Tulane proposes to ban alcohol from its sporting events

What is a sporting event without alcohol? A flower show or maybe a Tupperware party, even at the Tupperware or Mary Kay party you can get some liquor. You can get tore down drunk if you want to but that would just be downright embarrassing. For years, alcohol has been a mainstay at collegiate and national sports' events. So much to the point that every year before the Super Bowl there is a flurry of activity from advertising agencies to get together the most provocative beer ads to be ran during the Super Bowl. Sometimes for some would be sports fans this is one of the highlights of watching the Super Bowl on television -- the beer commercials.

However, at Tulane University in New Orleans, measures are being made to change the prevalence of liquor at the university's sporting events.

Men in Maine opting out of higher education

Many women and men of various races and ethnicities have come to higher education with the idea that "education is the key to obtaining a better paying job". I beg to differ on that myth, sure there are advantages to being educated but it is a process. Inherently, there is a connection between education and better paying jobs, which is why people continue to enroll in colleges and universities across the country. However, males in Maine are decreasingly opting out of attending places of higher learning. Instead, these men are going directly to the work force where the job selection is pooled from a collection of hard labor minimum waged to slightly above the minimum waged jobs.

In 1969, 4 million men and 2.9 million women were enrolled as undergraduates at colleges and universities across the country. By 2000, the number of male undergrads had risen 39 percent, to 5.6 million, but the number of female undergrads had leaped upward 157 percent, to 7.4 million.

No women allowed

Country Clubs have always been places where exclusion is the general practice. For years, minorities specifically blacks could not step foot into one unless they were serving food or doing the cooking and cleaning. Today, not too much has change. Imagine being a woman who is a member of a private country club, being told she can't eat in a particular dining room because it is for "men only"? This is almost reminiscent of the "no colored allowed" signs during the Jim Crow era in the South.

Currently, Fairbanks Ranch Country Club in San Diego has came into trouble with the city council because of the policy of barring women from a dining room in the club.

Pimp, her ride

Television shows such as "L.A. Chopper" and "Pimp My Ride" showcase motorcycles and other motor vehicles that have been souped up for aesthetic display or speed. On many of these shows the only women that are shown are the wives and groupies (fans) of the builders of these testosterone driven creations. Finally, a designer of motorcycles, Wicked Women Choppers LLC - Motorcycle Rider, Designer, Fabricator, Builder, President and CEO has come out with her own line of motorcycles to address the concerns of women riders.

Marriage is it really about gender?

Marriage, a plan for the union between genders, making them one unit that operates as one. My own definition that seems fitting to describe the phenomenon of marriage, why it is so desired.
As a woman you are taught to want to become married and if you do not become married by a certain time period then you become banished to the "old-maid" room. However, thankfully those societal rules have somewhat changed or became lax. Now, it is ok to be unmarried at a certain age for both genders.
Being married is still the ideal even for lesbian and gay couples. Last year, we saw a rush of countless same-sex couples rushing to be legally married. It was so shocking to some that people in "those kind of relationships" would want to be married but same-sex marriages, legal or illegal are not anything new.

Women and prisons

In the U.S. prisoners are staying in prison much longer and increasingly more women are being locked up in prison usually for theft and drug related crimes. However, in the UK, lawmakers say, that there has been an anti-femist backlash, which may have some role in the increase.

In the U.K. Female prison population 4,392 at March 2005, up 173% in 10 years
Male 70,857, up 50% for same period 16% of women in prison committed violent offences
50% report domestic violence, one-third childhood sexual abuse
5% of children of women prisoners are cared for at home by the father