The diversity officer, Angela McCaskill, was placed on leave in October after administrators became aware that she had signed a petition in Maryland circulated by a group seeking to overturn the state’s gay-marriage law. Voters upheld the law in November. Some people on the campus had said they were concerned that Ms. McCaskill was the
The heinous act of setting a homeless woman on fire on a Van Nuys bus stop may bring needed attention to the fact that the homeless are targets of abuse and violence more often than people would think.
Read more in the San Fernando Valley Sun: http://www.sanfernandosun.com/sanfernsun/news/8877-state-has-terrible-record-regarding-homeless-abuse-
A federal judge in Washington state has rebuffed a race and national origin discrimination suit by an economics instructor who was denied tenure at Spokane Falls Community College.
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White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043 as the United States will for the first time become a majority of minority groups, the Census Bureau projects.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-whites-to-lose-majority-status-by-2043-the-census-projects-20121212,0,3964623.story
The Pasadena church stands firm in its decision to host the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which it has worked with for more than a decade, and it is right to do so.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-1213-mpac-all-saints-20121213,0,2714413.story
Confronted by a gay student at Princeton University, Justice Antonin Scalia defended his past writings comparing laws against homosexuality to those prohibiting bestiality and murder, saying he was arguing that many laws are based on society’s moral feelings.
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PHOENIX — It started as a joke about 10 years ago. Chris Bliss, a juggler and stand-up comedian of viral Internet fame, had been scanning the headlines for inspiration and discovered the controversy over a granite monument to the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of Alabama’s state judicial building.
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A few weeks ago on November 6, election night 2012, more than 40 Hampden Sydney College students rallied outside the campus Black Fraternity house and Student Union residence shouting racial epithets, hurling beer bottles and engaging in other forms of violent behavior. The majority of the victims of this incident were Black men. Students, faulty,
Despite receiving a slew of hate mail, All Saints Church in Pasadena is moving forward with a conference hosted by the Muslim Public Affairs Council — the first time the organization has conducted an event at a Christian church.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/pasadena-all-saints-church-muslim-event.html
As a result of the protests, cities have tightened restrictions on protesters and behavior in public space in ways that opponents say threaten free speech.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-occupy-laws-20121206,0,1295716.story