Free Republic

The 1st Amendment has been getting a workout in recent weeks on two college campuses--the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--where students are learning that free speech is a messy business. The two cases, one involving a columnist at North Carolina and the other a political cartoonist at Florida, have inflamed minority groups--Muslims and blacks, respectively--provoking protests and debate. That's the good news insofar as protest and debate are the currency of free speech. <SNIP> Exhibit A is Jillian Bandes, a former columnist for North Carolina's The Daily Tar Heel. Her column, which was...

Friday, November 7, 2003 Racism alleged in dancer tryouts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Sue Kiesewetter Enquirer contributor WEST CHESTER TWP. - Cheryl Sims' 12-year-old African-American daughter doesn't have what she calls the "Barbie look." But if there's one thing the Hopewell Junior School seventh-grader can do, it's dance, her mother says. That's why Sims doesn't understand why her daughter didn't make Hopewell's Winter Dance Team. "She's just a natural dancer," Sims said. "Almost every year in school she's voted best dancer. She's come home with gift certificates she's won for her dancing." Sims suspects her daughter (she asked that her name not...