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Pentagon to close database used to monitor campus protests
The Defense Department promised to close down an anti-terrorism database that at one point contained information on anti-war protests on college campuses and elsewhere, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The database, known as Threat and Local Observation Notice or TALON, will cease operating in September but data already collected will be retained. Future information on threats to the military will be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Community college ordered to pay $3,000 per day fine for not paying up
A federal judge ordered Bishop State Community College in Mobile, Ala., to pay $511,000 to a history instructor who won a lawsuit alleging she was fired due to reverse discrimination, according to the Press-Register, a local newspaper.

Sarah Taylor, a white instructor, sued after her contract was not renewed in 2002. The judge ordered the college to reinstate Taylor and compensate her for lost wages and legal fees. So far, the college has not complied with the order and faces a $3,000 per day fine until it pays Taylor.
—Matt Weeks

 
 
 


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