Lilly awards reintegration scholarships to mentally ill

This is an older article, but elsewhere on the Net I found that it is
still happening. It's closed for this year.

http://www.lilly.com/about/awards/scholarship.html

Erg, what am I doing, inviting competition?

Alison

Back in the late Sixties a computer company called Honeywell was
going to educate mentally ill veterans, but, Honeywell executives
decided to educate prisoners instead. It looks like prison convicts were
considered better than the mentally ill.
I have a cousin who was a mentally ill veteran. He was also an
alcoholic, but, the system classified his alcoholism to be a symptom of
his schizophrenia and the alcoholism itself went unrecognized. Finally
he was "promoted" when his alcoholism was finally recognized for what it
was. Alcoholism is considered a higher status than schizophrenia.
Also, bipolar manic depressive disorder is considered a higher
status. Schizophrenia would be considered the lowest, only, child
molesters are considered lower now, but they earn it.