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Secret Language
A new book looks at how language conceals meaning. Scott McLemee puzzles over it.
Constitutional and Unwise
Just because public colleges can require student organizations to welcome everyone as members doesn't mean that's the best option, writes Shapri D. LoMaglio.
Lesson From Justice Kennedy
The Supreme Court's ruling on student organizations may end up playing a key role in the legal debate over gay marriage, writes Linda Hirshman.
Framing the Conversation on Research Universities
The future of leading public institutions is too important to be left to individual states, writes John B. Simpson.
All Summer in a Day
Elizabeth Grant wonders whether her students really know the sun, and how she can best teach them.
The Mood Is the Message
Researchers are studying Twitter as communication medium and index of public opinion. Scott McLemee catches up on the scholarship.
Who Gets to Guard the Gates of Eden?
Michael A. Olivas reviews and praises the legal arguments that carried the day in Monday's Supreme Court ruling on public colleges' anti-bias rules.
Honorable Technology
Colleges need to teach students not only how to use tools to learn, but how to use them with decency, write Sylvia Tomasch and Joseph Ugoretz.