From Jeff Leahy, CRMS Head of School: Last night I had dinner in Tokyo with Taro Tomisawa, who graduated five years ago. Taro works for the Tokyo Foundation, a non-profit that focuses on "developing policy, investing in people, and transforming society". During dinner Taro shared with me that over the course of his time at CRMS doing community service became somewhat of a habit for him. He thinks that this is one of the main values that CRMS has to share with the world, and that this sense of supporting others is not readily found elsewhere. During his time in college and his year in Tokyo he has struggled to find the same amount of opportunities that he felt were so available at CRMS. Today he works in the government area of downtown Tokyo and has taken on an important role in the Foundation - keeping his CRMS legacy alive.
Remember the drunk student caught taking a leak on a war memorial in October? A judge has warned him that he may be jailed for the incident.
The judge also told 19-year-old Philip Laing, a student at Sheffield Hallam University, that the firm Carnage UK, who organised the drinking session, should also be in the dock alongside him.
Laing has been the subject of online slatings since the incident. A Facebook group has been set up called "Paul Laing - Scum Of The Earth" and 234 people have joined. A tip to any internet haters, by the way - it's always a good idea to spell the name of your victim correctly...
I have to say, as utterly stupid as he was to do it, I feel for the guy. The court heard he'd drunk a bottle of whiskey and it sounds like he didn't have a clue what he was doing. After reading his public apology, I think he sounds genuinely remorseful and utterly ashamed. At the time he said:
"I am deeply ashamed of this photograph and I am sincerely sorry for my behaviour.
"I didn't realise how much alcohol I had consumed that night and also hadn't eaten since lunchtime.
"I have no recollection of the events in the photograph, although I recognise that this does not excuse my actions. I apologise unreservedly for any offence I may have caused."
According to the judge, Laing's apology, as well as his guilty plea, will be taken into account during sentencing.
Nightmare of a Dream Student
New America Media
Commentary, Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez,
Oct 26, 2009
I’ll refer to her as Leticia X.
She is undocumented, but has been in this country since the age of three and is a top student at her high school. Yet, unless the law changes soon, she will be unable to continue with her studies. She tells my students at the University of Arizona that it is wrong that she will not be able to attend college next year: “I consider myself a U.S. citizen. It’s the only country I’ve ever known.”
Her symbolic mother is Leticia A -- a student who set the legal precedent in 1982 in Plyler v. Doe in Texas, permitting undocumented students to be able to attend public K-12 schools, without having to pay exorbitant out-of-state tuition.
Today, Leticia X struggles to change this policy to include K-16 students. If out-of-state fees are exorbitant for out of state K-12 students, the rates are stratospheric for out-of-state college students, generally costing tens of thousands of dollars yearly.
A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers' conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said.
The video, posted by the San Jose Mercury News on its Web site late Saturday, shows one officer hitting 20-year-old Vietnamese student Phuong Ho with a metal baton more than 10 times, including once on the head. Another officer is seen using his Taser gun on the San Jose State math major.
The final baton strike in last month's incident appears to take place after handcuffs have been attached to Ho's wrists.
Officers arrested Ho on suspicion of assaulting one of his roommates. He was not armed when police arrived and he told the newspaper he didn't resist arrest.
The confrontation began Sept. 3 when Ho's roommate, Jeremy Suftin, put soap on Ho's steak. The two scuffled, and Ho picked up a steak knife, saying that in his home country he would have killed Suftin for doing what he did.
Police were called, and four officers responded.
Officer Kenneth Siegel encountered Ho in the hallway, but couldn't understand the student's accent, police reports said. Ho then ignored a police command to stand still, reports said.
When Ho tried to follow Siegel into his room, officer Steven Payne Jr. moved to handcuff Ho. Payne wrote in his report that he pushed the student into a wall and then forced him to the floor when he resisted being handcuffed.
Ho, who weighs more than 200 lbs., said his glasses fell off. As he went to pick them up, the officers struck him, he said.
Another one of Ho's roommates, Dimitri Masouris, captured the events on his cell phone. An officer can be heard on the video shouting, "Turn over!" Ho can be heard moaning and crying as he's struck.
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Many universities, professionals, and organizations offer blogs and other resources to answer the questions and alleviate the anxieties of incoming freshmen and students returning from extended absentia alike.Many universities, professionals, and organizations offer blogs and other resources to... more
Claude Alvin Simmons and Christopher Shun Scott are exonerated due to help of UT & UTA students!
"The case was originally brought to the attention of the district attorney's office Conviction Integrity Unit by students at the Texas Center for Actual Innocence at the University of Texas at Austin and the students at the University of Texas at Arlington's Innocence Network."
I'm beyond joyful to hear this news. But really, how many more exonerated men and women is it going to take before the government realizes that there is MAJOR fault in the system? Innocent people are being sent to die for heinous crimes they didn't commit. Wake up and smell the coffee America, you're only causing more pain and suffering to your citizens.Claude Alvin Simmons and Christopher Shun Scott are exonerated due to help of UT &... more
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Schools have begun to offer more and more online certificates for those students who wish to further their career through an additional certification. Many businesses have begun to require their employees to become further advanced in a particular field by receiving added skills.Schools have begun to offer more and more online certificates for those students who... more
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Trying to find a scholarship to fund your college education can seem like the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. Besides, don’t scholarships only go to the super smart, over-achiever types? Not necessarily.Trying to find a scholarship to fund your college education can seem like the... more
DJ Seasunz was a fan favorite of the teen-aged crowd and often promoted "all ages" parties. It was at one of those parties that the 30-year-old met then 16-year-old Jaclyn Torrealba in 2007.
