The Alpha Phi sorority chapter at the University of Alabama has removed a promotional video from all of its social media accounts after complaints that it depicts women “selling themselves on looks alone, as a commodity,” according to one op-ed, and shows a lack of diversity.
The six-minute-long clip was published last week to attract potential new recruits ahead the annual sorority rush recruitment event at the university, Mashable reports. The video shows the sorority sisters running around campus in bikinis and football jerseys and putting on makeup, among other things. Read More...
Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Are Causing Life Expectancy in America to Drop Dramatically U.S. life expectancy has decreased for the second year in a row, and an editorial in the BMJ points to three contributing factors: drugs, alcohol and suicides, particularly among middle-age white Americans and those living... By Amanda MacMillan February 8, 2018 ncG1vNJzZmismaKyb6%2FOpmaaraSdvLN7wKaYp5yRYrqir8yio6WZnmQ%3D
Juan Manuel de Rosas, dictator of Argentina, was a hellion. He wore lace-trimmed drawers, lived almost exclusively on beef, rode like a centaur and decimated the population of his country. He once slit the throats of 1,500 prisoners of war, was defeated and forced to flee the country in 1852 by a former lieutenant, Justo Jose de Urquiza, head of an army of hard riding gauchos. Manhattan art critics learned a great deal about Generals de Rosas and Urquiza last week when an imposing exhibition opened at the Hispanic Society of America of the Argentine paintings of Cesareo Bernaldo de Quiros. Read More...
