Steve Doig has spent the past three years researching diversity in the newspaper industry and criticizing newsrooms where the racial makeup of the journalists does not reflect the demographics of the communities they serve. "It's pretty grim," said Doig, the interim director of ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, noting that the industry employs an average of 12 percent of minorities compared to the general minority population of 32 percent in the United States. "There are not enough journalists of color, not enough professors, and not enough students." [Read article]

If one old lawyer and one young lawyer were drowning, and you could only save one, would you go to lunch or read the paper? It might surprise you, but law students enjoy lawyer jokes even more than the average person. The main reason that lawyer jokes are so popular is pretty simple: A lot of people don't like attorneys very much. This certainly isn't a new trend. Even one of Shakespeare's characters in "Henry VI" thought that "the first thing we should do is kill all the lawyers." There are many reasons for the apparent lack of love for the legal profession, but one that often gets overlooked is the lawyers' monopoly on understanding the law. [Read article]

Letter writers often forget about unity

We all remember Sept. 11, 2001. We remember the anguish felt that day, as we feared the sound of planes above us and frantically called loved ones. We remember our sense of loss, as more and more innocent lives were counted dead every hour for almost a week. We remember the telethons and hundreds of charities formed in its wake. But does anyone remember the sense of unity we gained in the following days, months, year? [Read article]