Source: COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW Title: “Trimming the Fringe: How Newspapers Shun Low-Income Readers, “ Date: March/April 1997, Author: Gilbert Cranberg SSU Censored Researchers: Judith Westfall and Catherine Hickinbotham SSU Faculty Evaluator: Melinda Barnard, Ph.D. Mainstream newspapers around the United States are changing how they measure success. “Market effectiveness,” instead of high circulation levels, is the [...]

Source: LABORATORY MEDICINE Title: “The Threat Of Chagas’ Disease in Transfusion Medicine: The Presence of Antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi in the U.S. Blood Supply”, Date: April 1997, Authors: Alfred A. Pan, Ph.D., and Martin Winkler, Ph.D. SSU Censored Researchers: Kecia Kaiser and Catherine Hickinbotham Community Evaluator: Linda C. McCabe, MT(ASCP) With increasing global migration comes [...]

Source: COUNTERPUNCH Title: “A Reserve Army of Guinea Pigs”, Date: September 1997 Author: Scott Handelman SSU Censored Researcher: Katie Garey SSU Faculty Evaluator: Susan Garfm, Ph.D. Over 40,000 human guinea pigs participate in drug testing experiments run by huge pharmaceutical companies in the United States annually. Most of these people are poor and “down-and-outers,” who [...]

Source: RACHEL’S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY, # 552, Title: “Right to Know Nothing” Date: June 26, 1997, Author: Peter Montague, Ph.D. Mainstream media coverage: related article in The New York Times, January 30, 1997, page B-7; National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation, October 17, 1997; National Public Radio, All Things Considered, May 8, 1997 [...]

Sources: SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, Title: “Death Behind Bars”; “Infected-and Ignored” Date: February 5, 1997; February 19, 1997 Author: Nina Siegal SSU Censored Researchers: Renee Hamilton, Carolyn Williams, and Kecia Kaiser SSU Faculty Evaluator: Barbara Bloom, Ph.D. A nine-month investigation by the San Francisco Bay Guardian found that California’s prison system routinely denies women access [...]

Source: EARTH FIRST! Title: “Army Plans to Burn Surplus Nerve Gas Stockpile,” Date: March 1997, Authors: Mark Brown and Kaym Jones SSU Censored Researcher: Brad Smith SSU Faculty Evaluator. Ellen Krebs Despite evidence that incineration is the worst option for destroying the nation’s obsolete chemical weapons stockpile stored at the Umatilla Army Depot, the Oregon [...]

Sources: THE NATION, Title: “Barbie’s Betrayal: The Toy Industry’s Broken Workers,” Date: December 30, 1996, Author. Eyal Press; THE HUMANIST, Title: “Sweatshop Barbie: Exploitation of Third World Labor,” Date: January/February 1997, Author: Anton Foek SSU Censored Researcher. Erika Nell SSU Staff Evaluator. Carol Tremmel Thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the [...]

Source: WITWIGO, Title: “National ID Card is Now Federal Law and Georgia Wants to Help Lead the Way,” Date: May/June 1997, Author: Cyndee Parker; Mainstream media coverage: The New York Times, September 8, 1996, section 6; page 58, column 1; related article in The San Francisco Chronicle, September 19, 1996, page A1 SSU Censored Researchers: [...]

Sources: MS., Title: “The Misuses of Norplant: Who Gets Stuck?,” Date: November/December 1996, Author: Jennifer Washburn; WASHINGTON FREE PRESS, Title: “Norplant and the Dark Side of the Law,” Date: March/April 1997, Author: Rebecca Kavoussi; HUMAN EVENTS, Title: “BBC Documentary Claims That U.S. Foreign Aid Funded Norplant Testing On Uninformed Third World Women,” Date: May 16, [...]

Source: COVERTACTION QUARTERLY (CAQ), Title: “Space Probe Explodes, Plutonium Missing,” Date: Spring 1997, Author. Karl Grossman SSU Censored Researchers: Robin Stovall and Kecia Kaiser SSU Faculty Evaluator. Catherine Nelson, Ph.D. On November 16, 1996, Russia’s Mars 96 space probe broke up and burned while descending over Chile and Bolivia, scattering its remains across a 10,000 [...]