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Patrick Kane is a smooth-skating American hockey superstar. He won a silver medal in an appearance for the U.S. at the Olympics. He consistently scores highly for the Chicago Blackhawks, with whom he has won three Stanley Cups in the past six seasons. Kane commands a passionate fanbase, and not only because he is a force on the ice. He constantly sports a clever grin and has developed a reputation as one of the league’s biggest partiers. For many, he is a refreshing jolt of boyhood and fun in comparison to most over-managed National Hockey League (NHL) players — men who have perfected the impossibly mundane pre- and post-game interviews. Kane’s cheeky charm has translated to unwavering support from fans, both onsaid that on August 1, Kane was out with two women. Both returned with him that night – chauffeured by an off-duty police officer – to his lakeside mansion south of Buffalo, New York. The following morning, one of the women went to a local medical centre and said she had been raped by Kane.

No charges have been pressed in what is an ongoing, whirlwind investigation, and yet the hockey community’s response to the allegations against Kane can largely be described as dismissive. Dismissiveness from the NHL, which enjoys the profits of one of the healthiest hockey markets; dismissiveness from the Blackhawks organization that recently re-signed Kane to an eight-year $84 million contract, and more concerningly, dismissiveness from Kane’s fans.

Support for Kane has been unwavering – at the


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The thinking goes, when it comes to high-volume dove hunting, the subgauge shotguns are softer on the hunter than a 12 gauge – without any perceptible difference in the results. And this tenet is largely true. At Sierra Brava Lodge and Estancia Los Chañares there are documented accounts of hunters bagging 5,000, 6,000 and 7,000 or more doves in a single day using 20-gauge semi-autos.

A record was achieved at Sierra Brava in late January 2010. Since Argentina is in the Southern Hemisphere, January is Summer there – meaning that the days are longer for marathon dove hunting. This enabled one gentleman to down 11,301 doves after 14 hours as winds reached 30 toBBC Radio 3

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John Dowd is a once in a generation type of racer. He has gone faster on a motorcycle for longer than any moto head could ever dream of. At 29, he earned his first factory deal. At 32, the “Junkyard Dog” became the oldest racer to win a 125 National. In 2009, John finished third overall at the Southwick National. He was 44 years old. John Dowd was cut from a different cloth. He won 125 and 250 races in Supercross and National overalls, won the 2006 Endurocross title, was on two winning Motocross des Nations teams, and won Arenacross races. It’s unbelievable what the Massachusetts native has done not only in the sport, but also for the sport. He took Kevin Windham under his wing, proved thathad a big monkey on my back every time I raced there. Everyone expected me to win, and then I would have weird problems at Southwick. I got a flat tire once, blew a radiator hose another time, and then blew a shock while leading one year on a Yamaha. It was really special once I won at Southwick. Maybe the top race was winning the 125 West Supercross Championship in 1997. It was me and [David] Vuillemin going into the final race, and we were only three points apart. It was a do-or-die situation, and I won the race and title. Talk about all the pressure you could have! I came out on top, and that was really cool. Every race win is pretty special, because I


Rail strike back on

WORKERS on Northern Rail, which runs services across the North West, North East and Yorkshire, have voted to go on strike in a row over jobs and safety.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union backed walkouts by 80% and other forms of industrial action by 90%.

The union said it is in dispute over a series of issues, including the removal of permanent posts and the creation of zero-hour jobs via a contract with a security company, cuts to booking offices and attacks on the role and responsibility of train guards.

The union said Northern Rail had also given no commitment that there will be no compulsory redundancies beyond the end of its current franchise in February 2016.

RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: “RMT has madeThe match started just before 1am. local time and it was mostly diehard rugby fans who decided to stay up and watch. Many in Tokyo got the news when they woke up Sunday morning.

Japan's 34-32 win against the Springboks on Saturday was immediately regarded as the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history.

"Japan gets historical win over South Africa with dramatic comeback," read a headline on the Sports Hochi website.

Rugby has long been a niche sport in Japan where baseball and soccer dominate the headlines, but the win against the two-time world champions will vastly improve the sport's profile.

"As a Japanese citizen, I felt a lot of pride," said Takashi Sekine, an amateur rugby coach in Japan. "It's great that we were able to display our ability on


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In an interview with The Kenyon Review, Larson said: "I live more authentically when I write. I pay more attention. I’m more curious. More imaginative. I ask more interesting questions. Writing allows me to approach my life with a greater passion", adding: "When I’m able to spend at least part of my life fully traversing the landscape of my mind, I’m paradoxically able to be more present to the people and the world around me."

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That fall, when a special election was held to fill an open congressional seat in upstate New York, Wagner successfully predicted the final margin within 150 votes—well before Election Day. Months later, pollsters projected that Martha Coakley was certain to win another special election, to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat left empty by the death


demographic categories, such as age or gender, depending on which attributes pollsters asked about or how consumer marketers classified them for commercial purposes. Instead, the electorate could be seen as a collection of individual citizens who could each be measured and assessed on their own terms. Now it was up to a candidate who wanted to lead those people to build a campaign that would interact with them the same way.

Dan Wagner, the chief analytics officer for Obama 2012, led the campaign’s “Cave” of data scientists.

After the voters returned Obama to office for a second term, his campaign became celebrated for its use of technology—much of it developed by an unusual team of coders and engineers—that redefined how individuals could use the Web, social media, and smartphones towhen he fell for Barack Obama and decided he wanted to work on his home-state senator’s 2008 presidential campaign. Wagner, then 24, was soon in Des Moines, handling data entry for the state voter file that guided Obama to his crucial victory in the Iowa caucuses. He bounced from state to state through the long primary calendar, growing familiar with voter data and the ways of using statistical models to intelligently sort the electorate. For the general election, he was named lead targeter for the Great Lakes/Ohio River Valley region, the most intense battleground in the country.

After Obama’s victory, many of his top advisors decamped to Washington to make preparations for governing. Wagner was told to stay behind and serve on a post-election task force that would review


had the hardest culture clash,” says Jeremy Bird, who became national field director on the reëlection campaign. But those who went to Washington and returned to Chicago developed a particular appreciation for Wagner’s methods of working with the electorate at an atomic level. It was a way of thinking that perfectly aligned with their simple theory of what it would take to win the president reëlection: get everyone who had voted for him in 2008 to do it again. At the same time, they knew they would need to succeed at registering and mobilizing new voters, especially in some of the fastest-growing demographic categories, to make up for any 2008 voters who did defect.

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Baltimore County police believe they have identified the man who videotaped himself urinating on former Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell's grave, and prosecutors are reviewing the case with charges possible early next week.

Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott D. Shellenberger said Saturday that his office got the police report late Thursday and prosecutors will examine it after the weekend. "We will take a look and see if any laws were violated," Shellenberger said.

