The Jambar : November 06, 2003

Abstract

Police say heroin affects YSU by citing a student overdosing on it in 2001 in Ward Beecher Hall and the arrest of a local deal Sixto "Sisco" Melendez. The Student Government Association plan to hold a silent protest during the Board of Trustees meeting about the YSU bookstore controversy. Local attorney, Clair Carlin, is part of a national lawsuit against Abercrombie and Fitch claiming that the store is violating federal hourly wage laws by making employees purchase their clothing which reduces the employees paycheck to less than minimum wage. YSU brings guest James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA, to answer questions from YSU biology students. YSU's biology labs became the only site in the nation to receive a grant for $700,000 to research fungus in AIDS patients. Jambar interviews athlete Lisa Davies on her cross-country achievements YSU-ACE awards their first student scholarship to Julie Moser.