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Manual Scott speaks to students at East Jessamine High School, The Providence School
news@jessaminejournal.comMotivational speaker Manual Scott brought his message of overcoming the odds to students at The Providence School and East Jessamine High School on Wednesday, Jan. 23. Scott shared his story of how he went from being a poor student and high-school...Tags: Students, Arts and Culture, Substance Abuse, Culture, Teaching and Learning
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Poet Arthur Sze visits Centre College
jbrummett@amnews.comArthur Sze wasn’t on the path to becoming a poet when he entered university. He was good at math and science and was looking to follow in the steps of his chemical engineer father. He started at M.I.T. It was there he began to write — and...Tags: Washington, DC, Poetry, Walt Whitman, Science and Technology, Library of Congress
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USC, Berkeley mishandling sex crimes against women, Allred says
Attorney Gloria Allred announced Wednesday that complaints were filed against Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, USC and UC Berkeley, alleging the colleges failed to follow federal laws regarding sex crimes. Allred said the colleges are not...Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Crime, Law and Justice
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Complaints filed against USC, UC Berkeley over rape reporting
Students and activists joined together Wednesday to file complaints against colleges and universities nationwide, alleging that the schools have failed to follow federal laws, including those involving the reporting of sexual assaults and discrimination....Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault, Crime, Law and Justice, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Cal State trustees appoint new Cal State L.A president, others
William A. Covino, a veteran Florida and California administrator, was named Wednesday as the new president of Cal State L.A., becoming the first new leader of the El Sereno campus in 33 years. Covino’s selection was among a slate of...
Tags: California State University, Northridge, Culture, Science and Technology, Florida Atlantic University, Teaching and Learning
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Activists accuse colleges of not responding to sexual assault complaints
Students and activists joined together Wednesday to file complaints against colleges and universities nationwide alleging that the schools have failed to follow federal laws, including those involving the reporting of sexual assault crimes and...
Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault, Crime, Law and Justice, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Her job: Stopping wage theft
SACRAMENTO — Julie Su doesn't back down from fights when she thinks employers are cheating their workers. In her two years as California's top labor law enforcer, Su has taken on scores of unscrupulous businesses. As state labor commissioner,...
Tags: Justice System, Business, Punishment, Immigration, Dan Logue
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The triumph of progressivism: Graduation 2013 and 1968
Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. Some of you are choosing careers in public service or joining nonprofits or volunteering in your communities. But many of you are cynical about politics. You see...Tags: Bodies of Water, Same-Sex Marriage, Rivers, Martin Luther King Jr., Graduation
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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: Business, Personal Data Collection, Immigration, Startups, Teaching and Learning
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Oakland police struggle to rebuild — using fewer resources
OAKLAND — It was a quiet evening by this city's standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out behind her, a caller said her neighbor was being beaten. A woman reported that a front door down the street had...
Tags: Jack in the Box Incorporated, Layoffs and Downsizing, Witnesses, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials
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Reagan the Berkeley basher
Responding to Seth Rosenfeld's May 10 Op-Ed article linking then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan's harsh condemnation of student protests in the 1960s to the eventual decline of the University of California system, reader Bruce Bates wrote in a letter...
Tags: Students, FBI, Teaching and Learning, Education, Ronald Reagan
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Jerry Brown says new Bay Bridge won't open 'unless it's ready'
BERKELEY -- Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday he was "digging deeply into" the questions surrounding the safety of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and said he could not commit to a scheduled Labor Day opening for the new span. "I take it very...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Labor Day, Arts and Culture, Culture, Government
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