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Here are the last week’s @studentactivism Twitter highlights. (The week before last’s, which I posted last night, are here.)
RT @dlcox1958: Fun Facts: 24 member UC Commission on the Future has 0 staff, 2 students, 4 faculty.http://bit.ly/42fvYQ #ucwalkout
Via @angryasianman, “Squinty eyes” student govt campaign poster parody sparks controversy at Tufts:http://bit.ly/3yw7tc
My post from last week on teaching feminism has been cross-posted at @samsanator‘s blog: http://bit.ly/4jrSX
My full campus-by-campus roundup of the #UCWalkout. (More news on UC coming at the blog today.)http://bit.ly/walkout3
RT @queerunity Gender is in between your ears (brain), sex is in between your legs. #transtuesday
Don’t forget Iran’s students: thousands marched in Tehran yesterday and today. http://bit.ly/2YDVQ5 #iranelection
Two Polanski facts to remember: He admitted in court that he knew she was 13, and she told police he anally raped her.
Also, it shows feminism works! RT @AmandaMarcotte: 85% drop in rape rate since the 70s shows convicting rapists is an effective deterrent.
Get your http://studentactivism.net updates on Facebook!http://bit.ly/3VSfvI
Pitt students, arrested and tear-gassed in their dorms at#G20, demand action: http://bit.ly/10KX5S (please RT)
Fascinated by #nestlefamily Twitter war. (Mombloggers at Nestle retreat vs critics of Nestle 3rd world formula mkting.)
By the way, this #nestlefamily-inspired post by @phdinparenting is amazing: http://bit.ly/wuDfB.
Want to know why formula is dangerous to at-risk babies? Read the WHO FAQ:http://bit.ly/rtLrK
Okay, here’s the coolest thing ever to happen ever:http://bit.ly/lusWj (via @PostBourgie) Gotta love the Nate Silver shoutout, too.
Powerful comment from a Pitt alum on my #G20 protest post:http://bit.ly/10KX5S
RT @peterrothberg: Great piece I edited by @adibranco on the “Student Sex Column Movement.” http://bit.ly/qUZ2P
Nestle is no friend to kids. Its marketing practices kill kids. If people are angry at #nestlefamily bloggers that’s why.
I’ve asked @nestlefamily more than half a dozen questions in the last two days. They’ve answered zero. #nestlefamily
A review and link roundup on the #UCSCoccupation, still going strong after seven days: http://bit.ly/2lpri1
UC Santa Cruz students end building occupation after seven days: http://bit.ly/zKR2J #ucscoccupation @occupyucsc
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the dilemmas posed by white racists’ love for @CoryBooker http://tr.im/ArRL (via @AdamSerwer)
“Even Cochran didn’t have the nerve to say ‘Did you see OJ play against New England?'” -Chris Rock on Polanski’s defenders
Hat tip to @jaclynf on that Chris Rock/roman Polanski quote, by the way. http://bit.ly/Uc2fU
Was the UCSC occupation the longest sit-in since the sixties? I look at the history. #ucscoccupation http://bit.ly/OQcPi
Amazing #nestlefamily wrapup from @EvilSlutClique: http://bit.ly/2ihofP. Everything I’d have said, but said better.
RT @forstudentpower: Progressive/radical students in New England/Midatlantic: register for the SDS Northeast convention! http://bit.ly/ocn1N
RT @forstudentpower: “I tweeted the law and the law won” –#G20 activist monitoring police scanners arrested by FBI:http://bit.ly/1fD3OL
RT @lissnup: Students in Iran being disciplined, suspended, expelled, beaten, arrested, imprisoned. Student Activists of the World Unite!
Fifteen great questions for Nestle from @phdinparenting:http://tinyurl.com/ybaxbc3 #nestlefamily
RT @stu4ca: Save California’s universities | Judith Butler in guardian.co.uk http://bit.ly/ixOEq
Fantastic. RT @jsmooth995: Great story of Stevie Wonder sitting in with local band in SF: http://tr.im/AFBt Video here:http://tr.im/AFBP
Great line, via @restruct: Dear Male Geeks: A woman is not a Rubik’s cube that turns into a fleshlight when you win.http://bit.ly/2CJd5
Texas student gvt, pressured by parents & alums, upholds homecoming court ban on same-sex couples: http://bit.ly/4cRa2L
The student senate of the University of North Texas last week rejected a bylaw amendment that would have allowed same-sex couples to run for king and queen of homecoming.
Student government regulations at UNT do not bar LGBT students from running for homecoming king and queen, but they do provide that the court be elected as a male-female couple. The proposed bylaw amendment would have eliminated that restriction.
The bill, which had been introduced a week earlier, generated a strong negative response from UNT parents and alumni.
Debate on the proposal lasted for an hour, and at times grew heated. The final vote was five in favor of the change, ten opposed, and eight abstentions.
One student who voted against the bill said that he had been swayed by threats from alumni to end charitable donations to UNT, and from parents of students who had gone so far as to threaten to force their children to withdraw from the university.
Student government interns conducted an informal poll of two hundred students before the vote, and the UNT student newspaper, the NT Daily, said the results were “generally negative.” Comments on the Daily‘s coverage of the vote have, however, been mostly supportive of the defeated amendment.
(Thanks to @ericstoller on Twitter for the heads-up on this story.)
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