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Students are protesting in front of Frist Campus Center, for which $25 million was donated by the family of Frist, a Republican senator from Tenn., who graduated from Princeton...
...Frist is making it impossible to do anything about it,” Vagliano said yesterday. “The basic point, though, is that this is an assault on 200 years of Senate tradition...
...last two weeks the sheer volume of bluster and bravado swirling around the federal courts has been dizzying. In the attempt to drum up public support for some less-than-moderate judicial nominees, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist R-Tenn. intoned “The filibuster was once used to protect racial bias, and now it is being used against people of faith...
...order to galvanize support for such an unprecedented change, Republicans are yet again appealing to their base through the lowest common denominator by telling conservatives that the opposition to the removal of the filibuster from Congressional rules is an attack on people of faith. According to those like Dr. Frist, questioning the impetus behind such a thinly veiled campaign of political opportunity driven by the spur of corruptive power is anti-faith, a convenient categorization that both rouses the roots of the right and silences dissent...
...political leaders. Students should be concerned, not only because it threatens our freedom to dissent and operate freely in a secular academic sphere, but because it threatens to shepherd judges into power who will influence our lives and narrow our freedoms as individual Americans long after Dr. Frist has been replaced in Washington...