A 21-year-old aspiring singer from Michigan is facing charges of manufacturing and distributing child pornography after he edited a video that appeared to show him singing sexually explicit songs to a first grade class. Evan Emory went to a local elementary school, performed kids songs for a group of children and video taped it. After the class was dismissed, he stuck around and sang sexually explicit songs, which he later edited into the video to replace the children’s songs. He… Read more

People worldwide stood in awe 41 years ago as Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon.   Our country needs to jumpstart the space program, something President Obama referred to as another “Sputnik moment” in his last State of the Union address. Exploring the vast richness of the universe is extremely important to the expansion of human intellect for it opens new questions and promotes forward thinking. According to the Using English website, a “Sputnik moment” is when the… Read more

A Northwestern University professor staged a live sex demonstration as part of a lecture in a human sexuality class last month. In front of more than 100 students, a woman stripped down naked, laid down on a towel and then her fiancé used a machine-powered dildo to bring her to climax.  Following the demonstration, the professor led a discussion on sex fetishes and the female orgasm. Professor J. Michael Bailey told the students several times they were not required to… Read more

Lucia Strojnik is a 21-year-old senior in communications. As a nature enthusiast and environmental activist, I disagree with the author’s claims that these trees need to be removed. Trees are considered to be one of the foundations of life. Not only do they intake carbon dioxide and chemically process it to create oxygen, but they offer shade to students who want to experience their beauty. Whether it be studying outside or relaxing under some shade, this is the reason why… Read more

In an 8 to 1 decision, the Supreme Court ruled this week in favor of a group of Christian anti-gay activists who protest outside funerals of fallen U.S. soldiers. Albert Snyder, the father of a Marine who died in combat in 2006, sued Pastor Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas for invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy.  The church group demonstrated outside of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s funeral with signs reading,… Read more

SCOTUS: Corporations do not have personal privacy rights The U.S. Supreme Court overturned an appeals court ruling on Tuesday that said the FCC could not release records of its investigation into AT&T. Chief Justice John Roberts said the word “personal” normally refers to individuals and AT&T failed to connect the word to corporations.  Therefore, federal government records concerning corporations will be available to the public, under the Freedom of Information Act. So sorry it had to come to this, big… Read more

An Arizona state senator involved in a domestic dispute last weekend cannot be charged because Arizona law states legislators are immune from arrest “in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace” while the legislator is in session. Senator Scott Bungaard and his girlfriend, Aubry Ballard, got into a fight while driving home from a charity event last weekend. Ballard accused the senator of inappropriately touching a woman he had danced with that evening.  A fight between the… Read more

PRO By Karishma Warudkar Contributor Although in recent years the percentage of teenagers who are sexually active has gone down, the U.S. still has a higher rate of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy than any other industrialized nation in the world. According to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, about 34 percent of young women in the U.S. become pregnant at least once before age 20. This unfortunate statistic can be attributed to the failure of sex education programs… Read more

Republican lawmakers in Arizona have introduced legislation on a state level to end what they refer to as birthright citizenship. CNN reported that in addition to Arizona, legislators in 40 states are considering similar laws. They want to bring  this issue before the Supreme Court forcing federal authorities to re-examine what the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause was intended to mean so the issue can once again take national stage. But the immigration problem isn’t going to be solved by changing… Read more