September 28, 1999

Here are descriptions of the radio stories available on the Ohio State University Info Line, October 1 through October 8, 1999. Stories are changed at noon. All feeds include one wraparound report of approximately 1:00 and at least one other actuality plus background material. If you have questions, want additional information, or need a re-feed of a missed story, call Amy Murray at 614-292-8385.

Friday 10/1 - Monday 10/4 - Regular, moderate exercise can lessen the depression, anger and fatigue suffered by people with HIV. Ohio State University Nursing Professor Barbara Smith studied HIV-positive men and women. She found that patients who followed a regular exercise program for three months were significantly less depressed, angry and fatigued at the end of the period than their counterparts who didn’t exercise. Smith says depression was especially reduced in HIV patients who exercised.

Monday 10/4-Wednesday 10/6 - Teenage girls who are sexually active are more likely to be depressed and more likely to feel like failures than girls who are still virgins. That’s one finding of a study by Frank Mott, a researcher at Ohio State’s Center for Human Resource Research. Mott has studied a large group of families as they’ve grown over the years. When it comes to teenagers and their views toward sexuality, he says things haven’t changed much since the 1960’s when boys viewed sex as a conquest and girls viewed it as a means toward acceptance.

Wednesday 10/6-Friday 10/8 - Managers fail about half the time when they make business decisions involving their organizations. That’s one result of a study by Paul Nutt, a professor of management science at Ohio State. Looking at more than 350 business decisions, about one-third of the real-life decisions Nutt studied were initial failures. The decisions were never implemented. The failure rate climbed to about 50 percent when Nutt considered decisions that were only partly used or later overturned. He says the figures suggest that a lot of money is being spent on decisions that are put to full use only half the time.

Many news outlets are getting our news releases electronically. Would you like to receive your weekly Info Line rundown via e-mail? It’s faster than the postal service and offers less chance for bad addresses, lost or damaged mail. We can e-mail this and other news releases directly to your computer. E-mail Amy at murray-goedde.1@osu.edu or call 614-292-8385 to make arrangements.

www.osu.edu is Ohio State’s Internet address. News releases (including this rundown sheet) from University Communications and many other offices are posted on the website. The site is also a great source for answers to frequently asked questions about OSU.