Tag: gender
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Scaling Gender Boundaries at the Gunks
In the rock climbing community, residence near the Shawangunk Mountains (more aptly known as “the Gunks”) is enough to spark envious exclamations and bragging rights. The Gunks are renowned for the endless amounts of pristine climbing routes and the rock climbing community. On any given day or night, if the weather is just above frostbite…
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Group of Faculty and Staff Create LGBT Campus Climate Survey
A group of LGBT faculty and staff will soon put up an online survey addressing the campus climate in regard to sexuality and sexual orientation, which may translate to future revisions of protocol. The survey, which will be up and running on Sunday, Nov. 6 at the latest, was prompted by the numerous gay suicides,…
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SURE Student Lends A Voice for Transgender Children
Claire Papell, 22, usually spends the summer resting her eyes, clearing her mind, and recharging for another busy year at college. This year, she dedicated eight weeks to intensive research on advocacy for transgender children. It was no holiday. “I expected to work really hard and I did!” she exclaimed. Papell, a fourth-year women’s studies…
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Group Project
“What do I call her?” Amanda asks. “I think she changed her name again” Emily whispers across the table in the college library. “She shouldn’t be allowed to do that. It’s confusing. Why does she have to be so ballsy?” “Well, what did she write on the project last time?” I ask. “We can just…
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“To text or not to text, that is the… actually, just don’t.”
SUNY New Paltz student Kate Long texts while she is walking, texts while she is doing homework, texts while she is eating, texts while she is watching television, texts while she is lying down and texts while she is hanging out with friends. Texting has become more and more of a distraction for people constantly…