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A female student caused a stir at her university in Brazil, after being escorted off the premises for wearing"inadequete clothing".
Student Geisy Arruda, was immediately expelled from Bandeirantes University in Sao Bernado do Campo, for arriving on campus in a short pink dress, which was against the insitution's moral rules.
The dress was seen as being too provocative for the eductional environment, and would provoke other students. Traditionally jeans and t-shirts are worn to classes.
Arruda was taunted by students as police led her out of the university, following the decision for her expulsion.
So far Brazil's national student union has supported Arruda's case.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/723046--brazilian-s-mini-dress-too-hot-for-class?bn=1
**Video by Brazilian news channel below**A female student caused a stir at her university in Brazil, after being escorted off... more
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Artist David Ingham was thrown out of school when he was 12 by headmaster Marcelus Forster - who told him at the time he would 'never amount to much'.
Well, 55 years later Ingham - who went on to become an art teacher - has been commissioned to paint a portrait that very headmaster.
He said: "The secretary of the Old Boy's Society got in touch because he knew of my work. He said 'we'd like you to do one of Mr Forster', I said 'you do know he expelled me don't you?'"
Ingham said he used to wind up the headmaster: "One day he said 'get out here and I'll cane you' and I said 'come and get me.' He went to the head after that and I was expelled."
But it's all water under the bridge now. The portrait will hang in the school's library.Artist David Ingham was thrown out of school when he was 12 by headmaster Marcelus... more
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The producers of Ben Stein's movie, "Expelled," have won an important victory for fair use. Fair Use is a doctrine in U.S. copyright law that carves out some exceptions to the exclusivity of copyright in certain areas. In this case, the film, in which Stein makes an argument for intelligent design, used a 15 second clip of John Lennon's song, "Imagine." Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow and the rights holder of Lennon's musical catalog, sued the filmmakers saying they did not have her permission to use the song.
A District Court judge ruled against Ono, saying that, because the filmmakers were using the song clip in the contest of criticism, the use was covered under the fair use doctrine.
This is a great victory for those of us who believe that copyright holders in the U.S. (in the vast majority of cases, giant corporations and bazillionaires, like Ono) have been going on a drunken bender of litigation against perfectly legitimate uses of their copyrighted works and, in the process, trampling both fair use and the First Amendment underfoot.
(Regardless of how you might feel about I.D., this is a big win for intellectual freedom and free speech.)The producers of Ben Stein's movie, "Expelled," have won an important... more
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The movie "EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed" is a documentary about how the people promoting ID are claiming to be persecuted by the scientific community, who will not allow ID to be introduced into public schools.
There was a recent court case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which determined that Intelligent Design was creationism in disguise. NOVA produced a documentary about the case that can be viewed on-line.
One of the positions the judge cited for his decision to rule against the teaching of ID in the class room was based on evidence found showing “the text referred to as a resource for ID, Of Pandas and People, had originally been a creationist text.”
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/
Q: What is science?
Q: Isn't evolution just a theory, not a fact?
Q: What is intelligent design?
Q: Why not teach intelligent design, or creationism, alongside evolution?
These questions can be answered at this link http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/defi-qa.html
The movie "EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed" is a documentary about how the... more
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