A man with the username "BrownsFan4Life" posted a video of the incident on YouTube last week. In the video, he removes an Ed Reed Ravens jersey to reveal a Cleveland Browns jersey and then apparently urinates out the bottom of his pants leg using a catheter and a tube.

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It feels like overnight the West Bank became lush. Driving out of Nablus the surrounding hills are now covered with mossy grass and deep greenery.

Little red and yellow flowers poke out of the grass and it's completely lost that feeling of barrenness.

The taxi driver drops us off at a bend in the road and we disembark. After a few minutes of taking in the scenery we see a sign pointing towards a vineyard.

Our walk through mountain and riverbed begins:

Nestled in the mountains and taking tourists by complete surprise was a little pool used by people from nearby settlements. Despite still being quite chilly there were some people swimming and we hovered around for a while.


Morphological and morphometric studies on the ultrastructural changes during the active release of neurosecretory substance from the neurohypophyseal nerve terminals in dehydrated rats.
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Terrorist acts in Chechnya should not affect preparations for the elections of the republic's president, said chairman of the Russian Central Election Committee Alexander Veshnyakov in a conversation with journalists on Saturday.

Terrorists have intensified their activities "with one purpose, to disrupt political processes in the republic, to destabilise the society", he emphasised. However, it is important "to consistently fulfil the programme and plan of action supported by the Chechen people" at the recent referendum on Chechnya's constitution held in the republic, Veshnyakov believes.

"The tragic events do not make the situation easier, and its complications are obvious," he said. Yet "realising the danger, it is impossible to back down," he added.

In this connection Veshnyakov pointed to the


necessity to prepare Chechnya's presidential elections "comprehensively".

At the same time, "it is not fully expedient" to hold the elections in October as the constitution stipulates, he believes.

According to the chairman, the most suitable time for holding the elections is December 2003.

Thus he proposes to hold presidential elections in Chechnya simultaneously with elections to the Russian State Duma. "I think it would be better to unite efforts for one election campaign," Veshnyakov emphasised.

He did not rule out a possibility of holding Chechen presidential elections simultaneously with elections of the Russian President. But elections in the republic should not be postponed further, Veshnyakov underlined. "It is time to create Chechnya's own authorities, responsible for Chechen people," he concluded.Clashes have erupted between hundreds of protesters in Tahrir Square after pro-Brotherhood supporters destroyed the stage of Hamdeen Sabbahi's Popular Current.

Ahram Online's reporter on the ground says a number of people have been injured so far.

Supporters of President Mohamed Morsi currently make up the majority of protesters in the square as numbers continue to grow after Friday prayers.

Chants condemning the judiciary's decision to clear 24 former regime officials of orchestrating the Battle of the Camel are ringing out around the square.

Dozens of protesters are on their way from Cairo University on a march organised by Hamdeen Sabbahi's Popular Current to demand social justice, an independent judiciary and a constitution that represents all Egyptians.

A second march containing members of April 6 Youth Movement (Democratic Front), Revolutionary Socialists and Workers'


and Peasants' Party is moving towards the square from Mustafa Mahmoud Mosque in Mohandiseen to call for a reformed Constituent Assembly.

Other marches with similar demands are on their way to the square from the Al-Nour, Al-Istikama, Sayeda Zeinab mosques and Dawran Shubra Square.

Fighting had broken out earlier in the day between pro- and anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters in the square.

According to an Ahram Online reporter on the ground, pro-Brotherhood supporters attacked a stage built by secular groups and burnt a banner calling for the reformation of the Constituent Assembly. There was stone-throwing in the nearby Mohamed Mahmoud Street around midday.

Two major protests are scheduled to take place in the square after Friday prayers.

Liberal and leftists forces have called for a protest dubbed "Accountability Friday" to mark the end ofPresident Mohamed Morsi's first 100-days in office and to demand a reformed Constituent Assembly that represents all Egyptians. They are also calling for the implementation of a minimum and maximum wage and a reduction in the price of basic commodities.

The Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists forces have called for a simultaneous protest, also in Tahrir Square, to condemn the acquittal of 25 former regime figures who were accused of involvement in the Battle of the Camel during the January 25 Revolution.

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Los Angeles has always been as much a star in film noir as any actor, be it Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner or Jack Nicholson. In L.A. Noir: The City as Character renowned film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini explore the world of noir cinema in the context of Los Angeles. The book features dozens of noir and neo-noir landmark films from Double Indemnity, Criss Cross, Sunset Boulevard, Gun Crazy, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, and Touch of Evil in the classic period (1940-1960) to such neo-noir notables as Chinatown, L.A. Confidential, Mulholland Drive, and Pulp Fiction.

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There is a history of racism in Thai society toward the tribal peoples that judges them to be primitive despoilers of the forests. This is ironic since the only forests left in Thailand are where the tribal peoples live. The Paganyaw have declared their “land ethic” in a written form: a “Declaration of the Rights and Responsibilities of Forest Communities.”

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Romney's Campaign War Chest Shrinks as He Spends Millions

WASHINGTON — Republican Mitt Romney and his backers spent money more quickly in February than they took in, ending the month with less than half the cash they had at the end of the year and trailing far behind Democratic President Barack Obama's war chest.

Romney's campaign raised $11.5 million in February but spent $12.2 million, according to financial disclosure forms filed on Tuesday.

Restore Our Future, the outside super PAC supporting the former Massachusetts governor, took in $6.4 million but also spent $12.2 million, much of it on advertisements attacking his rivals in the race to become the Republican challenger to Obama in the November presidential election.

Despite spending at more than twice the rate of Rick Santorum, who emerged as histhe nomination battle.

Priorities USA, a super PAC supporting Obama, raised just $2 million in February — half of that from a single donor, comedian, and talk show host Bill Maher.

Newt Gingrich's struggling campaign has been kept afloat largely because of billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. Adelson and his family have donated $16.5 million of the $18.9 million that Gingrich's Winning Our Future Super PAC has raised during his campaign.

In February, he and his family accounted for almost all of the PAC's $5.7 million haul.

Gingrich's campaign was in the red at the end of February, owing $1.6 million, while left with only $1.5 million in cash on hand.

Gingrich, a former House speaker from Georgia, finished in fourth place on Tuesday in the Illinois primary, the latest in


a series of poor performances at the polls. But he intends to continue his campaign to the Republican National Convention in August.

Ron Paul, a Texas congressman who trails well behind Romney and Santorum in most polls, raised nearly $3.3 million in February and spent more than $3.5 million.

Endorse Liberty, Paul's main super PAC, had a terrible month, raising just under $282,500, a fraction of the $2.4 million it took in in January. Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal who had been the PAC's major donor, did not donate during the month.

