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NWAACC Rebrands, Simplifies With New Name

By Luke Kilgore The Blaze

When Blazer fans attempt to discuss their team's league, confusion and frustration is usually commonplace. Dropping or adding a letter in daily conversation, along with quarrels over if NWAACC is truly the correct acronym, have caused much anguish for many a sports fan across the states of Washington and Oregon.

These troubles are officially over as Executive Director Marco Azurdia has streamlined everybody's favorite acronym from NWAACC to simply NWAC while introducing a new logo as well.

Originally named the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC), the organization

now stands as the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC).

The change was officially announced in early July.

Fortunately, the transition shall prove somewhat easy for fans as the acronym will still be pronounced as "En-Wack."

According to Azurdia, shortening the name "had been on my mind from day one," but the change was primarily driven by a desire to make the conference more recognizable as a brand.

The new name is accompa-

nied by a new blue and silver logo and a new website address: www.nwacsports.org. The N in the logo has four stars, representing the four regions of the conference.

Azurdia noted that there was no rush for schools inside of

NWAC to adopt the new design.

The old logo will be permitted until the time comes to replace uniforms and other items.

"We will be flexible with schools making the transition because all of our schools have budget issues," Azurdia said.

With the change comes a new member to the organization in the form of North Idaho College. With NIC joining the NWAC, the conference now has 36 members including Douglas College in New Westminster, British Columbia. North Idaho College, which was a member of the Scenic West Athletic Conference, will join the NWAC for soccer, golf and softball this fall and for all other sports in the 2015-16 school year.

"The conference is getting much bigger than just Oregon and Washington," Azurdia said.

Centralia College Grad Moves On to Harvard Accomplishment: Lillian Albright Leverages Hard Work to Gain Ivy League Admission

“It was the most shocking and happy moment of my life! I never really thought it could happen, and above all, I truly felt blessed that day.”

By Luke Kilgore The Blaze

Last year, 34,295 hopefuls applied to Harvard University — the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and arguably the most notable of the exclusive Ivy League schools. Among the pool of applicants, only 2,048 applicants were accepted.

Lillian Albright was one of the few to overcome the odds.

Graduating from both Centralia High School and Centralia College this past school year, as well as being honored as one of four valedictorians for the Class of 2014, Albright will be flying out to Cambridge, Massachusetts, this week.

The Blaze had the opportunity to catch up with Lillian — the sister of Harvard graduate and piano sensation Charlie Albright — about her plans, aspirations and what exactly has brought her to this point.

Q: You were one of the mere 5.9 percent of applicants to be accepted to Harvard. Were you nervous when you applied?

Did you expect to make it, and was Harvard your first choice?

A: I applied Early Action in October and found out the results in December, before the people that applied Regular Decision did (they found out in March). When applying, I was nervous, of course, but I never expected to get admitted. However, I always told myself that although it seemed like a long shot, I would have a 0 percent chance of getting accepted if I never tried, so I gave it a chance and said a prayer before clicking "submit" on my application… and I'm glad I did! Harvard was my dream school, but it is also the dream school of thousands of brilliant, talented and welldeserving people in the world, and I was well aware of the high possibility that I would not get in … So I didn't count on it.

Q: Do you remember the day you found out you got

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A: Ironically, I was actually at Centralia College that day. It was Dec. 13, 2013. I had just finished talking to a group of high school freshmen about participating in the Running Start program with a few other current Running Start students and went to visit my mom, Hyesoo Albright, in her office in Kirk Library. To be honest, I did not know that results were coming out that day (that is embarrassing). My brother, Charlie, was the one who called me to let me know that they would be out any minute … around noon! So I sat in my mother's computer chair for the next 35 minutes refreshing my email over and over again … and I was getting nervous because there was an online Harvard forum on which everyone was

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posting their results, but I had not even received mine yet! Finally, at around 12:30 p.m., I refreshed my page and there it was…I closed my eyes and clicked to open the email and it said "Congratulations!" That's all I had to read before I started screaming and burst into tears.

My mom did the same, and keep in mind, we were in the library, so everyone stared, of course. It was the most shocking and happy moment of my life! I never really thought it could happen and above all, I truly felt blessed that day.

Q: You were talking about Charlie and your family.

They've obviously supported you through all of this. Were they instrumental in you choice to apply? How long has that been a dream of your's?

A: Yes, my family has been my biggest support system

Q: What are you going to be studying over there and what's your final goal through all of this?

A: At this point, I don't know exactly what I want to do for the rest of my life, but I am considering concentrating in Economics or Computer Science! That is, of course, subject to change and I plan on going into my freshman year with an open mind and ready to explore new areas of interest. I hope to

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Q: What are you expectations for Harvard? Are there any stereotypes about an Ivy League school that you are curious about?

