Re: [Gecko] HSUS

[JohnCebula]

Thanks to all who have replied.

The specific project is to decide, after learning about a social activist group (the NAACP, the SCLC, SDS, etc., are among the groups other students are researching) if the group practices civil disobedience as defined by Henry David Thoreau in his essay. This particular student is interested in animal rights, and another student had already chosen PETA, a group my students have researched in the past and about whom I knew there was a wealth of information. Except for what has appeared in recent herper literature, I was unsure about HSUS. What I wanted to learn was whether HSUS had been involved in other controversies.

Since research often challenges most students (and especially so this particular student), I frequently need to give students more guidance than some people may have experienced in their own classes. The student herself found the HSUS web site (quite an accomplishment--she does not have access to the Internet except in school during the few periods when I can take the class to the library) and is free to draw her own conclusions about the organization. What she'll be accessed on is how successfully she can support her conclusion as to whether (or not) the group practices civil disobedience.