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...environmental studies courses at Brown are continually oversubscribed, and the program is looking for ways to grow to meet the demand, says Allison L. Smith, a sophomore in the program from Tulsa, Oklahoma...
Cowan, a Silver- and multiple Bronze-Star winner who guided artillery and air strikes in Vietnam, ought to know. He self-destructed when he went home to Oklahoma. His marriage failed, he was dismissed from the Army, and he spent four years in a mental hospital after being arrested for his role in a / shooting incident. In 1983 he hit the beach in Hawaii, a burned out case who washed windows for beers and scrounged in dumpsters for food. In 1985, 12 years after his last combat action, Cowan was given a medical explanation for his troubles: post-traumatic stress...
...Iraq is part of a wrenching decision that my country made openly and democratically with my full complicity. But can I steel my emotions? A ground war in Kuwait will only be worse. Can I bear to watch a TV clip of a 22-year- old sergeant, a former Oklahoma high school running back, being ripped apart by an Iraqi mine? Turning away would be cowardly, and a government that sanitized such gore to soothe domestic sensibilities would be contemptible. For if I cannot confront the true face of this war, if I cannot endure the moral burden...
...case before the court involved an Oklahoma City busing program that began in 1972, nine years after a finding that both schools and housing in the city were intentionally segregated. In 1985 the Oklahoma City board adopted a policy that ended busing for kindergarten through fourth grade in favor of attendance at neighborhood schools. Single-race patterns of enrollment re- emerged in some neighborhoods; 11 of the city's 64 schools now have student bodies that are 90% or more black. Local civil rights leaders argued that the pattern was proof that the original desegregation program failed. School-board attorneys...
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the majority, overturned a 1989 ruling by a federal appeals court that refused to hand back the Oklahoma City schools to local control. The appeals court, he said, had held the school district to an overly strict standard in determining when the desegregation order could be dissolved. Rehnquist declared that such court control of schools was not meant "to operate in perpetuity," even though a court was entitled to examine "every facet of school operations" before lifting a busing order...