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20-September-2001
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College news

by Evan Silverstein 

DECATUR, IL - A Rally for America is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sept. 23 at
Millikin University's Frank M. Lindsay Field. It's a chance for Decatur-area
residents to pay tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
and show solidarity as Americans. Tribute will be paid to the police
officers, firefighters and other rescue workers killed in New York. The
event will include a 21-gun salute and a balloon launch.

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DANVILLE, KY - Centre College alumnus Cawood Ledford (class of 1949), long
regarded as one of the best sports broadcasters in the country, died on
Sept. 5 in Harlan, KY, after a battle with cancer. Ledford, 75, was the
play-by-play announcer for University of Kentucky men's basketball and
football games for nearly 40 years; he also called the Kentucky Derby 22
times. Ledford earned a BA in business administration from Centre and honed
his journalistic skills as a reporter and editor for the student newspaper.

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EASTON, PA - Lafayette College professor Bruce A. Young, one of the nation's
foremost experts on snake morphology and behavior, will spend about three
weeks in India filming a program on the role of acoustics in the behavior of
snakes and other reptiles for the cable television show, "O'Shea's Big
Adventure." Julian Dismore, the program's producer and director, said Young
hopes to determine "whether king cobras use sounds to communicate." Young,
an associate professor of biology and a member of Lafayette's neuroscience
program, leaves on Sept. 27.

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BLOOMFIELD, NJ - Beginning this month, 13 ThinkPad laptop computers will be 
                  available for lending to students of Bloomfield College
from the school's Media Center. The computers, to be used in the college
library, will be equipped with a host of programs, including Microsoft
Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Explorer. The idea is to ease
crowding in the school's computer labs.

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SPOKANE, WA - A satellite soon to be launched by NASA to study natural and
human-induced changes in the Earth's atmosphere will be supported through a
ground station operated by researchers at Whitworth College and Colorado
State University. The Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and
Dynamics (TIMED) satellite will gather data that could provide an early
warning of global change. The spacecraft will take measurements in a region
roughly 30 to 125 miles above the Earth's surface. Whitworth Physics
Professor Lois Kieffaber and her students are collaborating with Colorado
State University physicists in operating a ground-based observatory in
Platteville, CO, part of a chain of research stations along the Rocky
Mountains that will support the TIMED mission.

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