Wash, dry, and cut off the ends of the zucchini, then slice them into one quarter inch discs. Lay the discs on a sheet of paper towel and lightly sprinkle with salt. This will draw out the excess water and make your crisps crispier. Let the discs sit for about fifteen minutes. Don't skip this part or the zucchini will be too watery and the breading won't stick.
In a medium bowl whisk the breadcrumbs, Jolly Good Curry and salt to taste until combined. Put the flour in a small bowl and the whisked eggs in another small bowl.
Take a paper towel and pat the excess water off of the zucchini discs. Don’t be afraid to press into the discs, and you’ll probably need an extra towel if your zucchini has a lot of water.
One by one, dip the discs into the flour, then the egg to coat both sides. Now press both sides of the zucchini into the breadcrumbs. Repeat with the rest of the breaded zucchini and evenly spread them out on the baking sheet.
Bake for 15 minutes and flip and bake for another 10 minutes, or until golden brown and crispy. Try with hummus or our delicious Spirits & Spice Yogurt Dip recipe.
Thanks to our own Dreamwalker for offering this to us here from his own blog. I met Dreamwalker online several years ago 🙂 🙂 🙂 . . . Hugs, ~Jean
MISSOURI — The journalism department at the University of Missouri at Columbia has changed its requirements for master’s degrees in response to a dispute regarding the school’s policy on research projects.
The journalism department will no longer require scientific research for master’s candidates. The university mandates that all scientific research projects gain the prior approval of an institutional review board.
Michael Carney, a journalism master’s student who graduated in May 2001, challenged the school’s policy last spring, arguing that subjecting journalism projects to institutional review violated the First Amendment. Carney’s proposal had been rejected in January 2001.
CALIFORNIA — Administrators have delayed a plan to revise Riverside Community College District’s campus speech policy to address concerns that it could lead to censorship of student newspapers.
The revised code would state that the “District’s commitment to the exercise of free speech and free expression is not intended to convert all of the facilities maintained and/or owned by the District into a public forum, limited public forum or designated public forum.”
Chancellor Salvatore Rotella delayed adopting the measure Tuesday after receiving complaints from students and faculty that the wording could open the door to censorship of student media.
Rotella and Linda Lacy, vice chancellor of student services, have scheduled a meeting for Oct. 18 with advisers and students from the campus media to discuss their concerns and possibly revise the code.
The new speech policy concerned student editors and advisers in the district, who said they were already worried about the possible effects of the Hosty v. Carter decision. In that case, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a student newspaper must be designated as a public forum for editors to have strong First Amendment protection. The 7th Circuit only has jurisdiction over Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.
Lacy said that the revision to the speech code was a response to recent court rulings in California that administrators were defining too narrowly school provisions for the time, place and manner of conducting free expression activities. The right to free expression of students at California Community Colleges is protected under a state law, Education Code section 76120.
The newspaper should not be affected by the speech policy revision because it applies expressly to leaflets, posters and protesters, Lacy said. The student media has its own specific policy guidelines which are unrelated to the speech policy.
Hendrickson said the Chancellor’s decision to table the revision until a meeting could be held was a very good sign for the student media. Lacy said that she and the Chancellor are open to revising the policy to specifically designate the student media an open forum as long as the college’s lawyers find the new wording legal.
The Student Press Law Center (“SPLC”), a nonprofitlegal-assistance organization that supports student journalists nationwide,released the following statement Friday in response to the Iowa Supreme Court’sJuly 13 ruling in Press-Citizen Companyv. University of Iowa.
“The idea that a criminal has a legitimate privacy interestin records about how his crimes were investigated should offend thesensibilities of all Americans. Extremists in the U.S. Department of Educationhave hijacked a well-intentioned law about the confidentiality of academicrecords and, by their bizarre interpretations, transformed it into the Federal EducationRapists’ Protection Act.”
“It is a painful irony that, just one day after the worldlearned of the extent of Penn State’s subterfuge to conceal the activities of asexual predator on campus, a court grants colleges a stamp of judiciallegitimacy to continue deceiving the public about how they respond to seriouscrimes. The Iowa Supreme Court’s outlandish ruling is a wake-up call thatCongress cannot ignore. FERPA has been a broken statute for a long time, andnow the disastrous consequences of congressional inaction have been broughthome. The Department of Education must be called to account for puttingfictitious privacy interests ahead of the safety of college campuses.”
“To be clear, the Press-Citizenwas not seeking to compromise any legitimate privacy interest in educationrecords. The Press-Citizen wasseeking records necessary to inform the public about whether the University ofIowa responded with proper urgency to a report of a serious crime. That therecords involved crimes committed by known students should not matter, and inthe view of most courts it does not matter, since there is no legitimateprivacy interest in being a criminal. Public universities cannot be givenlicense to hide behind bogus ‘student privacy’ claims to conceal whether theydiligently investigate crimes or whether they afford preferential treatment tostudent-athletes.”
“When the Department of Education reinterpreted FERPA to allowschools and colleges to ‘read the minds’ of requesters and to withhold informationif they believe the requester has a specific student in mind, the SPLC warnedthat it would lead to nonsensical results. Today’s decision exemplifies theDOE’s shortsightedness in enacting an unreasonable expansion of FERPA. Ineffect, the DOE has said that public records can become confidential becausetheir contents are so newsworthy that everyone already knows who they areabout. That is an Alice-in-Wonderland view of privacy that results in affordingenhanced privacy rights to people whose identities, as in this case, arealready widespread public knowledge. It is nonsense to say that informationbecomes ‘more confidential’ because it is the subject of a widely publicizedcontroversy of enormous public concern. Congress must act to rein in FERPAbefore more such abuses proliferate.”
The Student Press Law Center advocates for the rights ofjournalists to obtain public information from colleges and schools. The SPLC filed comments in theDOE rulemaking concerning the 2009 regulation at issue in the Press-Citizen case. More informationabout the Center’s work in support of government transparency can be found atwww.splc.org.