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 112 STAT. 1826 PUBLIC LAW 105-244 —OCT. 7, 1998 (c) INSTRUMENT OF RELEASE. —The Secretary shall execute and file in the appropriate office or offices a deed of release, amended deed, or other appropriate instrument effectuating the release of the conditions, covenants, and reversionary interests under subsection (a). SEC. 863. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING GOOD CHARACTER. (a) FINDINGS.— Congress finds that— (1) the future of our Nation and world will be determined by the young people of today; (2) record levels of youth crime, violence, teenage pregnancy, and substance abuse indicate a growing moral crisis in our society; (3) character development is the long-term process of helping young people to know, care about, and act upon such basic values as trustworthiness, respect for self and others, responsibility, fairness, compassion, and citizenship; (4) these values are universal, reaching across cultural and religious differences; (5) a recent poll found that 90 percent of Americans support the teaching of core moral and civic values; (6) parents will always be children's primary character educators; (7) good moral character is developed best in the context of the family; (8) parents, community leaders, and school officials are establishing successful partnerships across the Nation to implement character education programs; (9) character education programs also ask parents, faculty, and staff to serve as role models of core values, to provide opportunities for young people to apply these values, and to establish high academic standards that challenge students to set high goals, work to achieve the goals, and persevere in spite of dimculty; (10) the development of virtue and moral character, those habits of mind, heart, and spirit that help young people to know, desire, and do what is right, has historically been a primary mission of colleges and universities; and (11) the Congress encourages parents, faculty, and staff across the Nation to emphasize character development in the home, in the community, in our schools, and in our colleges and universities. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—I t is the sense of Congress that Congress should support and encourage character building initiatives in schools across America and urge colleges and universities to affirm that the development of character is one of the primary goals of higher education. SEC. 864. EDUCATIONAL MERCHANDISE UCENSING CODES OF CON- DUCT. It is the sense of Congress that all American colleges and universities should adopt rigorous educational merchsuidise licensing codes of conduct to assure that university and college licensed merchandise is not made by sweatshop and exploited adult or child labor either domestically or abroad, and that such codes should include at least the following: (1) Public reporting of the code and the companies adhering to the code.

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