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SASCO: unaccountable menace
FEATURE: The following article appears as an editorial in the May 2012 edition of 'In Our Future', a publication produced by DASO UCT. It deals with the South African Students Congress which, for years, has been a menace to good student governance across the country. As is its want, SASCO's reaction to the article has been as predictable as it has been deplorable, with the usual volley of threats and intimidation. Nevertheless, the facts remain. It's an important read, and gives you some insight into the way SASCO – the ANCYL of university politics – behaves, by focusing on one particular incident and SASCO's response to it.
Holding our student leaders to account
In our Future
By: Emma Selfe
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The triumph of the people of South Africa in 1994 was the relatively peaceful overthrow of the apartheid regime. The sacrifice of those who died, those who were forced into exile and who were imprisoned and tortured to make our country free and democratic, saw its expression in the Constitution.
At its core, South Africa's Constitution gives political power to its people. Its people, by their votes, lend that political power to governments at various levels. What the people require in turn is proper accountability. That means that those in power are by definition obligated to explain, regularly and in detail, what they are doing.
Unfortunately that does not always happen, and the ANC government, which once served as a symbol of hope, has become obsessed with power. Under its watch, corruption has become a cancer in our society, sucking resources from the poor and marginalized. Under its administrations, service delivery to the poor has become less important than contracts for the politically connected, and luxury sedans for political office bearers.
Despite its nominal commitment to transparency and accountability, the ruling party seems simply to do whatever it wants. It treats those who vote for it with contempt; it patronizes and seeks to coopt civil society institutions; and is now seeking to muzzle the media and others who expose wrongdoing through the Secrecy Bill. Bizarrely, the way the ANC government operates increasingly resembles the way the apartheid regime ruled – without accountability.
This tendency is replicated in the ANC's allies and front organisations. This is particularly true of SASCO, the ANC's front on campuses.
The conduct by some SASCO SRC representatives constitutes a pattern of unaccountability. Like the ANC, SASCO seems to believe that it can do as it pleases, and use our resources for personal gain. SASCO SRC members have also proved themselves guilty of activities that are destructive and dishonest.
To quote but a few examples: at the beginning of this year, a SASCO member of the current SRC at UCT, Mike Ramothwala, committed misrepresentation when he misled the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's SRC, saying that he was on an official visit to NMMU on behalf of the UCT SRC. He stayed in NMMU accommodation, and had all his needs catered for at the expense of NMMU students. At no point did the UCT SRC give Mr. Ramothwala explicit permission to visit NMMU as its representative. An SRC disciplinary committee subsequently strangely found Mr. Ramothwala innocent where he was obviously guilty of misrepresentation and undermining the reputation of UCT.
It is even more disturbing that the SASCO-led SRC has not yet disclosed this to UCT students. Were they trying to help their SASCO colleague out of this mess, or did they simply think that UCT students were not important enough to know what happens on the SRC? DASO UCT has sourced an affidavit from the President of the NMMU SRC, which details Mr. Ramothwala's activities and the expenses which he incurred on their budget. Subsequently, the President of the NMMU SRC has expressed his disgust at the fact that UCT was misrepresented at their institution.
Another example: at the end of 2010, at Mangosuthu University of Technology in KwaZulu-Natal a former SASCO SRC president used a motor vehicle belonging to the University without its knowledge or consent. He caused considerable damage to the vehicle amounting to R26 301.61. As a result, he was suspended from the University's premises, as well as from all residences.
Subsequent to this, in early 2011, the same SASCO leader ignored his suspension and led an angry mob of 200 students into the kitchens of Lonsdale student residence. They proceeded to threaten staff members and take a considerable amount of food by force. The estimated value of damages came to around R10 000. The SASCO leader was again suspended for his actions, and was later expelled from the University.
In another incident in 2010, SASCO SRC members continuously ran onto the University of the Free State's sports fields during an intervarsity tournament and proceeded to intimidate and threaten the players, as they believed the tournament's policy of racial integration was completely inadequate. According to UFS, this turned out to be an SRC election campaign strategy. The University had to obtain a court order in an attempt to stop SASCO members from damaging property, assaulting or intimidating people.
Accountability implies that elected leaders will always have our best intentions at heart, and that they will always know what they are doing. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. The only way in which we will get a clean and responsive student government is by holding our University's SRC accountable for its actions and the money it spends.
It is because of this that we, as the student body of UCT, need to hold our student government to account, so as to ensure that the SRC remembers that it is a privilege to represent our views and needs, and not a right. Once we do this, we can be assured that UCT funds are spent on needy students, and are not used for those members' own interests; that members of the SRC are genuinely interested in what we need as the student body, and not simply on being reelected; but most importantly, that they take active steps to make an authentic and positive change in their term of office.
At the next SRC election at UCT, we need to ask ourselves whether the SASCO SRC really does care. For now though, DASO UCT will be following up through the appropriate channels regarding the incidents reported and why they were not handled appropriately by the UCT SRC.
Campus politics are not personal. However as student leaders our values and actions must always be beyond reproach. The current SASCO caucus in the SRC is demonstrably failing the student body.
It's time for change, and that change is now.
Some other examples of SASCO failures:
• In late 2010, SASCO released posters saying "One Bullet, One Boer", and "Blacks only organization (strictly South African)" at CPUT. SASCO denied releasing the posters, but nothing was proven otherwise.
• In late 2011, SASCO orchestrated an illegal protest demanding the removal of rector Jonathan Jansen at the University of Free State by gathering in front of the main building and emptying rubbish bins.
• In late 2011, SASCO and its politically affiliated partner, the ANCYL, bussed in an angry mob of around 800 protestors to the University of the Free State. After the Free State chair of SASCO called rector Jonathan Jansen a 'coconut', protestors armed with sticks and stones clashed with students whilst its SASCO and ANCYL members started singing 'Kill the Boer'. Riot police were called and 150 people were arrested.
• A few years ago, UCT used to loan out a house that they owned in Mowbray to the SRC President for the term of his or her office. There was a minimum rental of around R200 per month. One night then SASCO SRC President held a party riotous enough to warrant police involvement. It then came to light that the SRC President was staying there without the knowledge of UCT or of the SRC office, and was not paying the minimal monthly rental of around R200 that was required. The DASO caucus at the time, forced this individual to move out of the house, and within a few months he was actually removed as SRC President partly because of that night (among other charges).
Emma Selfe is a third year student at the University of Cape Town and a member of the Democratic Alliance Young Leaders Program. She serves as DASO UTC's media and communications officer and editor of the DASO publication 'In our Future'.
Filed Under: Student Politics
Tags: DA Students Organisation : DASO : Misrepresentation : Sasco : SRC : Students Representitive Council : University of Cape Town


