Cheating With ChatGPT: Can an AI Chatbot Pass AP Lit? [ Wall Street Journal ]

 

Taliban Bar Women From College Classes, in a Stark Reversal of Rights [ New York Times ]

 The flava:

The Afghan government on Tuesday barred women from attending private and public universities, officials said, in the latest severe blow to women’s rights under a Taliban administration that has all but reinstituted the hard-line rule the group maintained during its first stretch in power during the 1990s.

The article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-women-education.html

Stephen King Commencement Address to University of Maine (2005)

 

Black Student Arrested For Not Apologizing To White Professor [ Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey ]

 

Oscar-winning Producer of My Octopus Teacher, Ellen Windemuth [ Beat the Often Path with Ross Palmer ]

Mary Karr as the commencement speaker for Syracuse University in 2015

 

Remembering Lloyd Newman of Ghetto Life 101 [ NPR ]

 

December 9, 2022   

12:08 AM ET

In the early 90s, teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman recorded a week of their lives on Chicago's South Side. Working with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, LeAlan and Lloyd produced a documentary they called Ghetto Life 101, one of the most acclaimed programs in public radio history. In remembrance of Lloyd, who died this week, we bring you a special presentation of Ghetto Life 101.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_Life_101

LGBTQ+ college students are struggling [ The Hechinger Report ]

The flava:

By Olivia Sanchez

Oscar Santiago Perez is very tired. They are not tired because of their course load at the University of Florida, where they are studying political science and criminology, or because of their student government work. 

Santiago Perez said it’s the barrage of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, rhetoric and violence that has intensified throughout the past year that has left them feeling so tired and drained that they are becoming desensitized.

 “These politicians, these people in power just repeat these falsehoods and narratives that are actively harming myself and members of the community,” Santiago Perez said. “Oftentimes, I feel powerless to do anything about it.” 

 This year alone, state lawmakers have filed at least 340 anti-LGBTQ+ bills, according to the Human Rights Campaign, and at least 25 have passed. These include policies that would restrict queer and transgender people from accessing healthcare, limit educators from teaching about LGBTQ+ identities in schools and prevent athletes from playing sports on the team that corresponds with their gender identity.

 Beyond legislation, the United States Supreme Court hinted at potentially reconsidering the case that led to the constitutional right to same-sex marriage in 2015. And most recently, a gunman killed five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs. These are just the things that have made national news.  . . . 

The article:

https://mailchi.mp/hechingerreport.org/lgbtq-college-students-are-struggling