Monday, November 30, 2015

Sexual Assault Exams at UT

Sexual assault is no joke and unfortunately happens too often. The Safe Campus Act is being discussed in Congress right now, but UT has already taken steps to establish sexual assault clinic/exams on campus.
The University Health Services started offering post-assualt medical exams in the Student Services Building on November 16, 2015. The University Health Services brought in nurses from SafePlace Austin, you originally would have to go to the Riverside location but with a new location on UT it'll be more convenient for people to access closer to campus.
Its very important for sexual assault victims to feel the safety and take the pressure off from being assaulted. With the new location on campus, it'll not only benefit people with travel time, but will give some great benefits to students.
A lot of people and universities are against this new potential act, which would prevent universities from being able to investigate the sexual assault of a student. It would all be in the hands of the local police department. Many victims don't want to spend the money to get tested nor have to go out of their way. It's embarrassing enough, and will help take the anxiety off with the being able to walk right in and get it done, it also helps the universities since a wide majority of sexual assaults happen to students on campus. It's almost a no brainer- who wouldn't want the help and easy access to get through a difficult time?



Monday, November 16, 2015

Original blog post: http://caringisarequirement.blogspot.com

"The biggest problem in Texas is racial division. Texas is controlled by “Anglo-Saxon” oil barons who are thedescendants of slave owning, Native American genocide favoring, Mexican hating thugs. Everywhere I look (in Austin) it seems that the big problem is white dominance followed by the minorities’ retaliations. In turn, retaliation is met with police brutality and never-ending fines and probation that rob minorities of time to pursue opportunities at bettering their financial standing.
African Americans are being financially bullied out of a city that their families have lived in for generations. A city that suburban white kids from California, the East-coast, and the Midwest come to trying to prove something to their christian parents by spending their trust-fund money on covering themselves with tattoos and practically drinking themselves to death every night. The cost of living is going up and that's fine for the rich kids moving in but it's hell for poor African American families. 
Mexican-Americans are treated like second class citizens. If they fights back, "the oil baron race" has the police to subdue them. Police are often college drop-outs with deeply ingrained mentalities of hate towards minorities. police will fine Mexican Americans for minor drug felonies while avoiding areas where rich white kids are committing the same and more serious felonies. Both African Americans and Mexican Americans constantly live under the threat of being victimized by police brutality.
The city of Austin wants to increase its tax base by allowing waves of implants (rich whites) to move here and yet Austin is not adequately prepared to support the increasing population. This doesn't effect the wealthy (who are mostly white) but it does effect the poor (who are predominately minorities). It's the rich whites who are making the decisions of where to spend this tax money. The tax money should be spent remedying the externalities of increasing rich white kid population that plagues the lives of minorities living in Austin."



My Comment to blog post:http://caringisarequirement.blogspot.com/2015/11/i-think-biggest-problem-in-texas-is.html#comment-form 

"I do agree with less than half of this. Yes, racism is a huge issue and its one that is brought up frequently and effects people every single day. It's sad that we can't see each other as equals and that people are constantly being labeled, or put into a specific stereo types. 
From what I can tell is that you dislike any and everything that labels, and discriminates against Mexican-Americans, African Americans. But you are being racist against "Anglo-Saxon's". Not all white people are rich/in the oil business, you're automatically stereotyping against that race. Yes, a vast majority of Texans are in the oil business, but there are also Mexican-Americans in the oil business, who I might add are plenty wealthy. Not everyone who wants and has moved to Austin are rich white people.. Rich, poor, black, white, or purple, people move to Austin- they all come from different backgrounds. 
I don't think its just the "Anglo-Saxons", have you ever heard of white Irish Slaves? We were all slaves at one point. There were black slave owners, along with white slave owners. Why do people seem to forget that? 
I think everyone is against gang banging thugs- who would want to be for that? But that doesn't mean that gang banging thugs are just set to one specific race- there are gang banging thugs in every race in America (African Americans, White Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, etc.)
I also don't think the public has any way in controlling tax increases, people are having to move out of their homes because of property taxes being increased- and thats all over the city (High, middle, and lower class neighborhoods). I do agree that Austin isn't prepared for all the people who want to live here. Who wouldn't want to live in Austin- the fun, cool, friendly city! 
I'm not trying to argue or put down what you believe, but I don't think you are giving a fair fight to ALL races.. 
Here are some links if you would like to check them out, maybe they will broaden your view. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentimenthttp://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/15/black-activist-double-white-hate-fparis-hashtag/"