SPRING TRENDS: HOW TO STYLE MAXI DRESSES FOR SPRING?
Spring is approaching, slowly but surely. The cherry trees have already blossomed, and to me that's the best indication that sunny and warm days are sure to follow. I have a good feeling about this spring. How about you? Are you ready for it? Are you craving those warm and sunny days? Are you planning your spring outfits yet? In case you're looking for some fashion inspiration, I've decided to talk a bit about some of my favourite spring/summer trends. In addition, I selected some items from FashionMia to share with you.
(because that is what we live for. Seriously, I love how this spring all kinds of prints will be trendy, from animal to geometrical ones. I'm really looking forward to that).
I need to clear out my closets before I get to spring shopping, but I'll probably going to buy some long maxi dresses. I love to wear maxi dresses and this clothing item is definitely ideal for spring and summer. I'm also on a look out for some new swimming suits. I typically opt for cheap swimwear, because I do tend to swim a lot and go through swimsuits quickly. Sometimes I do invest into more expensive swimming suits, especially if I see something I really like. I do have a lot of swimwear. I wasn't able to do much swimming last few years, but hopefully this spring and summer, I'll be able to spend more time at the beach.
HOW TO STYLE MAXI DRESSES FOR SPRING?
I love the looks, my dear. But the third one is my favorite because, it's really very beautiful! I am delighted!
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Bill Prime sat in his office. His eyes were closed, his chin rested on his chest. He had his feet up. The double-pedestaled desk was flesh-toned, with chrome molding around top. It was a teacher's desk from a high school. A cup of bitter coffee rested on his lap, held in both of his hands. The phone in front of him was made for multiple lines, black, with a front panel and a card to write in the different extensions. Bill only had one extension.
"No." Bill closed his eyes. Francine was silent for a moment.
A half an hour later Bill was at the country farm house in Ridgeview. The snow was melting and the temperatures were up in the high thirties. It was a February thaw when it had supposed to be a January thaw. The tails of February, really – tomorrow would be March 1st.
Lucy was standing on the warped front porch, singing softly to herself. The boards in the floor bowed and had sprung several nails. She held onto one of the two pillars at the head of the three stairs. One stair tread had long ago lost a chunk and there was a ragged, splintered hole there, just enough to swallow a foot, to snap an ankle.
"Be careful of those steps," he said to her, walking up. She made no move as if she were going to descend from the porch to greet him, but stopped singing. Maybe he was talking to himself. After all, consider who she was.
She had thin curls of hair underneath a red embroidered handkerchief. If she had leukemia or cancer or female pattern baldness, she'd never admitted to it. As he neared the porch he heard the chirping of his cell phone from his inner breast pocket. He reached into his blazer and took it out. It wasn't an incoming call. The battered phone was acting as though it were dying of battery, when it had held a full charge only that morning. He gently hit at it with the heel of his palm, yawning while he did.
He saw in his mind the giant dinosaur Dell in the corner of his office, vastly underused except for his spreadsheet database and a few CAD drawings of houses like these.
He smiled at her, as was appropriate for the small talk. She hadn't been looking at him, but over his shoulder, behind him, at his car, at the sky. Now her eyes found him when he smiled. She tilted her head and frowned. Bill thought that maybe, a woman as homely as this, with the squarish face, the three corkscrew hairs from the chin, the missing teeth, maybe a woman like this would have eyes like emeralds, but she didn't. Her eyes were the color of dried mud. The scowl lingered on her face.
"What is it?" He swallowed and winced like a boy caught masturbating.
"It's your smile," she said. He waited for more, but that was it. She often told him what he already knew – that electronic devices often wigged out when they cleansed a house – and she would offer little cryptic phrases, like about his smile, and not explain them. This was the great Lucy. He had known her for two years.
She took her eyes off of him and turned towards the front door. The door there was white with peeling paint and two single panes of glass, side by side. The glass rattled as she opened it, the doorknob squeaked in its turn. He followed her into the house.
