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Porth brought along with her a petition, created by the ADL, asking Congress to pass the Federal Hate Crimes Protection Act of 1998. This act seeks to prevent people from persecution based on gender, sexual orientation or physical disability.
As word of the Freud exhibit began to emerge in 1995, one combative anti-Freudian, Peter Swales, a media-savvy Freud scholar and former "business assistant" to the Rolling Stones, charged that the advisory counsel was stacked in favor of the Freudians. He circulated a petition, signed by 50 academics...
Lampoon president Matt J.T. Murray '99 calls the chamber pot uproar "the Lampoon's first prank" and maintains that Hearst was not expelled but "expunged," meaning that the college destroyed his entire record and any other traces of his having attended Harvard. Current administrators deny knowledge of any such abrogation...
On an unexpectedly cool Saturday morning in August, the Greenpeace Motorbus Terrapin is docked across six lanes of city highway from a farmers' market in St. Louis, Mo. The bus p.a. system blasts rock music, alternating with a short rap against factory fishing trawlers. A woman approaches, says that she...
I'm surprised that the people who are outraged don't realize that Cash was only 18 when the murder occurred. Of course, it would have been better if Cash had intervened, but would an 18-year-old want to be involved in a case such as this? The public...