Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S. - NYTimes.com

Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S. - NYTimes.com

After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

SLO store to mark a day for fair trade | The Tribune & SanLuisObispo.com


HumanKind Fair Trade, which sells work from cooperatives in the developing world and seeks to fight child labor, is hosting World Fair Trade Day today at its store at 982 Monterey St.

The store will offer prizes, snacks, an interactive art project and live music, as well as provide local residents a look at the way fair trade works and tips on how to "integrate fair-trade purchases into their regular buying habits," according to Laura Mullen, the group's board president.

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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Hooking Up In College — The Navigator


Lisa Wade, Ph.D., is a Sociology professor at Occidental College who recently conducted research on college freshmen to see what really was going on with the hookup culture. According to her research, the average college student has between four to seven different hookups in the four years he or she is in college. Also, students will now have oral sex, more specifically oral sex performed on men. Even though the numbers suggest fewer students actually hookup in college than they did in the past years, they are more sexual towards others.


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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Her.meneutics: Hookup Culture: Mostly a Myth

Her.meneutics: Hookup Culture: Mostly a Myth

Yes, this is true; women do say this, and my research supports it. But there is another side to the story that we don’t hear often enough. It’s something many college men say when safely behind closed doors, about how they like hookup culture about as much as the women do — which is to say, they don’t like it one bit. They just feel pressured to say they do in public. While it’s socially acceptable for women to admit that hooking up is not for them, it’s generally considered social suicide for a man to say the same thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/homophobic-maybe-youre-gay.html


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