Inside, he smelled the mildew of old wet carpet. He looked up and saw the water stains in the hallway ceiling, like smears of feces. In front of him the hallway, just a dogtrot, really, fed into a back kitchen. A set of stairs with missing spindles in the railing led to the bedrooms. She turned left inside the door into the living room. He followed. A fireplace in this room, massive stones, a slab granite mantle with an s-curve wane. There was no furniture in the room, but brighter spots in the mottled green carpet where furniture used to rest. Cobwebs festooned the corners where cracked crown molding met the ceiling. A window looking out to the porch, multipaned with pieces of glass missing or fissured. She continued on to the wide doorway on the far backside of the room. They walked into the dining room, where an elegant table remained with six antique chairs, all coated with thick layers of dust. The legs of the table formed the furled paws of an animal with casters on the bottom of each.
To the right was the next doorway into the kitchen. As Lucy walked in front of him Bill saw her hands were open at her sides, palms down, the arms a few inches out from her barrel torso. She wore a brown shawl around her shoulders. Some kind of ragged sweater. Grey pants, slacks or corduroys he couldn't tell; they were worn and baggy. On her feet a pair of dingy white sneakers, like a nurse might wear. This was how Lucy usually looked.
In the kitchen that was once probably yellow and orange, now a uniform sepia tone. A stainless steel ladle rested on a molding woodblock. The sink was full of ceramic dishes, many of them broken. Food congealed over years encrusted around the edges of plate pieces and petrified inside bowls. The place smelled like hard, rusted water and rotted meat. Bill put a hand over his mouth and nose. He looked at the back of Lucy's head and took his hand away. If she didn't mind, he shouldn't mind. He felt like gagging. "I'm going to open a window," he said.
She didn't respond. Lucy had walked to the far end of the kitchen where there was a hood above the gas stove. Bill thought he could detect the smell of gas beneath the sour milk, rotten meat and sulfurized water. He wondered if the pilot was still lit. It shouldn't be, but maybe it was. Lucy stood by the hood and remained still. No, Bill thought, she seemed to hover. He checked her feet to see if she was levitating. The grubby white shoes were still on the ground. Yellow stick-'em tiles covered the floor. The corners of several were missing, revealing the sodden plywood below. It wouldn't take much to bust through that floor, Bill thought, suddenly concerned that he or Lucy might find a soft spot and break through. He bent for a closer examination. There was a gap between one exposed sheet of plywood and the next. Along the edge of the plywood, chipped particles looked like hangnails on a finger. Bill wondered what was down there, beneath the wood, in the crawl space.
The camera crew would be arriving at noon. It was now 10:15. This was how Lucy worked. This was how she and Bill had arranged things for some time now. First, the two of them gave a false start time to the video team. Then they came two hours beforehand, just the two of them, and she went to work. When the camera and sound and gawking producers arrived, she would repeat what she had originally done in private. It was a bit fraudulent, maybe, but Lucy was a purist when it came to the real work. She'd explained to Bill on their first gig that while outside influences didn't render her ineffective, exactly, they worked on her something like the Observation Principle in science. It was impossible to tell how much the presence of the cameras and the other people skewed her findings. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. It was safer, better, more accurate, she'd told him, to go it alone on a first pass. Then Lucy, to her credit, was a good show woman. She could reenact her own course of action without hammy antics, with total believability. Often, she'd told Bill, she encountered things she hadn't on the first pass, more pieces to the puzzle, a greater fleshing out of hazy ideas.
She didn't close her eyes. Vision was important, she'd told him on one of their first gigs. It wasn't just about feeling, like a lot of the phonies claimed. Feelings, anyway, were linked with smell and sight and touch. What good would it do to wear nose plugs? Put mittens over your hands? For Lucy, the senses were the tools for feeling – for the information – as she, to Bill's thinking, quite clinically put it once. Did she see things? Did things take shape in the air in front of her, protean auguries, ghostly flashbacks? He'd always wanted to ask her, but never had. What did she smell? Did she scent what he did? The decay of hidden food and old copper plumbing? Or did she get other odors, alien smells, whiffs of the netherworld? He'd never asked her this, either. He'd never questioned Lucy as to any of her process. For one thing, that was just what everyone else did. Whether he was a skeptic himself or not, Bill didn't feel the need to be part of the naysayers. Professional respect? Maybe that, too. Just because you didn't know what a mechanic did under the hood, or what a bacteriologist did in a lab, didn't mean you disbelieved in their work. A person had to take some things on faith. Even when a person claimed to believe in facts, facts were ephemeral over the eras of time. What was once a heliocentric model of the earth became geocentric. What were powers belonging to only gods became the fire tamed by humans. What was the business of protecting and serving people became a fruitless endeavor. Didn't it? Entropy was the underlying law of everything. The tendency towards chaos and sameness. What Bill knew was that everything before its understanding evoked skepticism and doubt, and revolutions began in secret.
