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FAKE!: Last Week's Stormtrooper Smash
Remember those Scout Trooper smashing devil-women from last week? Well, as some of you had guessed, a video released yesterday proves it was, in fact, fake. Turns out the dude was in on it the whole time and they were destroying the doll because it was already broken and they needed proof of destruction to get a replacement from Sideshow Collectibles.
Congratulations on the trickery folks, you're all a bunch of assholes! Do you know how many sleepless nights I've had since watching the original video? All of them. Honestly, this doesn't change my opinion of the women whatsoever, and I still suggest they be burned at the stake. Only now, the guy can join them.
Thanks to entropic soul for making me wish harm on all those involved even more now.
What you are about to watch is wrong on every level. Some woman, pissed that her fiancé is in Vegas blowing money on gambling and strippers (a man's God-given right), decided to destroy his most prized possession -- a scout Stormtrooper figure. Needless to say these women ar... / Continue →
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ROCKFORD, Ill. - Though the final record may not have been among the best in the Northern Athletics Conference, the NAC's coaches thought that the play of one Regents volleyball player was certainly among the best. Senior outside hitter Megan Lawler (Pearl City, Ill./ Pearl City) was named to both the All-Northern Athletics Conference second team and the NAC All-Sportsmanship teams.
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HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) - State police say the man who fatally shot four people in two upstate New York villages had no money, no job and was maxed out on his credit cards.
But police say they still don't know why 64-year-old Kurt Myers opened fire Wednesday in a barber shop in Mohawk and a car care business in neighboring Herkimer.
State police senior Investigator Timothy Blaise said Monday that Myers had heavy credit card debt and had not been employed since 2006.
Myers was killed by police Thursday morning inside an abandoned bar in Herkimer.
Two men wounded at the barber shop, including the owner, remain hospitalized Monday.
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"The Paradox of our age… We have bigger houses but, smaller families. More conveniences but, less time. We have more degrees, but less sense. More knowledge but less judgment. More experts, but more problems. More medicines, but less healthiness. We've been all the way to the moon and back, But we have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We have built more computers to hold more information To produce more copies than ever, but have less communication. We have become long on quantity, but short on quality. These are times of fast foods, but slow digestion. Tall men, with short character. Steep profits, but shallow relationships. It's a time when there is much in the window, but nothing in the room."
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A Look At Abril-Bogere This Saturday Night on Showtime, Will Richard Get Robbed Again? (WBA Lightweight Title) |
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Never heard of the guy he is fighting, Bogere. But the guy Abril is fighting is from Vegas, is undefeated, and the WBA said all Vegas judges will be used. By hook or by crook is there no way Abri wins a decision again, like the Rios fight?
Do you guys think that when the writing's on the wall like this, is it a waste of time for these fights with an undefeated guy going up against a fighter with a losing record and no power? Abril's not gonna get the KO he needs to win, so what's the point? I'm passing on this one because I smell fix already. Or am I wrong? Will the judges by sympathetic towards Abril from the Rios fight and give him a break? I would like to be wrong, but I don't think that will happen. I am gonna say the best Abril gets out of this fight is a draw, and he will already be four rounds down before the fight even starts. Jack |
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I don't know who I favor in this fight. Bogere has some of the best ring entrances which I think is a lost art in the sport right now. But he can fight but Abril is no slouch either so it's going to be tough for both to pull out with a W
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Joanie picked up an old songbook from a musty cardboard box of sheet music and hymnals last week at an auction and said, "I remember singing out of a book just like this at our church years and years ago."
Holding the book up, she added, "I probably wouldn't have ever remembered that had I not seen it here today." She thumbed through the yellowed pages for a few more minutes before moving on to another table filled with coffee cups and flatware and cut glass, but I thought I could hear her humming a tune as she moved away from me.
That's the way it is with my wife and me anymore; some of our best memories need a little shove back toward the front of our brainpans. That small blue and red, spiral songbook did it for her, but for me, it was a cobwebbed-covered stereoscope that might have well asked from its spot on a similar table a few months ago, "Remember me?"
My grandmother had a stereoscope — also called a stereograph or stereoview — and she kept it in a small bedroom closet in a shoebox, the top held in place by a thick rubber band. I thought the wood and scrolled metal thing was ancient even then — some 45 years ago — and it probably was. Stereoscopes were madly popular in this country from the 1840s through the second decade of the 20th Century, and I suspect that the one I played with appeared on the scene sometime in between those two eras. That shoebox also held a generous stack of wrinkled stereographic cards.
Stereoscopes came about in 1838 when a British inventor named Charles Wheatstone published a paper that established stereography as being possible. He explained that the human brain unifies two slightly different images as a single three-dimensional picture when they are displayed side by side at about the same distance, around 2.5 inches, as a pair of eyes.
The first stereoscopic pictures of Wheatstone and his contemporary enthusiasts were hand-drawn, but after photography matured as a science, stereoscopic photos often were taken with a special camera that had two lenses. Most cards, however, held photos that were taken consecutively or after a slight change in the position of a single camera. Our brains do the rest when we look at the twin pictures through prismatic lenses, and we can do so without earning the headache we can develop from crossing our eyes over those 3-D images that were all the rage a decade or so ago.
Of course, I didn't know or care about any of that scientific data, nor did my brother and sister or cousins. But we did know that if we were going to stay the night at our grandparents' house — which one of us did just about every night — we were going to grab that shoebox out of the closet and sit on the couch after our baths were done to stare into that contraption, most often while my grandma darned socks and my grandpa snored in his chair or cheered on Matt Dillon as he dispatched yet another scruffy desperado on the streets of Dodge City, Kansas.
The stereograph that I bought lacks the long wooden handle that is used to hold the gizmo steady, but everything else is in tact — the wooden trombone-like slide that holds the bracketed cards in place, the lenses, and every single screw that fastens the faceplate together. That slide, by the way, allows the stereographist to focus the card's image according to the quirks of his or her own vision.
