10 THINGS THE NCAA ABSOLUTELY MUST CHANGE

by staff writers

August 19, 2012

Sports fans love talking about how they prefer college sports to their professional counterparts because of the “purity” of a system uncorrupted by the ravages of greed. Except they’re very wrong about that. While the NCAA definitely deserves accolades for the things it does right, like providing scholarships for high schoolers seeking higher education, that doesn’t mean the organization stands above valid criticism. And, with the number of scandals conflagrating across the country as a result of pursuing success at all costs, it needs to start tightening up in some areas and loosening up in others. Nothing at all says that the creation of ethical, safe, and equitable spaces for athletes and their supporters will compromise the overall quality and enjoyment of a college game. So showing some genuine concern toward the serious issues involved on NCAA campuses likely won’t yield any negative results and, in fact, just might make everything that much more gratifying.

1. Title IX compliance:
   The Title IX amendment of 1972 stuck to the Higher Education Act of 1965 and ensured no academic discrimination could be levied upon women, whether it be in the classroom or in extracurricular activities. Which, of course, includes sports. Despite the rapid increase of female athletes competing at the college level (456% between the 1971-1972 and 2004-2005 school years), the NCAA remains tight-fisted when it comes to distributing necessary dollars to the ladies. The 2005-2006 school year saw men’s Division I sports receive $2,192,500 in scholarship money, compared to $1,809,500 for women. Division II experienced a similar divide, with $630,700 going toward men and $477,800 going toward women. Like ESPN points out, while the NCAA is not required to spend equally, it frequently uses excuses such as “Men’s sports make more money!” to justify paying inadequate attention to female athletes.
2. More heterogenous hiring and recruiting practices:
   Although Title IX granted women athletes (ostensibly) equal footing on campus, the double-X crowd still only landed 554 out of the 1,774 head coaching positions for women’s sports established since 2000. Weirdly enough, prior to the passing of Title IX, a higher percentage of ladies enjoyed positions as head and assistant coaches! But the complaints of discriminatory hiring practices certainly don’t end there. Accusations of institutionalized racism and homophobia frequently crop up, with The New York Timesrecently reporting a steady decline in African-American coaches represented in Division I basketball. Many gay and lesbian participants complain that NCAA culture reinforces discriminatory thoughts and practices along sexuality lines and creates a hostile environment preventing many from performing to the best of their abilities.
3. Quit downplaying academics:
   Everyone but the most bright-eyed, bushy-tailed idealists living in an opaque bubble of denial knows that sports trump academics as top priority on many Division I and II campuses. They enjoy a higher graduation rate than their peersthanks to special concessions and dispensations not awarded to anyone else (more on that later), but consistently underperform upon acceptance to their respective institutions. Research conducted at Kansas State University shows that Division I schools stand as especially notorious for recruiting student athletes based on how much money they’d pull in as opposed to how they might improve and nurture an edifying academic environment. Because of this, they enter into the classroom ill-prepared to meet the demands other students must face down. However, this trend only applies to high-profile sports such as football and basketball, with more low-profile athletes in golf, volleyball, and the like typically performing as well or better than their non-athletic peers.The NCAA passed reforms in October 2011 stating that any teams hoping to participate in postseason competition must boast an academic score of 930 or above. This will go into effect starting in the 2015-2016 season. So hopefully this indicates the organization might start slowly addressing the serious issue of athletes falling behind in mainstream courses.
4. End “hidden” curricula and student “tutors”:
   One way schools keep athlete grades up to minimum standards without placing them in “uncomfortable” classes involves cheating the system with a hidden curriculum. University of North Carolina’s recent brouhaha revealed some (though not all) of the tactics colleges and universities yield in the interest of banking some sweet, sweet football and basketball coin, most notably courses with only one spot available, no meeting time, no classroom, and a single semester assignment — if any. The easiest of As, in other words, and one that keeps them eligible without making them cut into precious practice time with pesky studying. Plagiarism also runs rampant, and frequently goes overlooked if practiced by a student athlete, despite every school explicitly making clear its disciplinary measures against the offense. In addition, some colleges and universities hire “tutors” for their teams, but their responsibilities involve more than just helping them better understand class material. Like writing their papers for them, for example. UNC might be the school on everyone’s minds right now, but they’re hardly the only ones sticking to these deplorable practices. All the NCAA needs to do is further alter its academic requirements to require student athletes to rack up credits in the same classes as everyone else. And, of course, actually enforce the restriction.
5. Keep recruiting tactics legal:
   Some of the shadier booster clubs at Division I and II colleges don’t mind breaking the law when it comes to snagging the promising high schoolers who will lead their favorite teams to victory. And money, of course. One of the most notorious incidents involved University of Miami’s football program, where exorbitantly wealthy patrons lured potential players with prostitutes and money in exchange for injuring the opposition. At University of Colorado, University of Tennessee, University of Texas, University of Alabama, and Arizona State University, conventionally attractive female students known as “hostesses” are often coerced into “entertaining” both recruits and players alike, with the expectation being that they provide sexual services to keep them from drifting toward other programs. When the women aren’t enough, drugs and alcohol (for minors, anyway) only enhance the deal. Not only is this against NCAA regulations, it’s against the law. But the organization’s negligence at policing these crimes means the issues swell to disconcerting proportions, to the point scandals break out and further damage its reputation. A little diligence and cooperating with the law is all it takes to protect the safety of female students and fight the culture of athlete entitlement.
6. Stop the bribes and incentives:
   The most common illegal college athletics recruiting practices further break down into two common types, those involving fiscal and material bribes and those involving sexual bribes that — tragically — have led to rape and sexual assault (more on the latter later). Boosters, recruiters, and agents all thumb their noses at NCAA regulations and make amateur players into professionals before graduation. University of Miami’s boosters may have offered up fancy dinners, nightclubs, jewelry, and yacht trips along with its coterie of prostitutes, but other schools have even topped that. While still at Ohio State, New York Jets’ Santonio Holmes allegedly enjoyed himself a complimentary house, courtesy of Josh Luchs.Beyond bribery as a recruitment tool, it also rears its head in college sports when gambling, betting on, and fixing games are all involved. University of San Diego’s basketball team saw three of its current and former participants — two players and one assistant coach — charged with running a betting operation intending to artificially change the outcome of games. Then-active player Brandon Johnson accepted money from ex-assistant coach Thaddeus Brown and ex-player Brandon Dowdy in exchange for manipulating the eventual score. Kudos to the NCAA for stepping in and helping to end this instance of sports betting, but it seriously needs to play a more proactive role in making sure players select colleges based on legal and ethical recruiting practices.
