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...before last week's fireworks, Corzine was trailing Christie by double digits in some polls. "The economy is the determining factor in this race. Jon Corzine's chances of re-election are inextricably linked with the state's unemployment rate," says Brigid Callahan Harrison, a political-science professor at Montclair State University. "Because of his background and experience, voters saw the economy as Corzine's strong suit, and they hold failing economies against incumbents...
...slowly set on a recent night in June, 800 cars and a crowd of viewers in lawn chairs pulled up to one of the four screens on the 25-acre green of the Mission Tiki drive-in theater in Montclair, Calif. Lovestruck teens canoodled in back seats. Parents corralled children in minivans. It was a remarkable turnout for a business, born 75 years ago, that has been teetering on the edge of extinction for the past two decades...
...partnership with their school paper. Partnerships with student publications and for-profit corporations are dangerous. Such deals will most likely serve to limit the leadership opportunities for student journalists and restrict the editorial autonomy of college newspapers. In January, a falling-out between the student government and newspaper at Montclair State University required the editors to suspend publication as the student-body representatives pulled the paper’s funding. A major concern was that funding was yanked primarily due to the paper’s criticisms of the student government. College administrations need to be sure that there...
Last week, a squabble between the student government and newspaper at Montclair State University forced editors to halt publication as legislators revoked their funding. Though the Student Government Association (SGA) has recently agreed to temporarily resume funding, the fiasco marks a disturbing and troublesome trend in collegiate journalism—namely, that criticism of authority is met with censorship. The debacle began when the newspaper critiqued the student government for holding meetings that were closed to the press—a violation of a state open meetings law, according to a lawyer that that paper retained. Though the editors?...