This story “Binge Drinking, A campus killer” written by Sabrina Rubin is really important. The continuing high level of binge drinking is discussed in the context of the heightened attention and increased actions at colleges. “Binge Drinking, A campus killer” is about the current problem in college campuses with students drinking. The author Sabrina Rubin Erderly investigated the college party scene to get a good picture of the role alcohol takes in the normal college student#39;s life. She vi
Wow…what a shock (sarcasm). Stark Racial Biases Revealed In NYPD Arrest Practices A new study has proven, once again, that cops more frequently pursue and more harshly punish offenders of color . But surely we didn’t need additional facts and figures to point out where Black and brown folks stand with one-time … Via HuffPost : Three decades ago, New York’s Times Square was a symbol of vice and violence. Today, cops in the area worry about street performers who dress up like Elmo. The city’s transformation from crime capital to urban Disneyland is one of America’s great success stories, but a less encouraging narrative has accompanied it. As a new report shows, arrests for petty offenses like turnstile-jumping and pot possession have shot up since 1980, disproportionately affecting young black and Latino men. The report, released Tuesday by John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, shows that the nation’s largest police force has been arresting more people for misdemeanors, a category that includes low-level crimes, from prostitution to minor drug offenses to dancing in the subway. Since 1980, the percentage of New Yorkers arrested for misdemeanors has tripled, according to the study. The number of blacks arrested for misdemeanors nearly doubled to 104,659 in 2013, from 56,152 in 1990. Latinos saw the number rise even more dramatically, to 78,733 from 30,885. Police arrested 28,996 whites for misdemeanors in 2013, compared with 21,815 in 1990. In New York, civil rights advocates have long criticized the police for stopping and frisking disproportionate numbers of black and Latino people. Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in January after promising to reform the practice. But the new mayor appointed as the police commissioner William J. Bratton, known for his hard-nosed approach to minor offenses. That strategy came under intense scrutiny last summer, after the police grabbed Staten Island grandfather Eric Garner in a chokehold while attempting to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes. Garner died soon after. Critics say Bratton’s “broken windows” strategy lands hard on low-income people and people of color. We really wish they’d stop releasing reports reiterating the obvious and make steps toward change…
Amanda Bynes hopped a flight from Los Angeles to N.Y. City late last week, and since arriving in the Big Apple has been exhibiting more bizarre behavior. Amanda Bynes Resurfaces, Acting Bizarre Again Following Amanda Bynes’ DUI arrest last week, friends and fans feared that the Amanda of 2012-13 had resurfaced. Unfortunately, they were correct. She has apparently reverted to the exact same antics we saw before her July 2013 meltdown, involuntary psychiatric hospitalization and conservatorship. That conservatorship recently expired, with Amanda’s parents seemingly having no clue anything was amiss. Well it is, and it likely won’t end well. Friday night, the “retired” actress was seen puffing on a Camel cigarette on the street, wearing a mysterious bandage on one side of her face. She then rolled into the Cartier store wearing sweatpants, reports indicate. Before boarding a flight at LAX bound for New York, she was talking to herself , obsessively putting on makeup in the airport and generally “really out of it.” Multiple people who saw Amanda in NYC’s Union Square Friday night say she seemed “very paranoid” and that her behavior was really worrisome. For example, the 28-year-old was speaking to inanimate objects, like trees. 45 Seriously OMG WTF Amanda Bynes Photos 1. Amanda Bynes is Dope Amanda Bynes thinks she is dope. The actress has posted this photo to Twitter. To make a long story short, it’s bad. Really bad. And likely getting worse. Unless Amanda’s parents seek a conservatorship again and try to rein this in and get her back on medication, it looks like just a matter of time. Even if Rick and Lynn Bynes did see a need to do that – and by all accounts they’re in denial and don’t – it’s hard to hospitalize someone against their will. Unless she poses a significant danger to herself or others, that is, but the obvious catch is that by the time that happens, it could already be too late. The last time she was spiraling downward, she dodged a bullet. Bynes started a fire in a suburban stranger’s driveway and no one was hurt, including herself. Will she be so lucky this time?