Take the brain, for instance, long considered to be hardwired after five or six years of development. Now it was believed to retain a plasticity capable of reforming even in late years. Once, Plenum was the basic stuff of all life. Centuries later it was Strings. M-theory. Relativity parlayed into theoretical physics. Theory became accepted as scientific truth. Two-time physics and parallel dimensions. There was no reason to question Lucy Dean's methods of communicating with the past, the future. There was sense of the curious, yes. But, the fact of it was, Bill just didn't care. Whether it was something, whether it was nothing. It was work. Even in such a lackluster economy, they got their contracts. Nothing much else mattered. Not even Bill's last day as a cop. Not that. Not anymore.
Bill Prime had become a private investigator. A person could call him a "cold case" investigator. Rather than snap digital pictures of wives in bed with other lovers, or unearth corporate fraudulences, Bill worked those cases that'd become moldered and discarded by everyone but those most intimately involved or affected. This put Bill at the back of the line, or the furthermost ring in the co-centric circles of the criminal investigation solar system. This put Bill in a small office with a clanging radiator and busted overhead florescent light in one of the shittiest little towns in Upstate New York. In between the long tracts of blunted corn, aching barns with split rafters, behind the church where tiny children spilled from afternoon school with guppy eyes and mustard-stained mouths was Bill's office. And this was fine with Bill, this was good. Cold cases couldn't hurt anybody. Emotionally, sometimes, maybe. But who cared about that? If they paid, they asked for it. No one died before their time in a cold case investigation. Even with Lucy Dean at the helm.
Lucy's mouth opened. Bill stood a few feet from her, his arms hanging at his sides, the black bag in his right hand, one side of his shirt collar sticking up out from his blazer. He watched her dried, paintless lips, a wiry hair that sprouted from her pitted chin and quivered. "Hhhaaaa," she said.
"Tuner," Lucy said. Bill could see she was breathing shallowly. He thought he might even detect her heart beating in her chest, the shawl vibrating with it, the filigree woolen hairs of the shawl trembling beneath her chin. Bill pulled out the "Tuner" from the bag. The Tuner was a guitar tuner. The kind that, when you plucked the E string, if it was out of tune, high or low, the needle would register to one side or the other. In tune and it stuck straight up. He walked over to Lucy and held it out to her.
Lucy had perfect pitch. She hummed a G.
Bill strained on his tiptoes to see the tuner over her shoulder, where she held it at her bosom. He could see the flash of the red needle, but at the last minute Lucy shifted so that he couldn't see where it landed.
Lucy shifted her position again, getting closer to the stove, so that her spare tire belly bumped into the edge of it. She bent slightly at the waist and hummed the G again. Her voice was a beauty to behold. It bloomed like a flower in ash.
Bill strained again to see, but it was no use. She let fly with the G one more time, and Bill thought it sounded as though, for the first time, he could hear a tremor in her voice. She fell silent, and stood looking at the tuner, even though the needle would now have returned to rest.
"Lucy." He said. He took a step towards her. She turned on him quickly and held up her hand, palm out. "Don't," she said.
Bill stayed where he was told. He asked again, "On, Lucy, or over?" By now he was sure that they had an over, that they had something here.
Under, Bill thought. They hadn't had an under yet in two years. They hadn't had an under in over twenty sites, twenty gigs.
Her left eyebrow went up, her forehead furrowed.
"If it's under, it's under. That don't change what's next." The lines smoothed in her doughy forehead and she turned back to the stove. She set the tuner down on the stove and pointed up into the hood.
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Q: jQuery :visible does not find the element I have a page where I have an text input at certain screen sizes which changes to a select at other screen sizes.
THE CHALLENGE
I want to be able to get the value of the input or select on keyup or change without having to duplicate the code - so I give the elements the same ID, knowing they will never be visible at the same time, and choose to find the element using: e.g. #ID:visible - code below