A few weeks ago, I watched "Antiques Roadshow," a guilty pleasure of mine since I don't have much time to follow television these days. Like most viewers, I suppose, I secretly hope that I have some relic stashed away in the attic or barn loft that will provide me with the means for an early retirement. In that particular episode, the show's host visited a museum that specialized in stereographs, particularly the cards. The museum's curator said that some of the cards were worth considerable money if they are in pristine condition, something that the well-used photos of my grandparents' set definitely were not.
Stereography was, indeed, the 19th Century's version of 3-D technology, but the stereograph was perhaps one of the greatest teaching tools of that age, as well. Thousands of American schoolchildren got a glimpse of the world around them on stereographic cards, and they didn't have to live on the frontier of the Old West, either.
For instance, the cards I own depict scenes from Sweden and Denmark, even China, and the ones I saw so many years ago were like a virtual tour of the National Geographic magazine.
My stereograph takes me back in time, as sure as if it were a gadget out of an H.G. Wells' novel. That's why I bought it; that's why I probably paid too much for it.
In a moment of sweet irony, I happened to catch an episode of "Gunsmoke" a few nights ago on my favorite Western channel. In it, a character named Print Quimby (played by Buddy Ebsen) sat at a kitchen table and peered through a stereoscope, the Wild West's version of a wide screen television.
What goes around, comes around, I guess.
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MIKE LUNSFORD: The long goodbye to winter
I have no idea what the weather is to bring to us on the morning this story runs, but on the day I write most of it, the sun is shining, and we have just come off a weekend of pleasant warmth and cloudless skies.
Heaven on Earth: Writer gets lost — both figuratively and literally — at Acadia National Park
Editor's Note: Today, we continue the New England Journal as Mike Lunsford writes of a day hiking the Atlantic shoreline and the trails of Maine's Acadia National Park.
MIKE LUNSFORD: 'To sleep, perchance to dream'
I've been thankful this winter for a full propane tank and ample cold cranking amps and school snow-delay days that have kept me off the roads until the sun is up on the most frigid of these mornings.
MIKE LUNSFORD: The night the snow fell
You would think that the cold winds and deep snows that we endured two weeks ago would be old news by now, but as I stood in the checkout line at a grocery store just a few days back, a gallon of milk in one hand and a quart of orange juice in the other, a customer just ahead of me appeared to be stocking up to make a run for the Donner Pass, and all she could talk about was the storm.
THE OFF SEASON: Seeing the miraculousness of the ordinary
It was just a few nights ago that I announced to my wife that I was headed outside to watch the International Space Station pass overhead.
'Afternoon on a Hill': The formal poet who led an informal life — Edna St. Vincent Millay
EDITOR'S NOTE: Today, we continue the New England Journal as Mike Lunsford writes of an afternoon exploring the rural gardens and home of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay near Austerlitz, N.Y. Join Lunsford in February for the sixth installment of this series as he wanders along the wooded shorelines of Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Lying by the warm radioside
I am writing this piece well before Christmas Eve, although you wouldn't think that it can be far away by the look of things out my windows tonight.
MIKE LUNSFORD: 'The mind is a dark forest'
If you hadn't noticed by reading this newspaper or hearing me crow about it myself, I have another collection of stories out in print.
Walk of a Lifetime: Writer discovers views fit for a painting while walking the cliffs of Prout's Neck, home to famous artist Winslow Homer's seaside studio
Editor's Note: Today, we continue the New England Journal as Mike Lunsford writes of a day walking the Maine seacoast in search of the great artist, Winslow Homer. Join Mike in January for the fifth installment of this series as he visits Edna St. Vincent Millay's rural New York farm, Steepletop.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Inching on toward a cold winter?
I'm not ready for snow and ice and the daggers of a north wind, but I have finally accepted the fact that winter is nearly here.
MIKE LUNSFORD: 'I'm going simply because I've got to … '
Late in the year 1944, the great Hoosier war correspondent Ernie Pyle, mentally and physically exhausted from his months reporting from the battlefields of Europe, came home for the last time. He was scrawny and gray.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Pumpkins: Good for the fork and the (carving) knife
My wife and I are fairly frugal; we are budgeters and planners. In the fall, we set aside what we'll need to heat the house and pay the doctor and buy sensible shoes for school. I think we're going to have to open an account for pumpkins, too.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Déjà vu, courtesy of violinist prodigy
It's been said that the longer married couples stay together, the more they begin to think alike. I can't refute that, although, for my wife's sake, I hope a similar theory — that they begin to look alike, too — is far from true.
MIKE LUNSFORD: The beauty, spirit of a 'lonely' bridge
It was the best kind of day a few Saturdays ago: not quite 70 degrees, a slight breeze from the northwest barely pushed flat-bottomed white clouds around in an otherwise blue sky.
Mike Lunsford: The golden rods of September
The sunflowers that are framed in my cabin's eastside window are soon to become things of the past, for no matter how much I water and weed, the time has come for them to go.
MIKE LUNSFORD: It isn't the end but it is the beginning of the end …
I had every intention of writing about Labor Day today; it has become a tradition of sorts for me because it seems as though my column and the holiday have an annual convergence. But as I thumbed through a number of other stories I'd written on the subject, I felt I had nothing new to say.
MIKE LUNSFORD: A long day's journey into night
We arrived at the sprawling hulk of a motel well after dark, the parking lot pitch black except for a few spots illuminated by flickering blue lights that hummed a monotonous tune.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Searching for Beulah Jane
EDITOR'S NOTE: Today's Mike Lunsford column is the second in a two-part story on his search to solve a family mystery. Part 1 was published in Monday's Tribune-Star. Both are available at www.tribstar.com.
MIKE LUNSFORD: The girl who wasn't my grandmother
EDITOR'S NOTE: We travel this week with Mike Lunsford on a journey across miles and memories, as he seeks answers to a long-ago family mystery. Today's column is the first of a two-part story. Part II will run Tuesday.
MIKE LUNSFORD: 'Once more to the lake…'
We are heading home today after spending a few days on Lake Michigan, and I am a bit sad for the leaving. We have made it a habit to come here every year, dragging weary bones and beach towels and enough breakfast food to last us a week. And, as expected, when I turn my back on the cool blueness of the lake for the last time this afternoon, I'll know that another year has gone by, and there's no getting it back.
