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...check elected student officials and administrations on campus. But lately, the notion that a student newspaper should be allowed to act as functionally independent organ of the student body has been assaulted. The withholding of funds for The Montclarion is chillingly reminiscent of attempts by the University of Southern California administration to regulate the Daily Trojan through personnel changes in Dec. 2006. Both college administrations and student governments should work to ensure that there is a steady stream of funding for their student newspapers. The Montclarion receives roughly one-third of its funding from the student government, but like most...
...fact, judging from the limited polling that has been done in Missouri, Romney is in danger of falling behind Huckabee, another former Arkansas governor. Huckabee is doing well in the conservative Christian strongholds of southern Missouri, and may end up helping McCain by pulling members of the Reliable Right away from Romney. McCain, meanwhile, stands to pick up the independent voters who have been the engine of his momentum...
...millions of TV viewers tuned in to the miniseries version of Alex Haley's Roots, the story of a young man taken from his West African village to work as a slave on a southern plantation. But while the nation's attention was riveted on the depiction of Haley's family tree, the piquing of interest in America's shameful history didn't translate to many other accounts of the transatlantic slave trade...
...details of this particular case are appalling, and the scam is the first - or at least first to be exposed - involving foreigners from as far away as the U.S. and U.K flying in for transplants, Indians are sadly all too familiar with organ rackets. In 2007, police in southern India uncovered an illegal kidney trade involving fishermen whose jobs had been destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami. A massive transplant ring in Punjab was also uncovered in 2003. Police there believe at least 30 of the donors, who as in this latest case were poor, illiterate workers promised riches...
...Gibson's The Passion of the Christ to broaden RTV's reach. In 2004, the group organized Christian rock concerts in swing states and singlehandedly registered some 78,000 voters. For this year's Iowa caucuses, the group employed another technique to attract young evangelicals - free samples of southern cuisine like collard greens and banana pudding. Using the same kind of tongue-in-cheek humor as that of favored candidate Mike Huckabee, the website asks voters about this year's presidential candidates: "When 'The Poll' is called up yonder, will they be there?" Besides Huckabee, the group has also partnered...