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...name referred to black Americans. But for now, we will stick with the regulatory organizations that can sanction UND, be it the NCAA or through academic accreditation associations.Everyone, from the governor of North Dakota to our U.S. senators, is backing the nickname. My tribal government, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, as well as the other Sioux Tribes of North and South Dakota, has opposed the nickname at UND. What does that say about state-tribal relations in North Dakota? Respect? I don’t think so. Honor? Not even close. Despite UND’s noble intentions of honoring...
...Tribe said that Bush's attempt to reassure supporters of Miers' conservative bona fides should actually inspire worry—and for non-ideological reasons...
Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe '62, a constitutional scholar at Harvard Law School and frequent practitioner before the Supreme Court, wrote in an e-mail that Miers’ “record to date certainly does not establish the kind of intellectual excellence or breadth of experience that should be demanded in a Justice of the Supreme Court...
...were to take on faith the president’s intended praise for his nominee,” Tribe wrote, “it would follow that she is unqualified to serve, because a mind of which it’s possible to say, ‘there will be no change or growth’ is a mind too tightly shut to perform the complex task of legal interpretation in a changing world...
This tendency is especially strong in young men, and civilization and technology cannot suppress it. There is something seductive about belonging to a tribe or herd—something missing in the anonymity of television and videogames. In the right environment and given the opportunity, many young men will choose to join gangs...