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Last Friday, 152 years after Frederick Douglass published the first issue of his abolitionist journal The North Star, the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) held a rally on the steps of the State House protesting modern-day slavery in Sudan...
...black students, particularly its star athlete, so low. Athletes are to be thanked for the many hours of enjoyment they bring us. Our greatest achievements, however, have been directed by those who possess powerful analytical skills for critiquing both our culture and the nature of man's existence. Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X--none of these men came to prominence by way of athletics. They wielded great intellect and organized passion. We must make the creation of great minds our charge and our goal. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." DARRELL DORSEY...
Proponents of the law say people like Father Timothy Mockaitis need it. In April 1996, Mockaitis went to the Lane County, Ore., jailhouse to hear the confession of Conan Wayne Hale. Authorities had charged Hale with murdering three teenagers. District Attorney F. Douglass Harcleroad, thinking Hale might break down and tell all, had secretly arranged to bug the confession...
America has always been defined by risk; it may be our predominant national characteristic. It's a country founded by risk takers fed up with the English Crown and expanded by pioneers--a word that seems utterly American. Our heritage throws up heroes--Lewis and Clark, Thomas Edison, Frederick Douglass, Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart--who bucked the odds, taking perilous chances...
...Douglass Cater '46-'47, a Harvard delegate to the 1946 meeting of the International Student Congress, is forced to field allegations by Professor William Y. Elliott that the group is infiltrated by communists. JANUARY...