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...reluctance to divulge the contents of the Administrative Board Report—which proposed reforms to the College’s main disciplinary body—students have criticized the Hammonds’ administration specifically for a “lack of transparency,” says Christopher A. Johnson-Roberson...
...feel that [Hammonds] does try to present some sort of impression that she’s open to student concerns, but I don’t know how true that is,” Johnson-Roberson says. “She didn’t take the criticisms seriously enough or present a case that spoke to the actual issues...
...This American ideal is in crisis as never before, the challenge of re-establishing its luster has never been greater. Leaders like Johnson and Nixon may have besmirched it but they never argued outright that law should be subservient to executive power. The Bush administration, with Cheney as its architect and now its spokesman, flat out attacked our core American ideal, attempting to convince us and the world by its actions and rhetoric that Law is an inconvenient impediment to security to be openly dispensed with at executive behest...
...what the next generation should know. We mime a process by which tomorrow’s ruling class will also make such undemocratic but “expertly-informed” decisions about the poor and working people of the planet. The Harvard scholars who populated the Kennedy and Johnson administrations during the Vietnam War provide ample evidence that our expertise can bear grievous results. One hopes that the Harvard experts now managing the economy from Washington will do a better job, their past contributions to the global economic crisis notwithstanding...
...suspect was identified as Scott P. Roeder, 51, by the Johnson County Sheriff's office. Police were investigating his links to the antigovernment group the Freemen in the 1990s; he was also reportedly a subscriber to Prayer and Action News, a magazine that advocated a justifiable-homicide position on abortion. "He was on the radar screen" of the FBI, an officer said. In 1996, Topeka police found ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, gunpowder and other items that could be used to make small bombs. He was sentenced to highly supervised probation for two years. He was expected...