$('#test:visible').on('keyup change', function(){
 alert($(this).val());
})

 <input id="test">

<select id="test">
 <option value="10">10</option>
 <option value="20">20</option>
</select>

THE PROBLEM
This simply doesn't work. I have read the jQuery visible-selector page and it seems that I'm doing things the right way, but the alert simply does not fire.
Am I misunderstanding how this works?

A:
so I give the elements the same ID, knowing they will never be visible at the same time

Unfortunately, that's not how it works. You can't duplicate id attributes within the scope of the same document regardless of the elements being visible or not. You need to use classes to group multiple elements together:

$('.test:visible').on('keyup change', function(){
    alert($(this).val());
})

    <input class="test">

<select class="test">
    <option value="10">10</option>
    <option value="20">20</option>
</select>

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Very easy trick to give dogs pills when peanut butter, cream cheese, steak, blowing in their nose, etc...doesn't work.


Mighty River Power has appointed Fraser Whineray as its new chief executive.
Mr Whineray has been with the company for five years and is currently the general manager of operations.
He takes up his new role on 1 September replacing Doug Heffernan who retires after 14 years.
Mighty River chair Joan Withers says the board considered candidates from New Zealand, Australia and further afield.
Before joining Mighty River Power in 2008, Mr Whineray worked for Carter Holt Harvey and had senior roles in the dairy industry and with Credit Suisse First Boston.
Mr Whineray will earn a base salary of $850,000 with the potential to earn up to $1.3 million if financial goals are hit.
Meanwhile, Mr Heffernan says he's going to take a well-deserved break from September for at least a year before considering his next step.


