Reexamining Police Force
By Kay Steiger - Jun 27th, 2008 at 2:58 pmThis spring, Wesleyan students were arrested after what started out as a party was broken up by a full-scale police action, featuring Tasers and canines.…
Posts Tagged ‘students’ rights’
Your Friends Are Dead… Sike!
By Haley Swenson - Jun 13th, 2008 at 4:30 pmOne morning last month, students at El Camino High School in Oceanside, California were told by administrators that several of their classmates had been killed…
Why Abstinence-Plus Doesn’t Work
By Haley Swenson - Jun 11th, 2008 at 12:00 pmWe hear a lot about the differences between abstinence-only sex education and comprehensive sex education, but not about a supposed middle ground called abstinence-plus, a…
Blast from the Past
By Emily Rutherford - Jun 6th, 2008 at 2:00 pmInside Higher Ed has a story about a group of students who staged a sit-in at Washington’s Evergreen State University after their chapter of Students…
Do We Really Want to Live in a World Where High School Students Can’t Make Jackasses of Themselves?
By Jesse Singal - Jun 5th, 2008 at 4:45 pmFrom the AP:
WAUSAU, Wis.—Wisconsin fans of high school sports may soon get this message: Show your team spirit, but don’t expose anything else.
The…
Are Textbooks Worth the Expense?
By Emily Rutherford - Jun 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pmRobert Brooker at Inside Higher Ed contends that the benefits of having up-to-date, well-written textbooks outweigh the average $700 per year that an undergraduate spends…