A: I have talked to quite a few people in my class and I found some commonalities among all of them — everyone is driven and extremely passionate about something.

Everyone has a unique story to be told, often with unexpected twists and turns. One thing I really love about Harvard is the diversity. I have not talked to one person who is not talented in one way or another and has not set goals for themselves. I find that extremely inspiring and I can't wait to be surrounded by that fervor and drive all the time.

Q: Do you think that Centralia College has had anything to do with getting you prepared or helping you on your way to Harvard? If so, then how?

A: I have so much thanks to give to CC for guiding me on my way to Harvard. It gave me a chance to experience the college setting — the classes, the diversity in people, new clubs and activities, the freedom of being a college student, etc. I also learned an incredible amount at my time there and all of the faculty and staff were amazing and caring people.

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through the whole process of this journey and I could not have done it without them. My brother was in the Harvard Class of 2011, and his accomplishments there opened my eyes to the possibility of applying — he gave me a lot of advice on various parts of the application process and was always helpful in answering any and all of my questions. I think it was when my brother graduated (I was a freshman in high school) and I visited the campus for his commencement that I really fell in love with the school and wished to study there someday. For Christmas one year, he even gifted me the book "A is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting Into The Ivy League and Other Top Colleges." He doesn't know this, but I never ended up reading it.

Although my family encouraged me to just send in an application, they never pushed or pressured me to feel as if I had to do anything. I knew they would be proud of me with whatever path I went down educationally and that made me feel a lot more relaxed about the whole thing. I never felt as if I had to live up to anyone — I just had to be me, work hard, and do my best at whatever I set my mind to.

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Health Care at College: Can Teens Manage?

NEW YORK (AP) — Lauren Davies had a desperate thought while stuck in traffic as she frantically drove upstate to reach her 19-year-old.

"If I drive on the shoulder and a cop stops me, will he believe me when I tell him I think my daughter's dying in a hospital?"

The sophomore had fallen so ill from an out-of-control sinus infection that she was in a feverish stupor, unable to open her mouth, her face so swollen that a membrane was pressing on her brain after two rounds of antibiotics that didn't work.

Davies, from Garden City, had another thought about scooping up her young adult: "In my mind I just wanted her home. That's where she was going to be."

What could go wrong did go wrong for Leah Davies in 2011.

Having turned 18, a legal adult when it comes to care providers sharing health information with parents, mom and dad were forced to the sidelines as doctors at home tried to convince the hospital in Syracuse to be more aggressive.

Heading off to school is stressful for young people on a variety of fronts. Among the biggest challenges is managing their own health far from home. And it can be a trial for parents, too, in this, the era of the helicopter when it comes to raising children.

Leah, now 22, took a semester off after her health ordeal.

Lisa Salberg in northern New Jersey is no helicopter, yet her 18-year-old ended up leaving school after the first semester of her freshman year at a Connecticut university.

The nurse practitioners at the campus health center took

In this June 28 photo, the Davies family, from left, Leah, Adam, Phil and Lauren Davies poses for a family photo after Adam's high school graduation at Garden City High School in Garden City, N.Y. As a college sophomore in 2011, Leah Davies, then 19, had fallen ill from an out-of-control sinus infection. A legal adult when it comes to care providers sharing health information with parents, mom and dad were forced to the sidelines.

to shooing Becca off to the emergency room last year for the slightest sniffle because of a defibrillator implanted in her chest for a genetic condition that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest. She's had the device since she was 10.

Both mothers said they had prepared their girls to speak up, handle health cards and fill out medical forms.

"She knew how to advocate for herself, but nobody was listening to her," said Salberg, who founded the nonprofit Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association, named for the disease both she and her daughter have.

"One nurse practitioner looked her in the eye and said, 'I don't know what to do with you. Your heart scares me.'

They kept telling her to go (to) the ER for nothing. Talk about instilling a lack of confidence.

That's exactly what happened," Salberg said.

Becca, 19, is now happy living at home and attending school nearby.

Amanda Mroczek, 22, was diagnosed with cancer at 13.

She finished treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2006 but relapsed at 16, finishing treatment again in 2009. She went off to a Michigan univer-

sity on two maintenance drugs and her scans have been clear since.

"I became a bit of a hypochondriac within the first couple of years in college, fearing another relapse," she said. "It became really difficult to sometimes make sure I took my meds on time. You get distracted. You forget and the next day you realize, 'Oh shoot, I didn't take them,'" said Mroczek, who still lives in Ann Arbor, where she went to undergraduate school, as she awaits word on her medical school applications.

Women's health nurse practitioner Barbara Dehn in Los

Altos, California, has a busy practice with lots of teen girls.

