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Avoirdupois Follies More than two dozen seniors at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University risk not being able to graduate this spring because they were too fat when they were freshmen and have taken no measures to stem their obesity.
Fat students win obesity fracas in Pennsylvania
Lincoln University, a Pennsylvania institution concerned about obesity among its students, has sent back to the kitchen a requirement that fat students take a physical fitness class to graduate.
Kimberly Garrison: Too bad Lincoln flinched in its anti-obesity effort
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY has, in recent weeks, come under serious fire for a controversial course requirement designed to help obese students gain some control over their health.
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Beyond the Hill | The heavy issue: Lincoln University drops physical...
At Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, students must take a core curriculum in order to graduate, much like every other school in the country.
University Says You're Too Fat to Graduate
Military, law enforcement, lifeguards, and firemen, all have weight requirements.
Should body mass index (BMI) be used as a college graduation requirement?
It's official. America hates fat people. Human beings are constantly searching for socially sanctioned reasons to feel superior to others and in 2009, those who are thin feel mighty superior to those who are not.
Diplomas shouldn't hinge on student's physical fitness
I'm not afraid to admit I dropped out of high school, and it wasn't just my D average and a full-time job that caused my early exit.
Fierce criticism and public outcry isn't the kind of attention a school wants when it institutes a new graduation requirement.
Lincoln U. Faculty Votes to Scrap a Weighty Requirement
Lincoln University's faculty voted on Friday to scrap a controversial requirement that students must have their height and weight measured as freshmen and, if that ratio suggests they are obese, take a one-credit course called "Fitness for Life" before they graduate.
The Lincoln University faculty voted yesterday to end a controversial fitness-course requirement for obese students - at least for now.
Lincoln U. drops required class for obese students
Obese students at a historically black college near Philadelphia won't have to take a fitness class to graduate after all.
Success at fat-fighting Lincoln University hinges on BMI test
Oldest African-American college in US to force obese students on fitness course before they can graduate It's lunchtime in the canteen at Lincoln University, the oldest African-American college in America.
University Requires Obese Students to Take Gym Class in Order to Graduate
Out of Lincoln University in rural Pennsylvania comes the type of story you just can't make up, and that is sure to end in some kind of terribly bitter dispute.
Fitness is a heavy issue at Lincoln U.
SOME students at Lincoln University are calling it the "fat course" - a fitness course that obese students are required to take in order to graduate.
Too Fat for a B.A.? University Adds BMI Requirement for Graduation
Too Fat for a B.A.? University Adds BMI Requirement for Graduation >> Pennsylvania's Lincoln University has instituted a requirement that first-year students who arrive on campus with a body mass index of 30 or higher must either lower their BMI below 30 or take a one-unit course called "Fitness for Life" in order to graduate.
People for the Ethical Treatment of A...
PETA Wants Lincoln to Become All-Vegan University
Harrisburg, Pa . -- Today, PETA dispatched a letter to Ivory V. Nelson, Ph.D., president of Lincoln University, urging him to rid the school's campus of all meat, eggs, and dairy products and offer vegan fare in their place.
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