The treatment of security workers and adjunct professors on campus is unjustifiable. Neither earn healthcare, maternity leave or a living wage. Both are fired at the end of the spring semester and then rehired at the start of fall semester. Adjunct professors are often told the classes they will be teaching days before the start of the semester. Until very recently, security workers were locked out of their booths by managers during cold winter nights. This maltreatment erodes our community, alienates workers and is a detriment to everyone working and studying at our university.
“With welfare, if you can’t afford to pay anything — you can’t buy your own food, your own healthcare, your own education — well, what happens? Well, the government steps in and they say, ‘We’ll take care of that for you,’” Dasher said. “Isn’t this a form of slavery, though? I would argue that it is.”
In 2011, Obama released his long-form birth certificate in an effort to quiet opposition that felt the president was not born in the US. The certificate, which is easily accessible on the White House’s official website, states that Obama was born in Honolulu.
At Columbia University, a student is carrying a mattress from class to class. She will continue to carry a mattress like the one she was sexually assaulted on until her alleged rapist no longer attends the same school as her.
A Harvard student wrote an open letter in her school’s newspaper this year entitled “Dear Harvard: You Win,” telling her story of living in the same building as the man she said assaulted her, while the university failed to punish him.
n an exclusive interview with BuzzFeed, a southern photojournalist under the pseudonym Jen Mosher discussed her most recent post to her blog Scary Mommy, in which she detailed her experience as a mother of a child with HIV. The blog post, which has received more than 39,000 shares, begins by saying “My HIV child is playing with your child, and you don’t know it.”
Student athletes incur a multitude of injuries during a season. One of the most serious of injuries that athletes can have is a concussion. In any sport, there is a chance to get a concussion, but the chance increases nine fold in sports such as rugby or football. With a concussion, athletes may not realize that they are injured, or they may not want to be taken off the field, which makes it very difficult to treat.
On Sept. 19, a man scaled the White House fence before jumping over it and running toward the residence. It was not until he made it inside that security was able to stop him. The incident has made headlines of The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and more, as the breach questions the capabilities of the Secret Service.
This past year, the private ride-sharing company Uber has climbed its way to being a top contender in the transportation market, breaking barriers in the traditional taxi industry. Uber operates in more than 100 cities in 37 states in the US and is available in 45 countries and expanding.
On Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, over 310,000 people assembled in New York City for the People’s Climate March, the largest climate march in history. The march coincides with the UN Climate Summit and is...