7. Rape and sexual assault prevention:
   Easily the most egregious side effect of employing prostitutes and “hostesses” to entice potential and active players involves establishing a patriarchal culture of male entitlement permitting rape and sexual assault to take place. No matter their profession or sexual peccadilloes, sexual violence survivors absolutely do not “have it coming.” Ever. Just because a woman volunteers to take on a “hostess” role for money or for school spirit reasons doesn’t mean she “owes” any of the athletes her body. But even ladies serving outside these capacities find themselves victimized by student athletes — and subjected to the very same stigmas levied against the ones who participate in “hostess” programs. Allegations of male athletes raping and sexual assaulting female classmates frequently scandalize the news, with two Boston University ice hockey players arrested within 10 weeks of each other in 2011 and 2012. At least in those instances, the victims saw their attackers brought to justice. Many (if not most) survivors aren’t so lucky, watching their assailants continue to enjoy free electronics and designer watchesand even professional contracts while they receive sneers and allegations of “faking it for attention/revenge because he doesn’t love you” or something similarly marginalizing and shaming.Rutgers University offers a video specifically targeting the culture of student athletics that breeds this sort of horrific behavior, but it’s time the NCAA brought the message to a broader audience. Address the frequently blown off (not to mention illegal) issue of athletes committing sexual atrocities with required education in rape and sexual assault. What it is. Why it happens. How to prevent it. And why “bros” shouldn’t come before “hoes” when it comes to reporting incidents.
8. Work with watchdog groups:
   Rutgers 100, The Drake Group, League of Fans, Americans United for a Better NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Pool, and other watchdog groups keep an eye on the ethics, integrity, and legalities of amateur and professional sports organizations alike. Unsurprisingly, boosters just adore harassing them, as chronicled in Rutgers 100 founder William C. Downing’s Confessions of a Spoilsport (itself a fascinating read containing even more astounding affronts in the name of promoting college athletics). He even received a few death threats for daring to keep the school’s sports programs as scandal-free as possible! The NCAA undoubtedly does some things right, but it also — as this article and others like it point out — fails to address some very critical problems. No organization should be above public scrutiny, particularly when it comes to safety and staying within the law. If boosters and the NCAA want to catch serious issues before they blow up (or, better yet, prevent them in the first place), cooperation and transparency work far, far more effectively than declaring some sort of silly social warfare. Legitimate concerns, like academics, sexual violence prevention, bribery and gambling, and true equality, all deserve addressing. Rather than foot-dragging and unconvincing excuses, trying a little diplomacy and hearing out their concerns might prove far more beneficial to all parties involved than sticking with the current broken, corrupt system.
9. Drug testing:
   As if getting away with cheating and raping weren’t enough of a reason to start begging the NCAA for tighter policing of its own rules, Division I and II institutions also seem to take pains to help out their student athletes who test positive for one or more substance on the banned list. As with the case at Syracuse, merely not mentioning proven substance use and abuse proved the “best” strategy for keeping players churning out money for the school. As part of the Big East Conference, the regulations do not require schools to disclose who passes or fails drug tests. And the NCAA still accepts applicants without a broad, overarching illicit substance policy, though it does possess its own. Syracuse itself, however, possesses internal regulations, meaning, should the allegations prove true, the involved players and staff stood in direct violation and deserve the requisite punishment.Regardless of one’s attitudes toward smokables, snortables, injectables, and swallowables, the fact remains that they’re still illegal and the NCAA still holds explicit rules against them. Even when arrests take place, everyone seems to let athletes off with little more than a shrug and the occasional wrist-slapping suspension, though students outside sports programs are left to suffer any academic or social consequences of their actions. Once again, negligence regarding accountability and special treatment for no reason other than physical prowess means nursing a subculture believing itself entirely above the same ethical standards levied onto everyone else. The NCAA needs a smoother policy uniform across conferences and needs to take a more active role in making sure players aren’t ingesting anything that might grant them an unfair advantage on the field or court.
10. Hold athletic participants to the same behavior standards as other students, faculty, and staff:
    Special treatment for anyone involved in the athletics program is ostensibly against NCAA rules, but colleges and universities perpetually disregard these statutes, and the regulatory organization really doesn’t seem to mind at all. If Jerry Sandusky received a Penn State salary for teaching math or art or business, would his superiors, faculty, staff and students have rallied behind him so passionately despite his terrifying (and proven!) sexual predation of children? Probably not. Anyone involved in high-profile athletics, particularly star coaches and players, ascends to celebrity status on campus, which heavily compromises the supposed academic goals of higher education. Students and their faculty supporters concerned with this phenomenon (here’s an example from Penn State, again) believe it to create a completely unfair atmosphere where nobody receives judgment on the strength of their character, but rather their athletic acumen and how much money they pull in from corporate sponsors.An honest, straight-A student who screws up once receives a higher punishment than a football player caught breaking NCAA rules — or even the law, in other words. It’s a fair complaint, and one that can be eliminated over time if the powers that be start chipping away at entitlement culture and move towards something more ethical, responsible, and accountability-based. Making sure actions violating the regulations in place receive appropriate consequences will ensure a safer, more equitable athletic experience for all. If it’s supposed to be all about the genuine love of physical competition and providing potential professional opportunities for promising youngsters, the quality of games definitely won’t suffer as a result. In fact, they might actually improve as the involved parties improve their sense of discipline and inclusivity!

