Jonathan McCullum

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Jonathan McCullum News

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• ABC News: 'Starved' Student: Money the Reason for Weight Loss (March 3, 2008)
  • McCullum: ""I believe it's all related to money. They would tell me that I was using more money with the electricity and the water bill than their daughter did."
• baltimoresun.com: U.S. student possibly was starved in Egypt (March 2, 2008)
• ABC News: 'Starved' Coed Claim Comes Under Fire (February 29, 2008)  
  • AFS also has photos of McCullum, and they show him celebrating with other students during the abroad experience."
• Portland Press Herald: Exchange Student Says He Was Starved (February 28, 2008)
  • "After AFS arranged Jonathan McCullum's flight home, he happened to sit next to Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on the final leg, from New York to Portland. 'I was struck by how extraordinarily thin he was,' Collins recalled. 'He was just a stick. He was so emaciated and gaunt.'"

• MSNBC: Starving student blames stingy host family (February 27, 2008)
  • McCullum: "The weight loss concerned me, but I wanted to stick out the whole year."
• The Sun: 'I lost a third of my body weight' (February 28, 2008)
  • Host father Shaker Hanna: "The truth is, the boy we hosted for nearly six months was eating for an hour and a half at every meal. The amount of food he ate at each meal was equal to six people."

Jonathan McCullum Blogs and Commentaries

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• Crunchy Con: Rigorous fasting - or starvation? (February 28, 2008)
• The Skeptic: Exchange Student ‘Starved’ in Egypt (February 28, 2008)
• The Colossus of Rhodey: Exchange student woes (February 28, 2008)
• The WatchCat: Blame Exchange (February 28, 2008)
• Daily Telegraph Your Say Blog: “They didn’t feed me” Try cooking! (Feburary 28, 2008)
• Portland Press Herald Comments: Reader comments: Exchange student says he was starved