She has seen it all in 25 years and will soon send her 18-yearold son to college.

Med schedules are a recurring issue after campus dropoff, she said.

"A lot of kids I see have ADHD, anxiety disorders, OCD. Sometimes, with the stress of living away from home, they stop their meds, have more depression, more anxiety," Dehn said.

Some tips from Dehn: — Even if parents are providing full financial support they have no rights to academic or health information unless their child is gravely ill. Ask for a health care proxy, a health care durable power of attorney and-or an advance health care directive form if you want to be part of the process. Your over18 child must agree.

"Oftentimes you don't need carte blanche," Dehn said. "In other words, you don't want to know about sexually transmitted infections, but you do want to know things in the event of a car accident or a broken bone."

— Visit the campus health center with your teen. Bring back a brochure and tape it to the back of the main door for easy access to telephone numbers, hours of service and emergency procedures. Go to the nearest off-campus pharmacy and urgent care facility so he knows how to fill prescriptions and where to go just in case.

— Check insurance policies to make sure such things as ambulance rides are covered.

— Keep doctors back home in the loop. Encourage your teen to give them a call with any questions.

Federal Judge Rules Against NCAA in O'Bannon Case

By Tim Dahlberg

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A federal judge ruled Friday that the NCAA can't stop college football and basketball players from selling the rights to their names and likenesses, opening the way to athletes getting payouts once their college careers are over.

In a landmark decision, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled in favor of former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon and 19 others in a lawsuit that challenged the NCAA's regulation of college athletics on antitrust grounds. She issued an injunction prohibiting the NCAA from enforcing its rules on money given to athletes when it comes to their names, images and likenesses.

In a partial victory for the NCAA, though, Wilken said the body that governs college athletics could set a cap on the

money paid to athletes, as long as it allows at least $5,000 per athlete per year of competition for players at big football and basketball schools.

"The NCAA's witnesses stated that their concerns about student-athlete compensation would be minimized or negated if compensation was capped at a few thousand dollars per year," Wilken wrote.

The NCAA said in a statement it disagreed with the decision, but was still reviewing it.

But Sonny Vaccaro, the former athletic shoe representative who recruited O'Bannon to launch the suit, said it was a huge win for college athletes yet to come.

"The kids who are going to benefit from this are kids who don't even know what we did today," Vaccaro said. "It may only be $5,000 but it's $5,000 more than they get now. The future generation will be the

benefactor of all this. There are now new ground rules in college sports."

The ruling comes after a five-year battle by O'Bannon and others on behalf of college athletes to receive a share of the billions of dollars generated by college athletics by huge television contracts. O'Bannon, who was MVP of the 1995 UCLA national championship basketball team, said he signed on as lead plaintiff after seeing his image in a video game authorized by the NCAA that he was not paid for.

Any payments to athletes would not be immediate. The ruling said regulations on pay will not take effect until the start of the next FBS football and Division I basketball recruiting cycle. Wilken said they will not affect any prospective recruits before July 1, 2016. The NCAA could also appeal.

Lawyers for O'Bannon and

the others had sought to have millions of dollars put in trust funds for the athletes, but Wilken included a cap on payments. Former athletes will not be paid, because they gave up their right to damages in a pretrial move so the case would be heard by a judge, not a jury.

Wilken was not asked to rule on the fairness of a system that pays almost everyone but the athletes themselves.

Instead, the case was centered on federal antitrust law and whether the prohibition against paying players promotes the game of college football and does not restrain competition in the marketplace.

During a three-week trial in June, plaintiffs argued that athletes had a right to money generated by their skills and images. Attorneys for the NCAA, though, said moving away from the concept of amateurism where players participated

for the love of the game would drive spectators away from college sports and would upset the competitive balance among schools and conferences.

Several players testified during the trial that they viewed playing sports as their main occupation in college, saying the many hours they had to devote to the sport made it difficult — if not impossible — to function like regular students.

O'Bannon portrayed himself as a dedicated athlete who would stay after games to work on his shot if needed, but not much of a student. He said his job at UCLA was to play basketball and took up so much time that just making it to class was difficult.

"I was an athlete masquerading as a student," he said. "I was there strictly to play basketball. I did basically the minimum to make sure I kept my eligibility academically so I could continue to play."

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my high school, and meet new friends. It prepared me to the best of my ability for success at the university level and if I had not completed two years at Centralia College, I don't know that I would be as ready for Harvard as I am now; also, if I had chosen not to do Running Start, who knows, I might not even be going to Harvard now.

I am so grateful for my time at CC and it will always be a very special place to me.

Q: With this being a momentous achievement and a rare one at that, what would you say to others who have dreams and aspirations to get to where you are?

