School strives to recruit minorities through phone calls, VIP visits
By Holly K. Hacker
The Dallas Morning News, November 1, 2004
What does it take to get a minority student to Texas A&M University?
University President Robert Gates has personally phoned students at home, encouraging them to become Aggies. Recruiters promote the university at
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By Harvey A. Silverglate
The Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2004
Free speech “paranoids” have long warned that sexual harassment law is mushrooming out of control. Well, that fear has just been vindicated in an episode that’s as bizarre as it is disconcerting. Scriptwriters for the TV series “Friends” are being sued,
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By Joyce Howard Price
Washington Times, June 22, 2004
Free-speech groups want the California Supreme Court to overturn an appellate ruling that allowed a writers’ assistant for the TV comedy “Friends” to pursue a sexual harassment claim because of bawdy banter between the
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By Staff Writer
Associated Press, May 6, 2004
A student who claims he was punished for posting a political flier has settled a free-speech lawsuit against California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Under the agreement reached this week with the school’s board of trustees, the university will expunge its
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Associated Press, April 2, 2004
Most Michigan voters would support a ban on affirmative action at public agencies and universities based on the language in a ballot initiative, according to a poll released Friday.
But the name of the group pushing the proposal, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, may be
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Legal Times, October 6, 2003
The private notes of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens have been leaked to the public, revealing how he framed the University of Michigan affirmative action cases during the Court’s closed-door deliberations.
But there’s no need for an independent counsel. The leaker was Stevens himself,
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By Peter Kirsanow
National Review Online, September 30, 2003
It’s a new academic year. Millions of applications will soon be flowing into college admissions offices.
As in previous years, administrators will comb through applicant files separating those who make the grade from those who don’t. This year reviewers will have a powerful
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Chronicle of Higher Education, September 26, 2003
A student at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo sued university officials on Thursday for what he and his lawyers called a violation of his First Amendment right to free speech.
Steven Hinkle, a senior, said that university officials had threatened
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USA Today, September 25, 2003
A California Polytechnic State University senior plans to file a lawsuit against top campus officials today, arguing that they unfairly punished him after he tried to post a flier promoting an upcoming speech by an author whose ideas a group of black students
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The Jurist Online, September 5, 2003
In bringing several lawsuits against the University of Michigan (“UM”) for its admissions policies — one involving the policies of the Law School (Grutter v. Bollinger) and the other involving the policies of the undergraduate School of Literature, Science and Arts (Gratz v.
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