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“Corridor of Shame” Receives National Attention, But Few Solutions

COLUMBIA S.C. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards has become the latest Democratic presidential candidate to address struggling South Carolina schools in a rural swath dubbed the “Corridor of Shame.”

October 14, 2007

Sports

Finally, Shootings Becoming a Distant Memory at Duquesne

PITTSBURGH Duquesne University’s basketball team took the court Friday night without hearing the two words that have dominated any discussion about the Dukes for 13 months.

October 14, 2007

Students

Historic Kappa Felony Hazing Case Produces Civil Suit

The criminal trial involving Kappas from Florida A&M University that produced the nation’s first felony convictions for hazing will now be followed by a civil trial. The victim, Marcus Jones, is suing the same five fraternity members named in the criminal case. The national,regional and local chapters of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity also face a potentially multi-million dollar liability.

October 6, 2007

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Report Blames Supreme Court For Re-segregation Of Schools

Resegregation in American public schools has intensified over the last two decades, particularly in the American South, and the U.S. Supreme Court is largely responsible for this trend. Those are the findings in a new report released by the Civil Rights Projects, which is headquartered at the University of California, Los Angeles.

October 2, 2007

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William Murphy, law professor who challenged segregation, dead at 87

JACKSON, Miss. Constitutional law professor William P. Murphy, who enraged Mississippi segregationists in the 1950s and 1960s by teaching that school integration was the law of the land, died Saturday of prostate cancer. He was 87.

October 1, 2007

Sports

Supreme Court won’t hear Dorrance sexual harassment lawsuit

RALEIGH N.C. The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition Monday to hear arguments in the sexual harassment case against the women’s soccer coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, knocking down the final legal barrier to a jury trial.

October 1, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Visit by Iranian President Was Just the Latest Controversy for Columbia University Leader

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger keeps finding himself in the middle of campus turmoil. He enrolled at Columbia’s law school in 1968, when the campus was convulsed by anti-war protests. He was a dean at the University of Michigan during a struggle over the school’s speech code. Later, as the university’s president, he defended its affirmative action policies all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

September 30, 2007

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ACLU files lawsuit alleging South African scholar kept from United States for political views

BOSTON A well-known South African scholar and political commentator is being kept out of the United States because he has been a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

September 24, 2007

Disabilties

Recording companies sue 12 Tulsa University students

TULSA Okla. A dozen University of Tulsa students are being sued in federal court for copyright infringement by 15 recording companies.

September 23, 2007

HBCUs

K-12 Improvement Center of UNCF Summit

While a college education is vital to achieve great lengths in the workplace and in life, the quality of time spent in the classroom years before determines whether a person will excel in higher education.

September 23, 2007

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Federal lawsuit filed in New York challenging immigration raids on homes as unconstitutional

NEW YORK Immigration authorities violated Hispanic families’ civil rights by raiding their homes without court warrants, sometimes bursting in before dawn to look for people who didn’t live there, according to a federal lawsuit.

September 22, 2007

Disabilties

Edwards rolls out education policy

DES MOINES Iowa Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards rolled out a program for reforming primary education in the United States on Friday, proposing to pay teachers up to $15,000 more in high poverty areas and initiating universal preschool.

September 22, 2007