A: As for people who have dreams and aspirations like mine, I would first say that there is no one, single, straight and narrow route to getting there. I don't think that any competitive situation — jobs, colleges, etc. — seek two of the exact same people, so it's important to find what makes you

YOU, what makes you different. Take that and run with it.

Expand and develop who you are to the best of your ability and do your best at everything you do — schoolwork, activities, etc. It's also important to do things because you actually care. Just as an example, go to class for the sake of learning and join clubs because you are genuinely interested in them, not because it will "look good" on an application — people see right through that! Above all, work hard. I worked as hard as I could to achieve this and although it was not an easy road, it was worth it. I don't think that anything worth having comes easy and it's important to keep that in mind. Also, believe in yourself. Although it is crucial to stay humble and realize that thousands, even millions, of other people are just as deserving and want the same things that you do, it is still important to have faith in yourself. If you don't, then nobody else will.

Even though a lot of luck plays into what school you end up at, much of it is determined by

your actions, your words, and your choices. Be the best you that you can be — that's all you can do!

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would like to thank?

A: I would just like to make sure to acknowledge and thank all of my family and friends who have helped me along the

way. They have brought me up to who I am today and I am eternally grateful for the wonderful people and the support I've received in this community.

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California Debates 'Yes Means Yes' Sex Assault Law SAN DIEGO (AP) — College students have heard a similar refrain for years in campaigns to stop sexual assault: No means no.

Now, as universities around the country that are facing pressure over the handling of rape allegations adopt policies to define consensual sex, California is poised to take it a step further. Lawmakers are considering what would be the first-in-the-nation measure requiring all colleges that receive public funds to set a standard for when "yes means yes."

Defining consensual sex is a growing trend by universities in an effort to do more to protect victims. From the University of California system to Yale, schools have been adopting standards to distinguish when consent was given for a sexual activity and when it was not.

Legislation passed by California's state Senate in May and coming before the Assembly this month would require all schools that receive public funds for student financial assistance to set a so-called "affirmative consent standard" that could be used in investigating and adjudicating sexual assault allegations. That would be defined as "an affirmative, unambiguous and conscious decision" by each party to engage in sexual activity.

Silence or lack of resistance does not constitute consent.

The legislation says it's also not consent if the person is drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep.

Lawmakers say consent can be nonverbal, and universities with similar policies have outlined examples as maybe a nod of the head or moving in closer to the person.

Several state legislatures, including Maryland, Texas and Connecticut, introduced bills in the past year to push colleges to do more after a White House task force reported that 1 in 5 female college students is a victim of sexual assault. The U.S. Education Department also took the unprecedented step of releasing the names of schools facing federal investigation for the way they handle sexual abuse allegations.

But no state legislation has gone as far as California's bill in requiring a consent standard.

Critics say the state is overstepping its bounds. The Los Angeles Times in an editorial after the bill passed the state Senate 27-4 wrote that it raises questions as to whether it is

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"reasonable" or "enforceable."

The legislation is based on the White House task force's recommendations.

"It seems extremely difficult and extraordinarily intrusive to micromanage sex so closely as to tell young people what steps they must take in the privacy of their own dorm rooms," the newspaper said.

Some fear navigating the murky waters of consent spells trouble for universities.

"Frequently these cases involve two individuals, both of whom maybe were under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and it can be very tricky to ascertain whether consent was obtained," said Ada Meloy, general counsel of the American Council on Education, which represents college presidents.

She said schools need to guarantee a safe environment for students, while law enforcement is best suited for handling more serious sexual assault cases.

John F. Banzhaf III, a George Washington University's Law School professor, believes having university disciplinary panels interpret vague cues and body language will open the door for more lawsuits.

The legal definition of rape in most states means the perpetrator used force or the threat of force against the victim, but the California legislation could set the stage in which both parties could accuse each other of sexual assault, he said.

"This bill would very, very radically change the definition of rape," he said.

University of California at Berkeley student Meghan Warner, 20, said that's a good thing.

She said she was sexually assaulted during her freshman year by two men at a fraternity but didn't report it because she believed "that unless it was a stranger at night with a weapon who attacked you when you were walking home, that it wasn't rape. It's just a crappy

thing that happened." She now runs campus workshops to teach students what constitutes consent.

"Most students don't know what consent is," she said. "I've asked at the workshops how many people think if a girl is blacked out drunk that it's OK to have sex with her. The amount of people who raised their hands was just startling."

Defining consent may be easy to do on paper, said Laura Nguyen, a 21-year-old San Diego State University senior, but "we're talking about college students out at night and the reality is there's not just 'yes' or 'no.'

There is a lot of in between. I really think it depends on the situation."

The legislation initially stated that "if there is confusion as to whether a person has consented or continues to consent to sexual activity, it is essential that the participants stop the activity until the confusion can be clearly resolved."

