The Obama administration issued guidelines on Wednesday that recommended public school officials use law enforcement only as a last resort for disciplining students, a response to a rise in zero-tolerance policies that have disproportionately increased the number of arrests, suspensions and expulsions of minority students for even minor, nonviolent offenses.
New Mexico’s highest court unanimously ruled Thursday it is unconstitutional to deny a marriage license to same-sex couples, making it the newest state to legalize gay weddings.
MEMPHIS — After her doctor told her two months ago that she had breast cancer, Debrah Reid, a 58-year-old dance teacher, drove straight to a funeral home. She began planning a burial with the funeral director and his wife, even requesting a pink coffin.
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A law professor whose controversial theory about
Having witnessed social media’s potential to carry professors’ statements far and wide, higher-education officials in Colorado and Kansas recently have moved to limit what messages take such a journey. They have argued that they are simply trying to protect their institutions, but their actions have raised the question of whether risk-averse definitions of academic freedom
Is the Great Transgender Bathroom & Sports Team Scare of 2013 on the verge of petering out?
Last August, Gov. Jerry Brown set off a right-wing frenzy when he signed into law an anti-discrimination
Two years ago, Southeastern Oklahoma State University was having an identity crisis. Or rather, an imagery crisis.
The university had adopted a new nickname in 2006, the Savage Storm, in place of the Savages, after the National Collegiate Athletic Association enacted a policy banning “hostile and abusive” mascots, nicknames or imagery at NCAA championships — a
Nelson Mandela, one of the world’s greatest transformative figures for racial justice and forgiveness, died as he had lived, peacefully, today at the age of 95. Over almost a century Madiba, as he was also known, was a tribal warrior, lawyer, prisoner, Nobel Prize winner, president and national unifier. Born in 1918, Mandela came of
Racial tensions certainly are never absent from campuses. But this fall has seen a number of incidents — most notably charges that white students harassed a black student at San Jose State University for months — that shocked some.