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by The Daily Campus Ed Board

Imagine this: you've just been raped. You have a somewhat checkered past, and a couple of warrants are out for your arrest. But, being a person in need, you go to the police to get help after you've taken a Plan B pill. The police figure out about said warrants, and you're temporarily in jail. (0) comments

As historians at SMU we have no collective position about bringing the Bush Presidential Library, Museum and Institute to this campus. Some of us favor it; others do not. We do believe, however, that there is one related issue on which we can speak. This is the matter of Presidential Order 13233, which gives current and former presidents the power to withhold records in presidential libraries virtually at their discretion. (1) comment

by George Henson, ghenson@smu.edu

When Rick Perry told a reporter in June 2005 that gay and lesbian veterans returning home from Iraq could move somewhere else if they didn't like the new constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, "amens" could be heard emanating from churches all across Texas. (2) comments

Just weeks after the five-year anniversary of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, President Bush is asking Congress to broaden the bill to meet its quickly approaching goal for all students to read and do math at or above grade level by 2014. The new plan includes "Promise Scholarships," which are $4,000 vouchers that poor students at chronically failing schools can use to transfer to private schools. (1) comment

More than four decades ago, the Graduate Research Center of The Southwest was housed on SMU's campus. Dr. Lloyd Berkner, an internationally respected scientist, was president of the center. Dr. Berkner had plans for extensive expansion. A group of faculty members opposed Berkner's plans: some because they objected to the conservative viewpoints attributed to Eric Jonsson and his colleagues who founded the center, others because they thought that the presence of a well-funded center initially directed toward the physical sciences and engineering would upset the academic balance at SMU. (0) comments