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...student publications and for-profit corporations are dangerous. Such deals will most likely serve to limit the leadership opportunities for student journalists and restrict the editorial autonomy of college newspapers. In January, a falling-out between the student government and newspaper at Montclair State University required the editors to suspend publication as the student-body representatives pulled the paper’s funding. A major concern was that funding was yanked primarily due to the paper’s criticisms of the student government. College administrations need to be sure that there is steady financial support for student newspapers...
...claims about Chavez, it also raises the tricky question of how to respond. After all, Venezuela supplies almost 15% of U.S. crude oil imports, and it controls the hemisphere's largest reserves. Although such a move would probably be disastrous for his own economy, Chavez has long threatened to suspend oil exports to the U.S. if it took steps he considers aggression against Venezuela - which could include any terrorism-sponsor designation. Chavez may not follow through, but in light of the current energy crunch, few in Washington would be willing to call his bluff...
...European Environment Agency, which advises the European Commission, has recommended that the E.U. suspend its 10% biofuels target, calling it an "overambitious experiment whose unintended effects are difficult to predict and difficult to control...
...DADT has been hotly debated for quite some time, both on campus and in American society at large. No political position—no tacit countenancing of DADT—would be implied were President Faust not to speak of the matter. To suspend the debate, and the sanctimonious rhetoric, for just the length of the ceremony will not require the President to abdicate her moral principles...
...Corporate pressure can, however, have an indirect impact on the trajectory of international diplomacy. Olympic sponsors have the ability to sign a statement of concern about the ongoing conflict in Darfur and to exert public or private pressure on the Chinese government to suspend arms sales to Sudan, press for full deployment of UNAMID, and support an immediate ceasefire and a comprehensive peace agreement...