by Alex Bell
Student Labor Alliance members, students, and alumni as well as Dining Services and libraries workers and organizers from the international labor group Unite Here gathered on the steps outside the Rockefeller Library today for a rally against the 60 staff layoffs the University announced in March.
Peter Asen '04, a professional organizer at Ocean State Action, at one point aimed a megaphone up at the stacks in the Rock.
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by Alex Bell
Office of the President
President Simmons is expected to officially wash her hands of Goldman Sachs’ board of directors on Friday when shareholders elect a new director at their annual meeting. Simmons’ announcement that she would not stand for re-election at Friday’s meeting came on Feb. 12. In case you’re just tuning in now, click “more” to be brought up to speed on the issues behind the decision. [Read more →]
by Alex Bell
Brown Visiting Lecturer in Ethnic Studies Marie Myung-Ok Lee provides a pointed perspective on medical marijuana in her three-part series for Slate explaining why she gives pot to her nine-year-old autistic son. Check out parts one, two, and three.
Here’s a brief excerpt:
A friend whose child was once diagnosed with autism, but no longer (he attends school at his grade level and had three developmental assessments showing he no longer merits the diagnosis), wanted to embark on a kind of karmic mission to help other children. After extensive research, she landed on cannabis the way I had. “It has dramatic implications for the autism community,” she says, and it’s true. We have pictures of J. from a year ago when he would actually claw at his own face. None of the experts had a clue what to do. That little child with the horrifically bleeding and scabbed face looks to us now like a visitor from another world. The J. we know now doesn’t look stoned. He just looks like a happy little boy.
by Alex Bell
An interesting debate has reached the Supreme Court questioning the legality of one California law school’s refusal to recognize a Christian student group on their campus because the group won’t let gays in. Currently, the school’s chapter of the Christian Legal Society receives no financing or benefits from the school — but is it legal for the school to discriminate against discriminators? After heated testimony from the group Monday, the court is expected to rule sometime this summer, the Associated Press reports.
by Alex Bell
Have too much free time on your hands? Why not take a break and whack off for a while? No, not that kind of whacking. “Googlewhacking” — geeky though it may be — is growing in popularity, probably because it’s more acceptable to do in front of your roommate after a stressful day.
by Alex Bell
E. Gordon Gee.
Brown’s infamous former president E. Gordon Gee was all too lucky when he left Massey Energy Co. last year amid harsh criticism of his role on their board of directors while serving as president of Ohio State. The Richmond, Va., coal mining company is now in even deeper water than Gee was in, making front-page national headlines for a deadly accident in one of its W.Va. mines that newspapers are calling the worst mining tragedy in two decades, and it reportedly shouldn’t have happened.
Providence, RI
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