Katy Perry was the celebrity guest on ESPN College GameDay Saturday, and rarely will you see a pop singer contribute so much to a college football show. At one point, she threw a series of corn dogs toward the camera to rile up LSU fans, whose smell she likened to the greasy food product … obviously: Katy Perry on College Game Day Wearing a pink and black rug-type sweater-jersey that she may or may not have gotten from the University of Oregon, Perry wasn’t close to done. The 29-year-old openly hit on handsome Oklahoma quarterback Trevor Knight when asked to pick a winner for the Sooners’ game against TCU. “Trevor Knight, call me!” Perry shouted, while holding up a custom-made, heart-shaped sign with Knight’s picture on it. He has a girlfriend, sadly. The Oklahoma football program indoctrinated Katy into the fan club on Twitter, but given that TCU ended up winning, they may want to rescind that … Perry also asked, “Is this the game with the ‘Cocks in it?” during the picks segment, in reference to the South Carolina Gamecocks (it wasn’t that game). ESPN’s Lee Corso then proceeded to put on a University of Alabama elephant mask and rub the celebrity with its nose, which was funny albeit surreal. Katy punctuated her day at the University of Mississippi by trolling Alabama coach Nick Saban on Twitter after Ole Miss won, saying she called it. With this visual aid for good measure: She also celebrated with the Ole Miss mascot, because of course. How much does the guy inside that big stuffed bear wish he weren’t inside a big stuffed bear … All in a (probably very drunken) day’s work. No matter where she goes, what she wears, who she’s with or what she’s doing, this girl has a way of keeping things lively and unpredictable. Katy Perry, everyone. Katy Perry. 33 Hottest Katy Perry Photos 1. Katy Perry Nude GIF Katy Perry in nude, GIF form. That right there is just phenomenal stuff.
Move them stamps ! Ohio Man Arrested For Selling Food Stamps On Facebook A man trying to sell his girlfriend’s food stamp card on Facebook now faces a felony charge. Via Journal News reports: Police said Derron Chamberlain posted on the social media site that he was selling his girlfriend’s food stamp card for $100. He also included his phone number for potential buyers to contact him, police said. “He did put his real information while he was doing this illegal act for everybody to see,” said Middletown Police Lt. Scott Reeve. Chamberlain, 35, of Plymouth Avenue, was excited, police said, when officers from the police department’s Special Operations Unit contacted him acting as potential buyers. “He kept calling back to the detectives to a point where they thought it was humorous how much he was calling back trying to make a deal happen,” Reeve said. About six hours after detectives called Chamberlain, they met him at Goldman Park, 1400 Highland St. Police said Chamberlain did not resist arrest and is charged with trafficking food stamps, a fifth-degree felony. “He didn’t realize he had done anything wrong,” Reeve said. “Even when they brought him into the police department and talked to him he was still surprised to find out it was illegal for him to sell his girlfriend’s food stamp card.” About $6.6 million is distributed monthly in Butler County via the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. While benefits fraud is not a new crime, the lingering dismal economy and drug abuse, particularly heroin, has turned it into an epidemic, Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones told the Journal-News in January. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has said that food stamp fraud totals $750 million each year. An investigation launched from suspicion that Butler County’s skyrocketing food assistance dollars may be attributed in part to fraud, abuse and misuse has resulted in the arrest of hundreds and a taxpayer savings of $5.2 million since July 2012, the Journal-News reported earlier this year. The operation, manned by two Butler County sheriff’s detectives with help of state and federal agencies including the Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, netted 116 violators between July 2012 and June 2013 and 100 from July to December 2013. Why the hell would you be dumb enough to use your real name and number to sell food stamps on Facebook??????!
Why aren’t Black men keeping up academically?? Black Men Are Less Likely To Graduate From A Four-Year College Via Black Journal reports: The federal government should require all colleges to create early-alert systems that flag students with low test scores, missing assignments, or spotty attendance. That would be one way, according to a report released on Tuesday, to curb the alarming number of minority men who drop out of college . The report, “ Advancing the Success of Boys and Men of Color in Education ,” is the result of brainstorming by diversity researchers at seven higher-education institutions. It is aimed at building on the momentum of My Brother’s Keeper, the Obama administration’s effort to improve education and career outcomes for young minority men. Black men lag behind their peers in other races when it comes to graduating from both two- and four-year colleges, according to federal statistics that track their completion through 2009 and 2012, respectively. Only a third of black male students graduated from four-year colleges within six years, compared with 45 percent of Hispanic men, 57 percent of white men, and 64 percent of Asian men. For two-year colleges, the percentages who received a certificate or degree or who transferred to a four-year college over six years were 32 for black, 30 for Latino, 40 for white, and 43 for Asian men. But minority men aren’t the only ones who would benefit from the changes the group is proposing. “We tried to provide recommendations that get at issues for boys and men of color but also address equity gaps for other disadvantaged groups,” J. Luke Wood, co-director of the Minority Male Community College Collaborative at San Diego State University, said in an interview. His center was joined in the report by similar groups at Morehouse College, Ohio State University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Discuss…
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