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Perkins is quick and eager to defend his work, however, questioning Wechsler’s methods of data collection and denying his findings. One of the biggest problems with Wechsler’s study, says Perkins, was that it determined whether a school used social norms by posing it as a yes or no question to a single administrator; Wechsler did not ask how or to what extent the schools implemented their campaigns. According to Perkins, the study does not distinguish the social norms prevention approach from other anti-drinking strategies...
...Perkins was skeptical about Wechsler’s reticence. “That response that you got is not the first time that I have heard that,” he told FM. “I think it would be very difficult for him to publicly defend his position...
...students were quick to defend the university, which has drawn criticism lately for being a racist Southern institution in light of the incidents...
When fabled Houston defense attorney Dick DeGuerin strode into an Austin courthouse last week to defend Congressman Tom DeLay, he quoted Yogi Berra, asserting that this would be "d?j? vu all over again." Given the trouncing DeGuerin had handed Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle 12 years ago in their last big face-off, few observers doubted this would be a battle royale. But no one anticipated it would be d?j? vu so quickly...
...legal logjams have been cleared, few in the newsgathering business are pleased by the outcome. The murky sequence of events in the case tended to obscure the principles that journalists were trying to defend. "This case was a complete loser for the press," says Jay Rosen, chairman of New York University's school of journalism. "It exposed this traffic in secrets. And whenever the press is claiming rights that are an exception from the rest of the public, then I think it works against the press." --With reporting by Mike Allen/ Washington and Nathan Thornburgh/New York