Well, I'd take that news article with a grain of salt. I too am very worried about censorship, and the dumbing down of American education. But this is a complex issue; the State of Ohio chose to take no stand on the teaching of "creation science." This is a position that upset a lot of scientists and science teachers, but had they banned the teaching of CS others would have called it censorship. I think Ray is right that there is a way to bring disputes into the open, though. But I suspect that the issue concerning Mt. Rushmore is not just censorship in order to spare the feelings of Native Americans. Publishers of school textbooks are very conscious of space limitations. There has been a big push in the United States to begin including material in the curriculum that hitherto had been left out. But to include new stuff, some old stuff has to go. So there is another force at work in Wikipedia besides NPOV. Because the wikipedia is not paper, we do not have to get rid of one thing just to make room for another. S At 04:01 PM 5/22/2003 -0700, you wrote: Steven L. Rubenstein Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.478 / Virus Database: 275 - Release Date: 5/6/2003