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Scouts aren't flocking to black colleges

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

An aging and abandoned barn once stood just a few miles down State Road 552, the twisting and careening two-lane blacktop that meanders through tiny Lorman, Miss., and into the heart of Alcorn State University. Its wood battered and bleached, and its nails badly rusted by the decades of hot, wet weather, the creaky structure nonetheless was a landmark to those who regularly passed by it. Painted in painstaking detail on the side of the sagging barn, in faded, yellow block letters, was this s ...

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