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Issue date: 2/8/07 Section: News
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Indiana aims to keep students home for college
The Indiana Governor wants to offer $20,000 scholarships over four years. But there's a catch - recipients who leave the state less than three years after graduation will be required to repay the money.
At least 17 states offer general merit-based scholarships, according to the Education Commission of the States. But none have post-graduation strings like those Indiana proposes.
Daniels said the "Hoosier Hope Scholarships" would help move Indiana's job-strapped manufacturing economy to one strong in life sciences, staffed with homegrown talent.
Former Prof sentenced to 14 years
Former USC professor and world-renowned geneticist William French Anderson, 70, was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $68,000 in fines for molesting the daughter of one of his Keck School of Medicine colleagues.
The abuse caused the victim, who was 10 years old when it started, to start cutting her arms and contemplate suicide, according to court documents.
Frat brothers get 2 years for hazing
Two fraternity brothers both received two-year prison terms from a judge who said she wanted to send a message with the state's first prosecution under a felony hazing law.
Florida A&M University students Michael Morton, 23, of Fort Lauderdale, and Jason Harris, 25, of Jacksonville, were led from the courtroom in handcuffs, as was Harris' lawyer, Richard Keith Alan II, who was charged with indirect criminal contempt.
Morton, former president of the university's Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, was found guilty of striking prospective member Marcus Jones, 20, of Decatur, Ga., with a wooden cane so severely during four nights of initiation rites that he underwent surgery for bruising to his buttocks.
Harris was convicted of participating by encouraging Jones to bear up under the beatings and reviving him with water after he passed out so he could go back for more punishment.
The Indiana Governor wants to offer $20,000 scholarships over four years. But there's a catch - recipients who leave the state less than three years after graduation will be required to repay the money.
At least 17 states offer general merit-based scholarships, according to the Education Commission of the States. But none have post-graduation strings like those Indiana proposes.
Daniels said the "Hoosier Hope Scholarships" would help move Indiana's job-strapped manufacturing economy to one strong in life sciences, staffed with homegrown talent.
Former Prof sentenced to 14 years
Former USC professor and world-renowned geneticist William French Anderson, 70, was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $68,000 in fines for molesting the daughter of one of his Keck School of Medicine colleagues.
The abuse caused the victim, who was 10 years old when it started, to start cutting her arms and contemplate suicide, according to court documents.
Frat brothers get 2 years for hazing
Two fraternity brothers both received two-year prison terms from a judge who said she wanted to send a message with the state's first prosecution under a felony hazing law.
Florida A&M University students Michael Morton, 23, of Fort Lauderdale, and Jason Harris, 25, of Jacksonville, were led from the courtroom in handcuffs, as was Harris' lawyer, Richard Keith Alan II, who was charged with indirect criminal contempt.
Morton, former president of the university's Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, was found guilty of striking prospective member Marcus Jones, 20, of Decatur, Ga., with a wooden cane so severely during four nights of initiation rites that he underwent surgery for bruising to his buttocks.
Harris was convicted of participating by encouraging Jones to bear up under the beatings and reviving him with water after he passed out so he could go back for more punishment.
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