Abstinence is making a comeback with students
Although sexual content is available today at the touch of a keyboard or remote control, recent studies show teenagers are remarkably open to messages about abstinence, Virginia officials say.
According to a 2005 report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, teenagers in abstinence education programs throughout the nation are beginning to embrace the concept of abstaining from sex.
Kids First allows students to experience college life
About 150 youths from grades three through eight participated Thursday in an event hosted by Kids First, a program developed by VCU Sports Center graduate students. Program activities are designed to gear the youths’ thinking toward college and enlighten them to the academic nature of university life, in addition to the athletic side.
In the News
Actor Don Knotts dies at 81
LOS ANGELES – Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. He was 81.
Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, said Paul Ward, a spokesman for the cable network TV Land, which airs “The Andy Griffith Show,” and another Knotts hit, “Three’s Company.
Editorial Cartoon
One bad parent equals two dead bears
How someone can be too stupid to bring a child to the park is beyond me, but obviously such a person exists. I’m talking about the parent who climbed over a wooden fence with his kid last Saturday at Maymont in order to get to the chain-link fence that separated two black bears from idiots like this.