Posts Written by Marvin
By Marvin • 12 years ago

Mid-Michigan was feeling left out of the public homophobia circle

It seems the keynote speaker for our local Sacred Heart Academy’s graduation ceremony this year was removed from the event schedule when it was discovered that he is gay.  No other reasons given.

He was a proud alumni of the school, and has a younger brother graduating this year.  The initial shock comes mostly from the blatancy and publicity of this organized decision to hate; and in little old Mount Pleasant, Michigan, of all places (ha, yeah right).  All of this isn’t really terribly surprising, though, since it involves the catholic church; and it isn’t as if Mt. Pleasant is a discrimination-free town by any means, anyway.  Also, I know things like this and worse have been going on all over the place for some time now.  I guess we’re just now joining the ranks.

Add it to the list.  Sad, sad.  Here are a couple of responses to the decision from other alumni of the school.
By Marvin • 13 years ago

Female College Students Deserve Better

This is kind of a response to this article posted in May about problems with colleges’ judicial systems when it comes to serious matters such as sexual assault on campus.

I am a student at Alma College in Alma, MI.  Alma College has a parking lot on campus that students refer to as the “Rape Lot” or even the “RL”.  Professors who have been at this school for several years say that this nickname has been around since they first started out, yet the college has only just gotten around to adding more lighting to this parking lot.  Apparently, no rapes have actually been reported to ...

This is kind of a response to this article posted in May about problems with colleges’ judicial systems when it comes to ...
By Marvin • 14 years ago

“Hot Girls Make Great Clothes”

I’m doing a project on sweatshops and maquiladoras for one of my classes, and when I Googled “sweatshops” I stumbled upon this article.

It is an article about the clothing company, Ecko, and an ad campaign it started in 2008.  The campaign was “Hot Girls Make Great Clothes” and featured pictures and videos of women in bikinis demonstrating the process by which the company’s clothing is made.  Naturally, this is quite an outrageous campaign, and the author of the above article does a great job in explaining why.

I then went to Ecko Manufacturing’s current website only to find that this same campaign is still going on, which I’m sure you will agree is even more upsetting.  Beyond the awful ...

I’m doing a project on sweatshops and maquiladoras for one of my classes, and when I Googled “sweatshops” I stumbled upon this article.

It is an article about the clothing company, Ecko, and an ad campaign ...