- Bring on the bros. The ladies of Pennsylvania’s Chatham University
will soon be able to troll for guys on their own campus rather than having to
go outside its borders after the school’s board of trustees voted to approve
the admission of men to its undergraduate college for the first time in its
145-year-old history. For some inexplicable reason, idiots stuck in the past
opposed the move and asked the university’s trustees to delay the vote, but it
took place on Thursday afternoon. Chatham was founded as the Pennsylvania
Female College in 1869 and has existed as an exclusionary institution of
higher learned in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood ever since. The change isn't
entirely altruistic, as the freshman class has shrunk nearly 50 percent since
2008 and a college that once had more than 700 students faces the prospect of
having fewer than 320 within five years - unless the school goes co-ed.
Recognizing that stark reality, Chatham University president Esther Barrazone
said last month that with shrinking enrollment and millions spent from the
operating budget on financial assistance, her school faced possible closure if
it did not adapt and change. Inexplicably, ass-hatted current students, alumni
and staff still opposed the decision and preferred shutting their doors over
opening them to men. Chatham alumna Sara Grey was one of the measure’s most
vocal opponents. “I’d say our graduates feelings more of grief at this point.
We’ve been all experiencing that anger for quite a while now. We have attempted
to communication with the college, to help find a solution and repeatedly have
been ignored or dismissed,” Grey said. “At this point it’s really about
grieving for our college which no longer exists.” Glad you’ve accepted reality,
femi-Nazi. You and your clam bake friends still have time to adjust, as Chatham
won't begin accepting men at the undergraduate level until the fall of 2015………
- The unlikely pairing of Ed Sheeran and The Game doesn’t make a ton
of sense on paper, but it will reportedly happen in the form of a joint album
that will drop as soon as the latter months of this year. . The Game announced
the pair’s plans in an extremely straightforward statement. "I'm working
on a joint album with Ed Sheeran that we trying to drop probably end of the
year, beginning of 2015. That is gonna be crazy," the rapper said. He
added that the project originated after the two exchanged a series of direct
messages on Twitter. At first, they planned to record a single song, but their
time in the studio was so productive that they eventually laid down seven
tracks. "Ed came up with the idea to start working on a joint album, and
we started doing it," The Game explained. "That was like in five hours.
We was just going. He was on that guitar. Acoustically, he’s a genius, man, so
when he does that, what comes out of me is songs like 'Dreams' and 'Hate It or
Love It' and 'My Life'. The songs that we got, they're real songs. And I can't
wait for people to hear 'em." Sheeran has been a busy guy of late and will
release his second album “x,” signifying multiply, on June 23. He recorded that
project in Los Angeles with producer Rick Rubin, who advised Sheeran to record
the album acoustically first and add further instrumentation afterward. Its
title continues a math-centric theme after he dropped his debut project “+”
back in 2011. A mash-up with one of the better rappers in the game may not have
a title that makes math-letes leap for joy, but it should be interesting………..
