Black Issues in Higher Education articles from April 2002

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from April 2002

Madness beyond March.(Blacks in sports)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
April 11, 2002... The sports world is one of many windows into American life at which to view race relations. And many people, particularly African Americans, do not like what they see. On one hand, athletics, like the entertainment industry, has been the ticket...

Letters.
April 11, 2002... DEAR EDITOR: In your Feb. 14 issue, Dr. Julianne Malveaux was clicking on all cylinders when she incisively noted that "the media want a controversy" at Harvard between President Lawrence Summers and the university's African American...

House approves 2003 budget plan; Democrats deem budget insufficient to meet educational needs. (Washington Update).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... The full House of Representatives approved a 2003 budget plan with a small increase for minority-serving colleges after brushing back efforts to add more money for Pell Grants to the plan. The 221-209 vote was largely along party lines, as...

Quote of note. (Washington Update).(budget)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... "It can hardly be called a budget--that implies some logic and order to the document. Republicans have filled this budget with `fuzzy math' in order to say that it is balanced and fair." -- Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.

Education Department fills top postsecondary job. (Washington Update).(Sally Stroup)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... The U.S. Department of Education now has an assistant secretary for postsecondary education, thanks to recent Senate action. The Senate in March approved the nomination of Sally Stroup for the post, the senior college and university slot at...

D.C. tuition bill extends reach to all HBCUs. (Washington Update).(historically Black colleges and universities)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... Residents of the District of Columbia could gain significant new benefits -- including tuition discounts at many Black colleges -- under legislation that has cleared Congress and is awaiting President Bush's signature. The Senate in March...

Gates Foundation invests $40 million to create small high schools. (Noteworthy News).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... NEW YORK To dramatically increase high school graduation and college attendance rates for the most disadvantaged youth, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed more than $40 million to create 70 small high schools last month. These...

Florida court rejects NAACP challenge to university admissions. (Noteworthy News).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... TALLAHASSEE, FLA. An appeals court has ruled the NAACP does not have standing to challenge rules eliminating racial and gender preferences in university admissions. Appeals Judge Peter Webster wrote that the civil rights group had...

Black Alumni request outside review of diversity at Arkansas. (Noteworthy News).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... LITTLE ROCK, ARK. The University of Arkansas' Black Alumni Society has proposed that Chancellor John White hire an off-campus firm to determine whether Blacks are represented fairly at the university. The group says the review it...

Author's legacy lives on. (Noteworthy News).(Margaret Mitchell)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... The legacy left by an unlikely alliance between Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind, and Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, the sixth president of Morehouse College, continues to live on at the historically Black institution in Atlanta. Last...

Report: women throughout MIT face discrimination. (Noteworthy News).(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Women faculty throughout the Massachusetts Institute of Technology long have faced bias and inequality, according to a report released last month on gender equity at the school. Although the university has made...

NAFEO ends conference with tribute to HBCU presidents. (Noteworthy News).(National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... WASHINGTON The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) ended its 27th annual conference last month in Washington with a tribute to some of higher education's most deserving leaders. More than 20 former...

Boston University plans Residency program for foreign leaders. (Noteworthy News).(Balfour African Presidents in Residence program)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... BOSTON Boston University plans to launch a residency program for former heads of state from Africa, a project supporters say offers an exit strategy for leaders in need of a way to leave their jobs gracefully. "There is life after the...

U.S. medical seniors enjoy highest match rate ever. (Noteworthy News).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 11, 2002... WASHINGTON Last month, more than 23,000 applicants in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) found out which residency program they will enter for training. Data from this year's residency match, which serves as an indicator of...

Florida Black colleges receive settlement from hotel bias case. (Noteworthy News).(Adams Mark Daytona Beach Resort)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... TALLAHASSEE, FLA. Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth recently presented a check for $250,000 to Florida A&M University (FAMU) as its portion under a settlement of discrimination charges against the Adams Mark Daytona Beach Resort....

Bluefield State president resigns, plans to teach at college. (Noteworthy News).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... BLUEFIELD, W.VA. Bluefield State College president Dr. Robert Moore announced his resignation last month, citing a desire to pursue new personal and professional goals. Moore, who became BSC president in June 1993, following 19 years...