After some interpreted that as asking people to stop after each kiss to get a verbal agreement before going to the next level, the bill was amended to say consent must be "ongoing" and "can be revoked at any time."

"California needs to provide our students with education, resources, consistent policies and justice so that the system is not stacked against survivors," state Sen. Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat, said in promoting the bill.

Supporters say investigators would have to determine whether consent had been given by both parties instead of focusing on whether the complainant resisted or said no.

Denice Labertew of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault said the bill fosters a cultural change: "There's a lot of criticism around affirmative consent because it requires us to change the way we normally think about this."

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The five-year "lookback" would continue to apply to more serious credit problems like bankruptcy and foreclosure. The department said about 370,000 more borrowers would clear the government's credit check under the new standards.

"These changes allow us to continue to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars and open the doors of college to ensure all students have the opportunity to walk through them," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said.

The current credit history rules haven't been updated since the so-called PLUS loan program was established in 1994.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Education said earlier this month it will try to make it easier for students and parents with troubled credit histories to get college loans.

New rules would ease restrictions on college students seeking loans from the government's direct loan program.

The change would let people get loans more easily even if they have up to $2,085 in debt that is in collections or has been written off by creditors, and it would shorten the length of time their history of such bad debt is scrutinized from five years to two.

Currently, students with that much "adverse debt" are automatically denied, though they can appeal and get loans if they demonstrate extenuating circumstances. Such borrowers

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Centralia College softball players Janice Knutz (left) and Kalynn Randt (below) will continue their college careers at Saint Martin’s University and the AIB College of Business, respectively, next season.

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Four young women who www.facebook.com/ helped to make history for the Centralia Lady Blazer softball centraliablaze program are now moving on to start a new chapter in their respective careers. Blazers coach Matt Bajo reported that Janice Knutz, Kalynn Randt, Megan Moore and Maddi Klingberg are all planning to play at fouryear schools next spring.

Knutz, originally from Rochester, has signed on to play for Saint Martin's University, in Lacey, on a scholarship. Knutz, who set a school record with 14 Follow Us on Twitter home runs in 2013, originally planned to play at Pacific Uni@CentraliaBlaze versity in Forest Grove, Ore., early in her sophomore year.

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Randt, the Western Conference Pitcher of the Year for 2014 and a W.F. West graduate, is headed off to Des Moines, Iowa, where she will play for the centraliablaze. AIB College of Business. While AIB's softball program is only com in it's second year of existence, the institute has a strong academic reputation.

Send Newstips to: staff@centraliablaze. Bajo expressed his happiness to see the two move on. com "I'm glad that both of them are moving on," Bajo said.

Or Call: "They're both really hard-work(360) 807-8250 ing young women. They go beyond what is expected of them and they both do what they have to do to get better."

Moore, who only played softball in her sophomore year at Centralia, took the Western Conference by storm with a record .507 batting average and league MVP honors this Want More season. The Castle Rock prodplans to walk on at Western Blaze Sports uct Washington University in BellCoverage? ingham.

Klingberg also plans to walk on, at Central Washington Check us out with University in Ellensburg. The your phone Castle Rock product owns the record for most games played in her two-year career by helping her team succeed in 76 games.

Bajo sees the four standouts as some of the best to come through the program and gives them his best wishes for the future.

"They've played a big part in Or, go to: Blazer history," Bajo said. "Becentraliablaze.com cause of them, we have our first two banners hanging. I expect them all to achieve both great things in life and on the field."

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NEW YORK (AP) — Lauren Davies had a desperate thought while stuck in traffic as she frantically drove upstate to reach her 19-year-old.

"If I drive on the shoulder and a cop stops me, will he believe me when I tell him I think my daughter's dying in a hospital?"

The sophomore had fallen so ill from an out-of-control sinus infection that she was in a feverish stupor, unable to open her mouth, her face so swollen that a membrane was pressing on her brain after two rounds of antibiotics that didn't work.

Davies, from Garden City, had another thought about scooping up her young adult: "In my mind I just wanted her home. That's where she was going to be."

What could go wrong did go wrong for Leah Davies in 2011.

Having turned 18, a legal adult when it comes to care providers sharing health information with parents, mom and dad were forced to the sidelines as doctors at home tried to convince the hospital in Syracuse to be more aggressive.

Heading off to school is stressful for young people on a variety of fronts. Among the biggest challenges is managing their own health far from home. And it can be a trial for parents, too, in this, the era of the helicopter when it comes to raising children.

Leah, now 22, took a semester off after her health ordeal.

Lisa Salberg in northern New Jersey is no helicopter, yet her 18-year-old ended up leaving school after the first semester of her freshman year at a Connecticut university.

