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...There is a tendency among students at elite colleges to be starters, which is very important, but there also needs to be doers,” said Will Austin ’00, who now serves as a sixth grade mathematics teacher at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School. “That’s why I’m a teacher, and I plan to teach for a long time...
Abstinence educators also want to put the medical story on the table. From 1999 to 2001, the Medical Institute for Sexual Health in Austin, Texas, which markets materials to abstinence instructors, saw a 150% increase in sales of its products. Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose education programs encouraged condom use, has been quietly recasting its position on abstinence. The agency pulled from its website this summer a feature called Programs that Work, which had touted the success of eight condom-based sex-ed curriculums. Now the agency is focusing on abstinence-only programs. Says Lloyd...
...school's investment portfolio. Once a week, about 10 meet to look it over. They are not hunting for stock tips. What they are hunting for is companies that do substantial business with Israel. Students sympathetic to the Palestinian cause have been circulating a petition around the Austin campus since July, calling on the university to sell off the stock of those firms. "You hear President Bush calling Ariel Sharon a man of peace," says Andy Gallagher, a member of Students for Justice in Palestine. "Then you start looking at the facts, and it plays on your soul...
...time when Israeli tanks have repeatedly rolled into the West Bank in response to terrorist bombings, a new kind of pro-Palestinian college activism is spreading. Guerrilla theater is one of the tactics. At the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley, students dressed like Israeli soldiers have set up mock checkpoints on campus to "harass" students playing Palestinians. But the chief focus of anti-Israel feeling is the divestment campaign, which has been gaining momentum--and opponents. Petitions for divestment have circulated at more than 50 campuses, including Tufts and Cornell...
Where others see a bell tower, Austin S. Guest '03-'05 sees the perfect site for avant-garde theater...