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Below is the MSNBC Article on the event: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37220562/ns/us_news-life/

AUSTIN, Texas - Is Texas on the verge of rewriting history, or just correcting it?

The answer depends on whom you listen to on the state’s Board ofEducation, which is poised to vote this week on new social-studies curriculum standards that could significantly shape what Texas children — and perhaps those outside the nation's second-largest state — are taught in the classroom.

Social conservatives on the 15-member Republican-dominated board are optimistic they will be able to push through curriculum changes that, according to board member and conservative Texas lawyer Cynthia Noland Dunbar, “promote patriotism.”

Among the recommendations facing a final vote: adding language saying the country's Founding Fathers were guided by Christian principles and including positive references to the Moral Majority, the National Rifle Associationand the GOP’s Contract with America.

Other amendments to the state's curriculum standards for kindergarten through 12th grade would minimize Thomas Jefferson's role in world and U.S. history because he advocated the separation of church and state; require that students learn about "the unintended consequences" of affirmative action; assert that "the right to keep and bear arms" is an important element of a democratic society; and rename the slave trade to the "Atlantic triangular trade.”

"The standards are looking real good now. We've made some significant improvements, and I am proud of what the board has done," board member Don McLeroy, author of many of the changes backed by social conservatives, told the Dallas Morning News.

The board holds a final public hearing Wednesday. It will consider amendments Thursday before a final up-or-down vote Friday on the curriculum document. More than 200 people have signed up to testify, and more than 20,000 comments on the proposed changes have been received, said Suzanne Marchman, spokesperson for the Texas Education Agency.

"There are a  lot of people who are concerned and want to share their information with the board," she said.

Not in our state
Because of Texas’ sheer size, the education board’s decisions could reverberate across the nation. Texas is the country's second-largest textbook buyer, behind California, and textbooks written to comply with Texas standards are sold in many other states.

Already, a California lawmaker has introduced legislation to prevent changes ordered by the Texas school board from being incorporated in California texts.

Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, says the Texas changes are historically in accurate and dismissive of the contributions of minorities.

"While some Texas politicians may want to set their educational standards back 50 years, California should not be subject to their backward curriculum changes," Yee said.

But some publishing industry experts say worries that the Texas standards will cross state lines are unfounded.

"It's an urban myth, especially in this digital age we live in, when content can be tailored and customized for individual states and school districts," Jay Diskey, executive director of the schools division of the Association of American Publishers, told The Associated Press.

Diskey said the California Board of Education's existing review process is so rigorous that the state "may be the last place that would end up with the Texas curriculum."

'Founded under God'
Texas school board member Dunbar, who home-schools her children and says sending them to local schools would be like “throwing them in the enemy’s flames,” says the changes she backs are all about “fighting for our children's education and our nation's future."

"In Texas we have certain statutory obligations to promote patriotism and to promote the free enterprise system. There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology,” she said in a recent interview with the U.K. Guardian. “There seems to be a denial that this was a nation founded under God. We had to go back and make some corrections."

Mavis Knight, a liberal member of the education board, has accused the social conservatives of trying to insert their political and religious views into the standards "whether or not it was appropriate."

"They're trying to indoctrinate with American exceptionalism, the Christian founding of this country, the free enterprise system. There are strands where the free enterprise system fits appropriately but they have stretched the concept of the free enterprise system back to medieval times,” he told the Guardian.

Regardless of the board’s vote, the influence of the social conservatives could be waning in Texas. For three and a half years, social conservatives have held seven of the 15 board seats and usually could count on picking up one or two votes from among the three other Republicans and five Democrats on the panel, according to the Dallas Morning News.

McLeroy was defeated in the March GOP primary by Thomas Ratliff, who has been critical of the social conservative bloc and promises a less dogmatic approach. Ratliff faces only a Libertarian candidate in the fall.

Also, Dunbar did not seek re-election, and her chosen successor lost the GOP primary to former educator Marsha Farney. Farney faces a Democrat and a Libertarian in the general election.

Those changes are expected to leave no more than five social conservatives on the board beginning in January.

A call to students, staff, and faculty of the Black community here at the University of Texas at Austin!

There have been many individual and small group conversations about the state of our community here at UT. Even though we are at the end of the semester and school year, we thought it was actually a really good time for us to sit down and move from talk to action. This community wide discussion will allow people of African descent to take a serious look at what we need to do to move the community forward. We have to own our place in perpetuating the problems as well as "show up" in the fight to create a better space while we are here at UT.

We fully understand that to many, this is an "old conversation" or something that "we've done before." Well it should also be clear that we have not seen the progress that we desire, complain about, crave, etc.

Join us. We need you there. Spread the word to everyone you know... we need your help in getting the students who don't/won't come out to something like this, to be there. If you care at all... even if, at this point, you don't care much about the community, I challenge/encourage you to be in the room. We have to look beyond our individual and sometimes divisive attitudes and look to see where we contribute to our issues and where we can make progress away from those issues.

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The O' So Sweet Brothers of the Iota Delta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. cordially invite you to...

The 28th Annual Miss Black University of Texas Scholarship Pageant : A Black Diamond Affair

Each year a group of unique, talented and exemplary young ladies, who display a passion for their school and community, are carefully selected to compete for a scholarship in the amount of $1000 and other various awards.

Come see what these young ladies have worked hard to prepare while you enjoy a night of talent, elegance, and anticipate who will be crowned the next Miss Black University of Texas!


9 EXTRAORDINARY BLACK DIAMONDS:
Contestant 1: Jeannique Norbert
Contestant 2: Courtney Durr
Contestant 3: Channing Alexander
Contestant 4: Toni Akindele
Contestant 5: Charnel Hollier
Contestant 6: Matty Hagan
Contestant 7: Breana Crummer
Contestant 8: Carissa Malone
Contestant 9: Funto Adebo 


9 well-qualified ladies, who will take the crown? Come and find out on:

Sunday, May 2, 2010

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Hip-hop newcomer Kid Cudi has once again changed the title of his forthcoming sophomore album for the third time. Originally to be titled “Cudder” then to “Cudder and The Revolution of Evolution”, the album will now go by the name of  ”Man on the Moon II : The Legend of Mr. Rager” and is intended to be released by August .

Cudi has been quoted as saying, “I started making this project like a collab album, filled with fun and upbeat records that for the most part left you with jack s**t when you were finished listening. I took a step back, went on tour, and realized I’m where I’m at because of the type of songs I write.”

Perhaps it can be said that this delay is more-so a quality control issue rather than a quantity issue. I definitely respect Cudi’s art and reputation and he should definitely keep his album in sort of a work in progress status to ensure that everything turns out okay and the public gets their money’s worth. I definitely enjoyed his first album and can’t wait until the forthcoming August release date of “Man on the Moon II : The Legend of Mr. Rager”.