College Board proposes SAT overhaul. (Noteworthy News).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... BERKELEY, CALIF. In a bid to avoid losing the University of California as a customer, the head of the College Board has proposed overhauling the SAT I test after university officials criticized the exam and announced they were considering...

Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars 2002 10th Annual Awards: giving it their best shot. (Special Report).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... Excelling in academics, athletics and service to the community is a challenge that very few student-athletes can master. The late tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr. mastered all three, which is why Black Issues In Higher Education established the...

What ever happened to the conscientious Black athlete? And is the Black community expecting too much from today's sports stars? (Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars 2002).
April 11, 2002... Charles Thomas and Terrence Jason Welton came of age in the Michael Jordan era. As NCAA Division I-A basketball players during the 2001-02 season and in previous years, Thomas and Welton reached a pinnacle of athletic success that tens of...

Old problem, new solution? Can programs such as the NCAA's Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males boost the numbers of Black head coaches, athletic directors? (Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars 2002).
April 11, 2002... Until a month ago, basketball coach Nolan Richardson could have been in line to become one of the few Black athletic directors in the NCAA's Division I. His boss at the University of Arkansas, Frank Broyles, is expected to step down from the...

Balancing books and the beam: Maryland gymnast prioritizes by putting academics first. (Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars 2002).(Carlla Johnson)
April 11, 2002... Arthur Ashe Jr. SPORTS SCHOLARS 2002 TOP FEMALE STUDENT-ATHLETE Carlla Johnson School: University of Maryland at College Park Age:22 Year: Senior Major: Government and Political Science GPA: 3.9 (Cumulative) 4.0...

A real team player: Wofford College's Ben Foster makes doing for others a daily priority and a future goal. (Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars 2002).
April 11, 2002... Arthur Ashe Jr. SPORTS SCHOLARS 2002 TOP MALE STUDENT-ATHLETE Ben Foster School: Wofford College Age: 22 Year: Senior Major: Biology GPA: 3.65 (Cumulative) 3.67 (Fall 2001) Sport: Football Picture the...

Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars 2002: women.(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
April 11, 2002... Arthur Ashe Jr. SPORTS SCHOLARS 2002 WOMEN Women's BASKETBALL Athlete name Class Fall '01 Cum GPA GPA FIRST TEAM Allen, Yoneko SO 3.92 ...

Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars 2002: men.(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
April 11, 2002... Arthur Ashe Jr. SPORTS SCHOLARS 2002 MEN Men's BASEBALL Athlete name Class Fall '01 Cum GPA GPA FIRST TEAM Bautista, Mark SO 3.76 3.45...

College sports: by the numbers.(minority student athletes)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
April 11, 2002... Minority students continue to maintain a strong presence in college sports. Yet, graduation rates for all student-athletes appear to tell another story. Only two institutions on our list can boast that they graduate 90 percent of their...

Malcolm X archival material rescued from the auction block; Schomburg Center could be recipient of collection, Shabazz family says. (Faculty Club).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... Scholars around the nation are breathing sighs of relief now that a treasure trove of original speech manuscripts, diaries, photos and letters belonging to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz -- more commonly known as Malcolm X -- have been rescued from...

The Malcolm X collection. (Faculty Club).(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
April 11, 2002... Butterfield's divided the Malcolm X collection into 21 lots and added a "super lot," which would have allowed an institution to acquire the collection as a whole. The contents include personal letters to family and friends, handwritten drafts...

Baltimore turns to DuBois Institute for digital divide program. (Tech Talk).(W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro American Research)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... BALTIMORE Less than two years after officials launched an after school computer academy in Boston in partnership with Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro American Research, Baltimore officials have opened the first of...

Bluefield State offers free computer and life skills classes. (Tech Talk).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... BLUEFIELD, W.VA. When Bluefield State College recently offered its "Emerging Scholars Adult Program," organizers had hoped for 150 students. They got 344, and another 40 are on the waiting list. West Virginia has recently begun giving...

UNCF technology campaign raises $90 million. (Tech Talk).(United Negro College Fund)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... FAIRFAX, VA. The campaign by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to raise funds, equipment and services to help its member schools bridge the "digital divide" has recently surpassed the $90 million mark, according to UNCF officials. The...

CUMREC conference set for Minnesota. (Tech Talk).
April 11, 2002... BOULDER, COLO. CUMREC, an affiliate organization of Educause that focuses on higher education administrative technology issues, will be convening its 2002 annual conference in Minneapolis, May 12-15. The CUMREC Annual Conference, founded...

