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...enforce their own view of the world and close off opposing viewpoints. You can go to parties in New York City where the liberal smugness is intolerable because they're only hearing liberal viewpoints. On the Whitopian conservative side, it's spinning out of control. Look at the tea-bagger movement, where people are concerned their taxes are going to be wasted on minorities and illegal immigrants. Same with the movement that says [President] Obama is not a citizen. (See pictures of the tea-party protests...
...first Faculty meeting of the year kicked off without a regular staple: cookies to complement professors’ tea and coffee...
...This is the first time in modern times with no cookies,” Faculty Council member Harry R. Lewis ’68 said as he held a white mug of tea. “We are sharing the pain with the undergraduates...
Prompted in part by the Deschenes case, the new Texas law mandating consideration of mitigating circumstances passed overwhelmingly this spring. The TEA, which sets statewide standards and policies, is welcoming the mandate. "This is a significant step. It gives principals and administrators a tool to say, Give us all the factors surrounding an incident," says Julie Harris-Lawrence, a deputy assistant commissioner. The new law allows principals to look at four mitigating factors: self-defense, intent or lack of intent, the disciplinary history of the student and whether the student has a disability that impairs judgment. "This is a huge...
...head of the TEA, Commissioner Robert Scott, has added a second component to the policy change. If a student enrolled in college-bound courses is placed in a DAEP, Harris-Lawrence says, those lessons must be made available to him or her so that the student's graduation plan is not changed. In practical terms, that means an administrator might think twice about sending a student to DAEP if it means adding teaching resources to the alternative school...