Free Republic

A column that ran in the University of Washington's student newspaper decrying gay marriage — and illustrated with the image of a man standing next to a sheep — has hundreds of students up in arms. But editors of The Daily are standing behind what they say is free speech. Organizers of the campus group "Students for a Hate Free Daily" say they expect about 300 people to show up for a campus rally today after more than 1,000 signed up with the group online. The Graduate and Professional Student Senate, meanwhile, passed a resolution this week demanding the paper...

More than 100 leading sex researchers and students from a broad range of disciplines gathered in Santa Fe, New Mexico in late March for "States of Sexuality," a three-day summit held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sexuality Research Fellowship Program. The program, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and funded in part by the Ford Foundation, has provided support for more than 200 fellows and claims to have "cultivated new generations of scholars who address the complex nature of human sexuality and make contributions to a more thorough understanding of human sexuality." A highlight of the meeting was...