The nurse practitioners at the campus health center took

In this June 28 photo, the Davies family, from left, Leah, Adam, Phil and Lauren Davies poses for a family photo after Adam's high school graduation at Garden City High School in Garden City, N.Y. As a college sophomore in 2011, Leah Davies, then 19, had fallen ill from an out-of-control sinus infection. A legal adult when it comes to care providers sharing health information with parents, mom and dad were forced to the sidelines.

to shooing Becca off to the emergency room last year for the slightest sniffle because of a defibrillator implanted in her chest for a genetic condition that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest. She's had the device since she was 10.

Both mothers said they had prepared their girls to speak up, handle health cards and fill out medical forms.

"She knew how to advocate for herself, but nobody was listening to her," said Salberg, who founded the nonprofit Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association, named for the disease both she and her daughter have.

"One nurse practitioner looked her in the eye and said, 'I don't know what to do with you. Your heart scares me.'

They kept telling her to go (to) the ER for nothing. Talk about instilling a lack of confidence.

That's exactly what happened," Salberg said.

Becca, 19, is now happy living at home and attending school nearby.

Amanda Mroczek, 22, was diagnosed with cancer at 13.

She finished treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2006 but relapsed at 16, finishing treatment again in 2009. She went off to a Michigan univer-

sity on two maintenance drugs and her scans have been clear since.

"I became a bit of a hypochondriac within the first couple of years in college, fearing another relapse," she said. "It became really difficult to sometimes make sure I took my meds on time. You get distracted. You forget and the next day you realize, 'Oh shoot, I didn't take them,'" said Mroczek, who still lives in Ann Arbor, where she went to undergraduate school, as she awaits word on her medical school applications.

Women's health nurse practitioner Barbara Dehn in Los

Altos, California, has a busy practice with lots of teen girls.

She has seen it all in 25 years and will soon send her 18-yearold son to college.

Med schedules are a recurring issue after campus dropoff, she said.

"A lot of kids I see have ADHD, anxiety disorders, OCD. Sometimes, with the stress of living away from home, they stop their meds, have more depression, more anxiety," Dehn said.

Some tips from Dehn: — Even if parents are providing full financial support they have no rights to academic or health information unless their child is gravely ill. Ask for a health care proxy, a health care durable power of attorney and-or an advance health care directive form if you want to be part of the process. Your over18 child must agree.

"Oftentimes you don't need carte blanche," Dehn said. "In other words, you don't want to know about sexually transmitted infections, but you do want to know things in the event of a car accident or a broken bone."

— Visit the campus health center with your teen. Bring back a brochure and tape it to the back of the main door for easy access to telephone numbers, hours of service and emergency procedures. Go to the nearest off-campus pharmacy and urgent care facility so he knows how to fill prescriptions and where to go just in case.

— Check insurance policies to make sure such things as ambulance rides are covered.

— Keep doctors back home in the loop. Encourage your teen to give them a call with any questions.

Federal Judge Rules Against NCAA in O'Bannon Case

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A federal judge ruled Friday that the NCAA can't stop college football and basketball players from selling the rights to their names and likenesses, opening the way to athletes getting payouts once their college careers are over.

In a landmark decision, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled in favor of former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon and 19 others in a lawsuit that challenged the NCAA's regulation of college athletics on antitrust grounds. She issued an injunction prohibiting the NCAA from enforcing its rules on money given to athletes when it comes to their names, images and likenesses.

In a partial victory for the NCAA, though, Wilken said the body that governs college athletics could set a cap on the

money paid to athletes, as long as it allows at least $5,000 per athlete per year of competition for players at big football and basketball schools.

"The NCAA's witnesses stated that their concerns about student-athlete compensation would be minimized or negated if compensation was capped at a few thousand dollars per year," Wilken wrote.

The NCAA said in a statement it disagreed with the decision, but was still reviewing it.

But Sonny Vaccaro, the former athletic shoe representative who recruited O'Bannon to launch the suit, said it was a huge win for college athletes yet to come.

"The kids who are going to benefit from this are kids who don't even know what we did today," Vaccaro said. "It may only be $5,000 but it's $5,000 more than they get now. The future generation will be the

benefactor of all this. There are now new ground rules in college sports."

The ruling comes after a five-year battle by O'Bannon and others on behalf of college athletes to receive a share of the billions of dollars generated by college athletics by huge television contracts. O'Bannon, who was MVP of the 1995 UCLA national championship basketball team, said he signed on as lead plaintiff after seeing his image in a video game authorized by the NCAA that he was not paid for.

Any payments to athletes would not be immediate. The ruling said regulations on pay will not take effect until the start of the next FBS football and Division I basketball recruiting cycle. Wilken said they will not affect any prospective recruits before July 1, 2016. The NCAA could also appeal.

