Dalai Lama's 'Summit' Stirs Debate For Schools
They have seen the Dalai Lama, and they still disagree.
Sandy White, an aide to a state lawmaker from Vancouver, Wash., maintains that area high school students should not have been allowed to attend a talk last week by the exiled Tibetan religious and political leader. But Kathryn Wells Murdock, the legal counsel for the Vancouver school district, contends that last week's field trip was entirely proper.
About 650 students from that district and a half-dozen others in southwestern Washington heard the Dalai Lama in Portland, Ore., where he drew about 8,000 teenagers to a "youth summit" arranged in part by Sharon Kitzhaber, the wife of Oregon's governor. Organizers billed the meeting as a rare opportunity to meet a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and hear him teach...
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