"I just believe you can't have a financial incentive in public education -- it's scary," said Mr. Baine, 37. "It's really like a way of government walking away, giving up.
A Towson University student has proposed a campus White Student Union, leaving administrators and the student government walking a fine line between students' First Amendment rights and avoiding what many are calling outright racism at the Maryland university.
But instead of their government supporting them, their government walked away from them.
Members of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which leads the federal coalition government, walked out in protest.
Then, last month, the government walked away from negotiations with the mining giant Rio Tinto, which owns almost 80 percent of the Tiwai Point aluminum smelter on the South Island.
The government walked out of negotiations on 22 December, promising to present a new proposal for restructuring the mine's ownership.
"The government walks a very thin line between appearing liberal and modern to the west, and traditional and Islamic at home," the professor said.
In June, after members of the Congressional Black Caucus walked out during the contempt vote, Kent Terry Jr. released an e-mail that said: "Very sad that our childish government walks out.
Shortly after 3 p.m. on Thursday, July 17, 2003, David Kelly, a fifty-nine-year-old scientist employed by the British government, walked out of his house in Southmoor, a small village ten miles southwest of Oxford.
By John Cassidy Shortly after 3 p.m. on Thursday, July 17, 2003, David Kelly, a fifty-nine-year-old scientist employed by the British government, walked out of his house in Southmoor, a small village ten miles southwest of Oxford.
The peace talks began earlier this year, without a cease-fire, but were suspended last month after the government walked out to protest the seizure of the strategic town of Torit by the rebels.
