Word: scholarshipped
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...tournament administrators decided to send the Harvard competitors to New York after all, offering them an opportunity to participate in either of two events—the Junior Scholarship Pairs or the World Junior Individual events—at the North American Bridge Championships in July. Like the NCBT, both events offer the chance for prize money...
...Supreme Court just unleveled the playing field, and religion is stuck in the divot. In a ruling against first-year Harvard Law School student Joshua D. Davey, the Court upheld a Washington state statute, which effectively rescinded Davey’s Promise Scholarship after he chose to pursue an undergraduate degree in theology at his parochial university. Had Davey chosen to pursue any other degree at his religiously-affiliated university—or theological studies at a secular university—his scholarship would have been funded. Such a standard discriminates against religion when it ought to be neutral...
...principle of separation of church and state is a valuable one—embodied in the establishment clause of the United States Constitution—funding Davey’s study of theology would not have been a government endorsement of religion. Rather, government’s exclusion of scholarship funds for theology majors actively and unnecessarily burdens religion. If the state had kept Davey’s scholarship, it would have been treating religion as equal to any other pursuit. There would be an inherent pluralism in such a system. Non-religious and religious studies would receive equal treatment...
...Oxford taught Ted one important lesson: He was not suited for scholarship. Actually he was told that by a young classmate peering over his shoulder at the impish illustrations, such as a two-legged dog with wings (and shoes) that he drew in the margins of his notebook. The classmate was Helen Palmer, a Wellesley grad taking her Master's in education, and Ted thought her judgment so acute that, a year later, he married her. He also left Oxford after a year. The only doctorate he'd need would be self-awarded...
Clearly, the objective study of religion can lead to a nuanced and realistic understanding of today’s increasingly globalized world. Few have a problem with public money to fund such scholarship. What reasonable citizens object to is state funds paying for a dogmatic and colored religious education. Since the Supreme Court’s decision only applies to the funding of theology majors at “pervasively religious schools,” students studying religion at secular institutions will continue to receive public support. In essence, the Court has sought only to prevent taxpayer dollars from funding...