Herbal headache cure may help cancer, too

This Herbal Migraine Cure
May Help Treat Cancer, Too

    If you're one of the unfortunate billion or so folks who suffer from migraines, you may already be familiar with this bitter-tasting tonic.

    It's a popular alternative treatment for migraines that's been known for centuries, but gained new popularity in the 1980s in the U.K. A member of the sunflower family, it was commonly used in European folk medicine as a remedy for headaches, arthritis, and fevers.

    More than 70% of the 270 U.K. people surveyed in one study reported feeling much better after taking two to three fresh leaves daily. Several human studies suggest the herb may reduce the frequency of migraine episodes in people who suffer from this painful health problem. But read on, because it may help with cancer too.

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You've been told to avoid it at all costs. But-- This "forbidden" food could be the biggest health breakthrough of our time     Your whole life, you've been warned that this substance can wreak havoc on your health.     But the bad rap could be for nothing. Because research proves this shunned food: "washes away" stubborn bladder infections (often in less than 48 hours) decreases tooth decay by 80%--without having to drop any of your favorite foods reduces blood clots without the dangerous side effects of aspirin cuts sinus and ear infections by 93%--One pioneering Texas doctor reports these results that are so dramatic his patients forget to keep using it!     And you should see how it helps you drop weight!     How can one food--especially one we're told to stay away from--do so much?     More importantly--what is it? And how can you get your hands on it?

    The name feverfew even comes from a Latin word meaning "fever reducer" — just as its name suggests.

    The active compound in this plant is called parthenolide, which drug makers are also investigating. Scientists think parthenolide blocks substances that constrict the blood vessels and lead to migraines.

    However, not all studies show that feverfew has a positive impact on migraines.

    It seems to depend on your timing. It's most effective when taken just as you feel the headache coming on. Another important factor is the quality of the supplement. Feverfew supplements should be standardized to a minimum of 0.2% parthenolide.

    Feverfew actually works in a similar manner to ibuprofen — inhibiting the chemicals that cause your head to spasm.

Good for what ails your joints, too

    Not only does feverfew help reduce head spasms, it may also help reduce inflammation throughout your body. This may be valuable for those who suffer from inflammatory illnesses such as arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In fact, feverfew has been used for centuries as a remedy for arthritis.

    The herb is believed to hinder the hormone-like substances called prostaglandins — substances which cause pain and inflammation.

    Some studies have even shown that feverfew inhibits inflammation better than NSAID drugs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs)… truly good news for RA sufferers.

    Most people believe feverfew's positive activity comes from the compound parthenolide. However, a parthenolide-free feverfew extract also showed free radical-scavenging properties and protection from UV-induced sun damage.¹

    There's more. Some researchers believe feverfew's flavonol content may also contribute to its anti-inflammatory properties.²

New evidence that feverfew
may be cancer-protective

    Cancer is often regarded as an inflammatory disease. Like heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's and many other diseases of aging, inflammation is certainly one of the major symptoms — and chronic inflammation may be a cause as well.

    Feverfew's active compound, parthenolide, is now being tested by scientists as a potential treatment for a variety of cancers… both as an alternative and complementary treatment.

    Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine started studying feverfew because parthenolide is known to inhibit the DNA-binding protein that turns genes on and off. This transcription factor is called NF-Kappa B, and is connected to cancer.

    Harikrishna Nakshatri, PhD., Associate Professor, explains it this way… "NF-Kappa B is generally not active in a normal, healthy body, except when there is an infection or inflammation. Then it activates to help fight the infection. We have found, however, that it isalways active in cancer."³

    According to Hakshatri, this "cancer hyperactivity" may be one mechanism involved in cancer metastasis.

    How does feverfew perform against specific types of cancer? Here's what science is discovering about this.

• Breast Cancer. Tamoxifen is the world's most widely prescribed cancer drug. Though we here at Cancer Defeated prefer alternative cancer treatments, if you're inclined toward conventional treatments and want complementary ways to enhance your recovery chances, you'll be interested in this study, and how it might help prevent resistance to Tamoxifen.⁴
  
  Patients with hormone-driven cancers are often given Tamoxifen, developed to block hormones from binding to cellular protein receptors. But many patients either don't respond to the treatment or develop resistance to it.
  
  NF-Kappa B proteins trigger inflammation which can also signal tumor development. Feverfew's parthenolide effectively suppresses NF-Kappa B.
  
  A Clemson University study tested feverfew against both breast cancer andcervical cancer cells. In this study, feverfew stopped the growth of all these cancer cells… as reported in the Spring 2006 issue of the Journal of Medicinal Food.
• Secondary Lung Cancer. Dr. Nakshatri, mentioned above, discovered that parthenolide reduced breast cancer metastasis to the lungs by 25 percent. But due to the number of mice involved in the study, this result is not considered statistically significant.
  
  However, when parthenolide was combined with docetaxel — a common chemotherapy drug — lung metastasis went down by 50 percent compared to untreated animals.
  
  Dr. Nakshatri also gave mice a phytochemical from chamomile, called apigenin. It also blocks NF-Kappa G — though in a different way than parthenolide. Nakshatri hoped that these two compounds used in conjunction with docetaxel would enhance the drug's benefit in stopping metastasis to the lungs. But it proved too toxic.⁵
• Secondary Bone Cancer. In further research, Dr. Nakshatri is examining whether parthenolide and the drug docetaxel can stop breast cancer from spreading to the bone. (Bones and lungs are the most frequent sites for breast cancer metastasis.) He's trying to get rid of the drug's toxicity by combining it with natural substances like feverfew and chamomile.
  
  In my opinion, it would be most interesting to test apigenin and parthenolide withoutany drug use. But for the moment it appears this isn't planned.

    NF-Kappa B is now believed to play a significant role in many types of cancer — including leukemia, lung and prostate cancer. So parthenolide's role as an NF-Kappa B inhibitor shows promise for a number of cancers besides breast cancer.

Perhaps most exciting of all —
can we now eradicate leukemia?

    Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have made an exciting discovery...

    An herbal extract of feverfew is reported effective against one type of human leukemia. Monica Guzman, PhD, and Craig Jordan, PhD, even go so far as to say that feverfew extracts can kill malignant stem cells like no other single therapy they've ever tested.

    The U.S. National Cancer Institute is even excited enough by their work to have moved it into their rapid access program — which fast-tracks experimental drugs from lab to human clinical trials.

    Says Dr. Jordan, "We have proof that we can kill leukemia stem cells with this type of agent, and that is good news."

    What's very promising is that this is the first agent known to destroy myeloid leukemia at the stem cell level. This is where malignancy is actually born. And scientists already know that unless it is attacked at the stem cell level, it can hardly ever be controlled, let alone cured.

    Researchers in the late 1800s proposed the theory that cancer could be caused by stem cells undergoing malignant change. The work of John Beard (1858-1924) was at first greeted by interest, but later maligned and forgotten. His findings were only kept alive through the years by a few maverick biologists — among them, Dr. William D. Kelley, whom we've written about in our Special Report on enzyme therapy, The Missing Ingredient for Good Health.

The stem cell connection

    More recently, scientists discovered cancer stem cells in blood, brain, and breast cancers.

    Two scientists at the University of Michigan showed that — contrary to what some experts assume — not all cancer cells are equally capable of producing cancer metastases. In fact, only a tiny fraction (under 1%) can actually cause metastasis. And these highly malignant cells are called stem cells.

