In The News: Graduate College
Like countless educators across America, I have completed active shooter training. The public university where I teach requires it. Officially, I have been instructed on how to run, hide and fight in order to ensure that my students and I survive in the event that an aspiring assassin enters our classroom.
Last week, readers of the Sun got a treat in being introduced to Adugna 鈥淎du鈥 Siweya, one of the Las Vegas Valley鈥檚 outstanding college graduates this spring. Inspirational stories Siweya's make college graduation season a special time in Las Vegas, an annual reminder of the remarkable minds in our community, and the commitment of students to academic achievement.
Social scientists ask Biden administration to embrace sex worker rights. In an open letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, a group of more than 250 researchers and scientists are calling for changes to the way that this country treats sex work and those engaged in it. Most prominently, the letter鈥攚hich comes in conjunction with International Sex Worker Rights Day, March 3鈥攕ays that sex work ought to be decriminalized.
Wednesday was International Sex Workers鈥 Rights Day. A group of scientists who research sex work marked the occasion by asking the Biden administration to decriminalize it as part of its criminal justice reform.
In commemoration of today's International Sex Workers Rights Day, a group of 250 researchers and scientists worldwide have issued a campaign, citing empirical evidence, calling on President Biden and Vice-President Harris to support the decriminalization of sex work as part of their broader efforts toward criminal justice reform.
What investors are paying for is not necessarily the K-pop group or its management company, but its huge, highly connected ecosystem of followers
What investors are really paying for is not necessarily the K-pop group or its management company, but its huge, highly connected ecosystem of followers.
The K-pop group鈥檚 English music video attracts more than 101 million views on the streaming platform within 24 hours.
On 24th March 2015, Germanwings flight 9525 headed to Dusseldorf, Germany crashed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. Thousands around the world flooded social media to express their shock and grief, sending the hashtag #Germanwings to the No.1 trending spot on Twitter worldwide. Less than 24 hours after the crash, international sensation One Direction announced on Facebook that Zayn Malik was leaving the group after five years.
The signs are that activism like that around Black Lives Matter is on the rise among Korean pop fans.
After claiming some credit for the fizzling of President Trump鈥檚 rally in Oklahoma, the online armies of Korean pop music listeners are feeling prepared and empowered.
After shutting down a Dallas Police Department app and donating more than $1 million to the Black Lives Matter movement, it鈥檚 clear that K-pop fans are a legitimate force to be reckoned with. But this shouldn鈥檛 exactly be a surprise鈥攆ervent fan bases have always been particularly equipped to force change.