Journal-News, Tuesdays, August 31
Attorneys for Nathaniel Snow and Brad Allen, two former students accused of
posting racist literature at Miami University again hammered Monday at the
administrator (Sydney Carthell, minority affairs) who found the fliers,
trying to raise doubt about whether police charged the wrong people.
Snow's attorney, Kenneth Lawson, said, "This may be bigger than you think.
This could be a shakedown of the university."
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, August 31
Police should investigate whether Miami University affirmative action
official Sydney Carthell, not black former students Nathaniel Snow and Brad
Allen, placed racist fliers in the Center for Black Culture and Learning
last fall, the students' defense attorneys claimed Monday.
Ch. 12 and Ch. 19, Monday, Auust. 30
Trial enters the second week for the two former Miami students charged in
the hanging of racist and anti-gay fliers at the CBCL last October.
Dayton Daily News, Tuesday, August 31
Story about the Snow/Allen trial says no identifiable fingerprints were
found on adhesive tape, its dispenser or thumb tacks used to post racist
fliers at the CBCL. Snow's attorney, Kenneth Lawson, spent much of the
morning in his cross-examination of Detective Sergeant Steven Truitt (Miami
University Police) attempting to poke holes in the testimony of Sydney
Carthell (minority affairs). Lawson cited five inconsistencies between the
police report and Carthell's testimony.
The Middletown Journal, Saturday, August 28
Attorneys for Nathaniel Snow and Brad Allen are attacking the credibility
of Sydney Carthell, the university employee who discovered the racist
fliers at the CBCL.
The Denver Post, Sunday, August 15
Story about personnel changes in the Colorado Symphony says Jeffrey Multer
(music) will be co-concertmaster.
The Plain Dealer, Sunday, August 15
Story about the competition among college admission offices to enroll
students cites the director of admission at John Carroll University as
saying the school's chief competitors for local kids are from out of
town--the University of Dayton, Cincinnati's Xavier University and Ohio and
Miami universities.
The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday, August 15
John Lowery's (English) review of "Stalin's Spy," Robert Whymant's book
about Russian spy Richard Sorge.
American Israelite, Thursday, August 12
Story about regional Hillels continuing the tradition of social action
programs says the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at Miami University
provides many programs such as the PB&Jam, where they make peanut and jelly
sandwiches for the Cincinnati Free Store. Also mentions other programs.
The Columbus Dispatch, Wednesday, August 18
Miami University has for the first time put on paper how fraternities and
sororities should relate to the school. Quotes Dennis Roberts (student
affairs) and Tony Hutchison (president, Inter-Fraternity Council at Miami).
The Tennessean, Wednesday, August 18
Article that gives tips for what to send in care packages for college
students also quotes some parents about the things they send. Those quoted
include Kay Gabbert, whose son, Rob, is a junior at Miami University.
Daily Jeffersonian, Sunday, Aug. 8; Wilmington News-Journal, Tuesday, Aug.
10; Antwerp Bee-Argus, Wednesday, Aug. 11
Stories about teachers attending "Environmental Science for Elementary
Teachers," a graduate class offered by Miami University.
Elsewhere in education:
Dayton Daily News, Tuesday, August 31
The University of Dayton is No. 1 among the 315 NCAA Division I schools in
the annual survey of athlete graduation rates compiled by the U.S.
Department of Education.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, August 31
Letter to the editor about college-student smoking from Debra Mooney of
Xavier University's Health and Counseling Center says Xavier is using funds
from a mini-grant from the Coalition for Tobacco-Free Ohio to develop
educational advertisements to be shown on the university's closed circuit
cable television system.
Kristal Humphrey
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