Poets at heart, writer, wife walk paths that Frost walked
A few summers ago, my family traveled to New England to see what we could see. Along the way, we dipped our toes into Walden Pond, holy waters to those who have read Henry David Thoreau. My wife and I returned to the region last month to seek shrines that poets at heart revere: the Vermont homes where Robert Frost wrote magical words.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Mice really do play when the cat's away
I am rarely away from my place much in the summer. I like the quiet here and don't yearn to be gone for very long at a time. To me, a vacation often means that I don't have to start my car for days on end, or put on socks, for that matter. But this year has been different; my wife and I took a two-week driving trip through New England, the longest vacation we've ever had without our kids along for the ride. We had a great time, but when we got back, we were surprised to learn that all kinds of things had been going on in our absence.
MIKE LUNSFORD: A New England journal begins …
BAR HARBOR, MAINE — I am beginning this story before I can possibly know how it ends. The view from my window isthat of a green Maine countryside on a Thursday morning, so I felt compelled to get started, knowing a deadline looms. It is difficult work, not because I have so few ideas from which to draw, but because I have so many. …
MIKE LUNSFORD: We've created a honey of a problem
The Dutch clover is making its appearance in my yard this week. A cooler-than-usual spring has slowed its arrival by a few days, but it is here for now, bringing the honeybees and bumblebees with it.
A walk in the woods
I went for a walk in the woods one day last week after work. It was a warm and green afternoon, and a fresh blue breeze blew in from the west like a new spring friend.
MIKE LUNSFORD: 'Dowsers' provide hope more than science
My grandfather was a man of God. Many times I saw him, his right hand held high in the air at his Wednesday night "prayer meeting," praising the Lord before weeping at the altar on his knees. And yet, he was a "dowser," a "diviner," a "witcher" who, as a favor, would grab a forked sassafras stick and find water for some poor unfortunate whose well had gone dry.
MIKE LUNSFORD: As of today, it's unofficially spring
Despite the calendar telling us not to rush things, I think it is all right to go ahead and say spring is here. The Ides of March has passed, Easter is coming soon, and I have already been out in my yard with a rake, getting my boots muddy. It looks like spring to me.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Twain's Sawyer helps us yearn for 'wilderness of childhood'
My cousin, Roger, stopped in one day last summer for a glass of tea and a little conversation. Rog has lived an hour's drive away for years and now, and besides summer reunions, I don't see him nearly often enough. He's a good man who has raised a good family, and he owns a healthy sense of appreciation for not only the life he has now, but also the lives we had years ago as kids.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Cheerful green of wheat fights winter blahs
There is a light drizzle of freezing rain tapping at the door of my cabin today. It is little more than a week before the words I am writing are due to appear on your breakfast table or work desk with your morning coffee and scrambled eggs. But I write when I can, and today, despite a full schedule of televised football games, and the stacks of ungraded papers in my briefcase, and a good book lying open on my nightstand, I am clacking away on a keyboard to the whir of a heater and the steady drip of my gutters.
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It began to snow about 20 minutes ago, as I write this, light, wind-driven flakes that fall silently into my woods as I watch from a window.
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In the late Spring not so very long ago, Yang-pat Au a 17-year-old from San Jose, California received a thin letter in the mail that every high school senior dreads. It was a rejection from his college of choice, the University of California at Berkeley. That someone with Au's record — first in his class, straight As, 98th percentile SAT scores, Junior Achievement, two varsity letters, a seat on the Student Council, and numerous awards and scholarships — should be rejected suggests that Berkeley's admissions standards must be very high indeed.
And so they are. But high standards alone do not explain Au's rejection, because many hundreds of such students with less impressive credentials were admitted that same year.1
Every year hundreds of students are admitted to every University of California undergraduate campus and professional school, whose qualifications fall well short of those of many other hundreds of students who are not so lucky. Academic credentials are not the only, or even most important, standard of admission.
Similarly puzzling things happen outside the academic world. Take, for instance, the experience of Randy Perch. Perch, who owns a construction firm in Colorado Springs, submitted the low bid on a project to build the guardrails for a federal highway. But he was not awarded the contract.
Why not? Because unlike most clients of contractors, the U.S. Department of Transportation does not consider a competitive bid to be the prime consideration for awarding jobs.
Or consider Danny O'Connor. A member of the Memphis Police department since 1975, O'Connor put his name in for promotion to sergeant in 1988. Out of over 200 aspirants, only the top 75 would be promoted that year. O'Connor's rank, based on his combined score from a written exam, an interview, seniority and career performance, was 56, yet he was not promoted.
Why not? Because the department does not rely solely on a candidate's performance ranking to decide who gets promotes and who does not.
What happened in all of these cases? Au, Perch and O'Connor are were victims — just three of countless others — of a policy known as "Affirmative Action," a euphemism bold even by the loose standards of public relations firms and politicians.
Affirmative action is, or is supposed to be, a systematic effort by governments and private organizations to help "historically underrepresented groups" participate more fully in mainstream society — especially in employment and education. The phrase "historically under-represented groups" is a code for racial and ethnic groups favored by affirmative action's proponents and administrators. And it has come to include women, who though not originally part of the affirmative action scheme, have over the years become, as a group, one of its chief beneficiaries.
If the above definition seems vague, that is because it is, and deliberately so. It is what the advocates of affirmative action say when asked what exactly, or even approximately, the policy they so cherish is. But it tells us nothing of how affirmative action actually works, because its workings are embarrassingly inconsistent with principles that the proponents of the policy claim to believe in — like equality before the law and the importance of character, and not skin-color or gender, as the decisive measure of a human being.
How does affirmative action really work? When you or I or anyone seeks some opportunity from the government, or an employer, or a university — such as a job, a promotion, admission to an academic program, a contract, you name it — we will be evaluated, as a matter of official policy, not as individuals according to our personal qualifications or merits, but as members of certain racial, ethnic or gender groups. Members of preferred groups receive preferential treatment.