So I never see anything on the internet on how to care for glue in hair extensions. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough but I'm here to tell you how to care for your glue in hair extensions. Glue in hair extensions are just hair extensions that are glued to your hair line, not scalp. And applied with a special hair glue. These hair extensions can be either professionally applied or applied by yourself.
First you must be very gentle with hair extensions.
It's better not to use brushes with the little balls on the tubes of the hair brush.
Combing the hair is best, because it all goes in the same direction.
Brushing hair extensions excessively is bad for them. So do so at your own risk.
Since the hair is attached to your head you will have to wash them with your real hair.
Don't scrub the extensions and wad them up! Put shampoo in you hands and rub them together, then run your hands through your hair.
Make sure to get shampoo in between the wefts.
Deep condition the hair extensions once a week and make sure you use moisturizing conditioner and either a subtle shampoo or a moisturizing shampoo every day to every other day.
Always use a heat protector on your hair.
Hair extensions don't curl easily so I wouldn't recommend using socks or leave in curlers or anything without heat. If you want curls you'll have to use heat or they usually look nappy.
Hair extensions can last a very long time, you can wear them up to a month if you apply them yourself but I recommend taking them out every 2 to 3 weeks.
If you are gentle and care for them you wont have a problem and you can keep reusing them.
I'm not a professional, But I do glue in and I have also clipped in. So I know what the best ways to keep hair extensions in shape are. So thank you and if you have anything to add be sure to comment, we can all learn some new things and I would love to hear your tips. Thanks!


Where's the best place to get your brew on? From beer gardens to bars, here are some of our favorite spots to knock back a few pints.
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The Belgian restaurant is known for its pots of mussels and frites, but it also offers a wide range of brews to choose from, including more than 60 Belgian beers and over 40 beers on draft. Head to one of their locations (Dupont Circle, Cleveland Park, Bethesda) and take advantage of their amazing happy hour where you can score an $11 pot of mussels and discounted half liters of select beer Monday - Friday from 4 PM-7 PM. (Multiple locations).


