| UKPD: Alcohol incidents drop, lowest in 5 years
Alcohol intoxications reported to UK police dropped 47 percent in the last year, and crime as a whole has fallen 12.7 percent, according to the department's 2006 crime statistics.
Since 2005, almost all types of crime have decreased, including the number of reports of alcohol intoxication, rape and traffic accidents, all of which were the lowest they've been in five years, according to UK police report statistics.
An alcohol intoxication report refers to any arrest or citation due to being under the influence or drinking in public to the degree of causing danger or excessive noise. In 2004, there were over 500 such reports, which dropped to 375 in 2005 and dropped again to 197 last year.
These statistics emphasize two things, said Andrew Smith, the director of the UK alcohol education office.
June Maddox Hinckley remembered at service
Family, friends and colleagues mourned the late June Maddox Hinckley during a memorial service Thursday at Trinity United Methodist Church. They also celebrated the musical legacy she left behind. Before losing her battle with cancer on Saturday in Birmingham, Ala., she had a career in music education for more than 40 years and was the education consultant for the Florida Department of Education for 23 years. .
Wilkes University drops PCs, goes all Mac
Apple is continuing to make strides in the education market, despite some recent negative remarks by Apple CEO Steve Jobs regarding teachers' unions. Bolstering reports of Macs rebounding on college campuses, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Wilkes University, a higher education institution located in Pennslyvania has announced that it plans to get rid of all its Windows-based computers in the next three years and replace them with Macs. "The university has an enrollment of less than 5,000, and any student who wants to use a PC will have to bring his or her own." University officials also plan to convert its existing computing infrastructure to Macs, the report said. The Wilkes computer labs, which now house 1,700 computers of both varieties, will be made all Mac in a project that is expected to cost $1.4 million.
Lottery ticket sales up while funds for education have increased ...
Local school officials aren't buying the odds that additional lottery proceeds allocated to education would help their funding situations. An advisory panel for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland recommended last month the lottery scale back the 59 percent it returned in prizes to contribute more money to education. .
David Horowitz Says Hello From Alternate Universe
The Second Annual Academic Freedom Conference came to an unceremonious close with a "debate" between David Horowitz and President of the American Association of University Professors Cary Nelson. And by "debate," I mean "an oppurtunity for Horowitz and his supporters to make ad hominem attacks against the AAUP and liberals." Horowitz chided Nelson for not partaking in intelligent discourse on at least three occasions, and, each time, preceeded to call the AAUP anti-freedom, supporters of terrorists, or holocaust deniers. And I guess that's what passed for intelligent discourse, since one of the 30 people still in the room after the debate confronted Nelson about AAUP taking "a third of its budget" from terrorist groups. My guess is that the only way this could have been less intelligent is if Horowitz and co.
UCR chosen to review new-teacher programs
UC Riverside has received a $925,000 grant from the California Department of Education to evaluate support programs for new teachers, the university announced. Education professor Douglas Mitchell and Linda Scott-Hendrick, director of teacher professional development programs at the Graduate School of Education, will study the programs this summer for the state Education Department and California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. They will lead a team that will assess more than 200 state-approved programs for beginning teachers and university interns. The programs serve 871 school districts statewide and cost nearly $25 million in 2005-06. --Shirin Parsavand sparsavand@PE.com .
Tech center names director
Venango Technology Center's joint committee on Monday unanimously approved the appointment of Robert P. Garrity as the center's director, effective July 1. He will replace Rod Tarr, who will retire at the end of the school year. Garrity was appointed at a salary of $78,000. The joint committee is still discussing Garrity's benefits package. Garrity began his career at the technology center in 1975 and served for five years as an instructor in the marketing program. In 1980, he became a cooperative education instructor, and in 2002, was named supervisor of career and technical education upon the retirement of Stan Parker. He has a bachelor's of science degree in commerce from Rider University, a master's of education degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D.
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