It didn't start out this way. Affirmative action began life during the height of the Civil Rights Movement as an executive order that directed federal agencies to make an active effort to seek out minorities for positions in the government. Mostly, this consisted of more diverse and far-reaching advertising of federal jobs and more active recruiting tactics.
The thinking behind it was that despite the success of the Civil Rights Movement in finally securing equal rights for all citizens, citizens who had been denied their rights for generations were in no position to participate fully in society. And there can be little doubt that this was indeed true. But unfortunately these well-meaning — and perfectly constitutional — forms of affirmative action did not last long. They quickly gave way to the system we have today, the one that has given us the cases of Yang-pat Au, Randy Perch, Danny O'Connor and countless others.
That system separates applicants or candidates into racial or gender categories before evaluating for college admission, a job, a promotion, or awarding a contract. This is how Yang-pat Au, and many others like him, were treated by the University of California's admissions policy. Although his credentials placed him far above a majority of those admitted to Berkeley that year, his file was not evaluated according to a campus-wide standard of admission, because there is no such thing.
Put simply, the University separates its applicants into nine categories, five of which are based solely on race. The standards of admission for applicants in those five categories are much lower than those for the non-racial categories.2 And they have to be if the University is to meet its goal of enrolling a minimum number of students from each favored racial group.
Since Asian high school students like Au tend to outperform other groups of students, were the admissions policy merit-based (read: fair) Asians would make up a higher percentage of the unversity's undergraduate population, while members of other races, particularly blacks and Hispanics, would see their numbers fall well below administrative "diversity" targets.
These targets — "goals" or "benchmarks," as they are called — are particularly obnoxious and thus carefully disguised and misrepresented. There is a better word for them, a more accurate word, but one that makes affirmative action's defenders cringe: quotas.
For that is what they are. When a university openly proclaims, as the University of California does, that its enrollment must mirror the ethnic breakdown of the state or region from which it draws applicants, that is, quite simply, a quota system. The population of California is about eight percent black. That means that no matter what, a minimum of eight percent of UC's enrollment must be black. If there are not enough black applicants whose academic records are competitive enough to assure their group enrollment at a rate of eight percent of the student body, then some remedy must be found.
That remedy, it turns out, is to lower admissions standards, but only for members of the groups that are not naturally filling their quota. Can anyone imagine selecting the members of a professional sports team, a symphony orchestra or a hospital surgical staff in this manner?
And it's not just the University of California. Cheryl Hopwood, who applied to the University of Texas Law School in 1992, confident that her credentials were up to the school's standards. When she was rejected, her first reaction was surprise coupled with resignation. "The only thing I could think of," she said, "was that the class the school admitted must have been very, very good."
In fact, however, that year's group of applicants was not substantially better than those of years before. Just as in the case of Yang-pat Au, many applicants with credentials far lower than hers were admitted.3
The University of Texas Law School, like almost every law or professional school in the country, attempts to enroll a minimum number of students from certain prefered groups; in particular, school policy mandates that 15 percent of the Law School class must be black and Mexican American.
Since enough members of those groups don't meet this quota through open competition with applicants at large, standards must be — and are — lowered to ensure that the 15 percent target is met. Simple common sense tells us that when you have a finite number of any commodity — in this case seats in an entering class — and you reserve, or "set aside," a portion of it for a favored group, then people not lucky enough to be in that group are bound to be squeezed out on no other basis than their group membership.
And so Cheryl Hopwood, who was not one of the lucky ones, was denied admission to law school while 84 applicants with lower grades and test scores, but who were members of the prefered groups, were admitted.
It is important to understand the significance of dividing people into groups for such purposes. It is nothing less that the denial of the central principle upon which America was founded, and from which all of our laws and institutions radiate, or used to radiate. That is the principle of equality, the equality of each individual citizen before the law.
The Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal," but the proponents of quotas would rewrite that famous phrase to say rather that all groups are created equal. So when their material conditions vary, it is seen as a result of racism or policy or both and as such must be remedied by policies directed at the raising up of such afflicted groups, through the granting of special, extra rights. It even gets to the point where already successful or wealthy members of such groups get these same "extra rights."
But in truth it is only individual human beings that are equal, and only in one, very specific sense: they are all equally human beings, with equal human dignity and the equal rights to be governed only with their consent, and to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
These rights are not guaranteed to groups, because they do not-and cannot-belong to groups. But they do belong to individuals, regardless of race, religion or anything else, and it is the first business of government to secure them. The most famous word ever used to describe this understanding of government is "colorblind." It was coined by Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan in his ringing dissent from the shameful 1897 Plessy decision, in which the court upheld constitutionality of racial segregation.
Clearly, Yang-pat Au and Cheryl Hopwood were not treated according to the principle of colorblindedness. Affirmative action policies explicitly repudiate this principle as outmoded or even pernicious. And the people who administer the policies will go to great lengths to demonstrate their contempt for it.
The examples can get bizarre. James Henry, owner of a Columbus, Ohio, painting company used to do quite a lot of business with the Ohio State University. Not anymore. His first indication that things were changing was in 1983, when he was told that he could not bid on a coming contract, because it was being reserved for bidding by minority firms only.
By 1989, Henry was shut out altogether from bidding on University jobs, because the school had decided that to meet a general 15 percent set aside on all contracting, it would have to impose a 100 percent set aside for painting contracts.4
This is indeed color-consciousness raised to new and offensive levels. But there are even more bizarre cases. And it is true even of such policies that do not require outright quotas, but that nevertheless make legal distinctions along racial group lines. We may call such policies preferences. They differ from quotas only in degree and not in kind; both types of policy are based on the same denial of colorblind justice. Most examples of merely preferential policies have to do with hiring, and especially promotion, or contracting. It is most prevalent in government agencies, particularly police and fire departments.
Danny O'Connor learned this firsthand. He was not promoted because his department decided, in the name of affirmative action, to arbitrarily place a black candidate into every third spot on the list. Seven of the original 75 top candidates were black, but 26 blacks were promoted, at least 19 of whom had a lower ranking than O'Connor.
