Sunday, August 25, 2019

...Killing of Retired Administrator (at CFU); Hong Kong students

Fullerton Employee Arrested in Killing of Retired Administrator
Inside Higher Ed

Police have arrested a California State University at Fullerton employee in the stabbing death of a retired Fullerton administrator, CNN reported. Steven Shek Keung Chan, who retired in 2017 but had recently returned to work at the university as a consultant, was found dead in his car in a parking lot at Fullerton Monday. Officers arrested Chuyen Vo, an employee in the extended education office in which Chan formerly worked. Charges are to be filed today, when a motive might be clearer.
(See also 51-year-old co-worker arrested in fatal stabbing of retired Cal State Fullerton administrator (OC Reg))

Hong Kong Students Call for 2-Week Class Boycott
Inside Higher Ed

Student leaders at 10 Hong Kong universities have called for their fellow students to skip classes for the first two weeks of the fall term in response to mass protests that started this summer, the Associated Press reported. The student leaders said they would escalate their action if their demands are not met by Hong Kong's Beijing-backed chief executive by Sept. 13....

Dr. Jen Gunter Wants to Protect Your Vagina From Gwyneth Paltrow
Mother Jones

...As an OB-GYN with nearly three decades of experience, Gunter knows from crotches. And today she is angry about how certain products—“vaginal offenders”—are pitched at women. “Since the beginning of time, women have been told that they are dirty,” she says. “They want us to be ‘pure,’ they want us to be ‘clean.’ These words have been weaponized.” And shaky assertions made by natural health products serve only to misdirect women, Gunter argues in her new book, The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth From the Medicine, a sassy manual of anatomy and self-care tips. If a topical product claims it can regulate pH, she writes, “I always wonder: What other false claims are they making?”...

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...