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Articles in February, 2004 issue of AScribe Law News Service

• Overtown Job Training, Home Ownership, Youth Programs Get Boost With $1.5 Million From Knight Foundation.
• Study Released: Homosexual Allied-Military Officers Served Openly, Successfully With U.S. Forces in Iraq, Other Joint Operations; Findings Pose New Questions About 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.
• Prevalence of Rape Higher in Heavy Drinking College Environments.
• Two More Companies Broaden Anti-Discrimination Policy Under Pressure From Swarthmore College; College Joined in Shareholder Activism by New York City, Two Socially Responsible Investment Funds.
• Columbia University to House Extensive Human Rights Watch Archive; Library Acquisition Underscores University's Academic Excellence in Human Rights Arena.
• University of Virginia Experts Available for Comment on 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
• Black History Month Without Shortcuts: Unique Competition Helps Reshape School Curricula.
• Study Linking Sexual Assault, Alcohol Abuse: Experts Available for Comment.
• UC San Diego Jacobs School Professors to Receive Funding From von Liebig Center to Commercialize Academic Research.
• Expert on Jesus in Film Available to Discuss 'The Passion of the Christ': Reverend Dr. Frank Crouch, Dean of Moravian Theological Seminary.
• CSU Stanislaus Professor Authors Book on Hate Crimes.
• News Tip: U.S. Court of Appeals Ruling Will Not End Controversy Over Native American Remains, Duke University Anthropologist Says.
• Invoking President Lincoln's Legacy to Support Discrimination Is Offensive, Says Nation's Largest Civil Rights Coalition.
• Who Owns the Constitution? -- by Lori A. Johnson, Wellesley College.
• Students at Mount St. Mary's College Examine Juvenile Justice System Through Documentary Film.
• Homosexual Allied-Military Officers Served Openly, Successfully With U.S. Forces in Iraq, Other Joint Operations; Implications for 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.
• Kevin Cooper Death Penalty Case: Santa Clara University Expert Available for Comment; Ellen Krietzberg Directs Death Penalty College.(Brief Article)
• Expert: Granting Padilla Access to Attorneys a Strategic Move by Bush Administration, Duke Law Professor Says.
• Argonne Licenses Anti-Jet-Lag-Diet Software to Online Company.
• Idaho State University, U.S. Agency for International Development Help Score Victory for Guatemalan Indigenous Peoples' Rights.
• National Technology Transfer Center Helps Further National Security Research on Cargo Container Monitoring.
• Carnegie Mellon CyLab Education Director to Discuss Need for Increasing Safe Online Behavior For Youth.(Brief Article)
• Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures Announces National Business Plan Competition Finalists.
• 'The Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis': Psychologist's Book Raises Questions Beyond Problem of Pedophile Priests.
• First Amendment Should Function Differently for Children Than for Adults, Michigan State University Law Professor Says in New Book.(Brief Article)
• MacArthur Foundation Provides More Than $1.7 Million in Support of International Criminal Court.
• 'Prisoners Once Removed' Probes 'Indescribable Burden' of Imprisonment, Reentry on Children, Families, Communities.
• Civil Rights Coalition Outraged by Bush's Recess Appointment of William Pryor.
• Segregation in Cities and Suburbs: Old Trends and New.
• 13-Year-Old New Jersey Foster Child May Be Latest to 'Pay the Price of Foster-Care Panic,' Child Advocacy Group Says.
• Three Out of Four Financial Executives Willing to Sacrifice Shareholder Value to Meet Earnings Expectations: Unintended Consequence of Post-Enron Financial Reforms.
• Expert: Muslim Headscarf Ban in France Also Threatens Freedoms for Those Who Practice Other Religions, Duke Cultural Anthropologist Says.
• After Bank One, Only One Bank? Consumers Group Inner City Press Begins Challenge to Mega-Merger, Based on J.P. Morgan Chase's Involvement in Predatory Lending.
• Johns Hopkins Sociologist Available for Comment on Gay Marriage.
• Carnegie Mellon Engineering Students Design Product to Help Kennametal Improve Customer Productivity.
• Bay Area Loses $104 Billion in Economic Opportunity; Local Governments Can Play Key Role in Solving Problem.
• 'Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria' Wins Top Film Completion Grant.
• Ford Foundation Report Examines Human Rights Work in United States.
• U.S. Supreme Court Redefined Meaning of 'Equal' in Brown v. Board of Education Decision, Says UC Santa Barbara Scholar.
• Expert Available: California v. Scott Peterson.
• Study: Rectal Cancer Treatment Gaps Persist, Especially for African Americans.
• Civil Rights Leader Rev. Jesse Jackson to Speak at Holy Cross.
• Expert on Clergy Sex Abuse: Santa Clara University Professor Can Comment on John Jay Report and Clergy Sex Abuse.
• Advice for Post-Trial Martha: Avoid Talk Shows, Get Back to What You Do Best.
• Book Challenges Media Influence on Trial Verdicts.
• Columbia University, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education; Distinguished Participants Include Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Lawyers in Brown.
• Alleged Foster Care Abuse Caught on Tape Just Tip of the Iceberg, Child Advocacy Group Says.
• Donation of UC Santa Barbara Discovery to Institute for Oneworld Health May Accelerate New Treatment for Global Health Problem.