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University of California regents search for ‘legal ways’ to encourage/recruit potential minority students

Posted by: ST on July 20, 2006 at 8:58 pm » 10 Comments

The LATimes reports today that University of California regents, alarmed by a ‘significant’ drop in minority enrollment at some of their universities in recent years, have decided to conduct a study of the effects of the ten-year old California-voter approved Propostion 209. Larry Gordon with the LAT writes: SAN FRANCISCO — Alarmed by declining numbers [...]

 

Thur/Fri open thread

Posted by: ST on July 20, 2006 at 11:44 am » 4 Comments

Busy morning, ya’ll – here’s your open thread in the meantime. One quick thing to mention: I see today was the debut of the US Postal Service’s Superhero stamps. They look cool, but I wish they would have done individual sets for a few of them, like Wonder Woman and Supergirl, of course

 

Harry Reid: Major-league *edited*

Posted by: ST on July 20, 2006 at 9:30 am » 13 Comments

While the House yesterday quickly responded to the President’s veto of the embryonic stem cell research bill by attempting to override the veto (they failed), Senator Harry Reid took the time to send out a little fund-raising letter. The NYT reports: Within hours of the veto, the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, sent [...]