Enrollment up at St. Mary of the Woods; A Boonville group doesn’t want an egg laying facility in their county; Ohio considering banning abortions for Downs Syndrome…
-(AP) The Roman Catholic college in Vigo County is reporting its highest fall enrollment since the early 1970s. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College said Tuesday the school that’s a few miles west of Terre Haute welcomed 377 on-campus students this fall. That’s the college’s highest on-campus enrollment since fall 1971, when it had an enrollment of 372 students. The Tribune-Star reports school officials attribute the rising enrollment to the implementation of a strategic plan that includes boosting the enrollment of male and female students, adding athletic teams and pursuing new marketing strategies. Brennan Randolph is the college’s vice president for enrollment management. He says that in the two years since the formerly all-women college began admitting male students in 2015 it’s also seen an increase in female student enrollment.
–(NETWORK IN) An egg-laying facility near Boonville has some people in Warrick County upset that the plant, owned by Prime Foods, is building there. This weekend, during a public forum, members of WarrickRuined, an organization dedicated to stopping the facility, said they believe having the plant there will make people sick, reported WFIE. A judged stopped construction of the plant in May so that he could review why people were asking the plant’s construction be stopped.
-(AP)- A new name is being recommended for the schools being created next year from the merger of two small high schools in Parke County, the home of DLC Media Sister Station 104.9 WAXI (trueoldieswaxi.com). A committee has endorsed the names Parke Heritage High School and Parke Heritage Middle School for what are now Rockville and Turkey Run Junior-Senior High Schools in Parke County. The North Central Parke school board decided in April to have grades 9-12 attend the Rockville school, with grades 6-8 at Turkey Run after years of declining enrollment. District Superintendent Tom Rohr tells the (Terre Haute) Tribune-Star that the committee wanted a distinct school name. The school board could vote in October on whether to adopt the Parke Heritage name. Rockville had about 220 high school students last year, while Turkey Run had about 160.
-(AP)–Parental love. Women’s rights. The trust between doctor and patient. These are some of emotional issues at play as Ohio becomes the latest state to consider banning abortion if it’s based on a diagnosis that a baby would be born with Down syndrome. Physicians convicted of performing an abortion under such circumstances could be charged with a fourth-degree felony, stripped of their medical license and held liable for legal damages under the proposal. The pregnant woman would face no criminal liability. Backers argue terminating pregnancies in such cases is a form of discrimination stemming for misinformation and society’s growing perfectionism. Opponents say the measure would undercut a woman’s legal right to an abortion and harm the doctor-patient relationship. The National Down Syndrome Society has not taken a position.