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Supreme Court Explores High School Searches, Personal Drama

Sam Guzik

Posted: Apr 24th 2009 10:06AM


Filed under:  National News, Washington University, News



Sam Guzik is now a contributor for The Cram, a student news arm of the newly launched PoliticsDaily.com. To follow his future work, click here.

The Supreme Court is one of the United States's most venerable institutions, packed with nine of the nation's best legal minds, so it makes sense that they might be a little too busy to keep up with popular culture. Comments during the oral arguments in a case earlier this week, though, take out of touch to a new level.

Safford Unified School District v. Redding, heard by the court on Tuesday, asks the justices to weigh in on the constitutionality of strip searching students in schools when administrators have received a tip about hidden contraband but no location-specific information. While sorting through the complex fourth amendment issues, Justices found themselves transported back to their own time in school.

Take Justice Breyer, who wondered how the strip search was any different than what he had to endure while being forced to change for gym class and, less relevantly, while being teased by fellow students.

"In my experience when I was 8 or 10 or 12 years old, you know, we did take our clothes off once a day, we changed for gym, OK? And in my experience, too, people did sometimes stick things in my underwear," said Breyer while trying to point out that it might not be unusual for children to hide things from teachers in their underwear. As the court broke out into laughter, Breyer quickly added, "Or not my underwear. Whatever. Whatever."

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That May Be in Poor Taste...

Sam Guzik

Posted: Jun 26th 2008 11:20AM


Filed under:  International News, Washington University, Odd News

Don't mind the sandbags outside and the sound of gun fire resonating through the restaurant -- the food is great!

The BBC reports that a new restaurant in Beirut called "Buns and Guns" is looking to attract customers by playing to one of the things that the Middle East is best known for: terrorism.

"They accuse us of terrorism, so let's serve terrorist bread, why not?" Yousef Ibrahim, the restaurant's owner, told Hezbollah's al-Manar TV, the BBC reports. In addition to terrorist bread, the restaurant (motto: "A sandwich can kill you") serves popular favorites like the Kalashnikov, Dragunov, Vipe and B52.

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