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College admissions scandal: Heir to Hot Pockets fortune sentenced to 5 months [Los Angeles Times]
The flava:Michelle Janavs, heiress to a frozen foods fortune, was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison for paying $100,000 to fix her daughters’ college entrance exams and agreeing to pay twice that amount to sneak one girl into USC as a bogus beach volleyball player.
Janavs, a resident of Newport Coast, pleaded guilty in October to conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering, admitting she paid William “Rick” Singer, a Newport Beach college admissions consultant, to rig ACT exams for her daughters and bribe a USC administrator to misrepresent the older girl as an elite beach volleyball player.
The article:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-25/college-admissions-scandal-michelle-janavs-hot-pockets-sentenced
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Why every bathroom on campus should be all-gender [Ari Page, UMBC]
Make every bathroom gender neutral. Or at the very least, don’t place a gendered bathroom right next to a gender-neutral bathroom. At least in Sherman, they’re on opposite ends of the hallway.Now don’t get me wrong — I’m very proud of UMBC for making strides toward inclusivity. This is a huge step in making this campus trans and nonbinary friendly, and I know I, as a trans person, feel considerably more comfortable at this school with more bathroom options. But there is more that can be done, and it’s as simple as sticking more of these new signs over the old ones. So, why not go ahead and do that to every bathroom on campus? I would love to think that we have come to the point in society, especially on a college campus like ours, where we’re no longer weird about peeing next to someone who doesn’t present their gender in the same way as us. So let’s go stick up some new signs, join hands and pee together in perfect, gender-neutral harmony.
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4 Questions for 2020 NYU MLK Humanitarian Award Winner Deb Willis
"I was an undergraduate student when Dr. King was killed and I will never forget the emptiness I felt going into my class in an attempt to unravel my hurt. I tried to make photographs and tried to listen to music, but I felt then and still feel that my research and writings on photographers who were documenting the movement's activities were crucial to my understanding of visualizing the quest and desires for black people to vote and live in their communities without fear. I spent my entire career retelling their stories in order to show how the civil rights movement transformed my understanding of what it means to love."
--Deb Willis, University Professor, NYU
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Friday, February 21, 2020
Gender Pronouns Can Be Tricky on Campus. Harvard Is Making Them Stick. [NYTimes]
The flava:For generations of future diplomats and cabinet officials educated at Harvard’s renowned John F. Kennedy School of Government, orientation day has come with a name placard that the students carry from class to class, so their professors can easily call on them.
When Diego Garcia Blum, 30, got his placard last fall, the first-year graduate student immediately took a Sharpie to it, writing “He/Him” next to the big block letters of his name. Other students did the same thing, writing “She/Her” and “They/Them.”
The article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/us/gender-pronouns-college.html
Monday, February 17, 2020
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Ohio State professor’s use of racial slur prompts review [The Columbus Dispatch]
The flava:Ohio State University has begun a review after a professor and prominent suicide-prevention expert used offensive language in a class last semester, including a racial slur.
An Oct. 16 letter to the professor, Paul Granello, from a group of graduate-school counseling students expressed concerns about a presentation by the professor and subsequent discussion in a class. The letter, obtained by The Dispatch, specifically raised concerns about his use of a racial slur and remarks about friends and relatives of those who die by suicide.
The article:
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200209/ohio-state-professors-use-of-racial-slur-prompts-review