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Connecticut Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor has selected the director of a New Haven scholarship program to join his state agency as part of its reorganization.

The New Haven Register reports that New Haven Promise director Emily Byrne’s last day in her current job is Friday. She’s joining Pryor’s staff to work with him on legislation, communication, policies and other projects.

New Haven Promise plans to launch a national search for a new director.

That program helps eligible city school graduates attend Connecticut colleges and universities. Yale pays their partial or full tuition, and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven covers the program’s administrative costs.

Byrne is credited with playing a major role in developing the program.

Byrne’s move to the state was first reported by the New Haven Independent.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University trustees will spend up to six weeks reviewing the athletic program after the scandal that led to the suspension of five players and the forced resignation of football coach Jim Tressel.

“We want to assure ourselves that there are no new issues in any existing athletics matters that have not been dealt with,” Robert Schottenstein said Thursday during the trustees’ audit committee meeting. “And I will say today that we believe that is the case.”

In the first public comments from a member of the board of decision-makers that oversees the university, Schottenstein added that the school reported every alleged football team violation it was aware of to the NCAA.

“The process and decision-making to date by the university has in our judgment been fundamentally sound,” said Schottenstein, chairman of the audit committee.

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It has been easy to find criticism in the UW basketball program as of late.

While Garfield High School standout Tony Wroten will don the purple and gold next year, missing out on big men Angelo Chol and God’s Gift Achiuwa leaves question marks in the paint for the UW.

And just a year ago, Terrence Jones and Enes Kanter retracted verbal commitments to the UW to join the evil John Calipari at Kentucky.

Yet part of being considered a top program in college basketball comes not only in recruiting but also early in the season with the nonconference schedule.

Sure, it’s nice to watch the Washington men’s basketball team put up triple figures against the likes of Long Beach State and Eastern Washington, but without a handful of meaningful games early on, the team heads into conference play largely untested. Additiona

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A student with superior academic credentials says she was denied a graduate program grant because she isn’t black.

Angela Cela thrived academically at Tennessee State University, and she graduated summa cum laude in August 2007.

Cela, whose ethnic origin is Pacific Islander, was interested in pursuing graduate studies in the school’s Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology. She said that at a meeting prior to her graduation, a professor told her to prepare a letter requesting admission to the program. According to Cela, the professor also told her only one grant (out of the six or seven that would be awarded) was available to non-African-American students.

Cela was accepted into the program, but her request for a grant was denied. She said she was specifically told by a school official that she did not qualify for the grant because she is not black.

Cela sued the university and some of its officials, alleging unlawful race discrimination. She

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September 27, 2010

NEW YORK–Speaking at the 25th anniversary of Occidental’s United Nations program, journalist Steve Coll ’80 said Saturday that the international institution continues to play a crucial role in fighting nuclear proliferation and securing peace around the world.

A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Coll said that the U.N.’s involvement in the controversy over Iran’s nuclear capability demonstrates its continuing importance.

“That by itself refutes the argument that the United Nations has surrendered its relevance in the world today,” said Coll, president of the New America Foundation and staff writer for The New Yorker on intelligence and national security issues.

Coll spoke at the University Club in midtown Manhattan, where 150 alumni, faculty and staff gathered at an afternoon symposium to celebrate the Oxy U.N. program — one of the few of its kind in the country.

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