    Then it was discovered at the University of Massachusetts-Worcester that the cells that initiate malignancy in stomach cancers are not the stomach tissue itself, but the stem cells that migrated from the bone marrow.

    This action was initiated by a low-grade stomach infection, usually caused by Helicobacter pylori. In response to this infection, bone-marrow-derived cells (BMDCs) move to the stomach. And once there, these BMDCs take on the characteristics of the surrounding tissue. But they're influenced by the hormonal signals sent by the inflamed tissue. So they go through a malignant change.

    The above-mentioned University of Rochester discoveries about feverfew have been pivotal in giving us a deeper understanding of how stem cells are linked to both cancer genesis and progression.

    Dr. Craig Jordan of the University of Rochester said that the reasons some drugs are only moderately effective is "you're pulling the weed without getting to the root." Stem cells are the root.

    As we've said in this newsletter a number of times, stem cells are the most likely reason cancer keeps coming back after a patient appears to be completely well. Very few substances are known to kill them off. One of the few is paw-paw, which we wrote about inIssue 53. If feverfew has the same benefit, it's very exciting news indeed.

    In their laboratories, the University of Rochester team showed that parthenolide is more selective at promoting apoptosis — programmed cell death — than the standard drug cytarabine (Ara-C).

    Previous experiments also showed that feverfew compounds can stop cancer cell growth. And a phase I trial also found it was relatively non-toxic.⁶

    Interestingly, a University of Rochester press release claims that someone with leukemia would be unable to consume enough over-the-counter feverfew to stop it from spreading. Ironically, in the absence of clinical trials, it's not clear how this could have even been established. I also wonder why feverfew has attracted the interest of the NCI when paw-paw's stem-cell-killing properties have been known for years.

If you're going to take feverfew…

    The amount of active ingredient parthenolide varies wildly from one plant to another. So you definitely want a standardized product, or you won't really know what you're really getting.

    Standardized feverfew is available, but you're well-advised to read labels carefully.

    Some products claim to contain 2, 5, or even 7 percent parthenolide by weight. Since some of these supplements apparently come from obscure and unknown companies, do your homework to find products marketed by well-known and reputable companies that have a lot to lose by deceitful marketing or impure products.

    One company, Nature's Way, actually markets three different feverfew products — feverfew leaves, feverfew extract, and a more highly concentrated product called MygraFew which claims it has 2% standardized parthenolide.

A couple of cautions are in order...

    Feverfew is not recommended for pregnant (may cause contractions) or lactating women, nor for children under 2 years of age.

    Also, if you're allergic to ragweed, chamomile, or yarrow, you should not take feverfew. Skin irritation or eczema may occur in those with feverfew allergies.

    Further, if you take blood thinning drugs (anticoagulants like warfarin/Coumadin) you should avoid feverfew, as it may increase a risk of bleeding. Of course, readers of this newsletter know that they can get off drug blood-thinners easily, with natural remedies. If feverfew is an effective anticoagulant, why not just reduce the dose of warfarin?

    Some people may experience oral discomfort or irritation (swelling of the lips, bleeding of the gums, and loss of taste) when using feverfew.

    Other than these side effects, participants in studies have been found to tolerate feverfew well.

    If you experience any unusual symptom with feverfew (or anything else, for that matter!) — stop taking the product immediately. Your body chemistry may differ from even people in your own family.

    When feverfew intake is suddenly stopped after a long period of use, a patient may experience rebound headaches, anxiety, sleep disturbances, muscle stiffness or pain. You may be able to sidestep this issue by reducing your intake gradually.

    Have you tried feverfew for migraines, cancer or other symptoms? Sound off on ourFacebook page, and let your health-minded friends in on your experiences.

    Our last issue was one of the most interesting we've had this year, in my opinion. We wrote about how cutting kids' tonsils out is not such a good idea, because these little glands pack immune-boosting power that may help avoid cancer and other diseases, too. If you missed this article, you can scroll down and read it now.

