The Vikings, after Adofo-Mensah and executive vice president of football operations Rob Brzezinski led a series of decisions to let several long-time standouts go, cleared up ample salary cap space prior to the 2024 season preceding a
The school’s board of trustees selects the president and the appointment is subject to confirmation by the Florida Board of Governors, per state law.Ono is set to replace Kent Fuchs, who became the school’s interim president last summer after ex-U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse stepped down. Sasse left the U.S. Senate, where he had represented Nebraska, to become the university’s president in 2023.
Sasse announced in July he was leaving the job to focus on his family after his wife wasSoon thereafter, there were reports that Sasse gave six former staffers and two former Republican officials jobs withon private catering for lavish dinners, football tailgates and extravagant social functions in his first year on the job.
The amount was about double the spending of his predecessor, Fuchs, who was brought back to head the university on a temporary basis.▶ Follow live updates on
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — There’s one word you hear more than any other in Basel during the
The northern Swiss city isn’t known as an epicenter of steamy wood-cabin relaxation, but the small municipality of Vora in Finland is, and three local performers have made saunas synonymous withA New Orleans physician provided the skulls of the 19 people to a German researcher engaged phrenological studies — the debunked belief that a person’s skull could determine innate racial characteristics.
“All kinds of experiments were done on Black bodies living and dead,” said Dr. Eva Baham, a historian who led Dillard University’s efforts to repatriate the individuals’ remains. “People who had no agency over themselves.”In 2023, the University of Leipzig in Germany reached out to the City of New Orleans to find a way to return the remains, Guillory said. The University of Leipzig did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“It is a demonstration of our own morality here in New Orleans and in Leipzig with the professors there who wanted to do something to restore the dignity of these people,” Baham said.Dillard University researchers say more digging remains to be done, including to try and track down possible descendants. They believe it is likely that some of the people had been recently freed from slavery.