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(10/07/15 4:05am)
Last week on an episode of “The Nightly Show,” host Larry Wilmore introduced a new segment called “Devil’s Dung Pile,” meant to spotlight some of the worst offenders in corporate America. The segment focused on Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old CEO who just purchased the company that manufactures Daraprim. Daraprim is widely known to be a life-saving drug for AIDS patients. Prior to Shkreli’s purchase, the drug cost $13.50 per pill. Shkreli just bumped that cost up to $750. Wilmore’s segment on the issue includes a clip in which Shkreli attempts to justify the price hike, arguing “you only need about 100 pills, so at the end of the day the price per course of treatment [before it was raised] to save your life was only about a thousand dollars.” Shkreli delivers this statement matter-of-factly, as if anyone would agree that it should cost more to survive.
(09/23/15 4:05am)
Last week the Marine Corps published a study reporting that all-male ground combat units outperformed units that included females. Teams in the study were either all-male or gender-integrated. All teams were given a series of tasks (134 in total), and researchers found the all-male teams did better in 69 percent of tasks, while the groups including females did better on only two of the tasks.
(09/09/15 4:05am)
At the start of this academic year, University students received links to complete two educational modules. The first was the Alcohol-Wise program the University has used in the past to educate students about alcohol and drug use. The second was a new program titled, “Not on Our Grounds: Sexual Violence Education Module.” According to the email sent out by Dean of Students Allen Groves, the module was “designed to educate [students] on conduct prohibited by the University's Policy on Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment and Other Forms of Interpersonal Violence, and inform [students] of ways in which we all can serve as active bystanders.” Groves also noted the module satisfies federal requirements for universities to provide training on the topics covered (sexual assault, stalking and relationship violence).
(09/03/15 4:05am)
Let me paint you a picture. I wake one morning, stretching my arms and yawning as I stand to allow my perfectly coiffed hair to fall around my shoulders. Birds are chirping. The sun is shining. Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” hums in the background. I do, Cyndi. I do just want to have fun. And I’m having a pretty good time until I get online only to discover that Donald Trump has made another ignorant, awful remark. I slam the computer shut. Why, Trump, why?!? I scurry back to my bed, pulling the covers over my head and shutting my eyes tight. If only I could fall back asleep. If only I could float back to the Trump of my dreams.
(08/26/15 4:10am)
Republican senator and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz recently hosted what he called a Rally for Religious Liberty. The campaign event featured music, speeches and several guest appearances. These guests were handpicked by Cruz’s campaign and labeled on his website as “special guests victimized by government persecution.” Cruz spoke with each of his allegedly oppressed supporters and vowed they would see change if he is elected president. Cherry-picking disaffected individuals is a common campaign tactic for candidates looking to campaign on an anti-establishment platform. What sets Cruz’s “special guests” apart is the way in which they have all been “victimized.” The special guest list consisted of eight people, including a couple that was fined by the Iowa Civil Rights Commission for refusing to allow a gay couple to get married in their wedding venue, a print shop owner charged with unlawful discrimination for refusing to print t-shirts for a local LGBTQ group, and two bakery owners who were fined when they denied a lesbian couple’s request for a wedding cake. The theme carries throughout the rest of Cruz’s list: all of the guests had found themselves in legal trouble for discrimination based on sexual orientation in Iowa, one of the states that actually has a statute prohibiting such discrimination.
(04/15/15 4:15am)
Last week, Gov. McAuliffe issued an executive order requiring the removal of criminal history questions from state employment applications in Virginia. According to Executive Order 41, about “70 million American adults have arrests or convictions in their past that can make it difficult for them to obtain employment.” McAuliffe’s decision is intended to give these adults a fair shot at employment. He hopes it will serve as a push for private employers to remove questions about criminal history from their applications, as well.
(04/07/15 4:00am)
Though it has been nearly a decade since I finished 5th grade, I can still recall much of my historical education, back when history was referred to as “social studies.” Through picture-filled textbooks, school plays and the occasional art project, my teachers covered all the basics of child-friendly American history: how Columbus discovered America, the Puritans showed up at Plymouth and became best friends with the Native Americans, and of course a condensed overview of the Civil Rights Movement.
(03/26/15 4:19am)
The other weekend, I went to New York City to visit my brother. Unwilling to pay for an airplane and unsuccessful in my attempts at teleportation, I resorted to Amtrak. I was pretty excited because I heard Joe Biden used to take Amtrak all the time, and that guy rocks! He looks as bored as I feel during every State of the Union! Following my Amtrak journey, however, I am feeling pretty peeved at Joe Biden. He should have warned me of the challenges I would face. After all, what are vice presidents for?