Lawyers for O'Bannon and

the others had sought to have millions of dollars put in trust funds for the athletes, but Wilken included a cap on payments. Former athletes will not be paid, because they gave up their right to damages in a pretrial move so the case would be heard by a judge, not a jury.

Wilken was not asked to rule on the fairness of a system that pays almost everyone but the athletes themselves.

Instead, the case was centered on federal antitrust law and whether the prohibition against paying players promotes the game of college football and does not restrain competition in the marketplace.

During a three-week trial in June, plaintiffs argued that athletes had a right to money generated by their skills and images. Attorneys for the NCAA, though, said moving away from the concept of amateurism where players participated

for the love of the game would drive spectators away from college sports and would upset the competitive balance among schools and conferences.

Several players testified during the trial that they viewed playing sports as their main occupation in college, saying the many hours they had to devote to the sport made it difficult — if not impossible — to function like regular students.

O'Bannon portrayed himself as a dedicated athlete who would stay after games to work on his shot if needed, but not much of a student. He said his job at UCLA was to play basketball and took up so much time that just making it to class was difficult.

"I was an athlete masquerading as a student," he said. "I was there strictly to play basketball. I did basically the minimum to make sure I kept my eligibility academically so I could continue to play."

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my high school, and meet new friends. It prepared me to the best of my ability for success at the university level and if I had not completed two years at Centralia College, I don't know that I would be as ready for Harvard as I am now; also, if I had chosen not to do Running Start, who knows, I might not even be going to Harvard now.

I am so grateful for my time at CC and it will always be a very special place to me.

Q: With this being a momentous achievement and a rare one at that, what would you say to others who have dreams and aspirations to get to where you are?

A: As for people who have dreams and aspirations like mine, I would first say that there is no one, single, straight and narrow route to getting there. I don't think that any competitive situation — jobs, colleges, etc. — seek two of the exact same people, so it's important to find what makes you

YOU, what makes you different. Take that and run with it.

Expand and develop who you are to the best of your ability and do your best at everything you do — schoolwork, activities, etc. It's also important to do things because you actually care. Just as an example, go to class for the sake of learning and join clubs because you are genuinely interested in them, not because it will "look good" on an application — people see right through that! Above all, work hard. I worked as hard as I could to achieve this and although it was not an easy road, it was worth it. I don't think that anything worth having comes easy and it's important to keep that in mind. Also, believe in yourself. Although it is crucial to stay humble and realize that thousands, even millions, of other people are just as deserving and want the same things that you do, it is still important to have faith in yourself. If you don't, then nobody else will.

Even though a lot of luck plays into what school you end up at, much of it is determined by

your actions, your words, and your choices. Be the best you that you can be — that's all you can do!

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would like to thank?

A: I would just like to make sure to acknowledge and thank all of my family and friends who have helped me along the

way. They have brought me up to who I am today and I am eternally grateful for the wonderful people and the support I've received in this community.

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California Debates 'Yes Means Yes' Sex Assault Law SAN DIEGO (AP) — College students have heard a similar refrain for years in campaigns to stop sexual assault: No means no.

Now, as universities around the country that are facing pressure over the handling of rape allegations adopt policies to define consensual sex, California is poised to take it a step further. Lawmakers are considering what would be the first-in-the-nation measure requiring all colleges that receive public funds to set a standard for when "yes means yes."

Defining consensual sex is a growing trend by universities in an effort to do more to protect victims. From the University of California system to Yale, schools have been adopting standards to distinguish when consent was given for a sexual activity and when it was not.

Legislation passed by California's state Senate in May and coming before the Assembly this month would require all schools that receive public funds for student financial assistance to set a so-called "affirmative consent standard" that could be used in investigating and adjudicating sexual assault allegations. That would be defined as "an affirmative, unambiguous and conscious decision" by each party to engage in sexual activity.

Silence or lack of resistance does not constitute consent.

The legislation says it's also not consent if the person is drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep.

Lawmakers say consent can be nonverbal, and universities with similar policies have outlined examples as maybe a nod of the head or moving in closer to the person.

Several state legislatures, including Maryland, Texas and Connecticut, introduced bills in the past year to push colleges to do more after a White House task force reported that 1 in 5 female college students is a victim of sexual assault. The U.S. Education Department also took the unprecedented step of releasing the names of schools facing federal investigation for the way they handle sexual abuse allegations.

But no state legislation has gone as far as California's bill in requiring a consent standard.

Critics say the state is overstepping its bounds. The Los Angeles Times in an editorial after the bill passed the state Senate 27-4 wrote that it raises questions as to whether it is

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"reasonable" or "enforceable."

