A kiss here, a hug there, can lead to ... well, who knows what, but we're going to nip it in the bud! http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/12...-harassment-on-his-record/UPI-74331386704129/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/index.html?hpt=hp_c3 I don't know where to begin...I guess this quote sums this up... As a graduate student at UNC-Greensboro, Willingham researched the reading levels of 183 UNC-Chapel Hill athletes who played football or basketball from 2004 to 2012. She found that 60% read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. Between 8% and 10% read below a third-grade level.
It's symptomatic of the football and basketball teams only. Student-athletes on the whole have some advantages over non-athletes when it comes to academics.
The XC team always has a higher GPA than the university average. Of course, the football players would have said we weren't athletes.
My swim team in college had the second-highest GPA amongst all divisions of swimming and we still didn't have a higher GPA than the girls XC squad. Pissed me off.
Swimming is pretty much the same thing. An individual sport that attracts goal-oriented, hard-working people who are disciplined and self-motivated. Good students will come from that combination.
I thought we had a discussion of mental health somewhere. I guess it does not apply to education. (And no, it was not humorous.)
I have worked with quite a few girls who had similar symptoms as Suzy, and they behaved quite similar to her except they weren't paid for it. She went down the rabbit hole and the end result was for many of us to mock her. Let me link this to an article I heard on the way home, today. http://www.npr.org/2014/01/08/260808007/obama-administration-has-little-love-for-zero-tolerance The transcript is not up yet, but the report talks about how students with behavioral problems (ADHD, bipolar disorder, etc) are unfairly punished and and we need to do a better job at helping them (recognizing the problems). So mocking somebody with a behavioral issue (mental disease/condition) does not bring any humor to me.
I'm thoroughly lost. Who is the person in the photo? What's the joke about putting out / doing it? What's the connection to mental illness? Let's start from zero on this. Please.
Massively sexist. Nobody ever said Charlie Sheen was off limits, or that the poor guy had a problem because he had sex with lots of people. It's only women who get that treatment. The underlying reason is the belief that women who like sex are sick sluts, while men who like sex are normal. Sorry, I won't play that game. I don't believe that women who like sex, or power, or money, or whatever, are sick sad freaks. While men who like those things are not. I think that mindset is very damaging to women.
Suzy Hamilton was an NCAA champion distance runner who later worked in Vegas as an escort. The story wrote itself because she was marketed while in college as being America's sweetheart, All-American girl, etc. She was blonde and from Wisconsin.
Nope, never said anything about men/boys. I was only referencing your post of Suzy. It is a fair comment you make, and definitely is one that needs to discussed far more. I did respond to one side while leaving the other side untouched (which made it seem to be unequal treatment - not my intention). The issue is not that she did what she did, but why she did it. She had a mental breakdown (depression if IIRC) that lead to this behavior.
I know the name because I was a runner in high school (injured middle of junior year which ruined my senior year or I probably would have run in college) and she came shortly after me.