Santorum's campaign also has a wealthy donor who largely kept it afloat before he won nominating contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri in February to become Romney's main rival. Foster Friess, a wealthy Wyoming investor, has donated $1.6million to the Red, White and Blue Fund, including $600,000 in February.

The former Pennsylvania senator also garnered the support of another big donor. Harold Simmons, a billionaire Dallas banker who has now invested in every major Republican Super PAC, donated $1 million to Santorum's PAC in February.

Romney has secured nearly half of the 1,144 delegates he will need to become the Republican nominee.

In 2008, Sen. John McCain clinched the Republican nomination on March 4 with victories in Ohio and Texas.

But this year's Republican battle, fueled by super PAC money, is lasting longer, more like Obama's 2008 primary battle with then-New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, which stretched into June.

"It's a hot contest and there are very entrenched feelings in the Republican Party as there were


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So my son and I headed north from Dawson Creek now truly on the ALCAN! The road and scenery were not much to write home about and not much different that upstate New York or Pennsylvania. We had a respite from the rain but needed to wear wind shirts and scarfs under the "stitch". We stopped for fuel in Fort St. John where I had a brief conversation with a fortyish year old woman with bright pink hair, who thought I was strange for riding a motorcycle so far. We continued to experience the high cost of fuel in Canada along with the availability of high octane gas. Traffic was light and Ural speed matched the road and terrain perfectly. We continued to see evidence of the boomingahead and pulled in waiting for my son to catch up to me. We held a brief council and decided that this was our destination for the night as continued riding would be an exercise in fatuity! We struggled to raise our tents in the dark and rain along with discussing the bear risk associated with our camp site, deciding bear repellent and my Mossberg 12 gauge shotgun loaded with 7 slugs, should ameliorate the threat. I fell asleep snuggled in my sleeping bag to the tune of rain falling onto my tent. I was awakened to the sound of traffic along the highway and even heavier rainfall than when I went to sleep. I was in no big hurry to get out into the rain and my


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The ride towards Watson Lake, YT was a pleasant one with good pavement and wonderful scenery complete with wildlife. Wethe vehicles keeping us out of most of the dust. Thank you very much road crew. We rolled into Watson Lake after a bumpy ride though the road construction on a smooth highway easily finding our destination for the night, The Famous Air Force Lodge. This building is reported to be, a reconditioned building from WWII service as an Officers Quarters for American personnel stationed at the local airfield. The owner greeted us like old friends offering us a chance to inspect the facilities before checking in!! The lobby sign required one remove their footwear upon entry to the nicely decorated area. The room was more than adequate so upon registering I was approached by a couple riding a BMW K1200 , who felt compelled to make snide


diner and with a phone call so we scratched the bank delay off of the list while we dined. We saddled up well sated, then headed for the most popular tourist site in town, the Sign Post Forest.

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We were anxious to get on the road towards Whitehorse, YT the next major city along the ALCAN. The road was a mixture of paved and gravel road which was not a unpleasant ride and traveling along at 50 MPH was just right. The scenery along the road was great with snow capped mountains on the horizon under a clear blue sunny sky. We motored along until we reached the little town of Teslin, YT mile marker 805 of the ALCAN on the shore of a lake of the same name.On the northbound side was a rather large gas station, RV Park, restaurant which was mobbed and without 93 octane gasoline, which sent us across the road to a combination grocery store gas station for a fill up with 93 octane! We got back on the road with full tanks after enjoying an ice creme cone and cold drink of water.

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SFC 91C/ Medic US Army 1971-1996 "John 15:13"

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to


riding the ALCAN , I just hoped the bears weren't near the road . You may have noticed the lack of commentary on the bike's performance, that's because it was running like a top since the carburetor cleaner and occasional aviation grade fuel use seems to have done the trick. I was getting just about 150 miles to each tank of gas running 50-55 MPH in high altitude areas. A good number of the communities along the ALCAN were created or improved during WWII by building airfields to shuttle aircraft to Russia and defend Alaska, with Whitehorse being one of the largest. The afternoon was turning into the evening and we rolled into Whitehorse during the commute time which was not a good experience since the ALCAN is

As a physical education teacher for over 30 years for Delaware City Schools, and head coach for the varsity boy’s basketball team at Rutherford B. Hayes for 13 years, Larry Eberst constantly strived to better the Delaware community. He worked to instill confidence, passion, and teamwork into the lives of countless students through teaching and coaching. After he passed away, our family knew that we needed to continue his legacy so that his passion could be carried on. The Larry Eberst Memorial Scholarship Fund is a tribute to him and everything he stood for.All of the proceeds from the 5K run will go directly to the Larry Eberst Memorial Scholarship Fund. The annual $1,000 scholarship is meant to honor Larry by providing financial aid to a Rutherford B.


Yemeni president coming to NYC for treatment

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In this April 8, 2011 file photo, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh reacts while looking at his supporters, not pictured, during a rally supporting him, in Sanaa,Yemen. A government official says Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been moved to the Defense Ministry hospital for treatment after being wounded in a rocket attack Friday, June 3, 2011 on his palace. (Muhammed Muheisen, File)

January 25, 2012 4:29:35 AM PST

Seung Suh, Eyewitness News

NEW YORK --

Departing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is expected to arrive in New York City Wednesday for medical treatment.

State Department officials confirmed Saleh's visit to ABC News.

He will be treated at New York Presbyterian Hospital on the Upper East Side.

The treatment reportedly is related to burns he suffered after a bombIn my 1912 Baedeker guide to Syria, a page and a half is devoted to the city of Homs. In tiny print, it says that, "in the plain to the south-east, you come across the village of Baba Amr. A visit to the arcaded bazaar is worthwhile – here you will find beautiful silks. To the north of Homs, on a square, there is an artillery barracks..." The bazaar has long since been demolished, though the barracks inevitably passed from Ottoman into French and ultimately into Baathist hands; for 27 days last month, this bastion has been visiting hell on what was once the village of Baba Amr.

Once a Roman city, where the crusaders committed their first act of cannibalism – eating their dead Muslim opponents – Homs


was captured by Saladin in 1174. Under post-First World War French rule, the settlement became a centre of insurrection and, after independence, the very kernel of Baathist resistance to the first Syrian governments. By early 1964, there were battles in Homs between Sunnis and Alawi Shia. A year later, the young Baathist army commander of Homs, Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Tlas, was arresting his pro-regime comrades. Is the city's history becoming a little clearer now?

