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No Zucchini Left Behind

, Deborah Lambert

While some second and third graders in South Hayward California may not know a noun from a verb, many of them, with school garden projects, know the difference between spinach and bok choy.

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MSA Still At Large

, Malcolm A. Kline

Although they portray themselves as more religious and fraternal than political, the Muslim Students Association is frequently so politicized that in days of yore it might be called subversive.

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Recent Articles

Questioning Academic Authority on Guns

, Malcolm A. Kline

Maybe it’s time we revived that phrase “question authority.” “The president’s ironclad confidence in the conclusiveness of the science, and therefore the desirability of ‘common-sense gun safety laws,’ is echoed widely with every new mass shooting, from…

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Still Halloween at Yale

, Malcolm A. Kline

Academics are still using the Halloween costume controversy at Yale as a teachable moment. One wonders what they will learn. “A white Ivy League lecturer has resigned following an uproar over an email she sent…

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