenberg added that the matching grants are part of “a culture of incentives within the system that we'd like to preserve." In California, the number of black students has declined since the voter-approved Proposition 209 outlawed using race in admissions in 1996.
UW Men | Huskies get pushed, but rally for win over Beavers
A little later, Giles and Brockman got tangled, each getting called for technicals along with Tarver, whose missed layin had started it all. "Two teams playing hard scraping and scrapping," Romar said. "Good ol' hard, aggressive basketball." Bob Condotta: 206-515-5699 or bcondotta@seattletimes.com. .
Comcast sales up, earnings flat
Meanwhile, a YouTube spokesperson said NBC had informed them of their plans on Friday, and added: "Our relationship with NBC was a YouTube success story, so we hope NBC decides to post more original content and stay engaged with our users." The massive popularity on YouTube of Lazy Sunday, an NBC Saturday Night Live clip, was a watershed in revealing the new mediums ability to circulate video to millions of viewers on the internet.Since then, NBC and other networks have posted promotional clips for programmes on the site. NBC and News Corp have promoted Hulu as a way to supply their professionally made video to online audiences in an environment that respects copyrights.
Back to top Digiturk hopes for $550m in IPO Digiturk, Turkey's largest digital television broadcaster, plans to raise as much as $550 million (E386m) in an IPO of 25 per cent of its business.
Endorsing Ron Paul, and Why Progressive Dems Should Support Ron Paul
Like Petey Greene the old Wasington D.C. disc jockey would say, "Hey people wake up God-dammit!". I think what's throwing people off is the title header of your op-piece. Sometimes people will only read the header, then read the rest of the story with a certain frame of mind. .
The perfect storm could really blow
Mark Mitchell from London, Canada writes: Why does not anybody realize that U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait virtually ensures the free flow of oil supplies to the West? Moreover, why does nobody realize that the dollar's linkage to those massively protected supplies ensures the United States can continue to sustain its massive debt so long as its military holds the world's oil hostage? "
The US Navy ensures that there is stability in the world. The USA is not dependent on oil from the mid-East (no more than 15% of its daily oil needs come from mid-East). Same cannot be said for Europe, Japan and China. Without the USA protecting the world's oil supply Japan and China certainly would have to take steps to to do so. Yet a militarized Japan is not acceptable to China, similarly Japan could not accept China controlling Japan's access to oil.
Biofuels: GM looking ahead with buy-in on maker of cellulosic ethanol
General Motors is appropriately looking to the future, not the present, with its investment in ethanol firm Coskata. At the Detroit Auto Show on Sunday, GM announced an unspecified investment in the Illinois firm, which is working to produce cellulosic ethanol commercially. Unlike the corn-based ethanol now found at pumps and so popular with the political crowd, cellulosic ethanol does not rely on huge swaths of American farmland. And cellulosic ethanol is less polluting than its corn cousin. .
UT-Austin leery of opening a medical school
Whether Austin will ever get a medical school is a long-standing question fraught with politics, money and bureaucracy. This much has become clear recently: The University of Texas System is eager to establish such a school, but its flagship campus in Austin is not so sure it wants to be the host. If a medical school were to be opened here, it's more likely it would be a satellite of one of the UT System medical campuses in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Galveston rather than a unit of UT-Austin. The UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is studying the feasibility of a branch in Austin. .
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