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Speakers included Chris Washington of Atlantic Records; Wendy Day, whose Rap Coalition aims to combat the exploitation of urban musicians; and ABC News correspondent Farai Chideya '90, author of "Don't Believe the Hype: CulturalMisinformation about African Americans...
...frustration have been shown to reduce school violence. Schools that try very hard to connect to families and communities can find potentially destructive students earlier. Not surprisingly, the districts that have had the most success are the ones with schools in or near big cities, which have had to combat violence the longest. Five years ago, DeKalb County officials in Georgia were finding so many weapons on campus that they began a campaign to alert parents...
...whole reason why the Hostage Rescue Team was founded is that dealing with situations like this really requires special training," she says. "Every member is trained to deal with explosives, every member has medical training, and the team trains year-round. The close-quarter combat skills you need to handle something like Littleton have to be constantly kept sharp." Local SWAT teams like Littleton's, by contrast, tend to train once a month. Equipment and specialized training varies wildly from team to team, and indeed the Littleton team did not have explosives training...
McCaffrey, whose tenure as the "national drug czar" began in 1996, focused his speech on the changes in attitude that the country must go through in continuing to combat drugs. He said he was concerned by the oft-used metaphor of a "war on drugs...
...that our student groups desperately need. There is nowhere near enough office and meeting space for our student groups, let alone performance and rehearsal rooms. In addition, a recent survey in the Crimson found that Harvard students feel that the school lacks an appropriate sense of community, and to combat that sentiment, we feel that a student center would be an excellent final step...