April 5, 2007

Tufts University Study: students not disconnected from politics

To Students, Congress tops “American Idol”
From insidehighered.com 
College students are regularly criticized as being ignorant, self-absorbed and interested only in pop culture. But a new national study — conducted by Tufts University researchers — found that students know more about politics and civic life than many fear they do, and more than those in the same [...]

April 5, 2007

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April 5, 2007

Ogletree on Dred Scott: the ebb and flow of civil rights

The Lessons of Dred Scott
From Boston.com.  By Charles J. Ogletree and Johanna Wald.  April 5, 2007.
ONE HUNDRED fifty years ago — on March 6, 1857 — the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that haunts us today. In Dred Scott v. Sandford the court found all “negroes,” even free ones, exempt from the rights, privileges, [...]