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Search results for "Indiana University" ...
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A Trustworthy Lie Detector?
The Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA) is a lie detector "said to be able to determine truth or deception by tone of voice or stress level." The machine has "been sold to hundreds of police departments and the U.S. military," with these organizations using it to put people in jail and interrogate terror suspects even though "not a single scientific study has been done to show the CSVA actually works." The Pentagon has now banned use of the machine. An ABC News investigation discovered that while the machine is sold for $10,000 apiece with claims of 98 percent accuracy, some of its convictions have been overturned. In addition, CSVA creator and National Institute for Truth Verification CEO Dr. Charles Humble is "not a medical doctor and does not have a PHD from an accredited university. Instead, he was awarded a Dr. of Psychology after taking a few hours of bible studies at a bible college which was located in an Indiana strip mall."
Tags: Computer Voice Stress Analyzer; Dr. Charles Humble; prisoner interrogation; Institute for Truth Verification; diploma mills
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Seeking Justice for Jill: The Behrman Murder Investigation
WXIN-TV reporter Kimberly King spent most of 2006 looking into the police investigation of the death of Jill Behrman, an Indiana University-Bloomington sophomore who disappeared in May 2000. Her body was found in 2003, "miles from where detectives thought (she) had been killed." For the intervening three years, "investigators built their case around a convicted woman's false confession." But after the body was discovered, a lead detective sealed the public records regarding the case and did little to pursue it further. Spurred by a request from a relative of Behrman, WXIN worked on the story for three years, finally spending 2006 blowing it open. As a result, police moved further on the case.
Tags: Murder; Indiana University; police; homicide; closed cases; homicide investigations; missing persons; false confession
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Bob Knight: The Unauthorized Biography
The book asserts that Knight's abusive behavior toward basketball players he coached was "systematically ignored by the universities Knight was employed by." Authors interviewed 145 sources, many of whom had never gone on record previously. Sources include "his childhood best friend, childhood next door neighbor, high school girlfriend, high school and college teammates, and former players of both Indiana and Army."
Tags: sports; basketball; abusive behavior; misogyny
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Command Mistake
As a result of this WISH-TV (Indianapolis, IN) report, the United States Marine Corps is now issuing helmets with ballistic padding to all marines. Previously, only the Army was issuing padded helmets; and some marines were buying their own padding. The story showed that college football players' helmets were more protective than the marine helmet."The cost to care for a head-injured soldier with permanent brain damage is $2.5 to $3 million. The cost of the helmet pads is as little as $30." Story contains on-ground elements filmed in Germany and Iraq.
Tags: Traumatic brain injury research; TBI; concussion; ballistic pad testing; football helmet testing; Kevlar helmet; roadside bomb blasts; Commanding General George Casey; Baghdad; Fallujah; Landstuhl Medical Center, Germany; Riddell; Brigadier General John Kelley; Congressman Steve Buyer; Indiana National Guard; Roudebush VA Medical Center; craniectomy; aphasia; Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Joint Theater Trauma Registry; Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center; DVBIC; Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital; Traumatic Brain Injury in the War Zone; Susan Okie, MD; New England Journal of Medicine; American Football Coaches Association; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Concussion Program
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Project security: Indiana's WMD
This WISH investigation reveals the danger to the public from the 1,200 tons of VX stored at the Newport Chemical Weapons Depot in Indiana. The TV station uncovers a number of security lapses at the depot, questions the efficacy of the government's disaster plan, and exposes a number of lies by the U.S. Army regarding the safe destruction of the chemical.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; VX nerve agent; chemical weapons; weapons of mass destruction; WMD
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The High Price of Recruiting
This investigation revealed that Indiana University and Purdue University together spent more than $600.000 on procurement of football players in 2003-04. One recruit for IU was flown in a University-owned private jet--a flight that cost the school $11,656. No such incentives were made available to academic recruits.
Tags: college; sport; athlete; university; recruiting; football; Indiana University; Purdue University
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Rx for disaster
NBC looks at the nationwide abuse of Ritalin, a drug prescribed to treat Attention Deficit Disorder. Using hidden cameras, the investigating team finds out how easy it is to find the drug illegally. The story reveals that the abuse is common among children and teenagers in high-school and college. The problem "cuts across social lines," NBC reports. Children who are prescribed Ritalin are often pressured by their classmates and friends for their pills. The young addicts snort crushed pills to party and study better. Most are unaware of the harmful side effects and the risk of death from heart attack.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; children; teenagers; parents; health; safety; Ohio State University; University of Wisconsin; University of Texas; Indiana University; education; youth; prescription drug abuse
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Seeking the Shade
The Chronicle of Higher Education investigates violations of the Alabama sunshine law by public university boards in the state. The story details circumstances surrounding multiple closed meetings of officials at Auburn University, the University of Alabama and the University of West Alabama. The report also details lawsuits alleging violations of state freedom of information acts that are pending against public colleges or public college foundations in Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri. In Arizona, Florida and New Jersey public college lobbyists have managed to curtail or limit the expansion of open-records or open-meeting laws.
Tags: FOIA; lobbyists; lobbying; media; universities; colleges; higher education; press; journalists; SPJ; disclosure; First Amendment; legislature; newspapers
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For DePauw University, A $128 Million Bequest Proves a Mixed Blessing
"When Philip Holton died in 1995, followed two years later by his wife, Ruth, they left $128 million to little DePauw University here in the flatlands of central Indiana. . . but good fortune can be expensive". Now DePauw is finding new costs, including a staff to manage the money, in addition to deciding how to divide it among its academic departments. While the contribution has helped the school fulfill ambitions, it has also weighed down the system with new problems. June Kronholz reports more.
Tags: colleges; endowments; contributions; money; National Association of College and University Business Officers; budgets
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The Faculty
Bizarre and bitter academia at Indiana University's Near Eastern department!! A recent dispute about tenure for an assistant professor include a hunger strike (by his wife) and accusations of death threats. The dept. was in trouble long before this incident, losing 5 scholars in 5 years, 3 chairs in 3 years, and only 4 scholars still onboard.
Tags: tenure; University; professor; academic corruption