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Support lags for women's hockey team

By Scully, Megan
It's game day for the BC Women's Ice Hockey team. The players have arrived at the rink an hour and forty-five minutes ahead of game time to stretch, warm up, tape their sticks, and get treatment for their aching muscles and minor injuries. They gather in the locker room for a quick cheer before lining up outside the door to the rink ready to put their week's hard work and practice into play. They are ready; they are stoked, and they are pumped. Their warm up music comes on over the loud speakers and they step out on to the ice into a stadium of absolute silence and empty seats.

Supreme Court deliberations threaten Boy Scouts'

By Tim Czerwienski / Heights Senior Staff / Columnist
The California Supreme Court is considering forbidding the state's 1600 judges from participating in the Boy Scouts of America. Canon 2C of the Code of Judicial Ethics bars judges from belonging to groups that discriminate based on race or sexual orientation. An amendment to that canon permits judges to participate in non-profit youth groups like the Boy Scouts. Several county bar associations, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, have petitioned the Supreme Court, asking that this amendment be revoked. They believe that membership in the Boy Scouts of America compromises a judge's impartiality when faced with a homosexual litigant or defendant. The Supreme Court is conducting a study to determine its course of action. A decision to eliminate the amendment would essentially require judges who are Scouts to leave that organization, or lose their jobs.

Affirmative action bolsters higher education

By Alvarez, Elmer
Affirmative action gives Hispanics, blacks, women and other minorities special consideration for employment, education, and contracting decisions. It was created to allow minorities to have an equal chance of advancing.