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Mobile Register Editorials Universities should foster public debate 01/21/04 University of Alabama administrators are being small-minded about faculty dissent on the Tuscaloosa campus. A university's role should be to stimulate discussion, not to suppress it. UA's target is the Alabama Scholars Association, the state chapter of a national conservative faculty organization that challenges colleges and universities on a number of issues, including grade inflation, term limits for administrators and gender and race preferences in faculty hiring. Whether university administrators agree with the Scholars Association or not, they should welcome free discussion on issues that go to the core of a...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The dean and associate dean of a St. Louis law school say they anticipate that the application of a pro-life student organization, twice rejected by the Student Bar Association, will be approved on a third ballot. But they stressed that the administration of the Washington University School of Law would not tell the SBA what to do. WUSL Dean Joel Seligman told United Press International on Wednesday that SBA President Elliott Friedman sent a letter Tuesday to SBA representatives urging recognition and that the vote would take place "within a reasonable period of time." Asked...

I recently heard a doctor in the U.S. military tell a group of us about a time when he was part of a disaster-relief team helping people after a devastating earthquake in Turkey. The quake had been centered near the Sea of Marmara, which is between the European part of Turkey and the main portion of Turkey in Asia. The Turkish people he was working with had seemed glad to have American help -- Turkey is, after all, a longtime member of NATO, our ally since shortly after World War II. But suddenly one morning, everyone seemed chilly, standoffish, resentful...