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Lincoln University, Pennsylvania is located in Chester County. Zip codes in Lincoln University, PA include 19352.

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Fitness a requirement for college degree

A university in Pennsylvania wants students to be fit to graduate, and it has nothing to do with academics.

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

Philadelphia Weekly

You can't be fat if you want to graduate Lincoln University

This is probably going to mortify a few people: More than two dozen seniors at Lincoln University, in Oxford, Pa., are in danger of not being able to graduate this spring - not because theya re under disciplinary probation or havena t fulfilled the requirements of their majors, but because they were obese as freshmen.

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Belleville News

University says hefty grads won't be receiving sheepskins

A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

Examiner.com

Pennsylvania university requires overweight students to take fitness class to graduate

Lincoln University , located 45 minutes outside of Philadelphia , is under scrutiny over its policy making it mandatory for heavy students to take a fitness course to graduate.

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CourierPostOnline

Too fat to graduate? Students upset over Philly-area college's requirements

Some Pennsylvania college students are upset that their school is requiring those who are overweight to take a fitness class in order to graduate.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

KXMD-TV Williston

Overweight Pa. students unhappy about fitness class rule...

Overweight Pa. students unhappy about fitness class rule PHILADELPHIA Some Pennsylvania university students are upset that their college is requiring overweight students to take a fitness class in order to graduate.

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CBS 3

Lincoln U Students Upset About Fitness Requirement

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Chronicle.com

Lincoln U. Requires Its Students to Step on the Scale

At Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania, students who are deemed too heavy must pass a physical-fitness course.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

Examiner.com

No excuses-College Awareness Week in Philly reigns Nov. 14, 15, 18, & 19

High school students, parents and, yes, middle school students - College Awareness Week in Philadelphia leaves no excuses.

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Fri Nov 13, 2009

Collegian.psu.edu

Conklin asks Pa. legislators to give funds

A local representative called for state legislators to give appropriations to Penn State and Pennsylvania's other three state-related schools at a press conference Thursday.

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Chambersburg Public Opinion

Penn State, 3 others wait for funding from state

State funding for the four state-related universities, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Temple University and Lincoln University, is held up as the General Assembly continues negotiations over the final piece of the state budget.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

PennLive.com

Play it straight Rendell, Legislature: Release state funding to universities

Legislation on table games is holding up funding for state-related universities.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

Collegian.psu.edu

Tuition may increase

Tuition rates may rise if state legislators do not provide funding to Penn State within the next week and a half, university officials said.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Philly.com News

Universities say table-games lag may impact tuition

Pennsylvania State, Temple, and two other state-related universities said yesterday that the delay in approving table-games legislation in Harrisburg could affect tuition rates, starting in January.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

The Kept-Up Academic Librarian

Students Protest Lack Of Access To Campus Library

The honor student from Connecticut went on a hunger strike.It was a small but drastic measure designed to draw attention to the closure of the library at the Chester County institution and to food services that she and others insist are poor.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

Philly.com

Conn. student at center of Lincoln U. protests

By the time Lincoln University junior Amelia Sherwood found a moth in her salad last month, she was fed up.

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

College costs still climb amid recession

The upward march of college costs continued this fall despite the recession, though Pennsylvania's pricey four-year public campuses saw modest increases relative to other states, a new national survey finds.

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

Chambersburg Public Opinion

Undercover officers arrest six for underage drinking

Undercover police officers arrested six people on suspicion of underage drinking the night before Shippensburg University homecoming.

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Sat Oct 17, 2009

Daily Monitor

Nkrumah: The makings of a pan-African thinker

The year 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of Kwame Nkrumaha s birth in the old colonial Gold Coast.

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Thu Oct 15, 2009

Collegian.psu.edu

Budget leaves PSU waiting

While community colleges and state universities across Pennsylvania prepare to receive state funding, Penn State and Pennsylvania's three other state-related schools are no better off than they were 105 days ago.

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