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A good friend of mine at NC State is President of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy. Under his guidance, the club has become increasingly active. This activity has mostly centered around education.

For instance, last week they had a Q & A session with a local lawyer, and watched a video from the ACLU. Even for me, as someone who has only been stopped for speeding once, and who has never (and will never) be in a situation where I will be worried about what the cops might find in a search, the session was incredibly interesting. From my point of view, the minute we excuse certain government actions by saying, "oh well that person is a criminal so who cares?" is the moment we lose our rights as citizens to be free from unreasonable searches.
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The second year of the College for Everyone Program at GreeneCentral High School rural North Carolina has begun.  Greene County Schools are in an poor (70 percent of students receive free or reduced lunch) and ethnically mixed district (about 50% African-American, 33% White, and 15% Hispanic) in Snow Hill in eastern North Carolina (about 60 miles southeast of Raleigh).  The program pays for students' freshman year at any of the state's 16 public universities or community colleges in counties surrounding Greene.  The "College for Everyone" program covers the college bills of high-school seniors who complete a college prep or college tech course in high school, refrain from using drugs or alcohol, and don't get suspended or commit a crime.  Scholarship winners must also promise to spend 10 hours a week during their first year of college volunteering.  Low-income families and first-generation students are especially targeted for the scholarships and the CFE program works in concert with the College Summit organization.