(03/18/15 4:13am)
After spending spring break in a cabin in the woods with no Internet, I was behind on just about everything. Hoping to catch up, I checked the news section on the sidebar of Facebook and skimmed a couple major news outlets. As I looked through various news sites, I noticed a lot of websites now include an additional category along with sports, entertainment and other standards. Many have started to include a new section dedicated to “feminist news.”
(02/25/15 5:15am)
Walking through the most recent activities fair, you might have seen the orange and blue signs and stickers for the Living Wage Campaign. The campaign focuses on the wages and treatment of the University’s hourly workers (dining hall workers, janitors, etc.). Students have been working on the campaign for many years, publishing their first documented resolution in 2006.
(02/11/15 5:59am)
In the past two weeks there has been incredible backlash against the decision by the national leaders of every sorority at the University to forbid girls from going out on Boys Bid Night. This command was given to sorority members through a formal letter, and the national leaders refused to engage in any sort of conversation about the ruling, even after many students requested a discussion. While I am not in a sorority, many of my friends are, and I was flooded with requests to sign a petition stating that sorority members should be allowed to go out for Boys Bid Night. The writers of the petition insisted the mandate was a violation of their rights and a suggestion “that women should not and cannot exist in certain spaces.”
(02/05/15 5:06am)
With just a week to go, Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. I’ll be spending the day as I always do — hiding in the corner of an upscale French restaurant and slipping engagement rings into champagne glasses for my research project. My research project is called “How Men React When They Accidentally Propose to Their Girlfriends.” Anyway, those of you with special someones in your lives are probably wondering what to do to express your love this Valentine’s Day. Not to brag, but I’ve got a pretty extensive romantic history — when I was in second grade, I had to kiss Peter Holt on the cheek in the school production of Grease, and let me tell you, there were so many sparks flying that Whitfield Elementary nearly burned down! In retrospect, Grease may have been a rather edgy choice for second graders, and I sometimes wonder if it was responsible for my third-grade addiction to cigarettes, leather pants and changing everything about myself to please John Travolta. But the point is, I am no stranger to that crazy thing called love, so I’m here to offer some friendly advice for your V-Day plans.
(11/06/14 6:18am)
I woke up this morning just as I usually do: with my alarm blasting the Spice Girls classic, “Wannabe,” one less sock than I’d had on when I went to sleep, and the disappointing realization that, once again, my crazy adventure with Snoop Dogg had only been a dream. I stared at the ceiling as Posh Spice serenaded me, and I thought to myself, “You know what I should do today? Offer some unsolicited advice.” I’m kind of like the Oprah of the people-who-don’t-know-Oprah world when it comes to giving advice. But who was to be the target of my uninvited wisdom? My roommates had instituted a speak-only-when-spoken-to rule, and Obama wasn’t answering any of my letters, so the obvious choices were out. As I sat there thinking, my phone lit up with a text from my mother, and that’s when it hit me: who should benefit from my advice today? The parents of the world, of course!
(09/25/14 3:43am)
This past summer, I hoped to gain experience in the professional world in order to better myself and learn the value of hard work. Also, I needed to make some money to pay for my People magazine subscription and buy Twinkies. Do they still make Twinkies? I’ve been hoping for some clarification on this for a while. I heard they stopped making them, but last time I was in a convenience store, I could’ve sworn I saw Twinkies on the shelf. I can only assume my eight-part editorial series — “Twinkies: Gone Too Soon” — that the local paper foolishly refused to publish somehow made its way to whoever’s in charge of the Twinkie industry and knocked some sense into them. Anyway, on the off chance the Twinkie business was alive and well, I needed a job.
(04/17/14 4:52am)
Recently, I went to a regular doctor instead of a pediatrician for the first time. As you get older, a pediatrician’s office starts to feel weird. I think it’s that bright wallpaper dotted with happy animals and smiling trains. “Do you engage in risky behaviors such as unprotected sex, alcohol abuse or drug use?” the doctor asks as Mr. Chuggles the Choo-Choo peers into my soul with his cartoon eyes. I tell the doctor no. She makes a note. Mr. Chuggles gives me an accusatory look. “I said no!” I shout. “Don’t look at me like that! You’re just a train!” My doctor makes another note. I am sent to the psych ward.