This week, Residence Life decided not to implement a new schedule for the College’s housekeeping staff. The plan that was originally supposed to be put into effect Jan. 16 set up a rotating series of shifts to cover residence halls Monday through Saturday. One group of housekeepers would work the current, full day schedule, Monday through Friday. The other group would work the regular full schedule Monday through Thursday, and work only half days on Friday and Saturday. The groups would alternate between the Saturday hours.
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“I am ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.” This comment by Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, created a stir of controversy, for many, it thrust the band into the role of the face of the campaign against the war in Iraq. Masses of country fans destroyed the band’s records, radio stations boycotted its music and the Chicks’ record sales plummeted. With a single statement, the best-selling female band of all time became one of the most hated bands in country music.
Wednesday, Pakistan’s lower house of Parliament voted to criminalize rape under its civil penal code, allowing for prosecution under secular rather than religious law. Until now, Islamic laws mandated that rape victims have four male witnesses to the crime or they would face prosecution for adultery.
p. This move curtails the scope of Islamic laws that have long been denounced by human rights organizations as degrading and unfair to women. The new legislation, called the Women’s Protection Bill, allows the government to prosecute rapists under secular rather than religious law.
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