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...Script planned to run an article about how the school cafeteria had finally passed health inspections after violating 30 provisions of the health code in September. JoAnn Haysbert, acting president and provost of Hampton, wrote a letter criticizing media coverage of the incident and mentioning the University’s consistent efforts to ameliorate the violations. She wanted the letter to run on the front page. The newspaper chose to run their article on the front page and the letter on page three...
When this decision was discovered, the administration “delayed” the delivery of the issues. Facing pressure from the administration, students agreed to run the letter on the front page and republish the paper—distributing it at the homecoming game that Saturday—on the condition that Hampton create a student-faculty task force to discuss the issue in depth...
Unfortunately, it seems the Hampton administration has still not gotten the picture. In a letter to Hampton University explaining its decision to withdraw the funds—earmarked to support a SHSJC summer program for high school journalism teachers—the ASNE wrote, “Nothing that has happened since gives us reason to believe that there is contrition or understanding on the part of the University’s leadership of why what was done was wrong.” Hampton has commented on how the withdrawal of funding is unfortunate, but has not yet admitted that...
Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to Tokyo and transitory friendship with her newest film, Lost in Translation. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Suntory whiskey to the natives. There he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer who spends much of her day staring out her window in hopes of somehow finding herself within the city’s skyline. The pair discover Tokyo culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking...
...Given the great change that the district has experienced over the past year, now is not a time to change guidelines once again,” Fowler-Finn wrote in a letter to the committee...