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Top colleges struggle with diversity

By Dan K. Thomasson Most of America’s select institutions of higher education are straining to find a sustained path to diversity. But according to a new study from Georgetown University, they are failing. In fact, the study concludes that the system is becoming more polarized racially, with African-American and Hispanic students settling for community colleges […]

August 22, 2013 | Posted in Columns | Tagged ,

Holder eases up on mandatory sentences

The issue: The bad news is this enlightened policy is only as good as the next attorney general By challenging mandatory minimum sentencing policies, Attorney General Eric Holder has taken a major step toward righting a long-standing wrong. ENACTED A GENERATION ago, the policies take sentencing for even low-level drug crimes out of judges’ hands. […]

August 22, 2013 | Posted in Our View | Tagged ,

Dentists ill-informed about fluoride

Last Friday, Dr. Mac Harris, a Davis dentist for 25 years, reported that many years ago he had talked to a number of highly educated and affluent Davis residents and all admitted inconsistently giving their children fluoride tablets. When referring to drinking water fluoridation, Dr. Harris then stated that if such highly educated residents forgot […]

August 22, 2013 | Posted in Letters | Tagged ,

Speak out

President Hon. Barack Obama, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20502; 202-456-1111; email: [email protected] U.S. Senate Sen. Barbara Boxer, 112 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; email: visit http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: visit http://feinstein.senate.gov/email.html House of Representatives Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2438 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, […]

August 22, 2013 | Posted in Forum | Tagged ,

Look it up before editorializing

The Enterprise has a superb crime reporter in Lauren Keene, one who apparently knows that one sense of the verb “to lodge” is “to incarcerate.” Behind F. Knochenhauer’s linguistic complaint about this usage (Aug. 16), I detect a gratuitous social point, that the letter writer is living a life entirely superior to those odious miscreants […]

August 22, 2013 | Posted in Letters | Tagged ,

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