Word: states
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...recent ad placed in major national newspapers by the presidents of 113 colleges and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges announced a joint effort to deal with the problem of student binge drinking. This advertising campaign signals a major change in the way that colleges are responding to the alcohol problem on their campuses. The problem has moved from the agenda of assistant deans of students to the desks of college presidents. It is openly discussed in the New York Times rather than being kept hidden to avoid embarrassment to a school's reputation...
...national advertising campaign of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges offers some hope, because for the first time colleges are reaching out to enlist help from those outside their campus: parents, civic leaders and the general public. The support of these groups is a must if the effort is to succeed...
...suburban high school into a brutal and haunting crime scene. In the past few years, equally unrepentant students turned guns on their peers in Oregon and Alabama. And this is to say nothing of the guns used on lovers and rival gangs, against police and innocent bystanders, in every state of the union every day of the year. It is a barrage of gunfire which we have chillingly learned to ignore...
...national buyback program with meaningful cash or tax-credit incentives should be established and adequately funded--in the past year a number of state and city buyback programs ran out of funds and thereby allowed guns to circulate that could have been collected and destroyed...
...spending bills for the coming fiscal year, and the White House has threatened vetoes of six of the others. Desperate for cash that won?t bust the spending caps and eat into the surplus (although that will certainly happen eventually), they?ve tapped $3 billion in unused state welfare money to make some ends meet, which has governors and Democrats screaming mugging. With an October 1 due date for all 13 bills, GOPers are scrambling to draft a stopgap spending bill (to avoid a shutdown) and get those bills on the White House desk in any form ? then at least...