And as for Randy Perch, the U.S. Department of Transportation very vigilantly enforces a law that requires a certain portion of federal contracting dollars be "set aside" (the government's language) for minority- and women-owned firms. So the job for which Perch submitted the low bid went to a firm that submitted a higher bid but was owned by a member of a government-prefered group.5
But perhaps the most outrageous example of preferential treatment based solely on race is the case of Sharon Taxman, formerly a typing teacher at Piscataway High School in New Jersey. Facing a decline in enrollment in "business education" classes, the school board decided to lay off one teacher. It came down to two teachers, Taxman and Debra Williams, both of whom had been hired at the same time and whose performance records were similar. Taxman was laid off.
Why her and not Williams? Bad luck? Perhaps, if you can ascribe the result of a specific policy to chance: Taxman is white and Williams is black, and the school board figured that, in the interest of affirmative action, it would be more socially responsible to retain the black teacher and let go of the white.
This decision captures the essence of what affirmative action is all about. In dismissing an employee solely on the basis of race, the board followed, to the letter, the contemporary denial of individual rights and equality in favor of the idea of group rights. Goodbye, color-blindedness.
But perhaps that is too hasty. To be sure, the status of colorblindedness in the contemporary justice system is degraded indeed, but recent court decisions, some of them centering on the very cases described in this paper, show rays of hope. Also, more and more people are beginning to understand how patenly unfair quotas and prefences are to individuals and how harmful they are to the rule of law.
This is in no small part due to the prevalence of cases just like those outlined above, and to the increasing public scrutiny such cases are getting. We should hope that they continue to be exposed, lest our nation never return to the one understanding of rights that not only promises but also can actually deliver, liberty and justice for all.
And there is reason to think that we will. It has been said that Americans have "a passion for fairness," and that precisely this passion made the victories of the Civil Rights Movement possible. This is certainly true. But now that passion is being twisted and abused. The government treats its citizens unequally, and in the name of fairness, no less. It should not be able to do this. The fact that it does shows that it no longer respects its own first principles and founding premises.
And if governement does not, there is nothing to stop it from treating people in any respect it wishes, and a people so treated, or even in principle subject to such treatment, are not free.
The fate of free government depends on Americans' "passion for fairness" reasserting itself in the name of equality properly understood, which means bringing about an end to quotas and preferences and all the related double-talk.
1 From Illiberal Education, by Dinesh D'Souza, pp. 24-5.
2 See "Still Choosing by Color' by Michael Lynch, Claremont Institute GSC Briefing #1996-52, pp. 13-14.
3 From Ending Affirmative Action, by Terry Eastland, pp. 3-4.
4 Ibid., p. 4-5; also, Washington Times, February 27, 1995, p. 1.
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Do everyone notices.
The frame around the screen of the original note.
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Mixed feelings here. I like the wider screen of my original Note, but it is less comfortable to hold than the Note 2 which I handled recently at a Best Buy. Further, the reduced screen resolution on Note 2 was VERY noticeable to my eyes and that's an issue, since I do like to read on my Note.
Since I can't really afford a Note 2 anyway, it's all kind of moot. Got lucky and got this Note used and off contract for $225, that kind of deal lightning rarely strikes twice! I use mine as a very portable wifi tablet, so the wider screen is probably best for my purposes.
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MDiv with a Concentration in Messianic Judaism
What is a Master of Divinity Concentration in Messianic Judaism?
In harmony with Denver Seminary's emphasis on globalization, diversity, intercultural leadership, and contextualized ministry, the MDiv in Messianic Judaism aims to equip both Messianic and Protestant leaders in their service to the Jewish community. All this is integrated with our excellent MDiv curriculum, where students can establish a solid theological and biblical foundation for ministry to Jews and Gentiles. You will develop the skills needed to serve in the Jewish community, tackling Messianic Judaism issues, while being encouraged to have an active partnership between the Messianic and Protestant communities. Both you and those you lead will be enriched by your experience in the MDiv with a concentration in Messianic Judaism.
At Denver Seminary, this particular degree falls under the umbrella of the Division of Biblical Studies. Watch a video from the Division of Biblical Studies.
Courses in Messianic Judaism are designed to: (1) Train leaders for service in the Jewish community; (2) educate current and future Protestant leaders in Messianic Judaism issues and in the Jewish background of Christianity; (3) encourage an active partnership between the Messianic and Protestant communities in their service for the kingdom of God; (4) foster an atmosphere of globalization and diversity at Denver Seminary; and (5) provide a sound academic environment where students can establish a solid theological and biblical foundation for ministry to Jews and Gentiles.
The MDiv with a concentration in Messianic Judaism is excellent preparation for goals such as:
Leadership positions that will serve in the Jewish community
Leadership and involvment of active partnerships between Messianic and Protestant communities
Establish a solid theological and biblical foundation for ministry to Jews and Gentiles
What classes will I take?
In addition to the required M.Div. core classes (89 hours), this concentration includes 2 hours of required classes and 6 hours of electives specific to Messianic Judaism.
Messianic Judaism |
Course # | Sem. Hrs. |
M.Div. Core | 89 | |
Introduction to Messianic Judaism (Rabbi Chaim Urbach) |
Messianic Judaism electives | 6 |
97 |
A sample of elective classes:
- MJ 502 - Messianic Jewish Liturgy and Symbolism (Dr. Jeffrey Feinberg) (2 hours)
- MJ 503 - Messianic Jewish Apologetics I: Answering Historical and Theological Objections (Dr. Michael Brown) (2 hours)
- MJ 504 - Messianic Jewish Theology I: Covenants and Eschatology (Rabbi Chaim Urbach) (2 hours)
- MJ 505 - Messianic Jewish Theology II: Key Issues in New Testament and Rabbinic Literature (Rabbi Chaim Urbach) (2 hours)
- MJ 506 - Messianic Jewish Apologetics II: Messianic Prophecy (Dr. Michael Brown) (2 hours)
- MJ 601 - The Gospels in their Jewish Context (Dr. John Fischer) (2 hours)
- MJ 603 - Missiological Themes for Jewish Evangelism (Dr. Bill Bjoraker) (2 hours)
Department Faculty
- Dr. Hélène Dallaire, Associate Professor of Old Testament
- Dr. Jeffrey Feinberg
- Rabbi Chaim Urbach
- Dr. Michael Brown
- Dr. John Fischer
- Dr. Bill Bjoraker
Biographies of the Messianic Judaism scholars
Faculty Highlight
Dr. Helene Dallaire is Associate Professor of Old Testament and is currently writing the Introduction to Living Biblical Hebrew (Eerdmans) and the "Joshua" commentary in the revised edition of the Expositor's Bible Commentary series. She is an ordained minister with the Evangelical Church Alliance and is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the American Academy of Religion, and the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. Dr. Dallaire regularly presents academic papers at professional conferences on biblical literature, Hebrew language, and pedagogy.
