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Today's campus crazy: Univ official claims a tall man asking out a short woman gives him 'power over her' & could constitute sexual misconduct

Ashe Schow
The Daily Wire
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
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Author's note: It appears other outlets misrepresented this story, reporting John was found in violation simply for asking out a physically smaller woman. This is not true, nor is it what I reported. I reported that the comments from the Mizzou official were made during a deposition for a lawsuit brought by John. I then summarized the actions that led to his punishment and linked to a previous article with more information. Nowhere in that summary or the previous article do I mention physical size, because that's not what led to his punishment. That does not change the fact that a Mizzou official, during a deposition, compared a man asking out a physically smaller woman to a professor asking out a student.

Getting up the courage to ask someone out on a date can already be nerve-racking, but now that college campuses have completely gone off the deep end, that fear will be intensified.

Today's crazy comes from - unsurprisingly - the University of Missouri (Mizzou), best known for torpedoing its enrollment rates after campus protests led a professor to threaten a student journalist. An official at Mizzou indicated during a deposition that a male student who was physically larger than the female student he asked out may have violated the school's Title IX policy because his physical size gave him "power over her."

For years, we have been told that one must receive "affirmative consent" before anything of a dating or sexual nature takes place. Critics of such policies, such as this reporter, have often wondered what would happen if the mere ask is unwanted, does that also constitute sexual harassment or assault?

Now we appear to have our answer: Yes.

When a Mizzou official was questioned regarding a case where a black male Ph.D. candidate at the school asked out a white female fitness trainer, she bizarrely suggested that the fact that the male student was larger than the female student gave him "power over her" and violated school policy.

Comment: Apparently a new category, 'oppression by physical size' has just been added to the Oppression Olympics as well as a new conduit for inter-sectional warfare...get out the popcorn!!

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NC State University students launch Satanic club

William Nardi
The College Fix
Mon, 24 Dec 2018 21:09 UTC
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A new club has just completed its inaugural semester at North Carolina State University, welcoming students interested in Satanism.

The club calls itself "Satanic Students at NC State," and its leaders say they promote humanism and are working to build up the fledgling group at the Raleigh-based public university.

"This semester, the group has held public meetings to attract and gain interest," Satanic Students told The College Fix in an email interview. "These meetings have largely consisted of discussions with new and potential members about the type of Satanism practiced by the group."
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Arab Spring 2.0? Protests erupt after Tunisian journalist calls for revolt & sets himself on fire


RT
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 10:37 UTC
Protesters Kasserine Tunisia
© REUTERS / Amine Ben AzizaProtesters clash with riot police in Kasserine
A journalist in Tunisia - the first country to face the Arab Spring - has set himself on fire, triggering a protest against unemployment and poverty. The case resembles the start of the 2011 Western-hailed revolt.

"For our people who have no means of subsistence, today I start a revolution," journalist Abderrazak Zorgui told his audience in the poverty-stricken town of Kasserine.

Calling for people to rise up against poverty and poor living conditions, Zorgui then set himself on fire, invoking the well-known self-immolation of street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in late 2010.

Zorgui was soon pronounced dead at a local hospital, and his funeral service quickly snowballed into violent protests in Kasserine and other towns. Kasserine, home to 76,000 people, saw clashes between stone-throwing protesters and police who deployed tear gas to disperse crowds.

Comment: There may be more to this latest 'call for revolt' than is being reported. The US has been shoring up Tunisia's military, with the country receiving more U.S. defense aid than any other country in North Africa, except for Egypt. However, American foreign policy is generally unpopular and unfavorable attitudes toward the United States are widespread in Tunisian society. See:

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TV Guide's hit piece on Chris Pratt's 'problematic' life as a farmer is everything wrong with Hollywood

Beth Baumann
Townhall
Wed, 26 Dec 2018 18:10 UTC
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Hollywood elites are no stranger to the finer things in life. Luxurious cars. Extravagant homes. Lavish lifestyles. It's part of the territory that comes with being famous.

Actor Chris Pratt, best known for his role as Andy in Parks and Recreation, lives a different lifestyle than many of his Hollywood comrades. In fact, he has a farm and raises his own animals to feed his family. But now the simplistic lifestyle is being labeled as "problematic" by TV Guide:
When you take a deeper look at Pratt the man and not necessarily Pratt the actor, some of the shine wears off. Although he can be as funny offscreen as he is on - his recurring "What's My Snack" videos on Instagram are almost always delightful - it's impossible to ignore some problematic aspects of his life offscreen.

Comment: This is just something that the liberal Hollywood elite will just never get their heads around - living a good honest life, working with your hands, being in nature and actually contributing to existence is a good thing. Yet they can't see past the ends of their own noses long enough to be able to comprehend this. Pratt is one of the few in Hollywood who actually seems like he might be a decent human being. We wonder how long his career will last.

