“Let’s give the Conference’s two newest members a good, old-fashioned, All-American welcome!” begins Bob Oschack’s September 2 clip on Fox Sports. In a distasteful segment aired Sept. 2, Fox Sports “welcomed” Colorado and Utah to the newly formed PAC-12. The video, which aired on their Sports homepage and was quickly added to YouTube and Hulu, [...]
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Internet can be a weapon for good and bad
The bigotry and hate that exists on the Internet today demands a response from students.
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The Intervarsity Trojan Christian Fellowship has erected an eye-catching installation on Trousdale to address some of the problems that plague L.A. The booth features a wheel of misfortune, photos and exhibits that touch on issues like homelessness, alcoholism, abuse, racism, poverty and injustice. One of the members is sleeping on a cardboard box in front [...]
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This is something you might expect from John Deere, not Nikon. In what would appear to be an honest mistake, the face-detection technology in the popular Nikon Coolpix series cameras has been programmed in such a way as to interpret certain races’ eyes as blinking eyes. When the Wangs, a Taiwanese family that recently purchased [...]
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