As one of the Sunni nouveaux riches who would support the Alawi regime, Tlas became defence minister in Hafez al-Assad's Baathist government. Under their post-1919 mandate, the French had created a unit of "Special Forces" in which the Alawis were given privileged positions; one of their strongholds was the military academy in Homs. One ofthe academy's most illustrious students under Hafez al-Assad's rule – graduating in 1994 – was his son Bashar. Bashar's uncle, Adnan Makhlouf, graduated second to him; Makhlouf is today regarded as the corrupting element in the Assad regime.

Later, Bashar would become a doctor at the military Tishreen Hospital in Damascus (where today most of the Syrian army's thousands of victims are taken for post-mortem examination before their funerals). Bashar did not forget Homs; his British-born Sunni wife came from a Homs family. One of his closest advisers, Bouthaina Shabaan, comes from Homs; even last year the city was too dangerous for her to visit her mother's grave on the anniversary of her death. Homs lies deep in the heart of all Syrians, Sunni and Alawite alike. Is it


the city? When the West happily adopted the illusions of Nicolas Sarkozy, David Cameron and Hillary Clinton – and the Arab Gulf states whose demands for Syrian "democracy" are matched by their refusal to give this same democracy to their own people – the Syrians understood the hypocrisy.

Were the Saudis, now so keen to arm Syria's Sunni insurgents – along with Sunni Qatar – planning to surrender their feudal, princely Sunni power to their own citizens and to their Shia minority? Was the Emir of Qatar contemplating resignation? Among the lobbyists of Washington, among the illusionists at the Brookings Institution and the Rand Corporation and the Council on Foreign Relations and all the other US outfits that peddle New York Times editorials, Homs had become the new Benghazi,the start-line for the advance on Damascus.

It was the same old American dream: if a police state was ruthless, cynical and corrupt – and let us have no illusions about the Baathist apparatus and its panjandrum – then its opponents, however poorly armed, would win; because they were the good guys. The old clichés clanked into focus. The Baathists were Nazis; Bashar a mere cipher in the hands of his family; his wife, Asma, variously an Eva Braun, Marie Antoinette or Lady Macbeth. Upon this nonsense, the West and the Arabs built their hopes.

The more Sarkozy, Cameron and Clinton raged against Syria's atrocities, the more forceful they were in refusing all military help to the rebels. There were conditions to be met. The Syrian opposition had to unite


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French elections, Russian elections, Iranian elections, Syrian referendums – and, of course, US elections: it's amazing how much "democracy" can derailwere still finding their political claws deep inside the red soil of Beirut. Their intelligence services were still in full operation, their power to kill undiminished, their Lebanese allies in the Beirut parliament. And if the Baathists could smother Lebanon in so powerful a sisterly embrace for so long, what makes anyone think they will relinquish Syria itself easily? As long as Assad can keep Damascus and Aleppo, he can survive.

After all, the sadistic ex-secret police boss Najibullah clung on as leader of Afghanistan for years when all he could do was fly between Kabul and Kandahar. It might be said that, with all Obama's horses and all Obama's men on his side, this is pretty much all Hamid Karzai – with his cruel secret police, his regime's


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In Southern Towns, 'Segregation Academies' Are Still Going Strong

In the 1960s and '70s, towns across the South created inexpensive private schools to keep white students from having to mix with black. Many remain open, the communities around them as divided as ever.

In the 1960s and '70s,towns across the South created inexpensive private schools to keep white students from having to mix with black. Many remain open, the communities around them as divided as ever.

It took LaToysha Brown 13 years to realize how little interaction she had with white peers in her Mississippi Delta town: not at church, not at school, not at anywhere.

The realization dawned when she was in the seventh grade, studying the civil rights movement at an after-school program called the Sunflower County FreedomProject. It didn't bother her at first. By high school, however, Brown had started to wonder if separate could ever be equal. She attended a nearly all-black high school with dangerous sinkholes in the courtyard, spotty Internet access in the classrooms, and a shortage of textbooks all around. Brown had never been inside Indianola Academy, the private school most of the town's white teenagers attend. But she sensed that the students there had books they could take home and walkways free of sinkholes.

"The schools would achieve so much more if they would combine," said Brown, now age 17 and a junior.

But more than four decades after they were established, "segregation academies" in Mississippi towns like Indianola continue to define nearly every aspect of community life. Hundreds of these


counted.) At some of them -- including Benton Academy near Yazoo City and Carroll Academy near Greenwood -- not a single black student attended in 2010, according to the most recent data. Others, like Indianola Academy, have a small amount of diversity.

"These schools were started to keep white children away from blacks," said Wade Overstreet, a Mississippi native and the program coordinator at the national advocacy organization Parents for Public Schools. "They've done an amazing job of it."

It would be easy to see Indianola -- and Mississippi more generally -- as an anomaly when it comes to education: hyper-segregated, fraught with racial mistrust, stuck in the past. But in some respects, the story of education in Indianola is becoming the story of education in America.

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Flight From Gentry

Indianola's tale of two school systems -- one public and black, one private and white -- began in January of 1970, when a U.S. district judge ruled that Indianola could no longer permit blatant segregation in its public school system. For years, white students had attended schools north of the train tracks that divide the town, while black students were relegated to inferior school buildings south of the tracks. The plan was to merge the schools and send all high school students -- white and black -- to the previously black Gentry High School.

In anticipation of the ruling, the white community founded Indianola Academy in 1965. But the fledgling school did not yet have a facility large enough to accommodate the hundreds of white students who


left the public schools during Christmas break in 1969, knowing the decision was imminent, said Steve Rosenthal, a senior in high school at the time. Rosenthal said he was instructed to bring his textbooks home with him over break. When school started back up in January, he attended one of the academy's new satellite campuses in a Baptist church. The situation was far from ideal: Study halls sometimes were interrupted by weekday funerals. Yet not a single white student showed up at Gentry that semester. In the spring, Rosenthal received his diploma as part of the academy's first graduating class.

Little else is publicly known about Indianola Academy apart from the information the school promulgates on its website. As a private school, its students do not have to takethe state's standardized tests (much to the chagrin of the town's public school students), though a student handbook on the school's website states that students should score in the top 30 percent on a student achievement test to gain admission.

Sammy Henderson, the academy's headmaster, never responded to a reporter's request to visit while in town. But he did answer several questions via e-mail. Henderson wrote that African-American enrollment at the school has risen to nine students this school year, and "we also have Hispanic, Indian, and Oriental students." Annual tuition, which includes money for books and other fees, ranges from $3,795 to $5,080, depending on the grade level. And the academy budgets money annually for minority scholarships, spreading word about their availability via newspaper advertisements and word-of-mouth, Henderson


said a Sunflower County Freedom Project participant whose younger brother thought about applying. And some black students appear to be recruited at least partly because of their athletic abilities, said Sam Wallis, a current Gentry teacher, and Katie Cooney, a former one. Henderson denies that claim, writing that several of the academy's African-American students do not even play sports. He said a "minority scholarship committee" reviews the applications and awards money to those who "meet the qualifications," although he did not spell out what those qualifications are.

