Two students have been removed from housing following a drug bust, raising questions about the college's policy on entering locked rooms and the process for giving sanctions. The students, who have identified themselves as Gabe Dinsmoor '10 and Jenn Hennion '11, were caught with marijuana.
The first was heavy with impassioned debate but light on facts. The second was far more rational. Planning meetings, research and a power-point directed discussion and ensured that students knew what was going on. The new initiative of SGA, drafting a Student Bill of Rights, was the topic for the second students-only town hall meeting last weekend.
Few students ever look up the procedures for the Judicial Board out of idle curiosity. Not many have ever read the Code of Conduct. Thus, when a student has a hearing coming up, s/he rarely truly knows what to do or what rights are in place. SGA recently passed a resolution that is supposed to help students going in for a hearing.
Last Friday, Congressman Barney Frank (D - MA) addressed a full Haebler Memorial Chapel about morality in politics and took questions on current issues. Frank said morality is and always has been an essential part of politics in the United States. According to him, many Democrats are mistaken when they say they don't want to see morality in politics.
National media swarmed to Southern California a couple of weeks ago to cover their raging wildfires. Through the thick smoke, Pepperdine University's newspaper emerged as a reliable source of information. "We ended up offering everyone in the nation a different perspective on the fire" Jane Lee '09 said, who took over as the newspaper's news editor at the start of this semester.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Sitting in jail awaiting trial, the leader of a polygamous sect renounced his role as a prophet and said he had been "immoral" with a sister and daughter decades ago, newly unsealed documents show. Warren Jeffs' attorneys included those statements in documents they filed in July as they sought to keep jail recordings out of his September trial in the arranged marriage of a 14-year-old to her 19-year-old cousin.
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Albert Snyder of York, Pa.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bewildered travelers faced 30-minute waits for taxis Wednesday as drivers in the District of Columbia embarked on a 24-hour Halloween strike to protest the mayor's decision to require meters in cabs. At Union Station, the line for taxis reached several dozen people as morning trains from New York City and other points arrived.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Gov. Martin O'Malley appealed to Maryland lawmakers Monday to support his proposals to handle a $1.7 billion budget deficit in a special session, describing the huge shortfall as "one of the toughest fiscal challenges in the 373-year history of our state.