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However, she said that “under the current leadership, it’s just not going to be possible”. The charges alleged Dr Proudman had “failed to act with integrity” in posting the tweets, that they amounted to professional misconduct, were “misleading” and “inaccurately reflected the findings of the judge” in the case. The women’s rights campaigner was also accused of behaving in a way “which was likely to diminish the trust and confidence which the public placed in her and in the profession”, and that she “knowingly or recklessly misled or attempted to mislead the public” by making the posts. But panel chairman Nicholas Ainley found her tweets are protected under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right of freedom of expression. He said her tweets did not “gravely damage” the judiciary, which would “put them outside” of Article 10 protection, even if they “might not have been pleasant for any judge to read” or even “hurtful”. “We take the view that the judiciary of England and Wales is far more robust than that,” he said. The panel also concluded that some of the tweets were only inaccurate “to a minor degree” and not to the extent necessary for a charge of a lack of integrity. Speaking after the hearing, Dr Proudman told the PA news agency: “This ruling is a victory for women’s rights and a right to freedom of speech. “The prosecution against me brought by my regulatory body, the Bar Standards Board, should never have happened and I said that from day one. “I criticised a domestic abuse judgment. Everyone should have the right to do that, whether you’re a barrister or not. Our justice system, which I strongly believe in, is robust enough to withstand criticism from me.” She believes her tweets help “foster confidence” in the justice system, adding: “Only that way can we go about building change and a better treatment for all victims, women and children and men who are affected by domestic abuse.” Explaining that the BSB appears to have spent almost £40,000 “of barristers’ money” on instructing counsel in her case, she added: “I think it’s shameful that they’re using our money to pay for, in my view, malicious, vexatious prosecutions which I have no doubt was a personal attack against me as a woman and as a feminist, as an outspoken critic and advocate for women’s rights.” Dr Proudman called for “systemic change” within the board. “They don’t understand gender, they don’t understand diversity, I don’t think they’ve ever heard of the concept misogyny and certainly not institutional misogyny,” she said. “Until they recognise the deeply rooted, entrenched issue of bullying, harassment, sexism at the bar, for which I have suffered relentlessly... and own up to it I don’t think we’re going to see any change and I have no confidence in them.” She told of how male barristers have called her insulting names on social media and made derogatory comments about her. In the posts on April 6 2022, Dr Proudman referenced a case in which her client alleged she had been subjected to coercive and controlling behaviour by her husband, a part-time judge, meaning she had been “unable to freely enter” the couple’s “post-nuptial” financial agreement. Commenting on the ruling by Family Court judge Sir Jonathan Cohen, Dr Proudman wrote: “I represented Amanda Traharne. “She said she was coerced into signing a post-nuptial agreement by her husband (who is a part-time judge). I lost the case. “I do not accept the Judge’s reasoning. I will never accept the minimisation of domestic abuse.” She continued: “Demeaning the significance of domestic abuse has the affect of silencing victims and rendering perpetrators invisible. “This judgement has echoes of (t)he ‘boys club’ which still exists among men in powerful positions.” In the thread, Dr Proudman wrote that the judge had described the relationship of the couple as “tempestuous”, which she argued was a “trivialisation” of domestic abuse. “Tempestuous? Lose his temper? Isn’t this the trivialisation of domestic abuse & gendered language. This is not normal married life,” she wrote.High school quarterback battles back from repeated knee injuriesDrones, planes or UFOs? Americans abuzz over mysterious New Jersey sightings

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Making Food Into an Art in Muslim-Majority CulturesThree of the five regents at Western New Mexico University are Ph.D.s. Their lofty degrees are listed next to their names on Western's website. A fourth regent is an attorney at a firm in Santa Fe. The other decision-maker is a student. State government decreed long ago that the people paying tuition and fees should have a voice in how their universities are run. On paper, Western's five regents look good. One of them, Daniel H. Lopez, was president of powerhouse research institution New Mexico Tech for 23 years. But universities aren't run on paper. Western, in Silver City, is a poorly managed institution. Ultimately the regents are to blame. All five should resign. Instead of looking out for the public interest, the regents too often deferred to Western President Joseph Shepard. Evidence the regents were asleep at the helm was supplied this week by State