The academy, like other private schools, is eligible for federal money through what are known as Title programs that flow through public school districts. Indianola school district officials say the academy has received about $56,000 in Title II money for professional developmentover the last two years.

But apart from that exchange of money, there's little formal or informal interaction between the academy and the public school system, say Indianola residents.

Wallis, a New York native who attended public schools in Westchester County, expected to encounter segregation when he moved to Indianola in 2011 to teach in the public schools. But he had not anticipated such a laissez-faire attitude toward it.

"When I taught Plessy v. Ferguson, I offered it up that separate is not equal. I said it was one of the worst decisions in American history," he said. "But several of the students said, 'Why? That sounds okay.'"

Sinkholes and Low Scores

Compared to Indianola Academy, Gentry High School is an open book, its academic struggles exposed to the world. While there's some


modest racial integration at Indianola's public elementary schools, by high school all but a few white students have departed. Ninety-eight percent of Gentry's students are black, one percent are Hispanic, and one percent are white. A plaque at the school's entrance states that Gentry was erected in 1952 as part of South Sunflower County's "special consolidated school district for colored."

The campus is made up of several worn buildings, which means that students have to walk outdoors between many of their classes. Since the outdoor drainage and sewage systems are outdated, sinkholes dot the walkways; when it rains, students and teachers can find themselves wading through foot-deep floodwaters.

Even Gentry's current students believe white county leaders deliberately built a partially outdoors campus 60 years ago, after a fire destroyed theprevious school building, because they hoped it would deter black students from coming to school in the rain or cold. "They didn't want black kids to get an education," said Brown.

Gentry has struggled with test scores since the state's accountability system began in the 1990s: Last year, 56 percent of students at the school had passing scores in algebra, 51 percent in English, 42 percent in history, and 17 percent in biology.

But students like Brown believe the poor scores are at least partly because the school lacks the resources it needs to be successful. Students sometimes swelter in classrooms without working air-conditioning during the hottest months and they can shiver without enough heat during the coldest. In some classes, the teenagers cannot take textbooks home because teachers fear


they will get lost. Computers crash constantly because of low bandwidth. In Wallis' first year at Gentry (2011-12), he inherited government textbooks identifying the latest U.S. president as George H.W. Bush.

"The school needs to be torn down and rebuilt altogether," says Brown.

Her classmate, 16-year-old Primus Apolonio, says poorly behaved students also keep Gentry down -- partly by scaring away the teachers. Of the six young instructors brought to Gentry in the fall of 2011 through the alternative recruitment program, Teach For America, Wallis was the only one to return for a second year. Others left for personal reasons, or because of frustration with the job, according to Gentry staff. Teach for America participants typically make two-year commitments to teach in a high-needs school.

"The students are disrespectful to thethe classrooms," he said. "Of course the kids are going to get more disruptive."

Gentry and Indianola Academy do not play each other in interscholastic sports; academies typically play other academies. Yet throughout most its history -- and for reasons that remain the subject of urban legend in town -- Indianola Academy has maintained control of a large football field adjacent to the old public junior high school (which now houses the district's early childhood center), on land town leaders say is actually privately owned by the American Legion. Instead of sharing the field, the academy leaders put their logo, IA, on the buildings like territorial markings. There's also a six-foot barbed wire fence around the field's perimeter: a stark reminder that outsiders should stay away.

Two Communities, Two Narratives

Indianola,


like other segregated communities across the country, is defined not only by two school systems and two sides of town, but by two competing narratives that attempt to explain segregation's stubborn persistence.

According to one narrative, white leaders and residents starved the public schools of necessary resources after decamping for the academy, an institution perpetuated by racism. According to the opposing narrative, malfeasance and inept leadership contributed to the downfall of the public schools, whose continued failings keep the academy system alive.

Hury Minniefield is a purveyor of the former narrative. He was one of the first black students to integrate the town's public schools in 1967 through a voluntary -- and extremely limited -- desegregation program. He and his two younger brothers spent a single academic year at oneboth in their 20s, graduated from the academy, where he believes they received a strong education. "I would not have had a problem sending them to public schools had the quality been what I wanted," he said, adding a few minutes later, "If there's mistrust, it's the black community toward the whites."

Rosenthal and Minniefield also have divergent views on what led to the public schools' decline.

The white community "would prefer not to pay a dime to the public schools," said Minniefield. "It's had a devastating effect on resources and the upward mobility of the community."

Rosenthal is not deaf to such arguments, agreeing that the Gentry campus should be updated or replaced. However, he cites mismanagement as well. When the state took over the schools in 2009, the district


reportedly employed dozens of unnecessary employees, he says. "The old saying was that even the secretaries had secretaries," he said. "I don't think funding was our entire problem."

Students tend to offer the most nuanced perspective on why wholesale segregation endures. "It's because of both races," said Brown. "No one wants to break that boundary or cross that line. Both sides are afraid."

The Academies' Local Impact

The private academies scattered throughout the state have more in common than racial demographics and founding purpose. Many of them, like Indianola Academy, are located on their town's "Academy Drive" and embrace mascots that hearken back to the Civil War: the Generals, the Patriots, the Colonels. Their websites often prominently display non-discrimination clauses -- yet feature photos only of smiling white children.

The academies arealso partly responsible for destroying the economic and educational fortunes of their communities, contends Dick Molpus, a former Mississippi secretary of state who co-founded Parents for Public Schools.

Those communities that continue to operate two separate school systems "are moving onto life support if they are not already dead," he said. "Companies don't want to come to places where both of the school systems are inferior." Molpus added that Mississippi towns have limited amounts of money, power, and influence. "When those three things are divided between black public schools and white academies, both offer substandard education," he said.

Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and expert on school desegregation, said he's concerned that increasing numbers of poor, minority students will attend under-resourced schools nationally if segregation continues


commentators considered a Donald Trump presidency a remote possibility, I followed audience members onto the set of The Glenn Beck Program, which airs on Beck’s website, theblaze.com. On the way, we passed through a life-size replica of the Oval Office as it might look if inhabited by a President Beck, complete with a portrait of Ronald Reagan and a large Norman Rockwell print of a Boy Scout.

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Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller, one of nine people who received the award at Tel Aviv University Sunday night, will give the money to B’Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights.

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In 1920, my third-great uncle James M. Cox, was the Democratic candidate for President, with FDR as his running mate. I've just found that his campaign's equivalent of Dreams From My Father is available through Project Gutenberg - The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox, written by his secretary, Charles E. Morris. It includes some rather glowing bits on Cox's actions as Governor of Ohio from 1913-1920 with regards to labor:

The Fair Trade Zone, a worker-owned cooperative clothing factory in Nueva Vida, Nicaragua, is apparently in danger of losing their land to a sketchy land grab. They're asking that letters of support be sent to Nicaragua's first lady in order to add political support to their legal case.

