In 2009, President Obama overturned a policy enacted by the Bush administration that put limits on stem cell research. With the lift of several restrictions and a change in political climate, scientists felt that a breakthrough in treatments using stem cells was inevitable. Fast-forward three years. Here we are in 2012; any monumental achievement? No. Unfortunately, a dearth of economic investments in this field of science are to blame for the lack of discoveries made with stem cell research in the United States.
It’s not your parent’s church anymore. No no no. The Inquisitions haven’t been around for a while. They don’t Crusade anymore (except on college campuses, since, ya know, the Crusades were such a pleasant time in history. Why not name a club after it?). And, unfortunately for Dan Brown, there is no more mortification of the flesh. In the last decade or so, it’s been clear that there has been a slow change in the Catholic church to become a more liberal, accepting church. Or, at least that’s what they want you to think.
The safeguards we set on our Facebook profiles to prevent unwanted eyes from viewing them will cease to protect our profiles from potential employers. Recently, employers have insisted on having unrestricted access to the Facebook profiles of potential employees in order to gain a more comprehensive view on the candidates. The use of social network profiling is increasing in practice with more companies demanding either the applicant’s password or having a human resources “shoulder surf” his or her profile without any privacy settings during the interview.
We have all been warned to keep our social networking profiles clean from any incriminating evidence. But even the strongest of privacy settings may not be able to protect you from employer’s newest strategy: directly asking for the login information.
On Feb. 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was found dead in an Orlando, FL suburb. George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old self-appointed neighborhood watch captain, claims to have shot him in self-defense after a 911 call in which he reported Martin as being suspicious and was advised not to pursue the youth.
We wanted to take a wilderness sabbatical in the footsteps of Kerouac, Emerson and Thoreau. This is what transpired.
Gregory
Michael, Amanda, Natasha and I hiked...
By Charles Lam
Staff Writer
UC Irvine sucks at having interesting restaurants near campus. Orange County, however, doesn’t suck at having nice places to eat. Just...
By Sofia Farooque
Once the sun goes down in Orange County, the party begins. Groups of tanned girls dressed in fitted mini-skirts and sky-high heels...
