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Today President Bush met in the Oval Office with El Salvador President Francisco Flores in the article where the two discussed regional economic and political issues, and the war in Iraq and the greater war on terror. The President later traveled to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, where he engaged in a conversation on healthcare information technologies.Yesterday, the President met with Gabonese President Omar Bongo in the Oval Office. Enjoy your trip to Sanity Island on the Daily Dose!

Story: http://www.tennessean.com/education/archives/04/05/51315665.shtml?Element_ID=51315665 A few snippets... As thousands of people listened appreciatively and a handful protested quietly, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told Vanderbilt University seniors yesterday that they should ''never make the mistake of assuming that some people do not share your desire to live freely.''Vanderbilt's decision to bring Rice to campus and give her an award for ''distinguished public service'' on the day before graduation upset some students and staff, who protested yesterday and earlier in the week. But most people seemed happy she was there, and she received two standing ovations and scattered laughs and applause.Holly DeVore Allen...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said Thursday that terrorists today are driven by the same hatred that inspired Klansmen to bomb a church in 1963 in her hometown of Birmingham, Ala. President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser spoke to about 10,000 people — including a small group of protesters — at Vanderbilt University's Senior Class Day. The bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham killed four girls, including her friend, 11-year-old Denise McNair, and was meant to instill fear, Rice said. "Those terrorists failed because of the poverty of their visions...

<p>Summary: Reuters reports on December 3, that Armin Meiwes has admitted in a German court that he killed and ate a man he met through the Internet. The Reuters story neglected to mention that Meiwes was a homosexual.</p> <p>WARNING:You will be reading very disturbing material.</p>

<p>The United Daughters of the Confederacy said yesterday that it will appeal the recent dismissal of its lawsuit to keep the word ''Confederate'' in the name of a Vanderbilt University residence hall.</p> <p>Vanderbilt announced in September 2002 that it would drop the word from the name of Confederate Memorial Hall, which the UDC helped build in 1935. The organization sued a few weeks later, and Davidson County Chancellor Irvin Kilcrease dismissed the suit late last month.</p>

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is participating in worldwide tests of a potential vaccine that can stimulate important immune responses against the virus that causes AIDS. This is the first candidate vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be studied simultaneously in so many locations, from Brazil to Thailand, according to Merck & Co. Inc., which developed the vaccine. Vanderbilt currently is testing six potential AIDS vaccines, but the Merck product has gone farther than any other in generating cellular immune responses in preliminary human tests, says Dr. Paul Spearman, co-principal investigator of the Vanderbilt HIV Vaccine Program, one of...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A judge ruled Tuesday that Vanderbilt University can change the name of Confederate Memorial Hall to something it considers less inflammatory. After Vanderbilt announced plans last fall to drop "Confederate" from the building's name, the private university was sued by the Tennessee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, whose $50,000 donation helped fund construction of the dormitory 70 years ago. Chancellor Irvin Kilcrease, on his last day before retiring from the bench, ruled the university had fulfilled its contractual obligations to the Confederate heritage group by installing a plaque on the side of the...

Sep 9, 8:08 PM EDT Vanderbilt Eliminates Athletic Department By AMBER McDOWELL Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Vanderbilt will eliminate its athletic department in a major shakeup designed to curb the ills of big-time college athletics. Vanderbilt will continue playing intercollegiate sports, but the reorganization merges the departments that control varsity and intramural athletics, putting sports under the central university administration, the school said Tuesday. "There is a wrong culture in athletics, and I'm declaring war on it," Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee said at a news conference. No NCAA sports programs or jobs will be eliminated, but just...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Vanderbilt will eliminate its athletic department in a major shakeup designed to curb the ills of big-time college athletics. Vanderbilt will continue playing intercollegiate sports, but the reorganization merges the departments that control varsity and intramural athletics, putting sports under the central university administration, the school said Tuesday. "There is a wrong culture in athletics, and I'm declaring war on it," Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee said at a news conference. [snip] "Let there be no misunderstanding of our intention: Vanderbilt is committed to competing at the highest levels in the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA, but...

