October 2012
October 9th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
BERKELEY, California (AP) — U.S. officials are investigating anti-Semitism allegations at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Los Angeles Times says recent graduates claim university officials created a hostile campus climate for Jewish students by failing to curb anti-Israel protests.
They say a protest against Israel's treatment of Palestinians was one of several February campus events...
October 9th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Latest News, Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York taxpayers paid more than $5 million in the last two years to settle more than a dozen sexual harassment cases against state workers, according to records obtained Oct. 4.
The cases include $1.79 million paid to a woman who worked for the state prisons system in western New York. The incident reported in 2000 and not settled until 2009, showed $1.1 million going to...
October 8th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The National Union of Mineworkers accused Anglo American Platinum Monday of "racism" as the impasse between striking miners and the world's top platinum producer escalated.
The NUM alleged that its leader in Rustenburg, the scene of a wildcat strike that brought Amplats' operations to a halt, was called derogatory names by the company's security officials at its Swartklip...
October 8th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this divisive social issue back on their agenda in the middle of a presidential election campaign.
Nine years is a blink of the eye on a court where justices can look back two centuries for legal precedents. But with an ascendant...
October 8th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 6 Comments
PHOENIX (AP) — An education campaign for illegal immigrants to remain largely silent when they're pulled over by police is being put into practice in Arizona after a federal judge ruled that the most contentious part of the state's immigration law can take effect.
Natally Cruz and Leticia Ramirez have been telling immigrants who are in the United States illegally, like themselves, that they...