"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."
Sara Ganim
August 19, 2010 11:25am EDT
UNIVERSITY PARK — About 4,000 students every year get more from their time at Penn State than just a diploma.
They leave with a notation of discipline on their transcript — often accompanied by a criminal record — that can haunt them as they apply for jobs, apartments, loans or grad school. Read the rest of this entry »
University of Iowa officials have mixed expectations on whether the number of alcohol infractions incurred by students will go up or down with the new 21-only ordinance on the books.
The UI Dean of Students office investigated 101 alcohol consumption and possession complaints in 2008-09, and University Housing investigated 649 underage alcohol infractions, according to the 2008-09 student discipline report, which is the most recent UI has made public. Read the rest of this entry »
Peter DreierE.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College
Posted: August 6, 2010 01:31 PM
Major court decisions on controversial social issues are sometimes ahead of their times. That was certainly the case with judicial rulings decades ago that struck down laws banning interracial marriage. But despite conservative claims that U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling Wednesday to overturn California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage is outside the mainstream, the reality is that his decision is in sync with public sentiment.
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By JEFFREY ROSEN
Published: July 19, 2010
Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption “Drunken Pirate.” After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school told her the photo was “unprofessional,” and the dean of Millersville University School of Education, where Snyder was enrolled, said she was promoting drinking in virtual view of her under-age students. As a result, days before Snyder’s scheduled graduation, the university denied her a teaching degree. Snyder sued, arguing that the university had violated her First Amendment rights by penalizing her for her (perfectly legal) after-hours behavior. But in 2008, a federal district judge rejected the claim, saying that because Snyder was a public employee whose photo didn’t relate to matters of public concern, her “Drunken Pirate” post was not protected speech.
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By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATIE ZEZIMA
Published: July 24, 2010
The accident that killed Kathryn Underdown had all the markings of a drunken-driving case. The car that hit her as she rode her bicycle one May evening in Miller Place, N.Y., did not stop, the police said, until it crashed into another vehicle farther down the road.
The driver could not keep her eyes open during an interview with investigators, according to the complaint against her, and her speech was slow and slurred. But the driver told the police that she had not been drinking; instead, the complaint said, she had taken several prescription medications, including a sedative and a muscle relaxant.
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BY TERESA ANN BOECKEL
Daily Record/Sunday News
Updated: 07/10/2010 11:27:54 PM EDT
York County’s district attorney likes having the option; defense lawyers would like to see the mandatory minimum repealed.
Most of the City of York falls within a drug-free school zone, so an adult convicted of even a first-time offense could face time in state prison.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
BY DIANA FISHLOCK
Message from the Supreme Court: “Privacy? LOL. Use ur phone.”
The court last week unanimously upheld a police department’s search of an officer’s personal, sometimes sexually explicit, messages on a government-owned pager, saying the search did not violate his constitutional rights.
The common-sense message to all employees: If you want privacy, use your own cell phone, pager or computer.
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This is the post during which you find out about my criminal record. I’ve tried to hide it for too long. Now it looks like it is all coming back to haunt me. And I’d rather you heard about it from my keyboard.
At the age of nineteen, way back in 1992, I purchased a beer in a Philadelphia bar.
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The law regardng entry into Canada is as follows (pay special attention to the part marked with **’s.):
“Immigration Act of Canada , section: 36 (1) to (3)
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By Erik Lacitis
The Seattle Times | Posted: Sunday, September 20, 2009 12:00 am
The crew of the Victoria Clipper, the ferry that makes round trips between Seattle and that city on Vancouver Island, frequently sees the effects of Canada’s strict driving-under-the-influence laws.
During the May-to-September peak tourist season, four to five passengers a week are turned back by Canadian border agents at the Victoria dock.