Report says global digital divide growing. (tech briefs).(2002 World Telecommunication Development Report)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... GENEVA Even though telecommunication penetration has risen sharply in developing nations, the global digital divide is getting wider, according to the main conclusion of the 2002 World Telecommunication Development Report. The report,...

Supercomputing conference seeks faculty participation. (tech briefs).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... BALTIMORE An upcoming supercomputing conference in Baltimore is seeking the participation of teams of undergraduate faculty and K-12 teachers to spend four days in hands-on workshops learning about high-performance computing and...

Learning the ins and outs of PCs. (Personal Computing).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... Research has shown that those who are least comfortable with computer technology have the least knowledge of it. Those who have undergone training or taught themselves are less stressed and better able to take advantage of PCs. Makes sense. ...

Just another angry Black man? An open letter from Penn State faculty, staff and graduate students on Nolan Richardson's firing. (BI Forum).(Nolan Richardson)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... The only surprising thing about University of Arkansas head basketball coach Nolan Richardson's so-called "eruption" at a press conference in February was that it took so long. While some attention has been paid to the ridiculously low numbers...

Clinton Junior College. (On The Move).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... DR. ELAINE J. COPELAND has been named president of Clinton Junior College in Rock Hill, S.C. Previously, she was acting president of the college. Copeland earned a bachelor's degree from Livingstone College, master's degrees from Winthrop...

Great Basin College. (On The Move).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... DR. PAUL KILLPATRICK has been named president of Great Basin College in Elko, Nev., effective June 1. He currently serves as vice president of instructional support and community development at Mt. Hood Community College. Killpatrick earned a...

Morris Brown College. (On The Move).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... DR. REGINALD LINDSEY has been selected acting president of Morris Brown College in Atlanta. Lindsey most recently served as interim vice president for fiscal affairs. Lindsey earned a bachelor's from Alcorn State University, a master's from...

Temple University. (On The Move).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... THERESA A. POWELL has been appointed vice president for student affairs at Temple University in Philadelphia. Previously, she was vice president for student affairs at Western Michigan University. Powell earned a bachelor's from the University...

Johnson C. Smith University. (On The Move).(appointment of Rufus Robinson)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... DR. RUFUS ROBINSON is the new assistant vice president for institutional advancement at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C. Previously, he served as associate director for the Office of Career Services at Howard University. Robinson...

University of Richmond. (On The Move).(LAREE PEARL SUGG)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... LAREE PEARL SUGG has been hired as the first women's golf head coach at the University of Richmond. Sugg formerly competed on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour for four years and the Women's Professional Golfers European...

Grants & awards.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... The Central State University College of Education received $12,000 to establish a scholarship fund in honor of the late Donald W. Perry of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Creighton University has received a three-year $575,624 grant from the...

Events.
April 11, 2002... APRIL April 25-27 Education Writers Association (EWA) 55th National Seminar Wyndham City Center Washington, D.C. Contact: EWA Phone: (202) 452-9380 Fax: (202) 452-9837 E-mail: ewa@ewa.org Web: www.ewa.org MAY May...

Coaching: colleges' (un)level playing field. (Last Word).(Brief Article)
April 11, 2002... The high-profile hiring of Tyrone Willingham as the head football coach at Notre Dame University earlier this year ended an extensive -- and controversial -- search at the prestigious institution. Although the hiring of an African American by...

Education beyond the classroom.(town and gown relationships)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
April 25, 2002... The relationship between a university and its surrounding community often is a tenuous one. The college or university frequently is viewed as an inaccessible institution that is often more concerned about constructing new buildings and...

Letters.
April 25, 2002... DEAR EDITOR: We at Eastern Washington University, just 30 miles from the north Idaho border, are having a different experience than that described in Kendra Hamilton's article "Race in the College Classroom" in your March 14 issue. ...

Bush invokes rare process to fill OCR slot: move draws criticism from nominee's opponents. (Washington Update).(Gerald Reynolds a recess appointee to Office for Civil Rights)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... Proponents of affirmative action are criticizing President Bush for installing a new civil rights chief at the U.S. Department of Education without Senate confirmation. Bush has invoked the rarely used recess appointment process to bring...

