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Like other Michigan public schools, Northlane Academy gets its funding -- a total of $175,500 -- from the state lottery and sales taxes. But because the school belongs to a new category of independent "charter schools" -- one of nine that have opened in Michigan this fall -- Helmer, as principal, is free to spend the money as he sees fit -- on those Macs, for example -- without interference or oversight from the local board of education. He is also free to depart from the public-school curriculum, which he regards as about a mile long and an inch deep. Northlane, he vows, will...
Second, to question the existence of Radcliffe is to question its commitment to a socially progressive agenda. Its charter states that it was founded to "educate and inspire women for full participation in all areas of life." Unfortunately, women have not yet achieved "full participation" in society, and until then, Radcliffe serves an important role in striving to redress the imbalances...
While these proposals would be good first steps, we need to do more. It is time to alter the council's charter on the Harvard campus. Given the council's blatant resistance to input from the very persons it supposedly represents, we need to approach the faculty and ask them to revoke the council's power to take students in any way less than one which is completely voluntary...
Robb's diminution of the Klan's charter has not gone down well. "Thom Robb is a poor example of a Klansman. He comes off as a young Republican, not as a racialist," says David Neumann, 40, an auto-plant machinist who heads the Michigan chapter of the Knights. "He goes to great lengths not to say anything controversial that might alienate people from giving him money." In April, Ed Novak, born Ed Melkonian and an ex-lieutenant of Robb's, started a rival Klan out of Chicago. According to Klanwatch, based in Montgomery, Alabama, Novak's Federation of Klans...
...been a member since I was an undergraduate, and I still use the Coop," said Gerald H. Angoff '66. "One would think that the management would be true to its charter and give a return for a specialized status...