Public choices
The University Board of Regents are trying to pass themselves off as innocent victims of Michigan's Open Meetings Act. Last month, a local judge found a large portion of the recent University presidential search to be in violation of the act. However, the regents claimed that the court order - and the act itself - skewed the result of the search, making it more difficult to get to know the candidates. But the regents are missing the point - holding the final part of the search out in the open will positively reinforce the choice of former Law School Dean Lee Bollinger as James Duderstadt's successor.
Teen-age troubles
The United States is giving minor teen-age mothers an ultimatum: Live with a legal guardian and stay in school or lose all welfare benefits. The new rules took effect Oct. 1; they affect all new welfare applicants. Existing recipients will become subject to the new rules when their cases undergo an annual review. The new welfare guidelines constitute a negative approach to teen-age welfare dependency - they specifically target women and they fail to provide for extenuating circumstances.
God, Wilde and Woody Allen
Sunday was my birthday - as far as birthdays go, it was OK, I guess. The highlight was a card I got from a friend of mine who is in rabbinical school. I will call him Dreyfus, for the sake of anonymity (anonymity is important to him, although I am not exactly sure why - actually, Dreyfus sends me cards with different names every time, to ensure his anonymity from me - I have already forgotten his real name).
Letters to the Editor
Yuki Kuniyuki: Ground Zero
11-12-96