Interhall, Vanderbilt&#8217;s Residential Student Government, polled 511 students last month unearthing some surprising results, one being that Vanderbilt&#8217;s women are more liberal than their male counterparts. The study was a random, confidential phone poll on issues such as political affiliation, war and campus safety. On all questions asked, roughly 17 percent had no opinion.&#8220;One of the most surprising things I thought, given that Vanderbilt is perceived as a conservative campus, was for the split to have been nearly 50-50 in terms of political ideology and party affiliation,&#8221; said Josh Burgener, communications director for Interhall. &#8220;The fact that so many students...

<p>An 18-year-old freshman at Vanderbilt University is being questioned by the FBI after he was caught early this morning trying to enter the U.S. Courthouse downtown through rear doors near the loading dock, Metro police said.</p> <p>Jared W. Whaley, whose address is listed in a police report as the Vanderbilt campus, was caught at 3 a.m. near the federal courthouse at 801 Broadway, Metro police said.</p>

<p>A Vanderbilt University professor has stirred outrage in Dixie by declaring that Confederates were "cowards masquerading as civilized men" who should have been executed at the end of the Civil War.</p> <p>"Every Confederate soldier deserved not a hallowed resting place at the end of his days but a reservation at the end of the gallows," Jonathan David Farley, an assistant professor of mathematics, wrote in a commentary in the Tennessean, Nashville's largest newspaper.</p>

<p>Lest we forget, the Confederacy aimed to destroy the United States. Every Confederate soldier, by the mores of his age and ours, deserved not a hallowed resting place at the end of his days but a reservation at the end of the gallows. The UDC honors traitors.</p>

<p>The United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded as much to pass down a pro-Confederate version of history as to keep alive the memories of the soldiers who fought for the South, a historian who has written a book about the organization said yesterday.</p>

<p>When Jimmie Franklin came to Nashville in 1986 to begin serving as a history professor at Vanderbilt University, he was well aware of the school's conservative reputation.</p> <p>As far as racial segregation and discrimination were concerned, that history was virtually the same at Vanderbilt as it was at the University of Alabama, the University of Mississippi, the University of Georgia and even Emory University near Atlanta.</p>

<p>The following Hispanic Heritage Month moment comes from Dwight Wilson of Allenton, Mich.</p> <p>''My cousin and his lovely Mexican bride were driving through Tennessee and occasionally stopping at Confederate cemeteries and looking for family names on the headstones. My cousin on my mother's side could not find his last name (Clements), but they found his wife's maiden name Rodriguez. We laughed awhile about that one.''</p>

<p>At about the same time it was deciding to remove the word ''Confederate'' from the name of a residence hall, Vanderbilt University was moving three small, African-American fraternities into a house on its Greek Row for the first time.</p> <p>The university could not have planned that the house would be the one belonging to Kappa Alpha Order, a fraternity suspended by its national headquarters in February for hazing prospective members. In fact, Vanderbilt first offered the house to Delta Gamma, a predominantly white sorority, said David Williams, the university's vice chancellor for student life and general counsel.</p>

<p>At about the same time it was deciding to remove the word ''Confederate'' from the name of a residence hall, Vanderbilt University was moving three small, African-American fraternities into a house on its Greek Row for the first time.</p> <p>The university could not have planned that the house would be the one belonging to Kappa Alpha Order, a fraternity suspended by its national headquarters in February for hazing prospective members. In fact, Vanderbilt first offered the house to Delta Gamma, a predominantly white sorority, said David Williams, the university's vice chancellor for student life and general counsel.</p>

<p>The name represents the punishing power of the wealthy over the dispossessed.</p> <p>The name exemplifies the denial of simple right and wrong in order to profit, no matter who and how many are hurt.</p> <p>No, the name is not ''Confederate,'' which is to be removed from a dorm at Vanderbilt University.</p>

<p>In a collision between the imperatives of diversity and history, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy are livid over Vanderbilt University's decision to remove the word ''Confederate'' from the name of a residence hall — and may take the university to court.</p>