Auditor Joseph Maestas. He released a lengthy "letter of concern" detailing waste and financial failings by the regents and Shepard, president of Western for 13 years. Maestas' staff found $149,000 in purchases from July 2018 through June 2023 did not comply with university regulations. This included a purchase of more than $17,000 by Shepard of furnishings for the president's official residence. The auditor's investigators said Western employees also skirted rules or policies on $214,000 in travel expenses during the same period. Publicly funded international travel was commonplace for Shepard, his wife Valerie Plame, and certain regents and university employees. Shepard and the regents authorized 47 different trips to 12 different countries in roughly the same five years reviewed by the auditor. Travelers journeyed to Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Israel, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, Serbia, Spain and Zambia. Mary Hotvedt, chairwoman of Western's board of regents, told me the school has made changes to comply with internal and state financial regulations. Her tone was conciliatory, a change from last spring when she wouldn't take questions, instead referring me to the university's publicity department. Shepard didn't respond this week to a request for comment. In a campus speech 11 months ago, he said, "I'm very proud of every dollar we spent on international students." Expenditures on students appear to be different from publicly funded international travel for Shepard himself, his wife and regents. Western listed its enrollment this fall at more than 3,600. Approximately 70 students are from foreign countries. Nearby Mexico is the biggest source of international students. The mess at Western should inspire immediate and long-term reforms, starting with finances. One man emailed me this week to say he read and reread all of The New Mexican's coverage about Western's misspending of public money. He was struck by an omission. "I didn't see the word 'reimbursement.' Do you think I might in future writings?" he asked. Absent a criminal case, restitution won't happen. Western's regents and Shepard have always closed ranks. That's all the more reason the regents must resign. As for the bigger picture, state lawmakers can point to waste at Western and alleged sexual assaults by former male basketball players at New Mexico State University as flashpoints for change. NMSU paid $8 million to two players who said they were sexually assaulted by teammates. The regents at New Mexico State sat idly as the outgoing chancellor handed a hefty raise and a contract extension to the athletic director. New Mexico's governor nominates regents. The state Senate almost always confirms them. Rarely is any nominee asked a hard question. Campaign contributors and people in certain social tiers often are installed as regents. Many know nothing about overseeing a university. Political pals also have an inside track on becoming regents. Then-Gov. Susana Martinez, a Republican, nominated conservative Carl Foster to be a regent of New Mexico Highlands University, even though Foster was suing that same school. The Senate Rules Committee for a change showed gumption by refusing to consider Foster's nomination. A year later, though, senators confirmed Foster as a regent of Western. His hearing was perfunctory. No question of substance was asked. Foster's six years as a regent ended in 2021. In sum, governors nominate anyone they like to be regents. There are no qualifications. A better system would be to elect university regents. At least then they would have to answer to the public. Rather than having a board of regents for each university, New Mexico should switch to two super panels. 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Former Boise State coach Chris Petersen still gets asked about the Fiesta Bowl victory over Oklahoma on the first day of 2007. That game had everything. Underdog Boise State took a 28-10 lead over one of college football's blue bloods that was followed by a 25-point Sooners run capped by what could have been a back-breaking interception return for a touchdown with 1:02 left. Then the Broncos used three trick plays that remain sensations to not only force overtime but win 43-42. And then there was the marriage proposal by Boise State running back Ian Johnson — shortly after scoring the winning two-point play — to cheerleader Chrissy Popadics that was accepted on national TV. That game put Broncos football on the national map for most fans, but looking back 18 years later, Petersen sees it differently. "Everybody wants to talk about that Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl game, which is great how it all worked out and all those things," Petersen said. "But we go back to play TCU (three years later) again on the big stage. It's not as flashy a game, but to me, that was an even better win." Going back to the Fiesta Bowl and winning, Petersen reasoned, showed the Broncos weren't a splash soon to fade away, that there was something longer lasting and more substantive happening on the famed blue turf. The winning has continued with few interruptions. No. 8 and third-seeded Boise State is preparing for