Word: casefuls
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...Supreme Court heard oral arguments Nov. 10 in a case that endangers the funding of student groups at public universities across the nation. Three conservative law students at the University of Wisconsin: Madison sued the school to recover fees they had paid to support campus student groups. They argued that the school was forcing them to pay for the activities of liberal groups whose messages they opposed. While a federal appeals court has found in their favor, the Supreme Court should reverse that decision and recognize the existence of active student groups as integral to the atmosphere and function...
...campus newspaper with a defined editorial position be considered political?--and conditioning the funding of groups on their political status might result in a chilling effect that would eliminate otherwise worthwhile activities. The lawyers for the students also argued that the university should not be allowed to sidestep the case by incorporating the fee as part of tuition, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed might raise questions of whether a university can teach positions with which any students disagree...
...Supreme Court's decision is unlikely to have any effect on Harvard, since the University is private and the student fee that funds the council's disbursements is voluntary. If it loses the case, the University of Wisconsin is also likely to make the fee voluntary rather than create a logistical nightmare by giving students the opportunity to pick and choose which groups they would like to support...
Harvard has an optional term bill fee, much like the one proposed by the plaintiffs in this case, and yet it would be difficult to argue that controversial groups on our campus cannot find funding. The academic wasteland of homogeneity and stifled expression the staff suggests the plaintiffs will bring about seems unlikely...
...EgyptAir Flight 990. The NTSB Tuesday was set to hand over the investigation of the crash to the FBI, believing that the final cockpit conversations on the Boeing 767's voice-data recorder indicate that a crew member may have been responsible for the flight's demise. Handing the case over to Louis Freeh's men signals that a crime is being investigated, although a criminal investigation could still produce a number of scenarios. "Nothing can be ruled out thus far," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "By making the FBI the lead agency in the investigation, it now becomes...