For additional information on the courses or MDiv concentration, please contact Dr. Hélène Dallaire at or (303) 762-6916.


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Jefferson: "I didn't forget how to play basketball"
After a lackluster first year with the San Antonio Spurs, coach Gregg Popovich made it his mission this summer to get Spurs forward Richard Jefferson back to basics.
David Aldridge, in his latest column on NBA.com, said Popovich gave Jefferson the choice to work with the coaching staff this summer or he could enjoy his summer off and Popovich would work on finding Jefferson somewhere else to call home.
So Jefferson chose summer school, working out for two hours at a time with the Spurs' coaches all over the country. It was all basics: pivoting with the ball, jump-stopping, drills designed to improve his efficiency of movement on the court. On the defensive end, Jefferson got reinforcements on the Spurs' defensive concepts, which go into much greater detail than simply pushing everything baseline and keeping guards from dribble penetrations in the paint. He reported to camp last week with 7 percent body fat and a cut-up physique.
"I asked him if he wanted to reach his potential, or just let the next few years slough away and just put money in the bank," Popovich said. "He said 'I want to reach my potential.' "
At training camp last week, Jefferson said the work has helped and he's more comfortable now that he knows what to expect.
"I didn't forget how to play basketball, I don't think my talents dropped in a year. It was just getting used to system," Jefferson said.
"The work that I put in wasn't above last summer. I didn't do anything more, it was more coming in and trying to focus on the areas where I need to improve that help the team...so I spent a lot of time working on that and yes, that has helped quite a bit. I'm just feeling more comfortable out there already."
Jefferson also said that his work in the summer wasn't about doing anything better, but just being more consistent and accurate. Hopefully Spurs fans will see it when the Spurs play their first preseason game against the Rockets on Thursday.


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Students are required to earn all credits from the following list of courses:
8 credits, as approved by Dean of Students and Program Chair.
See the full course list for options.
Select four credits from the following:
A minimum of 30 credits, at least 3 credits from each category:
*Students must complete either NS112 or NS116.
Based on competency exam scores, a student may be required to take one or more of the following preparatory classes: AP050 Elements of Music, CS051 Foundations of Computing, FM051 Foundations of Math I, FM052 Foundations of Math II, FW051 Foundations of Writing I, and/or FW052 Foundations of Writing II.


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Danbert Nobacon Reading and Signing Anarchist Fairy Tale Tonight at The Book Cellar
Thursday, October 14, 2010ChiIL Out
I was raving to another pierced, tattooed Mama friend about how much we were digging this book, while our kids hung from trapezes, ropes and silks in a great Circesteem aerial class. She asked to borrow it and said what I thought was "These are art people." I hastily agreed, "Yeah, art people and musicians." What can I say, I was front row at Riot Fest the night before, shooting pixs of The Circle Jerks and Bad Religion, without earplugs, so my hearing was temporarily worse for the wear. She laughed, enunciated and said "No, OUR people." Yes, indeed. Even more so. This is THE fairy tale for OUR PEOPLE.
Nobacon's first novel continues his clever reeducation of the world in the true nature of the original anarchists. He writes "There was an actual anarchist prince in old Russia, called Peter Kropotkin. And contrary to the stereotyped image of the black-cloaked, bomb-throwing anarchist, Kropotkin was a rational, articulate thinker. He developed a theory of the human tendency toward cooperation, or mutual aid as he called it, rooted not in wishful thinking, but in observable science."


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Late Wednesday night police say a woman ingested the toxic chemical in a suicide attempt.
She survived but a family living in the same home was forced to evacuate and taken to the hospital as a precaution.
"A call came into our dispatch center from an individual outside of the state that she had a cousin that she was concerned about," says Chief Kim Hawkes of North Park police.
And from that call Wednesday evening police soon learned they were dealing with ricin, a deadly chemical. It wasn't until a local hazardous material unit arrived before authorities were able to enter.
"She had been experiencing vomiting through the day nausea," says Hawkes. "I think that prompted her to call. She knew she was sick."
She was taken to the hospital. A neighbor says the 36 year old woman was dealing with medical problems.
"She had a lot of pain, back pain and stuff," says Nancy Jensen who had visited her in the past.
A family living upstairs was also taken to the hospital. They've since been released.
"They were evicted out of their house," says Jensen. "They couldn't even take their keys or anything."
Police say the neighborhood was never in any danger.
"The intent of the subject was not to create this toxin in a form that could not be broadcast to other areas or to be vaporized or be airborne," says Hawkes. "So we are very certain the neighborhood is safe."
Authorities found 60 castor beans inside the woman's basement apartment. They say she grinded half of the beans to make the ricin.
"There was a grinder in the apartment that she indicated she had ground the beans up with," says Hawkes. "There was al low positive for ricin in that particular device."
A special Haz mat crew from the Utah Army National Guard arrived in the afternoon to assess and take samples of the ricin in the apartment.
"The danger is not that great," says Major Craig Bello. "There are castor beans in there which do have ricin in them. It just depends on the process that was taken before the beans were ingested."
He says the FBI will interview the woman to determine if charges should be filed. Major Bello says ricin is considered a weapon of mass destruction and is a federal offense.
