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According to the American Council of Education, 175,000 students are enrolled in colleges in the storm-ravaged areas of Southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama...
...devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina have stunned us all,” Kirby wrote in his letter today. “The loss of life, destruction of property, and unimaginably severe conditions that remain in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, are profoundly saddening. Our thoughts, prayers, and sympathies are with all those who have suffered from the storm and its aftermath, and naturally we want to do what we can as a university to help...
Things would soon change when Katrina, a Category 4 hurricane, hit New Orleans and neighboring regions in Louisiana and Mississippi August 29 with sustained winds of up to 145 miles per hour...
...standards movement in education has, overall, strengthened the teaching of evolution, even as it has presented a new target for anti-Darwinists. In 2000, 10 states had no mention of evolution in their curriculum standards. Now only Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi and Oklahoma--states with long creationist traditions--make this omission. In June, Alaska's state board of education was pressured by scientists, teachers and concerned citizens to add evolution to science standards that had avoided the topic. Other states, most notably Kansas and New Mexico, have wobbled on whether to teach evolution, deleting and then restoring it to state standards...
...court-supervised desegregation in Oklahoma and Georgia. The U.S. argued successfully in each case that enough progress had been made and that schools could be lifted from orders requiring that they integrate. On the other hand, in 1991 Roberts co-authored a government brief alleging that Mississippi was still overseeing a racially segregated system of public universities; that view was upheld. As for affirmative action, Roberts touched on the issue as a private attorney in 2001, writing a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Adarand Constructors in its long-running, ultimately unsuccessful legal battle against racial preferences...