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Thursday, March 5, 2009

ASU President's Club

Posted By Max Brantley on Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:54 AM

D-G reports today that Les Wyatt at Arkansas State also gave a trustee's kid improper scholarship help. He, like Tom Courtway at UCA, won't say who. Turns out some boards of community colleges also think the institutions they regulate should be run to their specific benefit with tuition help.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

ASU President's Club

Posted By Max Brantley on Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:54 AM

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A petition drive has begun to encourage a demand that Sen. Jason Rapert pay for the legal fees in defending his Ten Commandments monument proposed for the state Capitol grounds. It's more work by the Satanic Temple, which has fought church-state entanglement around the country.

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A video uploaded to Facebook shows members of the Chi Omega sorority and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity singing along to the song "Freaky Friday." The white students repeatedly shout along to the n-word.

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