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Parties this weekend must be registered through the usual process, and some Houses, including Kirkland, have announced that they will not grant permission for any parties this weekend...
...million challenge grant from Harvard--part of the overall $200 million package--encourages major donations from college alumnae and friends. Radcliffe is actively soliciting money from foundations as well...
Dunn and President Neil L. Rudenstine appeared jointly earlier this month to ask for a grant from a foundation, the first joint solicitation by a Harvard president and a Radcliffe leader ever...
...quell such worries, some educators and policymakers are embracing more comprehensive sex education. Waco public schools, which comprise the largest school district in McLennan County, declined the federal and state grant money for abstinence-only education and opted instead for a curriculum that includes information about contraceptives. Some schools in Minnesota have a dual-track sex-ed system, in which parents choose between an abstinence-only class and one that includes instruction in other ways of preventing pregnancy and STDs. And in Missouri and California, new laws require sex education to be "medically accurate" in portraying the effectiveness of contraceptives...
Unfortunately, the Courts may not see it that way. In 1996, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a District decision gutting a statute that required the National Endowment for the Arts to respect "general standards of decency and respect" in its grant-awarding process. Implicit in such rulings is a reading of the First Amendment that goes something like this: whenever the state throws its weight behind a specific set of beliefs, it is establishing one worldview at the expense of another. And this the First Amendment explicitly prohibits it from doing. You don't have to support...