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...those who want greater student voice may want to pursue advocacy in other arenas and use of new media with greater student control,” Minow wrote in an e-mail. Still, many advocacy groups worry that administrators will use the ruling in the case, Hosty v. Carter, to exercise greater control over student publications. “The court really messed this up,” said Northern Illinois Newspaper Association spokesman Jim Killam. Administrators could take advantage of the ruling’s “vague wording,” the president of College Media Advisers...
...President jets off to India (as well as Pakistan) next week, it will be his first visit to the region and the first by a Republican president in 35 years, since Richard Nixon traveled there. (President Clinton visited India in 2000, the first president to travel there since Jimmy Carter...
...THIS FAR: Pert, practical Southern girl plays pert, practical Southern girl and against her better judgment warbles June Carter Cash's songs in her own quite-adequate voice. And, incidentally, she rescues Johnny Cash from his demons without becoming a harpy or an implausibly redemptive angel. It's hard to think of a more winning or comfortably graceful performance last year...
...concerns would know that she herself would have been honored to hear those commitments and concerns raised up at her funeral before the whole nation. Mrs. King died after a life of seeking justice, right thinking, care for the poor and disenfranchised, and peace. I dare say that President Carter, President Clinton, Rev. Lowrey, and many other speakers were far better acquainted with Mrs. King and her hopes and dreams than President Bush could ever be, and spoke more fervently about those dreams than Mr. Bush is capable of doing. Those whom Mr. Bartenstein criticizes were there to celebrate...
...Black History Month, created 80 years ago by a Harvard alum, comes under fire from some corners of the African-American community, scholars at the University have come to the defense of the annual February feature. Carter G. Woodson earned a Ph.D in history from Harvard in 1912—becoming the second black to receive a doctorate from the University. Fourteen years later, he founded Negro History Week, selecting a seven-day span in February that included the Feb. 7 birthday of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Feb. 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln. A half-century later, as Woodson?...