The legislation is based on the White House task force's recommendations.

"It seems extremely difficult and extraordinarily intrusive to micromanage sex so closely as to tell young people what steps they must take in the privacy of their own dorm rooms," the newspaper said.

Some fear navigating the murky waters of consent spells trouble for universities.

"Frequently these cases involve two individuals, both of whom maybe were under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and it can be very tricky to ascertain whether consent was obtained," said Ada Meloy, general counsel of the American Council on Education, which represents college presidents.

She said schools need to guarantee a safe environment for students, while law enforcement is best suited for handling more serious sexual assault cases.

John F. Banzhaf III, a George Washington University's Law School professor, believes having university disciplinary panels interpret vague cues and body language will open the door for more lawsuits.

The legal definition of rape in most states means the perpetrator used force or the threat of force against the victim, but the California legislation could set the stage in which both parties could accuse each other of sexual assault, he said.

"This bill would very, very radically change the definition of rape," he said.

University of California at Berkeley student Meghan Warner, 20, said that's a good thing.

She said she was sexually assaulted during her freshman year by two men at a fraternity but didn't report it because she believed "that unless it was a stranger at night with a weapon who attacked you when you were walking home, that it wasn't rape. It's just a crappy

thing that happened." She now runs campus workshops to teach students what constitutes consent.

"Most students don't know what consent is," she said. "I've asked at the workshops how many people think if a girl is blacked out drunk that it's OK to have sex with her. The amount of people who raised their hands was just startling."

Defining consent may be easy to do on paper, said Laura Nguyen, a 21-year-old San Diego State University senior, but "we're talking about college students out at night and the reality is there's not just 'yes' or 'no.'

There is a lot of in between. I really think it depends on the situation."

The legislation initially stated that "if there is confusion as to whether a person has consented or continues to consent to sexual activity, it is essential that the participants stop the activity until the confusion can be clearly resolved."

After some interpreted that as asking people to stop after each kiss to get a verbal agreement before going to the next level, the bill was amended to say consent must be "ongoing" and "can be revoked at any time."

"California needs to provide our students with education, resources, consistent policies and justice so that the system is not stacked against survivors," state Sen. Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat, said in promoting the bill.

Supporters say investigators would have to determine whether consent had been given by both parties instead of focusing on whether the complainant resisted or said no.

Denice Labertew of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault said the bill fosters a cultural change: "There's a lot of criticism around affirmative consent because it requires us to change the way we normally think about this."

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The five-year "lookback" would continue to apply to more serious credit problems like bankruptcy and foreclosure. The department said about 370,000 more borrowers would clear the government's credit check under the new standards.

"These changes allow us to continue to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars and open the doors of college to ensure all students have the opportunity to walk through them," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said.

The current credit history rules haven't been updated since the so-called PLUS loan program was established in 1994.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Education said earlier this month it will try to make it easier for students and parents with troubled credit histories to get college loans.

New rules would ease restrictions on college students seeking loans from the government's direct loan program.

The change would let people get loans more easily even if they have up to $2,085 in debt that is in collections or has been written off by creditors, and it would shorten the length of time their history of such bad debt is scrutinized from five years to two.

Currently, students with that much "adverse debt" are automatically denied, though they can appeal and get loans if they demonstrate extenuating circumstances. Such borrowers

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Four young women who www.facebook.com/ helped to make history for the Centralia Lady Blazer softball centraliablaze program are now moving on to start a new chapter in their respective careers. Blazers coach Matt Bajo reported that Janice Knutz, Kalynn Randt, Megan Moore and Maddi Klingberg are all planning to play at fouryear schools next spring.

Knutz, originally from Rochester, has signed on to play for Saint Martin's University, in Lacey, on a scholarship. Knutz, who set a school record with 14 Follow Us on Twitter home runs in 2013, originally planned to play at Pacific Uni@CentraliaBlaze versity in Forest Grove, Ore., early in her sophomore year.

Towards the end of the season, though, the Saints took notice, and her plans changed.

Randt, the Western Conference Pitcher of the Year for 2014 and a W.F. West graduate, is headed off to Des Moines, Iowa, where she will play for the centraliablaze. AIB College of Business. While AIB's softball program is only com in it's second year of existence, the institute has a strong academic reputation.

Send Newstips to: staff@centraliablaze. Bajo expressed his happiness to see the two move on. com "I'm glad that both of them are moving on," Bajo said.

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Moore, who only played softball in her sophomore year at Centralia, took the Western Conference by storm with a record .507 batting average and league MVP honors this Want More season. The Castle Rock prodplans to walk on at Western Blaze Sports uct Washington University in BellCoverage? ingham.

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Bajo sees the four standouts as some of the best to come through the program and gives them his best wishes for the future.

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