“Pullout” Method Fails at Yale’s “Sex Week”

On Saturday night, as part of a pornography-themed day, Sex Week at Yale held a porn screening in the Law School auditorium. The featured pornography was a series of trailer-type clips, chosen by director Paul Thomas from among his own films.

The Sex Week team, however, didn’t preview all the footage Thomas chose. This is why, partway through the showing, graphic rape fantasies began to play onscreen. <Full Story>

Exchange Student Starved While in Egypt

Jonathan McCullum was in perfect health at 155 pounds when he left last summer to spend the school year as an exchange student in Egypt. But when he returned home to Maine just four months later, the 5-foot-9 teenager weighed a mere 97 pounds and was so weak that he struggled to carry his baggage or climb a flight of stairs. Doctors said McCullum was at serious risk for a heart attack.

McCullum says he was denied sufficient food while staying with a family of Coptic Christians, who fast for more than 200 days a year, a regimen unmatched by other Christians. But he does not view the experience as a culture clash. Rather, he said, it reflected mean and stingy treatment by his host family, whose broken English made it difficult to communicate. <Full Story>

The RIAA War on Ohio U. – one year later

As the recording industry’s nationwide legal battle against college music sharers enters its second year, Ohio University — once ground zero in that campaign — is no longer under fire.

Identified last February by the recording industry as the recipient of more music sharing complaints than any other university, OU shelled out more than $75,000 last summer for a device that scans data crisscrossing its network for copyrighted media. <Full Story>

Students at U of Nevada Turn to Pepper Spray, Stun Guns

One week after Brianna Denison disappeared, the culture at the University of Nevada, Reno changed. Groups of women walk together at night, instead of individually with iPods. Self-defense classes draw dozens of people. And, more contentiously, 22-year-old political science major Kimberly Ramirez isn’t the only one sporting a 950,000-volt Firefly stun gun and a can of pepper spray. <Full Story>