News Sources: Baseball's Steroid Report

Former Senator George Mitchell is set to release his 304-page report on the use of steroids in Major League Baseball, covering 20 months of investigation. More than 50 players are named in the report, according to individuals who saw the report. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Julio Rodriguez - Visiting Scholar of American Culture, Randolph College - A lifelong baseball fan, Julio Rodriguez earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from Bowling Green State University where his studies focused on the intersection of race, masculinity and sport at various key moments in American history. He recently co-taught an intensive summer seminar dealing with sport and American culture.

Nicholas Dixon - Associate Professor of Philosophy, Alma College - Dixon specializes in applied ethics, and in sports-related national and international forums, he has shared sportsmanship views on running up scores ok, losing by wide margins no disgrace and boxing banning blows to the head do it. He has been published in the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport and Philosophical Inquiry in Sport.

John Charles Bradbury - Assistant Professor of Economics, Sewanee: The University of the South - Bradbury’s most recent research focuses on microeconomic behavior within the game of baseball. This work has been featured in major media outlets.

Twice in a 'blue moon'

Whitman College's annual art and literary magazine, blue moon, has been awarded the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Medal. It's the second straight year blue moon has received the gold medal. The publication also received All-Columbian Honors in the categories of organization and design.

Finding Willpower During the Holidays

If you are wrestling with willpower - or the lack thereof - during the holidays, keep in mind what Momma told you: it's important whom you choose as your playmates. Hamilton College Professor Heidi Ravven, who studies the history of free will, offers advice for the faint-willed.

News Sources: Water-boarding Wariness

The debate over whether the practice of "water-boarding" is a permissible interrogation technique or is torture has been heightened by an ABC News interview with ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou. He acknowledged that water-boarding was used in interrogating al-Qaeda prisoner Abu Zubaydah, but he says he thinks it did amount to torture. Meanwhile, the public has learned that in 2005 the CIA destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes showing the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and another al-Qaeda prisoner. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Darius Rejali - Professor of Political Science, Reed College - Rejali is the author of Torture and Modernity: Self, State, and Society in Modern Iran as well as articles on torture, executions, violence in Latin America, and mass rape in ethnic war, particularly Bosnia. He is a aResearcher on human rights of sexual minorities, AIDS testing policies in the U.S. and Europe and Iranian politics.

Martha D. Huggins - Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology, Union College - Huggins has studied police torture and police death squads in military dictatorships in Brazil and Greece, a project that included interviews with 27 former police officers.

Samuel V. Wilson - Wheat Visiting Professor in Leadership, Hampden-Sydney College - Wilson is president emeritus of Hampden-Sydney College. He is former deputy to the director of central intelligence for the intelligence community and retired director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.

Durden to Chair Fulbright Board

Dickinson College President William G. Durden has been named chairman of the advisory board for the Council for International Exchange of Scholars division (CIES) and to the board of directors of its parent organization, the Institute of International Education.

Gifts for the Aspiring College Student

What's on your holiday shopping list for your teenager who's looking for the perfect college? Scott Friedhoff, vice president for enrollment and communications at Allegheny College, offers a few suggestions for items that both entertain and help shine a little light.Post Options