another trip to the Fiesta Bowl, this time in a playoff quarterfinal against No. 5 and sixth-seeded Penn State on New Year's Eve. That success has continued through a series of coaches, though with a lot more of a common thread than readily apparent. Dirk Koetter was hired from Oregon, where Petersen was the wide receivers coach. Not only did Koetter bring Petersen with him to Oregon, Petersen introduced him to Dan Hawkins, who also was hired for the staff. So the transition from Koetter to Hawkins to Petersen ensured at least some level of consistency. Koetter and Hawkins engineered double-digit victory seasons five times over a six-year span that led to power-conference jobs. Koetter went to Arizona State after three seasons and Hawkins to Colorado after five. Then when Petersen became the coach after the 2005 season, he led Boise State to double-digit wins his first seven seasons and made bowls all eight years. He resisted the temptation to leave for a power-conference program until Washington lured him away toward the end of the 2013 season. Then former Boise State quarterback and offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin took over and posted five double-digit victory seasons over his first six years. After going 5-2 during the COVID-shortened 2020 season, he left for Auburn. "They just needed consistency of leadership," said Koetter, who is back as Boise State's offensive coordinator. "This program had always won at the junior-college level, the Division II level, the I-AA (now FCS) level." But Koetter referred to "an unfortunate chain of events" that made Boise State a reclamation project when he took over in 1998. Coach Pokey Allen led Boise State to the Division I-AA national championship game in 1994, but was diagnosed with cancer two days later. He died on Dec. 30, 1996, at 53. Allen coached the final two games that season, Boise State's first in Division I-A (now FBS). Houston Nutt became the coach in 1997, went 4-7 and headed to Arkansas. Then Koetter took over. "One coach dies and the other wasn't the right fit for this program," Koetter said. "Was a really good coach, did a lot of good things, but just wasn't a good fit for here." But because of Boise State's success at the lower levels, Koetter said the program was set up for success. "As Boise State has risen up the conference food chain, they've pretty much always been at the top from a player talent standpoint," Koetter said. "So it was fairly clear if we got things headed in the right direction and did a good job recruiting, we would be able to win within our conference for sure." Success didn't take long. He went 6-5 in 1998 and then won 10 games each of the following two seasons. Hawkins built on that winning and Petersen took it to another level. But there is one season, really one game, no really one half that still bugs Petersen. He thought his best team was in 2010, one that entered that late-November game at Nevada ranked No. 3 and had a legitimate chance to play for the national championship. The Colin Kaepernick-led Wolf Pack won 34-31. "I think the best team that I might've been a part of as the head coach was the team that lost one game to Nevada," Petersen said. "That team, to me, played one poor half of football on offense the entire season. We were winning by a bunch at half (24-7) and we came out and did nothing on offense in the second half and still had a chance to win. "That team would've done some damage." There aren't any what-ifs with this season's Boise State team. The Broncos are in the field of the first 12-team playoff, representing the Group of Five as its highest-ranked conference champion. That got Boise State a bye into the quarterfinals. Spencer Danielson has restored the championship-level play after taking over as the interim coach late last season during a rare downturn that led to Andy Avalos' dismissal. Danielson received the job full time after leading Boise State to the Mountain West championship. Now the Broncos are 12-1 with their only defeat to top-ranked and No. 1 seed Oregon on a last-second field goal. Running back Ashton Jeanty also was the runner-up to the Heisman Trophy. "Boise State has been built on the backs of years and years of success way before I got here," Danielson said. "So even this season is not because of me. It's because the group of young men wanted to leave a legacy, be different. We haven't been to the Fiesta Bowl in a decade. They said in January, 'We're going to get that done.' They went to work." As was the case with Danielson, Petersen and Koetter said attracting top talent is the primary reason Boise State has succeeded all these years. Winning, obviously, is the driving force, and with more entry points to the playoffs, the Broncos could make opportunities to keep returning to the postseason a selling point. But there's also something about the blue carpet. Petersen said he didn't get what it was about when he arrived as an assistant coach, and there was some talk about replacing it with more conventional green grass. A poll in the Idaho Statesman was completely against that idea, and Petersen has come to appreciate what that field means to the program. 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