Fishbowl America Round-Up for July 6th from 01:20 to 02:00:

• College is what you make of it - Opinion -
• Changing college courses can also change the course of lives - Lumina Foundation: Helping People Achieve Their Potential -
• Candidate stressed student involvement - News - Wrapping up a series of four visits by candidates for vice chancellor of student affairs and dean of students, Celestino Limas outlined his goals for the position Monday afternoon in Davies Theatre.
• DemConWatch: A look back at the last outdoor speech - As Oreo noted below, this "give a speech outdoors" thing

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For McCain and Obama, Calif. marriage ban could have national import Presumptive presidential nominees Barack Obama and John McCain reportedly are walking a careful line with their stances on the California marriage ban ballot measure, with the former opposing it and the latter backing it. The issue is especially tricky for McCain, who can use his anti-marriage-rights position to shore up his credentials with religious conservatives, but risks alienating independent voters, who typically don't rank marriage as an important issue, according to this article. Los Angeles Times ...

California’s social conservatives are out for Barack Obama’s blood. The Democratic presidential hopeful made headlines earlier this week by coming out against an amendment banning gay marriage in the Golden State. And, of course, the right wing’s making his homo support into a big stink: According to Randy Thomasson, President of Campaign for Children and Families, a May 21 Los Angeles Times poll shows that 54 percent of California voters support Proposition 8, the California marriage amendment, and only 35 percent oppose it. “Despite his claims that he believes marriage is only for a man and a woman, Barack Obama ...

On Monday, the Associated Press published this photo as part of its coverage on San Francisco's gay pride. Sherri Black-White (left) and partner Shidiva Black-White were one of hundreds of newly married California couples. Luckily, they were able to the... ...

Last month, we saw the Campaign for Children and Families compare those county clerks who have to perform same-sex marriages with Nazi officers who were forced to "gas the jews." Now CCF's head CCF-er, Randy Thomasson, is continuing his penchant for comparing widely dissimilar things, juxtaposing "change we can believe in" with "similarity we are lucky to have (almost) gotten through the first time around": “Despite his claims that he believes marriage is only for a man and a woman, Barack Obama is promising to destroy marriage protection in our nation and to oppose protecting marriage licenses for a ...

Happy Gay Pride from John McCain! In a move that wasn't entirely unexpected, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain endorsed Thursday the controversial California Marriage Protection Act initiative expected to go before the state's voters this November. "I support... ...

Bill Stewart, the out chief marketing officer for Kmart, is giving up his executive position for an unpaid job with the Equality for All campaign to defeat a California ballot measure to impose a constitutional marriage ban. The native Californian, now based in Chicago, was inspired to move back to his home state after attending a recent national board meeting of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in Los Angeles and concluding he needed to do "everything possible" to make sure equal marriage rights remain the law there. Washington Blade ...

Until recently, Bill Stewart was an openly gay marketing officer for KMart. But now Bill has left the Martha Stewart-laden lands (and a six-figure salary) behind to join up as an unpaid volunteer with Equality for All, the organized campign to defeat the proposed marriage ban in California. Washinton Blade has all the details on Stewart and his altruistic move: Kmart exec resigns to join California marriage fight [Wash Blade] The good news: We have an important new marriage advocate who will surely use his business acumen to help us achieve the equality we all deserve. The bad news: ...