The education of Dasmine Cathey

By Brad Wolverton | The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 4, 2012

A portrait of a University of Memphis football player who couldn't read when he arrived at college. Who failed, Dasmine Cathey or a college system that values athletic ability over education?

He hid them in a shoebox under his bed. "My own little secret," he said.

Inside the box, he kept 10 thin paperbacks he was given as a child. For years he didn't touch them. But as he reached 19, they became a lifeline.

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Update: Hearing will examine secretive Pittsburgh nonprofit

A state lawmaker has scheduled a public hearing to examine the legality of a secretive Pittsburgh nonprofit group that has been running television ads critical of Gov. Tom Corbett.

“Clearly, they are trying to influence the outcome of elections,” said state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry, about Pennsylvanians for Accountability. “The law requires if they make these kinds of expenditures they have to report that.”

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