Ethics Headlines
#71        

Volume 2, Number 19
                            Friday, May 5, 2006


Ethics Headlines is an ethics-in-the-news clipping file published each Friday by Greg Feldmeth, a high school teacher at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California. It contains news items from the media in the past week that deal with some area of ethical inquiry.

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This week's headlines--select the headline to read the article
  • A second ripple in plagiarism scandal. Fresh passages in the novel by a Harvard sophomore, whose book was pulled from stores last week after she acknowledged plagiarizing portions of it, appear to be copied from a second author.
  • Protecting the right to choose. (By Kate Michelman). There is undoubtedly a radical right-directed wind blowing across our nation and what many of us have long feared is beginning to happen — conservatives are institutionalizing their extremist agenda, restricting the rights of women and placing women's lives at risk.
  • When parents' values conflict with public schools. For millions ..., government schooling isn't an option in the first place: They would no sooner let the state decide what their children should learn than they would let it to decide whom they should marry.
  • Condemned man sits up and tells executioners, 'It's not working.' A double murderer was put to death in Ohio Tuesday but not until after one of his veins collapsed, causing the condemned man to sit up and tell his executioners, "It's not working," officials said.
  • Students, college clash over civil-rights parody. Tinu Oyelowu ...and other students on the tiny campus of Cornish College of the Arts are at odds with school administrators over a March 31 clown-class production they say went terribly wrong. Meant to parody white ignorance of the civil-rights movement, the performance by three white students resorted to painful stereotypes and mocked the era's icons.
  • Britain's oldest mother-to-be appeals for privacy. A 63-year-old child psychiatrist who is set to become Britain's oldest mother sought to defend her decision against accusations of selfishness on Thursday, saying she takes her responsibility as a parent seriously.

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