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...feared that targeting gay clubs could provoke a lawsuit. Indeed, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund has used legal threats to shelter gay-straight alliances at more than 20 schools nationally. Ironically, the fund's primary weapon is the federal Equal Access Act, a 1984 law designed to safeguard religious groups. The act says schools must treat clubs equally, regardless of beliefs. Lambda has found no student willing to bring a suit challenging Utah's statewide ban. Nevertheless, the East High group still meets each Thursday, skirting the ban by paying a fee to rent a classroom...
...Although we are pleased with the administration's willingness to adjust its policy, we are dismayed that this omission was so long-lived. Free speech is the one right most precious to an academic community. An institution that proclaims a mission to disseminate knowledge and foster free thought must safeguard this inviolable right...
Notwithstanding the tear gas and bean-bag-like projectiles, I am not amazed by the actions in Roby, Ill., where state troopers have Shirley Allen under siege [AMERICAN SCENE, Oct. 27] for resisting a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. It seems there is no right to privacy or constitutional safeguard when others decide you are not conforming to an accepted method of living. Hence we have the rule of the masses in the guise of what is right and moral. When there is no longer room in a society for individuality or eccentricity, then we shall lose our greatest resource. EUGENE...
...first generation of parents to be confronted by the potential dangers of television. But our parents didn't have to safeguard dozens of channels or computer video games or cute little frogs hawking Budweiser on a Website. Nowadays 66% of families watch television at mealtimes, 54% of children have a set in their bedroom and the average family has the TV on seven hours a day, or nearly half of a household's waking hours. Allison Smith, a substitute teacher in Houston with two daughters, 5 and 6, says, "I grew up in the Brady Bunch era, and my parents...
After every great war the victors search for a way to safeguard their gains. In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was intended to disarm Germany and keep it weak. Following World War II, the Allies tried at Yalta and Potsdam to shape a reordered Europe but ended up splitting it between East and West. Now another world struggle, the long, bitter cold war, has ended, and the architects of security are back at their drawing boards. They are trying to seal peace and stability into Europe's future and, although they don't say so very loudly, hedge against...