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Financial woes affect college athletics. (Newswatch).
As they readjust their priorities in allocating limited resources, athletics departments across the country are changing their programs and teams.
* At Mississippi University for Women, President Claudia A. Limbert plans to drop its varsity programs in basketball, softball, volleyball and tennis, affecting 45 athletes whose scholarships will be honored. Instead the school will develop its fitness, recreation and intramural programs, reallocating $700,000 in operating expenses. The school took devastating hits recently from a tornado in November and a legislature that made major funding cutbacks.
* Canisius College NY, a Roman Catholic college, is dropping 8 of its 23 sports teams to stay in NCAA Division I athletics. Gone will be football, women's and men's tennis and indoor! outdoor track and field, and coeducational rifle. The focus was on conserving money and raising the competitive level of the remaining teams.
* St. John's University of New York said it would drop football and men's track this year, and women's and men's swimming next year. Reasons cited include a need to save money and to allocate resources fairly to serve its student body, which is 65% female. Rev. Donald J. Harrington called it "a question of justice."
* At Dartmouth College NH, plans to drop ...
- Industry defends drug ads before House.
- News wire article from: United Press International June 13, 2001 700+ words
...two years that ads for a medicine for erectile dysfunction have appeared, million of men have visited their doctors," he continued. "For every million men who asked for the medicine, it was found that an estimated 30,000 had untreated diabetes...
- Florida Hospital East Orlando.(to switch some obstetrics beds to...
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend May 1, 2001 700+ words
...regulatory permission to switch its 16 obstetrics beds to surgical-medical beds. The change would force most pregnant women to go to the already overcrowded Winter Park Memorial Hospital to deliver or to pick hospitals in another chain.
- Flexible Scheduling.(Flextime for workers)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend Friedman, Robyn A. May 1, 2001 700+ words
...Silver, Boardroom's president. Although the great majority of those seeking flexible arrangements are women with children, plenty of men are on flexible or alternative work schedules as well, says Bob Losyk, a Davie-based human resources...
- Protecting Your Domain.(Getting a Web address)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend Friedman, Robyn A. May 1, 2001 700+ words
...ago, she knew she would be selling on the web. So she applied for a domain name based on the name of her company, Little Big Man, a Deerfield Beach-based printer of birth announcements and invitations. Much to Milrad's surprise, her first choice...
- Spreading The Word.(Florida informs low income families of its KidCare health...
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend Vogel, Mike May 1, 2001 700+ words
...hard choices. Separated from her husband, the Broward County woman made so-so money -- $22,000 a year managing bars. But...free or subsidized insurance because they are working. Baggle-man, for example, knew she made too much money to qualify for Medicaid...
- The KidCare Umbrella.(health care service for Florida children)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend May 1, 2001 700+ words
...50,000 legal and illegal immigrants. What's available: Medicaid for Cuban and Haitian entrants, children of battered women, other refugees. Immigrants who came after Aug. 22, 1996, must wait five years for Medicaid. Assessment of coverage Good...
- Energy Policy a Ghost of Teapot Dome.(President George W. Bush)(Column)
- Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal Hill, Martin May 28, 2001 700+ words
...some investment account. Commerce Secretary Don Evans is an oil man. Even the White House national security adviser, Condoleezza...1970s. Bush is certainly no Rhoades scholar, but as an oil man, he undoubtedly knows the truth about that crisis: It was as...
- WHAT'S NEWS?(services)
- Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal May 28, 2001 700+ words
...announced that San Diego tourism executive Patti Roscoe, CITE will serve as an advisor for the association's newly launched Women's Leadership Initiatives program. Roscoe is president of PRA, a San Diego destination management company with 10 regional...