As for the woman who created the ricin scare, a search on the internet shows that she's had surgery last year. She posted that she has no medical insurance and is facing thousands of dollars in debt. One post indicated that she had no money for prescriptions.
Jensen says she's surprised by her actions and was unaware she needed financial support. She says the local LDS ward was helping her from time to time.
"I would think that she would call for help before doing something this drastic," says Jensen.
To learn more about ricin visit the Center for Disease Control website at:http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/ricin/facts.asp


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Obama to address fiscal impasse
WASHINGTON — House Republicans' hard line against higher tax rates for upper-income earners leaves a reelected President Obama with a tough, core decision: Does he pick a fight and risk falling off a "fiscal cliff," or does he rush to compromise and risk alienating liberal Democrats?
Or is there another way that will allow both sides to claim victory?
Obama has been silent since his victory speech early on Wednesday but is set to weigh in Friday in remarks at the White House.
Capitol Hill Republicans, meanwhile, vow to stand resolutely against any effort by the president to fulfill a campaign promise to raise the top two income tax rates to Clinton-era levels. A battle would set the tone for the start of the president's second term.
"A balanced approach isn't balanced if it means higher tax rates on the small businesses that are key to getting our economy moving again," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Wednesday.
And he declared on ABC on Thursday, "Raising tax rates is unacceptable. Frankly, it couldn't even pass the House. I'm not sure it could pass the Senate."
A lot is at stake. A Congressional Budget Office report on Thursday predicted that the economy would fall into recession if there is a protracted impasse in Washington and the government falls off the fiscal cliff for the entire year. Though most Capitol observers say they think that a long deadlock is unlikely, they also say such a scenario would cause a spike in the jobless rate to 9.1 percent by next fall.
It is widely speculated that the combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to kick in on Jan. 1 — the so-called fiscal cliff — would cut the federal deficit by $503 billion through next September.
But it's also widely believed that the austerity it would bring about would cause the economy to shrink 0.5 percent next year and cost millions of jobs.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the nation's gross domestic product would grow 2.2 percent next year if all Bush-era tax rates were extended, and would expand almost 3 percent if Obama's 2-percentage-point payroll tax cut and current jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed were extended as well.


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The hand-picked successor to former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is now nearly even with his Republican 2nd Congressional District challenger as votes continue to be tallied from Tuesday's election.
Democrat Ron Barber trailed Republican Martha McSally by just 81 votes early Friday.
Both Republicans and Democrats believe they'll win the race in the end as votes from Cochise and Pima counties are added. Cochise County has about 11,000 votes yet to count and all of them are in the 2nd District. Pima has about 82,000 votes to count, but it's not known how many are in 2nd District.
The lead for Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in the race to fill the Phoenix-area's new 9th Congressional District widened Friday. Republican Vernon Parker is trailing by more than 3,800 votes.
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We manage major sport and entertainment facilities in Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong.
By delivering services and working in partnership with other organisations to set policy, we make it easier for people to be involved in their communities, strengthen targeted local and regional communities, support Aboriginal people and communities to advance the well-being of Aboriginal people, support and promote the interests of children and young people, and harness the strong desire of people to improve and protect local neighbourhoods through volunteering.
The Office also protects children by screening employees working in child-related employment through the Working with Children Check, and regulating Out-of-Home Care services.


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Creating fashionable, functional sports clothing since 1949, adidas has once again combined their experience and invention to design this quality padded jacket.
In a rich blue colour with prominent horizontal quilting, the Hollow Base jacket offers a statement look that keeps you protected when the temperature drops. Featuring a raised Velcro collar and an insulating goose down filling, you're fully prepared for the cold season. Signature branding is provided with a printed logo to the chest and a small tab to the side seam.
Wear this coat as an insulating top layer and pair it with dark wash jeans and flat-laced trainers to capture a street-ready look.
Please Note: Jacket does not have a hood as illustrated.
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When the temperature inevitably drops, a coat that protects from the harsh elements is a necessity. adidas offers this stylish, high-performance jacket from their outerwear collection.
Full of indispensable features, this jacket includes a front zip fastening with button placket, zip-up welt pockets and Velcro cuff adjusters. The drawstring hood is an essential on wetter days, whilst a fleece lining offers added insulation when the temperature drops. Signature branding is included with the three-stripe logo to the chest and a print to the reverse hem.
Be prepared for the ravages of winter with this weatherproof jacket. Wear as an everyday top layer to combat the rain or pack it in your backpack and head for the hills.
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4 reviewsClimacool+ insert. When you heat up, Climacool+ stays cool thanks to a Jade-infused thread. Climacool®. Unique, heat reactive fabric which keeps you cooler and drier for longer. Top with zip pockets. 1 zipped chest pocket. Ventilation seam at back.
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Student Scholars Symposium Entry Form
for Armstrong's 20th Annual Student Scholars Symposium
Please submit papers, projects, and other creative scholarly projects related to all aspects of the colleges of Liberal Arts, Science and Technology, Education, Health Professions, and Graduate Studies. Members of the Armstrong faculty will judge presentations. The top undergraduate poster/exhibit and oral presentation/recital for each college as well as the top graduate poster and oral presentation will receive recognition. To participate, submit this form by 5:00 pm on Friday, March 28th, 2014.
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The next best thing to New Super Mario Bros. 2: Jeff and Scott uncover Bowser's Inside Story
After a long hiatus, there are suddenly a handful of memorable, worthwhile titles for the Nintendo DS: Chinatown Wars, Rhythm Heaven, Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, and most recently Scribblenauts. It took Nintendo, however, to save the best for last.
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story might sound, at first read, like a kid's title. It's not; in fact, it's the third in a series of unique role-playing games featuring Mario, Luigi, and the rest of Nintendo's immortal cast of Mushroom Kingdom characters. The last in the series, Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time, came out for the DS back in 2005. In case you've never played before, you have to understand that it's barely a role-playing game at all: yes, Mario and Luigi level up, collect items, and go on an adventure, but battles unfold as real-time quick-reflex minigames, and much of the story unfolds with a completely absurd sense of humor. This series of games might be Nintendo's best-kept secret in its first-party lineup. We played it, and yes, we loved it. Here's why.… Read more


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Mind Your Body
Many parents understand that there is a mind-body connection that cannot be denied when looking at our children. Anyone attending a child's birthday party has seen this connection first hand, when the sugary cake they put in their bodies hits their sweet angelic heads. Almost immediately, angels turn into monsters, they begin acting wild and crazy, and there's nothing to do at that point but wait out the parade of hysterics. And the kids get hyper too.