REI's outdoor school teaches students how to recreate outside while respecting the outdoors.
Rock climbing is having a moment.
In 2017, a record number of new climbing gyms opened in the U.S. Last month, National Geographic's Free Solo, which features climbing superstar Alex Honnold, was nominated for an Oscar. In 2020, for the first time, climbers can compete at the Olympics in Tokyo. In New York City alone, the climbing-curious can check out a dozen gyms, with a handful more scheduled to open before the end of 2020.
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by Benjamin Lepak | Oct 5, 2020 | Blog | 2 comments
The deans of 150 law schools, including all three in Oklahoma, have written a letter to the American Bar Association (ABA) asking the organization to require "every law school provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism." These politically loaded terms are left undefined in the letter, but given the terminology, almost surely refer to the newest school of critical race theory, most prominently expounded by professor Ibram X. Kendi in his best-selling manifesto, How to Be an Anti-Racist. Most Americans would find Kendi's views distinctly at odds with their own definition of racial equality. Most of us consider Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of a society in which people are judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character as the aspirational ideal. Not critical race theory and "anti-racism." As articulated by Kendi:
Since the 1960s, racist power has commandeered the term "racial discrimination," transforming the act of discriminating on the basis of race into an inherently racist act. But if racial discrimination is defined as treating, considering, or making a distinction in favor or against an individual based on that person's race, then racial discrimination is not inherently racist. The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist.
There is a word for this way of thinking: racism. Or, if you prefer, racialism. Though he casts himself as rescuing Dr. King's legacy from a sanitized, incomplete popular perception limited only to the King of 1963, Kendi's construct, in reality, requires the rejection of Dr. King's dream. According to Kendi, race neutrality or believing one is "not racist," is a mask that prevents progress toward true racial equity. King never espoused such views and never abandoned the precepts he lead the civil rights movement by in the early 1960s, even were Kendi's account of his later "radicalism" accurate. As one commentator explains Kendi's anti-racism theory:
To oppose reparations for slavery (or to have no opinion on the matter) is racist. To say "All lives matter" is to place oneself among those "beleaguered White racists who can't imagine their lives not being the focus of any movement." To allude to color blindness or talk of a "post-racial society," to back religious freedom or voter-ID laws . . . these are racist things, too. Even the overarching vision that rallied white liberals to civil rights — the belief that blacks could, and should, assimilate into American society — becomes morally suspect.
But this blog isn't intended as a meditation on race, as much as I need my inbox to fill up with love letters. My concern for the moment is more with the law school part.
A few months ago, 1889 Institute published a study about the ABA's dysfunctional monopoly over the accreditation of law schools and proposed to break that monopoly by ending the requirement that applicants to the bar receive a degree from an ABA-approved law school. The ABA, a private trade association for lawyers, obtained its cartel over legal education after extensive lobbying of state legislatures decades ago, and its victory was nearly total. Today, in 47 states, one cannot sit for the bar exam without having first graduated from an ABA-approved school. Ending the ABA accreditation requirement would allow new law schools to open, competition from which would force innovation in the provision of legal education. Combined with an improved bar exam that better measures competency, the result would be better law schools, better lawyers and a better legal system.
The cartelization of legal education has produced precisely the results one would expect: reduced quality, increased prices, and a homogenized legal academe. This ideological regimentation has rendered law schools susceptible to being co-opted by obscure dogmas. In the case of public law schools, much of the political gobbledygook that passes for legal education is often starkly at odds with the views of the people footing a huge part of the bill—taxpayers.
This is bad for the legal system, which is enough of a reason for reform. But it's also destructive to the political system. Lawyers play a special role in public life. Some important elected offices can only be filled by lawyers (judges, prosecutors) and others are historically dominated by them (legislative seats). Virtually every elected official relies heavily on the advice of lawyers. One would be hard pressed to think of a group of individuals who have a greater influence on government than lawyers.
We should pay attention to how these lawyers are educated and intellectually formed. In the study, I suggested that perhaps the ABA's domination of legal education has something to do with the unusual leftward skew of lawyers as a group. It is not obvious that lawyers should be more liberal as a group than say, accountants, or doctors, or bankers. But they are. They really are. This wasn't always the case.
Consider just the example of lawyers in Oklahoma during the New Deal era. The articles in the Oklahoma Bar Journal from that time read like letters from Wendell Willkie's campaign committee. Much of the bar's scorn for Roosevelt, incidentally, was directed at the President's efforts to pack the Supreme Court. Can you imagine any bar association today excoriating Chuck Schumer and other leftwing reactionaries for dusting off this old assault on constitutional government? Me neither.
Notably, there is a dean of a top 25 law school who did not sign onto the letter (as best I can tell, on of, if not the only, dean of a Tier 1 or 2 law school who declined). This man is the first black man to serve as the dean of his law school, and speaks movingly of the discrimination he and his family faced when he was a child. Here he recounts when, in 1968, his father's face was crushed with tire irons and baseball bats, his white assailants leaving him die in front of his young children. It's a truly hideous tale of racial violence, the apparent motive for the crime being only the color of the victim's skin.
I do not know this dean's politics and do not profess to speak for him. But I can say I am proud that G. Marcus Cole is the dean of my alma mater, Notre Dame Law School. Dean Cole did not arrive at NDLS until ten years after I graduated, so I've never actually met him. As such, I want to be clear that the following are my own suppositions, not his, and are made from afar.
Perhaps he has other reasons for refusing to join the letter, but I suspect someone like Dean Cole—who has risen to the top of his field by overcoming real racial prejudice—has one principal reason for refusing to join the lockstep march of today's self-proclaimed anti-racists: he recognizes their kind. They may not be violent, but at the root of their worldview is the same ugly premise as was held by the racists who assaulted his father all those years ago.
In a recent talk on race and the Culture of Life, Dean Cole reminded listeners that "each of us is made in the likeness and image of God, which means that God reflects many races, and that we need to see each other as He sees us." This admonition is difficult to square with an ideology that considers color-blindness, itself, to be racist.
In any event, the law school deans' misguided letter is only the latest episode in the steady leftward drift of the legal academy. Since these deans and their underlings carry such sway over our political system, shaping generation after generation of attorneys, it matters what they teach. Law school should be a place for free and open debate, which is the only way to arrive at truth. Curricula that begin with a worldview that separates thinking, unique, complicated individuals (all of us are) into either part of the racial problem or part of the solution, and that reject the idea that we ought to judge individuals as individuals, not as members of a group they had no option to join and cannot leave, are inconsistent with the American legal tradition.
Time for some competition.
Ben Lepak is Legal Fellow at the 1889 Institute. He can be reached at blepak@1889institute.org.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the official position of 1889 Institute.
a	on October 15, 2020 at 11:47 am
This just in, white guy doesn't want predominantly white institution to be concerned with modern and evolving understanding of racism. Truly shocking. What garbage this is.
Ben Lepak	on October 15, 2020 at 1:38 pm
To the extent ABA-monopolized legal education can be classified as a "predominantly white institution," perhaps we should ask if part of what makes it that way is the monopoly itself. Why not open up the system to new ways of thinking?
Turns out, the question has be asked and answered. I suggest you read George Shepherd's work on the discriminatory motivations underlying the ABA's lobbying effort to close off legal education beginning in the 1920's, and how continued ABA domination of legal education produces discriminatory results to this day. Here's a good place to start: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=263211

