News Sources: 'Water Wars' in the Southeast

Georgia, Florida and Alabama have agreed to a federally-drafted plan for sharing water, temporarily calming a vicious battle over nature's most valuable resource. An extended drought has left southeastern states critically short of water. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, includign the following (click on names for contact information):

Jill S. Schneiderman - Professor of Geology, Vassar College - Schneiderman is an expert on U.S. environmental policies, natural resource use, property rights and takings, and the environmental aspects of sustainable forestry and agriculture, and the environmental impact of war. She studies metropolitan water supplies, growth of cities, environmental justice, river processes and flooding.

David R. Orvos - Associate professor of environmental science, Sweet Briar College - Orvos has seven years of environmental consulting and industry experience. He’s doing research on lake and river ecosystems, and also can discuss climate change, watersheds, water quality and risk assessment.

Noelwah R. Netusil - Associate Professor of Economics, Reed College - Netusil is an expert on natural resource economics. Her interests have included the effects of gold mining on water-related resources in the Humboldt River Basin, Nevada, and nonpoint source pollution from agriculture. See her Web site at http://www.reed.edu/~netusil/ for details.

Animal Rights and 'Making a Killing'

In Making a Killing: The Political Economy of of Animal Rights, author and St. Lawrence University sociology professor Robert J. Torres challenges conventional anti-capitalist thinking and convincingly advocates for the abolition of animals in industry - and on the dinner plate.

"Soapbox Alliance" to Challege Closed-Door Political Meetings

When political candidates hold "town meetings" on college campuses but limit attendance to hand-picked suppporters, is that consistent with the goals of higher education or democracy? Allegheny College thinks not, and it's launching a national movement to end such practices.