For autism parents this connection hits very close to home. As a mom of three boys on the spectrum, I hear a lot about the various things people are trying out -- diets, supplements -- hoping that MAYBE one thing will help their child. We've personally spent many dollars on this alone, because the cost is well worth it should our sweet boys be helped somehow in the end. It's been a lot of trial and error, don't get me wrong. "Never Give Up" has become the mantra around here. Well, that and "Stop Peeing On The Floor".
So far, one of our biggest successes has been from introducing essential fatty acids (EFAs) into our kids' diets. Since they still have a lot of sensory issues with food (i.e. they refuse to eat fish!) we give it to them in supplement form. The improvement we've seen has been gradual, but honestly the biggest indicator that the EFAs are helping is how my kids act when we run out of them. They begin acting really out-of-sorts, can't sleep, can't concentrate, and all their other autism symptoms seem amplified. We see a difference after just a day or two without their supplement, so for them to be calmer and happier just by adding something to their diet that ALL people need–to that I say hallelujah.
I think the benefits of EFAs can be seen in typical children as well, so do some research and see if it's right for you and your family. Shop around once you decide on the brand (be sure to look for natural, quality ingredients), because you can find these products all over the place a discounted prices. Also if your kids don't have any food issues, EFAs are found in fresh water fish like salmon, flaxseed, walnuts and certain green leafy vegetables.
I am not a medical expert, but I think it's important for parents of all kinds of kids to rally together to share information and help each other whenever we can. If you have related tips you'd like to share, include them in the comments below or email me at arianne[at]tothinkistocreate.com, and you may see them in a future post. Of course always check with your doctor before adding new supplements to your diet.


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Eden Foods Organic Chili Beans Red Chili and Jalapeno -- 15 oz
This whole brand is good
A little extra kick in this one. Yummy good. Love to put it over rice.
December 15, 2012
Great tasting
These beans are delicious! I mixed with some wild rice for a filling and nutritious lunch, but you can also make into many dishes (soup, tacos, etc). Seasoned with just a hint of heat and a lot of chili flavor. Very tender beans. Will definitely buy again.
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A pair of lambs was sighted by an Arizona Game and Fish Department official in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness in earl
In the bipartisan poll, versions of which are sponsored annually by the Colorado College State of the Rockies project, respondents in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Montana largely
What better place to celebrate history than at a place where it is honored and preserved? These wild places host incredible evidence of the achievements, struggles and lives of African Americans during the history of the continent.
As more and more towns experience tremors in regions that have historically never reported seismic events, scientists are investigating whether hydraulic fracturing could be responsible for earthquakes.
While 2014 is the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, the law that set the framework to preserve the nation's most pristine landscapes, it also marks five years since Congress last protected any land as designated wilderness.
After decades of fighting for wilderness protections, Bethine Church passed away in December at her home in Boise at the age of 90. Often heralded as the matriarch of Idaho's Democratic party, Bethine was also well known as a passionate wilderness advocate.
Last year before Valentine's Day, the Department of Interior asked the public for something a bit unusual - photos and videos of marriage proposals and weddings.
President Barack Obama is preparing to designate New Mexico's Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks area and California's
Despite its hunter-friendly moniker, the so-called Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act will not conserve a single acre of wildlife or fish habitat.
Tweets about "@wilderness"
Public wildlands are suffering from budget shortfalls that harm wildlife and conservation programs. Tell Congress to fund our public lands properly!


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Payment Options
Many families choose a combination of all the options below to pay for costs that scholarships, grants and student loans do not cover. For example, parents may make a down payment and cover the remainder of the balance through a PLUS loan and the Tuition Payment Plan.
Electronic Check, Credit Card, or Check
Parents/students may pay all or a portion of the remaining balance with cash through an Electronic Check transfer of funds. Parents/students may also pay using a credit card. (A 2.75% convenience fee will be assessed for all credit card transactions.) The university accepts four major credit cards: Visa, Discover, MasterCard, and American Express. Students should be prepared to make payment for tuition, room, and meal plan by the first day of class each semester. Paper checks should be made payable to Oklahoma Christian.
Please click here for frequently asked questions regarding the 2.75% credit card convenience fee.
Installment Payment Plan
This monthly payment plan is available through the student's online account at http://my.oc.edu. There is an annual contract fee of $50. No finance charges are assessed to the student's account as long as the contract payments are made on time each month. Semester costs may be paid in 4 or 5 months depending on the enrollment date. For a fall semester 5 month payment plan, the student or parent must enroll by July 25th. (Students who successfully complete their fall payment plan will be automatically enrolled in a 5 month spring semester payment plan unless the Student Financial Services Office is otherwise notified.) Students can access their student account by clicking on "Student Account Online," located on MyOC under Quicklinks. Students also may grant their parent(s) access by assigning a Parent PIN from their Student Account Online.
Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS)
The PLUS loan is available to the parents of a dependent student. PLUS loans borrowed during the 2013-14 academic year will have a 6.41% fixed interest rate for the life of the loan. (The interest rate is reset each year and is held constant for the life of the loan. The interest rate is determined at a specific time each year based on the rate of the 10-year Treasury Bill plus 4.60%.)
Repayment begins 60 days after the loan is fully disbursed and the minimum payment is $50 per month. You have up to 10 years to repay. This loan is based on credit worthiness. The student must complete the FAFSA. Click here for more information.
Alternative Student Loans
There are various non-federal student loans available through private lenders. Most freshmen and students with no credit history require a co-signer. Click here for more information.
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Students who work just 20 hours per week during the summer should be able to earn enough pay for their books or apply some money toward their account.
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