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'The sixth annual Conference on the College Male, “Best Practices for Involving College Men,” is Feb. 13-14 at Saint John’s University, Collegeville.

In addition to four speakers, 14 universities and colleges will present pilot programs to increase college men’s participation in volunteering and vocational discernment activities. The program, funded by a grant from the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc., will identify best practices and a theoretical model for what works with college men, and why.

The $599,000 grant, awarded to SJU in November 2007, will identify ways to increase men’s involvement in volunteering, leadership training and vocational decision-making activities. The two-year grant runs through Dec. 31, 2009, and is designed to address chronic underrepresentation of college men in these types of activities. For example, only one-third of students who volunteer are men.'

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'As part of its efforts to promote gender equality awareness among Israel's students, the Education Ministry has decided to introduce a new study program that encourages children to revise the lyrics of classic Hebrew songs that contain chauvinistic notions.
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"But when you read the words carefully you find out they contain hidden messages that work just like existing marketing methods. We are aware of the difficulty to reread the songs, but the situation cannot remain as it is. Well-liked songs contain wrong, sexist conceptions," she added.
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The students will not only be exposed to the chauvinistic stereotypes in the songs, but will also be asked to revise them and come up with new, more egalitarian lyrics.

As part of the program they will also read songs that express feminine equality and independence.'

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'CONTACT with male role models is a vital part of growing up. Outside their own family, the best places for young children to meet such role models are nurseries and schools.

But while a new survey has found that 55 per cent of parents, and 66 per cent of single parents, want a male childcare worker for their nursery-aged child, the reality is that only 2 per cent of childcare workers are men.
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Many of those questioned said they believed boys behaved better for a male teacher, adding it was important for boys to have a role model to look up to.
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The survey, which was commissioned as part of a campaign to recruit more male primary teachers, also found that 35 per cent of men felt having a male primary teacher challenged them to work harder at school, and 22 per cent believed male primary teachers helped build their confidence.'

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'One of the first bills that President Barack Obama signs this week, the Fair Pay Act, could result in more women suing over being paid less than men. This new activity in the Capitol has stirred conversations in boardrooms, law offices, factory floors -- even newsrooms. Why aren't women earning as much as men and should salaries be openly discussed?

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'Rob Hulls, out to prove he really is a sensitive new age guy, is set to send the simpering sycophants of the politically-correct movement into spiritual orgasms as he signals his intent to remove private clubs from the list of those exempted under Victorian anti-discrimination laws.

This is a topic 99 per cent of people couldn't give a stuff about apart from, it would seem, Rob Hulls and the last remaining feminists who have already won or are in the process of winning everything that was writ on stone tablets in the 1960s.
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They are today benign and some would say irrelevant to government or anything else for that matter. But for some reason, they continually attract the ire of the intellectual feminist left. One can only assume that it's a bit like climbing Everest and you do it quite simply because it's there.

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'The groups that elected Barack Obama are poised to cash in on their investment, and the feminists are muscling to be first in line. The National Organization for Women (NOW), bragging that "we all worked hard to help elect" Obama, has helpfully spelled out the "feminist action agenda":

Last week I posted a story from Toronto about a win for the good guys. Another article from Toronto shows what is giveth by the courts can be taken away by the gender panderers. Article here. Excerpt:

'At 51, Tippett is broken, bankrupt and bunking in the guest room of his parents' Burlington home after a divorce settlement that's left him $75,000 in debt and racking up $1,000 more each month.

Today, he'll appear in court at a default hearing to try to explain why he can't afford to pay his ex-wife (the couple had no children) $3,300 a month, $16,000 in retroactive alimony and $42,000 of her court costs out of a complex case he himself still doesn't understand.
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While Cormier is now getting just over $2,000 a month of his disability pay, technically Tippett is on the hook for $3,300, so each month his arrears are climbing.

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'The Men's Directory (TMD) is a complimentary research tool summarizing the men's studies field from research on masculinity to men's health and men's rights.

Its focus is on research and resources, including information on themes (boys/education; aging; sexuality; fathering; health), initiatives (organizations, events), tools (bibliographies, encyclopedias, databases, content analyses, research measures), output genres (book series, textbooks, journals, readers) and mediators (publishers). TMD includes a list of abbreviations and an index.'

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'HOUSTON—U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers have found that drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, can cause children to have severe hallucinations, Reuters reports.

The study of the drugs was conducted by drug makers. They found cases of psychosis and mania in some young patients, even those with no obvious risk factors.

Millions of children use ADHD drugs. In the Journal Pediatrics, one doctor wrote, “The numbers of cases of psychosis or mania in pediatric clinical trials were small. However, we noted a complete absence of such events with placebo treatments.”'

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'But today, using tissue from retired NFL athletes culled posthumously, the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) is shedding light on what concussions look like in the brain. The findings are stunning. Far from innocuous, invisible injuries, concussions confer tremendous brain damage. That damage has a name: chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
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CSTE studies reveal brown tangles flecked throughout the brain tissue of former NFL players who died young -- some as early as their 30s or 40s.

McKee, who also studies Alzheimer's disease, says the tangles closely resemble what might be found in the brain of an 80-year-old with dementia.
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The NFL is planning its own independent medical study of retired NFL players on the long-term effects of concussion.

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'DADE CITY - When it comes to educating people about domestic violence and sexual assault, Sunrise of Pasco County can get pretty creative.

The nonprofit organization, which helps victims deal with abuse, is organizing performances of "The Vagina Monologues" next month and is inviting local artists to submit artwork that can be displayed at the shows.
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Sunrise is also presenting a one-man show Friday that deals with sexual assault and dating violence. Comic Ben Atherton-Zeman will perform "Voices of Men" at 7 p.m. Friday at the Pasco Middle School Auditorium, 13925 14th St.

In his performance, Atherton-Zeman shows men how they can become part of the solution in ending violence against women.'

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'In Ventura County and nationwide, Gaona is hardly typical. The number of male teachers in the county dropped below 25 percent in the last few years, the lowest in a decade, state records show. In many elementary schools, women outnumber men by an even greater margin.

A small Santa Paula district has no men on its teaching staff. In Camarillo’s Pleasant Valley School District, men made up only 12 percent of teachers last year, and less than 5 percent in elementary schools.

Gender doesn’t have anything to do with teaching quality, said Michael McCambridge, liberal studies director at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, but “it’s important to have role models who are both women and men.”
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Many school districts will likely discuss layoffs more than teacher recruitment this year, because of looming state budget cuts. And that might continue the trend of fewer men entering elementary education.'

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