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...assist our international students in need of visas.While issues of financing and immigration certainly bode ill for accessibility to education, equally dangerous to the university’s charge are threats to academic and journalistic freedom. In November, the administration at the University of Southern California blocked the re-election of Zach Fox as editor in chief of the Daily Trojan, objecting to his call for greater financial transparency and a reorganization of the paper’s senior positions. The administration’s willingness to actively intervene in the student publication’s elections raised serious concerns...
...men’s basketball team cancels a planned winter trip against Southern schools where African-Americans are banned from playing because of segregation laws or customs. Director of Athletics Thomas D. Bolles announces that Harvard’s teams would no longer participate in athletic contests that discriminate against players...
...allowed), but Metro was able to start a wholesaling business and sell directly to mom-and-pop shops, hotels, hospitals and other companies. But because the law still forced Metro to buy produce through the mandi system, there was little chance for improvements. Then Metro convinced the southern state of Karnataka, home to high-tech hub Bangalore, to change its laws to allow the company to deal with farmers directly. Within months, the federal government was leaning on other states to follow suit. A huge opportunity had arrived...
...early 1920s, Congress created a system of immigration quotas based on countries of origin, weighted toward northwestern Europe. "The races from Southern and Eastern Europe," a lobbyist argued, had no experience of government other than "paternal autocracy." The great immigration contraction coincided with a nationwide revival of the Ku Klux Klan, which, in this incarnation, was as much anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish as antiblack. The Klan's power peaked at the Democratic Convention of 1924, when pro-Klan forces battled for almost 100 ballots to keep New York's Catholic Governor Al Smith off the ticket. Smith managed...
...this Senate bill passes, I recommend that American citizens assemble at the southern border bearing arms. What do you say? -Richard D. Coburn, DenverAssembling on the border is a fine idea. Guns are probably not necessary because, as the Minutemen were able to show, you can accomplish the same goal-reducing the flow of illegals-with cell phones, binoculars and lawn chairs...