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...presents sobering statistics about student retention rates and urges faculty to consider carefully why specific requirements exist aside from their historic presence or idealized purposes. Should an introductory chemistry class, for example, take the place of coursework that teaches the essentials of basic American citizenship? His point for universities is that simple knowledge of a subject area is not the same as imparting knowledge...
...tied to the United Arab Emirates, home to two 9/11 hijackers, threatens our security. New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, in condemning the President, remarked, “Dubai is not Britain.” Indeed, few will mistake Dubai for Britain, but Dubai is a stable secular state whose citizenship worships singularly at the altar of the market. It is a modernizing city-state that embraces the West.Moreover, the UAE is an important ally in counterterrorist activities in the Middle East. It was the first state in the region to sign the U.S. Container Security Initiative, a project designed...
...remaining disparity in this country, exemplified by the victims of Hurricane Katrina, must be addressed because “people pay taxes and must demand rights of their citizenship,” Cummings said...
Unfortunately, this is not the first time Muslims on campus have been alienated. In 2002, the campus was in an uproar because a commencement speaker, Zayed M. Yasin ‘02, was to deliver a speech entitled: “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad.” Based simply on the word “jihad”—which means “struggle”—and without familiarity of the actual speech, members of the Harvard community tried to pressure Harvard to have Yasin censored or removed...
...just gaming the system in their favor? i.o.c. rules say athletes cannot switch teams if they have played for their old countries in the past three years. They need approval from both their old and new nations' Olympic committees and they have to meet the new country's citizenship requirements, which vary widely. But, says David Fitzpatrick, sports director of the International Ice Hockey Federation, "you shouldn't be able to just grab a passport and represent a country at an event." Nonetheless, national rosters are full of ringers. Ice dancer Tanith Belbin was born in Canada and moved...