New legislation may aid minority-serving institutions. (Washington Update).(attempt to close the digital divide)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... New federal legislation to help implement technology at minority-serving institutions may have a major positive effect for Black colleges and Hispanic-serving colleges and universities, witnesses told a Senate panel. In a congressional...

Wanted: new members for Black grad student group. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(National Black Graduate Student Association)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... WASHINGTON At the top of the agenda for the annual meeting of the National Black Graduate Student Association, held in Washington at Howard University late last month, was a call for members to get involved in recruitment. Roughly 250...

Michigan State's Black graduation ceremony criticized. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... EAST LANSING, MICH. Critics are taking aim at a new, optional Michigan State University event that will honor Black graduating seniors next month, saying it is unfair and promoting separatism. In one of several letters sent to the MSU...

Community groups address ethical concerns of genetic research. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... TUSKEGEE, ALA. Human cloning should be prohibited by federal law with substantial penalties to assure compliance, communities involved in a two-year study told the Alabama Legislature during a special session earlier this month. While...

Ku Klux Klan mural to remain hanging in Indiana classroom. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... BLOOMINGTON, IND. A mural from the 1930s that includes images of the Ku Klux Klan will remain hanging in an Indiana University classroom, despite objections from the university's Black Student Union (see Black Issues, March. 28). ...

High Court passes up college's free speech case. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... WASHINGTON Leaders of a Kentucky community college lost a free speech case that asked the Supreme Court if a college instructor had a constitutional right to use racial slurs in class as part of a discussion on hurtful communication. ...

Scholarships to aid students with drug records. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... WASHINGTON Opponents of a 1998 law that denies federal aid to thousands of college students with criminal drug records are trying to work around the law by offering financial help to those affected. A coalition of drug-law reform...

Physics professor settles lawsuit with Prairie View A&M president. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Charles Hines, Dennis Judd)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... HOUSTON A Prairie View A&M University physics professor settled the lawsuit he filed claiming Dr. Charles Hines, the school's president, set out to ruin his career after the physicist criticized Hines, the professor's attorney said last...

University of South Alabama officials dispute EEOC ruling. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Equal Employment Opportunity Commission )(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... MOBILE, ALA. University of South Alabama officials are disputing a finding that the school discriminated against a group of workers and were expected to reject an offer to settle the case. The school, facing a deadline, was to respond...

Former Norfolk State student sues fraternity, member over hazing. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Michlen Robinson)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... NORFOLK, VA. Michlen Robinson has painful memories of fraternity life at Norfolk State University: paddle swats, punches and a punctured lung. In a lawsuit filed last month in circuit court, Robinson says he was a hazing victim of Phi...

Morehouse hangs on to top title at annual academic challenge. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Honda Campus All-Star Challenge)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... ORLANDO, FLA. For the second consecutive year, Atlanta's Morehouse College emerged as the National Champion at the 2002 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC), an academic competition among the best and brightest students at the nation's...

TSU Debate team wins Olympics of Forensics competition. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Texas Southern University)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... HOUSTON The Texas Southern University Debate team returned to Houston late last month as champions of the International Forensics Association 12th annual Championship Tournament in Rome. The 17-member team succeeded in garnering a...

Connecting the classroom and the community; service-learning programs allow students to apply real-world experience with classroom study. (Service Learning)(Cover Story).
April 25, 2002... The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningful and give back to their communities. But for the past decade, a growing number of institutions of higher education have been doing their part...

State appropriations for higher education, 2001. (BI Statistics).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 25, 2002... State support of higher education fluctuates with the economy and with the fiscal health of the states. According to the NEA's 2002 Almanac of Higher Education, two traditionally strong performing areas of higher education funding did well...

The current toast of the poetry world; Carl Phillips honored with Kingsley Tufts Award. (Faculty Club).
April 25, 2002... CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Carl Phillips has become only the second African American poet to win the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a highly coveted prize that carries with it a career's worth of prestige -- and a $100,000 check. Phillips says...

Charlottesville students escape hate crimes charges. (Faculty Club).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. Nine Charlottesville High School students charged in a string of assaults on University of Virginia students have escaped hate crimes charges, according to a ruling by the commonwealth's attorney Dave Chapman (see...

