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11-17-2003, 05:21 AM
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More Southern Discomfort
A substitute teacher in Virginia is angling to change the names of Robert E. Lee Elementary and Jefferson Davis Middle schools because they are psychologically damaging to the black students who attend them, reports The Associated Press.
Erenestine Harrison said the schools in Hampton, Va., named for the Confederate leaders are inappropriate. She wants the schools to bear names of people she considers better role models for children.
Statue Struggles
A statue of a Spanish colonizer of America, Don Juan de Oñate, due to be placed in central El Paso, Texas, will be renamed and placed elsewhere in order to appease Mexican-Americans and American Indians who think he was a mean guy, reports the El Paso Times.
The El Paso City Council voted to remove Oñate’s name from the statue and call it simply "The Equestrian" after activists complained that he mistreated American Indians when he colonized the American Southwest in the 16th century. The statue, 10 years in the making, will be placed at the airport instead of in town.
Historians decried the move as a disgrace.
"There are probably still Confederate sympathizers who would applaud if we renamed the tall man seated in the Lincoln Memorial simply 'The President,'" said John Kessell, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico. "And if we eliminated from the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol every one who had offended, killed or maimed someone else's ancestors, there would be hardly anyone left."
Museum Madness
The director of the National Air and Space Museum says he will not turn the museum’s exhibit on the Enola Gay aircraft into an anti-nuclear, anti-war tirade as some professors at American University in Washington want him to, reports the Washington Post.
The professors wanted the exhibit about the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima to include data about the victims on the ground and the politics of nuclear weapons.
But the director of the museum, Gen. John R. "Jack" Dailey, said the placard will stick to vital statistics about the plane and its role in history.
The museum has placed the B-29 Superfortress, totally restored for the first time in 43 years, in its companion museum, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.
Short People Got No Reason:rolleyes:
A court in Norway has ruled that the government must pay for a short man’s car because he is afraid of being teased when riding public transportation, reports the Aftenposten newspaper.
The 22-year-old man, who is 4’2" high, said he has had anxiety attacks at the thought of riding the bus ever since he was bullied as a young boy on the school bus. Government officials initially said that was his problem, but a special social welfare court ruled that society shouldn't expose him to the psychological burden of riding the bus.
link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103229,00.html)
More Southern Discomfort
A substitute teacher in Virginia is angling to change the names of Robert E. Lee Elementary and Jefferson Davis Middle schools because they are psychologically damaging to the black students who attend them, reports The Associated Press.
Erenestine Harrison said the schools in Hampton, Va., named for the Confederate leaders are inappropriate. She wants the schools to bear names of people she considers better role models for children.
Statue Struggles
A statue of a Spanish colonizer of America, Don Juan de Oñate, due to be placed in central El Paso, Texas, will be renamed and placed elsewhere in order to appease Mexican-Americans and American Indians who think he was a mean guy, reports the El Paso Times.
The El Paso City Council voted to remove Oñate’s name from the statue and call it simply "The Equestrian" after activists complained that he mistreated American Indians when he colonized the American Southwest in the 16th century. The statue, 10 years in the making, will be placed at the airport instead of in town.
Historians decried the move as a disgrace.
"There are probably still Confederate sympathizers who would applaud if we renamed the tall man seated in the Lincoln Memorial simply 'The President,'" said John Kessell, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico. "And if we eliminated from the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol every one who had offended, killed or maimed someone else's ancestors, there would be hardly anyone left."
Museum Madness
The director of the National Air and Space Museum says he will not turn the museum’s exhibit on the Enola Gay aircraft into an anti-nuclear, anti-war tirade as some professors at American University in Washington want him to, reports the Washington Post.
The professors wanted the exhibit about the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima to include data about the victims on the ground and the politics of nuclear weapons.
But the director of the museum, Gen. John R. "Jack" Dailey, said the placard will stick to vital statistics about the plane and its role in history.
The museum has placed the B-29 Superfortress, totally restored for the first time in 43 years, in its companion museum, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.
Short People Got No Reason:rolleyes:
A court in Norway has ruled that the government must pay for a short man’s car because he is afraid of being teased when riding public transportation, reports the Aftenposten newspaper.
The 22-year-old man, who is 4’2" high, said he has had anxiety attacks at the thought of riding the bus ever since he was bullied as a young boy on the school bus. Government officials initially said that was his problem, but a special social welfare court ruled that society shouldn't expose him to the psychological burden of riding the bus.
link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103229,00.html)