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Updates for March 10, 2010
Sexual identity does not fit in a box
By: Anna Swenson
At Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania, college admissions officers are starting a movement to recruit students based on sexual orientation. Though they have previously done so only by information provided by applicants in their personal essays a…
Yue Wang ‘12: What to do with Uganda?
By: Yue Wang
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill introduced in Uganda last fall is deeply disturbing: it called for the death penalty for “any form of sexual relationship between persons of the same sex,” which was later lightened to life imprisonment. However, ca…
Cell sexting: 21st-century version of ‘playing doctor’
By: Alexandria Vasquez
I didn’t get my first cell phone until the day after I graduated from high school. In a world where eighth-graders have more tricked out phones than college students who actually work for the money to pay for their own phones (read: me), I know this…
Updates for March 9, 2010
Youth minister’s 24-year sexual battery sentence upheld
By: The Associated Press
BASTROP, La. (AP) — Fourth Judicial District Attorney Jerry Jones says a state appeal court has upheld the sentence of a former youth minister sentenced to 24 years for molesting teens and three years for violating probation. Jeremy Michael Little, …
TAB helps students establish comfort levels
By: Alexandra Pedrini
The Tech Activities Board will host the improv duo Sex Signals for the first 400 ticket holders to talk about sexual awareness at 8 p.m. today in the Student Union Building Allen Theatre….
New iPhone app shows crime data on campus
By: Michael McFall
A new iPhone application will provide students with local crime mapping and sex offender information, the U announced Monday….
Updates for March 8, 2010
Group draws in senator to reverse gay donor ban
By: Rinal Shah
Eighteen senators signed a letter last Thursday in support of lifting the ban preventing men who have sex with men who have been sexually active since 1977 from donating blood. One of the signers is Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who, with the help of the…
Gay minister urges tolerance in church
By: Dennis Comella
Guy Hammond is an evangelist minister from Halifax, Nova Scotia, who appears to live a normal life with his wife, four children and dog. But unlike most men in his situation, he is also gay. Hammond gave a talk Friday on Christianity and homosexuality at …
Column: The thin line between sexting and a felony
By: Billy S. Garland
There was a time in America’s history when the worst problems with kids in schools were chewing gum and talking in class. Today, however, the scene has changed drastically. According to a study conducted in 2006 by the Guttmacher Institute, a……
Sexual violence: behind the numbers
By: Billy S. Garland
Each year, thousands of women are forced to endure the horror of sexual assault. In 2008, the FBI released statistics saying that nearly 90,000 rapes were reported and considerably more than that are assumed to have occurred. The numbers for 2009 have……
Students can’t sync up on hooking up
By: Nicole Dao
Panel attracts diverse opinions on collegiate sexual practices
About 30 students, male and female, gathered Friday for a panel entitled, “Do we live in a hooking-up culture?” Every student who spoke answered the question with a resounding “Yes.” But besides that, the students agreed on little …
Updates for March 7, 2010
Letter to the Editor – Sex can be a thing of beauty
By: Deborah Noble
An unexpected trip to California resulted in my being able to visit The Beach after an absence of many years. I enjoyed walking around the familiar campus, and marveled at the new building additions since my tenure as a student. I picked up a copy of the …
