By Lily Tran on May 4, 2009
Morse vs. Frederick, better known by its nickname, Bong Hits for Jesus, is a landmark free speech case. The Supreme Court ruled that schools can restrict speech when it promotes illegal drug use. Morse vs. Frederick has implications for students’ speech on both high school and college campuses.
Imagine a world of thought police and speech [...]
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By Caleb Karpay on September 9, 2007
Public education is the best state-run solution to poverty aside from direct welfare payments. Unfortunately, for a multitude of reasons, public education is failing those it most needs to serve, primarily the urban poor. Charter schools, however, have proven incredibly effective at educating students that many have written off as hopeless because, for instance, those [...]
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By Gregory Halenda on September 9, 2007
Reading period is the best time to read the Jolt. The summer, on the other hand, is weak; a quick read every few days is lucky to reveal even a handful of interesting threads. Still, great stuff sometimes appears. One such post, entitled “Blue State Coffee,” piqued my interest.
It turns out the new coffee place [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By Christina Cozzetto on September 9, 2007
Sooner or later, one is going to hit a wall in any political discussion involving opposing views. However, on most political issues, there is much room for compromise. On the remainder, there is at least room for conversation. It seems there is only one issue on which the opposing sides are unwilling to give any [...]
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By Kristina Kelleher on September 9, 2007
The 2008 Beijing Olympics means a lot more to China than the Salt Lake City Olympics meant to the United States, no matter how much Mitt Romney tries to play up one-half of his political experience. China, not just Beijing or a presidential candidate, has something to prove to the world next summer. Success in [...]
Posted in International | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By Pratik Chougule on September 9, 2007
Finsbury Park, North London
Stepping off the subway at Finsbury Park, the change in scenery could not have been more acute. Just an hour earlier, I had been awed by the grandeur of Big Ben, towering over the British Houses of Parliament. It is the symbol of the England in our history books: a beacon of [...]
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By Linda Zang on September 9, 2007
It is high summer in Washington, and there is one heck of a storm brewing on the banks of the Potomac River. Across the nation’s capital, senators and presidential candidates are lining up at the lectern to advocate a foolhardy policy of early withdrawal from Iraq. Politicians from both sides of the aisle are willfully [...]
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By Josh Stern on September 9, 2007
Sir:
In his article, “Don’t Panic: A Movie Review of The Great Global Warming Swindle” (Brown Spectator, May 2007), Andrew Kurtzman attempts to refute the scientific consensus that humans, in burning fossil fuels, cause global warming. Kurtzman does not explicitly deny a link between greenhouse gas emissions and rising global temperature; he leaves that to the [...]
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By Boris Ryvkin on September 9, 2007
America lies prostrated between two flawed extremes in its conflict with Radical Islam. The first, viewing the threat as largely organizational, holds the neutralization of individual Islamist groups as the most effective way to check the ideology’s expansion. While advantageous in limiting the scope of attack, this approach ignores the cultural and political circumstances that [...]
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By Sean Quigley on September 9, 2007
The Reverend Jerry Falwell, regardless of whether one despises or praises him for doing so, has left an indelible mark on the culture, history, and politics of the American nation. From the founding of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in 1956, to the establishment of Liberty University in 1971, to the creation of the Moral [...]
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