The Other Side of the College Sexual Assault Crisis

  And excerpt from the cover story in Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/2015/12/18/other-side-sexual-assault-crisis-403285.html?rx=us   Colleges have recently ramped up their investigation of sexual assault accusations because a 19-page letter told them to do so. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued a “Dear Colleague” letter. It clarified that sexual violence is a subset of…

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What’s Misandry?

An excerpt from HERE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-dunion-edd-lpc/whats-misandry_b_8312952.html by Paul Dunion, Ed.D., LPC Therapist, author I canvased over 300 people representing a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds, regarding the word denoting hatred of girls and women. Approximately 94 percent of those polled correctly identified the word as misogyny. When asked to name the word defining hatred of boys and…

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Branford Marsalis: The Problem With Jazz

   When laypeople listen to records, there’re certain things they’re going to get to. First of all, how it sounds to them. If the value of the song is based on intense analysis of music, you’re doomed. Because people that buy records don’t know shit about music. When they put on Kind of Blue and…

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How America’s Child Support System Failed To Keep Up With The Times

From NPR: http://www.npr.org/2015/11/19/456632896/how-u-s-parents-racked-up-113-billion-in-child-support-debt When the U.S. child support collection system was set up in 1975 under President Gerald Ford — a child of divorce whose father failed to pay court-ordered child support — the country, and the typical family, looked very different from today. And as the nation’s social, economic and demographic landscape has shifted, the…

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Life doesn’t come with trigger warnings, and neither should college

I refuse to send my kids to any college that is dealing with this PC, safe space, Title IX, trigger warning, micro-aggression NONSENSE!! I hope all of the fascists devour themselves in their little temper tantrum revolution going on right now. It’s only going to ensure a republican sweep of state houses, governorships and, um…the…

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