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Oakleigh Marshall not allowed to compete for court
MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) - Some Mona Shores High School students say administrators stole the homecoming king throne from the rightful winner -- a transgender senior.
The controversy is playing out in the school's hallways, and on Facebook.
Some classmates believe the crown belongs to Oakleigh Reed -- who was born as Oakleigh Marie, but who now goes as Oakleigh Marshall, or Oak for short.
In fact, friends have started a Facebook page, titled, "Oak is My King."
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=103699403028170
"It's the senior class that votes for their representative," Reed said. "What they did was taking away the voice of the senior class."
Assistant Superintendent Todd Geerlings said the issue is simple: The ballots gave two choices -- vote for a boy for king and a girl for queen.
And, in school records, he said, Oakleigh is still listed as a female.
The 17-year-old says the gender struggle has been life-long -- with sports, family and friends, even band camp. After years of counseling, Oakleigh plans a sex change operation at age 18.
Already, the school has made concessions.
"They let me wear a male tux for band uniform, and they're going to let me wear the male robe and cap for graduation."
Teachers, Oakleigh said, use male pronouns.
"They call me Oak, and they say, he, him, his," the teen said.
Oak, an honor student, campaigned for homecoming king on Facebook -- a one-day campaign.
"I just said, 'Vote for me for homecoming king.' I don't see why there's any reasons why someone who's different shouldn't be on court. I thought, 'Hey, why not put myself out there? I have just as much qualifications as anyone else in the school."
The campaign took off.
"I knew I had a lot of votes because people were telling me in the hallway, 'Hey, I voted for you, I voted for you.'"
Oakleigh was overwhelmed by the support of classmates.
Then, last Monday, the principal called Oak into her office.
"They told me that they took me off because they had to invalidate all of my votes because I'm enrolled at Mona Shores as a female," Oakleigh said.
Oakleigh was happy with the support from classmates, but "sometimes it's nice to have something tangible."
The teen's mother says she's angry.
"He was voted for homecoming king and, according to the votes, he should have been homecoming king, and it's just sad, and it just breaks my heart that all these people all voted and it was taken away, it was completely taken away from him."
The ACLU may enter this case . Oakleigh said he'd be willing to talk with them.http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/muskegon_county/ACLU-may-enter-school-transgender-... more
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This week on YO!Radio -- at a rally in support of the young woman raped at a homecoming dance in Richmond CA, we found out that the attackers and the victim are not unknown on campus. Donny Lumpkins is a content producer and Malcolm Marshall is a producer for YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia.This week on YO!Radio -- at a rally in support of the young woman raped at a... more
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Richmond High School students, staff, and community react to the rape of a 15-year-old student after their homecoming dance.
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Richmond Youth Raped at Homecoming
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WASHINGTON — For Lawrence M. Hinsley, it was a celebration almost 65 years in the making.
Mr. Hinsley, a Navy enlistee who served in the Pacific theater in World War II, says he was greeted with little pomp and circumstance when he returned home in late 1945.
“Maybe in New York,” said Mr. Hinsley, now 86, who is originally from Texas. “I went home and went to college.”
But on a trip on Saturday to the World War II Memorial in Washington with a group of fellow veterans, Mr. Hinsley got a sort of a hero’s welcome. His group was greeted with applause when they stepped off the airplane, then accepted the thanks of complete strangers while at the memorial.
“This is our coming-home party,” said Mr. Hinsley, who now lives in Tullahoma, Tenn.
Mr. Hinsley was one of an estimated 700 World War II veterans who came to Washington on Saturday through the help of the Honor Flight Network, a nonprofit that arranges free trips for the veterans to visit the memorial commemorating their service.
The idea for Honor Flight came from Earl Morse, who was a physician’s assistant at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Springfield, Ohio, when the World War II Memorial opened in 2004.
“I would see my World War II veterans some three, six months later, and I’d ask them if they’d gone to see it,” said Mr. Morse, a veteran of the Air Force and now the president of Honor Flight. “Three hundred of them, and not one of them had been to it. Reality set in. They were never going.”
Mr. Morse started the program with the help of a pilots’ club at a nearby Air Force base. Its first flight was in May 2005. But Honor Flight eventually outgrew smaller planes and switched to flying veterans commercially. It became the Honor Flight Network when it merged with Honor Air, a group started by Jeff Miller, a North Carolina man who uses charter planes to transport veterans to Washington.
Honor Flight now has 86 regional hubs in 33 states, with each hub required to plan its own flights, do its own fund-raising, and find its own volunteers. The group flew 136 veterans to the memorial in 2005. This year, it has already flown more than 10,000 there. (Of the roughly 16 million Americans who served in the Armed Forces during the war, about two million are still alive.)
Saturday’s group was among the largest scheduled Honor Flight gatherings of this year, with groups from around 10 hubs arriving in the nation’s capital.
Most of the groups that traveled to Washington this weekend planned to fly both in and out on Saturday — a grueling day for almost anyone, let alone a group filled with veterans well into their 80s and 90s, many of whom needed wheelchairs to get around.
But the veterans were largely upbeat when they arrived at the memorial.
Many had already received a rousing welcome as they landed in the Washington area, getting applause and cheers as they came off the planes.
“I don’t get choked up too easily,” said Dick Schoof, 85, who served as a meteorologist in the Army Air Corps during the war and now lives in Dothan, Ala. “But that was just staggering.”
Once they got to the memorial, the cameras started clicking, as the veterans posed for group photographs, both with and without former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, who was badly wounded in World War II.
Mr. Dole, who often greets Honor Flight groups, said he had met a couple of veterans who had also served in the 10th Mountain Division at this particular meet-and-greet. “It’s great, just saying hello, swapping stories, joking around with each other,” said Mr. Dole, flanked by his wife, Elizabeth.
In the end, the trip evoked a range of feelings from the veterans, from appreciation to Honor Flight to amazement that the group had gone to so much trouble.
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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review "Homecoming."
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes movie show: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesBrett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen... more
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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox take a peek at what's coming up this weekend including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, (500) Days of Summer and Homecoming.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show visit: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesBrett Erlich and Ellen Fox take a peek at what's coming up this weekend including... more
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That there are a finite number of new ideas in Hollywood comes as no surprise. But I bet this next sentence will shock you because it contains both the name Misha Barton and the phrase, a good job acting. Here it comes. Wait for it.
Misha Barton did a good job acting. No, really.That there are a finite number of new ideas in Hollywood comes as no surprise. But I... more
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Juliet Soukup is a 21-year-old Navy Wife, her husband Michael left for Iraq in March. He was deployed a month after they were married in February and, with no family near by, Juliet has been here alone since then. She finds ways to fill her time, mostly spending her days with the other wives. Most of the women in this story are no more than twenty and many are pregnant or already have children. They are the ones who are left behind when the person they love goes to war, to take care of the children, the house, the bills, and live alone as if they were single parents for months at a time. Michael came home two weeks ago, he and Juliet are currently trying for a baby.
This is their story...Juliet Soukup is a 21-year-old Navy Wife, her husband Michael left for Iraq in March.... more
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This is a great testament to the increased tolerance that many are learning across the country, though we still have a long way to go. Go Davis!This is a great testament to the increased tolerance that many are learning across the... more
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Howard University's homecoming week is legendary for the high caliber of events and stellar talent it attracts each year. Check out this recap of the parades, pageants and parties which make HU homecoming a must attend event!Howard University's homecoming week is legendary for the high caliber of events... more
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