<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT"%> <% Dim MM_editAction MM_editAction = CStr(Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")) If (Request.QueryString <> "") Then MM_editAction = MM_editAction & "?" & Server.HTMLEncode(Request.QueryString) End If ' boolean to abort record edit Dim MM_abortEdit MM_abortEdit = false %> <% ' IIf implementation Function MM_IIf(condition, ifTrue, ifFalse) If condition = "" Then MM_IIf = ifFalse Else MM_IIf = ifTrue End If End Function %> <% If (CStr(Request("MM_insert")) = "frmComments") Then If (Not MM_abortEdit) Then ' execute the insert Dim MM_editCmd Set MM_editCmd = Server.CreateObject ("ADODB.Command") MM_editCmd.ActiveConnection = MM_ijjSQL_STRING MM_editCmd.CommandText = "INSERT INTO dbo.tbl_Content (EntryTextBrief, CategoryID, IPAddress, SessionID) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)" MM_editCmd.Prepared = true MM_editCmd.Parameters.Append MM_editCmd.CreateParameter("param1", 203, 1, 1073741823, Request.Form("EntryTextBrief")) ' adLongVarWChar MM_editCmd.Parameters.Append MM_editCmd.CreateParameter("param2", 5, 1, -1, MM_IIF(Request.Form("CategoryID"), Request.Form("CategoryID"), null)) ' adDouble MM_editCmd.Parameters.Append MM_editCmd.CreateParameter("param3", 202, 1, 50, Request.Form("IPAddress")) ' adVarWChar MM_editCmd.Parameters.Append MM_editCmd.CreateParameter("param4", 5, 1, -1, MM_IIF(Request.Form("SessionID"), Request.Form("SessionID"), null)) ' adDouble MM_editCmd.Execute MM_editCmd.ActiveConnection.Close ' append the query string to the redirect URL Dim MM_editRedirectUrl MM_editRedirectUrl = "/ijj/comments_successful.asp" If (Request.QueryString <> "") Then If (InStr(1, MM_editRedirectUrl, "?", vbTextCompare) = 0) Then MM_editRedirectUrl = MM_editRedirectUrl & "?" & Request.QueryString Else MM_editRedirectUrl = MM_editRedirectUrl & "&" & Request.QueryString End If End If Response.Redirect(MM_editRedirectUrl) End If End If %> <% Dim rsContent07Comments Dim rsContent07Comments_cmd Dim rsContent07Comments_numRows Set rsContent07Comments_cmd = Server.CreateObject ("ADODB.Command") rsContent07Comments_cmd.ActiveConnection = MM_ijjSQL_STRING rsContent07Comments_cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM view_Content07Comments ORDER BY EntryDate DESC" rsContent07Comments_cmd.Prepared = true Set rsContent07Comments = rsContent07Comments_cmd.Execute rsContent07Comments_numRows = 0 %> <% Dim rsContent32IJJLinks Dim rsContent32IJJLinks_cmd Dim rsContent32IJJLinks_numRows Set rsContent32IJJLinks_cmd = Server.CreateObject ("ADODB.Command") rsContent32IJJLinks_cmd.ActiveConnection = MM_ijjSQL_STRING rsContent32IJJLinks_cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM view_Content32IJJLinks ORDER BY EntryDate DESC" rsContent32IJJLinks_cmd.Prepared = true Set rsContent32IJJLinks = rsContent32IJJLinks_cmd.Execute rsContent32IJJLinks_numRows = 0 %> <% Dim Repeat4__numRows Dim Repeat4__index Repeat4__numRows = -1 Repeat4__index = 0 rsContent32IJJLinks_numRows = rsContent32IJJLinks_numRows + Repeat4__numRows %> <% Dim Repeat3__numRows Dim Repeat3__index Repeat3__numRows = 3 Repeat3__index = 0 rsContent07Comments_numRows = rsContent07Comments_numRows + Repeat3__numRows %> Institute for Justice and Journalism

 

Racial Justice Fellows, 2005-2006

Kay Mills
Author/Freelance Writer

Kay Mills is an author and freelance writer specializing in civil rights and higher education issues. She has been a journalist for 40 years. Mills received a B.A. in political science from Penn State and an M.A. in history from Northwestern. She has worked for UPI in Chicago, the Baltimore Evening Sun, Newhouse News Service’s Washington bureau and from 1978 to 1990 as an editorial writer at the Los Angeles Times and assistant Opinion section editor from 1990 until September 1991. She won the Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize given by the Southern Association for Women Historians and a Christopher Award for her biography of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, “This Little Light of Mine.” She has also written books about women in the newspaper business, Head Start, U.S. women’s history and a landmark Mississippi communications law case. Mills writes for National Crosstalk, a quarterly higher education newspaper. She has been a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford and an Alicia Patterson Fellow and has held the Ferris Professorship at Princeton.

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