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I’ve always wondered why a “holistic” admissions review process would increase diversity. If the admissions committee applies such a review to all applicants equally, in what way would it favor blacks and Hispanics? Perhaps my wondering is in vain and assumptions incorrect. At any rate, the University of California at Santa Cruz will emphasize “personal [...]

Jews On First yesterday posted an extensive and critical report on the content of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s The Response: A Call To Prayer for a Nation in Crisis held last Saturday. (See prior posting.) Their report says in part: Blatant and repeated calls for Jews to accept Jesus punctuated Texas Governor Rick Perry’s Response revival meeting [...]

Brian Cathcart: Some ideas for the Daily Mail’s review of editorial procedures The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

Last week we sent an email to directors of the California stem cell agency and posed the following question. “Do you think that the October review of CIRM’s progress should be open to the public?”We also told them that we would carry the text of any comments verbatim. Four directors responded. Here are their comments. [...]

The California stem cell agency today officially notified the public for the first time about next month’s sweeping review of its operations and said the public may attend for one hour at the beginning of two days of meetings. CIRM’s announcement was the first such notice that it has given the public via its Web [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – The blue-ribbon panel reviewing the operations of the billion California stem cell agency is wrapping up its on-site sessions today and framing the general outlines of what it wants to say. The panel conducted a final, one-hour public comment session that attracted only one person – yours truly. The bulk of this [...]

The California stem cell agency confirmed this morning that the public remains barred from the key sessions of this week’s sweeping review of the operations of the billion public enterprise. In response to a query, Don Gibbons, chief communications officer for CIRM, said, “The public is only invited to the sessions that are marked as [...]

Making a last minute change, the California stem cell agency has decided to allow more time for public comment during the sweeping review this week of its operations, but still will apparently bar the public from hearing testimony by witnesses. The first public comment session will come tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. Other public comment [...]

On Friday, a petition for certiorari (full text) to the U.S. Supreme Court was filed in Cooke v. Tubra.  In the case, an Oregon state appellate court held that jurisdiction over an interim pastor’s defamation claim against his former church and two of its officers is not necessarily barred by the First Amendment. (See prior posting.) [...]