Fast forward two years later and after a fight ended in Torrealba's murder on Sunday and now the victim's family is saying they tried their best to keep DJ Seasunz away from their young daughter.
"He was a master manipulator," said the attorney for Vilma Castro, Torrealba's mother. "The family knew he was dangerous for her...somehow he found a way to worm his way back into her life."
A press conference in front of the family's Miami home Tuesday detailed the family's efforts to stop Juan Carlos Portieles, AKA DJ Seasunz, from influencing Torrealba. They categorized the underaged love affair an "obsession" on Portieles' part.
Portieles is being held in a Miami-Dade jail without bond on second-degree murder charges for Torrealba's death. Portieles drove his victim's lifeless body to the Miami-Dade police station Sunday and turned himself in.
Police said the couple got into an altercation that got out of hand and finally ended when Portieles choked Torrealba to death.
Since details of the murder have been released, some had pointed to the huge age differential between the two involved and questioned why Torrealba's parents never intervened.
Torrealba, a freshman at FIU, met the popular DJ at an "all ages" party, family members said.
According to a 17-year-old who worked with him selling tickets to a music festival, Portieles had a thing for young girls, CBSNews.com reported.
Portieles would go to "all the clubs that 15- to 25-year-olds go to" and that "all he had was younger girls," the girl, who did not want to be named, said.DJ Seasunz was a fan favorite of the teen-aged crowd and often promoted "all ages"... more
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The adorable K-6th grade Navajo children during the second week of school at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona.
Narrated and videotaped by Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, executive director of the Navajo Lutheran Mission
Featuring K-6 students, teachers and staff.
1-928-659-4201 (Office)
1-928-659-4202 (School)
Navajo Lutheran Mission School:
NELM School Principal Felisita Jones
Kindergarten teacher Sharon Woody
1st grade teacher Lark Pettit
2nd grade teacher Jolene Wilson
3rd and 4th grade teacher Pauline Wagon
5th and 6th grade teacher Eileen Holiday
Tara Chee, NELM Community Services Coordinator and Navajo Language and Culture Instructor
2009 Board of Directors
Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission
Ron Augustson, Chair
Janice Lee Jim
Roger Johnsen
Jerry Thomas
Bill Heincke
Richard Wixom
David Ulibarri
Jeannie M. Harvey
Christel Badey
Clarence Begay
Sue Vogel-Herrera
Alice Natale
Carol Buckley, owner of Arizona Flutes and Native Arts in Camp Verde, AZ (high desert in Verde Valley) and a non-native flute musician specializing in American Indian music.
She has Michigan roots - lived in Davison and taught school in LakeVille Public Schools in Otisville, where she was a Speech and Language Pathologist.
In 1994 Buckley decided to refocus her life, escape from the cold weather, and move to the beautiful Verde Valley in Arizona’s high desert.
She is a poet and writer who plays Native American style flute music and has great respect for the Navajo and other Native American tribes and their respective cultures/heritage.
Carol also teaches classes on how to play the Native flute.
Songs used from Carol Buckley's “Rhythm Keepers” and “Raindrops on Roses” CDs
Navajo Lutheran Mission Second Week of School & Photo Montage:
Carol Buckley's “Raindrops on Roses” CD
Track 4 “Living Life”
Track 6 “Dancing Moccasins”
Cal Farley's Girlstown, U.S.A.
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This is after I got my Laptop working with Flash,
for a long time it would not work with all types of flash.
it was a nice HoT Day so I went outside after fixing my Laptop.
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The explosion of student sex columns, as captivating as they are controversial, represents a campus movement possessed of the same subversive potential that fueled 1960s student activism.
Within a few years, the sex column had spread to campuses across the country, becoming the "most publicized, electrifying, and divisive phenomena in student journalism," in the words of Dan Reimold, leading expert on the student newspaper sex column.
Reimold estimates that "during any given semester more than 200 sex and dating columns are being published in U.S. student newspapers, magazines, and online outlets.... What's most important here is perspective. In the mid-nineties, the number of student sex columns: zero." In addition to increasing student readership, the proliferation of student sex columns has drawn national attention, like a 2002 New York Times profile of student journalism's most famous sex columnist, Yale's Natalie Krinsky, whose most popular "Sex and the (Elm) City" articles drew hundreds of thousands of hits.
"We're not Generation X--we're Generation Sex," one student columnist quipped to Reimold during the course of research for his upcoming book, Sex and the University: Celebrity, Controversy and a Student Journalism Revolution.The 1996 launch of "Sex on Tuesday" at the University of California,... more
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A non-Muslim is objecting to a Muslim student who does not enjoy himself with them in night clubs!
I have a muslim student in my class at university and he never comes and sits with us nor does he come out to the night club/leisure with us. My question is why does islam teach people not to enjoy them selves and be miserable all the time. cheers.
