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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : Federal officials will announce today whether or not a coalition of UC Berkeley-affiliated labs will capture a $125 million grant to fund a new biofuel lab....

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :Last week’s revelation that police intelligence sought to recruit University of Sydney Students Representative Council (SRC) leader Daniel Jones to spy on fellow students points to increasing state surveillance of political activity on university campuses....

Monday, June 25, 2007 :As an untenured assistant professor on this campus, who thought serious scholarship would find a site of articulation within the university named after St. Vincent de Paul, I have questioned not only my DePaul colleagues’ commitment to academic freedom, but the motivations and rationalizations of many of my colleagues who remain silent in the wake of the grave injustice that took place on 8 June 2007, when Finkelstein and Larudee received their denial letters from Presi...

Monday, June 25, 2007 :WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today criticized the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in , which held that Alaska public school officials did not violate a student's free speech rights by punishing him for displaying a banner during a public event....

Monday, June 25, 2007 :China's booming economy has spurred a massive village-to-city migration for its youth seeking a better life, but those without a college education find themselves forced to return home to the village....

Sunday, June 24, 2007 :The Bow Group, a Conservative Party think tank, published a report on May 25 entitled Invisible Children . Using the government’s own statistics, albeit selectively, it paints a devastating picture of a whole generation of young people being abandoned by the current educational system....

Saturday, June 23, 2007 :The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently paid visits to a number of universities in New England as part of an effort to enlist faculty, students and staff in informing for the national police agency. The bureau’s rationale for its campus initiative is the danger posed by foreign spies and terrorists stealing sensitive research....

The power of internet technology allowed me to view a Congressional Judiciary Hearing via Webcast, here is the Chairman's opening statement. This historic occasion, once again documented the systemic institutional racism that remains a central feature of our U.S. Food and Farm Policy. Many leading Democratic and Republican Ag leaders continue to show a complete indifference toward U.S. citizens obtaining the proper nutrition via safe natural food. The principles of equality and fairness cont...

Thursday, June 21, 2007 :Delegates at the first conference of the newly formed University and College Union (UCU) of Britain voted May 30 to recommend a boycott of Israeli universities and academics. In a 158 to 99 vote, the delegates passed a motion condemning the “complicity of Israeli academia” in the 40-year occupation of Palestinian land and backing a call by Palestinian unions for a “comprehensive and consistent international boycott of all Israeli institutions.”...

Administrators at Connecticut’s Wilton High School have banned students from performing "Voices in Conflict", a play about the Iraq war, calling it "sensational and inappropriate." We speak with the play’s director, as well as two students involved in the production. We’re also joined by Iraq war veteran Charlie Anderson, whose story is depicted in the play....