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Volume 72, Issue 134,
Friday, April 20, 2007
Opinion
Staff Editorial
EDITORIAL BOARD
Robyn Morrow
Chris Elliott
Report card cuddles up to Germans Germany: A Germany agreed Thursday to ratify amendments regulating an archive of Nazi documentation from the Holocaust, The Associated Press reported -- a welcome decision in expanding the body of work on history's deadliest genocide. President Horst Koehler's signature made Germany the sixth of 11 nations that oversee the archive to ratify the amendments, creating a majority vote that will allow the more than 30 million pages of documents to be unsealed. Administered by a branch of the International Committee of the Red Cross, researchers and survivors are rarely allowed to see the trove of death lists, train schedules and concentration camp statistics stored in the German town of Bad Arolsen. It is critical that these valuable resources be released into the public domain as soon as possible -- the information contained can provide elucidation and closure to the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors. Texas Senate: A The Texas Senate passed a bill unanimously Thursday that would constitute a massive overhaul for the Texas Youth Commission, The Houston Chronicle reported, which will go a long way in preventing repeats of the alleged abuses that occurred in 2005 at a rural detention facility. Senate Bill 103 stipulates that jail staff require additional training, that an independent office be created to follow up on complaints and that juveniles not be sent to state jails for misdemeanor convictions, among other items. The Senate has effectively demonstrated the ability
to forego partisan politics in favor of humane treatment. This could serve
as a precedent for correctional systems nationwide.
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