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Mandating HPV vaccine a bad idea

Perry's decision leaves Texans scratching their heads

by The Daily Campus Ed Board

Ed Board would like to take a few moments to congratulate Texas Gov. Rick Perry. After all, it's not everyone who can draw the ire of both conservatives and liberals with one fell swoop. Even if you temporarily forget his ridiculous plan to privatize the Texas Lottery (a hare-brained idea, to be sure), there's still his mandate to vaccinate all girls in Texas against the Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV. (1) comment

A gulf between institutions

by Schubert Ogden, with a foreward by Susanne Johnson, Contributing Writers

The prospective coming of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Museum and Institute has prompted us to carry on discourse, public and private, about the nature of liberal arts education and what it means to be a "university." It has been my privilege to count among my dialogue partners my esteemed and now retired colleague, Schubert M. (3) comments