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That the bong-hits case, known officially as Morse v. Frederick, has come before the court is a sign of the times. An unprecedented wave of similar suits has clogged the lower courts in recent years, propelled, say legal experts, by several developments: stricter rules in the aftermath of gang violence and school shootings, a crackdown on alarming Internet comments and a perceived hostility toward religion in public schools...
...Juneau-Douglas High School in Alaska let students cross the street to watch the Olympic torch pass on its way to Salt Lake City. As TV cameras rolled, senior Joseph Frederick and several friends unfurled a banner that said BONG HITS 4 JESUS. Frederick later testified that the banner was supposed to be "meaningless and funny, in order to get on television." But the school principal was not amused, and she suspended Frederick for 10 days...
...Frederick sued the school for violation of his free-speech rights and won in the lower federal courts. But the Supreme Court accepted the school's appeal and is expected to rule on the case before July. It is the most significant high-court case since Tinker to test a school's authority to suppress student dissent, but that may be where the similarities end. "Tinker was all about explicitly political topics, and the courts were sympathetic about protecting students' fundamental political rights," says Arum. "It's quite different when you're talking about bong hits." Or, for that matter...
Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced late last week that Frederick R. Bieber, an assistant professor of pathology at the Harvard Medical School, will become interim director of the state medical examiner’s office after the office admitted to discharging the wrong body for a burial last month...
...gasp!) with chemicals (with what?) in the “field” (the what?). This drudgery is now largely myth (much like secretaries who write in shorthand), propagated by chroniclers of the few intrepid adventurers who braved photography’s inconvenience for its verisimilitude . Janet E. and Frederick R. Wulsin, Jr., explorers with the National Geographic Society, were such mythical characters. Their photographs, a selection of which are on display in the Peabody Museum’s “Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921?...