Going online with V-HBCU; coalition seeks to boost presence of HBCUs in distance learning. (Tech Talk).(Virtual-Historically Black Colleges' University)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... For many higher education institutions, the establishment of online distance education courses and certificate and degree programs remains a difficult struggle despite the presence of hundreds of schools in the online sector. The task of...

Ball State creates supercomputer from old desktop computers. (tech briefs).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... MUNCIE, IND. Discarded personal computers have been used to create a supercomputer at Ball State University. The effort, known as the Cluster Computer Research Project, involved collecting unwanted personal computers from a former lab in...

Carnegie Mellon Research Center to address wireless technology. (tech briefs).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... PITTSBURGH, PA. A new research center at Carnegie Mellon University is expected to push innovation in wireless telecommunications and computer networking. Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking will tap...

WSSU breaks ground on new computer science building. (tech briefs).(Winston Salem State University)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Winston Salem State University officials conducted a groundbreaking ceremony earlier this month marking the start of construction on a $12.3 million computer science building on the historically Black campus in North...

The influence of active online users. (Personal Computing).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... We active online users like to think of ourselves as savvy, hip and influential. We have access to the latest information technology, and more importantly, know how to use it to its full potential. Sure, when we take things to an extreme, we...

Recession, affirmative action, trickery: reflections on a Bush appointment. (Speaking Of Education).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 25, 2002... Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan says the recession is abating, but you wouldn't know it by the unemployment rate statistics. With the unemployment rate at 5.7 percent overall, and 10.1 percent for African Americans, many Americans...

Dear BI career consultants: as participation in higher education becomes more global and multicultural, how can African American students/faculty maintain their identity, or do they need to? (Career Consultants).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... Creating and maintaining a positive cultural identity is essential to the success of African American students and professionals in higher education. Too often African Americans allow our identity to be created and/or influenced by film and...

Courting success: a new method for motivating urban Black males. (BI Forum).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... Despite the great strides Black males have made over the last several decades in education, too often we are reminded of their straggle by statistical publications, media depictions and entertainment caricatures that hypothesize their gradual...

Baltimore City Community College. (On The Move).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... DR. JEROME A. ATKINS has been named vice president for academic affairs at Baltimore City Community College. Most recently Atkins was a dean at Excelsior College (N.Y.). He earned a bachelor's from Howard University, master's degrees from the...

Ohio State University. (On The Move).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... DR. OLIVER MCGEE III has been appointed chairman of the department of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science at Ohio State University. McGee has held faculty positions at MIT, Georgia Tech and the University of Arizona. He...

Medgar Evers College. (On The Move).(Andree Nicola McLaughlin)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... DR. ANDREE NICOLA MCLAUGHLIN has been named the first holder of the Dr. Betty Shabazz Distinguished Chair for Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. McLaughlin, who has been a member of the faculty at Medgar Evers since 1974, earned a...

Georgetown University. (On The Move).(Dr. Angelyn Mitchell)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... DR. ANGELYN MITCHELL has been named associate professor of English with tenure at Georgetown University in Washington. Mitchell earned a bachelor's from North Carolina State University, a master's from North Carolina Central University and a...

Camden County College. (On The Move).(Dr. Gary D. Rodwell)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... DR. GARY D. RODWELL has been named director of public affairs at Camden County College in New Jersey. Most recently, he was executive director of Philadelphia's Alliance Organizing Project for Education Reform Inc. Rodwell earned a bachelor's...

Johnson C. Smith University. (On The Move).(Romie Tribble appointed vice president of academic affairs)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... DR. ROMIE TRIBBLE is the new vice president of academic affairs at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C. Previously Tribble was department chair of economics and an associate provost at Spelman College. Tribble earned a bachelor's from...

Grants & awards.(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... Brown University received $15 million from the Starr Foundation to endow undergraduate scholarships. This is the largest gift in support of financial aid in the university's history. California State University Northridge's Minority...

Events.
April 25, 2002... MAY May 24-28 The Black Alcoholism and Addictions Institute Hilton Atlanta Contact: Dr. Frances Brisbane Phone: (631) 286-1183 May 29-June 2 NCORE 2002 15th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity "The...

The Academy's New Cast -- Bravo! Encore please! (Last Word).(Brief Article)
April 25, 2002... America's preoccupation with the "right look" has prompted myriad entertainers to sculpt their bodies as they seek a measure of success. Body sculpting, both a mental and physical exercise, tends to yield optimal physical results to those...