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The first question one might ask about the valuable new book by author and activist David Horowitz is how he limited the number to study in the title of The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. It is a difficulty which Horowitz himself acknowledges early on. “How many radical professors are there on American faculties?,” Horowitz asks. “According to the federal government, the total number of college and university professors in the United States is 617,000.” “If we were to take the Harvard case reviewed at the end of this volume as a yardstick and assume a figure...

Hundreds of thousands of devotees flocked to Goa on Saturday to celebrate the feast of St Francis Xavier on his 500th birth anniversary. Devotees queued up from early morning yesterday for an entry into the 'Bom Jesus Basilica', a two storied building in which the body of Saint Francis Xavier has been kept. The Spanish missionary's body was laid in a glass-topped intricately carved silver casket. Locals said they were happy as they were getting the opportunity for the first time to pay respects to the saint. "I always come here on the feast of St Xaviers. He is a...

LITTLEROCK - When Elisha Johnson abandoned everything she owned in Louisiana last week, she was hopeful that members of her church back home would help her out. But what she wasn't expecting was the pile of donations that came from members of the community this weekend, as complete strangers showed up to support the former Highland High School student. Johnson, who graduated last year from Highland, spent six days trapped in a dormitory at Xavier University in New Orleans, where she was studying pyschology. She wiped tears from her eyes as she recounted the tale Saturday afternoon, standing in front...

Xavier: Professor can stage play --------------------------------------------------------- By Kevin Eigelbach Post staff reporter Xavier University President Michael Graham, who earlier this week banned a student production on campus of "The Vagina Monologues," won't try to block a professor who is including the performance as part of her class. Through a spokesperson Wednesday, Graham called the professor's move "a legitimate exercise of academic freedom" that puts the play "in a suitable environment of debate and discussion." Ironically, the show will go on at the same time and place as originally scheduled -- the Gallagher Student Center theater at 8 p.m. Friday, and...

Statement regarding Professor Peter N. Kirstein, Ph.D. Richard A. Yanikoski, Ph.D. President, Saint Xavier University November 15, 2002 During recent weeks Saint Xavier University has attracted national attention because a tenured professor of history sent a young Air Force Academy cadet some e-mail containing inflammatory, anti-military comments. Professor Peter N. Kirstein, an avowed pacifist, quickly apologized to the cadet and to the Air Force Academy for his e-mail message, but in the meantime thousands of other interested parties have taken offense. From the beginning of this incident, Saint Xavier University has worked to achieve four objectives: (1) to make things...