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Piiiiiiiiiffiiiiiiiilililil 4B LIFE/tEtt CtiaiUttc Thursday, December 22, 2005 BLACK COLLEGE DAMAGED BY HURRICANE KATRINA Xavier president urges students to return WE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO—The choice for 18-year-old Bria Miller was an easy one. Once she heard that classes were resuming at Xavier University in New Orleans, she re-enrolled without hesitation. made a home there so quickly, and I want to go back,” said Miller, a fresh man, who transferred to the University of Illinois in Chicago when Xavier closed. “I was always thinking ‘When would the school be ‘don’t count me out’ ready so I could go back?” Miller’s decision to move back to New Oiieans is good news to Xavier President Norman Francis, who came to Chicago Saturday to encourage students to return to the nation’s only historical ly black and Roman Catholic college. It reopens on Jan. 17. “We’re rebuilding the uni versity as an Mand in the dty,” Francis said during a reception at Columbia College in Chicago. “People didn’t think we could do it, but we did.” After Katrina, colleges around the country took in an estimated 18,000 displaced New Orleans stu dents. About 55 of Xavier’s 4,000 stu dents came to Chicago. Most of them enrolled in local colleges and universities, Xavier officials said. Now, New Orleans schools desperately need those stu dents to return next semester and pay tuition. Founded in 1825, Xavier built a reputation as a liberal arts college for black students seeking medical careers. After Katrina struck on Aug. 29, the university’s New Orleans campus was flooded. School administrators have estimated losses at more than $90 million in storm Singer Rawls is battling lung cancer damage and lost revenue, a devastating sum for a univer sity whose endowment is only about $50 million The losses forced the uni versity to cut 396 faculty and staff positions. Dillard University another historical black college, also had to lay off about half of its faculty TXilane University meanwhile, plans to phase out about 50 faculty positions in its undeigraduate and pro fessional degree programs and another 180 at its med ical school. Loyola University has laid off 28 faculty m^n- semester, we’d procrastinate and in July ‘06, we’d say we can’t open. So, we set a date, and we’re opening in January,” Francis said Early projections estimated about 2,000 students would return to Xavier. But more than four weeks before class es are scheduled to start, about 3,100 students have pre-registered The numbers don’t surprise Francis. “If we were like any other school, there would be no rea son to come back,” Francis said. “But we have a product and a brand that’s success- bers. ful.” But all are scheduled to On the Net: open their doors again in Xavier University: WE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES- Grammy-winning singer Lou Rawls has confirmed he is being treated for lung cancer. “Don’t count me out, broth er,” Rawls, 70, said when reached Thursday ni^t in his hospital rcx>m by the Arizona Republic. “There’s been many people who have been diagnosed with this kind of thing, and they’re still jumpin’ and pumpin’.” Rawls was diagnosed 12 months ago and in May was found to also have breun can cer, his 35-year-old wife, Nina, said Thursday during their marriage annulment hearing in Maricopa Coimty Superior Court. Rawls, whose voice has been described as “sweet as sugar, soft as velvet, strong as steel, smooth as butter,” said he has received both “alterna tive and traditional treat ment.” He said he quit his regular cigarette smoking habit 35 years ago. “He’s getting great care; he’s in a great mood,” Rawls’ pub licist, Paul Shefrin, said Thursday fiom the singer’s hospital room. But Rawls’ wife suggested his condition is dire. ‘3y his doctor’s admission, he is not expected to live much more,” a crying Nina said Thursday Rawls Rawls has sold more than 40 million albums and won three Gramm ys dur ing a career spanning more than four decades. His hits include “Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing,” “Dead End Street” and “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine.” He has appeared in 18 movies, including “Leaving Las Vegas” and “Blues Brothers 2000”, and 16 televi sion series, including “Fantasy Island” and ‘Tall Guy” Rawls also is known for his charitable work and has heljted the United Negro College Fund raise nearly $200 million in telethons. Rawls in court papers said he is trying to annul'his two- year marriage and protect hundreds of thousands of dol lars of assets that he says his wife “absconded with.” His wife, who has worked as Rawls’ manager since 2003, says she fransferred nearly $350,000 into an account that she solely controls to prevent one of Rawls’ two adult daughters fium seizing the money January “If we stayed out another www.xula£du Obesity, inactivity expensive in North Carolina WE ASSOCIATED PRESS RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — Obesity, physical inactivity and other health problems related to weight cost North Carolina more than $24 billion a year, a non profit organization said. The report, released Thesday was commissioned by Chapel Hill-based Be Active North Carolina. It said the costs come in the form of medical problems, lost worker produc tivity and workers’ compen sation claims that place a drag on the state’s $336.4 bil lion economy “I can’t go anywhere where someone doesn’t want to dis cuss how much their health care premium is going up,” said state TVeasurer Richard Moore, who wore a pedome ter during the announce ment. “Part of (those costs) they can do something about.” Moore and Lt. Gov. Bevo'ly Perdue, who introduced the stiidy, both serve on boards that aim to boost the health ‘ of North Carolinians. “Anyone who can balance a checkbook miderstands that’s a ton of money,” said Perdue. She pointed out that state Medicaid costs also increase because of poor health choic es. “We all pay the price. We all pay taxes.” Be Active North Carolina gets sponsorship money fiom Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state’s largest health insurer. It also receives ftmds fiom the N.C. Health and Wellness THist Fund that weis established with tobacco lawsuit settle ment proceeds. The nonprofit has explored costs of unhealthy lifestyles among adults twice before. But this is the first time it also looked at the future prospects for young people, said Shellie Pfohl, executive director of Be Active. The study analyzes data col lected in 2003 and looks at health costs for adults and children. The total economic cost for children is $38.2 mil lion a year, according to the estimate. Children who grow up over weight and stay that way will spend more than $200,000 each during their working careers on costs associated with obesity, the study says. “The good news is that we know ... if we could just get... 5 percent of our adults who are overweight or diabetic to be more active and engage in healthier lifest>ies, we could save over $1.5 billion every year,” Pfohl said. 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