On January 26th, Senator Rick Santorum made a quiet appearance at an event sponsored by the College Republicans at Florida State University. The event occurred with little to no publication on campus but managed to fill up the State Ballroom, even at 9:00am on a Thursday.
Wednesday night, Cornel West addressed the FSU students and members of the Tallahassee community in the Ruby Diamond Auditorium. He began his lecture, a mesh of Socratic questioning and prophetic wisdom, by emphasizing the importance of deep knowledge and a critical examination of ourselves.
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We are entering an age in which legislators are trying to decide how they can extend the arm of the law to cover the vast amorphous landscape of the World Wide Web. Two bills, SOPA and S.978, were recently proposed that have resulted in an unfavorable reaction from Internet users.
Bill S.978, or the Commercial Felony Streaming Act, was proposed by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chris Coons (D-DE) and John Cornyn (R-TX) on May 12, 2011, and was met with sensationalized media coverage that relied heavily on the question “Could Justin Bieber be sent to jail by S.978?” This is primarily due to Bieber’s early reliance on posting covers of songs on his YouTube channel, which eventually allowed him to rise to the level of fame that he has acquired today. However, S.978 is not necessarily bent on prosecuting YouTube users.
Under the current Copyright Act, streaming is classified as a performance of copyrighted material. The unauthorized streaming of copyrighted materials, such as posting a video utilizing copyrighted music on YouTube, under the Copyright Act, is a misdemeanor.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb may have already created the first birth control pill for men. The drug, BMS-189453, was developed ten years ago by BMS. Initial tests on rat subjects, reported in October of 2000 in the Oxford Journal of Toxicological Science, showed that the drug was ‘toxic’ to the animals’ testicles. Based on this effect, the company decided not to continue developing the compound.
A report release, explaining this decision, was seen by Dr. Debra J. Wolgemuth, Ph.D. a professor and researcher at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Wolgemuth said that she was “intrigued,” and that “One company’s toxin may be another person’s contraceptive. She proceeded, with her team, to test the drug on mice at lower doses to see if the drug’s effects weren’t permanent. A four week-dosing cycle at 1.0mg/kg of the test subject’s body weight showed that the sterility caused by the drug was reversible.
The most promising aspect of this new drug is that it may control reproduction while bypassing hormonal-based treatments. Such methods have, in the past, produced unwanted side-effects: higher risk for cardiovascular diseases, benign prostatic hyperplasia, ethnically diverse levels of efficiency, and a diminished sex-drive (one thinks of The Gift of the Magi). Dr. Chung, a research assistant working with Dr. Wolgemuth has stated that “an additional benefit of our compound is that it can be taken orally as a pill, avoiding the injection process. It also appears to have a very rapid effect on sperm production, and an even more rapid recovery when fertility is desired.” Continue Reading »
The first major 2012 Republican Presidential debate came and went this month, drawing little enthusiasm from GOP leaders. In describing the debate, Senate GOP heavyweight Lindsey Graham told The Wall Street Journal “I was incredibly disappointed.” Just one day after calling the president’s healthcare overhaul “Obamneycare,” an obvious swipe at Republican favorite former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s healthcare reform, Tim Pawlenty showed little fight in the rest of the debate. Many commentators believed the controversial senator Michele Bachman came in second, leaving the flip-flopping Mitt Romney as this year’s presumed nominee. Continue Reading »
This April, Florida lawmakers passed HB1355, a modification to Florida election law requiring all voter registration groups to submit completed forms within 48 hours, and it is stirring controversy in the state. The law spurred accusations by President of the Florida League of Women Voters, Deirdre Macnab, of the legislature “reverting to Jim Crow-style tactics” in her Orlando Sentinel editorial. The new change has prompted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to file a lawsuit in U.S. district court, challenging implementation of the law prior to clearance by the Justice department. Florida Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, is urging the Justice department to review the law soon, however in the meantime he is ordering the law to take effect immediately in all but five counties. Continue Reading »
Any of you who frequent the west end of FSU’s campus have certainly noticed (and been regularly inconvenienced by) the new building going up beside Wildwood Hall. This new building – dubbed Wildwood Phase II – is the latest addition to campus housing and will be connected administratively with the original Wildwood building. Currently it is slated to open for residence in the Summer semester of 2012, and judging by the rapid progress they’ve made over the course of the past year there don’t seem to be any concerns of delay.
President Eric Barron spoke primarily about Florida State University’s dire need for money and ways to alleviate the strain on the university in his state of the university address on Wednesday, Oct. 27.
The job market for 2011 college graduates looks positive in all regions of the country, according to a recently released report by The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) .
