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Africa Aid announces "Wear Empowerment" campaign to renew their successful School Lunch Program for the 2007-2008 school year

SAN DIEGO, California - April 16, 2007 - Africa Aid, an international nonprofit founded by a group of post-grads from the University of California, San Diego, is announcing a nationwide call-to-action: buy a t-shirt and feed an African refugee child for one school year. Leveraging the momentum from their successful School Lunch Program, which currently provides healthy, nutritious lunches for more than 200 children in the Buduburam Refugee Settlement in Ghana, Africa Aid hopes to sell enough shirts between now and June 30 to fund the program for the remainder of this academic year, and its entire second year.

"Our model is different than most nonprofits in that we are innovative, lean, and diligently focused on the impact of dollars raised," says Eric Woods, Africa Aid Founder and Executive Director. "By collaborating with American university students and faculty for program planning, and then working directly with our partners on the ground in Ghana, we eliminate middlemen and keep our overhead costs low, enabling us to feed an African refugee child for a full school year through the sale of only one Africa Aid t-shirt." Africa Aid is able to keep administrative and marketing costs related to t-shirt promotions low by relying on man-on-the-street guerrilla efforts at local universities, online social networking sites such as MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/africaaid), and word-of-mouth buzz.

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The University of Minnesota has stopped production of a T-shirt designed to raise money for the athletics program, saying the slogan "Brew’s Crew" is too closely related to alcohol.

The slogan on the front of the shirt is a play on the name of new football coach Tim Brewster, according to the shirt’s producers. The words surround a football with the letter "M" on it.

The university disagreed.

"We think that the word ‘Brew’ has a direct tie to alcohol," said Tom Wistrcill, associate athletics director. "We don’t think it’s in our best interest — for the athletic department and the university - to associate ourselves with that inference to alcohol."

The Goal Line Club - the booster club for the school’s football program — printed the T-shirts to raise money for the athletics program. The shirts were sold at the annual spring scrimmage to students for $10 - $6 of which went to the program.

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Students who wore attire with an offensive word in gay rights debate allowed to tone it down.

Turns out there’s yet another use for duct tape.

Rio Linda High School students who were suspended last week for wearing offensive T-shirts to school can put them back on — as long as they cover the word "sodomy" with duct tape.

Several students were suspended last week for wearing T-shirts that said "Sodomy is sin." The shirts were a response to the national Day of Silence, a day of activism when some students take a daylong vow of silence in support of gay friends and family members.
 
According to an agreement reached Monday morning between conservative religious leaders and school district administrators, students are now allowed to wear the shirts at school — if they’re altered.

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A hundred parents, teachers and kids from three free-standing charter schools packed the Senate Finance Committee hearing on a budget that will force their alternative public schools to close in June. Their orange T-shirts vastly outnumbered the lawyers in pinstripe suits with regulation orange badges to say they’re hired guns. Transparent fifth-graders and tenth-graders make good lobbyists.

Cocheco Arts and Technology Academy in Barrington, Seacoast Charter School in Stratham, and Franklin Career Academy in Franklin will have spent through their three-year federal start-up grants by June. They can’t make it on $4,000 per student the proposed House budget gives them. According to the Department of Education, the average public school spends $12,000 per child from the combined state, local and federal treasuries.

By law, a free-standing charter school is a public school that can’t raise taxes, can’t charge tuition, and has to take every kid who applies up to the approved number of slots. A lottery process kicks in if too many kids seek admission.

School districts can also start charter schools like the eLearning Center in Exeter. It gets much of its budget from local taxpayers. The residents will be footing maybe two-thirds of that school’s cost after its federal aid expires.

Eileen Liponis heads up fund raising at Seacoast, and said she’s run into a stonewall trying for foundation grants. No grants for public schools.

"That’s what the Gates and Wal-Mart Foundations told us," she said.

Mairead McCarthy, a fifth-grader at Seacoast, was proud so many people showed up to fight for charter school kids.

"It felt good," she said. "I want to keep this school going. I feel better in a small community like ours."

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By LAUREL ROSENHALL

A handful of students were suspended from a high school here for refusing to take off anti-gay T-shirts that administrators said were inappropriate.

The shirts, which the students wore in protest of the Day of Silence, said "Sodomy is sin" and quoted a Bible passage about homosexuality.

Phil Spears, interim principal of Rio Linda High School, said the shirts violated the school’s dress code. Students were asked to take them off, he said, and were suspended if they disobeyed the request.

"They’re offensive to some people and disruptive to school," he said. "Kids are going to react to these."

And that they did.

Protests were not nearly as large or inflammatory Wednesday as at other schools last year. Some of the suspended students and their supporters staged an after-school protest outside Rio Linda High. They held signs saying, "School censors Bible," "School bans free speech" and "Don’t silence Christians."

They were met by another group of students wearing shirts that said "Day of Silence." Some of them described themselves as lesbians, others said they wore the shirts in support of gay friends or family members.

"The Day of Silence is about stopping gay bashing," said Brittinnie McHenry, a Rio Linda freshman. "Imagine all those people who are silenced because they got bashed or killed."

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All Samantha Kuehn had on her mind when she wore her new t-shirt to school — with the slogan save the ta-tas plastered across the front — was her mom, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last month and just received a mastectomy two weeks ago.

But officials at Oklahoma Union High School in Nowata County are not happy about the senior student’s decision to wear such a shirt to school. The moment they saw it, in fact, they sent her home. And they told her not to return until she changed the shirt.

Kuehn and her mom, Michelle Bishop, are stunned that the shirt caused such an uproar.

"I was so surprised that my shirt would cause so much trouble," said Samantha. "Other girls wear low cut shirts or belly shirts and the boys wear shirts with put downs on them and no one bothers them. My shirt isn’t really vulgar or offensive at all, and it means something to me. The principal told me ‘It could be taken the wrong way’."

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