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Opinion - Randy Cohen

SHOO-INS AND LONG SHOTS

Sun Aug 31, 8:01 PM ET

I serve on my town's Cultural Council, which awards state-financed grants to local arts projects. Many council members themselves are artists and are permitted to apply for grants. Those members leave the room when we consider their proposals. But unlike ordinary applicants, every council member seeking a grant has received one. Is it ethical for council members to receive these funds? -- Name Withheld, Massachusetts

  • LAZY PAPERBOY Sun Aug 24, 8:01 PM ET

    Our son, 17, has a weekly paper route. He is supposed to deliver on a particular day but sometimes takes until the weekend.

  • RIGHT SPEAKING, RIGHT VIEWING Sun Aug 17, 8:01 PM ET

    My wife and I had a disagreement recently about the ethical duties of a teacher. I teach fourth-graders and maintain that if a student mispronounces a word, it is my sacred duty to correct the student. It's the dictionary or the highway as far as I'm concerned. My wife says that regional accents (i.e., Boston, Deep South, etc.) should be left uncorrected. Who's right? -- Michael Leavenworth, San Diego

  • THE HEART OF THE ALMA MATER Sun Aug 10, 8:01 PM ET

    A college with which I am affiliated discovered that its alma mater was written for a blackface minstrel show in the 1900s.