| SAFETY SCHOOL Bucking Privacy Concerns, Cornell Acts as Watchdog
ITHACA, N.Y. -- For 19 years as a custodian at Cornell University, Sue Welch has been taking out the garbage and mopping the floors of residence halls. Recently, she added a new responsibility: trying to prevent student suicide. Ms. Welch noticed during a recent semester that she was repeatedly having to clean up after a particular student's apparent bouts of nausea, and told her supervisor she feared the young woman had an eating disorder. The supervisor told the residence-hall director, who encouraged the student to go to the university health center. Counselors there arranged for her to get treatment for bulimia nervosa. Ms. Welch credits the training sessions that she and other custodians attended on how to spot students with mental-health problems. "These kids are looking to us to provide care," she says.
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Mr Stephen demanded an independent inquiry be set up to examine the situation. He raised the issue with Mr Salmond at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament, asking: "When Aberdeenshire Council were telephoned by the chief planner about the Trump proposals last Tuesday, the very day the application was called in, were there any Trump representatives in the chief planner's room at the time?" Mr Salmond told the Liberal Democrat: "I an debarred from any decision-making in the planning process. "Why on earth would I therefore know the answer to that question. I was not in the room or with the chief planner at the time." But Mr Stephen said: "Aberdeenshire Council will confirm that they had to ask for the Trump representatives to leave the chief planner's room during a phone call last Tuesday.
For BHR, the dream lives 450 miles east in Virginia
You have to look no further than the driver's seat of its No. 4 Dodge truck to confirm that, as former Truck Series race winner and NASCAR veteran Stacy Compton is part of the new ownership group. After racing five full seasons in the Busch Series, Compton shifted into a part-time Truck Series season at Wood Brothers/JTG Racing in 2007 while he also diversified into TV work. .
San Joaquin Jail Program Claims Success
San Joaquin County officials are hoping the state can match its success with a jail program that reduces repeat offenses.
It's called "Beyond Incarceration" and it began just over three years ago. The program stresses education and treatment for prisoners, not just punishment.
Judge Richard Vlavianos of the Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County, sees participants in the program once a month and spends much of his visit on the subject of drug addiction. He refers to statistics that show 76 percent of the men in California state prisons are there for drug-related crimes.
Beyond Incarceration would seem to be making good progress against those statistics. The recidivism rate in San Joaquin County among the 800 inmates who've taken part is 35 percent.
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