Public support dying for public education
Illinois Senator Roland Burris argued to the Southern Illinois Schoolmasters Association that public support wanes for public education amid rising costs and lagging results. He urged reform, faulting the system’s resistance to change and calling for merit pay, better evaluations, and renewed excellence in teaching to prevent decline into mediocrity and barbarism.
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Illinois
Roland Burris
Southern Illinois Schoolmasters Association
Burris
Britain bears Falklands test as resolve strengthens
The Falkland crisis galvanizes Britain to uphold international order after the Sheffield wreck. Public reports say blood loss hardens resolve that aggression must not be rewarded. US sympathy leans to England, yet Latin American nations back Argentina and warn anti Yankee sentiment could rise. The Soviet Union seeks to exploit any US weakness.
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Great Britain
Falkland
Sheffield
Britain
England
Argentina
Soviet Union
Afghanistan
Jacobo Timmerman
Buenos Aires
Dixie Boll Weevils Return to Democrat Fold in Congress
The Boll Weevils, conservative Southern House Democrats, drift back toward the Democratic fold as they break from Reagan’s program. Rep. Kent Hance of Texas distances himself from the president amid talk of party switches fading, with voters citing deficits and rising interest rates. Most Weevils face little opposition as primaries begin.
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Irwin B. Arieff
Boll Weevils
House
Ronald Reagan
Congress
Reagan
House of Representatives
Kent Hance
Lubbock
Texas
Hance
Conserva
Bob Stump
D-Ariz
Pennsylvania
Eugene V. Atkinson
Majority for peace letter urges world security path
David E. Christensen of SIU C argues the United States should abandon an arms race approach. He promotes UN backed reforms, a nonnuclear international police force, and global cooperation to prevent nuclear war and pursue world security.
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Earth
United States
United Nations
Richard Hudson
General Assembly
Security Council
Carter
Reagan
David E. Christensen Siu-C
Teachers unionists prompt a defense of school values
David Bradley Bonnie Heidinger and Anna Jonesboro Community High School Education Association defend teacher unions against broad condemnations. They argue unions raise per pupil spending and reduce turnover while contract provisions lower class size. They urge fair evaluation of teachers as professionals dedicated to students.
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David Bradley
Bonnie Heidinger
Anna Jonesboro Community High School Education Association
Keep Prayer Voluntary In School, Letter Edits View
A Southern Illinois editor argues against constitutional amendments for school prayer. The letter asserts current voluntary prayer exists and condemns compulsory class prayer as invasive, sharing personal anecdotes from Chicago and Providence about differing practices and the divisive memory it creates.
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Keep Prayer
Southern Illinois
ERA fears and calls to oppose equal rights amendment
Michelle Wist of Murphysboro questions how many women support ERA for equal pay and argues the movement seeks to dismantle marriage and family. She cites feminist sources and urges readers to study the Equal Pay Act and Civil Rights Acts, advocating enforcement of existing laws.
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Southern Illinoisan
Gloria Steinam
Saturday Review of Education
Michelle Wist Murphysboro
Guns defend people freedom: Danville letter response
Dateline Danville II reports Clara Morrison and Marie Butcher found dead in Mrs. Morrison's home after stabbing. Authorities say both women were murdered, noting they had nothing of value to steal. The piece links gun rights to broader political arguments and cites NRA support.
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Southern Illinoisan
Danville
Clara Morrison
Marie Butcher
Great Britain
Woebegone
Makanda lawyer cites poverty law work and indigent defense
A Makanda man writes a letter praising and questioning experience in poverty law cases. He recalls teaching at Northwestern University Law School and leading a program from 1969 to 1971 that represented indigent inmates in Joliet Dwight and Stateville, handling over 45 felony cases to secure fair trials. He urges private lawyers to fill gaps left by Legal Services Cepr, noting ongoing pro bono efforts and his own no cost defense of an incarcerated Latino youth.
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Northwestern University Law School
Chicago
Northwestern University
Illinois
Joliet
Dwight
Stateville
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