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• Feds Questioning Rape Investigation Involving a University of Michigan Football Player
• S.African govt livid at university's 'Nazi salute' initiation
• Opening the Black Gate: Revealing Scientific Achievements with Art
• First Comes Love, Then Comes House? More Unmarried Couples Are Buying Homes
• Foes of transgender rights law fail to force vote
• Transgender rights repeal misses California ballot
• Healthy Hollywood: Will Ferrell's Sporty Showdown

Feds Questioning Rape Investigation Involving a University of Michigan Football Player Posted: 25 Feb 2014 03:52 PM PST The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights is investigating the University of Michigan over its handling of a rape allegation involving a football player at the school. The player, place kicker Brendan Gibbons, was accused of raping another student at a fraternity party in 2009, but did not leave the team or the school, until late last year. According to the Detroit News, the DoE opened an investigation into the matter after receiving two complaints about how the university handled the case. Following the allegations in 2009, Gibbons was arrested but not charged with a crime.

S.African govt livid at university's 'Nazi salute' initiation Posted: 25 Feb 2014 01:32 PM PST South Africa's higher education ministry on Tuesday condemned an alleged Nazi-style salute staged recently by first year students during an induction at a university southwest of Johannesburg. Students at one of the campuses of the North West University had performed the Nazi-style "Sieg Heil" salute during a supposed orientation ceremony, the local Beeld newspaper reported last week. It said the pictures showed a group of students "dressed in uniforms, marching in unison like troopers and, most disturbingly doing the ... Nazi-style fascist salute". The university authorities have apologised for any offence caused by the images, according to government, and they denied it was a Nazi salute, but a tradition of first year students "singing a greeting" to the head of their residence committee.

Opening the Black Gate: Revealing Scientific Achievements with Art Posted: 25 Feb 2014 11:37 AM PST One of her signature projects is a three-dimensional, visual interpretation of the Periodic Table of Elements, called "Divining Nature: An Elemental Garden." Kamen recently shared the highlights of her hybrid career with high school students under the auspices of the USA Science & Engineering Festival's Nifty Fifty speaker series.

First Comes Love, Then Comes House? More Unmarried Couples Are Buying Homes Posted: 25 Feb 2014 07:15 AM PST At a time when many of their peers are still renting or living with mom and dad, Stephanie Siewert, 22, and her boyfriend of six years moved into their first purchased three-story townhouse last month in Southern California. Family members wondered why the couple didn't rent together or get married first, but the two were adamant about building equity and getting a low interest rate while they could. Alida Almonte, 31, and her boyfriend feel similarly, so they bought a three-bedroom colonial together last August on Long Island, N.Y. "Interest rates were going up, and we would rather have spent our savings on a down payment on a home than a wedding," she says. As young people delay marriage, often in pursuit of careers or advanced degrees, a study released by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC last April found that a quarter of married couples between ages 18 and 34 bought their first home together before walking down the aisle.

Foes of transgender rights law fail to force vote Posted: 24 Feb 2014 10:30 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Opponents of a new California law that provides transgender students certain rights in public schools have failed to gather enough voter signatures to place a referendum to repeal the law on the November ballot.

Transgender rights repeal misses California ballot Posted: 24 Feb 2014 07:03 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A referendum to overturn a new California law that provides transgender students certain rights in public schools will not appear on the November ballot because its backers failed to gather enough voter signatures to qualify the measure, the secretary of state said Monday.

Healthy Hollywood: Will Ferrell's Sporty Showdown Posted: 24 Feb 2014 10:33 AM PST Will Ferrell is lacing up his sneakers and ready to hit the tennis court for charity. The "Anchorman" star is teaming up with the world's number two player, Novak Djokovic, for a heated match against "House of Cards" star Kevin Spacey and his partner, tennis sensation Andy Murray. The event benefits Cancer for College, which helps raise money for college scholarships for cancer survivors. "We get to see directly where the funds go as we help these survivors realize their dream of a college education.

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