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ICE releases hundreds more migrants in Texas and New Mexico


CBS News
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:12 UTC
Asylumseekers
© Google NewsAsylum seekers at Greyhound station in El Paso, Texas.
Ruben Garcia from Annunciation House in El Paso told CBS News that 522 migrants were released Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at sites in El Paso and Las Cruces, New Mexico. That raises the total number of people released this week to more than 1,000, after 186 people were released on Christmas Day and 400 were released in the two days before Christmas.

Another 500 could be released on Thursday. "It should be organized and orderly as it was today," Garcia said.

Local nonprofit groups told the CBS affiliate KBDC the key difference from earlier in the week was that they were notified in advance of the mass release by ICE - something the groups and U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who represents El Paso, said didn't happen previously.

As a result, the nonprofits were more prepared for the large influx.
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Ukrainians flee to EU and Russia, leave to dodge draft for impending war, find relief from economic distress

Patrick Fleming
Russia Insider
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
Russia Ukraine
With saber rattling on both sides, large troop movements towards the borders, and bellicose rhetoric, war seems to be a real possibility. If it happens, Ukrainian armed forces would be decimated in a matter of hours, and Ukrainian youth know this, so they are fleeing conscription, heading to Russia and the EU, anywhere but home.

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'We are on the brink of a cliff': Russian anti-doping chief asks Putin to protect national sport


RT
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:37 UTC
RUSADA chief Yury Ganus
© Sputnik / Ilya PitalevRUSADA chief Yury Ganus
The head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Yuri Ganus has asked President Vladimir Putin for assistance with solving a knotty issue regarding access to the Moscow laboratory.

The future of Russian sport is on a cliff edge, after the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) officials were not allowed to extract the lab's data as their equipment was not certified under Russian law.

A failure to retrieve doping data from the laboratory might result in RUSADA's repeat suspension as, according to the agreement with WADA, the deadline for the doping data extraction is December 31.

In an official letter, addressed to Putin on Thursday, the RUSADA chief expressed concern and asked the president to "save the future of Russian sport."
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'Walmart Santa' and his family arrested after 2 long-missing kids found buried in their backyard

Bill Hutchinson
ABC News
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:31 UTC
Elwyn Crocker Sr.
© Effingham County Sheriff’s OfficeElwyn Crocker Sr.
A Georgia man employed until recently as a seasonal Santa Claus at a Walmart was arrested after the bodies of his two children, who were never reported missing, were found buried in the backyard of his home, authorities said.

Elwyn Crocker Sr., 50, was arrested after sheriff's deputies went to his house in Guyton, Georgia, a suburb of Savannah, to conduct a welfare check on his 14-year-old daughter, Mary Crocker, authorities said.

Effingham County Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie said that after questioning Crocker, he allegedly directed deputies to an area of his backyard, where they uncovered the bodies of Mary and her brother, Elwyn Crocker.

McDuffie said his office received a 911 tip from a caller that Mary Crocker hadn't been seen since October and that the tipster feared she was dead.
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Canadian could face death penalty in drug-smuggling trial in China


CBC
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:24 UTC
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© REUTERS/Ricardo Rojas
A court in China said Wednesday that a Canadian citizen will stand trial on drug-smuggling charges this weekend, a case announced amid already strained relations between the two countries.

A notice posted by the Supreme People's Court of China said Robert Lloyd Schellenberg will appear in court in the northeastern province of Liaoning on Dec. 29.

In their reporting of the arrest, some Chinese media referenced the detentions of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig - both being held in China and accused of engaging in "activities undermining China's national security."
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Silenced by the Intolerant Left: Academics' mobbing of a young scholar must be denounced


Quillette
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:16 UTC
Noah Carl
Noah Carl
The latest victim of an academic mobbing is 28-year-old social scientist Noah Carl who has been awarded a Toby Jackman Newton Trust Research Fellowship at St Edmund's College at the University of Cambridge.

Rarely has the power asymmetry between the academic mob and its victim been so stark. Dr Carl is a young researcher, just starting out in his career, who is being mobbed for being awarded a prestigious research scholarship on the basis of his peer-reviewed research.

While getting a position like this is normally a time for celebration for junior academics, Dr Carl has gone to ground, unable to defend his reputation from libellous attacks, as he has been instructed not to talk to the media.

Three hundred academics from around the world, many of them professors, have signed an open letter denouncing Dr Carl and demanding that the University of Cambridge "immediately conduct an investigation into the appointment process" on the grounds that his work is "ethically suspect" and "methodologically flawed." The letter states: "we are shocked that a body of work that includes vital errors in data analysis and interpretation appears to have been taken seriously." Yet the letter contains no evidence of any academic misconduct. It does not include a single reference to any of Dr Carl's papers, let alone any papers that are "ethically suspect" or "methodologically flawed."
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