NCAC Benefits from State of the Union
Composer Elliott Sharp has produced State of the Union, 146 artists responding to the presidential State of the Union address in 146 minutes.
Composer Elliott Sharp has produced State of the Union, 146 artists responding to the presidential State of the Union address in 146 minutes.
When it comes to the Internet, many libraries are apparently not following the traditional and important principles of the American Library Association on patron access.
"When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies."
Penny Culliton, a New Hampshire teacher who fought back against attempts to smear and ultimately fire her, has been reinstated by the Mascenic School Board following a decision of the state's Public Employee Labor Relations Board. The Labor Board upheld an arbitrator's previous award that had turned Culliton's dismissal into a one-year suspension.
Issue 63, Fall 1996 National news spotlighted the rejection by the Hudson, Ohio Board of Education of The American People, a multicultural history textbook recommended by educators for high school use. But the Board's reversal of its action seems to have gone unnoticed outside of the state. Under pressure from a local religious group, the board first voted not [...]
After a long and excruciating censorship legal battle, officials in Cincinnati have been thwarted again. (Cincinnati is where an art museum and its director were prosecuted for exhibiting the photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. A jury acquitted them.)
Penny Culliton, a New Hampshire teacher who fought back against attempts to smear and ultimately fire her, has been reinstated by the Mascenic School Board following a decision of the state's Public Employee Labor Relations Board. The Labor Board upheld an arbitrator's previous award that had turned Culliton's dismissal into a one-year suspension.
A suit brought against a publisher for allegedly aiding and abetting a triple murder by publishing a "how-to" manual for contract killers was dismissed in a federal district court.
In a Walker-Ames lecture at the University of Washington in 1956, Gerald W. Johnson, a Baltimore journalist and author, said this in a discussion of academic freedom: "There is one loyalty oath that every man in the teaching profession is compelled to take and the penalty for its violation is not the legal penalty of treason, but the damnation of his immortal soul...."