Matt Dang's Current Event About Violence Against Women

If you are reading this, then you are probably planning to respond to my post. This is either because (a.) You forgot about Tuesday's post or were just too lazy, or (b.) You just really like me. Both is fine, but if it is because of the latter, I really appreciate it. No but really, I hope it is because of the second reason.

My article was about violence against women and how people don't give enough attention to it. It was more focused on the victims of college and professional athletes. I guess you could consider some college athletes as professionals because they get paid under the table, but that's besides the point. What I'm really trying to get at is that when the athletes are charged, they usually get away with minimal punishment. And the media sometimes doesn't even focus on the violence. Take Ben Roethlisberger for example. He was accused of rape in '09 and sexual assault in '10. The league did suspend him for six games, but it was later reduced to four games. The media didn't even pay much attention to the violence towards the women, but his "immature and frat-boy-like behavior."

The article did mention too that sports seem to be a "powerful way to expose the the general public to problems rarely discussed openly in our society." Len Bias, a star college basketball player, died from an overdose of cocaine in 1986 just two days after being drafted as the second overall pick by the Boston Celtics. His death rallied the country to the war on drugs. Also, Michael Vick's crimes a few years back raised awareness on animal abuse. And most recently, Jerry Sandusky of Penn State and Bernie Fine of Syracuse's horrendous actions brought child abuse into the public eye. O.J. Simpson's trial did raise awareness of domestic violence, but some say that that case was more focused on race.

So do you think less, equal, or more attention should be given to violence against women as compared to child and animal abuse? And why do you think athletes are not punished enough for their crimes?

http://espn.go.com/espn/commentary/story/_/page/lapchick-111130/the-public-underwhelming-reaction-athletes-assault-women

Luke's Current Event

My deepest apologies go out to the class as in my presentation I stated the opposite of what happened. here is what really happened: A recent ballot initiative in Mississippi was rejected by 55% of voters to declare that life begins at conception in relation to Abortion rights, thus dividing religious and medical communtites across the state. if this ballot initiative was accepted, it is likely that Mississippi would face legal trouble from the supreme court in regards to the 1973 landmark of Roe V. Wade which states that women have the legal right to an abortion if desired.

If this law had turned out otherwise, would it be right to have the supreme court intervene on the new law? And in your opinion, if a compromise between pro life and pro choice were possible, what would it be? how would it be established?

Blogger wouldn't let me comment so I made a new post so I could still get full credit

I agree with the class on the fact that White Ribbon day should be a bigger deal. I have honestly never even heard of it and was not aware of all the facts about female victims. I would love to learn more about the facts and I’m sure many other Americans feel the same way. I think if more stories are told to the public then people really will see how serious this issue is and maybe it will lower the amount of victims if more people know about how serious it is. More people will be on the look to protect others and White ribbon day could be a day of remembrance for all of the victims and their families.