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04/20/05 - Next month, the University of Rhode Island Faculty Senate will consider drastic changes to the Student Handbook that will undermine every student's rights. From allowing housing staff to search through closets and refrigerators without consent to assuming that a student was more likely than not guilty of a crime, these changes would represent a disturbing trend of expanding the university's powers at the expense of the students? These changes are indeed URI's version of the Patriot Act, passed by the U.
04/20/05 - To the Cigar, This is in response to Dr. John Leo's response ("Jell-O Cook Off," April 8, 2005) to my original column ("Common Sense," April 7, 2005). The article I wrote, and the one that Leo read, are completely different. Since Leo uses hostile words instead of ideas, I will first have to explain Leo's virtually incomprehensible letter.
04/20/05 - To the Cigar, In yesterday's Cigar, there is an article ("Lack of 'Comity'") by an esteemed colleague in which he rightly chastises a conservative student for a recent article he published accusing homosexuals of being responsible for disease. This same student promotes a fundamentalist religious agenda in his regularly published Cigar columns.