M.D. savagely attacks cancer establishment

Dear Friend,Did you know that one in two men and almost that many women will get cancer at some time in their lifetime?  Those odds are 50:50! Not good. It means, statistically speaking, either you or someone very close to you will get this disease. That’s why I have a saying: “We are all battling cancer.” Cancer will come into your life.  The Big C movie is coming, some day, to a movie theater near you. Even if you don’t have the starring role, I assure you it’s no fun watching someone you love slowly wither away with this disease. What’s ironic is that cancer is fairly easy to prevent, and in its early stages it’s easy to treat successfully. Cancer really doesn’t deserve its dread reputation! I can tell you about a doctor, a “recovering oncologist” you might say, who’s discovered that all cancer cases share one simple cause and if you do something about it, you’re almost certain to recover. He has over 40,000 cases, a success rate of more than 90%, and many people alive today were sick almost to death before he found and rescued them. Qualified, ethical doctors in good standing, all around the world, practice a variety of alternative cancer therapies. The fact that these therapies are outlawed in the USA, does not mean they are not perfectly legal anywhere else — and it certainly doesn’t mean they’re ineffective. Many of them work really well. I would use them instead of conventional therapy for myself or my family. For example, the most common oncology drug prescribed in Germany is an herbal homoeopathic preparation. I bet you’ve never heard of it! And I’ve got more... That’s why I’m prepared to send you a comprehensive consumer report called Cancer Research Secrets.  It will give you details of scores of these alternative remedies and explain how they work. These are remedies that orthodox medicine would prefer you never hear about. Their profits will suffer if this information becomes widespread. They don’t want you to know about these remedies because they’re cheap and effective. But you don’t care if cancer doctors — oncologists — and big drug companies make less money.  What you care about is that you and your family will be able to survive cancer and live a normal life span.  And this news might surprise you... This report will still help you even if you opt for chemo or radiation at the same time you try certain alternative therapies. My report will show you how to reduce the side effects and make chemotherapy more likely to succeed. We know so much about cancer today, nobody should die of this disease. There are many alternative therapies to help you conquer cancer naturally, safely and surely. And I don’t want you to think I mean wacky folk cures when I say “alternative” therapies! I’m talking about different — but totally scientific — alternatives to the deadly game of surgical mutilation, chemotherapy and radiation. These holistic methods work AT LEAST as well as accepted conventional treatment. So why don’t doctors offer these alternatives? Doctors today are taught to view anything outside the drug industry’s choke-hold on medical thinking as very suspect, or even fraudulent. They have an exclusive monopoly on what they CLAIM is the “proper” treatment for cancer. Yet the results of orthodox medicine are deplorably bad. I know. I am a fully qualified MD (MB ChB in Britain, which is bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery). Yes, I’ve had my hands in people’s guts and chests. But long ago, I chose the gentler and safer route of natural medicine. That doesn’t mean I abandoned science. I’m BIG on science, logic, reason and empirical testing. In fact I’m the scourge of both the orthodox lies and the “holistic” humbug that professes a superior attitude to that of doctors. I tell it like it is. I shoot straight. After all, I’m not trying to sell you treatment or supplements. I have no motivation to tell you anything but the truth. So, if you don’t want to EVER die from cancer, make sure my fabulous new comprehensive resource Cancer Research Secrets is on your desk. What do four Nobel Prize winners know that doctors don’t? Would it surprise you to know that at least four Nobel Prize winners have made breakthroughs towards the safe, scientific treatment of cancer, without deadly chemo and radiation treatment? Their discoveries go back over 80 years, yet their pioneer work is being ignored by modern doctors. It could be saving lives — YOUR life, or the life of someone you love. Yet it is being suppressed. Ironically, what I rate the biggest cancer treatment discovery of all was re-affirmed with a completely up-to-date scientific study that took place in Boston College and was published in a reputable scientific journal in 2008 [Journal of Lipid Research.2008; 49: 2545-2556]. Another scientist, seven times nominated for the Nobel Prize, discovered a glorious food substance which literally traps the healing power of sunlight and delivers it to your body in the form of active, restorative electron energy (this is not New Age pseudo-science babble but real cutting edge knowledge, as you will see when you read the explanation in full). I can (and will) show you three different diet regimes that have each proven capable of bringing patients back right from the very edge of death with terminal cancer, and putting them on the road to recovery. Not just that: the patients attained better health than they ever had before — they get so healthy that many of them have said they had cause to BLESS the fact that they got cancer. You see, alternatives work — at least as well as some forms of chemotherapy and often better. The payoff is that you learn how to achieve true health, not just how to suppress the disease. Let me repeat, you don’t necessarily have to abandon orthodox treatment. Nearly all the super healing alternative strategies I describe for you are quite compatible with other methods and will help you undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatment without the dreaded side effects. The Cancer Mafia Unfortunately, the medical profession is often the last place you’d get the truth about effective cures. The pharmaceutical industry and greedy, unethical doctors seeking their own gain have conspired to become what has appropriately been called the “Cancer Mafia”. They have long since left behind any thought of putting patient care first. Their agenda is to protect their profits and destroy anyone who wants to offer alternatives to their ghastly, unsuccessful and expensive methods. In spite of the fact that it’s easy to pick holes in their so-called science, they go on cutting, poisoning and burning patients in the name of a “cure”. Yet when it comes to gentle, cheap holistic treatments, they attack them with a frenzy amounting to blind fury, claiming such treatments are “unproven”, “bogus” and even “dangerous”. In fact the “War ON Cancer”, vaunted by the cancer establishment, should be renamed the “War ABOUT cancer”. There is literally a life and death struggle going on for the right to tell patients the truth and let each person decide for himself or herself what to do. According to the AMA, FDA and other institutional bureaucracies, no one should have the right to speak freely except doctors entrenched in the dogma of the day. The so-called cancer charities, like the American Cancer Society are phony. They’re clearly on the side of the Cancer Mafia, not the truth. So I know it’s difficult for the patient or family to know what to think. If you or someone you love has cancer, you face a blizzard of conflicting “facts.” The cancer establishment showers alternative therapies with abusive language and criticism, most of it wrapped up in scientific jargon most people don’t understand. That’s why I wrote Cancer Research Secrets: to help you make the right decisions: This is what the “war” is really about: It’s proven time and time again that many of these alternative treatments are at least as effective as chemotherapy and radiation, with hardly any side effects. Consider these facts: There’s a simple piece of electronic equipment that’s been around for 80 years, and any handyman can make one. It has a terrific cure rate against cancer without side effects. I’m not talking about the famous Rife machine. The one I mean was developed by a Russian genius in the 1930s, back when there were literally hundreds of clinics all over Europe providing safe, effective cancer treatment and curing many people. Today you never hear of this treatment, unless you go researching. You’ll find it on page 158 of my book, Cancer Research Secrets. A whole new theory of cancer was evolved by a Scottish doctor that led to a simple, safe nutritional treatment. It was wildly effective and by 1911, in London alone, there were over 40 clinics offering this treatment (page 75). But it simply vanished. Marie Curie’s radium “cure” was invented and simple natural remedies were swept aside. Ironically Marie Curie’s radiation method is now known to be one of the main CAUSES of cancer, yet doctors go on using it. They hope to kill the tumor just before they kill the patient (and they don’t always get it right). You might think the Scottish doctor’s treatment must have vanished altogether and you would be nearly right. But in 1967 a US dentist repeated the same success and showed the world a whole safe new approach to cancer. He cured himself of one of the most deadly cancers and went on to live over 30 years beyond his “sell by” date. His method helped thousands to fully recover from cancer. But this brilliant dentist was attacked violently for daring to go up against the Cancer Mafia and finally quit. Even that’s not the end of the story. A young researcher took up this discovery in the 1980s. I’ll tell you that story in detail in just a moment. So what is the matter with my conventional colleagues? Why can’t they see the truth staring them down? The answer, of course, is money. The Scottish doctor’s treatment cost just a few dollars, compared to hundreds of thousands for the “correct” conventional treatment. What self-respecting oncologist would give up all that income, just because it was in the patient’s best interest? I’m sorry to sound cynical but that’s the profession today. It’s such a greedy, voracious, money-gobbling machine I know of cases where the patients have even been diagnosed fraudulently as having cancer so the hospital can make money by treating them (since the treatment unquestionably kills some