WMT - Words Mean Things. As a favorite quote from an amazing educator, I take this to heart as a Student Affairs professional. Here is what I think, read & learn.
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Mr. Carson’s killing was the first in the West Village precinct this year. In all of 2012, one homicide was reported there.
But through the first week in May, there were 57 assaults, a sharp increase over the same period last year, when there were 33. According to police statistics, the number of violent altercations is higher this year than it was a decade ago but lower than in the 1990s, when citywide crime was higher.
“Things seem a little more hostile in the Village lately,” said Glennda Testone, the executive director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center on West 13th Street. “People have been saying it’s especially on the weekends, when there is more of a commuter crowd. Perhaps what we’re seeing is that the growing approval of the L.G.B.T. community and the increasing equality isn’t reaching to every single street.”
Sharon Stapel, the executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, said antigay violence had been worsened by the forces that are reshaping the city. “The Village has always been a place where L.G.B.T. people have felt accepted and respected,” she said, “but the Village is not immune from this vitriolic anti-L.G.B.T. violence. And we are not a homogeneous community. If you talk to young non-gender-conforming kids of color, they’re going to have a very different experience than older white L.G.B.T. people.”
The police say they have moved to stem felony assaults in the West Village that can often be traced to bar fights and late-night confrontations.
“That’s why there was an impact officer on duty there in the first place, the one who captured the shooter,” said Mr. Browne, referring to officers assigned to areas in need of additional policing. “The Village attracts crowds of visitors, especially on weekends, and impact officers are assigned there as a result.”
"- The New York Times, “Charges Filed in Kiling of Gay Man in Greenwich Village” (via inothernews)
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Source: New York Daily NewsVia the New York Daily News, the arrest of a suspect in a fatal bias attack in Greenwich Village:
The homophobe accused of shooting a gay man to death in the West Village laughed in hideous glee as he confessed, a prosecutor told a judge said Sunday.
Elliot Morales (seen being arrested on Friday night) was hauled before a judge and charged with killing Mark Carson with a point-blank head shot from a .38-caliber revolver following a barrage of anti-gay taunts shortly before midnight on Friday.
Morales, 33, got only a few blocks away from where Carson fell on W. 8th St. near Sixth Ave. when police collared him. As he was being restrained on a sidewalk, he laughed and boasted: “I shot him in the face.”
Morales, who had been staying recently with friends in the Rockaways, was ordered held without bail. He was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime and other counts.
“It’s clear that the victim here was killed only because and just because he was thought to be gay,” NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The commissioner added that Carson in no way antagonized his killer.
(Photo: Alec Tabak for the NY Daily News)
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"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious."
- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
(via jillhamburger)
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Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration - Reuters
Source: brooklynmuttIt wasn’t the substance of the AP story that has exasperated the government, but that the AP found a source or sources that spilled information about an ongoing intelligence operation and that even grander leaks might surge into the press corpsâ rain barrels.
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We Don't Teach Kids German In Gym Class, So Why On Earth Would We Teach This In Biology Class?
Source: upworthyOne of these things is not like the other one.
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Disney quietly backtracks, won't reboot Merida from "Brave"
- In related news, Disney no longer thinks the public is a bunch of idiots.
Second time Disney has pulled back on a “brilliant” idea lately. Remember when they thought this was a good idea?
Source: inothernews1 week ago
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Source: MashableIn more really depressing news, viral video star Kai, a hitchhiker who we’ve posted about a couple of times on SFB due to his heroic act involving a hatchet, has been arrested and charged with murder in the beating death of a man in New Jersey. While he claims (via a Facebook comment posted before the news broke) that the man drugged and raped him, he nonetheless is being held on $3 million bail.
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These 2 Maps About Student Loans Explode One of the Biggest Myths About Student Loans
The media fixates on the overall size of student debt. But where you go to school, whether you graduate, and what kind of job you get later may matter much more.
Read more. [Images: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel]
(via upworthy)
Source: theatlantic1 week ago
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