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Highlighting News Stories for Our Town for the week of  November 1, 2004

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Newsbreak for Walpole
The Week – November 1
The Year 2004

The Campaign Ends; A New Cycle Begins

Now that the rhetoric of the campaign is consigned to the archives of history, we look ahead to the future to assess reality with the promises of the campaign.

What can we expect?

1. Social policy will be guided more by the actions of various courts than by presidential edict or legislative action. For example, the public schools are affected by the rulings of the Supreme Court in the area of discrimination. To pray or not is an issue decided by court action.

2. Thus, the nominations made by the president to replace retiring Supreme Court Justices will have great significance for the future of our country.

What is in a Name?

1. The issue of naming the Elm Street School after a prominent person in the town has raised considerable discussion.

2. The question that is most basic would seem to be this. What benefit to the school and to the children attending the school arises from providing a name for the school that is associated with a person. Does the name of a building or institution determine the worth or value of the building?

3. Then, if naming is a good thing, should we perhaps consider renaming all school buildings to fit this principle?