Month: June 2014

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Asian-Themed Duke University Fraternity Party Ignites Fury

 

Duke University’s Asian Students Association is outraged that a fraternity opted to throw a party based on Asian stereotypes, complete with geisha hats and all. In an email announcing the triumphant return of Kappa Sigma Asia Prime, the opening exclamation is “Herro Nice Duke Peopre!!” Exactly, horrible.


The Duke Chronicle says that the party was renamed “International Relations” after someone complained to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. However, the Asian Students Association says that the party (which they called a “racist rager”) went on despite the change of name.
Yesterday morning, Facebook photos of the party were posted around campus in protest, but members of Kappa Sigma removed them. “This is not just about Asians, one party or one frat,” explained senior Ashley Tsai. “This is a consistent thing happening. We want serious things to be done by the student body and the University so that this never happens again.”

 

Source: www.complex.com

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Race And Double Standards

 

It was a regular Saturday, I suppose. Hubby was getting ready to cut the grass. Baby girl was eating her waffles and enjoying an episode of “Super WHY.” And I was, as always, on my laptop. Then this happened:

Crash! Scraaatch! Bang! Crash!

I called for my Hubby and got to the front door just in time to see the young man who’d just taken out at least three cars on our normally quiet block, jump out of the car and start running nervously back and forth.

 

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Source: goodmenproject.com

 

Wait ’till you read the last paragraph.

 

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Ex-BET Host Takes Stand On Immigration

 

The former host of ‘106th + Park’, Rocsi Diaz, is making her directorial debut in “The Secrets of Strangers,” a public service announcement that chronicles undocumented immigrants who share their illegal status with American strangers.

It is the first to premiere from a three part Youtube series launched by Welcome.us, a nonprofit organization, that’s celebrating this June as the first annual Immigrant Heritage Month.


Welcome.us seeks to inspire Americans to share their stories of how their personal or their family stories of immigrating into the country.

 

Source: newsone.com

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Autopsy Report Alleges Clayton Lockett Execution Doomed By Staff Error

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Comments by an attorney from the Death Penalty Clinic at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law lay out the details of the team’s handling of the execution, which led to the heart attack that eventually killed him:

“The improper placement of the IV used in Mr. Lockett’s execution is just one factor that caused his prolonged and painful death,” said Megan McCracken, an attorney with the Death Penalty Clinic at U.C. Berkeley School of Law. “The three-drug protocol that was used exacerbated the pain and suffering that Mr. Lockett faced by needlessly paralyzing him and subjecting him to the pain of potassium chloride. Moreover, the state had no plan for contingencies in the event that the execution did not go as planned, as clearly happened here.”

There are also concerns of how properly trained personnel were regarding the execution. The Department of Corrections timeline revealed that the IV was applied by a phlebotomist and later confirmed by the state. When a local news outlet questioned the matter, the state reversed their statement and said that an unnamed EMT was the person to apply the femoral vein IV. According to the state’s execution protocol, a physician should have set the IV, and not a phlebotomist.

 

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Community Village‘s insight:

 

I thought that physicians took the Hippocratic Oath and were not allowed to harm people?

 

@getgln

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Dea Millerberg pleads guilty in death of teen babysitter

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OGDEN — Dea Millerberg pleaded guilty Wednesday to three felonies for her involvement in the 2011 death of Alexis Rasmussen, a 16-year-old who baby-sat for her and her husband in their North Ogden home.

Millerberg, 41, pleaded guilty in 2nd District Court to obstructing justice, acquiring prescription drugs unlawfully, and abuse or desecration of a human body — all third-degree felonies — as part of plea agreement.

 
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Border detention of children shames America

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Ruben Navarrette says when hordes of youngsters from Central America are being held by the U.S. in reportedly inhumane conditions the nation has lost itself

 

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UPS Sued for Racial Discrimination

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UPS is being sued for racial discrimination against black employees in the United States and abroad. The most recent lawsuit has been filed in a Circuit Court in Lexington, Kentucky.

A group of eight current and former employees of United Parcel Service in Kentucky have sued the company saying they faced racial discrimination, poor treatment based on race and retaliation after they complained. The men also contend an effigy of a black UPS employee hung from the ceiling outside the manager’s office for four days.

 

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Gregory Hale accused of dismembering, eating body of Lisa Marie Hyder in Coffee County, Tennessee

 

COFFEE COUNTY, Tenn. – A Tennessee man has been arrested in connection with a gruesome murder and cannibalism case, reports CBS affiliate WTVF. The victim was identified Tuesday.

According to the station, 37-year-old Lisa Marie Hyder was staying with friends near Manchester in Coffee County, Tenn., when she met a man in town who brought her back to his house. Authorities said Gregory Scott Hale, also 37, confessed to murdering Hyder on Friday. He was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse.

 
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