Las Vegas graduate bets on a change of opinion(s)
Brittany McComb, this year’s valedictorian at a Las Vegas-area high school, has filed a lawsuit againt Clark County school officials for shutting off her microphone when she started a part of her draft speech that the principal and other officials judged to be proselytization. From a 2000 9th-circuit opinion, Cole v. Oroville Union High School, […]
Rice University breaks the mold in university publishing
I’m delighted to hear that Rice University is restarting its refereed university press as an online-only enterprise with print-on-demand options. I hope this provides a demonstration of the enormous stability of online publishing costs—no worries about printer costs to force presses to figure out what they can publish. The primary costs will be in the […]