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March 6, 2006

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.  Just SING!

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

“Student Wins Facebook.com Case at University of Central Florida”

From a press release forwarded along by F.I.R.E.’s interim president Greg Lukianoff:

“Court upholds campus military recruiting law”

Reuters: A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that universities that get federal funds must allow military recruiters on campus, even if their law schools oppose the Pentagon’s policy prohibiting openly gays and lesbians from serving. The high court upheld as constitutional a federal law dating back to 1994 that allows the government to withhold money from universities that deny military recruiters the same access to campuses given to

“Taliban Man at Yale

On the subject of Yale’s Taliban student, the WSJ’s John Fund notes that “University officials are embarrassed–but not embarrassed enough”:

a protest poem by Ernest Ray Everson, dictated to him in a dream by an angry beet, March 1972 (red pills behind the sofa cushions, flashback )

“Oscar Night” Self-love is self love, beet says —whether gilded into sleek shiny sexless statuettes, or performed alone in one of the theater stalls after the winners have all been called & the gift baskets long since rifled through. But there is no shame in it, beet says.  Because love itself is so rare that if you can’t find it elsewhere, take it from yourself —forcibly, if need be—like a