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Validated how? Maybe by making integration voluntary. Inside Higher Ed reports that after the regents' meeting, "administrators also stressed — in a way that they haven't before — that the rights of individual professors mattered too. Randall O'Brien, the interim provost, who was at the regents' meeting, said the resolution 'is definitely talking about voluntary inclusion' of faith in learning."

So many tea leaves. Read into them what you will.

In other Baylor news, another high-ranking official who had supported Sloan has resigned. Beck Taylor, economics professor and associate dean for research & faculty development, has taken a position as dean of Samford University's School of Business. Several other pro-Sloan officials, including three vice presidents, have also left the school since Sloan was removed as president in January.

Also, the Truett Seminary student who made headlines in 2004 when he announced that he was gay and thereby lost his scholarship is back in the news. A court ordered James Matthew Bass to pay Baylor $47,000 in damages and $30,000 in attorneys' fees for sending more than 1,000 pornographic and obscene e-mail messages to university officials and their families.

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Rob Moll has a Christianity Today Weblog Bonus today, focusing on Zimbabwe. Be sure to check it out.

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John Roberts:

• A year of work to sell Roberts to conservatives | The White House worked behind the scenes to shore up support for Judge John G. Roberts among its social conservative allies (The New York Times)
• Poll: Roberts' abortion stance of interest | Just over half of all Americans — and a solid majority of women — want to know John Roberts' position on abortion before the Senate votes on whether to elevate him to the Supreme Court (Associated Press)
• Abortion & justice | Let's hope John Roberts is a genuine moderate (Edward Whelan, National Review Online)
• Playing the Catholic card | Democrats have taken this religion-baiting long enough. It's time to stand up to the Republicans' libeling through labeling (Amy Sullivan, Beliefnet)
• Roberts rules | President Bush has picked for the Supreme Court one of Washington's top legal minds and resumés. But John Roberts' conservative record may tell us less than many think about the type of justice he will be | by Lynn Vincent (World)

Jane Roberts:

• Nominee's wife is a feminist after her own heart | Those scouring the writings of John G. Roberts to assess how he would vote on future Supreme Court cases involving abortion will not find much clarity from his wife's record. Like him, she seems unequivocally antiabortion in her personal views, but from there she does not follow the usual path (The Washington Post)
• Wife's role in women's group now in focus | Jane Sullivan Roberts's story is a complex one (The Boston Globe)

Life ethics:

• Major abortion rights group gives approval to Bloomberg | Naral Pro-Choice New York said that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record of support outweighed his affiliation with a party opposed to abortion (The New York Times)
• Law may change on mercy killing | Mercy killing could be reclassified and no longer treated as murder under the first major shakeup of murder laws for 50 years (The Guardian, London)
• One free IVF treatment for all | All patients will be able to get a free cycle of IVF treatment on the NHS providing they meet certain criteria drawn up by experts (BBC)

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