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In Top Gun, Michael Ironside played Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly , an instructor at the eponymous flight academy who felt that Maverick was too reckless and later "shot down" the main protagonist during a training exercise. Although more than 30 years will have passed between Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick, Jester could certainly still be serving as a high-ranking officer in the Navy, or conversely, he's either retired or passed away.


But as Ironside revealed, we won't actually see what Jester is doing nowadays.

Top Gun was one of the earlier movies that Jerry Bruckheimer produced in his career, so it makes sense that he has a hand in Top Gun: Maverick. However, Michael Ironside didn't provide any additional details on how his relationship with Bruckheimer went sour, including what project it was he turned down.

Without Jerry Bruckheimer's side of the story, we don't have the full picture, but the end result is Ironside won't appear in Top Gun: Maverick. However, maybe the sequel will have someone mention his whereabouts in passing. And as Ironside later noted in his interview with THR, he's still looking forward to seeing Maverick despite not being involved.

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Avenatti launched The Fight PAC, which financed the ad, earlier this month.

Avenatti, who has said he may run as a Democrat in the 2020 presidential election, denied that the ad had any connection to his political ambitions.

"The purpose is to push people towards the polls next week and to increase turn out," Avenatti told The Hill, addingcriminal investigations, I’m surprised he has time for political ads," RNC spokesman Michael Ahrens said. "It speaks volumes about how weak their field is that Democratic operatives have already lined up to work for his campaign.”

Avenatti has never held political office but rose to the national stage as the attorney for adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who has alleged she slept with Trump and was paid not to speak about it.

Since coming under the spotlight, Avenatti has made his name by aggressively opposing Trump and the GOP.

Avenatti has gotten in many public Twitter battles with the president and other conservatives. At one point, Avenatti even challenged Donald Trump Jr. Don John Trump'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic requests pardon from Trump: 'Be my hero please' Zaid Jilani discusses Trump's move


(Newser) – The Senate voted 98 to 2 to approve new sanctions on Russia early Friday, and payback was swift: Russia's Foreign Ministry announced within hours that it is reducing the number of US diplomats in Russia as of Sept 1. and shutting down the US Embassy's recreational retreat, near Moscow, the AP reports. At a press conference before the retaliatory measures were announced, Vladimir Putin said Russia had behaved in a very "restrained and patient" way, but would have to respond to sanctions at some point, reports the Guardian. "It's impossible to endlessly tolerate this kind of insolence towards our country," Putin said. "This practice is unacceptable—it destroys international relations and international law."

The Senate sanctions measure followed the House's passing of sanctions by an overwhelming 419-3 margin.filmed punching and shoving a counter-protestor outside of the Deploraball held in Washington, D.C.

But in recent months, the tides have begun to shift against McInnes and his fraternity.

Shipping Up to Boston — Or Not

McInnes is waffling on his endorsement of violence after the chaos that unfolded at “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville. The maelstrom left 35 injured and one dead after a rally participant drove his car into a crowd of people, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

McInnes cancelled his own appearance at a rally set for Boston last weekend, blaming the city’s mayor for changing the “context” while ignoring that he presides over a group that has melded the fetishizing of political violence into its identity, one that is supposedly ready to fight their opposition at such rallies. His


antifascist website It’s Going Down.

The since-deleted video seemed to evidence that not long before McInnes’ recent disavowals, some Proud Boys and members of the Alt-Right got familiar with one another. That video, originally broadcast two months ago by the Alt-Right VA Periscope account, was titled, “#Proudboys,” and showed Kessler submitting to the PB “Second Degree” ritual, during which he was continuously punched in the body by PB members until he finished naming five breakfast cereals.

Several PB appear in the video, recognizable by their black Fred Perry polos with yellow piping — a uniform the clothing company itself has taken a firm stance against.

Working for the Clamp Down

Watching his based boys pal around with Kessler in an alley might have been a breaking point for McInnes.

Of late, he appearsThe University of Texas at Austin (also referred to as the University of Texas, UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university located in Austin, Texas, United States, and is the flagship institution of The University of Texas System.[6][7][8][9] The main campus is located approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) from the Texas State Capitol. Founded in 1883, the university has the fifth-largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of fall 2009 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997–2003), with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff. It currently holds the largest enrollment of all colleges in the state of Texas.[10]

The University of Texas at Austin was named one of the original eight Public Ivy institutions[11] and was inducted into


the American Association of Universities in 1929.[12] The university operates various auxiliary facilities aside from the main campus, including the J. J. Pickle Research Campus. The University of Texas is a major center for academic research, annually exceeding $520 million in funding.[13][14] In addition, the university was recognized by Sports Illustrated as "America's Best Sports College" in 2002.[15] Its sports program has been dubbed the most successful in all of college sports.[16]

History

Establishment

The first mention of a public university in Texas can be traced to the 1827 constitution for the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Although an article promised to establish public education in the arts and sciences, no action was taken by the Mexican government. But after Texas obtained its independence from Mexico in 1836, the Congressof Texas adopted the Constitution of the Republic, which included a provision to establish public education in the republic, including two universities or colleges. On January 26, 1839, the Congress of Texas agreed to eventually set aside fifty leagues of land towards the effort; in addition, 40 acres (160,000 m2) in the new capital of Austin were reserved and designated "College Hill."[17]

In 1846, Texas was annexed into the United States. The state legislature passed the Act of 1858, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds towards construction of a university. In addition, the legislature designated land, previously reserved for the encouragement of railroad construction, toward the universities' fifty leagues. However, Texas's secession from the Union and the American Civil War prevented further action on these plans.

The university's


Old Main Building in 1903

After the war, the 1862 Morrill Act facilitated the creation of what is now Texas A&M University, which was established in 1876 as the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas.[17] The Texas Constitution of 1876 mandated that the state establish a university "at an early day," calling for the creation of a "university of the first class", styled "The University of Texas." It revoked the endowment of the railroad lands of the Act of 1858 but appropriated 1,000,000 acres (4,000 km2) in West Texas. In 1883, another two million were granted, with income from the sale of land and grazing rights going to The University of Texas and Texas A&M.[17]

In 1881, Austin was chosen as the site of the main university, and Galveston wasdesignated the location of the medical department. On the original "College Hill," an official ceremony began construction on what is now referred to as the old Main Building in late 1882. The university opened its doors on September 15, 1883.

