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Grab A Cadaver: 2009 Update

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Parts Is Parts! S elling body parts is an evergreen scandal. There's always a need, and supplies are limited. More or less. We here at Hellmouth Amalgamated PolySci always believe that recycling is good for everybody. So if you missed this original commentary from March 2004, you're in for a treat. Its still fresh and tasty. Human behaviour has a long shelf-life. Dig in! I am and remain, yr Humboldt Obliviant Idiom Savant Erasmus Binkster Rfp, SoQ, AMf Chancellor Emeritii Hellmouth Amalgamated PolySci Hellmouth CA Update: May 15 '09! Businessman found guilty in UCLA's willed body-parts program scandal Body broker Ernest V. Nelson, top, with defense attorney Sean McDonald, listens as he is convicted of selling cadaver parts for $1.5 million to private medical research companies. The body broker collected $1.5 million by selling cadaver parts to private medical research companies. A juror also faults the university for 'allowing something like this.' Read more on

Kent State / Jackson State

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Ohio National Guard in Athens Photograph.This photograph of Ohio National Guardsmen marching in Athens, Ohio was taken in May 1970. Ohio University closed on May 15, 1970. Anti-Vietnam War protests increased in Ohio after President Richard Nixon announced that United States troops had entered Cambodia on April 30, 1970. Riots erupted at many college campuses, including Kent State University, where four students were killed on May 4, 1970. By the end of May, all of Ohio's public universities except Bowling Green State University were closed. Photo by Carl Fleischauer. The photograph measures 4" x 6" (10.16 x 15.24 cm).  May 4, 1970 I was fourteen, living in Athens Ohio, home of Ohio University; when we got news of the shootings at Kent State. The Kent State shootings convulsed the campus, leading to riots, the closing of the University, and then a 14-day occupation by the Ohio National Guard. The iconic Carl Fleischhauer photo shows a Guardsman standing guard o