- Will Japan renounce its pacifist ways? As the country marked
the 67th anniversary of its postwar constitution Saturday, it did so with growing
debate over whether to revise the war-renouncing charter in line with Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe's push for an expanded role for the military. The ruling
conservative party has long advocated revision, but has gained little traction
on a grander scale. In response, Abe is proposing that the government
reinterpret the constitution to give the military more prominence in order to
circumvent the need for public approval for the revisions. Part of the push is
spurred by the United States’ wishes for Japan to bear a greater burden of its
own defense. That notion has upset the liberals who view such a move as undermining
the constitution and democratic processes. That seemed to be the same thought
espoused by hundreds of people gathered at a Tokyo rally commemorating
Constitution Day, a national holiday, as they decried the potential demise of Japan's
pacifist charter. "We citizens must stand up, take action and raise our
voice to stop Abe, or this country could return to a Japan that wages war with
Asia as it has done before,” event organizer Ken Takada said. The original
Japanese constitution was penned under U.S. direction after World War II and
the 1947 document says the Japanese people "forever renounce war as a
sovereign right of the nation" and that "land, sea and air forces, as
well as other war potential, will never be maintained." That ban has eroded
over the years through the Cold War and American efforts to seek stronger
allies in Asia and to allow Japan to have a military to defend itself, dubbed a
Self-Defense Force. The ruling Liberal-Democratic Party views the postwar
constitution as one imposed by the U.S., which occupied Japan from the end of
World War II until 1952. Abe's grandfather Nobusuke Kishi — who was arrested as
a suspected war criminal but never charged and later became prime minister —
was among the biggest critics of the constitution. In defending his proposal,
Abe is painting his idea as a "breakaway from the postwar regime" as
a way to overcome the humiliation, education system, social values and
historical views set by the occupation. Amending that constitution will be tough, which probably explains a
blatant end-around attempt………
- Do NOT f*ck with the American Bird
Conservancy. It is one of the nation's leading bird conservation groups and it plans
to sue the Obama administration over a federal regulation that allows wind
energy companies to obtain 30-year permits to kill eagles without prosecution
by the government. The angry bird lovers at the ABC are arguing the Department
of the Interior violated federal laws when it promulgated the regulation it
says sanctions the killing of bald and golden eagles. "The rule lacks
a firm foundation in scientific justification and was generated without the
benefit of a full assessment of its impacts on eagle populations,” said Michael
Hutchins, National Coordinator of ABC's Bird Smart Wind Energy Campaign. Why is
this happening? Because the government announced in December it would allow
companies to seek authorization to kill and harm bald and golden eagles for up
to 30 years without penalty in a bid to balance the environmental trade-offs of
green energy. The resulting rule offers up legal protection for the
lifespan of wind farms and other projects if companies obtain permits and make
efforts to avoid killing protected birds. Even a provision mandating that
companies take additional measures if they kill or injure more eagles than they
had estimated they would isn't enough to placate the ABC fools. In its notice
of intent to sue the government, the organization claims the rule "undermines
the nation’s longstanding commitment to conservation of eagles—unique animals
that are ‘ubiquitous in U.S. culture." It supposedly violates the
National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Bald and
Golden Eagle Protection Act……….
- It would be easy to tell Boston Bruins fans to stay classy….but
clearly, some of them never were. At least not the ugly, hateful sect of Bruins
supporters who directed racial slurs
at P.K. Subban via social media after the defenseman scored in the second
overtime to lift the visiting Montreal Canadiens to a 4-3 victory Thursday
night in the opener of an Eastern Conference semifinal series. Boston has a
history of being a racist place and despite the love and community shown in the
year since the Boston Marathon bombing, clearly many of its residents are as
hateful and ugly as ever. To be fair, some of the hatemongers likely reside
outside of Beantown, but a good chunk likely call the 617 area code home and
they made their voices heard online after Subban, who is black, scored his
second goal of the game at 4:17 of the second overtime. Twitter trolls posted
racial slurs disparaging Subban even though his younger brother, Malcolm, was
drafted by the Bruins in the first round in 2012. After the outpouring of
despicable thoughts and ideas, Boston Bruins president Cam Neely denounced
all of the idiots who tweeted horrible things. Prior to the Bruins’ 5-2 victory
in Game 2 of the series, Neely sounded off. "The racist, classless views
expressed by an ignorant group of individuals following Thursday's game via
digital media are in no way a reflection of anyone associated with the Bruins
organization," Neely said in a statement issued by the team. Bruins forward
Brad Marchand echoed those thoughts. "It's very disappointing things were
said on Twitter," Marchand said. "There's no need, at any point
in time, to be racist, and obviously no one in this room or the organization
feels that way, and it's very disappointing. Obviously, we have to apologize
for that coming from our fans, but hopefully there will be no more of that
stuff." Bruins coach Claude Julien noted that the ugly words of a few give
all Bruins fans a bad name. Even Boston mayor Marty Walsh piled on, describing
the hate tweets as “a disgrace.” Sadly, this is far from the first time. Bruins
fans also targeted Washington Capitals forward Joel Ward, who also is black,
with racial slurs after he scored the overtime goal that eliminated the Bruins
in the first round of the 2011-12 playoffs………
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