patients, this is tantamount to murder in any other profession). Oncologists don’t have your interests at heart. In one case I know a doctor who had cured a cancer patient. Instead of being happy about it, the patient’s oncologist made an official complaint, because it lost him over $300,000 in fees. The doctor who’d actually cured the patient was run out of town; in fact he was run out of the country. He can no longer practice medicine safely in the USA. You couldn’t make this up; you’d be laughed at! It’s worse than the lurid tales in tabloid papers, like the National Enquirer or the Globe. But beware the alternatives too! Unfortunately, the alternative cancer field is also seething with bogus cures and claims, especially if viewed from the Internet. It is clear to anyone who’s well-informed that a great many people, totally unqualified, are indeed “cashing in” on alternative cancer treatments, exactly the way that orthodox critics claim. If there is one thing worse than a dangerous doctor who’s had 7 years of training, then it’s a dangerous amateur with NO training. That’s where my book Cancer Research Secrets comes in. It’s been a massive project for me to assemble the facts about numerous aspects of cancer alternatives, the clinics and the people involved and — MOST IMPORTANT — to review them myself and decide which ones are credible and effective. I’ve sifted the wheat from the chaff and offer it to you in this book as good nourishing information! As I told you, I’m a regular MD (trained at a medical school in the UK); I’ve been professor at two universities; I’ve treated patients — including cancer patients — for just shy of 40 years, using only alternative and holistic methods. Many of them are still alive and well. Some eventually died of natural causes — we all have to go sometime. So I consider myself to be a person well qualified to walk you through the cancer cure minefield without getting your legs blown off. Cancer Research Secrets is a major contribution to knowledge in this field and I hope you will find it helpful. It’s jam-packed with information never before assembled all in one place. Not only that, but I’ve also included a resources supplement that allows you to link with numerous centers for treatment, so you’ll be sure to find the therapies and remedies you’re looking for. I’ve done all the heavy lifting, you just need to read it and take action! Not a death knell, it’s a wake up call It’s one of my sayings that cancer is not a death knell. It’s a wake-up call. It’s nature’s way of telling you your health is in bad shape. You need to do something or you may well perish. But your choices are many and varied. There are SCORES of approaches that have all had successful outcomes for those who have gone before you. In Cancer Research Secrets I’ll tell you all about them. You know what? Cancer isn’t that hard to conquer. But you can only do so by taking the right action and plucking out the underlying cause of the problem. Experts can argue all day about chemo and radiation therapy and about the doubtful value of these toxic therapies. I have a slightly different take: the most deadly thing wrong with orthodox medicine is not what it DOES, but what it does not do. My conventional colleagues never seem interested in getting to the bottom of WHY a person gets cancer and fixing that (they don’t really know why, for one thing). Yet there IS always a cause. Cancer is not a case of bad luck. Cancer happens for reasons, the same as anything else on God’s Earth. You just have to find the real reason and fix it. “Cancer Research Secrets” is your user-friendly map and visitor’s guide to find your way around and get to the cure you or a loved one so desperately need. You need to move out of the “battlefield mentality”. By that I mean you need to stop thinking that cancer is the enemy and has to be smashed, burnt and destroyed at all costs. In open warfare like that it’s always the battlefield (in this case, your body) that comes off worst. Think of the pictures of mud and blasted trees in the World War I trenches! You don’t want to end up looking like no-man’s land, do you? There is a better, less confrontational way. I have to keep reminding patients that cancer isn’t some alien object dropped by a UFO from outer space. The cancer is YOU. It’s part of your body that has gone off the rails and is behaving differently. If you correct the reasons why this happened, the cancer tissues will go back to normal. It happens a lot. In fact it happens far more than doctors realize and a very powerful recent paper in a peer-reviewed top scientific journal [The Archives of Internal Medicine, Dec 2008] showed conclusively that if doctors left well enough alone many cancers would resolve on their own. I’ll tell you the whole story. In fact, my book is a feast of amazing and scientifically valid secrets that nobody has been telling you. You’ve been denied the real story... till now! As you can see, I speak from science, not whimsy and wishful thinking. Cancer Research Secrets is a crystal clear stream of real, workable knowledge. Not an ounce of fluff in it. I urge you to get your own personal copy NOW! I promised a few pages back to tell you the final update of the Scottish doctor’s story. A cancer research doctor was allowed a short list of 11 terminal hospital patients with pancreatic cancer (at the time it’s diagnosed, this type of tumor has an average survival time of just 6 weeks). Yet using the Scottish doctor’s therapy, which I explain in detail inCancer Research Secrets (page 75), nine patients (81%) lived one year, 5 lived two years (45%), 4 lived three years (36%) and two have lived longer than four years. Now compare that with a study published at about the same time, of the newly approved drug Gemcitabine. Of 126 patients with pancreatic cancer not a single patient lived longer than 19 months and yet that was considered a “successful” drug. It’s being sold today as the “proper” treatment for pancreatic cancer. Well, if faced with disaster, I wouldn’t take Gemcitabine. I’d want the 45- 81% option, not the 0% option, wouldn’t you? I hope you are getting the picture here! Do not listen to the propaganda about conventional treatment. It comes nowhere near the success rate of certain properly run alternative therapies. Yet they call their methods science. They claim alternatives are “not scientific” or “not proven” or “dangerous”! Ha! What could be more dangerous than chemo and radiation? The whole reason it works (if ever it does) is they stop JUST SHORT of killing you, while killing the tumor. We call that the toxicity margin or “therapeutic index” and it really is as crude as I just explained it (it’s meaured by the dose it takes to kill exactly 50% of the study population). If you are involved with cancer, or concerned in any way through family or friends, you need to act. As I said, we are ALL facing this issue at some time or other, so you had better be concerned. You need this life-saving information. Everyone around you needs it. Cancer Research Secrets is your easy-to-read, informative guide. If I do say so myself, I just happen to be one of the most knowledgeable individuals on Earth about alternative medicine. Is chemotherapy EVER the right choice? Let me address that vexed question of whether it’s ever a good idea to opt for chemo or radiation. I understand this dilemma that patients sometimes face. At times it can be frightening, with the feeling that if you make a wrong choice, it could be the end… Well, you’ll be pleased to know that I don’t tell you not to go the orthodox route. That’s just irresponsible. You get that from amateur fools on the Internet who just go “Oh, I can’t believe it! You’re doing chemo?” as if it were a dirty vice. People do survive who have chemo. Some live the rest of their natural lives. But it is RISKY; there is no getting round that. If it doesn’t work, it screws up your other options, by poisoning the immune system and other defences you vitally need to beat off cancer naturally. So to help you with this awful dilemma, I spend a lot of time inCancer Research Secrets telling you what you can do to protect yourself against chemo and radiation. My own patients who opted for chemo didn’t even lose their hair! But they did beat the disease. And no, vitamins and other alternatives won’t affect conventional cancer treatments. That’s just a scare story put about by oncologists who don’t like competition. I will tell you the truth on that claim too—direct from the most up-to-date scientific studies (page 14). And that brings me to another point. You’re not buying into a bunch of opinions, fluffy pink thoughts or the “wish” that it would all come out right. I’m not into fairy stories. Everything I write is based on direct experience and years of studying scientific papers. As I said, I’ve done the grunt work. Now all you have to do is get this manual and read it. You can get a fast education in cancer and how to survive it from right there in your armchair (better switch the TV off, though). Now it is my duty to point out that people recover using conventional therapies too. Survival stories abound of those who have been through the horrors of chemotherapy and radiation, feeling sick, vomiting, losing their hair... but they lived! It’s not nice but it does sometimes work. So my book is NOT about persuading you that you shouldn’t do chemo. It is about telling you what your choices are. Because nobody is going to tell you, if you don’t find out for yourself. I have assembled masses of information about the many options you have. But it’s not overwhelming. I haven’t gone into the nitpicky detail, like what doses of vitamins you should take, and that sort of thing. I give you the overall picture, the business plan instead of the detailed invoice, if you like to think of it that way. Your Safety Guarantee You’ll be completely satisfied with your purchase. Otherwise just ask for your money back — anytime within 12 months of your purchase. I’ll send you a refund at once, with no quibbles. You can be in no doubt what my guide is about, what it covers and what value it has to you. It’s one of the VERY FEW written by a recognized, authoritative MD with direct experience of treating cancers with alternative therapies. I no longer run an office but you can benefit from my vast experience, now, TODAY.. So it’s time to buy Cancer Research Secrets, your ultimate Special Report on state-of-the-art, up-to-date cures for cancer...

