Carla Gary founded the Young Scholars to empower under served students of color, first generation and low-income potential college students. She realized just how much her pupils were learning when students from the program’s law cohort petitioned her for more freedom last year. “They wanted to travel across campus with no RA (Residence Assistant),” says …
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf7WrWOCKCc&w=425&h=349] Before college I thought of Adderall as something kids used to spice up their nose candy collection rather than an ADHD medicine. One evening my sophomore year, a friend hit me up saying she needed to get Adderall but didn’t want to walk to get it alone. It was around 2 am and …
Portland Schools Administrator Offers Free Math Books for Kids and Families. Check it out. My first piece in The Skanner. Also, be on the lookout for an update following the book giveaway.
There’s a scene in the movie EuroTrip where a man unwittingly gets stuck in a sexual contraption that resembles a torture device from Star Wars and he can’t pronounce the safe word to escape. I sympathize every time I turn on CNN and watch debt ceiling analysis. In this case, the safe word is probably …
Recently a friend sent me a clip from the Maury Show and my initial response was, “I’d rather tell people I smoke crack than enjoy some Maury Povich.” For those unfamiliar, the Maury Show is the epitome of daytime trash television. It’s infamous for parading the type of hood people that would make Jerry Springer …
I thought I was having an 80s flashback when I heard U.S. tax dollars were going to the Taliban. It’s 2011 right? Perhaps we’re taking this Reagan worship thing a little too far. At least in the 80s we could defend funding and training them because it was to take out the Russians. After all, …
Checkout this Huffington Post column on the 1947 film Beginning or the End and how President Harry Truman personally had the script re-written to make the bombing of Hiroshima (Nagasaki wasn’t included in the film) look better. Here’s a telling excerpt: “After protests from the White House, the MGM screenwriter James K. McGuinness deleted the …
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When you listen to a song like NWA’s “Gangsta Gangsta” and hear Ice Cube talking about stomping out people at parties and gunning down others for the hell of it, it might sound strange considering the only member of the group who had a criminal record at the time was the late Eazy-E. However, Public …
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As the NBA lockout continues we get a real glimpse of what the league is all about. The owners want to make a profit and the players want to protect themselves. It’s a business. No player seems to understand this more than LeBron James. He has been unapologetic going about his career on his own …
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The AP recently did a report inside North Korea, both confirming and countering many of the stories we’re told about the country through our media. If there’s one passage from the story that sums it up it’s this: “The common thinking is that North Koreans are shut off from the rest of the world. But …
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