Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embassy in San Salvador and raked the bunker-like building with gunfire. No one was injured, no shots were fired back, and the truck quickly sped off. Meanwhile, in cities across the U.S., opponents of American aid to El Salvador's military-civilian junta laid plans for teach-ins, marches, vigils and hunger strikes. It all had a familiar ring...
...Perluss heard arguments in Segraves vs. the State of California, a case brought by Kelly Segraves, 38, director of the San Diego-based Creation-Science Research Center. Like most creationists, Segraves maintains that evolution as taught in U.S. schools is a secular religion. Because it is California policy to teach evolution in biology classes without competing views about the divine origin of the universe, Segraves claimed that the religious freedom of his children was violated...
...gave some aid to Segraves' cause. He ordered statewide distribution of an earlier school board statement cautioning that textbooks avoid "dogmatism" in dealing with speculation about the origins of man. Segraves hailed the judge's ruling as a victory for creationism, claiming it "will stop the dogmatic teaching of evolution and protect the rights of the Christian child." The trial was notable publicity for creationists. Similar trials at state and perhaps federal levels are likely. As California Deputy Attorney General Robert Tyler puts it: "The battle is not really an intellectual one. What has me worried...
Eliminating funding from the NEH program would be "unfortunate" because the seminars "allow professors from remote colleges to keep up intellectually." Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, said yesterday. Patterson will teach a seminar on comparative slavery...
...against that war. We must show the nation that we will make the same sacrifices again--and exact the same price of social unrest, if need be. If America's leaders did not learn their lesson in Vietnam, then the committed and concerned in this country will have to teach it to them again. Thursday's march is a beginning, and all of Harvard should be there...