Tag Archive: Education

Iowa Senate Takes a Stand to Protect Academic Freedom

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By Journal Student Writer Genevieve Craggs While the big news coming out of Iowa’s legislative session may be the constant discussion involving Medicaid expansion, …

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We’ll Always Have De Facto Race-Based “Decisions”

By Journal Note & Comment Editor George Kennedy On October 10, 2012, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Fisher v. University …

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Re-Examining Race-Based vs. Class-Based Affirmative Action

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By Carolyn Warner, Student Writer for The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice In the 2003 case of Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice O’Connor said …

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“It is what it is”: some conservatives’ struggle to “rewrite” history

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By Chevon Chatman, Student Writer for The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Slavery-schmavery. So I was surfing the world-wide web the other day …

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The Gay Panic Murder Defense Is Alive and Well

By Maureen Brocco, Student Writer for The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice In early February 2008, a fifteen-year-old boy named Larry asked a …

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No Child Left Behind Act Update

- Zak Toomey, JGRJ Articles Editor, 2008-09 Thursday, October 09, 2008 Last Wednesday, the Washington Post issued the results of a …

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The Tenuous Constitutionality of Nebraska’s L.B. 1024

Abigail Darwin, JGRJ Student Writer 2006-2007 Tuesday, January 16, 2007 On April 13, 2006, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman signed Legislative Bill …

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