Show WIRE SERVICE BRIEFS Education Department may rethink privacy rules Washington DC D.C. CPS The US U.S. Department of Education which oversees most federal funding may rethink its threat to cut off federal funding to colleges that report the names of students students students stu stu- stu- stu dents arrested by campus police officers an unnamed department spokesperson said Earlier in the spring judges in Arkansas and Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- soud ordered colleges to let papers have the names of crime victims and suspects College fights slurs with poster State College Pa CPS Penn State University has printed posters designed to shock students into awareness that racial sexual and ethnic slurs hurt peoples people's feelings Theres a nasty name for everyone you Think about it reads the poster shipped to the schools school's 22 cam campuses The poster lists 46 insults offensive to blacks people of European or Russian ancestry ancestry ancestry an an- women Asians Hispanics the elderly disabled disabled disabled dis dis- dis- dis Middle Eastern people Native Americans S Caucasians and religious people By showing that ethnic slurs hurt it is hoped that people will be less likely to use them said Pat Peterson vice president for campus 11 life ife |