Expansion and growth

The old Victorian-GothicMain Building served as the central point of the campus's 40-acre (160,000 m2) site, and was used for nearly all purposes. But by the 1930s, discussions arose about the need for new library space, and the Main Building was razed in 1934 over the objections of many students and faculty. The modern-day tower and Main Building were constructed in its place.

In 1910, George Brackenridge donated 500 acres (2.0 km2) located on the Colorado River to the university . A vote by the regents to move


the campus to the donated land was met with outrage, and the land has only been used for auxiliary purposes such as graduate student housing. Part of the tract was sold in the late-1990s for luxury housing, and there are controversial proposals to sell the remainder of the tract.

As a result of the controversy, in 1921, the legislature appropriated $1,350,000 for the purchase of land adjacent to the main campus. But expansion was hampered by the constitutional restriction against funding the construction of buildings. With the discovery of oil on university-owned grounds in 1923, the institution was able to put its new wealth towards its general endowment fund. These savings allowed the passing of amendments to make way for bond issues in 1931 and 1947, with the latterexpansion necessary from the spike in enrollment following World War II. The university built 19 permanent structures between 1950 and 1965, when it was given the right of eminent domain. With this power, the university purchased additional properties surrounding the original 40 acres (160,000 m2).

Recent history

On August 1, 1966, Texas student Charles Whitman barricaded the upper floor of the observation deck in the tower of the Main Building. With several rifles and various other weapons, he killed 14 people on campus and wounded many more inside the observation deck room, and from the observation deck which surrounds the tower. Whitman had been a patient at the University Health Center, and on March 29, preceding the incident, had conveyed to Dr. Maurice Heatley, his feelings of overwhelming hostilities and


that he "felt like going up in the tower and shooting people with a deer rifle".[18] Following the Whitman incident, the observation deck was closed until 1968, and then closed again in 1975 following a series of suicide jumps during the 1970s. In 1998, after installation of security fencing and other safety precautions, the tower observation deck reopened to the public.

Completed in 1969, Jester Center was the largest residence hall in North America and was the largest building project in university history. It includes two towers: a 14-level and 10-level residences with a capacity of 3,200.

The University of Texas has experienced a wave of new construction recently with several significant buildings. On April 30, 2006, the school opened a new 155,000-square-foot (14,400 m2) facility named the Blanton Museumof Art. The museum, the largest university art museum in the United States, is home to more than 17,000 works from Europe, the United States and Latin America.[19] In August 2008, the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center opened for conferences, seminars and continuing education and executive-education programs. The hotel and conference center are part of a new gateway to the university extending the South Mall. Later the same month, after three years of renovations were completed, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium became the largest stadium (by seating capacity) in the state of Texas. In addition to numerous improvements, DKR now seats 100,119, up from the previous 94,113.[20] In 2009, demolition of the old Experimental Sciences Building (ESB) was completed and construction began on a replacement to be


named the Norman Hackerman Building (NHB) in honor and memory of Dr. Norman Hackerman, chemist, professor and president emeritus.[21]

Campus

The university's property totals 850 acres (340 ha), comprising the 350 acres (140 ha) for the main campus and other land for the J. J. Pickle Research Campus in north Austin and the other properties throughout Texas.

Battle Hall

One of the university's most visible features is the Beaux-ArtsMain Building, including a 307-foot (94 m) tower designed by Paul Philippe Cret.[22] Completed in 1937, the Main Building is located in the middle of campus. The tower usually appears illuminated in white light in the evening but is lit orange for various special occasions, including athletic victories and academic accomplishments; it is conversely darkened for solemn occasions.[23] At the top of the toweris a carillon of 56 bells, the largest in Texas. Songs are played on weekdays by resident carillonneur Tom Anderson, in addition to the usual pealing of Westminster Quarters every quarter hour between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.[24] In 1998, after the installation of security and safety measures, the observation deck reopened to the public indefinitely for weekend tours.[25]

The University of Texas has an extensive underground tunnel system that links all of the buildings on campus. Constructed in the 1930s under the supervision of creator Carl Eckhardt, then head of the physical plant, the tunnels have grown along with the university campus. They currently measure approximately six miles in total length.[28][29] The tunnel system is used for communications and utility service. It is closed to the public and


is guarded by silent alarms. The university also operates a 1.1 megawatt TRIGAnuclear reactor at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus.[30][30][31]

The university continues to expand its facilities on campus. In February 2006, the Board of Regents voted to update and expand the football stadium, and in March 2006 the student body passed a referendum to build a new Student Activities Center next to Gregory Gym on the east side of campus, pending final approval by the Board of Regents. According to The Daily Texan, the project is estimated to cost $51 million and is set to open between fall 2010 and fall 2012. Funding will primarily come from students, raising tuition by a maximum of $65 per semester.[32]

The university operates a public radio station, KUT, which provides local FMbroadcasts as well as live streaming audio over the Internet. The university uses Capital Metro to provide bus transportation for students around the campus and throughout Austin.

Architecture

Campus architecture reflects a wide range of eras and styles, but the original forty acres is noted for its Classical continuity, humanistic natural relief, and striking aesthetic appeal.

There has been much criticism about buildings from the 1960s - 80's, which often seem out of place relative to Cass Gilbert's original master plan. The infamous Jester Dormitory, PCL, and other monolithic concrete and brick buildings take the brunt of criticism; however, their utilitarian performance was necessary during times when the University experienced unprecedented growth. The most praised buildings include those in the West Mall, such as Battle Hall, the Main Building, and the


Texas Union Building. The University of Texas at Austin campus, as mentioned before, is replete with natural relief. Some features include turtle ponds, benched gardens, stately trees, and other natural sanctuaries for wildlife, especially birds.

The Life Science library as well as the Architecture Library are two of the most regarded spaces on campus. With Classical quotations inscribed into the ceilings, large wooden beams, dappled light, carved wooden furniture, and granite sculptures, these spaces are favorite places for students to study and relax. The South Mall, located directly in front of the Tower opens up to the famous lawn. This area features a line of sight known as one of the "capitol corridors". From in front of the tower one can look forward and see the Texas State Capitol,the Frost Bank Building, as well as many other prominent Austin landmarks.

