Our View on Education Plan in South Carolina
Our view critiques the South Carolina CHE two tier plan pairing two year community colleges with four year colleges. It questions enrollment caps on USC Aiken and warns against diminishing four year schools. It argues for balance preserving choice and emphasizes education quality over cost alone.
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S.C. Commission On Higher Education
CHE
South Carolina
Aiken Technical College
USC Aiken
Commission On Higher Education
USCA
Technical
Letters to the Editor reflect on budget debate and teen leadership event
A reader critiques a Oct 8 Aiken Standard piece on Congress and Bush budget talks and offers to enlighten staff. The note also praises Aiken Center Teen Leadership Connection reunion on Sept 28 at Millbrook Baptist Church with Dutch Boling as speaker and praise for prevention clubs guiding youth.
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Aiken Standard
Congress
Bush
Millbrook Baptist Church
Aiken Center
Leavelle McCampbell
Kennedy
Schofield
Jackson
Paul Knox
Our Lady of Peace
Want To Write Letters To The Aiken Standard
The Aiken Standard invites readers to submit letters to the editor. Letters must be signed and include the writer's mailing address. Typed preferred, brief and readable. all submissions are subject to editing. Send to The Editor Box 456 Aiken SC 29802.
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Aiken Standard
Aiken
Aiken, S.C
Ending The Shame After 50 Years
A retrospective on the 1942 Japanese American relocation during World War II. The piece recalls Sunako Tazumi and families torn from homes, internment in camps like Manzanar and Poston, and the lasting shame felt as President Roosevelt's order led to detention of about 120 000 people most of them American citizens. It notes 1988 compensation acts and mixed public memory.
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U.S
Dick Thornsburgh
Pearl Harbor
Japan
United States
Germany
Italy
Sunako Tazumi
Salinas Junior College
Dad
Issei
Poston
Ariz
Mississippi River
Spark Matsunaga
D- Wan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War Department
Thornburgh
Sen
S.I. Hayakawa
R-Calif
Helms Faces Fearful Watch Across North Carolina Campaign
A dawn trip, $150 breakfast with George Bush, and a shaken tone paint Sen. Jesse Helms in a tense race against Harvey Gantt. Observers note his defense mode, sparse public appearances, and rising worries about a changing NC electorate. Bush, Dole, and Bennett rally behind Helms as polls hint a deadlock.
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George Bush
Jesse Helms
Helms
Aycock
Goldsboro
N.C
Jim Hunt
America
Sen
North Carolina
Harvey Gantt
Air Force One
Bush
Washington
Labor
Elizabeth Dole
Bill Bennett
Jesse
Raleigh
Jimmy Aycock
Hunt
Sen. No
Martin Luther King Jr
Jesse Jackson
Gantt
Senate
Bush-Helms
Charlotte
Bubble Gum Clue Sparks Medical Race at Vanderbilt
A ten year old girl with chronic lung distress and early tooth decay becomes the focus of a medical investigation at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Dentist Dr Dick Hamp notes the unusual cavities after a routine exam and, with researchers from Wrigley and molecular specialists, links a disappearing bubble gum in the saliva to a genetic disease. The case may reveal treatments within months as the team studies the saliva solvent.
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Dick Hamp
Wrigley Chewing Gum Company
Vanderbilt
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John F. Boyette II
Jeffrey B. Wallace
Melanie L. Arney
Sue S. Brown
Ellen C. Priest
Daniel S. Holland
Tazumi
Ted Dye
Tule Lake
Manzanar
Calif
Minidoka
Idaho
Topaz
Utah
Gila
Granada
Colo
Heart Mountain
Wyo
Rohner and Jerome
Arkansas
National Endowment For the Arts
N.C. Burg
Vanderbilt Medical Center
Nashville
Vander
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