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This past September 17, a bleachers-clearing brawl erupted at the MacArthur-Eisenhower football game in central Illinois. Seven Decatur high school students participated in the mlee and were consequently expelled from school. Their participation in the rioting is not in dispute--in fact, it was captured on video tape--and if it were not for one entirely incidental detail, there just punishment would probably have been carried out without protest. Unfortunately for Decatur school officials, the students they expelled happen to be black...
...disproportionate percentage of the honor roll, should we assume that they are the beneficiaries of school board favoritism? There may be complicating factors that land black students in trouble, but those factors do not necessarily include administrative racism. Rather than defending seven men caught on tape fomenting a brawl, perhaps Jackson should be devoting the same energy to building an after-school program for disadvantaged youth in Decatur...
Through all of the din, referee John Bunyon barely called enough penalties to avoid a brawl. By game's end, though, he had issued 25 minors...
...consequences for rule breaking are getting harsher. Jesse Jackson has made an issue of severe punishment in Decatur, Ill., where six students were thrown out of school for one year for fighting at a football game. But that sort of violence (a videotape of the incident shows a wild brawl) has long been cause for expulsion. What's new is that even pranks can land kids not just before the school board but before a judge. Two weeks ago in Virginia, a pair of 10-year-olds appeared before a judge on felony charges that they tried to kill...
...withdrawal at a bank where you're not a customer. And that's just the first bite, because often when you make such a withdrawal, two banks can get into your wallet. The combined ATM fees can reach $3.50 or more. Such sums have now sparked a nationwide legislative brawl over profitable ATM surcharges...