Word: journal
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Last Friday, 152 years after Frederick Douglass published the first issue of his abolitionist journal The North Star, the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) held a rally on the steps of the State House protesting modern-day slavery in Sudan...
...rally drew reporters and photographers from the Associated Press, in addition to numerous student publications, including Boston University's Daily Free Press and the Suffolk Law School Journal...
Administrators have also begun to show zero tolerance for things students merely say or write. Call it subzero tolerance. Last spring Antonius Brown, 18, wrote a story in his journal about a deranged student who goes on a rampage at Brown's high school, Therrell, in Atlanta. It's a sick story. Eventually officials heard about it and suspended him for 20 days. But Brown happened to return from that suspension on April 20, the day of the Columbine massacre. He was expelled two days later in the fearful atmosphere of the moment. Police charged him with making terrorist threats...
School officials defended their actions by noting that Brown, like the Columbine shooters, had been teased. Although the judge decided in August that Brown's journal entries did not constitute a threat, he also found that Brown had made threatening remarks, such as a promise to "mess with" the Class of '99. But if Brown needed help, he didn't exactly get it. Prosecutors are still weighing a case against him, and Brown has had to switch schools. Zero tolerance is "an easy way to get rid of troubled students," says John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, a civil...
Also Thursday, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the procedures aren't nearly as useful as previously thought in preventing certain forms of birth injury. The study cited in the Journal focused on the C-section's ability to prevent brain hemorrhaging during birth, sometimes caused when a baby is stuck in the mother's pelvis. While caesareans, which peaked at nearly 25 percent of births in the late '80s, were long held to be the best method for preventing such complications, the new research indicates that the procedure is no safer than nonsurgical alternatives, including...