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...nominated for the paper’s top position by the Daily Trojan staff on a 37-to-21 vote. But the USC vice president for student affairs, Michael L. Jackson, who is the intermediary between the paper and the board, withheld Fox’s application...
...Jackson created a task force addressing the issue, according to a memo authored by Media Board member Larry Pryor, who is also an associate professor at the USC Annenberg School for Journalism...
Former editors of the Daily Trojan wrote a letter published in the paper expressing outrage over the USC administration’s move. “Jackson is not a staff member of the Daily Trojan, nor is he a student,” they wrote, criticizing that he nevertheless “can decide which student will sit at the helm of this 94-year-old publication...
...only is the air cleaner in the Centennial State, but the people there also l ive longer. A Harvard study showed that the seven U.S. counties with the greatest average life expectancy--81.3 years--were all in Colorado. (Clear Creek, Eagle, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Park and Summit, for those of you thinking about packing a U-Haul.) Exactly what's so special about Colorado is not entirely clear, since the study authors controlled for any bias caused by race or income. Perhaps the residents' good fortune has to do with the fact that they all live in mountainous areas, where...
...system, not the least being that some just find it galling. Why should schools that are more black than white be inherently suspect, even if they don't reflect the racial breakdown of the district as a whole? "It doesn't make sense," local PTA-board member Dreema Jackson says of the guidelines. "It's O.K. for the minority to be between 15% and 50%, but if you flip those percentages, a school is no longer diverse...