Five former University of Mary Washington female students and a feminist empowerment group have filed a lawsuit against the school alleging that administrators fostered a sexually hostile environment on campus.
The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court in Virginia, alleges that beginning in 2014, the students, members of a group known as Feminists United, were subjected to sexual harassment on the Fredericksburg campus and violent threats through a social media platform known as Yik Yak. Read More...
Things to know about the musical “Hair”: It’s a landmark. It’s a cliché. And at 57, may God help it, it’s a year older than I am.
It’s also unforgivably untidy, impossibly naive, insufferably lazy here and unmistakably thinning there — but inescapably, infuriatingly winning, too, what with the snuggle-puppies vibe of its hippie-commune characters and the undertone of existential confusion that shades and deepens the best of the sunny-with-a-chance-of-apocalypse tunes. Read More...
Imagine a gondola in Venice, lazily meandering up one of the Floating City’s seemingly infinite canals.
Then imagine Venice consumed by rising sea levels as its precarious land sinks. Marble buildings would erode. Canals would wash out. More than a thousand years of art and culture would vanish, displacing the city’s 260,000 residents and an entire tourism industry built around its beauty.
Those fears have mounted with the severity of human-caused climate change. Read More...
