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...else does today's Europe differ from your expectations? I had not imagined we would be 27 members. In the 1960s I thought we would grow a little. Though they were under authoritarian regimes, I thought Greece, Spain and Portugal would one day join us. But I didn't know the Berlin Wall would fall...
Conversely, there are students who believe that race should not be the uniting factor around which we join organizations. One biracial student, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “I just don’t feel like my race has ever been enough of anything to be the sole reason for why I would enter into a community.” The Crimson granted the student anonymity because revealing her identity would compromise her relationsihps with members of cultural organizations. This student has chosen not to take part in her racial community, but she questions the role cultural...
...oversight of student groups at your high school, think again. Next month a new law will go into effect in Utah that regulates almost everything relating to student groups in public schools—how they can form, what they can discuss, and who can join. In addition to tedious bureaucratic impositions like a parental signature requirement, the law also regulates the content of student discourse by specifically barring clubs that address “human sexuality.” Such content-based regulation not only denies students a necessary forum for discussion and education about sexuality, but, more appallingly...
...matter how many institutions join forces to take on the rankings, the question is, What can they offer as an alternative? As U.S. News can attest, more meaningful metrics are hard to come by. Says Kelly: "Whenever we can get better data, we use it." One way to compare educational quality would be if more colleges published the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement, which is administered by Indiana University and is already used internally by hundreds of schools to gauge such things as how much students feel challenged by the curriculum. Yes, student opinion is an imperfect...
...Janjaweed are part of Darfur," declares Tajeldeen Bashir Niam, general secretary of the Justice and Equality Movement (J.E.M.) - one of Darfur's two main resistance movements. "They have approached us to join us and that's what we're working for: to be united, Arab and African, for the people of Darfur. The Janjaweed are realizing the only solution to Darfur 's problems is to resist the government...