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  • NYT Op-Ed: It's a 'Moral Hazard' to Call ISIS 'Evil' or a 'Cancer'

    In a Friday op-ed which appeared in the paper's international print edition on Saturday and which can reasonably be seen as giving voice to an editorial board which wouldn't dare put their name to it, La Salle University Political Science Professor Michael Boyle strenuously objected to recent characterizations of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). We can't call ISIS "evil." We also shouldn't call them a "cancer," or "savage," or "barbaric." Oh, and the fact that George W. Bush called Al Qaeda "evildoers" is why ISIS came to be, and why our problems with radical Islam are now...
  • Philadelphia police hunt 4 men who kidnapped and gang-raped La Salle student

    04/05/2013 2:15:02 PM PDT · by Jyotishi · 45 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | Friday, April 5, 2013 | Lee Moran
    The 20-year-old was abducted off-campus at 10 p.m. and pulled inside a black van. One of the suspect has a distinctive ‘MM’ tattoo on his face. A La Salle University student told police she was grabbed a mile away from campus by four men in a van and raped, then dropped off in another part of town. Police have launched a major hunt for four men accused of kidnapping and gang-raping a Philadelphia college student on Easter Sunday. The 20-year-old was walking a mile from the La Salle University's campus at 10 p.m. when the group pulled up in a...
  • A for Exceptable

    09/15/2006 9:49:05 AM PDT · by JSedreporter · 38 replies · 710+ views
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | September 15, 2006 | Malcolm A. Kline
    College administrators are scratching their heads trying to figure our how the straight-A students they accepted tanked on the SATs. “The University of California system, for instance, reported a 15-point drop in applicants’ scores but no corresponding dips in other measures of their quality, such as class rank and grade-point average,” Eric Hoover reports in the September 8th issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. “At La Salle University in Philadelphia, SAT scores fell an average of 15 points for applicants and about 10 points for admitted students even though officials had not altered their admissions strategies.” “Robert G. Voss,...