[lg policy] Arizona's war on Spanish comes to campus

[baron dennis]

There's a new post on the Web of Language: Arizona's war on Spanish comes to campus

Arizona’s constitution not only makes English the state’s official language, it also gives anyone who has been discriminated against or penalized for using English the right to sue. So Terri Bennett, a nursing student at Tucson’s Pima Community College, sued her school for creating what she regarded as “learning environment [that] was hostile to English speakers” in violation of Article 28 §3 (b) of the Arizona constitution.

Read the whole post on the Web of Language:  http://bit.ly/QtxkfY



Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English                    
University of Illinois 
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Urbana, IL 61801                                          

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