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Lesson From Justice Kennedy

The Supreme Court's ruling on student organizations may end up playing a key role in the legal debate over gay marriage, writes Linda Hirshman.
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Constitutional and Unwise

Just because public colleges can require student organizations to welcome everyone as members doesn't mean that's the best option, writes Shapri D. LoMaglio.
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Framing the Conversation on Research Universities

The future of leading public institutions is too important to be left to individual states, writes John B. Simpson.
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All Summer in a Day

Elizabeth Grant wonders whether her students really know the sun, and how she can best teach them.
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The Mood Is the Message

Researchers are studying Twitter as communication medium and index of public opinion. Scott McLemee catches up on the scholarship.
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Who Gets to Guard the Gates of Eden?

Michael A. Olivas reviews and praises the legal arguments that carried the day in Monday's Supreme Court ruling on public colleges' anti-bias rules.
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Honorable Technology

Colleges need to teach students not only how to use tools to learn, but how to use them with decency, write Sylvia Tomasch and Joseph Ugoretz.
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The Story of an Essay

Wick Sloane shares the tale of a student and of Tim O’Brien, from Vietnam -- North and South -- to Bunker Hill, and on to Mount Holyoke.