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I Think the Press Hates Us

In Covering Academe, professors and reporters discussed why the MLA gets bad press and what can be done about it. From the Modern Language Association 2005 Convention held in Washington, D.C.

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Antidote to Apathy

Are students interested in politics, can they become passionate about such topics causing civic involvement, and how should educators encourage such activity? From the 2005 Modern Language Association Convention held in Washington, D.C.

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Rescuing Christmas: Part Three

Christmas is a season of hope, and this year many groups fighting to rescue Christmas are having tremendous success; giving us all hope.

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Evil Dr. P Resigns

University of Kansas professor lands in a firestorm of controversy and resigns post after announcing a new class: Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies.

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Cindy at SUNY

Sheehan $11,000 speech draws crowd, but few students in SUNY Oneonta for “Making a Difference Week.”

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Rescuing Christmas: Part Two

The war against Christmas is raging, over carols and cookie icing, in schools and on public property, but many fighting against Christmas are finding themselves in court.

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Silencing Science

There is a new inquisition taking place among the scientific community, where scientists who dare speak the heresy “intelligent design theory” face certain persecution.

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Rescuing Christmas: Part One

Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, a group founded in April of this year by columnist Don Feder and others, held a press conference on Thursday, Dec 1 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to defend the Christmas holiday.

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A Primer on Politicized Science

As late as the 1960s Paul Ehrlich predicted that millions of people in American would be dying of starvation in the 1980s. It never happened.

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Animal Liberation 101

The Animal Liberation Front, one of the most serious domestic terror threats according to the FBI, has been wreaking havoc on universities for years, causing millions of dollars in property damage by raiding research laboratories, but now a professor of philosophy is accused of helping support their terrorism.

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Making (Air)Waves

Penn State has learned of a new electrical engineering concept: the War in Iraq is wrong.