Some cancer remedies work, some don't

Some cancer remedies work, some don't

Straight talk from a cancer activist, based on more than
30 years of experience and thousands of cancer patients

Dear Nathan,

           As the publisher, I've had the opportunity to meet and work with some great doctors and researchers in this field.  Thanks to them I know a lot more about successful cancer treatment than I did just a couple of years ago.

            For sure I know two things:  some alternative cancer treatments do work.

            They don't work 100% of the time, and nobody claims they do.  But there are plenty of people walking around healthy today -- years after conventional doctors told them they had only a few months left.

            The second thing I've learned is this:  there are DOZENS of alternative cancer treatments and some of them sound pretty flaky. It's really hard to sort out what you should do.

I'm in the same boat as you

            I'm not a health professional and I'm not a scientist. I'm just a writer/publisher who got interested in this stuff because I want to know what steps to take if a doctor tells me I've got cancer.

            My colleagues and I formed a new company, Online Publishing & Marketing, to help answer that very question.  Our mission is to sort through the mountain of confusing information so you can make an informed decision about cancer treatment.

            In the past several years, eight of my relatives and friends have been diagnosed with cancer, and two have passed away.  It's a big, big topic in my family, I guarantee you.

            That's why I want you to know about a natural health book I came across called Rethinking Cancer, by Ruth Sackman.

This is THE book if you want total health
instead of a band-aid approach

            Rethinking Cancer will surprise a lot of people.   What's more, some people aren't going to like it - including some top experts in alternative health.

            If you think there's a magic supplement out there that's going to cure cancer, you may not like this book.

            Sackman is not against supplements.  She even recommends some of them under certain circumstances.  But in her opinion pills are not the answer.

            She also believes that most of the people who offer cancer alternatives are sincere - they just happen to be wrong.  That includes your cousin or your best friend's aunt who knows somebody who cured their cancer with an alternative approach.

            Of course, they want to help.  But Ruth Sackman believes their advice is usually wrong and sometimes it's downright dangerous.

            There are a lot of alternative remedies, and Sackman admits that sometimes they shrink tumors 50 percent or 70 percent or even 90 percent.  But that's not a cure, by her strict standards.  It's a band-aid approach.  All too often the cancer comes back worse than ever.

Why you should listen to Ruth Sackman

            I'm not sure Ruth Sackman is completely right, but let me tell you, one light after another went on in my brain as I read her book and realized she could be on the right track.

            Reading the book, I remembered that alternative therapists do often speak of shrinkingtumors, not getting rid of them.  And if you look at things the way Sackman does, those are weasel words.  "Shrinking" is not enough.

            Heaven knows I don't knock it.  It's better than nothing!

            But you should read and consider Rethinking Cancer if you want to get totally well - if you want to eliminate the root causes of this disease.  In a moment I'll tell you how to get a copy.

How Sackman became a cancer crusader

            Sackman lost a daughter, Arlene, to leukemia more than 30 years ago.  That would be tragic for any of us, but it was even worse because the cancer was detected early, and her young, healthy daughter seemed like an ideal person to beat it.

            Unfortunately, Arlene and her parents took the advice of conventional physicians and tried chemotherapy first.  You won't be surprised that Arlene got worse instead of better.

            She stopped the chemo and tried a nutritional approach, but her system was already so damaged by chemo that she didn't get the results she hoped for.  Arlene panicked and went back on chemotherapy.  As Sackman writes, "From then on it was all downhill."

            After Arlene passed away, her mother took stock of what had happened.  She saw that the nutritional approach had helped her daughter, and that Arlene probably should have stayed with it.

            As a result of this horrible loss, Ruth Sackman became a lifelong cancer crusader. She co-founded a nonprofit group called the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy, or FACT.

You can discover what's worked for thousands 
of patients over the last 30 years

            FACT does not treat patients nor does it officially endorse one treatment over another.  It exists purely to gather and distribute information about cancer prevention and non-toxic cancer therapies.

            What's more, FACT is supported by contributions.  It's totally independent of doctors and other healthcare providers.  There's nothing wrong with doctors, but often they can't speak freely because they're afraid of losing their licenses, or they may have a vested interest in one particular therapy.  FACT didn't want to be tied up by those limitations.

            The folks at FACT are free to speak their minds.  Over the years, FACT has referred thousands of patients to practitioners who get good results time and time again.

            And it's the feedback from all these patients over such a long period that makes Ruth Sackman's Rethinking Cancer such a valuable book.

If you're ready to get serious about beating cancer. . .

            You'll learn all about Sackman's approach in the book (which you can click here and search Rethinking Cancer to order, available in the U.S. only).  But the quick summary is this:  cancer is a systemic disease.  In other words, Sackman believes the whole system is sick - the whole body is sick.  The tumors or cancer cells are just symptoms of something deeper.

            It makes sense.  Just think of how often surgeons tell patients "they got it all," only to have the disease bounce back.  Sounds like a systemic problem to me.

