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Union College president David R. Harris penned an op-ed, entitled, “A Campus Is Not the Place for Free Speech,” in which he argues that it is the role of colleges and universities to filter the conversations on campuses to provide “constructive engagement.”

The Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans will sponsor their 24th Annual Robert E. Lee birthday celebration on Saturday, January 22, 2011, in the Legislative Chambers of Georgia’s Old Capitol in Milledgeville, Georgia that will begin with a parade to the Old Capitol at 10:45 AM.

Young people will get a school holiday in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King whose birthday is January 15th. But, will anyone tell them that January 19th is also the birthday of Robert E. Lee?

SPARKS, Nev. (AP) - The president of Sierra Nevada College has been arrested in Sparks on suspicion of drug trafficking. James Lee Ash Jr., 58, and Travis Jay Lewis, 18, were arrested Wednesday at the Western Village Inn & Casino after officers found what appeared to be methamphetamine and marijuana in a room registered in their names, police said. But Ash's lawyer, Scott Freeman, said the college president and ordained Presbyterian minister denies wrongdoing. Freeman said Ash was counseling Ash and had rented the room to help Lewis find a job. "It was someone he was mentoring in a very...