Editors’ Corner
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Penn State dropped its season opener to perennial underdog Ohio, 24-14. Meanwhile, some fans were spotted taking pictures alongside a cardboard cutout of disgraced former coach Joe Paterno. Apparently, some Penn State fans still haven't come to grips with Paterno's role in covering up the sex abuse crimes of Jerry Sandusky.
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Charles E. Menifield, a professor of public and non-profit administration at the University of Missouri at Columbia, has attracted some attention with his pointed, and, some would say, politically-incorrect words about underachievement among black students, especially black males... Read More
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Richard C. Levin has announced that he will step down as the leader of Yale University at the end of this academic year... Read More
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Ohio State University faculty received an email this week, asking them to consider inviting an Obama campaign operative to speak to their classes. "If you were willing," the memo said, "the volunteers could also take a couple of extra minutes to see whether they could interest any of your students in volunteering for the Obama campaign."
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Obama has a dream but it's nothing like Martin Luther King's--actually it's the exact opposite... Read More
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In a survey, university faculty admitted that they would discriminate against "openly conservative colleagues"--and would be less likely to hire a conservative or positively review his or her research and writing... Read More