OSU in the News
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Ohio State University law professor Douglas A. Berman isn’t bothered by what his students do in class. If students want to play poker or watch porn during class, so be it, he says, though he knows his opinion is out of the mainstream. "I have students who don’t come to class. I have students who are paying attention and say dumb things. But so be it," Berman says. Berman’s only concern is when one student’s behavior distracts another’s learning experience.
ABA Journal on the Classroom Laptop Wars
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Also the fundies are continuing to explode into factions over Romney (also see here):
"A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan," (televangelist Bill) Keller declared in his daily e-mail devotional last May. His reasoning went like this: Romney's election would serve as a giant advertisement for a competing religion, Mormonism, which Keller and others believe has falsely portrayed itself as another form of Christianity in an effort to find converts. "He would influence people to seek out the Mormon faith," Keller predicted of a Romney presidency. "They would get sucked into those lies and they would eventually die and go to hell."
Salon: "A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan"
Pat Robertson, one of the most influential figures in the social conservative movement, announced his support for Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid this morning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Pat Robertson Endorses Rudy: Deems Him 'More Than Acceptable to People of Faith'
The Fark headline for this is Golden: Pat Robertson supports a pro-gay, pro-abortion, twice-divorced crossdresser for President
Ohio State University law professor Douglas A. Berman isn’t bothered by what his students do in class. If students want to play poker or watch porn during class, so be it, he says, though he knows his opinion is out of the mainstream. "I have students who don’t come to class. I have students who are paying attention and say dumb things. But so be it," Berman says. Berman’s only concern is when one student’s behavior distracts another’s learning experience.
ABA Journal on the Classroom Laptop Wars
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Also the fundies are continuing to explode into factions over Romney (also see here):
"A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan," (televangelist Bill) Keller declared in his daily e-mail devotional last May. His reasoning went like this: Romney's election would serve as a giant advertisement for a competing religion, Mormonism, which Keller and others believe has falsely portrayed itself as another form of Christianity in an effort to find converts. "He would influence people to seek out the Mormon faith," Keller predicted of a Romney presidency. "They would get sucked into those lies and they would eventually die and go to hell."
Salon: "A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan"
Pat Robertson, one of the most influential figures in the social conservative movement, announced his support for Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid this morning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Pat Robertson Endorses Rudy: Deems Him 'More Than Acceptable to People of Faith'
The Fark headline for this is Golden: Pat Robertson supports a pro-gay, pro-abortion, twice-divorced crossdresser for President