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In an announcement many saw coming, Florida Senator Marco Rubio on Wednesday said he will seek re-election to a second term, just three months after he dropped out of the Republican presidential race and implied he would leave politics when his role ends in January.
His team released a statement Wednesday morning, two days before the filing deadline, in which Rubio acknowledged that he had changed his mind. Rubio said he made his decision because one of the Senate's roles is its constitutional power to act as a check and balance on the president. His decision is expected to provide the GOP with some of the momentum the party needs to block a Democratic takeover of the Senate.
Rubio, 45, cited his worries about either presumptive nominee—Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton—becoming president. He vowed he would vote for Trump in the November general election, despite the New York billionaire's incessant bullying of the senator when they were rivals in the presidential race.
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Rubio ended his presidential bid after he lost his home state's primary to Trump, the presumed GOP nominee. He previously had spoken out against becoming vice president and running for governor of Florida or re-election in the Senate.
On May 16, Rubio tweeted, "I have only said like 10,000 times I will be a private citizen in January." On Wednesday morning, he said he chose to seek re-election over Father's Day weekend, when he was in Miami with his wife and four children.
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Q: Jinja templates syntax hilighting I'd like to adapt jinja.el to work with one-line comments using ##. But my knowlege of elisp is bad. Who can help me? What do I want: i'd like to hilite
## some text
## {% include "_template.html" %}

as a commented out strings. But it works not fully correct. 1st line of snippet looks like comment out while 2nd - not. Here is what i've got:

And here is a part of jinja.el taken from Jinja's git repo plus my regexp for ##:
(defconst jinja-font-lock-keywords
  (list
;   (cons (rx "{% comment %}" (submatch (0+ anything))
;             "{% endcomment %}") (list 1 font-lock-comment-face))
   '("{%-?\\|-?%}\\|{{\\|}}" . font-lock-preprocessor-face)
   '("{# ?\\(.*?\\) ?#}" . (1 font-lock-comment-face))
   '("## ?\\(.*\\)" . (1 font-lock-comment-face))
   '("{#\\|#}" . font-lock-comment-delimiter-face)
   '("##" . font-lock-comment-delimiter-face)
   ;; first word in a block is a command

A: OK. I found solution. Change
'("## ?\\(.*\\)" . (1 font-lock-comment-face))

to
'("## ?\\(.*\\)" . (1 font-lock-comment-face t))

ie setting 'override' parameter to true solves me question.


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Gruff singer goes it alone
Jenny Ritter performs at Victoria's Solstice Cafe, 529 Pandora Ave., on Oct. 4 and 5.
Oct. 3, 2012 7:00 a.m.
Jenny Ritter celebrates her new solo record Bright Mainland at Solstice Cafe this week.
This October, Jenny Ritter's long-awaited solo project surfaces, and you're going to want to be right there with your rod and net for her Victoria performance at the Solstice Cafe.
Ritter is a well-known singer songwriter from the westcoast, perhaps best known as co-founder of The Gruff, and the creator and director of East Vancouver indie-rock choir, The Kingsgate Chorus.
Her new release Bright Mainland, is a record five months in the making, chronicling the past three years of the writer's life, in which she moved from Vancouver Island to the mainland, chasing love and opportunity.
The music itself, much like Ritter's feelings about living in the city, is hard to pin down. Threads of acoustic guitar and viola interweave with pedal steel, electric guitars, and steady, heavy drums. There's a distinct alt-country feel to the album's aesthetic, while the chord progressions take on an older more traditional folk feel. Overtop of all of this, Ritter's voice navigates complicated, soaring melodies with surprising simplicity and sweetness.
The record is flooded with talent from western Canada's folk and Indie elite including Adrian Dolan (The Bills/Ruth Moody Band) who is both producer and multi-instrumentalist, while Lucas Goetz (The Deep Dark Woods) rounds out the band with drums and pedal steel.
Featured guests include Ryan Boeur (Fish & Bird), Bear Erickson (Ona) and David Newberry.
There are also appearances by Ritter's brainchild, The Kingsgate Chorus.
Ritter performs with Newberry at Victoria's Solstice Cafe, 529 Pandora Ave., on Oct. 4 and 5, doors at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $12, with a limited number of advance tickets available at Solstice Cafe.
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