[snip] “Most of my Christian friends have no clue what goes on in faculty clubs,” writes William Stuntz, a Harvard law professor and evangelical Protestant, in a November 29 posting at Tech Central Station on the Web. “And my colleagues in faculty offices cannot imagine what happens in those evangelical churches on Sunday morning. In both cases, the truth is surprisingly attractive. And surprisingly similar: Churches and universities are the two twenty-first century American enterprises that care most about ideas, about language, and about understanding the world we live in.” He does allow that churches could be more open to argument, and that universities could use more humility.
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[snip] “Public” highways. According to the fall newsletter of the Elmhurst-based Citizen Advocacy Center, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority spent two years devising a ten-year, $5.3-billion capital budget plan, then “gave the public less than one month to comment. . . . Multiple hearings were on the same nights, making it impossible for a majority of the Board to attend, and some hearings were on religious holidays.” The agency didn’t even use its unique ability to give notice of the meetings–its tollbooths. “Cash payers had notice of the name of their toll collector, and when the next oasis was open for business, but not the date of the next public hearing.”
