News Roundup 11/24/19
9 student deaths at USC since August stun campus, spark alarm
The private school that holds 47,500 undergraduates and graduates has recently been going through a devastating number of deaths. Throughout the USC campus community, students and teachers are questioning what could be the reason for the 9 students’ deaths in such a short time. In fact, the demand for answers are intensifying that suicide was a highly believed answer. However, the USC president Carol Folt have assured students that, “This is not correct.” Regardless, being the highest number of deaths occurring in just 3 months this becomes a crucial time for the USC community to come together and be there for one another.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Hong Kong police move on university campus, threaten live rounds, retreat before growing flames
On a university campus held by anti-government protesters, police stormed in on an early Monday threatening and making arrests on students. The demonstrators spent the day prior countering police water cannons of stinging blue dye with gasoline bombs. Then the next day, a live feed was showing demonstrators feeding the fire to get rid of the police. Many young protesters have followed a steady path of radicalization as the movement presses forward with the public and their vast support. This has increasingly grown as the time goes by and only time can tell on how it ends. And most certainly if the damage can be undone.
Source: The Washington Post
Prison food is the latest target in a campaign to divest holdings
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project has public pensions in states including Massachusetts and Ohio.The fight for the right of inmate health care and giving the right appropriate services they need stood out to many. Advocacy and the effort to spread awareness and change towards the public prisons have been massively criticized. Public pensions have been told to not invest in such a mass incarceration system that “disproportionately locks up minorities and houses immigrants fleeing violence.”
Source: Los Angeles Times
Black Friday 2019: What You Need to Know
Each year customers spend millions and millions of dollars combined the day of Thanksgiving and throughout the whole weekend. Looking for the best deals and sales, people crowd the malls and retail shops. Those looking to avoid long lines usually go to the online shopping route. Having Black Friday sales throughout all of November has made this year’s shopping a much less violent experience. In 2008 a worker hired at Walmart for the holidays died after being stompled by shoppers who rushed into a Long Island store in the early hours of Black Friday. In 2013, aggression and violence became viral and used in hashtags like #WalmartFights every year.
Source: The New York Times
San Francisco Bay dredging fuels an unexpected concern: climate change
Environmental groups such as the Army Corps of Engineers are expected to dredge 13 miles of waterways inside the Golden Gate Bridge. This work would benefit ships delivering oil to East Bay refineries. In a recent public meeting, more than 100 people packed a library in Pinole to voice their concerns about a proposal that would help the oil industry to expand. In other ways, it can help with hastening greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. Aside from this, there was a petition delivered to the Army Corps with 20,000 signatures seeks to “stop Trump from dredging San Francisco Bay.”
Source: San Francisco Chronicle