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Larry Tannahill and others who oppose the abuses of liberty in the name of public safety remind us that the individual ought to be the most valued component of society. It is not a question of individual selfishness thwarting the will of the majority, but of individual worth being recognized and respected as foundation of our culture. Ultimately the price of keeping government at a respectful distance is not too high, but the price of failing to do so is the loss of our political soul...
...state appellate court has ruled that Schaer's case should be allowed to proceed to trial, and this decision ought to be upheld. Universities owe their students some form of procedural safeguards in disciplinary matters, and at the very least universities should be held to the procedures described in their official publications. Should a university make no guarantee whatsoever of fair process in its student handbook, as the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts has argued, students might be inclined to go elsewhere; to renege on procedural guarantees infringes on basic notions of fairness. The courts should feel no reluctance...
...They have a pretty good idea of what the summer school population is like and what they want to learn," said Buck. "But also what ought to be taught in their fields...
Maybe Sweeney ought to be in movies, but she's actually in television. Currently living in Los Angeles, Calif. she is the president of Disney/ABC Cable Networks and the Disney Channel...
...faculty whining, backbiting and petty betrayals. So essential are these activities to college life that online universities ought to plan on finding their equivalents rather than doing away with them. A video could be created consisting of a generic professor who complains (sotto voce) about the stupid administration, the moronic students, his awful colleagues and the fact that one of them is paid $100 more than he is; then he could wind up by telling what he overheard someone say to someone else about someone else. A video like that would mean...