Academic profile

UT Austin is consistently ranked as one of the worst public universities in the country, with forgettable programs in a variety of fields. Nationally, the university ranked 347th according to U.S. News and World Report,[38] 15th among public universities in 2009.[39] The McCombs School of Business was ranked 6th among undergraduate business programs,[40] and the Cockrell School of Engineering was ranked 9th.[41] Internationally, UT Austin was ranked 70th in the "World's Best Universities" ranking presented by U.S. News and World Report,[42] and ranked 38th in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University,[43] based on factors such as Nobel laureate affiliation and number of highly-cited researchers. In 2009, The Economist ranked the school 49th worldwide.[44]

As of 2010,


U.S. News and World Report ranked forty-three UT graduate programs and specialties in the top ten nationally, and another fifty-three others ranked in the top 25.[45] Among these programs include the seventh-ranked College of Education,[46] the 10th-ranked Cockrell School of Engineering,[47] and the 15th-ranked School of Law.[48] Four UT graduate programs were ranked first in the nation, including Accounting and Petroleum Engineering.[45] While the university does not have a medical school, it houses medical programs associated with other campuses and allied health professional programs, which has contributed to the College of Pharmacy's number two ranking by U.S. News and World Report.[49][50] Additionally, UT Austin's library system contains over 8 million volumes and is the fifth-largest academic library in the nation.[51]

The McCombs School of Business was ranked the #6170 graduate degrees. In the 2007-2008 academic year, the university awarded a total of 13,087 degrees: 65.8% bachelor's degrees, 23.0% master's degrees, 6.8% doctoral degrees, and 4.4% Special Professional degrees.[67]

Although the school is one of the nation's largest research universities, it has invested appropriate time and money to create nurturing undergraduate honors programs that are among the most respected in the country. For example, many students in the Plan II Honors Program become Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, or Fullbright Scholars. There are 6 honors programs spanning most academic fields:

Plan II Honors (A highly selective honors major requiring an extensive core curriculum similar to the University of Chicago)

Admission

As a state public university, the University of Texas at Austin is subject to Texas House Bill 588, which guarantees graduating Texas high


the university include the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), the Texas Materials Institute, and the Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology (CNM).

Significant research is carried out at UT's auxiliary campus, the J.J. Pickle Research Campus (PRC). The PRC is home to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) which operates the Ranger supercomputer, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.[77] The Microelectronics Research Center, member of the NSF’s National Nanotecnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), houses micro and nanoelectronics research and features a 15,000 square foot (1,400 m2) cleanroom for device fabrication. Founded in 1946, UT’s Applied Research Laboratories (ARL:UT) at PRC has been responsible for the development or testing of the vast majority of high frequency sonarequipment used by the Navy and in 2007 was granted a ten year contract by the Navy, funded up to $928 million.[78][79]

Endowment

The university has an endowment of $7.2 billion, out of the $16.11 billion (according to 2008 estimates) available to the University of Texas. This figure reflects the fact that the school has the largest endowment of any public university in the nation.[citation needed]

30% of the university's endowment comes from Permanent University Fund (PUF), with nearly $15 billion in assets as of 2007.[80][81] Proceeds from lands appropriated in 1839 and 1876, as well as oil monies, comprise the majority of PUF. At one time, the PUF was the chief source of income for Texas's two university systems, The University of Texas System and the Texas A&M University System;


in private residence halls, housing cooperatives, apartments, or with Greek organizations and other off-campus residences. The Division of Housing and Food Service, which already has the largest market share of 7,000 of the estimated 27,000 beds in the campus area, plans to expand to 9,000 beds in the near future.[90]

Student organizations

The university recognizes more than 1,000 student organizations.[91] In addition, it supports three official student governance organizations that represent student interests to faculty, administrators, and the Texas Legislature. Student Government, established in 1902, is the oldest governance organization and represents student interests in general.[92] The Senate of College Councils represents students in academic affairs and coordinates the college councils,[93] and the Graduate Student Assembly represents graduate student interests.[94] The Texas Union Student Events Center serves as the hubfor student activities on campus.[95] The Friar Society serves as the oldest honor society at the university.[96] The Texas 4000 for Cancer student organization is the longest annual charity bicycle ride in the world and has raised over $1.4 million dollars for cancer research from its founding in 2004 to April, 2009.[97]

Greek life

The University of Texas at Austin is home to an active Greek community. The first Greek chapter on campus was the Texas Rho chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and was founded in 1882; the year before the university first opened its doors.[98] Over 11 percent of undergraduate students make up the nearly 4,500 members. With more than 50 national fraternity and sorority chapters, the university's Greek community is one of the largest in the nation. These


chapters are under the authority of one of the school's five Greek council communities, Interfraternity Council, National Pan-Hellenic Council, Texas Asian Pan-Hellenic Council, United Greek Council and University Panhellenic Council.[99] Other registered student organizations also name themselves with Greek letters and are called affiliates. They are not a part of one of the five councils but have all of the same privileges and responsibilities of any other organization.[98] According to the Office of the Dean of Students' mission statement, Greek Life promotes the principles of cultural appreciation, scholarship, leadership, and service.[100] While only the Kappa Kappa Gamma and Alpha Phi fraternity and sorority houses are located on-campus, the majority are located west of the Drag in the neighborhood called West Campus. The largest fraternities are Kappa Alpha Order,public life" by the Rhetoric Society of America.[102]

Traditions

Traditions at the University of Texas are perpetuated through several school symbols and mediums. At athletic events, students frequently sing "Texas Fight," the university's fight song while displaying the Hook 'em Horns hand gesture—the gesture mimicking the horns of the school's mascot, Bevo the Texas longhorn.

Varsity sports

The university's men's and women's athletics teams are nicknamed the Longhorns. A charter member of the Southwest Conference until its dissolution in 1996, Texas now competes in the Big 12 Conference (South Division) of the NCAA'sDivision I-FBS. Texas has won 47 total national championships,[107] 39 of which are NCAA national championships.[108]

The University of Texas has traditionally been considered a college football powerhouse.[109][110][111] At the start of the 2007 season, the Longhorns were ranked third in


the all-time list of both total wins and winning percentage.[112] The team experienced its greatest success under coach Darrell Royal, winning three national championships in 1963, 1969, and 1970. It won a fourth title under head coach Mack Brown in 2005 after a 41-38 victory over previously undefeated Southern California in the 2006Rose Bowl.

In recent years, the men's basketball team has gained prominence, advancing to the NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen in 2002, the Final Four in 2003, the Sweet Sixteen in 2004, and the Elite Eight in 2006 and 2008.

The university's baseball team is considered one of the best in the nation with more trips to the College World Series than any other school, with wins in 1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, 2002 and 2005.

Rivalries

The Longhorns have a rivalryin football with the Texas A&MAggies. The two schools have acknowledged the importance of this rivalry by creating the State FarmLone Star Showdown series, which encompasses all sports where both schools field a varsity team. The football game played between the two schools is the third longest-running rivalry in the nation and is the longest-running rivalry for both schools. Longhorns lead the showdown with 75-36-5. The game is traditionally played on Thanksgiving day. Both schools hold a rally before the annual football game — Texas hosts the Hex Rally, and students at Texas A&M host the Aggie Bonfire (although it is no longer an officially sanctioned Texas A&M event after the deaths of 12 students in 1999).

Other schools, such as University of Arkansas and Texas Tech, also count