            What's more, our bodies are sick because of the food we eat. Poor elimination of wastes makes the problem even worse.

            Cancer is a disease at the cellular level - Sackman agrees with conventional medicine to that extent.  But she says killing the sick cells isn't the answer.  Neither are drugs OR supplements.

            The answer is whole, unprocessed foods that supply the nutrients the body needs to build normal, healthy cells.

            This strict diet can be used in conjunction with other therapies.  Sackman endorses hyperthermia, the number one therapy in our Special Report Natural Cancer Remedies that Work, by Dr. Morton Walker.

            Hyperthermia is based on the fact that a high fever kills cancer cells, and now doctors have safe ways to raise the body temperature without resorting to infection.  Sackman has some valuable insights to add to what we told you in Natural Cancer Remedies.

            Sackman also speaks favorably of Essiac, the North American Indian herbal remedy that's credited with thousands of successful cancer treatments over the last 70 years (it's Remedy #10 inNatural Cancer Remedies that Work.  Click here and search Rethinking Cancer  if you don't own this report and would like to order a copy.)

            But Sackman views all these measures as mere adjuncts to proper diet and waste elimination.

Keep reading if you hate the word "diet"

            If you're like me, your eyes glaze over when someone says you have to totally change your life to get well.  Give up meat, sugar, white flour, caffeine, and alcohol, and live on juices and raw vegetables? You've gotta be kidding!

            That was the reaction of Richard A. Mott.  Sackman describes his case history in detail, along with those of six other patients who survived from ten to thirty years after being declared "hopeless."

            "Mr. Mott heard [the dietary] instructions with a sinking heart," Sackman writes.  "As one whose meat-and-potatoes diet had been a daily necessity, he wondered whether this deprivation was worth the effort of saving his life.  But then he thought, "Since my doctors give me only three months to live, why not give it a try?"

            In six months Richard Mott went from being unable to get out of bed to being up and around, exercising a little and taking long walks in the country.  His friends couldn't believe how well he looked.

            And a few months after that, the same doctors who had wanted to remove his lung had to admit they couldn't find a trace of cancer in his body.  In other words. . .

He achieved 100 percent remission

            I'm impressed with Ruth Sackman's ideas because they fit so well with everything else I'm learning about alternative cancer treatments. 

            It's not only this book that sold me.  Before I came across Rethinking Cancer,  I heard dozens of similar case histories from many other sources.  The more I learn, the more sense this approach makes.

            One of the methods she recommends is called the Gerson Therapy.  You'll find details on the Gerson Therapy in Natural Cancer Remedies that Work by Dr. Morton Walker.

            When my associates and I first published this report a couple of years ago, my reaction to Gerson's diet was, "Yeah, right.  Who's going to do that?"

            Now that I've learned more, I have to tell you it would be the first thing I'd do if I found out I have cancer.  And meanwhile, my everyday diet is moving closer and closer to Gerson's recommendations. (You might be relieved to learn that Sackman thinks a little meat is okay.)

228 pages of priceless information that can save your life

            I've barely touched the surface of Ruth Sackman's remarkable book.  I urge you to get your own copy ( click here and search Rethinking Cancer  available in the U.S. only) and see for yourself.

            Besides the Gerson Therapy, she gives you details on five other nutrition-based programs with solid track records, so you can make an informed decision.

            And there's something very important I haven't mentioned:  Sackman is frank about the distressing symptoms you may experience as your body ejects decades of toxins and poisons.

            In fact, even a one-day juice fast can make some people feel ill.  It's not the fast, it's the release and elimination of the poisons.

            If you read the book, you'll know what to expect and you won't make the tragic mistake of giving up because you think you're getting sicker.  

It's not all about diet

            Besides hyperthermia and Essiac (the Indian herbal), Sackman gives you four additional therapies every cancer patient should know about.

            In other words, it's not all about diet.  It's just that nutrition is the main event.

            She winds up the book with the answers to 60 frequently asked questions.  She already knows what you'd ask if you could meet her in person, because she's helped so many people over many decades.

            Are chemotherapy or radiation ever the right decision?  Surprisingly, Sackman says they sometimes are.

            Do you have to be a total vegetarian?  (The short answer is no. But see the details.)

            Is surgery ever the right answer for breast cancer?

            Are conventional cancer treatments leading to longer survival times, as doctors claim?  Sackman says no, and she explains why the statistics are misleading. In fact, the cancer death rate is going up.

            What can you do to get the facts out of a doctor who wants to be "kind" and not tell you the truth about your disease?  You have the right to know, but have to know how to ask.

            What does she think of the claims for vitamin C made by Linus Pauling and others?

            Are child vaccinations a bad idea?

            Do biopsies spread cancer?

            You'll get the answers to these and many other questions.

You're protected by our money-back guarantee

            Just take a look at Rethinking Cancer.  You take no risk.  If you're not satisfied with the book for any reason, return it to us and you'll receive a full, 100% refund, no questions asked.  And take your time - you can look at it for 60 days before making a decision. CLICK HERE TO ORDER (Available in the U.S. only).

BOWIE STATE'S MARIELA HERNANDEZ RECEIVES ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

(CLEVELAND) The Division II Athletics Directors Association (D2ADA) announced the 2011-12 recipients of the D2ADA Academic Achievement Awards. The Academic Achievement Awards is a program that recognizes the academic accomplishments of student-athletes at the Division II level. Among those honored is Bowie State University softball player Mariela Hernandez.

Hernandez, a pitcher for the Lady Bulldogs softball team ended the 2012 season with a 3.84 ERA and appeared in 19 games. Other accolades for Hernandez include All-CIAA Second Team (2012), CIAA All-Rookie Team (2011) and CIAA All-Tournament Team (2011).

A record number of institutions (118) and student-athletes (4,492) are being recognized for the 2011-12 Academic Achievement Awards. The Pennsylvania State Athletic Association had 557 student-athletes honored, a record-high for the program, followed by the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) with 400 student-athletes being recognized and the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) with 398 student-athletes being acknowledged with this award.

"The D2ADA would like to thank and congratulate the institutions that took part in honoring the record-number of 4,492 student-athletes with 2011-12 Academic Achievement Awards," stated D2ADA President Anita Barker, director of athletics at Chico State University. "Recognizing and honoring deserving Division 2 student-athletes is a strategic goal of the D2ADA. This award gives us the platform to showcase these individuals and their efforts in the classroom, as well as on the playing field."